After the players finished their morning training session, they were called to the multimedia tactical room by Leverkusen head coach Roger Schmidt in the afternoon.
When Little Pea Hernandez and others arrived, Schmidt started playing a half-hour video collection without saying any nonsense.
The video shows an Asian player with black hair.
At first, the Leverkusen players looked on casually, but when they saw the through ball that made their scalp numb, everyone straightened their backs and the smiles disappeared from their faces.
"hiss!"
"oh my god!"
Arankis, a Chilean, saw Mo Yang's fairy-like half-turn and pass, his smile suddenly froze, and he looked incredulous after exclaiming.
"Wow! This guy is so flexible!"
"God! He passed it to himself, how did he think of it!"
Moyang's various magical passes and miraculous feats constantly appeared on the video, which made the Leverkusen players scream one after another.
Half an hour later, the video ended and a half-length photo of Mo Yang appeared on the curtain.
The Leverkusen head coach pointed his baton at Mo Yang, who was smiling brightly on the curtain, and said with a straight face: "This is the core commander of Liverpool! Yang! Each of you remember him! If you can't
If we restrict him on the court, we will definitely lose this game!"
"Head! Then what can we do to completely restrain him?" Hernandez raised his hand and asked suddenly
"Complete restrictions?" Schmidt said with a smile on his face, "Sorry, guys, I don't mean to hit you, you may not be able to do it!"
Schmidt's words made the Leverkusen players collectively stunned, and then all of them looked angry.
Who are you looking down on?
Schmidt glanced at it, with a smile on his lips: "This Chinese midfielder is in the Premier League, and currently only Chelsea's Kante can restrain him!"
Seeing that his goal of provoking the generals was achieved, Schmidt began to make tactical arrangements for Mo Yang.
His tactical restrictions on Mo Yang are very simple, which is to cling to Mo Yang, restrict his breakthroughs, and restrict his shots.
In the Chelsea game, Kante had already demonstrated to the world how Mo Yang should guard to significantly weaken his threat.
The reason why there was no confrontation between Mo Yang and Kanter in the video highlights just now was because he didn't dare to edit it in because he was afraid of hurting his own players.
Kanter's death coil did greatly reduce Mo Yang's threat, but he didn't completely prevent it. From time to time, Mo Yang could still break through and pass the ball to threaten the ball.
The talent of that Chinese boy is really terrifying and scary.
This game is also a crucial game for Leverkusen. It is related to whether they can hold the fate of qualifying for the group in their hands, so Schmidt will never allow an away defeat.
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On November 3, at 8:45 pm local time in England, the fourth round of the Champions League Group E officially started.
Liverpool, who played their best, let the fans see the team's determination. They have not given up on the Champions League. This also made the Liverpool fans who came to watch the game today extremely excited, and their cheering songs were particularly loud.
"Look at this lineup, Liverpool is going to fight Leverkusen for their lives! This is it!"
In the LeTV Sports live broadcast room, Zhan Jun laughed when he saw the two teams playing very aggressively after the start. He had a hunch that this would be a good-looking game.
"Liverpool has no choice but to risk their lives. This game can be said to be their last hope of qualifying for the group stage. If they are beaten twice by Leverkusen, they will be eliminated directly. It is estimated that they will not even get a spot in the Europa League!" Zhang Lu said with a smile.
Zhan Jun nodded and said: "The situation in Group E is currently confusing. Leverkusen currently has five points with Monaco, ranking second due to a goal difference disadvantage, and CSKA is ranked third with four points.
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"The point difference between the four teams is actually very small. Liverpool still has one last chance. As long as they can win this game and win Monaco in the next round, the initiative to qualify will return to their own hands!"
On the field, the game has started for nearly ten minutes.
Because the head coaches of both teams are staunch practitioners of high-pressure pressing, the game was very intense and there were many fouls caused by pressing.
During this period of time, Mo Yang was robbed by Bayer Leverkusen.
Although Leverkusen sent a small midfielder with strong defensive ability to surround him, it actually did not have a great impact on him.
After all, not every midfielder is Chelsea's monster midfielder whose defensive area is so large that it always makes him feel like he can cover the entire earth.
Although Leverkusen's defensive midfielder is also short and very flexible, his steals and interceptions are far behind Kante, and he is not at the same level at all.
If Kanter is the king, now this guy is at best silver.
What makes Mo Yang uncomfortable is Leverkusen's formation. The front, middle and back lines are very closely connected, and the formation is very compact. This causes his passes to be often intercepted or destroyed by the opponent.
Fortunately, they have a world-class head coach who had anticipated this scene.
In the coaching area, I saw that Leverkusen used a tight formation to stick to the center, forcing them to constantly move the ball to the two wings.
On the wings, Leverkusen will form a triangle defensive area with forwards, central midfielders, and full midfielders to press hard, cutting off the connection between their ball-carrying players on the wings and the frontcourt. Klopp always has a smile on his face.
This high-pressure pressing tactic, which uses a dense formation and numerical advantage in the opponent's midfield and backcourt to quickly seize the ball and launch a counterattack, is very powerful, but the risks brought by this tactic are also huge.
He had already learned this style of play last time, and although it was a bit difficult, the method of dealing with it was actually very simple.
Just fast!
As long as you are quick enough and can move the ball before Leverkusen's dense formation moves to the other side, you can quickly impact Leverkusen's defense on the other side.
But this requires the player who transfers the ball to have huge court vision, excellent passing ability and top-notch skills in getting rid of the ball.
By coincidence, Liverpool has such a player, Mo Yang is such an all-around talented midfielder, and Leverkusen is in trouble this time!
In the last round against Leverkusen, Liverpool was very embarrassed in the away game because of Mo Yang's absence.
Schmidt, who was next to Klopp, suddenly became nervous when he saw that his tactics didn't seem to have much effect.
He designed the tactics, and he knew all the risks.
But even with sufficient mental preparation, he still far underestimated the ability of Liverpool's Chinese midfielder.
He never expected that the return of Liverpool's core would drastically compromise his tactics, which had no effect like the panic he had last time.
It's terrible. Faced with this kind of pressing, he can still control the rhythm of his team's game and firmly control the ball.
Seeing that Arankis was often played around by Mo Yang during this period, Schmidt was filled with bitterness, and he knew this would be the result.
While silently watching the game on the field, Schmidt suddenly had a bad feeling!
At 15 minutes into the game, Liverpool took a side kick from the left.
As soon as Mo Yang got the ball, Arankis immediately followed Mo Yang's pre-game tactical arrangements.
But as soon as he rushed behind Mo Yang, he saw Mo Yang raised his right foot and stepped on the ball with his heel. Then the ball went under his crotch. Mo Yang also completed his turn without giving him any reaction.
In a matter of seconds, he quickly moved the ball to the other side of the court before they formed a siege.
The moment Mo Yang passed the ball, Salah immediately ran to the right wing.
Wiener Dumu received Mo Yang's long pass and didn't need to waste any extra time to stop the ball. He directly hit the ball in the direction of Salah. A very beautiful transfer and counterattack appeared instantly.
It also made the Liverpool fans at the scene jump out of their seats with excitement, and the cheers resounded like thunder throughout Anfield.