Chapter 380: Perfection is only one step away

Before the game began, Xiao Ming was vigilant enough for Liverpool, not only because he knew that this period was when Irving was in the best form, but also because he knew that coach Hollier was similar to Liverpool's later coach Benitez, and he was also a coach who was good at playing cup games.

In today's game, Liverpool's starting lineup was 442, with goalkeepers being Dutch goalkeeper Westved, right back Babel, left back being the newly joined Norwegian Riser, two centre-backs were Huntz and Carragher, four midfielders were Harman, Bambie, Murphy and McCaulist, and Irving and Husky's partner on the forward line. Liverpool's former golden boy Fowler did not even enter the roster. It seems that it will be a matter of time before Hollier abandoned Fowler.

Compared with last season, the main lineup sent by Xiao Ming today has only changed in two positions. Campbell replaced Heipia and Deselli to partner with the central defender, while Ronaldo and Van Nicht partnered with the forward. Players in other positions are the main players of last season. In terms of tactics, they launched an active fight in the midfield, and immediately launched an offense after breaking the ball.

But after ten minutes of the game, Xiao Ming frowned.

Today, Liverpool's tactics are quite targeted. They are very careful in the midfield's advancement. Sometimes they even directly bypass the midfield through long passes to launch an attack. When defending, they start fighting from the midfield like Leiden East, and then intercept the ball and launch a counterattack quickly.

Such a resolute style of play makes the players of Leiden Oriental seem a little uncomfortable. After all, there are no tough battles in the game they played this summer. The players did more physical training and restorative training some time ago, and were suppressed by Liverpool for a while and couldn't breathe.

You should know that Liverpool's strength is already quite outstanding, otherwise they would not have won three cup championships last season. Although the midfielder lost Gerald compared to history, the veteran McCaulist introduced from Coventry was in an amazing state. In addition, Irving on the front line was also in an excellent state. They did not run around to play games all summer long. Whether it was the cooperation between players or the individual physical fitness of the players, they were better than Leiden Oriental.

However, it was under this pressure that Leiden Oriental players who had been cooperating with each other for a long time slowly began to adapt to the opponent's attack, and their mentality and physical condition began to gradually adjust to a tough battle. However, at this time, Liverpool scored a goal.

After a series of cooperation in the midfield, Murphy dribbled into the penalty area. Marklele, who was making up for the position, accidentally tripped Murphy, and the referee on duty immediately awarded a penalty kick.

Liverpool's penalty kick was veteran McCallister. Facing Jass Kleinen, who saved a penalty kick record in last season's league and Champions League, McCallister calmly scored the ball into the dead corner of the goal. Although Jass Kleinen saved the right direction, he was still a little short of the ball to save it.

Xiao Ming shook his head. In the process of taking the penalty kick, as long as the player's angle is smart enough and his strength is fast enough, no matter how good the goalkeeper is, he cannot save it, because within such a short distance, as long as the ball advances to a limit, it will exceed the limit of the human body's reaction, unless the goalkeeper moves in advance and bet on one side, but for professional players, it is not very difficult to change the angle of their shot at the moment of taking the penalty.

Leiden Oriental, who was scored by Liverpool, felt a little embarrassed. They tried to counterattack but encountered Liverpool's fierce counterattack. Figo was tightly entangled by Riser, who was tall and outstanding in physical fitness, and could not even get the ball for a while. Liverpool's fight in the midfield was also quite fierce. Gerrard rarely found an opportunity to pass the ball to the frontcourt.

Gerald took the ball from a little further back, but McCallist and Bambi hit him at the same time. He was not good at controlling the ball on the spot, while Jin Kraze and Figo's two ball points were under the tight control of the opponent. For a moment, they were snatched by the opponent and were in a hurry.

At this moment, Ronaldo retreated. He has been living in Daniel's home for a while and is quite familiar with Gerald. He also has a certain understanding of Ronaldo's personal skills. Seeing Ronaldo retreating, Gerald immediately sent the ball from a gap.

Ronaldo received the ball, turned around, and the German Harman rushed over immediately.

Haman is quite famous in the UK this year, not because he is the main player of Liverpool and has made great contributions to the three championships of last season, but because in the World Cup qualifiers last October, Haman, who represented Germany in the last game of the Old Wembley Stadium, scored a beautiful direct free kick from 30 meters away, helping Germany defeat England 1-0 away, allowing the England national team to swallow the bitter fruit of the defeat in the last game of the Old Wembley Stadium, and that goal was also the last official goal of the Old Wembley Stadium.

Facing the main midfielder of the German national team, Ronaldo is not afraid of it. Although he is young, he has won the Cup of America and the Federation Cup, and won the best scorer in those two cup matches. He can be regarded as a well-deserved member of the world champion team. What's more, Ronaldo has some ways to deal with him when facing such tall and strong players.

With two beautiful shakings in a row, Ronaldo easily dunked the ball to the left when the opponent lost his center of gravity, and then rushed over from the right, and the ball was scored!

If he is tall and turns a little slow, Harman will be no exception. Harman has no time to react to Ronaldo's lightning-fast movement, but his next response is very wise. After turning around for a while, he will immediately block Ronaldo's route. With his physique, as soon as he leans forward, Ronaldo will probably lie down directly.

It is of course a good thing to use such a foul to stop the opponent's attack.

But Ronaldo, who was as slippery as a loach, was short and dodged Harman's collision, then immediately accelerated, rushed over Harman and caught up with the ball. When Hunterz, who was filling up, Ronaldo rushed over again, and dodged Hunterz's defense!

The fans of Leiden Oriental sounded in the stands. Although Leiden Oriental was at a disadvantage just now and was still behind in the score, Ronaldo's series of wonderful performances made the fans of Leiden Oriental who were originally worried and cheered subconsciously!

After two, Ronaldo fell into double-teams. Harman rushed over from behind, and Huntz was not completely freed by Ronaldo. There was still Liverpool's defensive player in front of him. Ronaldo did not continue to move forward at this time, but directly stuffed the ball to Fanny at the front of the penalty area. After Fanny received the ball, he took a step forward, then took a long shot from the front of the penalty area, and the ball was saved by Westved.

Although there was no goal, this attack made Xiao Ming's brow relax, and then leaned against the coach's seat without making any sound.

From Liverpool's previous performance, we can see that if in the new season, Leiden Oriental's offense is still the same as last season, then the opponent will only be more and more targeted defense, making the game more and more difficult. After all, there is no unbreakable tactic in the world. Leiden Oriental's wing offense tactics are not very novel tactics. The power of this tactic lies in the outstanding personal ability of Leiden Oriental's two wing forwards. Whether it is bottom or inward, it leaves room for full-back assists, and the opponent rarely can

At the same time, if the opponent defends targeted defense, launches a tough confrontation in the midfield, and continuously puts pressure on Leiden East's halftime, so that Leiden East's full-back dares to overtake halftime assists, he can break Leiden East's tactics - this is a tactic that strong teams can use. As for the weak team, it is easier to do it. Retrace the defense, defend the inside of the penalty area, and then threaten Leiden East's goal through quick counterattacks. Even if you cannot defeat Leiden East, you will have at least a chance to take away one point.

Last season in the league, Leiden Oriental's super high winning rate against weak teams was the biggest factor in their final suppression of Manchester United, but it is obvious that Leiden Oriental has not yet been strong enough to give up resistance when the mid- and lower-level teams see Leiden Oriental. More possibility is that every game will be fought to the death by the opponent, because even if they have the chance to win Leiden Oriental, it is enough to be a reason to boast - because Leiden Oriental has been unbeaten in the league forty-six games.

In this case, Ronaldo's existence makes Leiden East's tactics more diverse. His skills, speed and coordination ability are enough to make Leiden East's breakthrough ability in the middle lane become equally powerful outside the two sides of Leiden East. After he and his teammates become more familiar with him, Leiden East's strength will become even stronger.

At that time, even if the opponent blocks Leiden East's attack on both sides, Leiden East will still be able to find a breakthrough in the middle. At the same time, Jinklaze, Ronaldo and Figo are all players who can play in both left, center and right direction. Except that Ronaldo's performance on the right may be slightly worse than his performance in the middle and left directions, the level that Figo and Klaze can perform at any position will not be much worse than their best position.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming was sure that his decision was correct. Even though this stable lineup and tactics had achieved enough honors and was also very reasonable in terms of age structure, he still asked for new changes so that he could maintain his advantages.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming looked at Pirlo who was watching the game attentively on the bench. This young man was also the best candidate to change Leiden's Oriental tactics and crack the opponent's pressing tactics just now.

Faced with the opponent's fight in the midfield, one solution is to break through with personal ability to break through, and the other is to bypass the tough battle with the opponent and use long passes to play to your own advantages.

If Pirlo is on the court and his teammates are already familiar with his passing method, Pirlo can be in the backcourt and use the pass to dispatch the entire team's offense. At that time, if you want to block such a core who is in the backcourt, the price your opponent will have to pay is much greater.

But in the words of Xiao Ming's previous evaluation of Zidane and Figo, Ronaldo is also an excellent plug-and-play hardware. Players like Pirlo are motherboards, and the hardware can play a role as soon as they are plugged in. If the motherboard wants to play a role, it takes much more time and effort.

After the first half, Liverpool led Leiden East with a penalty kick, but Xiao Ming was not very worried about the second half of the game.

In the first half, Liverpool used active running and fierce pressing to make the players of Leiden Oriental seem uncomfortable, but their approach indirectly grindled away the dust covered by Leiden Oriental's knife like a whetstone, revealing a bright blade.

During the halftime break, Xiao Ming did not substitute people, but just told all the players to run more actively and pass each other faster, so that they should not be disrupted by the opponent's pressing, and calm down to attack.

Although Leiden Oriental did not encounter a real test in those six friendly matches, one advantage was that they had been winning all the time. After consecutive victories, Leiden Oriental players had become full of confidence, and even when they were behind, they still had strong confidence.

This confidence is brought about by winning consecutive victories, not only because of those six games, but also the accumulated victory in the Premier League and European arenas over the past two years, and this is true for everyone.

So after the second half began, Liverpool players immediately began to feel a completely different pressure than the first half.

The continuous cooperation between several players in Leiden Oriental's midfield made their pressing not seem to have a good effect. Instead, Leiden Oriental quickly took over the initiative in the midfield, and then launched wave after wave of attacks based on the midfield, just like last season.

In the 47th minute, Ashley Cole, who assisted forward, transferred the ball to the right. After receiving the ball, Figo took two steps and then took a shot. The ball was slightly above the crossbar.

In the 50th minute, Jinklaze hangs the ball into the penalty area at the corner of the penalty area, assisting Gerald in the opponent's penalty area and passes the ball back near the baseline. Ronaldo, who followed, raised his foot and hit. The shot from the penalty area line was miraculously saved by Westved, and Carragher immediately cleared the ball with his feet.

In the 51st minute, Ronaldo made a beautiful straight pass from the midfield. Van Nie fell to the ground and shot after receiving the ball. Westward, who attacked, blocked the ball from the baseline.

Under the fierce attack of Leiden East, Liverpool's defense line was in danger. If Westward hadn't performed very well, Leiden East would have equalized the score long ago, but soon, Leiden East still tied the score. After a series of wonderful passes at the front of the penalty area, Figo sent the last pass. Fanny, who received the ball in the penalty area, calmly dodged his fellow Westward, and then sent the ball into the empty goal at the first place with a very small angle, tied one-to-one!

After equalizing the score, Leiden Oriental played more easily. The offense of Xing and Chi made Liverpool suffer all the hardships on both offense and defense. After all, Liverpool still cannot compare with Leiden Oriental in midfield, especially when Ronaldo often retreats to the midfield, it is unreasonable to have the number of players and technology. If it does not gain an advantage overall, it is unreasonable.

Last season, many strong teams that fought against Leiden Oriental were helplessly taken advantage by Leiden Oriental and then conceded goals under this situation, and Liverpool was no exception.

In the 74th minute, Figo broke into the penalty area and shot a beautiful rolling ball. He almost followed the only straight line in the goal corner from a very small angle. Westved, who had performed well before, could only do nothing.

Liverpool could only create some opportunities through counterattacks by Irving's personal impact, but was blocked by the Leiden Eastern defense line, which was very focused. Campbell almost controlled all the high balls, and even Husky was stared at by him without any temper.

In the 80th minute, Van Nie received a pass from Jinklaze in the corner of the penalty area and scored a strong shot. Huntz blocked the ball with his hand. The referee clearly awarded a penalty. Figo faced Westved and expanded his lead to two goals.

Although at the last moment of the game, Liverpool made a long pass from the backcourt and Deselli accidentally fell when returning to defense. After receiving the ball, Irving broke into the penalty area at high speed, cut across and dodged Daniel's defense and broke through Yasquelenen's goal and scored a point, but it still could not save Liverpool's defeat.

When the final whistle sounded, more than 30,000 fans from Leiden East turned the entire Millennium Stadium into a sea of ​​joy.

The Charity Shield Cup match is not a very important game, but it is the first time that Leiden Oriental won the championship in this game! After winning the championship in this cup, Leiden Oriental has only one League Cup champion left before they have won...

Two Champions League champions, one Premier League champion, one European Winners Cup champion, two European Super Cup champions, one Toyota Cup champion, one League Cup champion, one FA Cup champion, and now the Charity Shield Cup champion, Leiden Oriental is only one step away from the perfect honor!

However, when a reporter asked this question after the game, Xiao Ming just shrugged: "If Leiden Oriental can always appear in the Champions League and achieve excellent results, then I would rather Leiden Oriental never become a Grand Slam team."

This is Xiao Ming’s true thought - who would be willing to play in the League Cup if he can play in the Championship Cup? What’s more, with the current fame and status of Leiden Oriental, the League Cup does make Leiden Oriental disdain to play...

However, in the next game, Leiden Oriental can compete for the five championships - next there are European Super Cup and Toyota Cup champions to compete.
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