In recent rounds of the league, Benitez has noticed Zhang Tiehan's position, which has an impact on tactics and team offense.

Previously, Benitez wanted Zhang Tiehan to integrate into the team, and with Zhang Tiehan, Gerrard and Alonso as the core, he created the "three-core" tactic. In the tactics, Zhang Tiehan's range of activities is larger, and he cooperates with his teammates to pass and receive more balls, making Liverpool's offense sharper, and at the same time, he can use his long shot to deter the opponent.

Now he found that this tactic has no advantages when facing small teams.

Perhaps the 'three cores' will play a good role when facing teams of the same level, such as Chelsea and Manchester United, because the opponent will always put various restrictions on Zhang Tiehan. Zhang Tiehan is at the forefront and can easily become a tactical striker completely, and he cannot exert his impact and personal abilities.

But when playing against a small team, the opponent could not defend him, so why use the "three cores" tactic? He is a deterrent in the penalty area and a fixed "fort".

That's what happened in the first half.

Zhang Tiehan is in the back position and cannot get more opportunities, and the opponent does not even place many restrictions on him. However, Liverpool's two wings, plus central defenders Alonso, Harman and forward Cice gave Zhang Tiehan too many opportunities, so he is only equivalent to others. In this case, it is normal for Zhang Tiehan not to score a goal. Once the opponent performs too well, or his own performance is too poor, Liverpool may fall into a passive situation and the goal will not come yet.

Benitez felt that something had to be done.

"Fernando, you are ready to play in the second half!" Benitez said directly to Morientes. The originally quiet atmosphere in the Liverpool locker room became even quieter because of this sentence. Almost everyone looked at Cice. Cice's face also became not very good.

Morientes must be the replacement of Cice when he appears.

Liverpool didn't feel anything about this substitution adjustment at the beginning, but so far, Liverpool has let Morientes play when he can't start the game, which means that Benitez trusts Morientes more and doesn't trust Cice.

But everyone knows the reason.

As all over England and even Europe know, Benitez admires the kind of players who play a role in tactics. Cice is definitely not as good as Morientes. Moreover, Zhang Tiehan moves forward, Cice is almost certainly replaced.

It’s the reason that Zhang Tiehan is still.

Zhang Tiehan performed well. The team's offense often had to use his position as the transformation point. Zhang Tiehan needed to pass the ball and cooperate with the players, so Morientes naturally had more advantages than Cice.

But really, it’s because of Cice himself.

If he could do better, such as scoring a goal in the first half to open up the situation for the team, Benitez would not have replaced him.

No matter how Cice thought, it would be impossible to change Benitez's decision. Morientes came on as a substitute again in the second half. In recent times, Morientes has become the player with the highest frequency of substitutes. Even the Anfield commentator is not surprised that he was on the court.

"When the frontcourt couldn't start, Benitez once again remembered this former Spanish first scorer. Morientes performed very poorly when he first came to Liverpool, but we can see that he is gradually adapting to the team and the Premier League. We can look forward to a while. He will definitely perform better."

Morientes is also very happy that he can play.

He has always hoped that he could reach the peak of the professional league in the Premier League and has been working hard for it. His main competitors in the team are Cice and Zhang Tiehan, so I won’t talk about the latter. Although he was once the number one scorer in La Liga, Morientes really has no confidence in competing with Zhang Tiehan for the main position, so the remaining position will have to compete with Cice. Fortunately, Liverpool has many games, so he had the opportunity to play before. Now he has been substituting Cice. As long as he performs well, he is likely to win a stable starting position.

This is what Morientes has been looking forward to.

Morientes feels very good when partnering with Zhang Tiehan. Zhang Tiehan is a partner who can score goals, and his pressure is much less. This may be something he doesn't want to see, because he is originally a shooter. The shooter appears for the sake of passing the ball, which is not his main job, but now Liverpool is like this, and he must adapt to his new position - the shadow striker.

After the opening of the second half, Liverpool made adjustments.

When Morientes appeared, even though Jewell didn't say anything, the Wigan Athletics players still knew the adjustments made by Liverpool. Obviously, Jewell did a lot of work before the game, and Wigan Athletics knew Liverpool's team changes very well.

But knowing that it is one thing, but whether you can deal with it is another.

When Zhang Tiehan became the center, it had a huge impact on the defense line of Wigan Athletics. Just like what Jewell thought, Wigan Athletics had very few ways to defend Zhang Tiehan. Zhang Tiehan's repeated attacks were so hard that they could not stop him. Many times they could only pray to God that Zhang Tiehan would not score.

This may be useful to pray once or twice. At least for ten minutes in the second half, Wigan Athletic did not lose the ball, but prayer is not useful every time.

In the 71st minute, Finan dribbled the ball from the side and passed it straight through the penalty area. Zhang Tiehan held the defense of the opponent's defender and volleyed directly to the air!

This ball is clean and nimble!

Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Ferran can be said to have no choice but to watch the football fly into the goal from a close angle and shrugging helplessly at his teammates.

This is the counterattack horn initiated by Liverpool!

Just five minutes later, Harman passed the ball to the left of the penalty area, Morientes dribbled the ball and broke into the penalty area, and scored the second goal for Liverpool.

Five minutes, two goals.

The Liverpool fans cheered happily, and they began to look forward to the team completing a big reversal. Although it was at Anfield Stadium, the value of the reversal was also weak. Most importantly, they hoped that the team could win rather than lose to a team like Wigan Athletic at home.

Liverpool equalized the score with goals from Morientes and Zhang Tiehan.

After that, Wigan Athletics knew that it would be very difficult for them to win at Anfield. Then, under the command of head coach Jewell, they began a solid dead defense. This dead defense relied entirely on the advantage of the number of people, and set up an iron barrel formation in front of the goal. No matter how defensively the Wigan Athletics players are, it has to be said that this defense is quite effective. Liverpool did not find a good opportunity for a long time.

Zhang Tiehan was a little nervous.

But the Iron Barrel is the best defense, which makes sense. The opponent's eleven players squeezed into the penalty area and squeezed the goal so hard that there was no gap. Even if Liverpool players directly shot from the outside, it would be difficult for football to hang into the goal.
Chapter completed!