Revive Liverpool

Chapter 133 Corner Attack
On December 12, the draw ceremony for the 16-2011 UEFA Champions League knockout round officially began.

UEFA Secretary-General Infantino presided over the draw ceremony. Before the draw, he first praised Barcelona, ​​which defeated the Asian champions in the Club World Cup. Last season's Champions League champion won honors for UEFA.

The venue is still at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and the time is the same as usual, at 12 noon.

In this draw ceremony, Li Nan and Pochettino, who is the head coach of the team, both went to the draw ceremony.

Li Nan saw at the draw ceremony that many people came to support UEFA.

After introducing the 16 qualified teams through a short film, the draw ceremony officially began, and the legendary German star Paul Blakener attended as a special guest.

Although there is an avoidance principle, opponents in the same country's league and the previous group will avoid.

But according to this principle, in addition to Marseille, which was in the same group as him before, Liverpool may encounter the other seven teams.

The teams that qualify as second in the group are: Naples, CSKA Moscow, Basel, Lyon, Leverkusen, Marseille, Zenit, AC Milan.

And AC Milan, who qualified as the second in the group, is something no one wants to meet.

But it is a pity that the final result of the draw was so unsatisfactory.

The unfortunate one to draw AC Milan is Liverpool.

People have to wonder if UEFA did it on purpose, deliberately let Liverpool and AC Milan meet, create a strong dialogue in advance, and create a focus of public opinion.

Previously, Liverpool and AC Milan had only played against each other twice, namely the 05 and 07 Champions League finals.

The 05 Champions League final can be described as a classic battle in the history of the Champions League. Liverpool's comeback in the second half of the game made Liverpool's Istanbul Night.

It also put a huge shame on AC Milan.

In the 07 Champions League final, the two teams met again in the Champions League final, which was also their second encounter. This game was AC Milan's revenge battle. They successfully defeated Liverpool [-]-[-] to wash away their shame.

It can't be regarded as a wash, after all, ahead of AC Milan and Liverpool, people will first think of Liverpool's miracle night in the 05 Champions League, but not AC Milan's revenge battle in 07.

The final draw results are:
Lyon VS APOEL; Naples VS Chelsea; AC Milan VS Liverpool; Basel VS Bayern; Bayer Leverkusen VS Barcelona; CSKA Moscow VS Real Madrid; Zenit VS Benfica; Marseille VS Inter Milan.

Like Liverpool, Chelsea also encountered a Serie A team, Naples.

Therefore, the conspiracy theory of Platini and UEFA against the Premier League and Serie A is very popular.

After the draw ceremony for the UEFA Champions League knockout round, the schedule for the next knockout round was also announced. At the same time, it was announced that Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena will be the venue for this year's UEFA Champions League final, and there will be a draw ceremony for the top 32 of the Europa League.

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当地时间12月18日14:05，英超联赛第16轮的比赛继续展开争夺，阿斯顿维拉坐镇主场维拉公园迎战利物浦。

Liverpool's starting lineup: Keylor Navas in goal, Agger and David Luiz partnered in the middle in defense, Danny Rose and Glenn Johnson appeared on both sides.

Midfielders Meireles and Griezmann appeared on the two wings, Kanter and Aquilani partnered in the midfielder, De Bruyne served as the attacking midfielder, and Suarez served as the lone striker.

In the 10th minute, De Bruyne took a right corner kick. In the melee, Aquilani came to the front point and hit the ball with his heel to the goal. Then Suarez knocked again in front of the goal. Because he was too close to the goalkeeper, he was saved by the goalkeeper.

The saved ball came to Kanter who was ambushing in front of the goal during the melee. Kanter swung his calf and shot easily. Guzan was unable to make a second save and could only watch the ball fly into his own goal.

Liverpool took the lead [-]-[-] away.

And Kanter finally scored his first goal in his Liverpool career. The rare goal made Kanter very happy and began to celebrate wildly.

In the 15th minute, Henderson took a left corner kick. David Luiz shook his head and hit the goal.

Liverpool's corner kick attack today is very threatening. It seems that Pochettino should have specially arranged Liverpool's corner kick tactics in this game.

Liverpool scored two consecutive corner kicks. Li Nan, who was watching the game from the sidelines, felt a little incredible.

Of course, they led Aston Villa 10-[-] in less than [-] minutes, which made Li Nan full of confidence in this game, thinking that Liverpool might usher in a big victory in this game.

In the 21st minute, Aston Villa passed to Enzobia in the process of advancing in the midfield. Because Liverpool had no one to defend, Enzobia tried a long shot in front of the penalty area, and the ball missed the left side of the goal slightly.

In the 23rd minute, Nzobia tried another long-range shot in front of the penalty area, and the ball hit the left side net.

In the 37th minute, Suarez made a wonderful pass to Griezmann, and the latter's shovel shot was blocked by Guzan.

Then Meireles tried a long shot with his left foot, but he didn't make any effort and was caught by Guzan.

At the end of the first half, Liverpool led Villa [-]-[-].

The game started in the second half, and the two sides fought again.

In the 46th minute, Meirelles sent a precise through pass to Suarez in front.

Suarez had no speed advantage and was cut off by the Aston Villa defenders. Suarez cut off the ball again in the penalty area.

Then he dribbled the ball to adjust his footsteps, passed a defensive player, and shot the goal with a strong last kick. The ball hit the crossbar, and finally bounced off and hit the goal line, making people think that the ball was there.

But in the end the ball bounced out, and Suarez failed to score again after scoring in the last game.

After running wildly on the left side, he made a cross, and Agger followed up with a header and missed the far post.Then Suarez swayed away from the defender in front of the penalty area and took a shot. Unfortunately, the ball hit the crossbar heavily.

In the 51st minute, Glen Johnson made a cold shot in front of the penalty area, and the ball was saved by Guzan.

In the 59th minute, Glenn Johnson passed the ball to the frontcourt again, and Suarez got the ball in front of the penalty area.

After deceiving the Aston Villa players on the spot, Suarez shot a light lob from the right side of the penalty area, and the ball hit the right post.

Then Griezmann tried to step up and shoot, but failed.

Suarez had a good shot, but it was blocked by the post again.

At the end of the game, Liverpool beat Aston Villa [-]-[-] with two corner kicks in the first half.

(End of this chapter)