Aston Villa's home match against Liverpool was just a regular league round, but something gave special meaning to the game - this game is Gerald's 300th game since joining the first team in 1998, and the game is very meaningful to Gerald.

Many of the Liverpool fans who absolutely support Gerrard come to watch the game on site, so today there were more than 5,000 Liverpool fans coming to Villa Park Stadium. This is almost the limit of the number of away fans in the league. No matter how many fans want to enter the stadium to watch the game, they will never buy tickets.

However, in this game, Benitez arranged a "panyaki" position for Gerald - the right forward.

This is to make up for Liverpool's 'weakness' on the right.

Liverpool's two wings have always been the weak point of the team. It's okay to have Garcia on the left, but the players on the right have been changing. Finnan, Centen and Riser have played in this position, but their performance is not satisfactory, so Gerald can play at all positions.

Zhang Tiehan and Alonso, who had the back of the lap in the middle, were able to resist Aston Villa, so it was fine for Gerald to go to the right.

Although on the right, everyone knows that Gerald wants to score, at least the team should guarantee victory, otherwise the 300th game played for Liverpool will be a draw, which is somewhat regrettable.

But after eighty minutes of the game, Liverpool still failed to score.

Liverpool has already pushed forward!

Aston Villa is not a weak team, and the gap with Liverpool is not as big as imagined. When they play, they may even be able to play against Liverpool. But the situation on the field is that Liverpool's pressure Aston Villa is breathless, which shows how strong the Liverpool players score goals on the field.

Aston Villa players all think that the last ten minutes will be a disaster.

Their defense pressure is not small in the whole game, and Liverpool's offense has increased with time. This feeling is quite bad, but their defense is indeed getting more and more difficult. Fortunately, Liverpool has not scored yet, but the game is still ten minutes before the end.

Can the goal be held?

Aston Villa players don't have much confidence. All they can do is try to keep the goal.

If you want to defend the goal, you must limit the opponent's No. 13... This big man is really worthy of being reported by the sports media across England. His impact and threat are too great.

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Melberg and Ritchville are Aston Villa's double-center-back combination.

Melberg is the captain of Aston Villa. He is a Swedish player. After coming to Aston Villa in 2001, he has been performing very stably and strongly. He officially took over the captain's armband a year ago. Being able to become the captain of a Premier League powerhouse can also show Melberg's strength. He is in his year of playing and is the absolute defensive pillar of Aston Villa.

Ritchville is tall, only twenty-one years old, and is one of the members of the Villa Youth Army's FA Youth Cup in 2002.

He can serve as a defender and defensive midfielder, heading very well and his footwork. In December 2003, he made his first appearance in the league in the match against Fulham 3-0 in Villa.

Ridgeville is now Aston Villa's starting center back.

The partner of Melberg and Ritchville is called Villa's "Iron Post" in the backcourt. They cooperated with strong control in the penalty area, and they brought countless troubles to Zhang Tiehan throughout the game. Zhang Tiehan was deeply touched by the defense of the two, and it was precisely because of these two that Zhang Tiehan had only one goal post in this game.

The goal post is not a goal.

In Zhang Tiehan's opinion, he was like he had no performance.

What he didn't know was that Melberg and Ritchville had much more headaches for him than for him. This may verify Newton's third law - the role of forces is mutual, and defense and offense are mutual. In order to prevent Zhang Tiehan from attacking in Villa's penalty area, Melberg and Ritchville put in almost all their energy - they did not even have collisions or contacts with other Liverpools, and have been defending Zhang Tiehan.

Two to one. The two can limit Zhang Tiehanzhen to pay a lot.

Even so, Zhang Tiehan still had several threatening shots, including a goal post. Now that the game between the two teams has reached the final stage, Melberg and Ritchville both wanted to pass the time as soon as possible, and at the same time, the defense was more cautious.

In the 81st minute, Garcia dribbled the ball into the baseline. After being forced to a dead corner, Garcia kicked the ball to the Aston Villa player and bounced out of the baseline, and Liverpool won a corner kick.

Corner kick.

This gave Melberg and Ridgeville a headache again.

Ritchville is better. He is very young and listens to Melberg on the court. He is under little pressure. Melberg, as the captain of the team, has more pressure. The previous few times have proved that corner kicks are quite dangerous because this tall man seems to have excellent predictions of corner kicks-he can always find the right position first.

The defense this time was the same as before. Ritchville tried his best to squeeze the position with Zhang Tiehan, while Melberg supported him to ensure that Zhang Tiehan did not jump calmly.

Zhang Tiehan was so restricted that he felt very uncomfortable.

He is stronger and stronger. He can squeeze out Ritchville, but heading the ball at the goal is another matter. Even if he predicts the point, it will be difficult to squeeze out Ritchville and run to the point and jump. This series of movements is not something that the football can do in the two seconds of flying in the sky. Moreover, there are so many players in the penalty area, so it takes more luck to get the point.

However, Zhang Tiehan was able to cause a lot of trouble for the two of them.

When the football flew out from Garcia's feet, Zhang Tiehan had already judged it was strange. He knew that it was easier to grab the ball at the front point, but it was difficult to run over in the middle.

He didn't do anything either.

At the first moment, Zhang Tiehan rushed forward, and Ritchville kept pushing against him. There were other Aston Villa defensive players in front of him, and even goalkeeper Sorenson. Zhang Tiehan was almost impossible to grab the point, but Aston Villa players didn't know that when they saw Zhang Tiehan rushing forward, Ritchville and Melberg immediately responded, and the goal became very messy. As a result, the football was pushed out of the baseline by the former Aston Villa penalty player.

Another corner kick.

The players of the two teams re-established their positions in the penalty area, and Garcia continued to make free throws. Liverpool has been using corner kicks like this many times, but at present, no threat has been caused. Only one of them was successful. Garcia wanted to cooperate with Alonso, but when he saw Zhang Tiehan waved in the penalty area, he decided to continue to make free throws. After all, he knew his ability to head the ball at the header, which was more threatening than cooperation with corner kicks. After all, there were too many people in the penalty area, and it was difficult for long shots to penetrate the penalty area to pose a threat to the goal.

The football flew over again.

The ball floated a little high, and the landing point was at the last position. Zhang Tiehan knew at the first time that he could not grab the point, so he rushed forward immediately, and the penalty area was in chaos again. As a result, when the football chased the back point, the other players of Aston Villa had no time to defend.

The player who was ambushing Liverpool at the back point was Gerald.

Gerald held the opponent's defense and was about to volley the ball, but he still couldn't get the ball in the end. The football was destroyed by the opponent's player first and went out of the baseline.

Continue the corner kick, this time it was replaced by the right side.

Gerald, who had just grabbed the ball, walked to the corner flagpole with the ball in his arms to prepare for a free throw. The players in the penalty area changed direction and continued to prepare for the goal.

This is the third corner kick in a row.

Three minutes were wasted in the first two corner kicks, and the game was almost at 85th minute. But the players of both teams seemed even more nervous, with Liverpool players surrounding Aston Villa's penalty area. Aston Villa players were nervously waiting for Gerald's free throws and focused on defending.

Melberg and Ridgeville had a third straight headache.

Melberg thought to himself that he would drive the ball out of the penalty area no matter what, and he could not continue the corner kick, otherwise such opportunities would be repeated again and again, and this tall man would likely score as long as he finds an opportunity. This defense process is really tormenting.

Gerald stood at the corner flagpole and prepared for a free throw.

He looked at the position of his own players in the penalty area and his face looked very serious. This corner kick became very important because there was not much time left and the team's chances were less and less. So he found Zhang Tiehan's position.

Zhang Tiehan is still in the middle.

In fact, Zhang Tiehan has always been standing in the middle in corner kicks, which is also Liverpool's corner kick tactics. Zhang Tiehan is strong and has a strong header ability. He is also the team's high center forward. Standing in the middle can attract a lot of defenses, and at the same time he has the most opportunities, but he faces more pressure. This has tactical role and positional role. In short, Zhang Tiehan has the greatest role in the middle.

This time, Gerald directly found Zhang Tiehan's point and landed in the penalty kick!

Melberg was very cautious. When he saw the ball landing point, he immediately shouted "Defend him" to remind Ritchville that Ritchville is the one who competes with Zhang Tiehan head-on. He is not stronger than Zhang Tiehan, but his height advantage also makes him the tower in the penalty area.

Hearing Melberg's shout, Ritchville immediately resisted Zhang Tiehan.

But at the same time, he also felt a powerful force coming, which made him even a little unsteady. Then he saw Zhang Tiehan jumping towards the ball. Zhang Tiehan seemed quite calm. The landing point of the ball was very good. Just above his head, he could complete the attack with just a little jump.

Ritchville's restrictive effect is not great for this kind of good ball.

However, Melberg's entanglement is still a headache. Melberg cannot let Zhang Tiehan finish the header, so he has more movements in his hands. Zhang Tiehan's jersey was pulled down, and he felt his body a little unbalanced in the air just as he exerted force. However, at this time, Zhang Tiehan still barely shook his head to prepare for the attack.

"Get in!" After shook his head, Zhang Tiehan shouted fiercely.

This shout made Ritchville, who was pushed away, immediately made an unwise choice. He was still very young and the young man was always impulsive. He did a pretty good job in Zhang Tiehan's defense throughout the game, but Ritchville didn't know that he felt that he and Melberg defended Zhang Tiehan together and let the opponent shoot so randomly was equivalent to failure.

He was very unwilling to accept it.

No matter what, Zhang Tiehan cannot score in this game. If that happens, his defense will be completely defeated. He kept thinking about this in his heart and kept watching the time, hoping that the game will end soon. As long as Zhang Tiehan does not score a goal, no matter whether it is luck or strength, his defense will be considered successful.

This became his obsession.

Ritchville kept thinking about not letting Zhang Tiehan score the goal. When he was pushed away and Zhang Tiehan shouted "Go in", he almost subconsciously grabbed Zhang Tiehan's jersey with his right hand, and pulled Zhang Tiehan down with all his strength.

That's no longer a small move...

Zhang Tiehan's header was just now, and his already unbalanced body fell to the grass. At this time, the referee rushed over and blew the whistle and showed a red card to Ritchville directly.

Malicious foul!

Ritchville walked off the court without even arguing. He knew how bad his foul was. It must be a red card and he couldn't run away. But when he walked off the court, he realized that he was really impulsive. In front of his door, the tall man rushed over actively and hugged his teammate happily, without any annoyance.

Maybe, he was cheated?

Maybe that wasn't a must-scoring goal just now... I was so impulsive. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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