After the corner kick was taken, there was chaos in the Liverpool penalty area. Saviola stopped the ball with his chest and shot directly.
1:0!
Watching his teammates go to the referee to argue, Li Tiancheng's eyes were blank. Of course, this was suspected of handball, but he really didn't have the energy to interfere...
The game continued, and Li Tiancheng couldn't bear it anymore. After getting the ball on the right sideline, he took a strong breath and rushed to Monaco's bottom line.
After an Okocha bypassed Monaco left back Evra, he directly cut in to block him behind him, pretended to continue cutting in, mobilized Squillaci to move, moved the ball with the outside of his right foot and walked outside, continuing to rush forward.
Li Tiancheng knew very well that he no longer had the stamina to master the shooting skills, and Gerrard must be following up in the middle. Just when he was looking for an opportunity to pass the ball, he suddenly found that Squillaci was already on par with him. At his speed...
Before he could finish his thoughts, he realized that Squillaci had shoveled the ball down, and when he was about to move the ball forward, Li Tiancheng, who had taken off again, fell down!
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"Li drove the ball straight in! Oh oh oh..., Li was tackled in the penalty area. Will it be a penalty kick?"
"No, no, the referee signaled for the game to continue. Li covered his calf and did not get up. Evra kicked the ball out of the boundary..."
"The slow motion shows that Squillacchi's tackle was relatively clean. It was not aimed at anyone, and it did touch the ball first."
"Lee may have been injured during the fall, and the stretcher was put on the field again. Liverpool are really unlucky. Are three people injured in one game?"
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He helped Li Tiancheng sit on the stretcher and watched the little brother being carried off the court. Gerrard, Kewell and other people in the circle were a little lost.
The team members who were far away and didn't have time to rush over were silently paying attention. This is too unlucky. What's the number?
There was silence in the visiting team's stands. Liverpool really didn't give people hope today. Everyone seemed to be dragging their bodies to run. Their condition was too bad, and their luck was too bad.
Li Tiancheng raised his hands to cover his face, bent down and buried his face...
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After examination, the team doctor recommended a substitution. Although there was only some contusion in the calf muscle, he would definitely not be able to continue in this game!
Benitez used up his third substitution quota with a dark face and replaced the injured Li Tiancheng with Mele.
Today's substitutions were all passive substitutions due to injuries to players. Liverpool's luck is really hard to describe!
Li Tiancheng never thought that he would feel...sad before the game was over.
But now sitting on the sidelines, watching Monaco continue to beat Liverpool, Li Tiancheng has this strange emotion.
Before this, no matter what kind of game it was, whether he was ahead or behind, on or off the court, Li Tiancheng had always been positive, and these unhelpful emotions rarely appeared.
Now it's because of the injury, and more because I actually exhausted my physical energy during the competition. The injury is also because I moved slowly and couldn't complete the movements that should have been completed smoothly.
No matter what the reason was, Li Tiancheng could not accept this. Of course, there were many reasons, such as traveling thousands of miles, tiredness from the journey, jet lag, etc.
There are many reasons, but the reality is that the team is falling behind and I am completely powerless!
Nothing can be done!
What a strange feeling!
This feeling makes Li Tiancheng have lingering fears!
Just after he fell to the ground, Li Tiancheng could only hold his calf for the first time. His eyes were so painful that his eyes went black. At that time, he really thought that his legs were going to be shortened. His heart echoed with Sun Chenghai and Cisse's repeated warnings: Don't drag your tired body with you.
If you try hard, you may get injured if you are not careful.
Girl, why can't you hold it back?
After an examination by the team doctor, it was confirmed that the injury was not serious and was just a bruise from a collision.
After a while, the pain gradually subsided.
Li Tiancheng finally breathed a sigh of relief: It turns out that he is not as strong as he thought, and he still needs to practice.
"At the end of the game, Monaco relied on Saviola's controversial goal at home to defeat Liverpool, who came from afar, 1:0, and successfully climbed to the top of the group."
"And Liverpool fell to second place in the group. They successfully got themselves to the point where they couldn't afford to lose in the final group match."
"Because on the other side, Olympiacos defeated Super Depor and brought its points to 8 points, tied with Liverpool, but fell behind due to goal difference. In the last game when the two teams faced each other, Olympiacos rekindled
Hope of advancement!"
"In the last game, Liverpool needs to play away against the desperate Olympiacos. Of course, they are still in an advantageous position and can advance as long as they don't lose. But if they continue like today, they will have no advantage at all."
"Judging from Liverpool's away record this season, their advantage is quite limited."
"Looking at Li's eyes, he was blank. Only then did he show some tenderness appropriate to his age. Originally, he was always radiant and could make people ignore his age."
"Someone in Liverpool should step up and not always rely on the immature Lee to save the team..."
After staying on the bench until the end of the game and watching the players leave the field in despair, Li Tiancheng returned to the locker room with a dark face.
"The whole world saw it was a handball!"
At the post-match press conference, Benitez, who had nowhere to vent, directed all his grievances at the referee, who he believed was responsible for Liverpool's loss.
"Including myself, our performance today was indeed not good." Gerrard admitted his mistake honestly:
"But we will get the final right to qualify. We will win the next game and qualify directly!"
"I remember in 2002 we were under a lot more pressure. We had to beat Roma 2-0 to get out of the group and we did it. It was an exciting night and it will be the same this time and we will definitely succeed.
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Although Gerrard's heroic words gave some comfort to his teammates, they still couldn't change the completely gloomy atmosphere.
Liverpool had no time to lick their wounds and returned to England overnight. Five days later it would be the 14th round of the league against Arsenal. Liverpool's soldiers must immediately forget the pain of defeat and turn around to fight.
Liverpool failed twice in three days and fell behind in both the league and Champions League. Arsenal was not much better.
Arsenal lost to Manchester United, ending their great record of 49 games unbeaten, and also ended their momentum of swallowing up thousands of miles.
Although unbeaten in the past 6 games, the Gunners' record of 2 wins and 4 draws has put the Gunners in a tight spot in both the Champions League and the Premier League.
In the just-concluded Champions League match, Arsenal only drew 1:1 with PSV, and it's hard to say how good the situation is.
With the two Brazilians Edu and Gilberto missing one after another, and Campbell and Vieira still in poor condition, Arsenal basically conceded goals in every game in the past eleven games, and the team once again fell into the familiar "November panic"
"disease".
The next focal point of the Premier League battle became a battle of sorrow for both sides.