588th quarter Champions League promotion
After the game led 3-0, the suspense was quickly lost. Miracles are not always performed, and in this game, there is obviously no chance to perform miracles.
Although in the final stage of the game, Barack's pass allowed Makai to score a goal that saved his face, Liverpool was able to eliminate Bayern Munich successfully and advance to the next round with a total score of 4-2.
After the game, Zhao Yaning's several torture styles against Ram also became the focus of discussion. As a player who was highly anticipated by Bayern and Germany, he was forced to be eaten several times by players who were physically stronger than him in the game. Ram was also criticized quite a lot. However, even so, Zhao Yaning still felt that he still had a very good future: regardless of skills, not everyone, after being passed three times in ten seconds, he still had the willpower to chase the tackle.
At this time, other games also decided the winners and losses.
Arsenal played a 0-0 game with Real Madrid at home - this ending is surprising. Arsenal played in the league this year, and no matter who dares to make a few of them. But when they arrived in the Champions League, they immediately became extremely fierce. No matter how they pieced together the defense line, they could guarantee that they would not lose the ball. Arsenal and Real Madrid only scored one goal in two games. Such a game is a bit different from the way these two attacking teams play.
Although Chelsea lost, they did play a thrilling and good game - they scored two goals away from home and took advantage of Milan's lack of preparation to hit Milan's defense. If Inzagi's goal grabbing and Pirlo's free kick were not outstanding, they could have really defeated and reversed and eliminated Milan again.
But obviously, Milan did not give them a chance. Pirlo assisted Inzagi's header, which ended with a total score of 4-3. Chelsea missed the quarterfinals and was eliminated early.
This may be the worst year for the Premier League - Manchester United qualifying in the group, Chelsea lost in the first round, and the remaining hopes are all on Liverpool and Arsenal.
In the other games, there were no unpopularity. Inter Milan, Barcelona, Juventus, Lyon, and Villarreal all qualify one after another, and the names of the Champions League quarter-finals have already appeared.
By the weekend, Liverpool ushered in another good news: Chelsea, which consumed a lot of money in the Champions League, played extremely badly in this round of league matches. They lost the game, and the difference between the score between them and Liverpool was as much as 6 points.
This made Liverpool even more excited: the gap between six points and there are ten rounds of games left, maybe Liverpool can consider winning the championship ahead of schedule. If you have a higher ambition, you may even get the treble championship. But if there is anything bad... Liverpool is now fighting on the third line after all, and compared with Chelsea's specializing in the front line, he has to play six or seven more games. The loss of any game may lead to Liverpool's defeat in a championship. If his luck is really bad, then I'm afraid that all four of them will be gone.
In the weekend game, Liverpool players were extremely excited when playing games. Although they were tired, their mood was still exciting.
During the game, Liverpool also carried out some rotations: Morientes and Fowler partnered as double strikers, while Alonso was resting in the midfield, replaced Arteta, and Zhao Yaning and Gerrard in the frontcourt, and even on the defense line, they replaced Hypia, Bruno and Finnan in one breath. However, even so, their lineup was slightly weaker than when they were against Bayern, but facing the midfielder led by Zheng Zhi on the opposite side, they were still much stronger.
In fact, Zheng Zhi's strength can be said to have improved a little. His skills and physical fitness are among the few Asians. In the season that Charlton bought him, he performed well. Many people even think that his performance is better than that of the Asian star, Nakada Hidesu, who is also an Asian star, this season. Of course, the main reason here is that Nakada Hidesu is old and Nakada, who is uncontrollable in life, has slipped too fast, which has caused his strength to fall too fast, but more so, it is because Zheng Zhi has his own strength.
Of course, this is also related to his own technical characteristics: the strength of many outstanding Asian players is actually not as big as expected. However, when the difference is large, Asian players often cannot play in other positions when they cannot start at their favorite position. The reason why Sun Jihe and Zheng Zhi can play was not that they are much stronger than others. The key is that they are both players with quite versatile attributes. They can play multiple positions, and when the team needs it, they can play unfamiliar positions, and they can also perform well, which makes them have much more opportunities to play than others. This adaptability is the reason why they succeed.
However, although Zheng Zhi performed well, in this game, he started in the midfielder position and needed to fight against Zhao Yaning, and the trouble would be great.
When Zhao Yaning faced him, he didn't even have to shake it. He just gently plucked him with one ball on the spot.
This is because Zhao Yaning is strong, and secondly, he met Zhao Yaning, so he really didn't dare to kick. He was so brave that he couldn't kick any more.
This also made Zhao Yaning rush up unscrupulously. After the seventeen minutes after the start of the game, he broke through in the middle and kicked the goal!
The football was already thrown into his arms by the goalkeeper, but when he fell to the ground, the ball hit the ground and bounced up again. Fowler did not waste this opportunity and directly shot with one shot and pushed the ball into the net.
Another goal! Fowler raised his hand happily. He really didn't expect that he would be able to perform like this after returning to Liverpool this season!
And soon, Liverpool's second chance came again.
This time, it was Liverpool's set-piece opportunity. After Zhao Yaning was tripped on the left side of the penalty area, Liverpool got a free kick opportunity. When Zhao Yaning kicked a free kick, he wanted to score the goal at the back point. However, Bruno Alves jumped high and a fierce header hit the ball at the goal!
This ball surprised Zhao Yaning: How high is he jumping? The kick he drove was three meters high no matter how he looked. His height was only 1.9 meters tall. Although he was inserted from a distance and was ready to run, he jumped more than one meter away from the ground? This was simply the jumping power of playing basketball!
And this header was indeed beyond the opponent's expectations. Although they immediately blocked the goal, the ball hit the defender and bounced into the net!
What an incredible goal!
Liverpool's attack was not over yet. In the second half, Arteta's straight pass was directly sent to the back of the defense line. This time, Fowler, who ran up, shot in time!
"Robbie Fowler scored twice in the game! Excellent form! Awesome player!"
After Fowler scored a goal, Liverpool's score also became 3-0. But just when Liverpool wanted to rest, Charlton launched an attack. With the opportunity of a corner kick, they successfully scored a point.
"Liverpool's defense line is not good enough. If it weren't for the frontcourt being excellent enough, it would be really depressing to be defeated by a goal like this."
After the game, although Liverpool won, it still attracted a lot of media to criticize this 3-1 game. Liverpool's rotation system is very good, and they have a good guarantee that they have sufficient combat effectiveness on multiple fronts. However, such rotation also makes the team sometimes face some unnecessary troubles. For example, in this game, the opponent's final goal is a problem.
At the beginning of the season, Liverpool did not concede goals for many consecutive games and was regarded as a favorite team to win the championship. But by the end of the season, Fowler integrated into the team, Gerrard played better and better in the frontcourt, and Sissoko's injury was also healed, but Liverpool's defense line was unstable. Although there were fatigue reasons, such things still make people feel unforgivable. How can the team that won the championship have no stability?
After this game, Wednesday's game was followed: this game was ahead of the 35th round. Because Liverpool entered the next round of the FA Cup, their 35th round needed to be staggered. This time, the FA's approach was to advance the game time.
In this game, Liverpool replaced Carragher in the backcourt, but left back replaced Volnoke. In the frontcourt, Morientes was the single arrow, and Zhao Yaning, Figo and Garcia were the starters.
But shortly after the game began, the players all found problems.
"Figo looks completely out of shape." Martin Taylor didn't find it strange. "A 34-year-old veteran will be too tired if he plays such a intensive schedule. It is understandable that he is not in shape. It seems that Liverpool can't count on him too much in this game."
Figo is old after all. Although he can still play very well in the first half of the season, he is becoming increasingly unable to run. After all, he is a veteran. In addition, he does not adapt well to the special Premier League environment without a winter break. Too many games have caused his physical strength to be consumed too quickly. Now he has gone from playing one game and resting one game in the early stage, and is about to deteriorate to playing one game and two games.
But at this time, Liverpool did not have too many suitable candidates to serve him. He was very tired, but Gerald was even more tired than him. Gerald's football method was originally a very harmful way of playing. He had more fighting and sprinting. Although he had good physical fitness, he had much more kicks and had much greater movements in playing football. He was easily injured due to excessive running and fighting. It was okay at the beginning of the season, but now, the more he reached such a critical moment, the less he dared to use him too much, for fear that something would go wrong and the player would be injured, and it would be difficult to arrange it later.
The long schedule of the game is the biggest pressure on the team.
But fortunately, there is Zhao Yaning in this game.
"Luis, go to the middle, I'm on the side." Zhao Yaning said to Figo. He could see that Figo was not active in running because he was lazy, but because he was too tired, he couldn't run anymore, but his consciousness could still keep up. In this case, Zhao Yaning also believed that he could still make some contributions when he changed his position.
In the middle, he reduced his running and hoped he could play better again.
Soon, Zhao Yaning's approach was rewarded. After Figo got the ball at the top of the penalty area, he shook two times and passed with one pass, and flew directly to Zhao Yaning in the penalty area.
Zhao Yaning's position is not good and his angle is very small. When he faces this ball, he even made an unexpected choice.
He took a step forward, headed the ball, and pushed the ball towards the far corner of the goal!
"gooooal!!! Zhao Yaning's header scored for Liverpool's first record! It was almost a header at a zero-degree angle! What else does Zhao Yaning not know now?"
Chapter completed!