Vol 5 Chapter 217: Ways to respond to provocations

Liverpool's home game against Manchester City was fierce from the first minute. The Liverpool team took a sigh of relief and wanted to beat Manchester City led by Wan Sheng at Anfield Stadium. [Full text reading ..]
Liverpool and Manchester City, between the two clubs, actually have no hatred.
This has been the case in history, and it has been the same in recent years. This may have something to do with Manchester City ’s poor performance. After all, the team that always competes for the championship (Liverpool) and will not compete with the team that always relegates (Manchester City). What's the connection.
The hatred of the two teams started more last season.
Last season, Manchester City's results were very good, they won the league championship, coupled with the unhappiness between the two teams, so the conflict began. The head coaches of the two teams, Wansheng and Benitez, are not good friends, but they are definitely not enemies. Liverpool players and Manchester City players are not hostile. The contradiction between the two sides is mainly concentrated on the competition between the media, fans, and the two teams and players in the England team.
Since Benitez took charge of Liverpool's coach, Liverpool's performance in the Champions League has been very good. In 2005, it persisted to the end and won the European championship without mentioning it. Liverpool's performance in the Champions League last season and this season is also quite good.
In comparison, Liverpool's performance in the league is much worse.
In the 0405 season, Liverpool only won the fifth place in the Premier League. Relying on the qualification of the European champion, they won a qualification to enter the Champions League 32. Last season, Liverpool almost stepped on the "line" to enter the Champions League. At the last moment of the league, they With the advantage of only one more point than Arsenal, they won the fourth place in the Premier League and thus qualified to enter the Champions League.
This season, Liverpool's performance in the league is also very crisis. In the previous game, they lost to their rivals Everton, the blues Chelsea, and Manchester United. Losing to Bolton and even losing three goals to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, especially the last game, was very morale-damaging. At this stage, many media have divided the Premier League into three grades. The first grade team is only Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea. These three teams have very good results. They are eligible to compete for the league championship. Arsenal, Liverpool, Egypt Fulton and Tottenham and Bolton with outstanding results. It can only be a second-tier team. Counted, that is to say, all the teams of the second-rank team add up, and there is only one place to participate in the Champions League. This place requires many teams to compete.
For Liverpool, the biggest competitor in the league is Arsenal, and the two teams are likely to compete for the final Champions League place at the end of the season.
Because of this, Liverpool's entire team is up for morale and wants to restore the league's results. Otherwise, they may not be eligible for the Champions League next season, so this home game against Manchester City is very important-they have almost lost all the "possible" opponents, so now they can win Manchester City, how much It can restore some morale and the lost league image in front of the media and fans.
Therefore, Liverpool's entire team, including coach Benitez, suffocated and wanted to defeat Manchester City.
In this game, Liverpool will do their best. Reina, Fennan, Carragher, Risse, Pennant, Gerrard, Alonso, Crouch and Kuyt will all start to play. The location is again Anfield Stadium, regardless of factors such as lineup, fighting spirit or venue. Liverpool are very powerful, they also started a pressure offensive against Manchester City from the first minute, want to rely on the advantage to take the lead in scoring.
In Liverpool, the player who should be most aware of is undoubtedly Steven Gerrard.
After several years of core experience. Gerrard's role and personal play in Liverpool are better. Many media and fans even think that Liverpool with Gerald and without Gerald are completely two teams, so it can be seen that Gerrard is in Liverpool. The importance of the formation.
Gerrard also looked forward to the game.
In Manchester City, he was the most motivating to perform well. No doubt it was Morris.
In the England team, Gerald and Lampard have different situations. The two are called 'double Germany' together, and there is no difference in technical strength, but in fact, Gerald's position in the England team is more than Lampard is much more solid. If the head coach wants to replace one of them, it will definitely be Lampard. In addition, Gerald has a competitive advantage in that he is also capable of both the forward and the forward positions, and It can also have a good performance. The versatile superstar will naturally not worry about his position being replaced, but in spite of this, Morris is still his direct competitor. More importantly, many media now make a sound. They think that Mo Reis is the best midfielder in England, and his technical strength is much stronger than that of Gerrard and Lampard, as well as the performance in the league and the Champions League.
In fact, not only did I think, but I can see from the goals. Morris has already had five goals in the league and one goal in the Champions League. Gerrard may be affected by the team ’s Kui. The impact of the excellent striker joining ... Up to now in the league, he has not scored. In the Champions League, Gerrard has only one goal.
In assists, Morris also led the league and Champions League with a total of 7 assists.
In the statistics, Morris has to be a lot stronger. In the real game performance, Morris has also been repeatedly praised by the media, and Gerrard is often criticized. The two people's different situations can also know that there is indeed a gap in performance. But Gerald will not be convinced. He hopes to surpass Morris in this game, so as to prove something.
But in fact, when the game started, Gerrard found that his immediate opponent was not Morris, but David Silva, no, to be precise, David Silva, Ivan Crewe and A combination formed by the three people of Lescott. Whenever he is in the midfield position and does not take the ball, David Silva or Ivan Crewe will follow nearby. When he gets the ball, immediately At least two of them rushed to mark him seriously, and when he was defending, it was difficult to find Morris. The smooth cooperation of Manchester City's right road made him feel overwhelmed.
Faced with such offensive and defensive, Gerrard was difficult to cope with by himself, he wanted to call his teammates to cope with it, but he soon discovered that his teammates encountered similar situations to him, regardless of offense or defense, They all seem to have to face several Manchester United players. It is difficult for them to find time to help themselves.
How is this going?
Could Manchester City have more players than Liverpool?
This is of course impossible.
As an excellent midfielder, Gerrard knows the reason is that Manchester City players run more. Running more will bring more space and position, and often their players will have many choices when passing the ball. So it seems that one-on-one is like the opponent has a few more players, the same is true when the opponent is defending, they will continue to run, once an interception does not achieve a second interception immediately. So no matter who takes the ball, the team will face defense again and again. The best way to deal with this kind of intensive defense is to continue to do short pass cooperation like the other party, but this is also a headache. In terms of short pass cooperation, the team and Manchester City are more than a little bit different. Whenever more short passes are made in the frontcourt, the possibility of losing the ball will greatly increase, and the other party often takes advantage of the opponent ’s opportunity for error Keep the ball firmly under your feet. Then they will launch a very steady offensive, continue to cooperate with falling feet, continue to tentatively move forward, and the formation will slowly move forward. This kind of oppressive offensive is somewhat breathless.
The game took less than twenty minutes, and Liverpool have been somewhat suppressed in the game.
Gerrard has done some research on the Manchester City game. He knows that at this time, if the game continues to develop, Liverpool will become more and more passive. In the end, it is very difficult to even attack the center line. The best way now is to force the offensive or goal to open the situation and press the opponent back, so that the team will have more opportunities.
So Gerald began to try to lead the team to attack, but he encountered the same problems as before. Whenever David Silva came to the defense, he still had to pass the ball. Occasionally, he did not pass the ball once. Gerrard found himself underestimating the young Spanish kid. This is a solid defense face to face. This is not what young players, even defenders can do. In the face of this defense, Gerrard can only choose to cooperate with his teammates.
But it is often difficult for football to pass in the past, if you want to pass it back!
When the football reached Crouch's feet, the 'tall man' hadn't even had time to stop the ball, but was directly tackled and stopped by the opponent's young Portuguese central defender.
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Wan Sheng saw this scene in the coach seat and couldn't help laughing.
Among English forwards, Crouch is pretty good. He is tall and a tactical center. He is very good at headers, but because he is a tactical forward, he has poor flexibility both in position and personally. A lot of players like this, even if placed in Manchester City, Wan Sheng will not use, because he simply can not adapt to Manchester City's flexible tactics.
Perhaps only Liverpool's 'simple and rough' tactics will always be inseparable from tactical centers such as Baros, Crouch, and Husky.
But Manchester City is not afraid of this type of center, because the team has Kopelle Ferreira in the backcourt, the Portuguese central defender is very good at defending high-altitude balls, this is simply a master figure, in addition, he will also be very decisive in defense, Like just now, Crouch just stopped the ball a little, and was directly shoveled by Ferreira. Maybe this action sometimes seems rude, but I have to say that sometimes it is very decisive and effective.
In front of Koperer Ferreira, it was not easy for Crouch to think of any performance.
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Before the game started, the Liverpool media was still advocating how powerful Liverpool was. They used various praises to improve Liverpool's fighting spirit, hoping that they could play a victory at Anfield Stadium and restore Liverpool's image of inferiority in the league.
But the game took thirty minutes. When many people saw Gerald, Alonso, Crouch and others, they could not do anything in the frontcourt, they could only be silent.
At the same time, Liverpool have also been suppressed by Manchester City as a whole. The ratio of the ball possession time of the two teams has started to exceed the data of 1: 2. Manchester City has twice the ball control rate, the play is more flexible and the attack is targeted The stronger it is, the more opportunities it will naturally get.
In the 34 minutes of the game, David Silva helped Manchester City break the deadlock!
"David Silva-!!!"
& nboal! ! Cold feet! David Silva used a sudden s goal outside the penalty area to allow football to successfully break through Reina's ten fingers! ! "
"Goal scored! 1: 0, Manchester City took the lead!"
"David Silva! David Silva! Congratulations to him, this young Spanish player, has already scored three goals in the Champions League, but in this season's league, he is only in the third round Manchester City and Arsenal have scored a goal, many media said he has entered the league's 'scoring shortage', but now he hit the media directly with a foot to fight back the media's argument, proving his stability. "
As the commentator said, scoring is really important for David Silva.
In the Champions League, Silva has already scored three goals, but in the league, he only scored one in the third round against Arsenal. Until now, after the eleventh round of the league, he has not been able to score. Goals, although the media said that he and Morris are 'Manchester City double stars', but he still scored too few goals in the league, which has brought pressure to him.
But with this goal, the pressure is gone.
A direct break outside the penalty area was enough to prove his condition.
After scoring ~ EbookFREE.me ~ David Silva relaxed celebration, running, sharing the joy of scoring with teammates and fans.
Anfield stadium also heard the sound of "hush" at this time, it was the voice of all Liverpool fans, they were not "shush" to celebrate the goal of David Silva, in fact, some fans still in their hearts for David -Silva's goal was a thumbs up. They were "shushing" the head coach of Manchester City, Wan Sheng, who rushed out of the coach seat with a very arrogant expression.
Wan Sheng will not forget the ‘gift’ that Liverpool fans gave him at the beginning of the game. There is still a gift hanging on the east side stands, and Liverpool fans are still holding up what they seem to be expressing.
So Wan Sheng rushed to the side in excitement, raising his little finger in that direction with a high profile.
Everyone saw that the head referee even ran to warn Wan Sheng not to make any similar provocative actions, and at the same time Liverpool fans responded angrily with a boo.
It can be seen under the clear lens of the camera that the smile of the young Chinese coach seems to be thicker as the ‘boo’ sound is louder at the scene. (To be continued.)
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