super storm

Chapter 673 Let me fight!
In the middle of the week, Liverpool ushered in the first round of Group D of the Champions League group stage and challenged Ligue [-] Marseille away.

After sending away the most eye-catching midfielder Nasri last season, Marseille's overall strength did not decline, but improved slightly, because they quickly introduced the talented midfielder Ben Afa from Lyon, and also introduced Ivory Coast winger Kone. These two players spent a total of 2000 million euros in Marseille's transfer fee.

As strength increases, ambition naturally increases.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage last season, Marseille lost [-]-[-] to Liverpool in the last round of the group stage, and was finally forced to play in the UEFA Cup, which made Marseille feel very depressed.

This season has made a comeback and strengthened its strength. Naturally, the Ligue [-] powerhouses want to do something at home.

Especially considering that, apart from Liverpool, Atletico Madrid and PSV Eindhoven both have the strength and qualifications to reach the top [-], which makes the Ligue [-] teams more aware of urgency and must fight every game, especially at home.

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Unlike Marseille, which is strong and strong, Liverpool has consumed too much recently.

The international footballers traveled long distances to return to Guoqin Wang, and after returning, they slammed against Manchester United non-stop. Everyone was physically and mentally exhausted.

So Benitez made an appropriate rotation in this game.

On the defensive line, with Carragher's comeback, Daniel Agger sat on the bench again. Carragher and Skrtel partnered as central defenders, and Arbeloa and Aurelio served as two wingers.

In the midfield, Javier Mascherano and Lucas Leiva's double midfielders were discharged. Harvey Alonso and Gareth Barry were put back on the bench at the same time, and Gerrard started as the midfielder.

The front trident is still a combination of Yang Yang, Crouch and Dirk.

Although Crouch, Gerrard, Carragher and others returned quickly, Benitez still did not dare to arrange for Yang Yang to rest. After all, this is the first round of the Champions League game, and it is still an away game. The team's offensive power is crucial.

Without a heavy weapon like Yang Yang, Liverpool's away game in Marseille is really worrying.

The trend of the game also confirmed this point.

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After the opening, Liverpool quickly relied on their midfield advantage to control the situation on the field and launched offensives again and again.

Yang Yang didn't put too much effort into it. This was the arrangement Benitez gave him before the game, because the team needed him to maintain a stable performance for a long time instead of using him to death, so his pressing in the frontcourt was far less active than that of Crouch, Drivet and Gerrard, but everyone in the team was convinced of this.

With Yang Yang and without Yang Yang, Liverpool are facing two completely different competition environments.

Just like in the match against Marseille, Yang Yang standing there, even if he just walked slowly, could make Marseille's defensive players feel like they are facing a formidable enemy, for fear that he would not know when to charge up.

This is a deterrent to opponent players.

If Yang Yang is to try his best to fight every game, then he will definitely have to take turns.

Therefore, the Liverpool locker room also agrees with this very much. Even Gerrard, Kevin Dirk and others told Yang Yang to let him run less, and they will run for him, saving their energy to participate in the attack.

Although Yang Yang did not perform particularly hard, he was still in the No. 15 minute. After retracing the midfielder to catch the ball, he turned around and passed a diagonal pass behind him on the right.

This is Liverpool's most threatening attack since the opening, and it is also a reminder to Marseille, don't look at Yang Yang as if he is paddling soy sauce, but if you are not careful, give him a chance, and he can kill you every minute!
However, Yang Yang is not the kind of person who ignores the overall situation.

Liverpool's attack after the opening round failed to work, but was counterattacked by the opponent instead.

Ben Afa made a direct pass from the middle, and Xielu assisted Canna to score a goal, opening the scoring for Marseille.

This goal greatly boosted Marseille's morale, but it dealt a blow to Liverpool, because after more than 20 minutes of attacking, not only did they fail to score, but they succeeded in sneak attacking their opponents, which really shouldn't be.

But only 2 minutes later, Yang Yang successfully helped Liverpool equalize the score.

After Carragher stole the ball from the backcourt, he sent a long pass to the left side of the frontcourt. Yang Yang quickly caught up and got the ball past the opponent's two central defenders Hilton and Zubbar. When he broke into the penalty area and was about to take a kick, he was thrown to the ground by the opponent's goalkeeper Mandanda. The referee awarded a penalty kick without hesitation.

Yang Yang smiled and gave Gerrard the chance of a penalty kick. The Liverpool captain calmly took the penalty and hit it, one to one!

And only 4 minutes later, Yang Yang took the initiative to retreat again. After successfully stealing the ball, he turned around and pushed forward with the ball, and suddenly passed it diagonally to the right.

After the reversal, Liverpool were extremely excited, especially Steven Gerrard, who scored twice, was the first to run to Yang Yang to celebrate his goal with him.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Marseille once played a rush attack, especially the side attack began to increase, but it was mainly concentrated on the left, and the right was mostly defended by Yang Yang.

But at 8 minutes, Liverpool launched a counterattack. Claude made a wonderful pass to the right, and Dirk Driven drove straight in with the ball, and finally crossed it to the goal. Yang Yang ran easily, calmly pushed and hit it, [-] to [-]!

Subsequently, Benitez replaced Yang Yang with Gareth Bale soon after, and the score of [-]-[-] was maintained until the end of the game.

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At the press conference after the game, Benitez said that his idea before the game was to let players such as Yang Yang and Gerrard play only 10 minutes, and then the remaining players kept the victory.

"I am very happy to see the final score. We achieved the goals set before the game and everyone contributed."

Marseille coach Gretz said depressedly that Liverpool can win because they have two world-class stars.

"Yang Yang and Gerrard are both world-class players, especially Yang Yang. He made us unable to focus on offense. He didn't touch the ball many times, but he created threats every time, especially like that penalty kick. We really can't imagine how to stop him except for fouls. He changed the entire process of the game."

But in the end, the best of the game still belonged to Steven Gerrard who scored twice, because the Liverpool captain obviously worked harder.

UEFA's score is that Yang Yang only played seriously for less than 10 minutes in this game, but in the end he created two goals for Liverpool, and the goal in the second half was more like a coincidence while wandering around.

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On the weekend, in the fifth round of the Premier League, Liverpool played at home against newly promoted Stoke City.

This is a matchup of great disparity, and everyone has no doubt that Liverpool can win at their home court.

After the start of the game, Liverpool did, as the outside world expected, play a wave of offensive from the very beginning.

After the midweek Champions League game, Liverpool once again discharged the rotation.

The defense line starts with Glenn Johnson on the right, Gareth Bale on the left, Carragher and Skrtel as central defenders, and Harvey Alonso and Gareth Barry in the midfield with Gerrard coming forward.

The front trident is a combination of Yang Yang, Crouch and Benayoun.

The game only started 2 minutes, after Benayoun had a tactical cooperation with Glenn Johnson on the right, Glenn Johnson was fouled by the opponent's defender when he took the ball, giving Liverpool a free kick in the frontcourt.

The ball was far away from the goal, a full 36 meters, to the right. Everyone basically concluded that this was an indirect free kick, because with such a long distance, the possibility of hitting the goal directly was really unlikely.

But when Benayoun and Gerrard were discussing how to cooperate, Yang Yang suddenly ran over from the left.

"I'll fight!" Yang Yang said eagerly.

"Hit directly?" Both Gerrard and Benayoun suspected that they had heard it wrong.

This is a full 36 meters, and it is on the right side, so it is not easy to fight.

But Yang Yang didn't say much. Standing at the penalty spot, he glanced at the goal more than 30 meters away, and then looked at Stoke City's goalkeeper, the 32-year-old Danish veteran Thomas Sorensen, who is 1.9 meters six.

"Let me try." Yang Yang said with a smile.

Of course, Gerrard and Benayoun would not disagree. The captain of Liverpool even patted Yang Yang on the shoulder jokingly, "Remember, if you don't score this goal, you will have to make up three later."

Yang Yang didn't take it seriously, but looked up at the sky, walked over again, picked up the ball, wiped it carefully, and then gently put it back on the grass. After stepping on the turf behind the ball, he silently counted his steps and stepped back.

At this time, all the fans in the audience also noticed Yang Yang's actions, and everyone cheered.

"God, is Yang Yang going to hit the door directly?"

"The difficulty is really too high. We calculated it just now. This position is 36 meters away from the goal. The difficulty of hitting the goal directly is not ordinary, and his move has obviously given the Stoke City players a signal."

"Thomas Sorensen is definitely ready. In this situation, it is really difficult to play this kind of long-distance direct free kick. It is definitely a challenge."

But the Liverpool players didn't seem to have much feeling. Crouch even shouted at Yang Yang from a distance, "Hey, Yang, if it doesn't work, upload it to your head. I'll wait for you!"

Yang Yang waved at him, as if to say, don't disturb me!
After practicing [Juninho's free kick] for more than a year, Yang Yang's free kick ability has indeed improved a lot. He has scored many free kicks, but there are very few long-distance free kicks, and there are no chances.

Against Stoke City today, Liverpool are very confident, that's why Yang Yang wants to give it a try, just think of it as self-willed, try his feet, and stimulate himself by the way.

No matter how realistic the simulation of the super training ground is, the simulation is still a simulation, and it is not as exciting and stressful as live competitions. For Yang Yang, these are the best stimulation and the greatest motivation.

(End of this chapter)