The Ball at Your Feet

A 4-1 victory over Arsenal, Liverpool in the standings also left Chelsea by five points.

While Liverpool are happy, Arsenal are not so happy. After their loss, they are also farther and farther away from fourth place.

The media gave Wenger a lot of excuses: Arsenal played really badly in this game. Ashley Cole, Campbell, Bergkamp, ​​and Van Persie have suffered a series of injuries. No wonder they will be bloodbathed by Liverpool. But who is to blame for such a thing? The poor stability of young people is something that everyone knows, Wenger trusts them, and naturally they have to pay the price. Obviously, Wenger has made such preparations, but this season's Arsenal, because of injuries and youth, has paid too heavy a price, not to mention that they slipped out of the championship zone early, even for the top four. The location is almost gone. I just don't know if Arsenal can survive.

After playing this game, the devil schedule of the Liverpool players can be regarded as the end of a game. The next game is to compete with Manchester United in the FA Cup.

At this time, the fourth round of the supplement was also completed: Chelsea and Everton played another sullen match, 120 minutes, the score of 0-0 remained unchanged, Everton eliminated Chelsea from a penalty kick.

This result also made Arsenal and Chelsea withdraw from the FA Cup. Therefore, the competition between Manchester United and Liverpool is also considered to be the competition between the two teams most likely to win. Although it was just the fifth round, the importance of this game is not less than that of the final.

And this game is basically the same as the previous game. In this game, it is Manchester United rather than Liverpool that is more supported by everyone.

The last FA Cup match between Liverpool and Manchester United was in 1999. In that game, Liverpool scored a goal in the opening three minutes and continued to lead 1-0 until the 88th minute. Then, Manchester United relied on After Cole scored a goal in the 88th minute to equalize, then, in the 90th minute, Solskjaer scored a lore-sounds familiar? That's right, it's just a preview version of the 1999 Champions League final.

The next two teams will compete in the 1996 FA Cup final. That game was also recognized as the demarcation line for Liverpool's complete decline and Manchester United's complete rise. Since then, Liverpool's position in English football has remained unshakable, but it has gradually declined. Manchester United completely replaced Liverpool and became England's hottest team.

Moving forward, Manchester United wins, moving forward, Manchester United wins, and moving forward, Manchester United wins.

And when was the last time Liverpool won? In 1921, Liverpool defeated Manchester United once. Since then, for a full 85 years, Liverpool has never defeated Manchester United in the FA Cup.

It is precisely because of this that the statement in the newspaper even directly exaggerated the description-Liverpool beat Manchester United last time, Hitler has not yet come to power.

And this is exactly the attraction of this game: the last time Liverpool won victory was when neither they nor Manchester United emerged. If you want to talk about the grievances between the two major teams after the rise, it can still be said. Some, but the last time Liverpool’s victory dates back to a time when neither club had a glorious experience, when the two clubs were still very bad, and after so many years of wind and rain, many things have changed for the two teams. , But this record has not been reversed. Now, whether Liverpool can reverse this situation is also very interesting.

Manchester United this season has already been eliminated in the Champions League. In the league, the points difference between them and Liverpool and Chelsea is also very large, and it is very difficult to catch up. But if this game is played well and won, they may also win the double crown: Manchester United reached the League Cup final, and the opponent is still a weaker like Wigan. In the FA Cup, as long as they can pass Liverpool, there will be no strong opponents behind. At this time, Manchester United won the game, which is equivalent to saying that there is a great chance of winning.

But of course Liverpool will not easily let go of this champion. For Liverpool, the most important task this season is the league, but if there is a chance to win one more championship, no one will have an opinion. What's more, this is an opportunity to upgrade the champion to a double crown. Liverpool once accomplished such a feat in 1986, and after the Premier League era, Manchester United won three doubles in the 1990s, while Arsenal won two doubles in 1998 and 2002. Now, in their club history, they have won two doubles. With three double championships, it has surpassed Liverpool's achievements, which also makes Liverpool hope to surpass them again.

Moreover, Liverpool had just been tied by Manchester United a few days ago. Now it can be said that there are both new and old hatreds for Manchester United. When we meet this time, we naturally hope to play well with Manchester United. It is also a revenge. Up.

And in this game, Zhao Yaning also specially equipped his sleeping beauty card-in fact, he wanted to use it when he played against Chelsea, but he only noticed it at that time. Cards can only be used in cup matches, not in leagues. However, now this game is always a cup, and he can use the cards. Although he himself knew that the bigger reason for doing this was anger, he still wanted to do it.

In this game, Reina still did not recover, and Dudek once again appeared in the main lineup. On the back line, Liverpool sent Dudek, Riise, Vidic, Carragher, and Maicon on the back line. In midfield, Liverpool is still the defense line of Alonso and Sissoko. The midfielder is the defender. In terms of position, it was Zhao Yaning, Gerrard, Figo, and center. Liverpool rarely sent Morientes as the starter of the tough battle.

Zhao Yaning understands the reason for this: First, Fletcher is the only one available on Manchester United’s back midfielder. Kompany has been injured just a few days after he arrived, and he has entered the ranks of recuperating honorably. This game was suspended. Ferguson had no choice but to pull out the diamond-shaped midfielder, let Fletcher delay, and let Giggs play the midfielder, Richardson pulled to the frontcourt and kicked the side. The approach is also to allow them to recover in time to help defense.

Secondly, it was Manchester United's defense line, and suffered injuries. Ferdinandra injured his thigh. In this game, Manchester United’s defenders are Evra, Sylvester, Lucio and Gary Neville.

The arrival of Lucio is a good thing for Manchester United, but Sylvester is a nightmare. The most important thing is that without Ferdinand, Manchester United's high ball defense has become a big problem. Sending a Morientes can take advantage of the air to a large extent.

And Manchester United's striker, it is very unexpected that Rooney and Saha are arranged to start, Van Nistelrooy sat on the bench.

After the last game, Zhao Yaning thought that Manchester United would re-use Ruud van Nistelrooy in such a game. Who knows, they are still using Saha. This courage is indeed very big.

Twenty minutes after the opening, Manchester United has basically completely lost all of their midfield advantage. Although they are still able to protect themselves on the defensive line, they have nothing to do on the offensive end.

And Liverpool’s several attacks, but also encountered a lot of trouble when they met Lucio. Zhao Yaning was also a little surprised. It turned out that Lucio, who was serious, was so difficult to deal with.

Zhao Yaning took the ball in the middle. Instead of directly attacking the defense, he took a step to the left. He wanted to rely on his own breakthrough to connect his teammates and try to tear the opponent's defense at the same time. But in front of him, Lucio kept adjusting his position, staring closely at the direction of his running, and followed him step by step.

This surprised Zhao Yaning. Although he did not run at full speed, Lucio was just a defender after all, a central defender, able to keep up with Zhao Yaning in his footsteps, which made Zhao Yaning feel that it was really unexpected.

This also made him want to try. Instead of passing the ball to Gerrard as originally thought, he took the ball once, rushed into the penalty area, and then handed the ball to his left foot. Turning around with his foot on the axis, he wanted to wipe out Lucio and rush into the penalty area.

But Lucio stood in front of him very well at this time. His tall body made Zhao Yaning not able to turn around successfully at the first time. He directly swiped the ball back with his left foot and then continued to turn around. One person split the ball and flashed past Lúcio.

But Lucio had already caught up behind him, a clean tackle, almost sticking to his calf from behind him, and shoveling the ball to Van der Sar all at once.

This action is really bold enough. In the penalty area like this behind the tackle... But Zhao Yaning thought for a while and found that he really didn't dare to flop. In such a game, law enforcement must be strict. Moreover, he was sent off in the last game. Would be foolish again. Although Lucio was bold, he was still very accurate.

Although Lucio successfully intercepted the ball, Manchester United's midfielder failed to launch a decent fast break. Giggs did pass the ball, but Rooney did not have the advantage when he was competing with Vidic for the top spot, and Vidic pushed the ball directly to the midfielder Alonso's feet.

Alonso immediately passed the ball to Zhao Yaning, who ran to the front of the penalty area to catch it. After receiving the ball, Zhao Yaning flickered and made a pass to Morientes in the penalty area, but when Lucio blocked his pass, he passed the ball to Jie behind him. Rad.

Gerrard kicked the goal and kicked the ball out. But Van der Sar jumped up, and he raised his hands to lift the ball high out of the crossbar.

"A good attempt, Liverpool's attack was done very well!"

Did not score...Zhao Yaning still feels a little dissatisfied with this situation~www.ltnovel.com~ But this kind of game also allows him to see a problem with the opponent: their defensive system seems to be a little troublesome. Although Lucio is very good, he has just entered the team after all. Although he did improve Manchester United's defensive strength, because he has not yet been able to truly integrate into the team, there seems to be some problems with his positioning...

Try set-pieces, if they really don’t have a good run-in...

Zhao Yaning kicked the corner kick, and his corner kick was close to the penalty area. Lúcio stared at Carragher there. He saw that the ball was on the wrong side, so he ignored it. However, at this time, Morientes in the small penalty area rushed out and a header sent the ball to the foot of Gerrard on the edge of the penalty area.

Gerrard kicked again and shot vigorously!

Van der Sar patted the ball in front of the goal, but there was still a mess in the penalty area. As soon as the ball was let go, it was immediately squeezed in front of the goal. This time, in the chaotic crowd, Figo took the first place. One point, kick the ball far away!

"Al!!! Liverpool took the lead, and Luis Figo's goal opened the game for Liverpool!"