This player is not professional

Chapter 298
The next day.

Lorena woke up from her sleep first.

When she woke up, she found that she was lying on the floor with her head on Lin Yi's chest.

And Esther slept opposite her.

The two of them were hugged by Lin Yi.

Due to Lorena's actions, Esther also woke up. She looked at Lorena face to face in confusion, and kissed her casually:

"Morning, Lorena."

"What are you doing!"

Lorena screamed suddenly, startling Esther.

Even Lin Yi was so frightened by Lorena that he sat up: "What happened?"

Esther's mind was clear, but she remembered what happened, with a look of embarrassment on her face.

Last night, Esther and Lorena were invited by Lin Yi to watch a romantic action movie from an eastern island country. They were so excited that they started to follow suit.

Esther, who had just woken up, was confused and had not yet recovered from the imitation show last night. When she woke up, she looked at Lorena's face in confusion.

Who expected Lorena to have such a big reaction?
Almost didn't scare her to death.

Lorena's pretty face turned red, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, gave Esther a fierce look, and quickly ran to the bathroom and started rinsing her mouth and brushing her teeth.

Esther was so embarrassed that she ran back to her room.

"What's the reason for such a big reaction?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, curled his lips and said: "As for that? You're not shy at all. Now you know you're shy, right? Virtue!"

A pillow was thrown at me, "Get up quickly, you still have to train."

Lin Yi smacked his lips and stood up silently, with no intention of continuing to fight. After all, the battle on the court was about to begin.

It has been ten days since the victory over Everton. It is rare for the Premier League to have such a long schedule gap, so Lin Yi called the two little sisters from Germany back to practice their acting skills together.

Accompanying them to learn movies, but the Japanese of the three of them is relatively poor, and they couldn't find suitable English or German subtitles, so they can only guess the plot based on the pictures, but the learning effect is still very strong, at least with Lin Yi's physical recovery I barely had the ability to restore nutrition.

However, tomorrow is the tenth round of the Premier League, and Lin Yi has to take a temporary truce to restore his condition. Otherwise, with his current attention, he will be laughed at by the crowd for being weak on the court.

As a traditional strong team in the Premier League, Tottenham have performed well this season and are currently ranked sixth in the Premier League. They are firmly holding on to Manchester United, which has spent a lot of money to recruit, and grasp the qualifications for the European theater.

However, they still want to take a step further. After all, the income difference between the Europa League and the Champions League is too big.

Therefore, even if they are facing the arrogant and powerful Liverpool, Tottenham still have the idea of ​​​​fighting to the death, not to mention it is still at their own home court.

However, two major things happened before this game. Defensive general Lovren retired due to injury and Mamadou Sakho took his place. As a result, on the day of the game, Manquillo accidentally caught a bad cold and could only sit on the bench. On the bench, young player Klein started in his place.

Due to problems with Liverpool's defense, from the beginning of the game, Tottenham used aggressive frontcourt pressing and long runs to contain Liverpool, while also creating scoring opportunities for themselves.

Under their fierce pressing, Liverpool's defense looked a little embarrassed.

With no teammates in the frontcourt, Skrtel took the ball and drove forward with a big kick. Naturally, no one could catch the ball and the football flew straight out of Tottenham's baseline.

"What did Skrtel think? There is no one from Liverpool in front of this ball, so why should it be kicked in front?"

"Tottenham's pressing made Skrtel a little panicked. This ball is not a long pass to start an attack at all, but a clearance, right?"

This is a tactic specifically targeted at Liverpool by the Tottenham coach. He lets Tottenham players press them in the frontcourt and force them to make mistakes. On the one hand, it is to contain Liverpool's offense - the defense is unstable, and Liverpool will naturally make mistakes when attacking. If you don't go all out, you always have to look forward and backward; on the other hand, it is also to create opportunities for Tottenham to counterattack on the spot.

The continuous frontcourt press put a lot of pressure on Liverpool's defense.

Finally, in the 9th minute, Tottenham forced the Liverpool players to pass back through a series of pressings in the frontcourt. However, at the same time, the distance between people was compressed to the extreme. At a too short distance, the pass was instead becomes very difficult.

So when Kanter got the ball in the backcourt and faced Tottenham players pressing him, although there were Skrtel and Sakho beside him, these two people were probably only two or three meters away from him.

Kanter wanted to pass the football back to Skrtel, but because the distance was too close, he didn't dare to use much force.

Under the interference of Tottenham midfielder Dembele, his return pass was too weak. Before it even reached Skrtel's feet, Dembele interrupted it with a lunge!

"Oh oh oh oh!"

Tottenham's home stadium, White Hart Lane, emitted huge cheers the moment Dembélé successfully intercepted the ball.

Dembele's interception of the ball also caught Skrtel off guard. Dembele only used a simple change of direction by Xu Huang to throw Skrtel aside.

Dembele, who passed Skrtel, entered the penalty area and shot before the penalty spot.

The football passed the attacking goalkeeper Mignolet and flew into the goal while grazing the inside of the right post!

"TOOOOOOOOOOOR!!! Less than 10 minutes into the game, Tottenham took the lead! Dembele! A beautiful counter-attack in the frontcourt!"

"Hell!" After seeing the ball lost, Klopp angrily punched the ceiling of the coaching bench.

He knew that this game would be difficult to play against Tottenham due to injuries, but he did not expect to concede the goal in less than 10 minutes.

I have to say that the opponent's tactical arrangement was indeed beyond his expectation. He did not expect that Tottenham would adopt such a method, using a crazy press in the frontcourt to deal with Liverpool, and it was quite useful... Faced with such a press, he said To be honest, he couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while.

This made him even angrier.

It was as if a snake had hit him in the seven inches.

After Liverpool lost the ball, they tried to counterattack. In the 12th minute, Klein, who replaced Manquillo in the starting lineup, passed back from the right wing. Henderson shot hard from the front of the penalty area, but was blocked by the Tottenham defender. Bottom line.

Another 2 minutes later, Royce's long shot in front of the penalty area was blocked by Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris who fell to the ground and blocked the baseline.

However, Liverpool's counterattack failed to achieve results, and instead allowed Tottenham to seize the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 19th minute, Lamela took the ball on the right side of the penalty area. Facing Liverpool left back Johnson who came up to defend him, Lamela accelerated and forced a breakthrough!
A pass, then pushed Johnson to the side with his body, and successfully broke into the penalty area!

"Lamela! He went in, it's dangerous!" Duan Xin exclaimed.

Before he finished speaking, he saw Lamela dribbling the ball towards the goal. After attracting Mignolet, he decisively chose to cross.

The football slipped between the leg shoveled by Skrtel who was returning to defense and the leg stretched out by Mignolet to block the angle, and passed to Tottenham's ace player Kane who had already connected in front of the goal.Facing the empty goal that was close at hand, Kane kicked the football into the goal with a hook of his foot!
"2:0!!! Tottenham leads by two goals at home! Liverpool suffered a heavy blow!"

The entire White Hart Lane stadium was filled with cheers from Tottenham fans.

If Tottenham can defeat Liverpool at home, it will not only get valuable three points, but also a great boost to the team's morale and confidence, which will be very helpful for Tottenham's subsequent push for the top four.

The White Hart Lane stadium is like an erupting volcano, and Liverpool's players are in the crater of the volcano, being roasted on the hot lava, as if they are in hell.

Goalkeeper Mignolet, who had conceded two goals, got up from the ground and roared angrily to his teammates: "Why doesn't anyone go back to defend the center?!"

No one answered his question. Everyone turned around blankly, unwilling to look at him. Their mood was extremely depressed.

After the game started, Tottenham planned to pursue the victory and launch an attack on the Liverpool goal while the Liverpool players were beaten. If they could score another goal, the game would end early...

Facing Tottenham's fierce attack, Lin Yi could only act as a defensive midfielder to help the team defend and avoid conceding the ball again. He could hardly organize any decent offense.

Tottenham had been under siege for a while and found that there was no way to score, so they set up a full rhythm and began to see-saw with Liverpool in the midfield.

They used the midfield press to disrupt Liverpool's offense and prevent them from easily passing the football into dangerous areas.

Lin Yi kept running and never stayed in place. Of course he did this because he didn't want Tottenham's defensive players to restrict him.

While running, he looked for opportunities.

He knows very well that the current situation does not allow Liverpool to back-and-forth kick. The more back-and-forth kicks, the greater the probability of being intercepted by Tottenham for a counterattack.

Facing Tottenham's pressing, Liverpool must make their offense simpler and more direct.

But being concise and direct does not mean blindly passing the football forward. That is just changing the way to hand the ball to the opponent.

Still have to pay attention to accuracy.

In the 209th minute, Lin Yi ran to the left rib of the frontcourt, which was an open space. When he saw him running into the open space, Johnson, who was originally holding the ball on the wing, quickly passed the football to him and completed the pass at the same time. After that, he continued to run forward, pretending to cooperate with Lin Yi.

But Lin Yi did not pass the ball after receiving the ball. He is now facing the offensive direction. In front of him is Tottenham's neat line of defense...

The four defenders pressed in front of the top of the penalty area in unison.

When Lin Yi picked up the ball, a Tottenham player stood two or three meters in front of him, and another Tottenham player came up from behind, intending to entangle Lin Yi.

If Lin Yi holds the ball for one more second, he will be stuck by the opponent. At the same time, the Tottenham players blocking him can also take the opportunity to close in and complete the double-team, making it difficult for him to send the football away.

At this moment, Salah suddenly pushed forward from the left rib. Because Johnson moved forward resolutely after passing the ball, the Tottenham right back who was supposed to defend him was entangled outside by Johnson, and the two central defenders They all shrunk in the middle, resulting in a gap here.

Lin Yi saw Salah's forward thrust and did not hesitate. He pushed the football forward across his ankle, just like pushing the ball into the hole at the end of a golf game. The speed does not need to be too fast and the force does not need to be too strong. , the key is accuracy, it must be sent exactly where it should go - not at Salah's feet. With Salah's speed, if it is sent directly to his feet, it will disrupt his rhythm and make him slow down. After coming down and adjusting again, the opponent's central defender will definitely be forced up, and then there will be no room for operation.So we have to pass the football in front of Salah, but this is a penalty area. If the pass is too big, it will either roll directly out of the bottom line or be picked up by the attacking goalkeeper Lloris.

So this accuracy is easy to say, but actually very difficult to achieve in competition.In actual games, we can always see players seeing the space and teammates running into the space, but the final pass was not caught, or the original opportunity was no longer a chance after it was received, that is, the ball was not Pass it on.

Lin Yi's kick was very accurate.

When Salah crossed the Tottenham back line, the football kept rolling in front of him. Salah didn't have to think about what to do after catching the ball and stopping it. He only needed to adjust his pace during the sprint, and then...

A direct shot!
Tottenham's center back Alderweireld turned around and caught up, but since Salah didn't have to stop the ball, there was no loss in speed. In addition, Lin Yi's pass was slightly curved, not straight. As it was passed, the ball rolled outward a little, closer to Salah and away from Alderweireld.

So Salah needs to run a shorter distance. After he adjusts his pace, the football just reaches his feet. He can round his legs and kick the football comfortably!
Lloris touched the line of the small penalty area, and Salah had already shot!

There is still a certain distance between the two sides, and Lloris did not completely block the angle.

Salah did not choose to volley hard, but used a clever push.

The football rolled past Lloris's feet, and Alderweireld tried to tackle it, but he couldn't reach it.

The football passed them, ran towards the back corner of the goal, and then got into the goal!

Liverpool pulled one back!
"Lin Yi made a direct pass, good chance! Salah! Salah got in! Well done! This is Liverpool's chance! Shot! The ball went in!! Salah got a goal back for Liverpool!! This The passing and running cooperation between Lin Yi and Salah was very tacit, and the timing of passing and running was just right, which ultimately led to this wonderful goal!"

(End of this chapter)