aspirations football

Chapter 51 The Showdown in the Second Half
After the start of the second half of the game, Liverpool was still pressing aggressively, and seemed to completely ignore Inter Milan's poor counterattack ability.

In the 48th minute of the game, Inter Milan fought aggressively in the backcourt. Zanetti broke the ball at Gerrard's feet, and then dribbled the ball forward from the side.

The captain of Inter Milan was not in a hurry to hand the ball to Zlatan Ibrahimovic who was not far away, but relied on his own body without hesitation, supported by Mascherano and Aurelio's defense, and fought hard to get into the Liverpool penalty area.

Then, in extremely difficult circumstances, the ball was pushed to Ibrahimovic who responded in the penalty area.

After Ibrahimovic got the ball, he passed the ball to Jingxuan who inserted from behind diagonally.

Jingxuan didn't stop the ball, and put the ball straight to Su Yazo on the left with his left foot.

Su Yazuo kept up with the running route of the ball, kept the ball, and directly pushed the far corner of the goal with the arch of his right foot.

It's a pity that the speed of the ball was not fast enough, and it was caught by Reina with a side throw.

Although the goal was not scored, but starting from Zanetti stealing the ball in midfield and then launching an attack, Inter Milan's offensive cooperation this time reflects the advantages of team football.

The old captain set an example and dribbled the ball forward at all costs, in order to send a clear signal to his teammates:

Don't be conservative and afraid, more people are needed to participate in the offense and support the striker.

With the personal abilities of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jingxuan, as long as there is enough support, they will definitely be able to shock Liverpool's defense.

In the 50th minute of the game, Liverpool took a corner kick, Cesar hit the ball out of the penalty area with a single fist, and Hyypia volleyed the goal 24 meters in front of the goal and missed it.

In the 52nd minute of the game, Jingxuan received a diagonal pass from Zanetti at the center line, pulled the ball back with the sole of his foot and dunked it, and then turned around and passed Mascherano who was following the defense.

He drove straight in with the ball, and Mascherano was in a hurry, and he tackled Jingxuan with a tackle from behind and was warned by a yellow card.

Inter Milan won a direct free kick 27 meters in front of the goal. Ibrahimovic's free kick was powerful and heavy.
It's a pity that it was a little higher and flew out of the bottom line by rubbing the crossbar. Inter Milan missed the best chance to score the goal so far.

With two consecutive threatening shots, Inter Milan's offensive gradually rose.

But God seems to be joking with Inter Milan on purpose. In the 54th minute of the game, David Suazo kicked Carragher down when he was pressing in the frontcourt.

The latter quickly got up and spat trash talk at Su Yazuo. Su Yazuo was irritated and pushed Carragher with his hand.

Carragher fell to the ground, clutching his chest, as if in pain.

The referee ran over and showed Su Yazo the second red card of the game without hesitation.

Su Yazuo was sent off in less than 10 minutes in the second half, and Inter Milan, which already had one less player to fight, was even worse at the moment.

I thought that Mancini would let Jingxuan retreat, or simply add another defender. If he can defend this game, he will defend it. If he does not concede a goal, it will be considered a victory.

However, Mancini changed his old conservative style, and took advantage of Carragher's feigned death to play a full set, and called Jingxuan and Ibrahimovic to the sidelines.

"Jing, it's a 9-man battle. It's too difficult to defend this game. Instead of being stabbed to death by the opponent, it's better to pick up the machete and give it a go! No matter how many we lose, away goals are very important to us!"

Jingxuan nodded, he also believed that blindly defending would be unstoppable, and he couldn't be so useless if he died.

"Zlatan, you and Jingxuan are two forwards. Maybe you won't get support from the back, but I believe that you two will definitely give Liverpool some color!"

After a long time, Mancini didn't mean to fight Liverpool with all his strength, but to ask Jingxuan and Ibrahimovic to do their best to contain Liverpool in the frontcourt relying on their personal abilities.

Of course Ibrahimovic has no objection. He was put on the field for offense. If you want to defend with all your strength, it is better to replace him.

Ibrahimovic looked back at the field, put his hand on Jingxuan's shoulder, and said with a smile:

"I've never experienced a game like this before! Boy, it's time for us to unite and give full play to our strength, get excited!"

Jingxuan nodded affirmatively, the situation at this moment aroused the bellicose gene in his blood, making his blood boil.

Who said that if there are two less players in an away game, they will definitely lose?His thoughts are the same as Ibrahimovic's. Together, the two have a chance to turn things around.

The game restarted, and Liverpool's backcourt free kick was hoisted into the Inter Milan penalty area.
Cordoba leaned on Torres, headed the ball out, followed Gerrard's low shot and was confiscated by Cesar.

The goalkeeper of Inter Milan kicked off the ball quickly and launched a counterattack. Jingxuan stopped the ball near the center line.

Mascherano had a yellow card at the moment, so he didn't dare to defend himself. He just took a defensive position behind Jingxuan.

And Lucas has also blocked Jingxuan's most likely dribbling route.

Facing the dense defense, Jingxuan had an idea and unexpectedly used the signature move of the Dutch winger van der Meyde - flower arrangement and long pass!
I saw his right foot go around behind his left foot, and there was a chic rubbing pass.The ball was accurately passed to Ibrahimovic's feet more than 20 meters away.

After Ibrahimovic got the ball, he held Hyypia, who was constantly fighting physically behind him.

Then he hit east and west, turned around after hitting the ball with his heel, cheated Hyypia's defense, and dribbled the ball towards the Liverpool penalty area.

At this moment, Jingxuan has already started to rush towards the Liverpool penalty area. Ibrahimovic took the ball to the edge of the Liverpool penalty area, without looking up at all, and directly crossed near the penalty spot in the middle.

It's a pity that Jingxuan was still a step too late, and missed the best touch point. His sliding tackle finally missed the baseline.

Reina didn't respond, he could only watch the ball fly out of the baseline, and the Liverpool fans at the scene also shouted loudly, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Jingxuan, who missed the goal, lay on the field for a few seconds before slowly getting up, looking up to the sky and sighing.

He regretted not scoring this close shot.

Seeing Jingxuan miss such a good scoring opportunity, the Inter Milan coach on the sidelines also regretted it.But the coordination process of this ball is what he wants to see.

Ibrahimovic ran over and touched Jingxuan's head, and gave him a thumbs up for his beauty.

In the 60th minute of the game, Stankovic made a clearance and kicked Lucas, and the ball bounced back to the front of the Inter Milan penalty area.

Torres pushed forward to form a one-handed trend, and shot with his right foot 16 meters in front of the goal, but Julio Cesar fell to the right and held the ball out of the baseline with his fingertips!

In the subsequent corner kick attack, the ball was kicked from the right side of the penalty area by Dirk, and Hyypia headed the ball high at the back point 7 meters away from the goal!

In the 62nd minute of the game, Torres took the ball at the front of the penalty area and turned around and shot low and missed the left post.

In the 64th minute of the game, Maicon rushed forward from the wing and dribbled the ball across the middle of the Liverpool penalty area. Jingxuan deliberately missed the ball in the middle. Ibrahimovic behind got the ball and dunked Hyypia. After taking a step in front of the penalty area, he volleyed with his left foot.

The ball was played with great power and Reyna flew to save it, his fingers touched the ball, and the ball was blocked out of the baseline, and Liverpool escaped.

For a while, both sides had offense and defense, and it was difficult to distinguish between superiority and inferiority.

Seeing that he couldn't attack for a long time, Benitez couldn't sit still. In the 65th minute of the game, he replaced Lucas with Crouch, and wanted to completely solve Inter Milan in the remaining half hour.

In the 69th minute of the game, Mascherano stopped the ball too much and was intercepted by Jingxuan. He ran with the ball, swayed Finnan in disguise, and entered the Liverpool penalty area.

Just when everyone thought that he was going to make a strong explosion, he stopped the ball unexpectedly, and then knocked his heel to Ibrahimovic near the arc of the penalty area.

Ibrahimovic understood it, facing the incoming ball, he volleyed vigorously with the instep of his left foot,
The ball flew towards the goal in an instant towards the fired shell.

Reina's line of sight was blocked to a certain extent, this time he could only look at the ball and sigh.

The ball hit the net heavily and Inter Milan took a 1-0 lead!

After the goal, Jingxuan and Ibrahimovic hugged and celebrated wildly. This goal is really commendable!

This away goal is particularly valuable when there are fewer two players fighting and the defense line may be collapsed at any time.

After conceding a goal, many Liverpool players bent down, and their physical energy consumption was also huge due to the large-scale running in this game.

Everyone is sticking to the game with a belief that they must win.

Can't attack for a long time, but loses the ball first, which has a great impact on the team's momentum.

After the goal, Inter Milan had already planned to retreat across the board, and even Jingxuan retreated. Who would have thought that God would make another joke with Inter Milan at this moment.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Inter Milan lost another starting central defender.

A pass from the left from outside the penalty area was made by Dirk, Inter Milan defender Córdoba made a header to make a clearance, and Crouch missed a supplementary shot from the edge of the penalty area!
Cordoba was injured when he landed and was carried off by a stretcher. After emergency treatment by the team doctor, it was confirmed that he could no longer persist in this game.

In desperation, Mancini had to replace Cordoba with Vieira. There is no Zhengyin defender on the Inter Milan field at the moment.

Seeing the chance to win again, Liverpool seemed to be in a tizzy again, and began to attack Inter Milan's goal desperately.

In the 76th minute of the game, Gerrard's must-go shot was cleared by Vieira from the goal line.

In the 80th minute of the game, Crouch's shot in the penalty area was blocked by Maxwell, and Finnan volleyed from the edge of the penalty area on the right and sent the ball flying.

For a while, Liverpool's bombardment overwhelmed Inter Milan, and even Ibrahimovic returned to his penalty area to help defend.

Hard work paid off, and Liverpool finally broke the deadlock in the 85th minute of the game.

Aurelio's cross from the left reaches the back of the penalty area, and Finnan knocks the ball back near the right sideline to Pennant diagonally behind.

Pennant took the ball from the right front of the penalty area and made a pass, but the players on both sides who were fighting in the middle failed to touch the ball.

Driven sideways 13 meters away from the goal on the left side and hit a bouncing ball with his right foot. The ball hit the Brazilian right-back Maicon and flew into the far corner of the goal. Liverpool finally scored at home.

The score on the field became 1 to 1, and this goal was the third goal of the UEFA Champions League this season.

The Liverpool players were celebrating wildly on the field. It has to be said that the goal of Kevin Duyte came very timely.

After all, there are still seven or eight minutes in the game plus stoppage time, enough for Liverpool to score another goal to reverse Inter Milan at home.

At this moment, most of Inter Milan's players can't run anymore, they can only huddle around the penalty area and defend with all their strength.

After all, an away goal was scored, and the score of 1:1 is completely acceptable for Inter Milan.

But the sky didn't follow people's wishes. Only 5 minutes after Liverpool's last goal, Liverpool scored again and overtook the score.

In the last 1 minute of the regular time of the game, Gerrard made a diagonal pass near the corner of the restricted area on the right and was blocked by Cambiasso in the restricted area.
Pennant got the ball on the right side of the road, tried to break through Maxwell and failed, so he knocked back to the Red Army captain Gerrard outside the penalty area.

After Gerrard received the ball, he took a tight step and took a low shot with his right foot from 28 meters in front of the goal.
The ball bounced into the goal through Stankovic's crotch and hit the inside of the far post.

Liverpool overtook the score 2-1!
Interestingly, this goal is Liverpool's 500th European goal.

After the goal, the Anfield stadium was boiling. All Liverpool players, except goalkeeper Reina, ran to the bottom line to interact with the excited Liverpool fans.

At this moment, many Inter Milan players on the field have bowed their heads and wanted to end the game quickly.

Jingxuan's physical strength has also reached its limit. After all, he has been fighting and running constantly throughout the game. Even if he wants to kill the enemy at this moment, he is unable to raise his sword.

At this time, Ibrahimovic even had his hands on his hips, panting heavily, and seemed to have lost his ability to run.

In the second half, there were 3 minutes of stoppage time. By the time the Liverpool players returned to the court and Inter Milan kicked in the center line, 2 minutes had passed.

Jingxuan passed the ball to the backcourt, Liverpool continued to press forward, and Inter Milan fell the ball in the backcourt.

Everyone thought that the game would end like this. At this moment, Inter Milan captain Zanetti suddenly accelerated forward with the ball, passed the careless Gerrard, and tried to run forward with the ball.

Captain Zanetti has always been a role model in the team, and he is still running around the field at the age of nearly 35.

At this moment when everyone wanted to give up, he was not willing to lose like this, and still rushed forward with the last bit of physical strength.

Jingxuan was infected by the spirit of the old captain, he gritted his teeth, used the last bit of physical energy to do anaerobic breathing, and rushed up hard.

Zanetti saw Jingxuan at the far end and passed the ball over. After receiving the ball, Jingxuan faced the front and rear defenses of the Liverpool players. He took two steps forward and hit the goal with the instep of his right foot 26 meters away from the goal in the middle.

At the moment of shooting, Jingxuan felt his legs go soft, and his power was affected to a certain extent, resulting in the slow speed of the ball.

In the end, his shot was blocked by Reina's sideways save. After getting the ball, Aurelio kicked forward with his big foot. No one could touch the ball. The ball slowly rolled out of the baseline next to Inter Milan's goal. The whistle blew to end the game.

Liverpool defeated Inter Milan 2:1 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals home game, taking the lead in the two rounds.

As far as Inter Milan is concerned, this game is not the end. After all, there is a precious away goal, and the possibility of returning to the home court is very high.

(End of this chapter)