Although this goal was a big blow to the Roma players, it was not so big that it made these experienced Roma players feel despair.
After the restart, Liverpool's disadvantage on the field improved significantly, and from time to time they could find opportunities for quick counterattacks in both halves.
But the effect is not very good!
Because after Roma lost the ball, their defensive strategy changed slightly through Di Francesco's roaring on-the-spot command.
That is, once the ball is lost in the midfield and faced with Liverpool's quick counterattack, Roma players will immediately retract the defense line.
Such an early step would prevent Liverpool from attacking behind them.
The coping strategy is simple, but very effective.
In the 18th minute of the game, Shalawi attacked with the ball from the left. After approaching the midfield line, he suddenly made a cross pass and quickly transferred the offensive line to the right half through Nainggolan in the middle.
Florenzi followed up from the backcourt and quickly pushed the ball to the feet of Schick in the frontcourt.
But Hick encountered a tough situation this time.
As soon as he stopped begging, Van Dyke and Robertson pinched him on the left and right.
It didn't last for two seconds before the ball was hooked away by Van Dijk.
Attack and defense are instantly cast!
After Van Dijk took the ball, he brought it to the center line and pushed it directly to Milner who was pulling to the wing.
Seeing Roma players returning to the penalty area in advance to set up defense, Milner suddenly approached the Roma penalty area with the ball and walked diagonally towards the top of the arc in the middle.
Mane moves forward along the wing to contain the ball.
Firmino also got into the penalty area of the ribs.
The three people's tacit movement and coordination directly pinned the three Roma defensive players in the rib area of the left half.
After achieving his goal, Milner suddenly pushed the ball horizontally to the feet of Salah in the ribs of the right half while dribbling.
On Roma's side, the four defensive players also did a very good job of filling each other's positions, without leaving any huge gaps.
Seeing Fazio open up a position in front of Salah, Mo Yang quickly intervened from the middle and ran directly into the unoccupied penalty area behind Fazio.
Fazio was startled, a little distracted, and took half a step back.
Salah seized the attacking space and time created by Mo Yang, immediately moved his left foot forward, and kicked and shot directly outside the penalty area.
But his angle was not fully realized, and the ball was pocketed by Szczesny.
In the following games, Roma played more and more crazily, giving the impression that they did not consider the issue of insufficient physical strength at all.
Especially the players in the midfield and frontcourt give people a life-threatening feeling. Every Roma player actively runs and seeks tacit cooperation.
Once they attack the frontcourt, several players in their midfield, Nainggolan, Pellegrini, and De Rossi will all press in front of the Liverpool penalty area, forcing Liverpool to invest heavily in defense to contain Liverpool.
A quick counterattack.
In the 23rd minute of the game, Liverpool's counterattack was once again contained by the Roma defense that had withdrawn early. Milner's long shot from outside the penalty area was saved by Szczesny and was saved by Florenzi.
After getting the ball, Florenzi quickly passed the ball directly to Pellegrini on the right side in front of him.
Schickne withdrew to receive the ball. After receiving the ball, he was chased and intercepted by Henderson and Mane who were returning to the opposite half. He was forced to dribble the ball laterally to the left half.
After running through the midfield circle, Schick split his left foot directly and looked for Dzeko, who had already been pulled to the left side of the penalty area.
Arnold returned to defense very quickly, blocking the inside line and releasing it to Dzeko from the outside.
Dzeko slowed down and dribbled the ball towards the sideline of the penalty area.
After Dzeko came to the sideline of the penalty area, he directly made a diagonal pass to the bottom.
Arnold knew Dzeko's intentions, but he just couldn't resist Dzeko's strong body and was pushed behind him by the taller Dzeko.
Dzeko successfully reached the bottom line, reached the bottom line and quickly swept the small penalty area from the three corners.
There were nine people inside and outside the Liverpool penalty area defending five Roma players.
Dzeko's pass was very sneaky, neither far nor close to the goal line, making Alisson unable to get out. He rolled diagonally backwards and went straight to El Shaarawy.
Fortunately, Robertson did not miss the back point. He got stuck in front of Shalawi. When he saw the ball coming, he directly passed the ball out of the penalty area.
Unfortunately, the ball just flew towards Nainggolan who was swimming in front of the top of the arc.
Mo Yang, who was standing near the penalty spot in the penalty area, saw that Nainggolan was unmarked and he quickly started to rush out.
On Nainggolan's side, he didn't stop the ball and hit the ball with a long shot.
"Yes!"
As soon as the ball left his feet, Nainggolan lowered his head to finish the shot and felt that he had the ball and it would definitely be within the goal frame.
Nainggolan looked up at the Liverpool goal with expectant eyes, and then was dumbfounded. He happened to see Mo Yang rising from the ground in front of him, at least 80cm high from the ground, and used his head to rub the ball out of the baseline.
Suddenly Nainggolan was so depressed that he vomited blood.
The 100,000 Roma fans present were so angry that they cursed me, why is this kid always the same?
After this attack, the game entered a stalemate stage of back and forth.
Roma attacked fiercely, and Liverpool counterattacked very quickly and sharply, but they failed to score a goal.
Anyway, the 150,000 fans at the scene were screaming in surprise.
In the 34th minute of the game, Shalawi was surrounded by Arnold, Mo Yang and Salah on the midfield line.
This guy is very smart. He led Mo Yang to grab the ball and then suddenly passed Mo Yang behind him.
Nainggolan got the ball, but was pushed by Henderson and couldn't turn around.
But he took advantage of the situation and leaned towards Henderson, turned slightly sideways and kicked off, directly transferring the ball to the right.
Seeing the ball flying over, Florenzi, who stayed behind the center line, quickly followed up. Before the ball touched the ground, he stretched out his foot to knock the ball in front of him and started sprinting along the sideline.
Robertson ran back, and after seeing Van Dijk, Lovren and others in the middle were in place, he slowly pressed forward towards the wing.
As a result, Robertson calculated everything, but he didn't expect Florenzi to cross from the sideline at least 35 meters away from the goal at a 45-degree angle.
Florenzi's kick was powerful, high and accurate, and it directly found Dzeko on the edge of the small penalty area in front of the back post.
After Arnold turned around in front of Dzeko, he was dunked directly by Dzeko who was ready to jump up.
Under the pressure of Dzeko's tall body, Arnold, who was pressed on him, was like a little daughter-in-law, without even a chance to take off.
Arnold watched helplessly as Dzeko jumped up and bent his back to push the ball into the small penalty area in the middle.
In the middle, Schick saw the ball being pushed over and quickly moved forward, trying to grab a shot in front of Lovren who was standing in the middle of the small penalty area.
As a result, Lovren reacted faster and had the advantage of his position, so he directly kicked the ball that landed at his feet to the top of the arc.
In front of the goal, Alisson saw the ball being cleared, and his hanging heart suddenly dropped.
But the next second, Alisson's eyes were blurred, and he actually saw the ball cleared by Lovren come back.
Alisson subconsciously reached out to block the ball, but the ball had already crossed the goal line and entered the goal.
"What a fat thing! (⊙?⊙)" At this moment, Alisson's eyes widened.
People are numb!
At the penalty spot, there was an unlucky guy who was also numb, but he was hit by the ball.
Mo Yang covered his face with his hands and squatted on the ground. His nose was sore, numb, and burning. The left half of his face was numb and spicy. It was so sour that he felt like his soul was gone!
"Ouch! Own goal!"
In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu wailed in unison.
"Mo Yang's goal was out of good intentions. He was staring at De Rossi who was attacking from behind, but he got an own goal and got in the face! Haha..."
"But this just illustrates Mo Yang's excellence, because he can always appear in some dangerous areas of the penalty area to defend when defending."
"It's precisely these dangerous areas that sometimes lead to own goals."
"Yes!"
"Hiss! It hurts just looking at it!"
"Yang Shen, are you okay?"
"Look at the slow motion replay, the ball hit Mo Yang's nose, I hope it's okay!"
The barrage in the live broadcast room was filled with words of worry.
As for blaming Mo Yang for making his own mistake?