The club is about to sell, and the team is facing a derby battle again. At this time, both coaches and players hope to win the favor of new owners with their wonderful performances, and are eager to defeat Everton and avenge the revenge of the 2003 defeat in the first round. If this mentality appears in an ordinary game, it may be able to play a wonderful game, but in the cruel derby battle, this mentality is by no means a good thing.

Like every derby before, today's Anfield stand was filled with Liverpool fans early, and major fan organizations hung huge banners and slogans. The most eye-catching of them was the ten-meter-long banner of the "Shankley Souls" organization, which read "If you don't win three goals, you won't be a victory."

Obviously, the fans are in a mood like the players and coaches, and they are eager to get revenge, wishing to throw Everton seven or eight balls to relieve their hatred.

In this mentality of eagerness to revenge and show, Benitez arranged a 433 formation with strong attack. This formation has only been used three times this season, twice played against relegation teams, and once played Chelsea, which was seriously lacking central defenders. Although the effect was very good, 433 is not a commonly used formation for Liverpool, and the players are not very familiar with this style of play. The formation of such an enemy in the face of an excellent defensive derby surprised Liverpool's commentators, and even said, "This arrangement is worth discussing."

Everton's head coach Moyes was confused when he saw Liverpool's 433 formation and Chen Yu did not retreat to the midfield. He said to the assistant coach: "What trick did Benitez play? What did he treat us as? Chelsea or Watford?"

The assistant coach smiled bitterly: "It looks like Watford, they are winning streaks now, they are crazy."

Moyes sneered: "Those are the people, let's tighten the fences and see what tricks they can play."

Compared with Liverpool, Everton's goal at Anfield is very pragmatic, just draw, anyway, with zero in the first round, even a small loss in this game is not unacceptable. Under this guiding ideology, Moyes lined up a steady 45l formation, with only Andy Johnson, who scored twice in the last derby, and Kowell, known as Liverpool nemesis, stood behind Johnson.

After the game started, Liverpool took the lead in launching a fierce attack from the wing, and the two fast horses of winger Chen Yu and Bellamy took turns to attack from the left and right roads, constantly hanging the ball towards Everton's penalty area, hoping to quickly break the deadlock with the help of Crouch's high point.

Although Everton has a great determination to defend, they are not familiar with Chen Yu. What they see on the video is definitely not the same as what they experience personally. Before the game, Moyes made a tactic of using fouls to curb Chen Yu's performance, but in the actual game, the defenders were shocked to find that it was not that easy for them to foul because Chen Yu was too fast.

In the second minute of the game, Chen Yu dribbled the ball at high speed and broke through along the wing. Ottoman and Lescott intercepted one and the other chased. Ottoman thought Chen Yu would slow down when approaching left-back Lescott, and then he stole from behind to let the Chinese know what a derby is, but he didn't expect Chen Yu to slow down. Without any temptation, he directly scored the ball with speed and slaughter in England's genius defender Lescott.

Ottoman rushed in a flash. Lescott had already made a defensive move and looked at Chen Yu sideways. However, he felt that his speed could not be turned around and then caught up with Chen Yu. He immediately reached out to pull Chen Yu, hoping to use a foul to stop Chen Yu's breakthrough, but his hand only grabbed the corner of Chen Yu's clothes. Because Chen Yu's speed was too fast, he did not catch it. He could only watch Chen Yu fly past him like a gust of wind.

After breaking through the wing, Chen Yu passed the ball across the penalty area and looked for his center Crouch.

Everton's central defender was not slow and had rich experience. When Chen Yu broke through the wing, they followed Crouch closely. When Chen Yu made a cross, the two of them attacked Crouch with their bodies, and did not allow Crouch to jump up fully. No one touched Chen Yu's pass and flew out of the sideline directly.

Although Everton made a plan to defend himself, they would never give up their attack easily if they had the chance. In the fourth minute of the game, Everton counterattacked quickly. Cahill drove along the wing to Liverpool's half. Facing Rise's interception, Cahill cut in and Philip Neville pulled to the side. The two crossed and Neville formed a breakthrough on the side and rolled the ball across the side and passed it to Liverpool's goal.

At this moment, Gerald followed Cahill to the penalty area. When he was grabbing the position, the Red Army captain had more strength and experience. He squeezed Cahill aside and tried to shovel the ball out of the baseline with a flying tackle, but in the confrontation, he was not sure where the ball touched the ball, and he actually shoveled it to the post and bounced towards Cahill.

Seeing this scene, the Liverpoolman was so scared that he almost had a heart attack, but fortunately the distance was too close, and Cahill did not react. The ball hit his leg and rolled out of the bottom line.

Liverpool was extremely lucky in the last derby, almost giving away two goals from his opponent. He had good luck at the start of this game and gave him a chance to freely. Cahill, who is known as the nemesis of the Reds, failed to catch it, which gave Liverpool courage and confidence together. Then Liverpool continued to strengthen the breakthrough cross on the wing, intending to use Chelsea's move to deal with Everton.

However, Benitez's move is a bit like a sword. Everton's defense has always been very strong. In the season when he reached the semi-finals, Everton relied on defense. They were nicknamed Toffees, but many fans called Everton a candy, describing their toughness in defense.

In this game, Everton's two central defenders, Stabbs, are experienced, and are black and hard. Lescott, who plays as a full-back, also has strong heading ability. Liverpool's center Crouch is very high, but not strong. It is definitely not easy to break the goal guarded by American goalkeeper Howard by simple crossing from the bottom.

Look at the effect of crossing on the wing, and Chen Yu was getting more and more resistance on the wing. After about ten minutes of the game, Liverpool strengthened his long shot in the middle. Alonso, Gerrard and Risse received a back pass from the wing or crossing the ball at the front of Everton's penalty area, trying to pull Everton's defensive players out of the penalty area. However, Everton's American goalkeeper Howard reacted very quickly. Liverpool's long shots were easily captured or saved by him, and did not pose much threat to Everton's goal.

From the scene, Liverpool completely controlled the situation, the offense was lively and there were many shots. After nearly twenty minutes of the game, Everton did not have a chance to shoot, but Liverpool's offense had no real goal scored, which reflects Liverpool's eagerness for quick success and short-term gains in the offense. He did not have the patience to organize a delicate offensive, and only wanted to score through simple and direct long passes and long shots.

Seeing that the offense on the court was not strong, Benitez frowned and began to consider whether to move Chen Yu from the winger to the front midfielder, using Chen Yu's speed and changeable skills to tear open Everton's defense line.

However, before Benitez made a decision, the situation on the field suddenly changed, and Liverpool suddenly launched a clever attack on the wing.

Chen Yu made a wall-to-back two-pass one on the sideline. After Finnan went to the bottom, he did not make a cross, but passed back to the front of the penalty area to find Alonso who was inserted into the midfield. Alonso was originally planning to shoot a long time, but found that Chen Yu was inserted into the penalty area from the ribs, and he directly hung it to Chen Yu. Chen Yu was extremely fast. Howard had not touched the ball when he attacked, but was pushed into the goal by Chen Yu.

Just as Chen Yu raised his arms and excitedly celebrating his first goal in the derby, he found that there was no movement in the stands and his teammates did not come to celebrate. He subconsciously stopped and looked at the sidewalk. Sure enough, the lineman had raised the flag.

"Damn it" Chen Yu flew up and kicked the post. In the first twenty minutes, he played very hard. Everton team tried every possible way to defend him. Don't mention small moves. There are also many harmful big moves. Is it easy for him to score a goal? He was actually blown offside.

Benitez on the sidelines also angrily appealed to the fourth official. He believed that Chen Yu's interception was not offside, but Chen Yu's speed was too fast and seemed to be offside. However, the linebacker's penalty had been made and it was impossible to change it. Benitez just vented, hoping that the next time the penalty would be better for Liverpool. Seeing the referee let him return to the coaching seat, Benitez could only give up in disappointment.

Although Liverpool's goal was offside and the score on the field did not change, it changed Benitez's decision. He was originally planning to let Chen Yu play the front midfielder in the middle. Now Benitez feels that the tactical arrangement before the game is correct and he should be patient, so he decided to let Chen Yu continue playing on the wing instead of changing his playing style.

However, the subsequent facts proved that Benitez's decision was not correct. Benitez wanted to create a situation of multi-point attack in the frontcourt, but players rarely played this formation, and there was no good way to run and serve. The Red Army players just blindly used strength and lost the ability to read the game, which caused a situation that was to rush in one direction, which greatly reduced Everton's defensive pressure.
Chapter completed!