The Midfield Master

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As Little Redknapp said, in the last game, Deulofeu's performance was indeed terrible, and was considered by the English media to be an important reason for Everton's defeat. -79 Novels-

As for Jagielka and Cleverley, they are also considered to be the sinners of the team's loss in the last game.

These three people carried most of the blame.

In this game, Martinez lived up to expectations and removed Cleverly and Jagielka from the starting lineup, but he did not expect to keep Deulofeu, who performed equally poorly.

"You know, Aaron Lennon, who just transferred from Tottenham, is still sitting on their bench." According to Redknapp Jr., Everton is now reckless.

Although Lennon is now close to 30 years old, he has rich experience and is not slow. He has played Europa League and Champions League games all the year round. Compared with Deulofeu who is just in his early twenties, he is much more experienced and is most suitable Playing in such a crucial game.

Deulofeu's self-confidence almost collapsed in the last game, and he was even sent on the field. Aren't you afraid of "wasting" a player quota?

Although there is a lot of discussion from the outside world, for Xia Ze and the others, there is no problem in letting Deulofeu start.

Because after the poor performance in the last game, every player worked extremely hard in the next week of training, and Deulofeu was the worst. He was the first to arrive at the training ground every day and the last to leave. Practice for half an hour before leaving.

And in training, his condition was also very good. He made a few defenders like dogs. No matter who played against him, he couldn't defend him one-on-one.

If such an excellent training performance does not give him a chance, it would be a waste of money.

As for Jagielka and Cleverley, it's not because they didn't train hard or perform well enough, but because of tactical considerations, they need to be replaced.

In the central defender position, considering that the opponent's forward is full of energy and speed, Moss, who is relatively younger, is sent to partner with Stones.

As for the defensive midfielder position, in the last game, because no one sorted out the midfield, the team was very passive in the opening stage, and could not even slow down the rhythm and control the ball, so Cleverley was withdrawn. , replaced by the more experienced old Jiang Barry.

Although only two personnel adjustments were made, Everton's tactics in this game are completely different from the previous one. They will press out to attack from the beginning.

In fact, the other party is also very cooperative,

In the opening stage, they did not attack like they did at home. Instead, they shrank the defense and played a defensive counterattack.

In this way, Barry was given enough space to sort out the midfield and backcourt, and Xia Ze's ability to organize offenses also got enough opportunities to play.

In just two minutes of the opening, Gibson made a steal in midfield and passed the ball to Barry next to him, and Barry passed it straight to Xia Ze, who was in the midfielder position.

Xia Ze held the opponent's back, turned around deftly and passed the opponent, and shot directly in front of the penalty area.

After a free kick at the last moment of the last game, the opponent's goalkeeper has strengthened his research on Xia Ze within a week, knowing that Xia Ze has a long-range shot from outside the penalty area.

When he saw Xia Ze take the ball and get rid of his teammates, he was already concentrating on it, and when Xia Ze kicked to 'shoot' the 'goal', he moved ahead of time.

So although Xia Ze's 'shot' was powerful and the angle was good, he was still thrown out of the baseline by the opponent's 'keeper'.

Oh--

The fans at Goodison Park went into an uproar. They didn't expect Xia Ze to contribute such a wonderful shot at the beginning of the game, and almost broke the opponent's goal.

After an exclamation, the fans immediately applauded.

The applause was of course for Xia Ze's 'shot' and 'goal', not for the opponent's 'keeper' save.

Although in world football, there are many incidents where home fans are impressed by the wonderful performance of away players and the audience stands and applauds, but in this game, it is obviously not the case.

Xia Ze won a corner kick for Everton and also opened the horn of the team's offense.

In the next few minutes, Everton's players continued to attack the opponent's gate, thinking about breaking through the opponent's gate as soon as possible.

Just one goal, 1-0, is enough for Everton to advance.

"Gareth, control the rhythm, we still have 80 minutes, let them attack." Martinez saw that the team's onslaught of more than ten minutes failed to break through the opponent's goal, and knew the situation of the opening It doesn't work anymore.

Once the opponent's defense gets used to this kind of offensive intensity, it will be difficult to break the opponent's defense in the next game.

Therefore, it is necessary to properly slow down the rhythm and let the opponent attack, so that you have enough space to attack.

In the 13th minute, Midtjylland's first attack was a chance to win a free kick on the side of the front field. And the player who fouled happened to be Deulofeu.

For the players of Midtjylland, the free kick opportunity is a good time for them to knock on Everton's door.

After all, the second goal in the last game came from a corner kick.

The Nordic teams are obviously better at finding opportunities in the air.

Although Everton's average height is not bad, it is obviously still a little worse than the tall and strong Nordic players.

So when Midtjylland's central defender pressed up, Everton's defense suddenly became extremely stressed, and Xia Ze had to return to the penalty area to help defend free kicks.

"This free kick is very dangerous for Everton. If Midtjylland takes advantage of the opportunity, they will need to score at least two goals before they can get back to the same starting line," said Redknapp Jr.

"So for Everton, this attack has to be defended."

The Everton players also knew the importance of this defense, so Captain Baines called on his teammates to conduct man-to-man defense.

Midtjylland took a free kick and landed directly over the penalty area, just bypassing the first line of defense, and it was a position where the goalkeeper could not attack.

Such a landing point is almost the best landing point for a free kick from the wing.

A dozen or so figures in the crowd jumped up one after another, and finally a red figure snatched the landing point and directly headed towards the goal.

boom! !

The ball flew towards the goal fiercely, but it just hit the post and bounced back.

Oh--

The fans in the stands were in an uproar, but it was not clear whether they were sober or regretful.

But as soon as the ball bounced off the post and returned to the penalty area, it hit a person and bounced back to the goal.

Howard had already fallen to the ground when he saved the header just now, and it was too late to turn around at this time, so he could only watch the ball roll into the net from his side.

It was a player in blue who hit the ball into the net.

Own goals! ,