The fifth forty-fourth quarter, the support of teammates
After losing a goal, Carragher looked extremely frustrated. In this game, the national team coach was still watching. He was the only national team player of the England national team on the court, but he made such a big mistake. He really knew who he would blame...
It really doesn't mean it, how could I be so stupid?
And what was as frustrated as him was Alonso. The ball just now was actually John was suspected of offside. However, Alonso, who was marking Marblanc, retreated a step further and failed to make the team offside, which was also one of the responsible persons for conceding the ball.
Obviously, the players with the most continuous playing time among these two teams began to lose their attention due to fatigue in this game.
The loss of physical strength is indeed a big problem. Although Benitez is keen on rotation, his rotation has never been a purposeless rotation. In fact, the most important players on the court, Zhao Yaning, Alonso, and the players on the defense, are rarely arranged to rotate. The result of this is that Carragher and Alonso have much more fatigue than others, which makes them more tired.
This is actually one of the biggest factors that affect a team's unstable performance. Relegation teams can consider giving up the cup early and putting all their energy into the league. While strong teams need to consider multi-line combat, eight games in a month are possible during difficult times. The physical and energy consumption is enough to prevent them from exerting their full strength.
When Zhao Yaning thought about this, he had already started to return to the midfield to catch the ball.
His move, for Liverpool, means one thing: he needs to increase his running and directly decide the outcome of the game. Alonso also understands his meaning very well, and he himself knows that his condition is not good enough, so he began to defend in the backcourt honestly and no longer step forward to launch an attack.
He began to stay in the backcourt, which also allowed Maicon in the backcourt to be liberated: since someone is willing to defend from the back, he can boldly insert it.
Liverpool's two wings have sufficient strong ability to penetrate. Compared with Riser, Macon is smarter when playing football. He knows how to cooperate with Alonso. When Alonso needs it, he can be used as a wing forward or as a midfielder who assists in passing. When Alonso retreats, he can also be freed and strike forward boldly - the cooperation between high-ranking players will always be better.
His insertion was indeed very bold. He kept inserting forward and stopped before he stopped. Seeing that he could not enter the penalty area, he kicked the ball to Garcia, who was receiving the response, and then ran into the penalty area by himself. Garcia ran to the sideline, pulled the defender away, and kicked the ball to the bottom line.
Maikon quickly received the ball and immediately made a low cross!
Morientes in the penalty area obviously misjudged the position of the ball. He inserted too far. At this time, he had to run back and control the ball to his feet. But at this time, the opponent's defense line had already been defended. Morientes had no time to turn around. He kicked the ball to Zhao Yaning who came to the front of the penalty area.
His sudden speedup was obviously beyond the opponent's expectations. Those guys with the same playing rate as him all went off the court to rest, but he could still launch such a high-speed crazy assault!
His route was also very clever. Instead of directly rushing forward, he chose a slightly arc-shaped diagonal line to start the attack. Because his direction change ability is very strong, the opponent is not able to judge what kind of breakthrough line he is, and he can only try to block his possible sudden direction change forward line. However, Zhao Yaning chose to bypass a large circle and then insert it backwards.
What is this about? Such a running position cannot play a role in rapid assault. In the final analysis, breakthroughs cannot create opportunities for rapid counterattacks, so what else is there...
They immediately understood Zhao Yaning’s idea. The backcourt was almost all driven away by Zhao Yaning’s running. Their backcourt had no outstanding defense, but Zhao Yaning at this time, he passed the ball through a long distance and sent the ball into the penalty area!
This guy is attracting attention and creating opportunities for the team!
Fowler, who received the ball, adjusted one step and had already formed a single shot, but he took one more step to expand his shooting advantage. But at this time, the player who was defending him had already tackled him!
The whistle rang out quickly and Fowler fell to the ground.
"Liverpool got a penalty! Fowler was tackled in the penalty area, and Liverpool got a penalty!"
Fowler jumped up in the penalty area and ran towards the Liverpool players excitedly. Although he did miss the opportunity, it was indeed not easy to create a penalty.
And everyone took the initiative to retreat and gave it to Robbie Fowler.
"Robbie Fowler has not scored in the league since he returned to Liverpool. This game is his closest chance to score. Let's see Fowler...run, shoot! The ball has entered! The score is 2-1 on the court! Liverpool once again proved his ability to reverse the game. By scoring by penalty kick, they took the lead in the game!"
Robbie Fowler ran to the front of the audience, lifted up his jersey, and kissed the team logo on his jersey. This made the audience shout louder: Fans regard Fowler as God. Even if his strength has declined significantly, it will not be of much help to the team as before, but everyone still hopes to see him appear on the court and play a few more good shots.
When Fowler turned around, he also hugged Liverpool players one by one. He knew that his recovery was inseparable from the support of his teammates. Having such a teammate who supported him was extremely important to him.
The game continued. After leading 2-1, Liverpool's attack rhythm slowed down a lot. Until the second half, neither side launched any offensive. Liverpool's lead lasted until 80 minutes.
At this time, Benitez made another substitution adjustment: Garcia replaced Zhao Yaning - Zhao Yaning's rest is also the least one in the team, and he also needs to rest.
But at this last moment, Liverpool lost points: using a corner kick opportunity, Fulham planned an excellent attack. After they saw that Alonso was missing, Arteta's header problem and the competition at the front of the penalty area were not strong. Malbrank passed the ball to the front of the penalty area, and Jensen shot a long shot and threw the ball into Liverpool's goal!
This goal concealed Liverpool's efforts in one game were wasted, and in the end, they only gained a draw.
"There's nothing to complain about. It's strange that you can win in a row with two-line battles." After the game, Benitez did not criticize it too much. "One point is already very good. The victory or defeat of the league mainly depends on the second half. Just be able to hold on to the score in the first half."
That's what I said, but at this time, how could everyone feel that it doesn't matter?
"Coach, next time this time, will you let me finish the last ten minutes? I don't lack these ten minutes for rest time. After this game, the national team's game day. I have time to rest, so I don't have to be replaced like this."
Zhao Yaning was the most popular: he thought he could win, but who knew that this would be the ending. Although he was not sure what he could do on the court at the end, it was better than being replaced in advance and could not do anything. Although he knew that Benitez replaced him out of good intentions, he still couldn't help but want to complain.
"Don't you have to go back to China?" Benitez was a little surprised at this. "I thought I had to go back no matter what."
"Why do I have to go back at the level of the East Asian Games?"
"I'm not talking about the game - I'm saying that this time FIFA investigates the Chinese team's suspected counterfeiting case, don't you need to go back to China to deal with it?"
Chapter completed!