Chapter 420 The end of the first round
Although the Italian media said that "Acc Milan will score more goals next", in fact, everyone's focus is still on Zhang Tiehan's goal, which is his 17th goal scored in the Champions League this season. His Champions League goal count has created a new history.!
At the same time, this goal also tied the score for Liverpool.
After scoring the goal, Zhang Tiehan went to hug Liser and thanked him for giving him assists. Although this goal has a lot to do with his ability, Liser's assists are still very useful. Liser often gave him assists in recent games, and his cooperation with Liser has become more and more tacit.
At this time, there was also an English commentator talking about Liser, "He was difficult to play in the first half of the season, even the main players. Benitez used him as a full-back, but in the last two Champions League games, Liser has had three assists, and his performance in the wing forward position is excellent, which may be related to his cooperation with Zhang."
"Anyway, we should applaud him."
Lisser was also very happy.
At Liverpool, he is not a very outstanding player, but in fact, like Gerrard, he also came from the Reds' youth training camp and has been playing for Liverpool. He played for Liverpool for the first time in the European Super Cup against Bayern Munich on August 24, 2001, and it has been nearly five years now.
For five years, Liser has been between the main and the substitute.
After five years of growth, he has gone from a 20-year-old young man to a 25-year-old player who is in a 25-year-old player, but his positioning at Liverpool has not changed. Gerrard's performance is dazzling, and at the same time it has made Liser very inconspicuous.
But in Liverpool's match, Liser is still very important.
He initially wore the No. 18 jersey, but since the 2004-2005 season, he has inherited Babel's No. 6 jersey.
Starting with this jersey, Riser also became an important part of Liverpool. In the UEFA Champions League held in Istanbul, in the second half of the Miracle match, assisting Gerrard to score a goal, kicking off the Liverpool tie.
There are many good memories. But for Riser, he has not achieved his goal.
He is still not conspicuous.
In the Battle of Istanbul, people will remember Gerald who is crying, but they cannot remember him at all. He hopes that his performance will be better, but at the beginning of this season, he can only get a starting opportunity with the position of "all-rounders".
Now he has a good performance, against teams like Barcelona and AC Milan. It is not easy to get an assist.
Lisser did it.
When Zhang Tiehan hugged and thanked him, he also hugged and thanked Zhang Tiehan. If it weren't for Zhang Tiehan, his assist data would never be so gorgeous. With these assists, when Liverpool ended this season, he would have much confidence to negotiate a contract renewal with the club.
This made quite meaningful to him.
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Acceleroti frowned slightly at the coaching staff of the AC Milan.
In the eyes of the outside media, Ancelotti is always so calm, but he has a lot of thoughts in his mind, including the process of scoring just now, the opponent's No. 13 player, AC Milan's next game, and even the result of this game.
The most important thing is to recall the goal process just now.
The Liverpool attack just now. Zhang Tiehan is undoubtedly the most important one. He guided the attack, promoted the attack, and after cooperating with his teammates several times, he took advantage of the opportunity in the penalty area. After receiving the pass, he turned around and volleyed. That shot, Zhang Tiehan's personal ability was fully reflected.
But Ancelotti didn't care.
No matter what surprising performance Zhang Tiehan has, he has been prepared for a long time. After all, a player who can score seventeen goals in the Champions League can definitely record a lot in football history. It is normal for Zhang Tiehan to have outstanding performance.
What he cared about was the process of creating opportunities, especially Zhang Tiehan's pass to Lisse.
Why was Riser unguarded at that time?
Before that moment, many people paid attention to Zhang Tiehan, Gerald, Alonso, and Fowler. No one paid attention to Liser on the left. Even in Liverpool's forward lineup, Liser was very inconspicuous. In other words, when the team made a mistake, they chose to defend others, and let Liser's position go, they felt that Liser was not threatening.
But it was Liser who created the threat!
This is not right.
The players on the court probably have no choice. They focus on guarding others and cannot tell anyone to pay attention to Riser. However, such defense also shows that the team has not done a good job in defense. In any case, their staff should be more than Liverpool in the backcourt, and they did miss someone just now.
Why do people miss?
Not only other Liverpool players have attracted more defense, but also because the team has not invested much energy in defense!
For example, Shepchenko and Girardino, both of them retreated to defend, but they didn't see any effect at all. They couldn't defend Zhang Tiehan and could still restrict others, and Gatuso did not play any role. Pirlo and Kaka were standing in the middle and had no defensive role at all.
If they run more, the goal will not be generated.
Ancelotti understood a little, and he needed to tell the players that they should expand the defensive area. In the past, midfielders should retreat further backwards so that they can stabilize the defense.
In other words, the players on the court should be more active.
He called Pirlo in dissatisfaction and gave him some advice. Pirlo kept nodding and returned to the stadium to tell others about Ancelotti's explanation.
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After the game started again, AC Milan's defense was obviously more stable, at least it wouldn't be so suddenly missing, and Zhang Tiehan's defense was not so relaxed. When Zhang Tiehan had been following him since AC Milan's halftime, Nesta had been following him and defending him in close combat. Such defense made Zhang Tiehan helpless.
At the same time, AC Milan is also rushing to attack.
Anyone knows that AC Milan has no advantage at all now, and letting the score end 2:2 is very unfavorable for them, because the next game is in San Siro, but Anfield. They both tied 2:2 at home, and it will be very difficult to defeat Liverpool away.
Liverpool also cheered up and strengthened their defense.
Every player knows that the team's goal in this game is to "try to score away goals while ensuring that the opponent does not score goals." They have done the latter. Then they should work hard for the former.
It is very important not to allow AC Milan to join more players. They hope that the game will end here, so the balance of victory or defeat will be tilted a lot towards Liverpool.
Even Zhang Tiehan thought the same way.
The two teams decide the winner in two rounds, and it is easier to keep the winner at Anfield Stadium. It is not worth the loss to continue fighting with AC Milan. It is time for them to play defensive counterattacks and stabilize the defense. In this case, AC Milan will find it difficult to score another goal, at least not more than two. If they guarantee this, the team will have an advantage, and if they have an advantage, they will be much closer to the victory.
That's what all the players think.
Both sides are strengthening their defense, so you can imagine the game. Every player is working hard to play, but the scene is very bad. After more than fifty minutes of competition, many players are a little tired. At this time, both sides seem to be playing a tacit match.
No side took the initiative to launch a large-scale attack.
They seemed to be satisfied with the result of the game, and then deliberately delayed the time... but it was only fifty minutes! Neither Liverpool nor AC Milan were willing to end the game like this.
They also want to score goals.
No matter which side, as long as they score a goal, they will have an advantage, otherwise they will be a disadvantage, and the game on the court becomes a game where both teams defend and one side have to carefully look for opportunities.
But such a game is also difficult to be exciting.
After all, both sides are not Arsenal. Teams like Tottenham who do not care about defense for the sake of attack have to be concerned about defense. Liverpool feels that they must be concerned about defense. They have scored two goals and the task arranged by the coach has been completed. The coach also emphasized the need to defend, so he put more energy into defense. AC Milan is concerned about Liverpool's counterattack. They must have concerns about Liverpool with Zhang Tiehan, but once this concern exists, the offense will appear weak, at least not as powerful as before. In addition, Liverpool is also cautious in defending, so the game between the two teams is not as exciting as before.
Such a game is a bit sleepy.
Fortunately, there are many stars in both teams, and they still have occasional exciting performances. Kaka on AC Milan. In the 73rd minute, Kaka received a pass in the middle and dribbled the ball from the middle and went straight to Liverpool's penalty area. Then he completed a shot. Fortunately, Renner reacted and saved the ball in time, otherwise Kaka would have completed a one-stop.
This attack also made Milan fans shout excitedly.
The only shame is that there is no result.
In Liverpool, the most outstanding performance is Zhang Tiehan. Zhang Tiehan's previous outstanding performance was actually his weakness, but when his skills improved, he used his strong body to cooperate with his skills, his dribbling was quite powerful. He occasionally passed one or two players in AC Milan, and his performance was quite outstanding.
Kaka and Zhang Tiehan became the most popular people in the audience.
However, the offenses of the two teams were still ineffective, and the game time passed little by little. The time had reached the last moment, and the game gradually became more exciting. It seemed that both teams wanted to use the last time to score a goal.
When it comes to real attack, AC Milan's offensive is stronger.
AC Milan has an overall strength advantage, coupled with the home advantage, even at the end of the game, their offensive was still very strong. After the midfield was pressed, they could control the ball well outside the Liverpool penalty area, and the continuous passing of the ball to the feet made the fans look dazzled, which also made the San Siro Stadium re-energized.
Liverpool could only shrink its defense line by being hit by this wave of attacks.
Zhang Tiehan has already retreated to defend, and he stood outside the penalty area looking for an opportunity to intercept the ball. Unfortunately, the AC players are very familiar with his stealing ability. They will not give Zhang Tiehan the chance to get close to the ball.
The football passed to the middle again.
Pirlo got the ball, and he shook away Gerald in front of him with two moves, and passed the ball straight into the penalty area. Warnock was defending Shepchenko who ran into the penalty area. The two of them ran towards the direction of the football at the same time. Shepchenko was faster, and the Ukrainian was about to catch up with the ball.
At this time, Warnock pulled Shepchenko's jersey a little irrationally.
Shepchenko fell into the penalty area.
The game was suspended, and the referee walked over and showed a yellow card to Warnock directly. The Liverpool players all explained to the referee anxiously, but the ball was obviously Warnock's foul, and the foul in the penalty area was undoubtedly a penalty.
AC Milan got a penalty kick.
Milan fans at San Siro Stadium were excited to watch the game. They thought the game would end like this, but they didn't expect AC Milan to get another penalty kick opportunity. They could take advantage of this opportunity to overtake the score again!
Both teams are very concerned about this penalty.
Under the eyes of everyone, Shepchenko walked to the penalty spot and then kicked the ball to the right. Reiner made a mistake in judgment and rushed to the left, but he could only watch the football fly into the goal.
3:2.
Chapter completed!