Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 896

When Liverpool won seven consecutive victories, Arsenal exposed their fatigue at home after the midweek Champions League and were tied by Middlesbrough!

Their advantage over Liverpool is only 1 point left!

Unexpectedly, Manchester City was also tied 1:1 by Southampton at home!

Manchester City, unbeaten in three rounds, is directly behind the top of the list by 3 points, and behind Liverpool by 2 points!
Not so long ago, Manchester City led No. 22 points and 5 points ahead of Liverpool!
And Chelsea stood by at Stamford Bridge, killing Manchester United directly!
In a 4:0 game, Mourinho led his team back to Stamford Bridge. Not only did he fail to take revenge, but he was almost humiliated and slaughtered!

In the Premier League standings, the situation is changing very fast!

Arsenal, 23 points.

Liverpool, 22 points.

Manchester City, 20 points.

Chelsea, 19 points.

Manchester United, 13 points.

The Manchester City duo have recently become brothers and sisters!

The 1/8 final of the League Cup is coming, Liverpool sits at home against Reading.

Situ Yunbing continued to use the simple and rough 442 style of play, avoiding excessive consumption as much as possible.

Reading was somewhat caught off guard in front of Liverpool, feeling that Liverpool was more of a Championship-level team than them.

Both Vardy and Lewandowski showed their power, each contributing to helping Liverpool beat Reading 2-0 at home and take all 3 points.

In the 10th round of the league, Liverpool challenged Crystal Palace as a guest. Liverpool, with all their elite troops, faced Crystal Palace, which was also doing its best to defend against counterattack at home, and suffered a heavy blow in less than 6 minutes after the opening!
Lewandowski was injured and went off the pitch.

Situ Yunbing's face was very ugly, and at the same time, there was a bit of helplessness.

Before Gareth Bale came out of the ward, Lewandowski lay down again.

The morale of Crystal Palace was boosted, but after several consecutive fast breaks, Vardy, who was replaced by Liverpool, seized the opportunity to make the first victory!
After falling behind, the Crystal Palace simply went to the black one by one, continuously launching fast breaks from the side, focusing their firepower on one side.

Liverpool's back line is not in good shape today. Robertson and Coulibaly made low-level mistakes one after another. The original good situation became very passive in an instant!
Crystal Palace's fast-paced confrontation and pressing, as well as simple quick counterattacks, did indeed play in an orderly manner. Before the end of the first half, the score had become 3:2.
Crystal Palace lead!
During the half-time break, Situ Yunbing told the defensive players to cheer up in the locker room. In the second half, he didn't want to see the defensive line go wrong again!

In the second half, the two sides changed sides to fight again, Crystal Palace's offense stalled, and an absolute defense began!
The fans of the home team are cheering for the team with high-pitched singing, and they are looking forward to ushering in a victory at home!
It will be difficult for Liverpool to break through the dense defense without Lewandowski.

Situ Yunbing made adjustments one after another until the 82nd minute of the game. Vardy's response in the penalty area was destroyed by the opponent. The football rolled out of the penalty area was directly smashed to the right by Mbappe when he controlled the ball. After shaking the opponent's player, he was decisive. With an angry shot, the football flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal!

Straight to the corner!

With Mbappe's goal from the savior in danger, Liverpool took a 3:3 draw in the away game.

Situ Yunbing was a little frustrated in an interview after the game. The team played a strong player and then lost 2 points.

No coach would be able to swallow this result.

Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal have won the game in this round!
Manchester United and Tottenham also failed to win this round.

Liverpool's position in the standings has slipped to third place.

After Lewandowski decided to bid farewell to 2016, Situ Yunbing could only support Vardy as the main center when preparing for the team.

Although Mbappe wants to play center forward, he hastily pushed him to the center forward position, which is just an irresponsible performance, and he needs more growth.

With Vardy playing center forward, Liverpool needs to make drastic changes in skills and tactics.

The prudence of the past two months is based on Lewandowski in the middle of the striker. Sane and Mbappe on the two wings have speed and technology. The key is that Lewandowski will make a great contribution as a fulcrum. Drive the entire attack group to exert its power.

Vardy may just be a threatening striker, and it's unrealistic to expect him to play more.

Therefore, the team's tactical system needs to be changed.

The fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage came in the middle of the week, and Situ Yunbing took a semi-main lineup to the away game to challenge Copenhagen.

In the away game, Situ Yunbing made the team put up a very conservative defensive counterattack formation.

Due to Copenhagen's loss in the last round, Porto is playing against Bruges at home in this round. Given that Porto defeated Bruges away in the last round, it is basically not a big problem to win at home this round.

Therefore, if Copenhagen wants to keep their hope of promotion, they must take points from Liverpool and just give it a go, because if they win the fight, the situation in the future is relatively optimistic.

It's just that what Copenhagen didn't expect was that Liverpool played hooligans at Anfield in the last round, and they became hooligans when they came to Copenhagen's door this round!
Who can imagine the majestic dynasty overlord the Red Army, the defending champion of the Champions League three consecutive times against a second-rate European team but still use defense to counterattack!

This hardly gives Copenhagen any retreat.

The Copenhagen coach frequently showed a wry smile during the game.

Situ Yunbing's play is completely obvious, he just came here in order not to lose.

If they can't lose, even if Liverpool can't continue to maintain the top spot in the group, they can still suppress Copenhagen and lead them by 3 points!
If they win, then Liverpool has won an economical victory, and these 3 points will make it easier for them to face the last two rounds!
Copenhagen launched a frantic attack on Liverpool at home, but after Liverpool took the initiative to compress the defense space and put up a dense defense, their offense was quite difficult, and the threat was almost invisible, and then Liverpool's counterattack was vigorous.

Even Sancho and Maddison played well, let alone the experienced Guerrero.

Although Liverpool has a lot of opportunities, the 16-year-old Sancho is the one who takes the lead in the striker today. It is not that he has no chances, but basically they all flew away!

That series of chances to fly away is placed on other Liverpool forwards, and I am afraid that the victory has already been sealed!
On the contrary, Situ Yunbing has long been aware of such a situation, and even talked to Sancho during the intermission, hoping that his confidence will not be affected by missing too many opportunities.

Copenhagen probably felt that Liverpool couldn't score no matter how they played, so they intensified their offense in the second half!
But soon Liverpool learned to be a man.

A Guerrero pass was received by Henderson's back, and a precise kick sent the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.

Liverpool lead Copenhagen by one goal away.

Copenhagen suddenly burst mentality!
It may be that after being molested by Liverpool for a long time, he was finally ruined by scoundrels again!
Situ Yunbing made a decisive substitution, Sancho was replaced, and Vardy appeared.

Liverpool continued to play defensively and counterattacked, and it quickly received good results.

In the 68th and 79th minutes of the game, Vardy scored two consecutive cities to help Liverpool beat Copenhagen 3-0 in the away game!

After the game, the Copenhagen coach said in an extremely helpless tone: "If the defending champions adopt defensive counterattack tactics against us, then our chances of winning are very small. They have the right to choose tactics, but they did not show the demeanor of the defending champions. A game that no one but Liverpool fans will be happy with."

The implication is that, as the defending champions, Liverpool should please audiences around the world.

But Situ Yunbing didn't care. He continued to accept criticism from the outside world with an open mind after the game.

He said frankly: "Yes, we played conservatively, I admit this, because this is an indisputable fact.

But we have many important players injured. As the coach, I have to weigh the team's physical fitness and state. We will go to the Club World Cup in one and a half months. The outside world may not care about Liverpool's schedule. Only we know, now We can no longer afford to risk over-burning and attrition. "

After all, at this stage of the schedule, Liverpool is still ranked third in the Premier League, which has never happened in the past four years.

It is enough to see how fierce the Premier League championship situation is this year!
In another game in the same group, Porto beat Club Brugge 1-0 at home.

Liverpool directly advanced to the top 16 of the Champions League two rounds ahead of schedule, but did not secure the top spot in the group.

Because now Liverpool have 10 points.

Porto has 8 points.

Copenhagen only has 4 points.

And Brugge lost all four games, which led to their early exit.

Liverpool has a record advantage over Copenhagen, so even if Liverpool loses two games in a row and Copenhagen wins two games in a row, Liverpool will be ahead of Copenhagen with the same score.

Liverpool returned to the league at the weekend to host Watford at home.

The energetic Red Army finally played the championship style that the outside world wanted at home!

The overall formation is extremely oppressive, and the midfielders counterattack frantically. As long as the counterattack is successful and a fast break is launched, Eriksson, Casemiro, Robertson, and Azpilicueta will directly pass the ball to find the striker trident!

No need for excessive tissue adjustments at all.

This is the main change in Liverpool's technical and tactical adjustments this week.

Liverpool crush Watford at Anfield!

Mbappe's frequent anti-offside cuts seized many opportunities, and he staged a goal hat-trick with overhead kicks in the first and second half!
Vardy and Sane also made contributions, and Eriksson scored with a long shot!
Although the defense also paid a certain price, Liverpool finally defeated Watford 6:2!
The competitive situation in the Premier League is not only due to changes in strong teams, but also a large number of mid-lower teams in terms of lineup and technical and tactical changes.

Situ Yunbing played by ear and fine-tuned the team's tactics more frequently than in the past few years!
(End of this chapter)