The Ball at Your Feet

"I think that the audience may be as unimaginable as I am that this season's match between Liverpool and Arsenal is a game that will affect the ownership of the final champion." Martin Taylor introduced the players of both sides. , Couldn't help but say something.

Before the season, no one believed that Liverpool would surpass Chelsea to become the leader of the league. What's even more unbelievable is that they might lead Chelsea by as much as five points. The stability of this Chelsea team in the first half of the season is desperate. If Manchester United hadn't beat them once, they could even set the record of 49 unbeaten games set by Arsenal. However, in mid-January, Who can guess that such a big reversal would happen. After losing to Drogba, Chelsea lost five games and was caught up by Liverpool from behind.

"If they win this game, Liverpool will have a big advantage in the next league games. If Liverpool can't win this game, then they will be stuck with Chelsea. And Arsenal are also now. There is an urgent need for victory. They need points to ensure they return to the top four. Otherwise, they are likely to be squeezed out of the Champions League this season. This is extremely detrimental to their current plan to build the stadium."

Speaking of this, Martin Taylor added, "Arsenal has been eliminated in the FA Cup. Now only the league and the Champions League are to be played. The task is relatively light, but in the Champions League, Arsenal will soon encounter Real Madrid are powerful, they also need a victory to regain their confidence. Liverpool have to play Bayern in the Champions League, and Manchester United in the FA Cup. The competition is also dense and terrible. Now, they also need this. The game was a good start, and at the same time, it might be a deterrent to the opponent-Manchester United coach Ferguson sat in the audience at Anfield in this game and watched the game."

This game is important to Liverpool. If they can beat their opponents, on the one hand, they have established Chelsea's absolute advantage, on the other hand, they are also a good start to the Devil's schedule. And if you lose, the pressure will increase in the following days.

Liverpool's lineup for this game has made some adjustments. Dudek, Finnan, Vidic, Carragher and Riise served as the starters together, and Maicon was given a rotation. As for Sissoko, Alonso, Gerrard, and Zhao Yaning, the fifth midfielder, Liverpool used Figo. After all, Figo is more secure in such a game. On the forward line, Liverpool sent Morientes.

Compared to Manchester United, Liverpool obviously did not pay enough attention to this game. But this is not without reason. Arsenal's lineup, at this time, was also severely attenuated due to injuries. Their lineup was too weak, which made Liverpool have the courage to despise them.

Arsenal's goalkeeper is still the German goalkeeper Lehmann, while the back line is Eboue, Touré, Senderos and Flamini-Ashley Cole and Campbell, all injured together. In the midfield, they are Gilberto Silva, Fabregas, Ljungberg and Pires starting, and on the forward line, it is Henry's partner Adebayor who has just arrived this winter.

When he saw Eboue, Zhao Yaning remembered: The Africa Cup is over, and Eboue and Drogba, who also played for the Côte d'Ivoire, have returned to the Premier League. This year is obviously not a lucky year for the players of Ivory Coast. The national team played to the end, but got a runner-up. After returning to the club, the club did not play well. Such a day is really a tragedy.

And this Arsenal also has some problems in strength.

In terms of offensive power, they don't lose much to Liverpool. In fact, Zhao Yaning has always believed that as long as Wenger is there, Arsenal's attack will definitely not be too bad. But when it comes to defense, it’s hard to say. A line of defense has changed three people compared to last season. Eboue and Senderos are both young players, and at the left-back position, they are even Flamini's cameo guards. It also makes Liverpool do not care about them very much. And considering that the FA Cup game against Manchester United is about to come, Liverpool will of course have to make some adjustments in this game.

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool's players noticed some problems: Arsenal now, compared to last season, is indeed far behind.

In the first half of the season, the two teams did not have a chance to meet. Therefore, Liverpool's so-called decline and downturn for Arsenal have always stayed at the level of watching videos and listening to the news. At that time, they felt that even though Vieira was gone, the general framework of Arsenal was still there, even if it was weak, it was not much weaker. But looking at it now, they have a feeling: What Arsenal has lost is not only the control of the midfielder, but more, or the entire team, lacking the confidence of the previous top team. It seems that when they play football, they don't believe they can win.

But it’s no wonder that the main players have changed a lot, the team has renovated the lineup, and now Arsenal, the new players have not won any championships after all, plus half a season of injuries, the results are now in the top four. If you don't go, you won't be able to build self-confidence. But such a team, as long as they win a championship and begin to believe in their own strength, they will return to the top again.

It's just that it's a future thing. Now at this time, don't you think about that we build confidence.

Immediately, the attacks on both sides accelerated. One of Gerrard's pass to the left was passed into the penalty area with a volley from Zhao Yaning, but Lyman caught the ball and threw it out. Fabregas, who got the ball, wanted to directly make a long pass over the top and hand the ball to Ljungberg in the frontcourt, but this pass was stopped by Sissoko.

This time, Liverpool's ball passed to the right. Zhao Yaning ran to this side road. Since Flamini was so weak, he would naturally open the gap from this side. After getting the ball, he took a look at Flamini who was defending himself, took the ball, moved two steps back and forth, shaking Flamini.

Flamini is not a full-back after all. Although his defense is good, he has a bad sense of position on the side after all. However, he was also stupid and clumsy, that was, he watched Zhao Yaning's breakthrough line stubbornly, and would not let him break through anyway. The effect of this approach is good, at least, he has not lost his position.

Seeing if he couldn't shake him, Zhao Yaning didn't shake him anymore. He didn't choose to directly accelerate the sudden change. Instead, he looked at the running position in the penalty area and kicked the ball into the penalty area.

Both Morientes and Senderos rushed to the header. After all, Senderos' body was strong enough. He concealed a collision with Morientes to gain enough advantage for himself, and then a header. , Want to push the ball out of the bottom line and make a clearance for the team. But when he didn't expect it, when he hit the ball, the football suddenly began to spin back, the direction was deflected, and it flew directly toward the goal!

Damn it! Senderos cursed, but the football had already flown to the lower left corner of the goal at this time. Lehmann jumped up and stretched out his hand long, but he did not catch the ball, and the ball flew directly into the goal. The bottom corner!

"Al!!! Senderos' own goal became the first goal in this game! Liverpool's 1-0 lead! Liverpool is still in good shape, this game, Arsenal may be difficult to speculate as the media The same, let Liverpool pay the price."

Although the opponent scored an own goal, it was not the result Zhao Yaning wanted most, but no matter what, it was also a goal. With this goal, Liverpool led the opponent 1-0, and naturally the advantage was greatly increased.

Immediately, Liverpool's offensive was up again. This time, Zhao Yaning didn't want to pester Flamini anymore. After receiving the ball, he took a step back, and then turned his upper body to the left to change his position to break through Flamini. Flamini defended it for the first time, but Zhao Yaning kicked the ball to the right, and the ball was crossed, and then he immediately caught up.

Behind him, Flamini chased him up and pulled his clothes smoothly, preventing him from speeding up smoothly. Zhao Yaning kicked the ball to Gerrard, who was in the middle, and then ran toward the middle, throwing Flamini who was chasing behind him. Gerrard passed the ball again and Zhao Yaning entered the penalty area. Senderos in front of him was blocked. Zhao Yaning did not slow down, and directly brought the ball close to him, and then suddenly pushed the ball forward. When Senderos grabbed the ball, he extended his foot again and hooked the ball back.

Senderos sticks tightly. Zhao Yaning doesn’t have much room to turn around. Neither a Marseille maneuver nor Cruyff’s turn can do it, but he picks the ball over Senderos, with his right foot as the axis. He twisted his body and got rid of Sendros' entanglement. Then, his right foot propped Sendros, his left knee put the ball on the ball, and he took a step to the left. Then, he kicked and prepared to hit the goal!

Flamini behind him rushed up at this moment. He couldn't stop Zhao Yaning's shot, but he was really unwilling to give up like this. Looking at Zhao Yaning, who was about to take a shot, he pushed directly behind him and pushed Zhao Yaning with his left foot lifted to the front. Zhao Yaning rolled his head in embarrassment on the ground and stopped the momentum of his fall. .

"Flamini's foul! The referee whistled a penalty, but this foul is not an exaggeration, so that when the opponent shoots and the center of gravity is unstable, the opponent will be pushed down, but it is easy to cause injury... …"

The Liverpool players ~www.ltnovel.com~ are still surrounding the referee. In their opinion, the ball is a red card action anyway. But after all, Flamini's move was a push instead of a shovel, and the penalty in the penalty area has already been awarded. This kind of focus cannot be fined as soon as it comes up. Therefore, the referee is also resolute. Refused to show the red card.

"Okay, you all have a penalty kick. What red cards do you want? A little bit of restraint, is it possible that you really want a big score to kill us?"

What the Arsenal players said when they were noisy and yelling also made Zhao Yaning extremely unhappy: If Vieira was there, it would be a sentence: It is a foul, and you refuse to accept the referee! Saying like that, although he is overbearing and unreasonable, he at least admits that he is taking advantage. But now, how can this argument become the take advantage of Liverpool?

Bloody is not unreasonable, even if it is bloody, stubbornly entangled.

"Don't pay attention to them, the noise is useless," Zhao Yaning calmed everyone and motioned for Alonso to take a penalty kick. Although his own penalty kick skills are considered pretty good now, but at this time, he fell very badly, his head was still dizzy, and he couldn't get a good kick. "Anyway, there are penalty kicks, and , We slaughter them, do we have to punish them alone? This game, slaughter them to see."