Chapter 857 The Guardian of Anfield
Benitez's substitution was forced to substitution this time, but this time the adjustment was still very powerful, fully demonstrating his world-class coach's battlefield insight and tactical adjustment ability.
Pennant's appearance increased the attack power of the wing and the technical content of the midfield. Kuyt's appearance improved the forward's ability to return to defense and partially liberated Chen Yu. Because Crouch did not have the ability to return to defense, Chen Yu must often retreat to the midfield, while Kuyt can return to defense and pull the edge. With this model-worker partner, Chen Yu can attack with confidence.
Liverpool's offense was interrupted by Marseille's goal for a few minutes. After Benitez made two consecutive substitutions, Liverpool gradually found the feeling of offense again. Because of the lead, the formation gradually contracted and relied on his own half-time to play defensive counterattacks, which also made Liverpool's offense easier, unlike the original difficulty of passing the ball from the defender to the front line. More importantly, due to the reduced pressure on defense, Liverpool's two full-backs were also liberated, and they pressed almost forward to the midfield to assist the attack. In this way, the balls cleared by Marseille basically fell into Liverpool's hands. Liverpool's offense became more continuous, and the pressure on Marseille's penalty area was also increasing.
In the 72nd minute of the game, Finnan made a cross from the side. Chen Yu, Kuyt and Bernardon made three arrows at the same time and rushed into the penalty area to grab the spot. Marseille also had many players defending in the penalty area. Their main energy was not to grab the spot, but to interfere with Liverpool players' grab the spot. Under the interference of Marseille players, Bernardon at the front point was unable to grab the landing point. Chen Yu headed the ball without any force under the entanglement of the two players, and the angle was not right. The ball flew out against the crossbar.
There was a burst of regret in the stands, and Benitez almost jumped up, and shook his head regretfully when he saw the ball flying out of the baseline.
But this is just the beginning. After Marseille retreated, Liverpool's offense was unstoppable. Since almost all the players were on the midfield, the forwards received sufficient support, and Chen Yu and Kuyt got shots in a row.
In the 75th minute of the game, Pennant suddenly cut inside after breaking through on the wing and made a wall-to-wall cooperation with Chen Yu, pulling his feet and shooting at the front of the penalty area. However, there were many players inside and outside the penalty area, and Pennant's shot hit the player's leg and bounced out.
The ball fell in front of Mascherano, and Mascherano raised his foot and shot again, and the ball flew high out of the crossbar.
Marseille goalkeeper Mandanna took the ball, Cice and Nian did not compete for Liverpool's central defender, and the ball was pushed to Liverpool's midfielder Alonso by Hypia.
When Alonso got the ball, he glanced at his teammate's position in the frontcourt. The gap was even greater on the wing. He immediately made a long pass and hung the ball to Pennant, allowing Pennant to attack on the wing.
Although Pennant has good offensive ability on the wing, Marseille players are now Chen Bing in his half. After squeezing so many in the half, it is not enough to allow Pennant to freely shuttle between the crowd. After he got the ball, he paused a little and waited for his companion Finnan to come up before sprinting towards Marseille's bottom line.
At this time, the Marseille players had already moved to the side and wanted to encircle Pennant on the side. Pennant quickly approached Xie Lu, who was defending him, and distributed the ball to Mascherano, who came over to meet him, and inserted himself into Xie Lu's back.
Mascherano saw two teammates rushing forward from the side, but he did not pass the ball to the side. The Argentinian played football very terrible. When he saw the formation, he knew that the Marseille wanted to defend the side, so he drove the ball forward by himself. This would not only pull Marseille's attention to the middle, but also help teammates on the forward line to open up space.
Seeing Mascherano's brave dribbling forward, Benitez nodded, very satisfied with the Argentinian's choice, being able to judge the situation and make the right choice, this is the basic requirement of an excellent midfielder. If Mascherano continues to grow like this without burning the CPU, there will be no problem in taking over Alonso in the future.
Mascherano's sudden dribbling forward caught the Marseille off guard. They all thought Liverpool were going to attack the sidelines. Unexpectedly, Mascherano actually dribbled the ball from the middle and pointed directly to the middle of the penalty area of Marseille. Marseille players had to concentrate their troops in the middle and block Mascherano's dribble route.
Mascherano still did not pass the ball when facing the Marseille midfielder Nasri who rushed over first. He was excited after seeing Nasri scored the goal and rushed over a little quickly. Mascherano boldly changed direction and shook Nasri over.
The Marseilles who were gathering in the middle were still hesitant, and I wonder if Mascherano was a feint, but now they are determined to come over to surround Mascherano.
Mascherano passed the ball at this time. He still did not divide the ball to the side, but rubbed the ball and passed it to Chen Yu who was standing at the front of the penalty area.
This was another unexpected pass.
Chen Yu and Kuyt were both guarded by their opponents, and it was difficult to hold the ball at this time. Even if they were held, they could not turn around and get rid of it.
Then why did Mascherano pass it to himself?
Chen Badminton looked at the wing when the ball flew over and immediately understood Mascherano's intention. He did not stop the ball. He leaned against the Marseille defender and headed the ball towards the wing, fell down and turned around, turning around, turning like lightning.
Almost at the same time as Chen Yu, Kuyt did not move forward, but moved horizontally behind Chen Yu.
This was a beautiful cooperation. Chen Yu's header and reverse insertion were perfectly done. His header just flew to Finnan. Yes, it was Finnan. At this moment, Pennant attracted the attention of the defense on the wing. Finnan surpassed him. Chen Yu just gave him a forward measurement. Finnan did not need to slow down. He took the ball and took a big step forward. He immediately passed the ball to the penalty area and found Chen Yu's point.
Finnan was comfortable to catch the ball, accurately drifted the ball, and the passing timing was very reasonable. It was the line Chen Yu inserted, but this distance made it difficult for the goalkeeper to attack.
It was a pass that made Finnan very satisfied and he even considered it his best cross this season.
Chen Badminton headed the ball, and Finnish crossed the ball from the side. The time spent in between was only two or three seconds, and Mandanna responded very shortly. However, Mandanna still returned to the middle of the goal as soon as possible. However, Finnish's pass made him feel uncomfortable. Finnish did not go down the bottom and passed the ball when it was still two or three steps away from the baseline. This distance was the distance that Mandanna might not be able to get the ball, because Chen Yu was too fast to grab the ball.
After a very brief hesitation, Mandanner chose to attack. He couldn't do it without attacking. Waiting for Chen Badminton to head the ball was waiting to die. The distance was too close.
However, if Mandanna attacked at the first time, he would have one-third of them? He could get the ball, and if he hesitated, he would have nowhere to go. Chen Yu accurately grabbed the landing point before Mandanna got his hand. He slightly pointed the ball and flew into the net behind him from Mandanna's hand.
Marseille goalkeeper Mandanna has done his best, but Chen Yu's header is too close to the goal, and even the world's best goalkeeper Buffon Cech and others are unlikely to touch the ball.
The ball was in doubt, and the referee Plaust pointed his finger at the center circle, indicating that the goal was valid.
1:1
Chen Yu was not too excited after scoring the goal. He was knocked down by Mandanna just now when he shot. At this time, he stood up calmly, covered his ears with his palms, and asked the fans for applause.
Liverpool fans have been ready to applaud, but because of the offside ball ahead, the fans were worried about being slapped in the face, so they waited for Proust to point his finger to the center circle before applauding wildly, shouting Chen Yu's name, "Chen! Chen! Chen..."
The applause was like a tsunami. Amid the applause of the fans, Liverpool boss Gillette in the VIP box was even more excited than the Robert couple just now. He jumped up suddenly, waved his hands like a messy branch in the wind, and shouted, "Chen Chen, you are really the guardian of Liverpool!"
The Roberts and his wife had long heard of Chen Yu's name. They also saw Chen Yu's game from videos and TV. They knew that this was a powerful killer. However, only by watching it on the spot can we know how powerful Chen Yu is. It can be said that until now, Marseille has never relaxed its defense against Chen Yu for a minute, but Chen Yu can create a threat as long as Chen Yu gets the ball. Now, Chen Yu is still the one who breaks the Marseille goal.
"Awesome! It's really amazing!"
Robert held his wife's hand and said with infinite emotion.
Margarita's eyes flashed with a strange light and said, "If you don't move, you'll have it; if you move, you'll have to kill people. This is the real killer. Compared to Chen, Cisse and Nian are both weaker."
Robert smiled and said, "This is not a level, Chen should win the World Footballer of the Year."
Margarita said with a serious look on her face: "I'm worried that our people will not be able to look down on him and let him score again."
Robert comforted his wife and said, "It shouldn't be true. He only got a goal chance after playing seventy minutes. Gretz and his players should be more alert. I think if we are not lucky, maybe we can get a draw."
Margarita obviously did not relax because of her husband's comfort. She said softly: "It's hard to say. I think this Chinese is very mysterious and powerful."
Marseille head coach Gretz on the sidelines looked at the Liverpool players celebrating passionately on the court, and his heart was chilling. What he saw was not just the equalization of the score, but also saw changes in opponents' tactics, morale improvement, and luck. All of this was not good for Marseille. Although there were only twenty minutes left in the game, Gretz couldn't even see the hope of a draw. He felt that if he didn't make any changes and continued to play like this, Liverpool would score 90% of the goals, but how should he change it?
Gretz still has time to consider, Liverpool players and fans are celebrating, and referee Plaoz seems to have no intention of stopping it, Gretz called the assistant coaches over to discuss if they should deal with the situation below.
The assistant coaches expressed their opinions. Some believe that the starting point of Liverpool's offense is on the wing and should hold Liverpool's wing offensive to death; some believe that Liverpool's mid-range shot is the key, and the defense at the front of the penalty area should be strengthened; some believe that Chen Yu is the key to winning or losing, and the top priority is to watch Chen Yu first.
Chapter completed!