Volume 3: The Myth of the Gunslinger Chapter 110: Rafa's Retro Tactics

There is still a minute to 4 o'clock and the players on both sides are already in position. QUAnbEN.

The on-site commentators are excitedly making the final rendering for the opening of the game. :“thisisAnfield”! Every visiting team will immediately become terrified when they see this sentence, the shadow of Shankly no longer hangs over this stadium all the time, and the 40,000 Reds fans on the scene are a nightmare for their opponents, they make the skills and tactics of the visiting team not play calmly, here, all the away teams dare not speak lightly to win, for them, a point is already a victory...... The race is on! …… The Red Army advances...... YullNeveralkAlne!!!!!!!!

When the game started, there was no other sound at Anfield than the singing of the Liverpool fans, where communication between players and players, coaches and players became very difficult, you could only see your teammates and coaches yelling with their mouths open, but you couldn't hear the sound, it was like a pantomime.

Football and music have always been inseparable. Music can express the leakage of football, and football can convey the image symbol of music. From the singing, Li Huan seems to see the men cheering for the "Red Army" at Hillsborough Stadium, and can hear the sadness of the high and departing from the Yishui River. He clearly realized more than ever that this was away from home, the opponent's home stadium, and the singing and fanaticism of the Liverpool fans highlighted the home atmosphere to the greatest extent, making the visiting players feel like they were in a foreign country, and the stadium with the most enthusiastic atmosphere in the world was indeed not in vain.

Moved, excited, shocked, but Li Huan was not as frightened as the commentator said, his legs were weak, and his skills and tactics could not be played calmly, what rose in his heart was greater pride, "Defeat them!" Make your mark on this great stadium instead of adding to your opponent's victory! ”

However, the performance of his teammates made Li Huan a little disappointed, after the start of the game, Arsenal both offensive and defensive, were a little out of shape, and even a little depressed, even Fabregas actually made a mistake with the ball, his leg was wrong, and was successfully tackled by Mascherano, and Arsenal, which has always been known for passing and receiving the ball quickly, is not as good as Liverpool in this regard today, 50 to 50 The ball was almost all snatched by Liverpool, in the singing of Liverpool fans, Arsenal's players are like being cursed by slowness, Didn't play to your true level.

The protagonists of Arsenal's attack in this game are two wings, Li Huan and Walcott, the middle increases the thickness of the defense, and Fabregas mainly divides the ball, rather than attacking on HA. But after the start of the game, Liverpool hoarded heavy troops in the midfield and frantically launched a rush, the attack was dominated by long passes, not Arsenal-style crosses from the wings, but long passes from the backfield, which boiled down to one word: "Rush!" Torres, Gerrard and Kuyt are all experts in impact, and when the trio faced Arsenal's back line directly, fans found that "the hero can not only reach two fists, but even four hands". Just three men smashed Arsenal's two-fold defence.

Arsenal's wide attacks have been made even more difficult by Liverpool's heavy presence in central midfield, where they have been frantically pressed, and even if they can occasionally get the ball into the box, there are too few point-grabbers in the middle to snatch the ball from the Liverpool crowd. Li Huan intended to cut inside, but without the ability to get support from the left and the middle, he was on the wing with too many defenders to cut to the edge of the penalty area at all.

Liverpool today didn't try to beat Arsenal the way the Spaniards did, they knew they were good at it, and they simply resorted to the oldest English style of long ball to survive. Arsenal prepared Liverpool's impact tactics before the game, with two midfielders in the middle, and Cesc Fabregas was a little in front of the double midfielder, which could also form a certain barrier, but under the continuous impact of the opponent's swinging a giant hammer, the defensive barrier quickly crumbled.

The first shot of the game was made by Liverpool and Torres squeezed into the edge of the box, but his barely managed shot was parried by Almunia.

The first foul of the game was made by Liverpool, and Aurelio pulled Li Huan down and was verbally warned by referee Webb.

The first controversy of the game was also caused by Liverpool, when Fernando Torres crossed the ball and Gerrard burst into the box and was tripped by Gallas, but referee Webber refused to award a penalty after thinking Gerrard had slipped too far and lost control of the ball.

After this controversial decision, Liverpool's impact and pressing became more ferocious, under Liverpool's retro tactics, Arsenal could not hit Liverpool, but was embarrassed by Liverpool's impact tactics, and the mood became impatient, and the long-range shots of forwards and midfielders gradually increased, and the on-site commentator commented: "This is Arsenal's players who have lost confidence in entering Liverpool's penalty area, and for Arsenal, which is known for its short pass penetration, it means failure." ”

The first shot on goal was made inside the frame of the game. This is Li Huan after shaking off Benayoun and Aurelio on the side, and a shot with the outside of his instep on the left side of the penalty area, the ball flew straight to the back corner of the penalty area, but the goalkeeper Reina was in a good position and saved the ball out of the bottom line very thrillingly. Then Li Huan's corner kick was again hoisted into the back corner of the goal, but unfortunately it flew out of the bottom line against the goalpost.

Arsenal's two threatening shots in quick succession restored the morale of the Arsenal players, and the combined attack from the side created a certain threat to Liverpool's goal.

However, Arsenal's attack lasted only five minutes before a Liverpool free-kick changed the course of the game.

This is Gerrard's impact on the left side of Arsenal, Traore was fouled by Liverpool's soul, Liverpool got a free kick opportunity, Gerrard hit the goal directly on the left side of the penalty area, Almunia hastily hit the ball, the ball hit Kuyt's chest, the Dutch fisherman's son stopped in the chest, stabbed directly, the ball flew into the net from Vermaelen's goal, Liverpool took a 1-0 lead at home.

“YES! YES! YES…… Kuyt ...... GAL……”

The Reds fans who were singing turned into shouts almost at the same time, "Kuyt! ”

The shouting is also earth-shattering, tens of thousands of people chanting a person's name together will make that person feel like he is going to fly, Kuyt almost rushed out of the crowd in a daze, rushed to the front of the KP stands, grabbed the guardrail and yelled at the fans, venting the pleasure in his heart, the emotions of the Liverpool fans in the stands became more excited, and their faces were almost distorted by happiness, they had been suppressed for too long, they needed a win too much, even if they couldn't win the championship, if they could beat Arsenal, which had won 14 games in a row, Breaking their record-breaking dreams is also something to be proud of.

Considered by reporters to be "calm, wise, tenacious Benitez at the moment can not hold back the excitement, he stretched his arms, made a flying movement to celebrate the goal, the team occupies an absolute advantage, this goal is what he has been looking forward to for a long time, this season's Liverpool has been back to the extreme, it is very common to be scoreless, balloons can become to help the opponent score, the team fell to this step, luck played a big role, if you don't score again, Benitez is probably really anxious.

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger kicked the water bottle and waved his arms angrily, in fact, the professor has been in a state of emotional instability, which is relatively rare, the reason is that Arsenal is out of control on the field, Arsenal's loss is not news, Arsenal has no title is not news, but the scene is completely passive, relying on the advantage of possession and passing and receiving without any chances, which is certainly big news after the game. And that's why Arsene Wenger is angry.

Vermaelen stood in the penalty area with his head down, who comforted him and ignored him, although it can't be completely said that it was his mistake, but being hit by a small goal is really not more glorious than an own goal, since being forced by Drogba to put an own goal, Vermaelen feels weird, although the last two defeats are the team's strategic abandonment of the game, but he made mistakes in the minutes of his substitute, and this time the mistake is more obvious, if he reacts faster, I am afraid that Kuyt will not have the opportunity to stab. "Could it be that the low tide is coming!" Vermaelen doubted himself for the first time since joining Arsenal.

Vermaelen doubted their form, and the rest of Arsenal's players doubted Arsene Wenger's tactical arrangement, because the first half of the game has played so far, they have no good way to play Liverpool's retro style of play, this kind of seemingly backward, eliminated for more than ten years of play seems to be huge, they only have the share of falling behind, and some players even feel that if they do not make tactical changes, they have no hope of equalizing in the second half.

As the captain of the team, Cesc Fabregas and Li Huan also have the same doubts, they are not coaches after all, and they don't have so much time to think about the advantages and disadvantages of the two formations, and they can't find Liverpool's weaknesses so quickly, but at this time they can only comfort their teammates and let them muster up courage, and they must not let Liverpool play with momentum.

"Don't be discouraged! They're only one goal ahead, so we're going to get the equaliser! Cesc Fabregas yelled the same words at his team-mates almost one by one.

And Li Huan's words were more like sarcasm, "Brothers! This is Anfield! It's not fucking hell! It's the guys who fight with them, there are more teams that have failed here, and we have to be the one who wins!

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