This player is not professional

Chapter 320
Liverpool, who advanced to the quarter-finals, still have one final to play, which is the League Cup final. With the efforts of a semi-main lineup, Liverpool successfully entered the League Cup final this season.

Of course, this is also related to the current league environment, because of the sudden rise of Leicester City this season, as well as Manchester United's return to glory, plus Tottenham, which is already eyeing, plus Manchester City, Chelsea, and Arsenal, who have occupied the Champions League seats all year round. Na, plus overlord Liverpool.

The competition for Champions League seats is too fierce, so the strong teams have focused on the league and have chosen to give up on the cup. After all, with such fierce competition, there is really no way to distract from the cup, and the League Cup is It's not that important, it's not as important as the FA Cup.

Only Liverpool, which is sitting firmly on Diaoyutai and is far ahead in points, has not given up on this competition. However, Liverpool's opponent in the final is Southampton. Southampton's performance this season is not bad, occupying the eighth position, but the Rays are defeated by the big dark horse. Leicester City were covered up.

Because they entered the final, Klopp decided to play with all the main players in this game. After all, it can be regarded as a championship, or at least an honor.

"Okay! With the referee's whistle, this highly anticipated game begins!"

After the game started, Southampton, who played at home, took advantage of their kick-off opportunity to organize an attack, but it did not threaten Liverpool's goal. The shot was not even formed. It hit the front of Liverpool's goal and was ended.

It was Liverpool who got the ball next.

However, Liverpool did not rush to attack, but moved back and forth in the midfield.

Lin Yi didn't even move forward, but stayed in the backcourt, almost standing on the same line as the defenders, participating in the kick.

Under Liverpool's style of play, Southampton's players kept pressing up, hoping to intercept the ball directly in the frontcourt and catch Liverpool off guard.So their back line got closer and closer.

This situation certainly did not escape Lin Yi's "radar".

When he noticed that Southampton's players pressed forward and then didn't go back, he realized that his opportunity had come.

But he didn't just kick the football into the open space in front of him dozens of meters away.If you do this, there is a high probability that it will not form a threatening attack, but will only alert the enemy.

What Lin Yi needs is the success rate, not the number of attacks.

This is an away game, try to score goals to get the team off to a good start.

This is Lin Yi's idea.

So even if he saw Southampton's defense pressing forward a little bit, Lin Yi didn't act impulsively.

He began to slowly pass the football forward, not long passes, but short passes to penetrate.

After several passes, the football was finally pushed across the center line.

At this time, although Liverpool's attack passed half-time, Southampton's back line was pressed to the 30-meter line. Behind them was only goalkeeper Foster who was open in the penalty area.

Lin Yi ran from the center to the wing to meet his teammates.

When his teammates passed the football to him, he gently moved the football to the side with the outside of his right foot, dodged the rushing Southampton midfielder Clasie, and then without hesitation, he directly picked up the football with his right foot. Got up and spread to the front.

This time it wasn't a short pass, but a 20-meter overhead pass!
At the same time as Lin Yi passed the ball, Firmino, who was in front, suddenly started to accelerate forward!
Southampton's central defender Van Dijk came to defend Firmino. He saw Firmino moving forward and followed suit.

But because Lin Yi passed the ball very suddenly, Van Dijk only followed Firmino when he saw him running. He had already lost the opportunity in defense. Even if he moved forward, he was blocked by Firmino. Behind him.

Then Firmino took the football from Lin Yi and moved it forward!
He didn't need to slow down at all, he just entered the penalty area, and then faced the attacking goalkeeper Foster, Firmino poked the football with his left foot!
The football flew past Foster and hit the net!

"Oh! Oh! Oh - just 4 minutes into the game, Liverpool took the lead! There couldn't be a better start than this!"

Firmino was also very happy after scoring. He turned around and hooked Lin Yi, gesturing for him to come up and celebrate together.

So Lin Yi led the other Liverpool players and ran towards him.In front of Southampton's penalty area, a group of people hugged each other and cheered in celebration.

However, what the Liverpool players did not expect was that after falling behind by one goal, the Southampton players let go and chose to give it a try. Southampton, playing at home, launched an attack on Liverpool's goal amidst the roars of the fans. launched a fierce offensive.

In order to avoid its edge, Liverpool could only shrink its defense.

Although the opponent was the powerful Liverpool, Southampton did not give in. After all, this was the championship title they were competing for, and they were willing to fight to the death for it. Soon, their fierce offensive had an effect.

At the 17th minute of the game, which was the 308th minute of the game, Southampton's fierce attack earned them a free kick in the frontcourt.

Romeu passed the football directly to Liverpool's goal. Pelle jumped high in front of the goal and headed the ball back.

The ball caught Mignolet off guard.

When Mignolet saw the football flying towards him, it was too late to make any action. He could only watch the football fly into the goal from the near corner!
"Pellet——!! Well done! In the 17th minute of the game, Southampton equalized the score. They played too proactively. I can't believe they faced Liverpool with a full lineup!"

After the goal, Pellet opened his arms and ran towards the corner flag area, and then made a domineering slide, leaving three clear marks on the snow-covered turf.

His teammates also ran to him and celebrated the goal with him.

Although they have a full lineup, Liverpool are a little out of shape today. It may be because they have experienced a hard battle in the Champions League and the Liverpool players have not yet regained their form. After all, the Champions League has just ended two days before such a final.

The TV broadcast was originally showing the celebrating Southampton players, but then suddenly cut to the Liverpool players. In the screen, Lin Yi was clapping his hands and saying something loudly to his teammates.

TV viewers couldn't hear Lin Yi's voice, but some lip reading experts should be able to interpret some information from Lin Yi's changes in mouth shape, but now everyone has to guess.

In fact, Lin Yi said very simply: "This is their home court. It's normal for them to score a goal. It's no big deal! The key is that we can still score! Since we are on the stage of the final, we must give him the trophy." Take it away and never leave it to your opponents!”

For the Liverpool players, this goal will certainly be painful, but it is not frustrating.

Coupled with Lin Yi's encouragement, many Liverpool players quickly settled down.

When the game restarted, Southampton, which had just scored a goal, was naturally boosted in morale and launched a fierce offensive towards Liverpool's goal.

They planned to score another goal in a short period of time and completely knock Liverpool into the ice cave.

But to their surprise, Liverpool, who was lagging behind, did not panic.

Facing Southampton's offense, their defense performed very tough.

What's even more exaggerated is that Liverpool still has the energy to attack!Their counterattacks were also vigorous and quite threatening!
And it is impossible for Southampton to withdraw its defense just because of Liverpool's counterattack. Now their morale is high and it is the time when they are at their best. If they don't win Liverpool in one go at this time, how long will they have to wait?
So although their defense was threatened by Liverpool's counterattack, Southampton also launched an offensive towards Liverpool's goal as always.The two teams started fighting each other.

Both sides got some opportunities, but none of these opportunities were too good or fatal.

As a result, the score did not change again until the end of the half, and the first half ended at 1:1.

In the locker room, Liverpool players are wiping off the sweat on their bodies and changing into dry jerseys to avoid catching a cold.

At the same time, Klopp praised the players for their performance in the first half. Although he conceded a goal, Klopp was generally satisfied with the players' performance.Especially the performance after conceding the ball, the players were not frightened by conceding the ball and panicked.Instead, they actively launched a counterattack, threatening Southampton's goal and preventing them from going all out in attack.

After praising the players, it's time to talk about how they played in the second half.

Otherwise, praise alone will not win the game.

"...If Southampton continues to play like this in the second half, we will continue to fight back."

The strategy for the second half was very simple.

Since Southampton's morale is now high and they want to destroy Liverpool in one go, Liverpool should avoid its edge and then counterattack.

At the same time, on the other side, Trim also praised the team's first half mark.

Then he asked the players to keep up their efforts in the second half. This tone must not be lost.

The goal in the first half made Southampton's players very excited, which shows that their game is not without hope!

After the start of the second half, everything was just like the first half. Southampton, who had equalized the score, continued their high morale and continued to attack Liverpool's goal.

As for Liverpool, in response to Southampton's offensive, they also launched a defensive counterattack as expected.

Just at the beginning of the second half, Southamptons launched an attack from the right and the football was passed into the penalty area.But Pellet, who was following up in front of the goal to grab the ball, was half a beat too late and missed the football!

"Pellet - what a pity! If he could kick the football and make sure to lift it within the goal frame, the goal would definitely be scored!"

After the football was passed to the Liverpool goal, many Southampton fans in front of the TV jumped up from their seats excitedly, raised their arms, and were ready to cheer for Southampton's goal.

As a result, Pellet did not touch the football, which made the fans who jumped up fell back into their chairs in disappointment, raised their arms and clasped their heads, looking at the TV screen in disbelief - they couldn't believe it. Pellet didn't even touch the ball!

Just at the start of the second half, such a dangerous situation occurred in front of Liverpool's goal, which really scared the Liverpool fans.

However, the Liverpool players on the pitch did not seem to be affected.

Within a few minutes, Liverpool launched a high-quality counterattack.

After the ball was passed to the front of Southampton's penalty area, Lin Yi passed the ball to Royce with his heel at the front of the penalty area. Royce inserted into the penalty area from the right and passed the ball to the back. Firmino nodded the ball from behind to grab the point. , the football flies towards the goal!
Southampton goalkeeper Foster made a flying save and knocked out Firmino's header!

"Oh——!" This time it was the Liverpool fans' turn to exclaim.

"Firmino's header!! Foster made a great save!"

"Although there was no goal, Liverpool played a very high-quality counterattack!"

Liverpool's counterattack frightened both the Southampton fans and the Southampton fans. Then the Southampton fans were enraged and they shouted even crazier in the stands.

And their madness was also passed on to the Southampton players on the pitch.

The home team did not restrain themselves because of Liverpool's attack. On the contrary, they attacked even harder.

Liverpool, whose fighting spirit was aroused by this attack, was not to be outdone, and the two teams simply fought against each other.

At 7 minutes, Liverpool launched an offensive. Royce got a chance on the right side of the penalty area, but his shot from 11 meters in front of the goal was blocked by the goal post!

"Royce!! He missed a great opportunity to take the lead!"

Royce, who failed to score, put his head in his hands and was very upset.

Lin Yi applauded him from behind, indicating that his shot just now was beautiful.

Although there was no goal, such a shot must be able to boost morale and give confidence to teammates.

It is true that Liverpool has not been affected by continuous threatening attacks but no goals.

After another Southampton attack, Liverpool also launched theirs.

This time, since it was not a counterattack after stealing the ball, Southampton was well prepared.

Lin Yi did not rashly try to hit them behind with a long ball.

Instead, he chose to move forward with a short pass.

Advancing all the way to Southampton's penalty area, Liverpool encountered huge defensive resistance.

It is difficult for them to send forward passes anymore, and they can only pass crosses or pass back more often.

Lin Yi took the ball again. He moved the ball forward slightly, then caught up with the ball, raised his right leg, and tried to shoot directly from a long distance.

So when they saw Lin Yi taking a long shot, the Southampton players immediately rushed forward to catch the eye.

As a result, Lin Yi was just a fake move. His right foot did not actually hit the ball, but fell down and passed the ball to Salah not far away on the left.

Salah gets the ball in the ribs, and he can also choose to break through with the ball or make a long shot or cross.

(End of this chapter)