The Ball at Your Feet

Liverpool's goal was scored just after 20 minutes in the first half, making Liverpool fans all cheered. Although one ball is not enough to secure the victory, one ball leading is enough to kick the momentum.

"Villarreal paid the price for their pride. The single midfielder's style of playing is outdated, and they can't play like that now. They are too proud of what they did."

Martin Taylor quickly commented on this goal.

Indeed, the practice of single defensive midfielder is indeed somewhat out of keeping with the times.

Since the 2004 European Cup, the double-back midfielder kick has become popular all over the world. Except for some La Liga teams that insist on attacking, most teams no longer insist on playing with a single midfielder.

Barcelona may be the only team that still uses a single midfielder-but when Barcelona plays, after all, it is the active counter-grabbing of the frontcourt players to ensure that they do not lose the ball. And this season after Harvey retired from the main lineup due to a serious injury, Barcelona’s midfielders sometimes use Van Bommel and Edmilson’s double back midfielder to play. The problem of single back midfielders being easily penetrated is already obvious .

In this game, Villarreal’s coach, Pellegrini, known as a Chilean engineer, did nothing but bet on three things: one is Riquelme’s organizational talent, enough to make Liverpool midfielder advance and retreat. Unfounded. Secondly, Senna's defense is enough to make Liverpool's advancement not so smooth. And the third is to bet on Liverpool as a Premier League team, and it is not as clever as the La Liga team.

This bet cannot be said to be completely wrong. At least, Riquelme played well, and Senna did defensively. But what he missed was an offensive method that Liverpool increasingly used: large-scale transfers.

Liverpool's attack is accustomed to large-scale transfers on the two sides. This attack method can cope with the encirclement well and at the same time can better penetrate the opponent's ribs. The long passes of Liverpool wide players are not bad, so they also pay attention to developing this style of play. And what they originally prepared was for the La Liga team to cope with the ground pass and to fight back on the spot.

And this time, several Liverpool players completed the attack very well.

"Just do it, we can definitely win!" The frontcourt players high-five to congratulate. It is much easier to score a goal. Now what needs to be considered is how to expand the advantage.

With this attack, Liverpool also began to slightly control the situation. The Liverpool players started to speed up at this time. After all, in the eyes of most people, the way to speed up may be the best way to deal with Riquelme. Riquelme is slow and slow to play. His style of play always seems incompatible with modern football. If he plays fast-paced football, he may not be able to hold it for too long.

And Villarreal's overall rhythm is in charge of Riquelme. If he can't play a role, the final winner of this game will naturally only be Liverpool.

However, when Liverpool's speed gradually accelerated, their advantages did not emerge. After Villarreal contracted appropriately, he instead built a very good defense in the backcourt. In the midfield, Riquelme did not lose his role, but was constantly cruising in search. opportunity.

This made Zhao Yaning also start to wonder: why did they not make adjustments, or what are they waiting for?

Suddenly, Zhao Yaning thought of something: Although he noticed Riquelme’s slowness, he still ignored one point: Riquelme’s slowness is not his own slowness, but the slowness of his playing habits to the team as a whole. . He is accustomed to defending and dribbling the ball defense mainly based on technology. When encountering high-intensity confrontation, he lacks effective breakthrough methods, and too many falls will also cause a lot of meaningless free kicks. At the same time, Due to Riquelme’s over-extensive control of **, the team's counterattack speed will not increase. But in this way, Riquelme’s playing is a slow rhythm. This problem is quite wrong.

Riquelme is slow himself, but his control of the ball and rhythm is to the extreme, and he is very good at grasping the change from slow to fast: since his debut in 1997, he has no shortage of precedents for cooperating with fast players. . Most of the Argentine players do not lack speed, and Riquelme has been working with the extremely fast clown Aimar since the time of the National Youth Team. He is really underestimated by saying that he lacks this kind of experience. After 2005, his collaborator in the national team became Messi. No matter which fast player comes to him, he can play with ease. Riquelme and Messi played well in this year's game. The combination is very exciting, one movement and one static, one fast and one slow play, which is just right by Riquelme, which has always been a source of excellent viewing for the Argentine national team. When he arrives at the club, he will definitely not forget how to play. He has never lacked fast teammates, nor lacked the ability to grasp the speed type of play. It is of course possible to fight against him by the rhythm, but it is impossible to deal with him simply by speeding up and blindly brutality.

They are waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to launch a counterattack. Riquelme is not suitable for many kicks of modern football

The law is true, but, no matter what, his passing ability is an extremely good one. If he was allowed to find a chance to fight back, he would definitely seize the opportunity.

Realizing this, when Zhao Yaning got the ball again, he was no longer eager to attack. He controlled the ball and passed it to Alonso behind him. However, Alonso kicked the ball into the penalty area. Obviously, he hasn't reacted yet-this is Villarreal's trap.

The ball was broken by the opponent, and this time, they handed the ball to Riquelme for the first time.

When Riquelme turned around, he was already near halftime. Sissoko jumped up for the first time, but Riquelme dunked the ball with his right foot and buckled it behind his left foot, then withdrew his left foot one step at a time, pulled the ball one step at a time, turned around, and flashed past Sissoko. At this time, Diego Forlan had already ran to the backcourt, Riquelme passed the ball without hesitation and sent the ball out!

A 30-meter-long stick to the ground-this kind of football is extremely rare in modern football. This kind of ball is too risky. Playing a game with this kind of ball is likely to be a waste of opportunity!

But the passer is Riquelme, and things that waste opportunities will not come up easily. This kick was delivered to Fran’s feet with great accuracy. When Fran got the ball, Vidic had already rushed up, but Fran kicked the ball and crossed the ball. The robbed Vidic passed and fell behind and rushed to the penalty area!

Carragher rushed out, but Fran didn't enter the penalty area, just near the top of the arc of the large penalty area, he suddenly adjusted with a kick, and then kicked the goal!

"Al!!! Diego Forlan!!! Great goal in the 41st minute!!!"

Fran shouted and rushed to the sidelines. He said before the game that he scored in the game and was dedicated to Manchester United. The impression of Liverpool players on him has always remained at the stage where he used to play for Manchester United, and his defense was not tight. In the end, the Liverpool players themselves swallowed the bitter pill.

The former Manchester United player won the European Golden Boot last season. Although sharing the Golden Boot with Henry is great, his honor is still ridiculous in the eyes of the English. After all, in the eyes of the British, his image has long been determined: spraying, parallel imports, overestimation, not suitable for the rich.

In fact, Diego Forlan is indeed not a first-rate striker, but he is not so bad as that.

If you only look at his highlights, you might think that this is the world’s top striker. He has good shooting skills and strong ability, especially the mid- and long-range shots. Almost all of them are spectacle goals. It can be said that he is a good player. A forward who does not score a difficult goal.

However, he does have his problems: let alone the problem of stray shots that have been said too much, his ability to grab points is really average, and his ability to grasp opportunities is not very good. It is indeed not what he is good at to play in a team that requires cooperation, cooperation, and requires everyone to fulfill their responsibilities in Manchester United.

What he is good at is playing in small teams and in open leagues. In Manchester United, he couldn't reach the level, but at Villarreal, the encounter between him and Riquelme can be said to make both people shine: Fran’s insufficient running ability was defeated by Riquelme. The otherworldly pass made up for it. And his superb shooting skills also made Riquelme's pass very well transformed into a goal. The styles of him and La Liga also complement each other, which allowed him to complete a magnificent turn, from a parallel import in the Premier League to a super striker in Europe in one fell swoop.

He chose to leave Manchester United is the right choice. In La Liga, with the help of Pellegrini and Riquelme, he got a chance to be reborn.

In fact, he has always been grateful for Manchester United's release: in 2004 ~www.ltnovel.com~ he voluntarily asked to leave, and after he left, Manchester United actually had only three strikers left, hitting the lowest point in history. His record is not unrelated to his departure.

And now, he scored in the game against Liverpool. Although it is not a huge achievement, it makes Liverpool uncomfortable. For Manchester United fans, it is a huge contribution.

By the time of the intermission, everyone who walked into the locker room was still a little angry and low: someone scored a goal on their home court, then, after arriving at the away court, they had to work hard again. The original plan was not achieved, and everyone naturally became angry and low.

"Blame me, careless, I thought we had controlled the rhythm." Alonso was a bit distressed, "Joy can see it, I didn't see it, this is my fault."

"Now is not the time to be held accountable, and to deal with such a player, making mistakes is not ashamed. Didn't I also react later? Or I have less experience... What I think is, how should we deal with him?" Zhao Yaning said.

Fast pace is obviously not enough. Villarreal obviously made arrangements for this possible situation. Anyway, Riquelme is not involved in counter-grabbing. Liverpool unilaterally fast can not change his rhythm, but instead. Maybe he pressed too much, causing the backcourt to be empty and Villarreal counterattacked-although Fran scored this goal by a fluke, what if he was lucky enough to score another?

"I feel that instead of playing fast with them, it's better to play a slow-paced game with them... Maybe this is the right way to win."