super storm

Chapter 728
On the evening of April [-]th, Anfield Stadium.

When the international referee Krauss Bo Larsson from Denmark blew the whistle for the end of the game, the whole Anfield became silent, and countless Liverpool fans in the stands choked up.

The final result of the game was displayed on the big red scoreboard, one to three.

According to international practice, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

This is undoubtedly a desperate home result!

Liverpool, from the coach to the players, was all surprised by this result. There may even be many people who, at the end of the game, still don't know why they lost and why it was so miserable?
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When the whistle sounded, Yang Yang squatted in Chelsea's penalty area full of depression.

He had just completed a shot, but it was saved by Petr Cech.

This is definitely not a night for Liverpool!
Although, Yang Yang scored a goal in just 6 minutes, opening the door to victory for Liverpool.

Pride will be defeated!

This is a term that popped up in Yang Yang's mind at this moment.

In the past few years, the performance advantage over Chelsea and the embarrassment of Chelsea's invincibility so far this season, coupled with the previous [-]-[-] victory over Manchester United and the subsequent [-]-[-] victory over Aston Villa, have made Liverpool feel overly optimistic and even a little blindly arrogant.

The stadium is like a battlefield, and arrogance means a fiasco!

Manchester United was arrogant, and Ferguson was arrogant, so they lost horribly at their home court, losing [-]-[-].

Now, it's Liverpool's turn.

The home score of [-] to [-] can almost be said to have completely ruined Liverpool's promotion hopes and completely pushed the Red Army to a dead end.

So what is the reason for this result?
Three goals, two from Ivanovic, the substitute right back in this game, and one from Didier Drogba.

Interestingly, all three came from corner kicks!
Set kicks, high points, these are the common characteristics of the three goals.

Hiddink really deserves to be a world-class coach. He keenly grasped a fatal flaw in Liverpool that has been covered up for a long time, that is, the lack of high ability to defend against set balls.

Arbeloa and Aurelio are both offensive and defensive full-backs, but they are not tall. Carragher is good at ground defense, fast, and has a wide range of activities. On the contrary, he has no advantage in grabbing high points. The third goal came from his defensive error against Drogba.

Needless to say in the midfield, Mascherano was suspended due to accumulating yellow cards, Gareth Barry and Harvey Alonso had no advantage in high balls, and when Liverpool won the Champions League last time, standing next to Harvey Alonso was the tall and strong midfielder Mohamed Sissoko.

It can be said that Liverpool has always had hidden dangers in the issue of high defense for set balls, especially in the face of a team like Chelsea with many tall players.

Hiddink obviously had a purpose. In this game, he won the right back Bosingwa, who has performed well this season, and arranged for the tall Ivanovic to start. In this way, the entire defense line except for Ashley Cole, everyone is tall.

There is Ballack in the midfield, Drogba in the forward line, and all three lines are supported by high points.

When Chelsea took a corner kick, this group of tall players stepped into the Liverpool penalty area, and the deterrent effect can be imagined.

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Liverpool themselves were not without mistakes either.

Maybe it was because of the continuous fighting, or maybe it was because of some carelessness, Benitez was also insufficiently prepared before the game.

For example, Ivanovic did not pay enough attention to it.

The Serbian defender joined Chelsea in January 1. It is interesting to say that Chelsea's head coach Grant did not give him even a minute of time throughout the second half of the season, but only asked him to follow the second team.

This season, after Scolari took office, Ivanovic's status remained unchanged.

In the 31 rounds played in the Premier League so far, Ivanovic has only played nine times, two of which were garbage time, and one played in the second half, so that even though he has joined the team for more than a year, everyone is still very strange to him.

Before playing Liverpool, everyone thought that Bosingwa would be the best candidate for Chelsea on the right, and he might even let Essien play as a guest on the right back to freeze Yang Yang, but no one thought that Hiddink would let Ivanovic play this position.

It was difficult for the Serbian defender to restrain Yang Yang. In less than 6 minutes, he gave Yang Yang a chance to score a goal.

But then Chelsea defended all the way and did not give Liverpool many more chances. Instead, they used three corner kicks in a row to break Liverpool's goal again and again.

In fact, Yang Yang already realized something was wrong when he conceded the first goal in the first half and was equalized by Chelsea.

During the half-time break, he conveyed his thoughts to Benitez, and the Spaniard obviously noticed it, so he made adjustments to let Gerrard mark Ivanovic when defending corner kicks.

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

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

Who would have thought that Liverpool, who had been advancing all the way this season, fell on a corner kick.

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Yang Yang grabbed his head vigorously and stood up from the ground.

His worries before the game were right, and Hiddink really paid off.

The famous Dutch coach not only seized Liverpool's Achilles heel, but also insisted on hitting this weakness again and again.

This is a gamble, and Hiddink won the bet!
However, this can be regarded as a lesson for Liverpool.

Today's Liverpool is already a top team in Europe. Almost all teams are trying their best to dig and find Liverpool's loopholes and weaknesses. Not to mention Chelsea's Guus Hiddink, Hodgson's Fulham last weekend also almost capsized Liverpool.

This is European football!
Here, the competition is extremely fierce, a little carelessness, a little carelessness, a little complacency, or a slight decline in the state may immediately lead to irreversible consequences!
Sometimes I think about it, this is not a bad thing for Liverpool, at least it is a wake-up call.

It's just that the consequences... are really too tragic!
Fortunately, there is a second round!
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Yang Yang walked over and pulled Gerald up vigorously.

The Liverpool captain is also in a sluggish state tonight. If he keeps a close eye on Ivanovic, the second conceded goal will not happen.

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

Gerrard seemed extremely self-blaming and sad, maybe he now figured out what was going on with him in the game.

"I was completely out of my mind at the time," Gerrard said ruefully.

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

Now is not the time to regret.

The score of [-] to [-] is indeed miserable, but it is not beyond hopeless.

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

But in any case, the most important thing now is to keep a hope.

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

The score of [-] to [-] determines that Liverpool must score more than three goals in the away game to be able to win. This will be a test of Liverpool's away offensive ability and a challenge to the team's state.

After releasing Gerrard, Yang Yang walked towards Harvey Alonso.

But before he approached, Harvey Alonso shook his head, "Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm just a bit useless."

Who is not?

In terms of strength, Liverpool would never be beaten like this at home, but it happened.

Three corner kicks, the first of which was that he missed someone, saying that he was useless is an understatement.

"Hiddink is really powerful!" Harvey Alonso exclaimed.

Yang Yang nodded, he also thought the same in his heart.

During the [-] World Cup in Korea and Japan, many people only remembered the ugly behavior of the Koreans. They may have entered the semi-finals of the World Cup, and the Korean team was also strong enough to be at the bottom. Hiddink's coaching is definitely the key factor for the Korean team to enter the semi-finals.

Afterwards, no matter he was coaching Eindhoven or the Russian national team, now they have shown amazing coaching ability to save Chelsea in the middle of the fire, especially Chelsea. Hiddink's performance after coaching can be described as completely new.

But admiration is admiration, and it is okay to talk about it in private, but Hiddink is now Liverpool's number one enemy.

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

After Yang Yang patted Harvey Alonso on the shoulder, he turned and left.

It is conceivable that in the second round, Hiddink must do his best to defend and 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, the loss in this game has nothing to do with Yang Yang, because he performed very well and scored a goal shortly after the opening to give the team the lead.

The root of the loss lies in the team's defense, especially the set-piece defense.

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

This defeat really stunned Liverpool, but it may not be without benefits.

At the very least, the team can clearly realize that they are not as strong as they showed in their six-to-one rout of Manchester United.

As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune depend on each other. If Liverpool can regain their strength, the battle at Stamford Bridge a week later may not be without the possibility of reversal.

Especially when the Liverpool fans in the stands woke up from the defeat, Liverpool's team anthem gradually sounded in the stadium. The team anthem "You Never Walk Alone" sounded over the Anfield Stadium at this moment. It was somewhat tragic, but it also made the players in the stadium feel the strength.

They have not lost the support from the fans!

As Yang Yang said, there is still a second round, and it is not time to despair!
(End of this chapter)