After Salah scored, he ran wildly across the field. Even though he knew that taking off his clothes would get him a yellow card, he still took off his clothes to vent his recent depression.
Mo Yang stood on the outside of the crowd, happily watching Salah, who was constantly venting his filial piety and interacting with his fans behind the billboard.
During this period, the media has been criticizing Salah for his poor condition, and there is a huge gap between his performance and last season.
But Mo Yang doesn't think so. He thinks Salah is in the same condition as last season and is still very good.
The evidence is Salah's numerous breakthroughs and top-notch movements without the ball since the start of the season.
The problem is that every time Salah shows his top dribbling and breakthrough skills, his hips always stretch when he shoots, which is unbearable to watch.
Mo Yang feels that state is not only about the body's muscles being in the best possible condition, but also about psychology, spirit and the external environment.
In short, this kind of thing is actually quite vague. If it exists, it exists, and if it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist. It can’t be seen or touched, and it is elusive.
In the past three years or so, Mo Yang sometimes felt that competitions were particularly boring. He was very excited about some competitions, but sometimes he couldn't get excited at all.
He doesn't hate the game and is in top physical condition, but he just can't get excited and has no idea why.
So what he can do for Salah is to feed Salah with the ball, and feed Salah with a lot of balls to get that feeling back.
Not long after, the two-minute injury time of the first half ended.
Entering the halftime break, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu began to review the first half.
"In fact, in the first half, both Manchester City and Liverpool were based on solid defense and then slowly progressing. Both sides did not get many opportunities."
"Indeed, based on the comparison of data in the first half, Liverpool and Manchester City are evenly matched in terms of ball possession rate, number of passes, shots and other statistics."
"Now it depends on how the head coaches of both sides will adjust in the second half! If Guardiola wants to score three points or one point, he will definitely not be able to play like he did in the first half. He must attack hard."
"Otherwise, Liverpool, who already have two goals in hand, can calmly counterattack steadily."
"Once Manchester City presses forward to attack, Liverpool's counterattack speed may put them in a dangerous situation at all times. It depends on whether Guardiola has the courage to risk his life! Otherwise, it will be difficult for them to get a piece from Liverpool.
One or three points." Zhang Lu nodded.
Fifteen minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and players from both sides quickly returned to the court to change sides and fight again.
As Zhang Lu said, at the beginning of the second half, Manchester City launched an aggressive attack, including Walker and Mendy.
In the 50th minute of the game, Liverpool got a sideline ball on the right side of the half-court circle.
After Gomez took a run-up, he suddenly threw the ball to the right side of the front court, but Salah did not form a tacit understanding with him and did not expect that Gomez would throw it like this.
Laporte arrived at the spot in time, swung the ball forward and sent it forward.
On the left side of the center circle, Aguero, between Lovren and Van Dijk, suddenly retreated and appeared at the landing point in time.
Seeing Henderson turning and rushing towards him, Aguero knew that once he stopped the ball, he would be entangled by Henderson and unable to turn around.
So he kept moving the ball and rubbed his right shoulder to the right, and the ball flew to the left, just in front of Silva who came in from behind.
After Henderson saw it, he immediately abandoned Aguero and leaned to the left.
As a result, before anyone else arrived, Silva met the ball and kicked it out.
The ball rolled past between Lovren and Van Dijk, drawing a C-shaped arc and turning to the left area at the top of the arc.
Before the top of the arc in the middle, Bai Lele had already started to speed up, and Robertson was stuck on the right side. The two of them rushed diagonally toward the ball that had turned in front of them.
Robertson was faster and faster, but he still couldn't compare to Bai Lele in terms of sustained acceleration ability. He could only watch as his position was further and further spread apart.
In the blink of an eye, Bai Lele, who was half a body ahead of Robertson, got the ball in the left rib area, moved forward, entered the left side of the penalty area, and immediately started shooting without a moment's hesitation.
As soon as his speed slowed down, Robertson also arrived and fell directly to the ground with a sliding tackle to block the ball.
In the end, Bai Lele hit the ball closer to the goal post.
In the small penalty area, Alisson did not expect that this guy had such a unique brain circuit. He was startled and quickly fell to the ground and dove sideways, directly blocking the ball out of the baseline.
This goal scared the Red Army fans at the scene and kept beating their hearts.
"This is the change brought about by Lele joining Manchester City. Don't look at the ball being pushed behind the opponent. Lele is still one or two positions behind the defensive players, but as long as he is given enough space to sprint, he can overtake him in the blink of an eye.
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"The timing of the shot was also very good. If he had chosen to spike the ball the moment he touched the ball for the first time, he might have been able to get away from Robertson, but once he stopped, he would have been caught up by Van Dijk who was chasing after him."
After Manchester City's attack, in order to avoid giving Bai Lele such space to sprint again, Van Dijk pulled down the defense a bit.
Manchester City, on the other hand, became more and more aggressive, with Mendy and Walker frequently joining the attack.
In the 60th minute of the game, after Van Dijk succeeded in grabbing Aguero at the top of the arc, the ball quickly moved to the left rib through Henderson. After Mo Yang brought the ball to the wing, he suddenly made a long pass from the backcourt.
The ball crossed the midfield like a missile in the air and hit the left rib area of Manchester City's penalty area directly.
Salah rushed to the landing point in time, and before Stones could reach him, he raised his right foot and gently stopped the ball to the left. Then he immediately accelerated, rushed to the ball and volleyed.
In the small penalty area, Ederson flew into the upper right corner and saved Salah's volley from the baseline.
Although the goal did not go in, Klopp was very happy.
Because he saw that Salah's shooting feeling was gradually recovering.
In the 68th minute of the game, Klopp and Guardiola made substitution adjustments at the same time.
Guardiola replaced Sane, who was in very good form recently, for Sterling, who was booed by the Liverpool fans as soon as he got the ball and was unable to find anything to do.
In order to prevent Mo Yang from getting injured due to excessive fatigue, Klopp directly replaced Mo Yang with Wijnaldum, and Fabinho replaced Chamberlain. The purpose was very obvious, and he doubled the defensive midfielder to continue to strengthen the defense.
But in the end, Liverpool still failed to keep Manchester City clean.
After Mo Yang came off the field, Manchester City played even more unscrupulously.
Under the continuous high-pressure attack, although Liverpool successfully contained Manchester City's offense many times, they still made mistakes in the end.
In the 84th minute of the game, in front of the center line on the right side of Liverpool, Salah received a pass from Gomez. He didn't even stop the ball. Fernandinho behind him suddenly came forward.
Perhaps because he was too tired, Salah fell to the ground after being lightly bumped, and the ball rolled to the feet of Mendy in front of Salah.
Mendy didn't stop the ball and quickly passed forward.
At the center line, just as Sane was about to stop the ball, he saw Gomez and Wijnaldum on his left and right approaching quickly, trying to close the door to defend.
So he had a flash of inspiration and chose to miss the ball.
Behind Sane, Bai Lele opened his hands slightly to block Lovren behind him, raised his right foot and passed directly across to De Bruyne who was inserted in the center on his left.
De Bruyne caught the ball and quickly headed forward diagonally to the right forward arc. Halfway through, he suddenly turned to the left and stuffed the ball into his left rib cage.
In the upper corner of the penalty area on the left, the ball reaches the player.
Although Sane got the ball, Van Dijk also reached it and caught Sane on the outside in time.
Outside the left sideline of the small penalty area, just when Sane wanted to pass the ball back into the penalty area to the unmarked Bai Lele, Van Dijk moved first and fell to the ground to tackle.
But perhaps the physical exertion was too great, which caused his movements to deform. He didn't completely hit the ball and directly overturned Sane.
The referee Atkinson immediately blew the foul whistle and awarded a penalty kick.
Aguero took the penalty and succeeded in one stroke, finally breaking Alisson's fingers.
In the end, this so-called strong dialogue ended with 2-1.