Super Training Master

Chapter 33 How thick is this guy?

In the past time, Liverpool's limelight was completely overwhelmed by Manchester United, but coach Houllier still led the team to create an impressive record of triple crowns (FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup) in 2001, so today's Liverpool are still seen as a major force in the title race, and the slogan You'll Never Walk Alone is etched in the hearts of Reds fans.

But everyone knows that in the past two seasons, Liverpool has completely fallen. Since the glory of 2001, Liverpool's competitiveness in the league has become less and less competitive. In order to restore its glory, the club's top management finally fell after the end of last season. Determined, he dismissed the meritorious coach Houllier, who had brought Liverpool four cup championships, and instead hired former Valencia coach Benitez, who won the La Liga title twice in three years.

As soon as Benitez took office, the club gave a lot of support. Although Liverpool could not keep England's golden boy Michael Owen in the summer, the club provided 30 million pounds of transfer funds to Benitez. Three Spanish players were added to the team - Xavi Alonso, Luis Garcia and Josemi. In addition, Liverpool also bought the excellent French striker Cisse to supplement the striker and strengthen the team's offensive ability. Just talking about the lineup, Liverpool's strength has improved a lot from last season.

The same is true for the results in the league. Although Liverpool's results can only be described as 'winning the games they deserve to win', at least they have won the games they should have won. They did not create miracles, but they did not make mistakes. They played less games. It is quite good to have this kind of result in one round.

In the previous league, Liverpool also showed their strength. At the same time, the newly added Xavi Alonso has stabilized the main position. Cisse also won the hearts of Liverpool fans with continuous goals.

But there was bad news for Liverpool in the last round when their striker Cisse was injured, and it was in Liverpool and Blackburn.

Ewood Park has become Liverpool's graveyard for two seasons. The Red Army has had three broken legs here, and Cissé has also become one of them. After the game, the media reported that the Frenchman may bid farewell to the season.

The two teams clashed here last season, and the Red Army left two broken legs. At that time, Baros was fractured in the fight with Babel. And Lucas - Neal is fierce tackle Carragher's leg. There was the same example earlier. In the mid-1990s, Liverpool's McAteer was also kicked by Blackburn's McKinley and broke his leg. This time it was Cisse's turn. It seems that Blackburn's broken leg curse has always loomed. with the Red Army.

The tragedy of Cisse happened in the 35th minute, when Cisse scored into the Blackburn penalty area. The opposing defender McVeley immediately went to tackle the ball and brought his foot to Cisse's calf. Cisse suddenly screamed in pain and fell to the ground. At this time, Cisse's calf was seriously deformed. After a little treatment, the team doctor took him out of the field on a stretcher and sent him directly to the hospital.

Baros, a Liverpool player who was relatively close at the time, said after the game: I heard something, I thought it was a broken bone. Such a shameful act.

After the diagnosis, Liverpool press officer Ian Cotton said after the game: The team doctor has confirmed that Cisse has a comminuted fracture of his tibia and a fracture of the fibula of his left leg. Cisse will have surgery on Sunday morning, and his tibia will be broken. Insert the pegs. Unfortunately he may not play again this season.

Cisse's injury will have some impact on Liverpool, but more media believe that the impact is not too big. Their reason is, Apart from having a good performance before the start of the season. Cisse has not performed very well in the league, and has not been able to replace Owen in Liverpool's position, and the combination with Baros has also attracted A lot of controversy. For Benitez, the injury of Cissé, the first choice, was a great blow. He had to consider what striker combination should be used to deal with Derby County, whether it was Baros and Melo, or Baros and Pangler? Looks like Liverpool lost more than two points at Ewood Park.

Not only the game with Derby County, Cissé's injury forced Benitez to introduce a new striker force in the winter, otherwise Liverpool's striker is likely to enter a situation where no one is available.

Of course, the current media attention is still the upcoming game.

Even if Cissé is injured and unable to play, the media are still optimistic about Liverpool. They believe that Liverpool can win the game they deserve to win, so Derby County will lose at Anfield. This kind of voice occupies the majority.

The Derby County side was very unconvinced.

The media on both sides quarreled about this, and the quarrel was very fierce. In general, the voices in support of Liverpool accounted for the majority. Who made Liverpool a rich and powerful team, and at the same time there are so many hostile media in Derby County?

Wan Sheng felt that the argument between the two sides was a joke.

Who can tell the outcome of a football match, even he can't guarantee that the game will be won, even against a small team, so it's meaningless to say this before the game, but seeing those who say' Liverpool must win' reports, Wansheng still feels slightly unhappy.

So in the pre-match press conference, Wan Sheng talked about this, with a look of disdain on his face, Many people say that Liverpool will definitely win? I don't know which point Liverpool seems to be able to beat us, but I think this game is a 'game to lose' for Liverpool, so we can only win.

Hearing this, the Liverpool media were furious.

But those who got to know Wan Sheng quickly, including the hostile media reporters in Derby County, were not surprised, because they knew that Wan Sheng was like this, and it would be strange if he did not say anything in the face of so many reports.

Media reporters who do not know Wansheng label Wansheng as 'arrogant' and 'arrogant'.

To publicly say that Derby County will take three points at Anfield? This is not arrogance, arrogance, what else could it be?

Wansheng doesn't care about this at all. He said that to improve the fighting spirit of the players. At the same time, even if they lose, they will not lose. You all say that Liverpool can win?

As a Derby County manager, it's a matter of course that we can win!

Perhaps because of Wansheng's remarks in the pre-match press conference, the Liverpool fans at Anfield were not very friendly. At the beginning of the game, when they saw the Derby County players entering the field, they collectively booed. Many people know that , Liverpool fans booed the Derby County manager. The young Chinese, but when the camera pointed to him, he saw that the young man didn't care at all, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if the Liverpool fans' boos were praise.

Wan Sheng is much calmer than before... Sky TV commentator George Woodgate said. He has matured. The voice of the Liverpool fans has absolutely no influence on him.

George Woodgate's analysis needs to be correct, Wansheng is calmer than before, but more importantly, he has more confidence in the team, so he doesn't care what other people say at all, it can't affect it at all. Contest.

Liverpool fans also saw Wan Sheng's demeanor and they felt very partial. At the same time, they also feel that they have made a big fuss. If the opponent's manager said that if he can get three points at Anfield, can he really get three points? As the media said, it was just arrogance and arrogance. They began to expect Liverpool to score frequently in the game and let this young Chinese know the gap between Derby County and Liverpool.

It's a pity that this is only their idea, it does not mean that the game will be played like this.

Fifteen minutes into the game, many Liverpool fans were silent. Following their gaze, I saw that the stadium scoreboard clearly marked the current game '0:1'. Derby County leads Liverpool by a goal at Anfield.

The goal belongs to Kluivert.

Kluivert started this game. He was in good condition on the striker line. This time he ran to the position. After receiving a pass from his teammate, he turned around and completed a cold shot. The goalkeeper Jers-Dudek completely Unexpectedly, Kluivert would shoot suddenly. When he reacted, it was too late to save, so he could only watch the football fly into the goal.

Goooal!!! Gaol!!! Patrick Kluivert, the Barcelona abandoner will score the first goal for Derby County! 0:1, Derby County leads Liverpool away!

Kluivert, who scored the goal, was also excited.

This is also his first goal in the Premier League. As the commentator said, he is a discarded player of Barcelona. Now Barcelona has no place for him, so he left on a free transfer. After arriving at Derby County After that, Kluivert's situation didn't get much better. It's not easy for him to have a chance to start.

Now he finally scored!

The first goal is still quite important. In the ten rounds of the league, he has played four times without scoring a goal. This entry also means that he has broken the scoring drought, so he is still quite excited. In the crazy celebration, Kluivert's excited eyes were a little red.

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Wansheng and Diamares also hugged happily.

The goal came so quickly that Wansheng was a little surprised. At the same time, he was even more pleased that Kluivert was the one who scored the goal. Kluivert is quite famous, but now he can only be the team's substitute because he was in the game. The performance is not very good, it is not as good as Bolton Reiter, that is, there are few choices of the first striker, Kluivert can have the opportunity to start, and this goal is also very important, if Kluivert has been If he does not score, Wansheng can only use him as a substitute, but with the goal, Kluivert's mentality will definitely be much better. The team's striker is equal to one more choice. On the field, he is much better than Bolton Wright. He can make the team's offense play more flexible on the court, which is better than Wright.

While the Derby County coach and players were happy with the goal, the Liverpool fans in the audience were a little dazed. They couldn't imagine why Derby County would score the first goal.

Doesn't it mean that Liverpool are stronger?

Doesn't it mean that Liverpool can win the game they deserve to win?

What's going on now...Derby County are ahead! ? Liverpool fans couldn't believe it.

The Liverpool coach, Rafael Benitez, who was sitting on the sidelines of the coaching bench, was also a little surprised. He attached great importance to Derby County, mainly because Derby County ranked in the top three in the league. To be able to achieve this result can never be achieved by a temporary state. To describe it, Derby County must be very powerful.

But Benitez believes that Derby County has the strength and can not be compared to Liverpool, so he did not put too much energy into the game at Anfield, but now Derby County is suddenly ahead, and it does not count For this goal, they had performed quite well before, and they were even able to play against Liverpool. At this time, Benitez was out of his mind. He did not think the team could easily win such a Derby County.

In addition, Cissé was injured, and Liverpool's attacking ability was much worse. More attacking depends on the performance of midfielder Gerrard, but what should we do now?

In Benitez's hesitation, soon the game time has skipped 30 minutes. At this time, Benitez still has not adjusted his tactics, but this time Liverpool's luck came, in a corner kick, the side After midfielder Riise sent the ball, there was chaos in front of Derby County. In the chaos, Gerrard seized the opportunity and kicked the ball into the goal. The score was also rewritten to 1:1.

Only then did Benitez take a deep breath.

In any case, it is always good to be able to equalize the score, but the game during this period also made Benitez see some things, the most important of which is that it will not be easy for Liverpool to defeat Derby County if they play head-to-head. , the opponent's full-court pressing defense is too strong to suppress, at least Liverpool has no ability to suppress it.

Benitez quickly waved his hand and told the players on the field to change their tactics.

Liverpool's tactical changes are very simple, that is, the whole team retreats, strengthens the defense, and then finds opportunities to fight back. Such tactical changes will make Liverpool's defense more stable.

But Wan Sheng was stunned.

After taking a one-goal lead, Wansheng thought that the team should shrink the defense line and use the one-goal lead to play a defensive counterattack, but the first goal came a little too early, and Wansheng still planned to have the opportunity to make adjustments. But now I see Liverpool scoring a goal. It was such a chaotic goal. After all, Liverpool equalized the score again, and the advantage was no longer in the hands of Derby County.

What makes Wansheng stunned is that Benitez actually adjusts his tactics now to let Liverpool shrink the defense... What does this mean? Are Liverpool going to hold on to the draw? Or did they think Derby would attack?

Wan Sheng did not know.

He turned his head to look at the Liverpool coaching bench, the Spaniard was sitting there, his face was solemn, but Wan Sheng could see some old foxes in it, and at the same time he secretly complained, This is Anfield Stadium, Liverpool Sitting at home, just after the draw is going to start a passive defensive counterattack? This guy... is too thick-skinned! He is not afraid of Liverpool fans being dissatisfied with the game!? (To be continued~^~)

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