The Ball at Your Feet

After defeating Bremen 3-0 in the away game, Liverpool almost declared that they have entered the Champions League knockout round.

Three wins and three wins, with nine points in the group first. Last year, Liverpool worried about qualifying in the group. This year, it has become that other teams need to worry about meeting Liverpool after qualifying in the group.

After returning to England, they soon received another piece of good news.

Chelsea finally did not win the tenth round of the match. After consuming too much energy in the UEFA Champions League in midweek, they had to swallow a tie in the league. Obviously, Chelsea's grouping is not as good as Liverpool. In the confrontation with Barcelona, ​​they consumed too much energy and had to fight harder in the Champions League, which made Liverpool's league finally able to catch up some.

If there is something that is unpleasant, it is only the team that drew Chelsea, but it happened to be Everton...

"If we are so good." There are no complaints about this in private.

"What's so good about a draw? The next time we meet, we can win them." Everyone can only encourage each other like this, "Anyway, we are not without them."

But it's easy said than done. Chelsea’s home game and league record have always been outstanding. They have not lost last year and have not lost this year. They are good at playing at home. This is recognized. It is obviously too difficult to win at their home. Up.

But how do you know if you don't try? Didn't Liverpool also lose at home last year? This year has not been conquered. Such things will never produce satisfactory results without working hard.

In the weekend's game, Liverpool's opponent was an away game against Aston Villa. This time, Morientes, Garcia, Kewell and Zhao Yaning played together in the frontcourt, while Haman and Alonso were placed in the backcourt.

Obviously, Liverpool was also affected by the away Champions League game. In consecutive away games, everyone was the same exhaustion. In the entire first half, Liverpool failed to score.

By the beginning of the second half, Liverpool suddenly speeded up.

The faster the pace of the game, the greater the physical exertion, this truth remains the same. In the first half of the match, Liverpool didn't improve your speed because you were overworked. This also made the game very stable. However, at the beginning of the second half, the rhythm of Liverpool's continuous attacks suddenly improved.

This change made Aston Villa a little uncomfortable, but because of their unsuitability, Liverpool had scored the first goal.

After several quick horizontal runs in the middle, Zhao Yaning attracted the attention of most people in the backcourt. Then, he threw the ball through and sent the ball to the foot of Garcia, who was inserted on the right. Garcia knocked in a cross and Morientes kicked and scored.

The simplest method of playing, but also the most effective method of playing. This three-person cooperative attack seems simple, but Zhao Yaning's involvement, Garcia's running position and Morientes's shot have all played to the extreme. It is actually quite difficult to score such a goal.

After one goal, Liverpool's attack returned to calm. They consume a lot of physical strength and have no interest in sticking to their opponents. Therefore, their range of activities quickly shrinks.

But this has stimulated Aston Villa to intervene in the overall situation. Faced with such an opportunity, Liverpool will naturally not let it go.

Zhao Yaning launched a counterattack after catching the ball once and rushed directly from the left. After reaching the left bottom line, he did not choose to cross, but a smash, inserted into the penalty area, and then handed the ball to Alonso who was inserted. But this time, Alonso didn't pass the ball. He unexpectedly took the ball and broke through with a small angle, and the ball went into the net!

"Harvey Alonso scored his first goal of the season! A very beautiful goal, Liverpool once again expanded the score through a counterattack!"

This score has been maintained to the end. Liverpool won another 2-0 victory and took advantage of the opportunity to narrow the gap with Chelsea.

"When they are tied, we lose, and the disadvantage is not very big."

In this regard, the Liverpool players are also very happy, never thought that by the middle of the week, they once again ran into trouble. And the trouble is beyond imagination.

Liverpool unexpectedly lost to Crystal Palace in the third round of the English League Cup in midweek.

Zhao Yaning watched this game in the stands. Benitez didn't even put their main players on the bench list. In his view, this game is based on Liverpool's strength, even if it is only on the reserve team and the bench, the game is still a good one.

But obviously, things were beyond his imagination. In the first five minutes, Kewell, who started the game, was knocked to the ground by his opponent when he was fighting for a header. Then he raised his hand and said that he was dead.

"Why do I feel this normal feeling every time I see Cowell being injured? In this year, how many times has he been injured?"

In the commentator's ridicule, Benitez had no choice but to replace Cowell. One person was missing at the beginning of the game, which obviously made the players very annoying, but this was not the worst thing: in the second half, Gerrard, who was on the bench, was also injured in a fight.

Even the losing streaks of Liverpool played weakly in the second half of the game. In the end, the game also lost by a score of 0-1. As the defending champion Liverpool, it was shameful to be eliminated in the third round of this year's League Cup. .

"This is just a tasteless event, no big deal."

After the game, several people can only comfort each other in this way. Fortunately, although the game is lost, it is of little significance. The League Cup is a trophy that is better than nothing. Moreover, Gerrard is not seriously injured. Although he will not be able to play the next game against West Ham United, he can definitely play in the home game against Bremen. But Kewell's injury was more serious and he needed to rest for a month or so.

It's just that compared to these words, the attitude of the media after the game is even more angry. Several media outlets have said that the biggest problem with the Liverpool team's loss to Crystal Palace may not be their lack of strength, but their misconduct. Some people even suspect that they deliberately did not play well in the game and lost to Crystal Palace in order to retain enough energy to go further in the league.

"Who knows what they think? For Liverpool, the League Cup is nothing, the league is different."

Such rumors are so raging, some people even ran to ask Benitez with the rumors. And for this, Benitez’s attitude is naturally extremely angry, “We injured two players and lost a cup match in a shameful way. Now there are people who suspect that we played a match-fixing? This is illogical. slander!"

Liverpool is very angry at this, but it is the players. Now they are looking a lot. "They are here for the name Liverpool. Anyway, they won't make us feel better. Kicking a match...It's ridiculous, Man The rumors of the contact have been circulating for so long, and they ignored it. And we lost the game because two people were injured, but we were suspected of playing a match-fix. Since we are so strong, why don't they suspect that our loss to Chelsea is also a match-fix? It’s a good rematch."

"Don't pay attention to them, they are just this kind of stuff. Our past results were not tough enough, so we were molested by them. We win until they shut up."

After Gerrard boosted the morale of the team, his mission was fulfilled. After all, he couldn't play against West Ham United, and he could only watch the victory or defeat in the stands.

The adjustment made by Liverpool is to let Zhao Yaning center, Figo on the left and Garcia on the right.

But not long after the start of the game, Liverpool was breached by West Ham. After West Ham United defender Koncheski launched an assault, he passed the ball long to Ashton. Although Ashton was shoveled to the ground immediately by Sissoko, but it also gave West Ham United a chance for a free kick.

And it was to take advantage of this free kick opportunity, Anton Ferdinand grabbed a spot in the crowd, took advantage of the chaos, made a low shot, and set the record for West Ham United.

"Liverpool’s gate was broken! This is the second Premier League team to break Liverpool’s gate after Chelsea this season. This makes the development of this game a little suspenseful. Let’s see the result of the game. how."

Although the commentator was very excited, Liverpool was not affected much at this time. They were not proud of defending themselves and not losing a goal. What they are truly famous and proud of is their ability to reverse the game.

And soon, Liverpool evened the score.

Alonso did not choose to pass the ball long this time, but instead let Maicon pass in. He made a cooperation with him and rushed up. Maicon was obviously also very clever to understand what he meant: there was no outstanding player in the frontcourt. Ladd, the anti-grab pressure is not enough, Liverpool need to strengthen the backcourt to press ~www.ltnovel.com~ and after he took a few steps forward, a few shakes, passed the ball to Alonso.

Alonso slammed the goal and kicked the ball directly. Ferdinand blocked his shot, but Milito, who was close at hand, immediately made a fill shot!

"Al!!! Liverpool once again showed their fearsome reversal ability in the game! 1-1 equalized, Liverpool tied the score, maybe, this is the prelude to another reversal?

The commentator's words clearly became a prophecy, and soon Liverpool had another chance.

Zhao Yaning's long shot was saved from the baseline and Liverpool won a corner kick.

After looking at the position in the penalty area, Zhao Yaning took two steps back and kicked the ball to the back point!

Under normal circumstances, standing above this position is Liverpool's old captain Hypia. But now Hypia is injured and it is Liverpool's new defender Vidic to replace him. Facing this flying ball, Vidic jumped high, he almost pressed Anton Ferdinand who took off with him, a powerful head hammer, and smashed the ball into the net!

"Al!!! Vidic scored his first goal for Liverpool! A fierce header struck the goal and smashed the ball into the goal! Excellent defender, at this moment, he let people see him take over With the possibility of Hypia, Liverpool have found the last defender successor! Vidic used a goal to announce his arrival to the Premier League. Now, Liverpool can proudly say that they have the best of the Premier League. The back line is now!"