The Ball at Your Feet

After a 3-0 lead, the game quickly lost its suspense. Miracles are not always performed, and in this game, there is obviously no chance to perform miracles.

Although in the final stage of the game, Ballack's pass made Ma Kai scored a goal to save face, but with a total score of 4-2, Liverpool was able to smoothly eliminate Bayern Munich and successfully advanced to the next round.

After the game, Zhao Yaning's abusive play against Ram also became the focus of discussion. As a player who has high hopes from Bayern and the whole of Germany, but has been overwhelmed by players who are physically stronger than him several times in the game, Lahm has been criticized quite a lot. However, even so, Zhao Yaning still feels that he still has a very good future: leaving aside the skills, not everyone, after ten seconds has passed three times, there is still the willpower to chase the tackle.

At this time, other games have also decided the outcome.

Arsenal played a 0-0 drowsy game against Real Madrid at their home court-this kind of ending is very surprising. Arsenal's league play this year is simply a mess, no matter who dares to pour a few of them. . But in the Champions League, they immediately became extremely vigorous, no matter how patchy the defense is, they can guarantee that they will not lose the ball. Arsenal and Real Madrid only scored one goal in the two games. Such a game is a bit different from the way these two attacking teams play.

Although Chelsea lost, they did play a thrilling good game-they scored two goals in the away game and took advantage of Milan's lack of preparation to make a good attack on Milan's defense. If it weren't for Inzaghi's grab points and Pirlo's excellent free kicks, they would really have a victory, a reversal and a comeback and once again eliminated Milan.

But obviously, Milan did not give them a chance. Pirlo assisted Inzaghi's header, which brought the final total score to 4-3. Chelsea missed the quarterfinals and was eliminated early.

This may be the worst year for the Premier League-Manchester United qualified in the group, Chelsea lost in the first round, and the rest of the hope lies in Liverpool and Arsenal.

In the other games, there were no upsets. Inter Milan, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Lyon and Villarreal have all qualified, and the names of the Champions League quarter-finals have all appeared.

And on the weekend, Liverpool ushered in another piece of good news: Chelsea played very badly in this round of league matches in the Champions League. They lost the game, and they were behind Liverpool. Also reached as much as 6 points.

This made Liverpool even more rejoicing: With a six-point gap and ten rounds left, maybe Liverpool could consider winning the title early. If you are more ambitious, you may even get the triple crown. But if there is anything bad...Liverpool now, after all, is fighting on the third line. Compared with Chelsea’s first line, they have to play six or seven more games, and any loss of game may cause Liverpool to suffer from this. Another championship, and if the luck is really worse, then I am afraid that the direct four will be empty.

On the weekend, when the Liverpool players played the game, they were also extremely excited. Although tired, they were happy in their mood. They still played vigorously.

In the game, Liverpool also carried out some rotations: Morientes and Fowler partnered as the double forwards, while Alonso rested in the midfield, replaced by Arteta, and Zhao Yaning and Gerrard were in the frontcourt. They are divided into two sides. Even the defense line is replaced by Hypia, Bruno, and Fernan in one breath. However, even so, their lineup is slightly weaker than when they played against Bayern. Opposite the midfielder led by Zheng Zhi, they are still too strong.

In fact, the current Zheng Zhi's strength can be said to have improved somewhat. His comprehensive skills and physical fitness are rare among Asians. In the season that Charlton bought him, he played fairly well. Even when many people mentioned him, they thought that his performance was better than that. As an Asian star, Hidetoshi Nakata, who also played for the Premier League team Bolton this season, is even better. Of course, the main reason for this is that Hidetoshi Nakata is old. Nakata, who was intemperate in life, slipped too fast, causing his strength to slip too fast. But more, it is indeed because of Zheng. Zhi has its own strength.

Of course, this is also related to his own technical characteristics: the strength of many outstanding Asian players is actually not as great as the strength of European players. But when there is a big difference, when Asian players can't start from their favorite position, they often can't play other positions. The reason why Sun Jihe and Zheng Zhi are able to play is actually not that they are much better than others. The key is that they are all players with considerable all-round attributes. They can play multiple positions and the team will play themselves when they need it. Unfamiliar positions can also be brilliant, which makes them have much more chances to play than others. This kind of adaptability is the reason for their success.

However, although Zheng Zhi played very well, but in this game, he started in the midfielder position and needed to fight against Zhao Yaning, and the trouble was big.

When Zhao Yaning faced him, he didn't even have to shake it, just a single touch with his left and right feet could trick him.

This was because of Zhao Yaning's strength. Secondly, when he met Zhao Yaning, he really didn't dare to kick his feet. Even if he was too courageous, he couldn't play no matter how hard he was.

This also made Zhao Yaning rushed unscrupulously. Seventeen minutes after the start of the game, he broke through the center and kicked the goal!

The football had been thrown into his arms by the goalkeeper, but when he fell to the ground, the ball hit the ground and bounced again. Fowler didn't waste this opportunity, he just made a shot and pushed the ball into the net.

Another goal! Fowler raised his hands happily. He really did not expect that after returning to Liverpool this season, he would be able to play like this!

And soon, Liverpool’s second chance came again.

This time, it was Liverpool's set-kick opportunity. After Zhao Yaning was tripped on the left side of the penalty area, Liverpool got a free kick. When Zhao Yaning kicked out a free kick, he was thinking about the goal, but Bruno Alves jumped up high, and a fierce header smashed the ball into the goal. !

This ball surprised Zhao Yaning: How high did he jump? The foot that I drove is three meters high. His height is only 1.9 meters. Although he is not far away and prepared for a run-up, he actually jumped more than one meter from the ground? This is simply the jumping ability to play basketball!

And this header was indeed beyond the opponent's expectation. Although they blocked the goal immediately, after hitting the defender, the ball bounced into the net!

What an incredible goal!

But Liverpool's attack was not over yet. In the second half of the game, Arteta's through ball was sent directly to the back of the defense. This time, Fowler, who ran up, made another timely shot!

"Robby Fowler scored twice in the game! Excellent form! Amazing player!"

After Fowler's goal, Liverpool's score became 3-0. But when Liverpool wanted to rest, Charlton attacked. Relying on the opportunity of a corner kick, they managed to get a point back.

"Liverpool's defense is still not good enough. If it is not good enough in the frontcourt, it is really depressing to be defeated by the opponent's goal."

After the game, although Liverpool won, it still attracted a lot of media criticism for this 3-1 match. Liverpool's rotation system is very good, they have well ensured that they have sufficient combat effectiveness on multiple fronts. However, this kind of rotation also makes the team sometimes face some unnecessary troubles. Like this game, the opponent's final goal is a problem.

At the beginning of the season, Liverpool did not concede a number of consecutive games and was regarded as the favorite team to win the championship. But by the end of the season, Fowler was integrated into the team. Gerrard played better in the frontcourt. Sissoko's injury was also healed. However, Liverpool's defense line was unstable. Although there were fatigue reasons, But such things are still unforgivable. How can the winning team lack stability?

And after this game was over, there was another Wednesday game: this game was ahead of the thirty-fifth round. Because Liverpool reached the next round of the FA Cup, their thirty-fifth round needs to be staggered. This time, the FA's approach is to advance the game time.

In this game, Liverpool replaced Carragher in the backcourt, but the left back replaced Warnock. The frontcourt is Morientes as the single arrow, Zhao Yaning, Figo and Garcia as the starters.

But shortly after the game started, the players found the problem.

"Figo looks completely out of form." Martin Taylor is not surprised at this. "A 34-year-old veteran would really be too tired to play such an intensive schedule. He has no form, and it is understandable. It seems that Liverpool can't count on him too much in this game."

Figo is old after all. Although he was able to play very well in the first half of the season, but now, his running is getting more and more inadequate. After all, he is a veteran. Coupled with the special environment of the Premier League without a winter break, he really does not adapt to it. Great. Too many games made his physical exertion too rapid, and now it is from the early days of playing one game and stopping one game, and it is about to degenerate into playing one game and two games.

But at this time, Liverpool did not have too many suitable candidates to replace him. He was tired, but Gerrard was even more tired than him. Gerrard’s kicking method was originally a very hurtful way of playing. He has a lot of fights and sprints. Although his physical fitness is good, he also has a lot of kicking movements. He is easily affected by excessive running and fighting. Injured. The beginning of the season was okay. Now, the more it reaches this critical moment, the less Benitez dared to overuse him, for fear that something went wrong, the player was injured, and it would be difficult to arrange later.

The long schedule of the game ~www.ltnovel.com~ is where the team's greatest pressure lies.

But, fortunately, there was Zhao Yaning in this game.

"Louis, you go to the middle, I'm on the side." Zhao Yaning said to Figo. He could see that Figo was not running actively because he was lazy, but because he was too tired. He could not run anymore, but his consciousness could keep up. In this case, Zhao Yaning also believed that he could still do it again if he changed his position. Make some contribution.

In the middle of the road, he reduced his running, I hope he can play better.

And soon, Zhao Yaning's approach paid off. After Figo got the ball at the top of the arc in the penalty area, after shaking it twice, he made a pass and flew directly to Zhao Yaning in the penalty area.

Zhao Yaning's position is not good, the angle is very small, and facing the ball, he made an unexpected choice.

He took a step forward, swiped the header, and pushed the ball to the far corner of the goal!

"Al!!!! Zhao Yaning's header opened the scoring for Liverpool! It was almost a zero-degree header! Now, what else can Zhao Yaning fail to do?"