The Ball at Your Feet

596th away game

Although the final schedule may lead to a very heavy task for Liverpool, this time, it has aroused everyone's fighting spirit: we have played so many games this season, and it is not easy to maintain the advantage until now. How can we not stick to it? ?

Moreover, if there is any good news, in the last five rounds of the league, Liverpool's opponents are not strong teams. If you take it seriously, you probably won't have a problem. Among Chelsea's opponents, Manchester United is a strong team. Manchester United have recovered very quickly since the second half of the season. Although they owed too much money in the first half of the season, they could not catch up with Liverpool and Chelsea. However, at this time, they were also chasing after them and did not show weakness at all. Although always expecting Manchester United to block Chelsea, it is somewhat embarrassing to say it, but at this time, everyone still has some illusions.

At this time, the league was put aside, and Liverpool had one more thing to do. The away game in the Champions League is here, and it's time for them to play against Villarreal at the Love Song Stadium.

Although Liverpool won at home, because Villarreal scored an away goal, Liverpool's advantage is not very safe. After all, as long as Villarreal achieves a 2-0 victory at his home court, Liverpool will be eliminated.

Although it seems unlikely for Liverpool to lose 0-2, no one can tell such a thing after all. In fact, just last season, Villarreal was still at his home court, 3-0 bloodbathed Barcelona, ​​Riquelme’s game also made Barcelona faceless. After all, their strength should not be underestimated. Look, this game has to be certified to deal with it.

In the game, Liverpool had the strongest lineup he could play. And Carragher's position, after the last game, was replaced by Bruno Alves, and Hypia sat on the bench to watch this game.

In the game, Villarreal is still a lineup built around Riquelme. Only this time, they used a double midfielder composed of Senna and Tacinadi, and in the frontcourt, they changed to Fran's single forward, Valencia played on the right and Solin played on the left.

Different from the previous game, the two sides still had temptations at the beginning. In this game, from the first second, the two sides began to attack. Less than five minutes into the game, Riquelme noticed a loophole in the defense and sent the ball to Fran with a through kick. Fran took advantage of Bruno's gap and kicked the ball towards the goal with a long shot!

Reina's excellent rescue success in front of the goal saved Liverpool from a blow, but even so, this shot still attracted the joy of the Love Song Stadium.

"Liverpool should be more careful. Fran is very likely to have such an opportunity. If he takes the opportunity to score a goal, then the trouble will be big."

Fran is an excellent shooter, but after all, long shots are more difficult to score. The more people who can play good football, generally won't score a lot. The good-looking fairy ball is because it is incredible, and it is impossible to play incredible football with high efficiency. This can also be said to be a contradiction between location and viewing.

Fran's attack this time was obviously not very effective. His shot was too risky, and Reina threw it out.

But it is true that Liverpool's defense is indeed not good enough. After all, Bruno's replacement was a bit worse than Carragher. At this time, his mistake caused the opponent's goal.

Obviously, Riquelme also noticed this. When dribbling the ball again, he did not attack immediately, but passed it slowly and horizontally in the midfield, watching Fran in front of him running non-stop.

If it is a mature defender line, it is rare to tear it out by running, but Liverpool's defense line is not mature enough. What's more, what Riquelme wanted was not originally done by Fran.

Liverpool is also very aware of the problem of the lack of defenders. At this time, what they can do is to rely on offense to make up for the lack of defense. Another attack from Liverpool started. Zhao Yaning broke directly to the ribs on the side, and then kicked the ball to Gerrard in front of the penalty area. Gerrard kicked out, but knocked on the goal post and got out. And this time, Villarreal's defender Penha got the ball and immediately launched an attack!

Cruyff once commented on the 2006 Argentina team and said that when the team was defensive, it had a 4231 formation, but when it was offensive, it had become a 3232 formation. The full-back advances to the full-back, and then the full-back tops the striker. This approach can make the team's attack extremely sharp in an instant, but to operate this approach, it must rely on an extremely good midfielder. The conversion of the entire formation requires the players' ability to switch quickly. It is not too difficult for an off-the-ball player to perform this kind of running, but to complete a quick counterattack while running, what is needed is a good enough player to hold the ball, pass the ball, and make the running effective.

Riquelme is obviously good enough. And this opportunity is what he has been waiting for for a long time.

Valencia instantly accelerated and rushed forward. He and Fran ran forward together, which also caused Bruno in Liverpool's defense to have a problem with not being determined enough to make up. And at this moment, Riquelme's through ball had passed the crowd and was handed over to Fran's feet.

When it is critical, you must have enough trust in your teammates, which is a necessary condition for the organizer.

When Fran took the ball, he had already adjusted his pace, and Bruno rushed to tackle it, which he didn't even see. Lifting his foot, just in front of Bruno, Fran took a shot and blasted the ball out!

"Oh, no! Diego Forlan scored again! Liverpool fell behind on the road!"

The love song stadium boiled instantly, and with one more ball, they would be able to advance to the semifinals!

"Don't mind, Bruno." Walking to the backcourt, looking at Bruno Alves, who was on the ground again after losing his position, Zhao Yaning stretched out his hand and pulled him up, "No one can avoid making mistakes, and making mistakes is not ashamed. Just defend well. Don't be discouraged, just keep your eyes on it."

Bruno nodded and stood up, saying nothing.

Liverpool's defensive system is based on Carragher's characteristics. Although Bruno is now replaced, Benitez is obviously unable to modify the defensive position system for these few games and temporary changes. Firstly, because he only has a few games to play, he will still be a substitute in the future. Secondly, because at this time, it is Vidic's ability that needs more reliance. Vidic has just adapted to a system with difficulty. Make more changes. What Liverpool can do is to let him adapt to Vidic, rather than let Vidic adapt to him-this is out of performance requirements. Although Benitez has a lot of rotations in the frontcourt, he has always been very clear about who can change and who can't.

Therefore, Bruno cannot be solely blamed for such a mistake. This is the pain the team must face, and no one can help. And what Zhao Yaning can do, in addition to comforting Bruno and exempting him from the guilt in his heart, there is only one thing left: he has to find a way to get the team to score. As long as a goal can be scored, Liverpool's situation will be greatly improved.

Moreover, Villarreal's attack line is perfect, but the defensive line is not necessarily. What I have to do now is to attack.

Villarreal’s double defensive midfielder is still very powerful: in fact, this is not their favorite method. Their coach Pellegrini prefers a single defensive midfielder. Positioned 442. However, they changed their way of playing after being played away by Liverpool with loopholes. The cooperation of Tacinadi and Senna, the two outstanding players, has indeed caused a lot of trouble for Zhao Yaning and Gerrard to move.

However, this also made Zhao Yaning think of something-unlike Liverpool's defense, which is relatively late, Villarreal's defense is very forward. They need to cooperate with the midfielder to pass the ball, which is also a big means they use to fight against Liverpool's fierce counter-robbing in the frontcourt.

But in Zhao Yaning's view, this method of playing is undoubtedly flawed. The guard line is advanced, although it can help the team gain more midfield advantage, but it is inevitable that there will be a flaw behind it. The forward play style of the defenders is good for La Liga teams who like ground cooperation, but it is not very wise for the Premier League who likes long passes to spur offense.

But the question is how to exploit this loophole.

When he got the ball again, Zhao Yaning did not directly attack the backcourt. He took a step across the ball, and after a few passes between the midfielder and Gerrard, he began to slowly advance.

Riquelme was not very involved in the defense, which made Zhao Yaning and Gerrard's advancement without encountering too many problems. Senna had to rob, and at this time, Zhao Yaning took the time to accelerate, and after a two-on-one cooperation with Gerrard, he rushed directly to the backcourt.

This kind of cooperation is already his favorite method. He has good explosive power, runs fast, and can always pay attention to the position of his teammates. When handing the ball to his teammates, his teammates don't have to pursue the angle too much, and the probability of being intercepted by the opponent is also lower. And this way of playing is really easy to use. Two-on-one hit-to-wall coordination is the simplest and most basic method of ground coordination. Some teams that play two-on-one, such as Argentina, can easily play extremely exciting football~www.mtlnovel .com~ At the beginning, Maradona's goals after two consecutive two-ones instigated in the 94 World Cup were regarded as classics until a long time later. But now, what Zhao Yaning has to do is not to make two consecutive passes. What he has to do is to rely on two passes to get rid of the players. This kind of play couldn't be simpler.

This time, he passed Senna with ease and faced Tacinadi behind.

Tacinadi was accurately stuck on Zhao Yaning's forward path. He knew that it would be difficult for him to stop Zhao Yaning. In fact, Zhao Yaning only needed to choose one step to accelerate the change of direction and it would be enough to throw him off. However, at this time, creating the first layer of defensive barrier to make Zhao Yaning's breakthrough not so easy, he must do to win opportunities for Senna's recovery and the players on the back line.

Zhao Yaning really stopped in front of him, and at this time, Senna also caught up. Zhao Yaning half-turned slightly, avoiding Senna's chase, and Alonso, who had already seen the backcourt, stepped in.

Sure enough, Alonso understood what he meant. At this time, he really needed Alonso's response.

With a kick back, Zhao Yaning has deliberately adjusted the speed and position of the back pass. Alonso greeted him and gave the ball very well, so that he didn't have to stop the ball, it was enough to rub the pass and rub the ball over Zhao Yaning's head!

When Zhao Yaning turned his head, what he saw was Milito who had got the ball. He shot and blasted into the gate!

"Al!!! Diego Milito!!! Liverpool scored a goal and the score was a 1-1 draw!"