v4 Chapter 726： Deadly dead

On the evening of April 8, Anfield Stadium. m.x.

When the international referee Kraus Boralson from Denmark blew the whistle at the end of the game, the entire Anfield became silent and countless Liverpool fans in the stands choked.

The red scoreboard shows the final result of this game, one to three.

International practice, the home team is in front, the visiting team is in the back.

This is undoubtedly a desperate home result!

From coach to player, Liverpool are all surprised by this result. There may even be many people. At the end of the game, they still can't figure out why they lost and why are they so miserable?

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At the moment when the whistle sounded, Yang Yang squatted in Chelsea's restricted area with frustration.

He just finished a shot, but Cech was saved by flying.

This is definitely not a night belonging to Liverpool!

Although, Yang Yang scored a goal in just six minutes in the opening, opening the door to victory for Liverpool.

Pride will defeat!

This is a noun that Yang Yang popped out of his mind at this moment.

Over the past few years, Chelsea ’s performance advantage and the embarrassment of Chelsea ’s defeat so far this season, coupled with the previous 6-1 victory over Manchester United, followed by a 5-0 victory over Aston Villa, let Liverpool There was an overly optimistic mood up and down, and even some blind arrogance.

The stadium is like a battlefield, and arrogance represents a disastrous defeat!

Manchester United are arrogant and Ferguson is arrogant, so they lost a terrible defeat at home and lost one to six.

Now, it is Liverpool's turn.

A one-to-three home score can almost be said to completely ruin Liverpool's hopes of promotion and completely push the Reds to a dead end.

What caused this result?

Three goals, two came from the right-back Ivanovic of the right back of the game, and one came from Drogba.

And interestingly, all three come from corner kicks!

Positioning the ball, high point, this is the common feature of the three goals.

Hiddink really deserves to be a world-class coach, keenly grasping a fatal dead spot that Liverpool has long been covered up, that is, the lack of high anti-positioning ability.

Aveloa and Aurelio are both full-backs, but they are not high. Carragher is good at ground defense, fast, and has a large range of activities. Instead, he grabs high points and has no advantage. The third ball comes from His defensive error against Drogba.

Needless to say in the midfield, Mascherano was suspended due to the accumulation of yellow cards. Gareth Barry and Xavi Alonso had no advantage in the high ball, and the last time Liverpool won the Champions League, stood in Xavi Alonso Beside him was Muhammad Sissoko, a tall and strong waist.

It can be said that Liverpool has always had hidden dangers in positioning the ball against the high, especially in the face of Chelsea, a team with many tall players.

Hiddink is clearly targeted. In this game, he won the right-back Bosingwa, who performed well this season, and arranged for a tall Ivanovic. In this way, the entire back line except Ashley Cole, Each one is very high.

There is Barack in the midfield, Drogba on the striker line, and all three lines have high support.

When Chelsea took a corner, this group of tall players went to a stop in Liverpool's penalty area, and the deterrence was conceivable.

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Liverpool themselves are not without mistakes.

Perhaps it was because of continuous combat, or perhaps because of some carelessness, Benitez was also unprepared before the game.

For example, Ivanovic has not paid enough attention.

The Serbian defender joined Chelsea in January 2008. It is interesting to say that Chelsea's head coach Grant did not give him even a minute for the entire second half of the season, just let him follow the second team.

After Scolari took office this season, Ivanovic's status remained unchanged.

The Premier League has played 31 rounds so far, Ivanovic has only played nine times, two of them are garbage time, and the other is played in the second half, so much that although he joined the team for more than a year , But everyone is still very strange to him.

Before playing Liverpool, everyone felt that Bosingwa would be the best candidate for Chelsea's right, and may even let Essien go to the right back to freeze Yang Yang, but no one thought that Hiddink would let Ivano Vicki came to play this position.

It is difficult for the Serbian defender to limit Yang Yang. Within six minutes of the opening, Yang Yang was given a chance to score.

But then Chelsea guarded against death all the way, and did not give Liverpool many opportunities, but instead used three consecutive corner opportunities to break Liverpool's goal again and again.

In fact, Yang Yang dropped his first ball as early as the first half, and when Chelsea equalized the score, he already realized that something was wrong.

At halftime, he communicated his thoughts to Benitez. The Spaniard clearly noticed it, so he made adjustments to allow Gerrard to mark Ivanovic when he was cornering.

But Chelsea had too many highs, Gerrard missed, and the Serbian defender scored the second goal.

Three minutes later, there was another corner kick, but this time Ivanovic was defended, but Drogba was not.

Who could have imagined that Liverpool, like the broken bamboo, has fallen on the corner this season.

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Yang Yang grabbed a head hard and stood up from the ground.

His worries before the match were correct, Hiddink was indeed returning.

Not only did the Dutch coach catch Liverpool's dead spot, but he insisted on hitting this soft spot again and again.

This is a big bet, and Hiddink won!

However, this is also a lesson for Liverpool.

Today Liverpool are already the top teams in Europe. Almost all teams are trying their best to dig and find Liverpool ’s loopholes and weaknesses. Not to mention Chelsea ’s Hiddink, let ’s say that Fulham of Hodgson last weekend also let Liverpool Almost turned over in the gutter.

This is European football!

Here, the competition is extremely fierce, a little careless, a little careless, a little complacent, and a slight decline in state, which may immediately lead to unresolved consequences!

Sometimes think about it, this is not a bad thing for Liverpool, at least it sounds the alarm.

It ’s just the consequences ... It ’s too painful!

Fortunately, there is the second round!

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Yang Yang walked over and pulled Gerrard hard.

Liverpool's captain is also in a sluggish state tonight. If he focuses on Ivanovic, the second goal will not happen.

"It's okay, there is the second round, we still have a chance!" Yang Yang hugged Gerrard, comforting his teammates with red eyes.

Gerrard seemed extremely self-blaming and sad. Perhaps he is now clear about what is going on in the game.

"I was totally mad at the time," Gerrard said regretfully.

"Don't think too much, the most important thing is the second round one week later." Yang Yang reminded again.

It's not yet time to regret.

The one-to-three score is indeed miserable, but it's not overwhelming.

Of course, it is really difficult to reverse Chelsea at Stamford Bridge Stadium ...

But anyway, the most important thing now is to keep a hope.

Gerrard is also a strong man. Sad regret is only temporary. As the captain of the team, he soon understood, knowing that the most important thing now is not remorse, but to get out of the trough as soon as possible and prepare for the final one week later.

The score of one to three determines that Liverpool must score more than three goals on the road to win. This will be a test of Liverpool's ability to attack on the road and a challenge to the team's status.

After releasing Gerrard, Yang Yang walked to Harvey Alonso.

But before waiting for him to approach, Xavi Alonso had already shook his head. "Relax, I'm fine, just a little bit of nothing."

Who is not?

In terms of strength, Liverpool will never be beaten in its own home, but it just happened.

Of the three corners, the first one was that he missed the man, saying that he was light.

"Hiddink is really amazing!" Xavi Alonso exclaimed.

Yang Yang nodded, thinking the same way in his heart.

At the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, many people only remember the ugly behavior of the Koreans, but they can enter the semifinals of the World Cup. The South Korean team is also strong enough to be at the bottom. Hiddink ’s coaching is definitely the South Korean team into the semi-finals. The key factor.

Later, whether he was coaching Eindhoven or the Russian national team, and now fighting for Chelsea halfway, they all showed surprising coaching strength, especially Chelsea. Hiddink's performance after coaching can be described as a new look.

But admiration is admired, privately speaking, but Hiddink is now Liverpool's number one enemy.

"No matter how strong he is, we will try our best to capture him at Stamford Bridge after a week!"

Yang Yang patted Harvey Alonso's shoulder and turned away.

It is conceivable that in the second round, Hiddink must have done his best to defend the counterattack, which will be a great test for Liverpool.

Especially offense.

And Yang Yang is Liverpool's last hope!

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As the team's number one star, this game's defeat has nothing to do with Yang Yang, because he performed very well, and scored a goal shortly after the opening to lead the team.

The root of losing is the team's defense, especially the positioning ball defense.

Therefore, Yang Yang and Gerrard comforted their teammates one by one.

This defeat did indeed stun Liverpool, but it may not be of no benefit.

At the very least, the team can soberly realize that they are not as strong as the six-to-one victory over Manchester United.

As the saying goes, disasters and fortunes depend on each other. If Liverpool can regroup, the battle at Stamford Bridge a week later may not be reversed.

Especially when the Liverpool fans in the stands are awake from the loss, Liverpool ’s team song gradually sounds in the stadium. The team song [You Never Walk Alone] sounds over the Anfield Stadium , A little bit tragic, but also let the players on the court feel the power.

They have not lost the support from the fans!

As Yang Yang said, there is a second round, and it is not time for despair!