Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 299 Gerrard: "I hope he can wear my No. 8 jersey!"

Team doctor Manara sprayed some cooling spray on Chen Xiaoliang's thighs on both sides to help relieve the pain.After getting better, Chen Xiaoliang gritted his teeth and stood up.

He took two steps and felt okay, and the time was about 60 minutes. He simply used a physical recovery card, used the refreshing feeling of full blood recovery to wash away the indescribable sadness of Eggy, and then asked the referee Tiller indicated that the game could continue.

Stamina Recovery Card 5 → 4
Enzo and Cesko at the side were concerned, but couldn't help laughing, and asked Chen Xiaoliang if he was okay.

When Chen Xiaoliang saw the two of them, he was holding back his expression of wanting to laugh, so he didn't get angry, and directly asked them to play back and forth and have a good game.

The referee Stiller also looked Chen Xiaoliang up and down several times, as if thinking, this kid can stand up without rubbing, he is really a tough guy, and then he blew his whistle to continue the game.

Since it was Liverpool's possession of the ball just now, Christant kicked the ball to Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson with a big kick, which is considered a courtesy.

With about 30 minutes left in the game, Liverpool still wanted to create a miracle at home. Klopp then replaced Firmino with Luis Dias to maintain the lethality on the wing.

Mourinho was very pragmatic. He replaced Dybala, who scored twice, with Mancini, adjusted the formation to a 5-3-2 with five defenders, and simply played the housekeeping bus.

The weirdest thing is Cesko, who keeps retreating from the frontcourt to defend, and sometimes even retreats to the position of the midfielder to participate in the top battle.

The only two attacking players left in the frontcourt, Chen Xiaoliang and Kewa, kept pressing and harassing Liverpool's midfield.

Therefore, even if the formation retreats to form an iron barrel formation, under the operation of the three-layer defensive system, Liverpool's large amount of possession is still passed back and forth between the defenders. As long as the defenders move forward, they will immediately encounter Chen Xiaoliang and others. pressing.

This method of adding the center forward's retreat to the defense, while actively giving up more than half of the space on the field, and reducing the scope of the press to the area within the midfield line within the third area of ​​​​the defense, completely restrained Liverpool's eagerness to advance at this time. The way the ball is played.

This is also the thinking basis of Mourinho's defensive philosophy.

That is to say, the more spread out the players on the court, the larger the area covered by the team, and the larger the area that each player needs to defend.

But if all players retreat and only protect the key areas in the third defensive area and their own half, the defensive area that each player needs to cover will be greatly reduced, which means that the running distance will be greatly reduced.

At the same time, it also means that the distance for teammates to help defend will be much shorter, and it is easy to form a double-team defense in a small space, forcing the opponent to take the ball or make a mistake.

Of course, no matter how good the theory is, it needs excellent players to implement it. In the past at Manchester United and Tottenham, Mourinho has used similar methods to deal with Klopp's Liverpool, but Klopp always laughed at the end. at last.

On the one hand, it was because the players at the time could not fully meet Mourinho's tactical requirements. On the other hand, it was more important that Liverpool at that time had not yet fallen into the old age trap at the moment.

At that time, 27-year-old Salah, 28-year-old Mane and 27-year-old Firmino were called the Red Arrows by the fans, plus Wijnaldum, Henderson and other powerful players. Working together, flexible running, sharp breakthroughs and resolute high-position pressing allowed them to once sweep the Premier League and the Champions League.

But now, Mane is away from Munich, the main lineup is aging, and the players are not updated in time, which has led to Mourinho's tactics that have repeatedly failed to work, and finally worked tonight.

In the 62nd minute, Liverpool failed to score repeatedly and could only pass to the right to find Salah.

After receiving the ball, Salah began to advance, and once again launched a positional battle, trying to find loopholes in Roma's defense.

Nunes retreated and scored a goal in this game. He was very active. In Carragher's mouth, this may be the best performance of Nunes since joining the team.

He is active in running forward and retreating defensively. The most important thing is that there has not been a famous scene of pushing the far corner out of the bottom line.

Enzo followed Nunes, who defended and retreated all the way. After receiving the ball, Nunes did not choose to turn around and take it himself. Instead, he knocked it back to Salah, and completed a two-for-one cooperation with him on the right. Salah He also took advantage of the trend to pass Kwa and Malaysia.

Enzo wanted to defend Salah, but Nunes ran to the middle of the penalty area after the ball was out, which diverted Enzo's defensive attention.

But it's okay, Chen Xiaoliang, who was active in the backcourt, rushed over.

At the corner of the penalty area on the right, Salah dribbled the ball and Chen Xiaoliang defended. Fans on both sides suddenly became interested.

It's a duel of aces against aces!

Salah controlled the ball with his left foot and dribbled forward in small steps, testing Chen Xiaoliang's defensive focus.

Chen Xiaoliang stepped back sideways, watching Salah's movements.

Obviously, he couldn't see the phantom of dribbling the ball around Salah, which means that Salah's dribbling ability is significantly higher than his 15 marking ability, which means purely relying on his own judgment and reaction Come on defense.

Suddenly, Salah's left shoulder sank, and his left foot took a step towards the penalty area line!
Chen Xiaoliang took a step back, but still placed on his left side!
He does not believe that Salah will directly force the inside and take the route of cutting inside.

Because even if this is Salah, a superstar with excellent speed, technique, and explosiveness, if he wants to face himself directly at a low speed, I'm afraid he still can't do it.

Immediately afterwards, Salah quickly dialed the ball with his left foot and swung it to his right.

really!It was a fake move just now, he wanted to go down the bottom line!
Chen Xiaoliang immediately tilted his center of gravity to his left, wanting to occupy the position in advance to prevent Salah from taking the lead.

Unexpectedly, Salah's left foot seemed to be glued to the ball, just halfway to the right, and then turned back to the left!

The first move to the left just now was indeed a fake move, but the second move to the right is still a fake move!

After shaking left, right, and left in this way, Chen Xiaoliang's center of gravity was deceived, and Salah dribbled the ball and rushed in, cutting inside along the penalty area line.

The players on both sides, especially the players in Roma, were shocked!
They have almost never seen a player who can shake Chen Xiaoliang away in the first two steps of a short-distance start!
But just when Salah was about to step out of space and cut in to shoot, the next thing that shocked them even more happened!

After Chen Xiaoliang was deceived, he knew that he had been shaken by Salah. He kicked his left leg and immediately turned half a circle. He immediately chased Salah with his left hand and "lightly" put his left hand on his waist. .

Salah's mind is full of question marks, why did he come back after a few steps after he passed someone?

Salah wanted to force his kick to shoot, but Chen Xiaoliang's hand on him not only delayed his speed, but also prevented him from exerting his full strength.

You should know that when a football player shoots vigorously, when he swings his thighs back and kicks in, the muscles that exert force besides the leg muscles are the muscles of the waist and abdomen.As for the header attack, when the feet are far away from the ground and there is no fulcrum, the whole person in the air relies on the waist and abdomen to exert force.

With such a delay, Chen Xiaoliang has already caught up with Salah laterally.

Salah had nothing to do, so he had to hit Milner in the rear. After Milner received the ball, he made a sling pass. Nunes lost the fight with Gwadiol and the ball was ejected out of the penalty area.

Cristante takes the ball and Roma counterattacks!

The three lines on the left, middle and right rushed forward like a rising tide.

Kewa ran to the left, Chen Xiaoliang ran to the right, and Cesko advanced along the middle.

Sesco was the slowest of the three, and after the second half was delayed, his physical strength was also relatively large, so compared to the two who rushed out quickly, his running was obviously slower.

But some things are not blindly fast. Cesko's delay gave Christiane, who advanced for a while and was pressed by Bajcetic, a good shot point.

Why is Bajcetic guarding him?Because the Spanish teenager had already exhausted his energy, he realized that he could not catch up with Chen Xiaoliang within a few steps after running out, so he had to turn around and try to intercept the forward pass of the ball.

Christante went straight forward, Cesko took a few steps with his long legs and received the ball, and then sent it to Chen Xiaoliang in front of him!
Sesco's pass was a bit short, Chen Xiaoliang had to stop and wait for the ball.

Just waiting, Salah rushed over.

After the offensive and defensive transition just now, Salah retreated all the way to participate in the defense. He found that Milner and Bajcetic, who were supposed to double-team Chen Xiaoliang, were too old and not fast enough, and the other was too physically exhausted to catch up with Chen Xiaoliang, so Decided to make up for the defense.

But the more he ran, the more surprised he was. The speed of the Red Countryman was as expected, and it was so fast that he couldn't even catch up!
If Chen Xiaoliang hadn't slowed down in order to wait for the ball to fall, he might not have been able to catch up to Chen Xiaoliang in time.

Salah's replacement gave Zimikas time to run directly back to the penalty area.

Chen Xiaoliang took the ball on the right side of Liverpool's penalty area, almost in the same position as when Salah attacked just now, but this time the two offensive and defensive players switched identities!

Chen Xiaoliang didn't hesitate. If he spends a moment here, the Liverpool players' pursuit will take longer, and the success rate of the counterattack will drop a lot.

He controlled the ball with his left foot and flicked to the left, Salah also took a step back.

Salah knows that Chen Xiaoliang is not a left-footed player, and cutting in from the right is not his offensive method.

Just as Salah had just completed this retreat, Chen Xiaoliang immediately swayed to the right!
This... A strange thought flashed in Salah's mind, but he still followed Chen Xiaoliang's shaking and moved to the left, blocking Chen Xiaoliang's route to the bottom.

The strange idea immediately turned into reality. Chen Xiaoliang actually used the exact same move as when Salah shook himself just now, shaking left and right continuously to deceive the center of gravity, and finally cut inward to the left and rushed to the middle of the penalty area!
Although Chen Xiaoliang's dribbling ability is not as skilled as Salah's, Salah's pressing and tackling ability is far inferior to Chen Xiaoliang's!
Coupled with the lack of physical strength, Salah, who ran almost the whole field and came back to defend, had no way to turn around quickly like Chen Xiaoliang and pounce on the defensive target for the second time to intercept.

With a flash of Chen Xiaoliang, Salah was completely left behind!
In the live broadcast room, Ferdinand stood up excitedly!

As a Manchester United star who has fought against Liverpool for more than half of his career, he sincerely hopes that Liverpool will be overthrown by Roma tonight.

After seeing Chen Xiaoliang "returning the other person in the same way" and perfectly copying Salah's technical movements to shake Salah himself away, he couldn't help shouting loudly in the live broadcast room!

On the field, Chen Xiaoliang, without the interference of his close defense, took a few steps, and before Van Dijk pounced on him, his left foot swung backwards, then his waist was retracted, his thigh drove his calf to twitch forward, The inner instep hits the middle and lower part of the ball firmly!
This time, even Gerrard opened his mouth wide. He and everyone on the scene were watching a beautiful arc drawn from the penalty area line, and then flew cruelly towards Liverpool's goal!
Alisson tried his best, took a step to the right and flew sideways with all his strength!
The ball is flying with a strong spin, and Alisson is also flying with the strong hopes of Liverpool fans!
However, in the end, their flight trajectories did not intersect, but the Roma fans also failed to usher in the exciting moment immediately.

With a "bang", the ball hit the left column firmly, and then bounced back!

Konate, who returned to defense, had no time to dodge, the rebounded ball hit his face, and bounced back to the direction of his own goal.

Alisson, who fell on the ground, tried his best to support his body and wanted to get up, but everything was doomed to be futile in the blink of an eye.

2 is better than 5!

Konate own goal!

Roma players all ran towards Chen Xiaoliang!

Their fans roared excitedly in the stands, and several even raised the inflatable Champions League trophy and shook it non-stop.

On the sidelines, Mourinho raised his right hand high and spread five fingers to the Liverpool fans in the stands behind him.

The philosophy of the madman is that how he was suppressed by Klopp in the Premier League in the past, will be doubled in the Champions League today.

Barrage:

[Awesome, copying the opponent's skills, Salah is stunned]

[Why does it feel like Xiao Liang has become a cow after the egg was broken just now?]

【What broken eggs, they are very hard】

[Chen Xiaoliang: Impossible, absolutely impossible]

[Chen Xiaoliang: My second brother is invincible in the world]

...

Gerrard's mood is very delicate. Of course he is worried about another fiasco for Liverpool, but he is also relieved and even shocked by Chen Xiaoliang's superb performance.

He knew that if Chen Xiaoliang used his foot to curl the ball after breaking through from the left, he would definitely score it. His left foot, which was still a little too hot, made the difference between the final goal and the direct goal.

The depressed Konate and the equally depressed Alisson stood motionless, and Van Dijk was not in the mood to comfort his two unlucky teammates because he was also in a bad mood.

Rumors that Fenway Group, a shareholder of Liverpool, is trying to sell the club have intensified. Although the owner John Henry has repeatedly stated that it is only an intentional contact, trying to bring new shareholders to the club, not to sell the club as a whole, but these news But it did cause unrest and turmoil within the club.

After all, after the Fenway Group took over Liverpool, it brought Klopp and spent a lot of money to buy players, creating the first Premier League title and another Champions League.

This is different from rivals Manchester United. I heard that the Glazer family wanted to sell Manchester United. Not only was there no chaos in the locker room, but they also expressed an optimistic attitude towards it. .

Van Dijk was very upset. Although the media had not received the news, just a few days ago, Firmino also made it clear to Klopp that he would not renew his contract with the team and prepare to leave after the contract expired.

At this point in the game, it is destined that there will be no more suspense. The proud Klopp replaced Salah, Bajcetic and other players with Jota, Elliott and others, which is equivalent to declaring that he has given up the game .

Although the defeat caused them to miss the first place in the group, the result of reaching the Champions League knockout round will not change, and the draw for the round of 16 also has an element of luck, which may not necessarily draw Real Madrid, Bayern, Paris and other super teams .

Mourinho did not kill them all again, but he used 4 separate substitutions with a little flamboyance, replacing several heroes Enzo, Sesco, Kwa and Chen Xiaoliang in turn.

The two teams still have three games in the 10 days before the start of the World Cup. The schedule is very tight. Roma will face the rival Lazio in the next game.

The end of the group stage only marks the beginning of a more serious challenge.

However, just as the game was coming to an end and the confrontation on the scene had shown a state of garbage time, there was a neat singing in the Anfield stadium.

"When you walk through a storm, look up and don't be afraid of the dark."

"At the end of the storm, there is a golden sky, and the sweet song of a lark."

"Through the wind, through the rain, maybe your dreams will be shattered."

"Keep going, keep going, with the hope in your heart."

"You will never walk alone."

How many fans who liked Liverpool as children saw the moment when Liverpool won the domestic league championship again when their children grew up to the same age.

Probably no one knows better than them what it's like to walk with the team you support in the face of setbacks.

After the game, the two sides did not have any sparks in the mutual greetings. On the contrary, they were replaced in advance. After fighting with Chen Xiaoliang for most of the game, Bajcetic, who was already exhausted, took the initiative to greet him and wanted to exchange with Chen Xiaoliang. jersey.

Chen Xiaoliang took off his jersey in a very friendly manner, and the two even raised each other's jersey to show off in front of the camera lens.

Seeing this scene, Gerald had mixed feelings in his heart.

Ferdinand seemed to be aware of his old opponent's emotions, and asked deliberately: "Steven, when you were at Rangers, why didn't you recommend Chen Xiaoliang to go to Liverpool, otherwise tonight's game will definitely have a different result."

"By the way, his agent is still Riise, and Riise doesn't want him to go to Liverpool?"

Gerrard knew what Ferdinand wanted to say. The reason why Liverpool is today is precisely because it did not update in time in the past few years. In the case of Chen Xiaoliang's transfer at that time, he only sent a double-team, not like Mourinho. Ao showed special sincerity like that.

Gerrard: "Of course I want him to go, I want him to go too much, you know Leo, I have a dream for him, that is, one day he will move to Liverpool and wear the 8 that I used to wear back then. jersey number, put Manchester United underfoot and win the Premier League."

"Impossible, even if Liverpool wants to buy, you may not be able to come up with a price that will make Roma tempted."

Ferdinand was talking, but why didn't he think in his heart, Ten Hag, why are you still hesitating, hurry up and make an offer!
"Hahahaha." Seeing the bickering between the two, Capello couldn't help laughing.

"This is the most talented player I've ever seen, and he can be the cornerstone of any team's championship for the next 15 years."

The legendary Italian coach finally said.

　Thanks to the executive director of the club [Visible Invisible Man] for the 2 monthly tickets!
　　Thanks to the executive director of the club for the monthly ticket of [July Snow Night]!

　　Thanks to the executive director of the club [book friend 20210301106532829808] for the monthly pass!

　　Recently, the hospital stays with me every night, and there will be a new round of recommendations in mid-March, and I will try to make up as much as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)