The Ball at Your Feet

The first time he played in the Champions League, there was such a long-distance attack. It was against a team like Bayern Munich to achieve a good performance, which made Walcott excited to wait for a lap. He followed Zhao Yaning excitedly, roaring more happily than Zhao Yaning. This goal is nothing to Zhao Yaning, but for him, it is a famous one.

Prior to this, he was known in the Premier League because he was the king of winter transfers and because he was a genius who spent £12 million in Liverpool. But since this one ball, when it comes to it, he is a player who can play freely on the Bayern stadium.

Liverpool’s fans were cheering and celebrating, and at this time, Magath also yelled at the court with dissatisfaction: the full-back’s excessive advancement caused the team’s defensive loopholes, which is Bayern’s ill, and it has been How many times he said it. Last season, against Chelsea, Sagnol over-progressed, making Joe Cole assist Drogba to score the winning goal. After the game, Sagnol and Magath even directly appeared in the media. The quarrel of scolding. And since this season, Bayern has not quarreled over this issue.

In this game, it was a nonsense miss from the wing that directly led to the loss of the ball, which naturally made Magath extremely dissatisfied. This is the UEFA Champions League game. Such an important game should be dealt with carefully. How can this problem always occur?

But Lizarazu also has his own helplessness: after all, his age is not forgiving. Let a 37-year-old veteran deal with an opponent who relies on speed, even if he does not discuss tactical arrangements. Possibly, not to mention the fact that the guy on the opposite side named Walcott is incredibly fast. Even when he is in his prime, he may not be able to chase the injury, and besides, he is not in prime of life after all...

Immediately, Magath made adjustments to deal with such a fast-grabbing person. The old Lizarazu was obviously not an opponent. He replaced Lizarazu with a younger Ram. The substitutions at this time are more of a sense of anger, but Magath's temper was not good at all. At this time, he fell behind on his home court and his anger became even stronger.

But at this time, Ballack in the frontcourt was not in the mood to watch who was replaced in the backcourt. He is full of irritability now, all about how to open the situation.

The current Bayern attack has indeed fallen a lot compared to that time at the turn of the century. Although Ma Kai's ability to grab points is good, his technical characteristics are relatively fixed, and he needs the feed of the top ground passers to be able to exert his power, but now Bayern, where are there enough good organizers? Although Ballack's ability is strong, he is not a master of passing ground **** like Belleron. He needs to take care of too many things to cover everything. Ballack complained about this more than once. He told the team that Bayern needed a playmaker like Miku-his requirements were not high, Miku would do it-but Bayern's answer was to reprimand him. , And then in order to appease him, Karimi was introduced in the transfer market.

This approach is actually one of the biggest reasons Barak left. This season, Ma Kai has been in a declining state. No one knows how long he can last. And once Ma Kai fails, coupled with the aging of Saniol and Lizarazu, who else can Bayern be called a star? Pizarro was good at dealing with the Bundesliga defense. It was not easy to do in the European war. Although Schweinsteiger was known as a genius, he could not be kicked out. Bayern’s situation is already quite embarrassing, but Their list of signings is still only Podolski and other German players, which also makes Ballack desperate.

The strength of German players is one level behind other countries. This is something that everyone understands. National team games can rely on tactics, will, and even a little bit ugly, home advantage, Germany's influence in FIFA to win, but in club games, this way is not feasible.

However, Bayern's business philosophy is always tied to the rise and fall of Germany. Such a concept is good for the long-term development of the club, but for Ballack, he can't bear it.

He is thirty years old and can't afford to wait. Bayern can wait to return to the peak, but Ballack, there is no day to return to the peak. Maybe, this is his last UEFA Champions League game at the Olympic Stadium-when he thinks so, but many because Bayern will change home next season.

However, at this time, Liverpool also began to shrink the defense. For Liverpool, achieving an away goal lead is perfect. With their physical strength, they are not enough to survive the audience. Therefore, they are also ready to survive the final time by relying on defense at this time.

This also allowed Bayern's attack to gradually turn into a siege attack. Although there are no more than 20 minutes left, at this time, even if it can pull one back, it is very precious.

But the Liverpool players, in front of the goal, firmly guarded the penalty area. Ma Kai could hardly run out of space, and Pizarro's breakthrough was really difficult to succeed. Liverpool's backcourt defense made Bayern's attack almost ineffective.

Fortunately, Bayern and Barack. With him, Bayern still has hope.

After Pizarro got the ball again, Sissoko immediately rushed over to intercept, and only one steal, successfully snatched the ball from Pizarro's feet. However, before Sissoko could pass the ball, Ballack rushed up and broke the ball with a kick. Alonso immediately made up for it, but Ballack swiped the ball and avoided Alonso, then kicked and hit the goal!

Zhao Yaning ran up from his side. At this time, he didn't have time to think, and shoveled Barack to the ground.

"Zhao Yaning's tackle! Oh, foul, yellow card."

Zhao Yaning's feet were still a little slower, and he kicked Barak's leg, causing Barak to fall to the ground. This gave Zhao Yaning a yellow card, but he did not succeed in shooting.

However, at this time, Jeremiah also came up, this free kick, he was ready to take the penalty.

Start fast, raise your foot, shoot!

Jeremiah's shot was blocked by the wall. This time, Ballack grabbed the first landing point. He directly lifted his foot and hit the goal again with a heavy shot!

"Al!!! Ballack won Bayern Munich back! His goal made Bayern have a theoretical hope in the away game!"

Looking at the happy Munich fans, Zhao Yaning sighed-this devil's schedule is really tough.

It doesn’t matter if the UEFA Champions League game has an away draw. The following leagues, and a winning FA Cup, can no longer cause trouble——

After the away draw with Bayern, Liverpool's results were not very satisfactory, but they were barely justified. After all, Bayern is not a weak team, Liverpool is a continuous battle, it is good to be able to score goals in away games, although such a result is not completely satisfactory, but it is already acceptable.

What makes them even more relaxed is that after this game, their opponent is Manchester City. When facing the underdogs, they can relax a little and relieve fatigue.

At this time, Zhao Yaning, who had returned to England, also received a piece of news that made him feel very nonsense.

"At this time, go back to the national team to play the game?" Zhao Yaning felt a little unbelievable about this arrangement. "We are at the club. The whole team is almost exhausted. Why should we go back to play the national team?"

"For the national team, you have to go back and play." Zhang Yuan could only explain to him, "This can't blame others. If you want to scold the street, you can only scold FIFA."

This year, FIFA made a reform: in order to avoid the long-term unhealthy monopoly of the Australian national team on Australia’s World Cup places, they decided to make a reform to allow Australia to come out of the Oceania Football Association and merge into the AFC, together with Asia. Kick the ball.

This has also caused great changes in the AFC. At the same time, a problem that has been quarrelling for a long time has also been brought up: the Asian Cup in the even-numbered years of the game has always been criticized. , With this reform, the AFC has made changes, holding the Asian Cup one year ahead of schedule, and the game will be played in 2007.

However, this has also caused another problem: the Asian Cup qualifiers have to start early. On March 1, there will be an Asian Cup qualifier.

"It's just a qualifier, do I need to go back?" Zhao Yaning didn't understand. "How can I not make it to the Asian Cup?"

With this question, Zhang Yuan could only laugh bitterly. "Theoretically, there is no problem. But in fact, we were not lucky in the draw this time, and we were assigned to a group with Iran. If the luck is really bad, we won’t. It’s so easy to save. Football has received more and more attention in the past two years. It is not appropriate for you not to go back to such an important game. Moreover, the Liverpool club have agreed.

The club will definitely agree that the intercontinental qualifiers are already very important events. No matter which club it is, there is no guts to openly block players from returning to the national team for official matches. Generally speaking, if you don't want to return to your country to play football at this time, the most common practice is to fraudulently claim illness. However, the current schedule is so tight, it is definitely not possible to play if you do not go back, so what is the point of staying?

But even though it was said, Zhao Yaning, who knew the significance of this qualifier in his heart, was not very interested in going back to the competition. The Chinese team will not fail to qualify for the qualifiers in Asia. What's more, in the East Asian Games just past, they didn't go back. Didn't they just win the championship? The state of the Chinese team is not bad at all. Going back by myself was purely to find confidence for them, and my contribution was really small.

"But if you stay in the club, don't your contributions here are the same."

Zhang Yuan understands that he doesn't want to go back, but he is still persuading him, "You play Manchester City, you won't even be able to win Manchester City? It doesn't make much sense for you to stay here~www.ltnovel.com~ But this is a league game, and that is an irrelevant Asian Cup qualifier. Zhao Yaning is still a little worried about the league. What if he loses? Chelsea are still watching behind and chasing points, in case they lose again here, then , The future games will be even more troublesome.

"You should go back to play in the national team." Benitez replied to his question, "Even if you stay in the club, I am going to let you take a rotation. In the last game against Bayern, Your condition has declined. I will check it for you. You have no problems with your physical strength, but the continuous high-intensity combat makes you a little psychologically exhausted, and you need a period of rest."

"The way to rest is to play the national team game?"

"Isn’t an Asian level game just rest?" Benitez asked rhetorically, "You said it yourself, it doesn’t matter if you win or lose a game. What you need now is to relax your mind and play games like this. It’s good for you. benefit."

hope so. When Zhao Yaning left Liverpool and returned to China on the plane, he was still thinking. After the important matches, the pressure is indeed a little bit heavy. Go back to your country and play a game. It’s okay to relax. If you play Manchester City, you won’t be unable to win, right?