Chapter 046: Challenging Anfield (Medium)
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As soon as the game began, Robbie Keane, who was standing in the middle circle of the pitch, immediately passed the ball back to Carrick behind him, and then ran forward - after two official games, Keane Jr. had a general idea of his current position in the current Tottenham team, and kept George's pre-match arrangement in mind. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info So, he knows what to do at this time.
So, at the beginning of the game, the Tottenham players launched a wave of offensive according to George's pre-game arrangement, taking advantage of the opportunity for the Liverpool players to be fully in shape at the beginning of the game - if they can steal a goal from Liverpool at the beginning of the game, then Tottenham can have a rather fantastic start, and then they can play the Reds' counterattack with peace of mind when they have the initiative in the game.
In the face of Tottenham's opening attack, the Liverpool players were also quite quick to react. Gerrard immediately posted Robbie Keane and resolutely did not give him room to play, while on the other side, Hamann was also following Luca Toney inch by inch, for the German defender, who just celebrated his thirtieth birthday yesterday, the strong but less fast Toni is obviously more suitable for him to defend.
At the same time, Bierovka, who was roaming the flanks, was also pestered by Murphy and Finnam. In this way, before Carrick could organize an offensive, Tottenham's several people in the front field were all targeted by Liverpool, and they couldn't find a suitable offensive line for a while!
Seeing that the Liverpool players reacted so quickly, George, who was sitting in the coach's box, couldn't help but sigh regretfully, and said to Ronaldo next to him: "Chris (Ronaldo), see it? If you want to play the main role in the team as soon as possible, strengthening your teamwork awareness and scoring ability are only two of the more important aspects." The most important thing is that you have to have a strong body. Otherwise, with your current little arms and legs, if you are hit by that guy Reese, it is estimated that you will have to lie in the hospital for ten days and half a month. ”
Just like in his previous life, Cristiano Ronaldo is still a little guy with only one season of professional league experience. Despite honing good individual skills at Sporting Lisbon, it is still a piece of jade that needs to be refined in many ways, especially in terms of physical fitness.
After all, in modern football, which is becoming increasingly competitive, especially in the Premier League, where physical confrontation is emphasized, even technical players must ensure that they cannot afford to suffer easily in physical confrontation. Otherwise, before they can make a technical move, the defenders can use their physical advantage to force them to be unable to play and steal the ball from their feet!
So, if you put Robert Baggio or Davao Suker in 2016, I'm afraid they won't be pleased. Because at that time, in addition to the goalkeeper, almost every player in the four major leagues could run an average distance of 10 kilometers or more per game, and the confrontation was more intense, and players like Baggio and Suker who ran very little could easily fall into the crowd of opponents.
"Boss, don't worry. From today onwards, I will go to the gym every day to exercise my muscles!" Looking at Bierovka, who struggled to get rid of the ball under the attack of Danny Murphy and Finnan, Ronaldo only felt cold sweat all over his body, and hurriedly assured George, "But the head, I think it's better for you to arrange a professional physical trainer for me, so as not to make many detours because of the wrong training method or not scientific enough." ”
"Well, I can agree to this request. Hearing Ronaldo's statement, George nodded with satisfaction. After all, Ronaldo is almost like his younger brother to George. Therefore, as long as Ronaldo's request is reasonable, George doesn't mind opening him more small stoves. Moreover, George is also very relieved about Ronaldo's professional attitude. Therefore, George believes that if he sends a physical trainer to Ronaldo, the kid will definitely not give up until the value of this arrangement is squeezed to the maximum.
Just as George was educating Cristiano Ronaldo, the confrontation between Tottenham and Liverpool's starters on the pitch became more and more intense. However, because George and Houllier are both defensive counterattacks, they have deployed heavy troops in their own half and reduced the team's investment in the offensive end, so although the confrontation between the players is very fierce, they have not created many scoring opportunities, and even the number of shots on goal is very few!
"These Liverpool players are really annoying, is it interesting to put a bus in front of their house every day?" finally received a pass from Bierovka, only to lose the ball under the pressure of Hyypia and the help of Gerrard, Robbie Keane couldn't help but whisper a complaint, he hated this kind of defensive opponent the most.
As the leading striker for the Irish national team, Robbie Keane is a superb shooter and a diligent runner who can make a difference in an open environment. However, Keane also has a weakness, which is that he is very bad at dealing with this kind of dense defensive situation. Once you encounter a team with this style of play, unless there is a teammate around you who is strong enough to support him, Keane will basically become an invisible man.
This can be seen from the two periods when Robbie Keane played his best in his previous life, the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and the 06-07 season. At the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Keane had the aura and injury-free Duff behind him to deliver cannonballs, and in the 06-07 season, Keane was partnered with Berbatov, a "dashing brother" with excellent technical skills. So, in these two periods, Robbie Keane played the pinnacle of his career, even against the supernatural Kahn and the World Cup runner-up team Germany that year. And when Keane played for Inter Milan and Liverpool, he was not taken seriously, and there was no such team-mate around him, and he was even required to make wedding dresses for others, the Irishman's performance was basically disastrous.
It's a shame that Robbie Keane is missing just that team-mate right now. Up front, Didier Drogba and Luka Toney don't have enough creativity and individual skills to provide that kind of support, Darren Anderton is a traditional wing-back who knows what he does when he breaks and crosses, and Vierovka has the aura, but the German is not counting on him at this time when he has fully emerged from the shadow of last season's play at Bayer Leverkusen. Therefore, in such a situation, in the face of Liverpool's dense defense, it is naturally difficult for Robbie Keane to get enough space to play.
Although Keane was unable to control the ball under the Liverpool player's defence, and Tottenham's attack ended again, Liverpool's side were also unable to play the familiar quick counter-attack - Gerrard won the ball and handed it to Reese on the left, but the Norwegian's cross to Heskey was preemptively broken out of the box by Ridley King, and Liverpool's counter-attack was also unsuccessful.
If the style of the two sides of the game is one attack and one defense, then this game is naturally full of highlights. However, when both teams on the pitch were mainly defending and counter-attacking, it was understandable how boring the game was. Unfortunately, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are both defensive counter-attacking teams!
As a result, as before, the scene where one side's attack was destroyed by the opponent before it could be launched, and the other side's counterattack just hit and died halfway due to too few troops was not uncommon. The head coaches of both sides gathered heavy troops in their own half and laid out heavy defensive lines, overemphasized the stability of their own defenses, and only invested a small number of troops in the offensive end, which naturally caused strong dissatisfaction among the fans on the spot. So, as time went on, there began to be a wave of boos from the stands at Anfield Stadium. And the vast majority of this boo went to George and Houllier sitting in the coach's seat!
While being booed by the fans can be quite embarrassing for anyone, George doesn't care about the boos coming from the stands and change his mind. After all, don't look at George being booed right now, but the pressure is definitely on Houllier's side. After all, this is Liverpool's home stadium, and taking a point away from it is enough to satisfy Tottenham fans, and Houllier can't bring a win to the team in this game...... Hehe, the reality of three rounds of winless league games is enough to become the fuse that triggered the crisis of Houllier's managerial position.
It wasn't until the end of the first half that the somewhat lethargic defensive battle made a splash - in the 43rd minute of the game, the whole Tottenham team, under the signal of George, suddenly offered a full-court pressing tactic, and caught the Liverpool players who were organizing the attack off guard. Gerrard, who controlled the ball at the back, was forced to choose to pass back under the frantic pressing of Carrick and Mascherano at all costs, but he was intercepted by Robbie Keane, who was ambushed on the sidelines, with little less force!
Keane, who got the ball, did not hesitate at all, and after dodging the flying pounce of Henkz, he immediately accelerated towards the door of Liverpool and killed!
The next thing is very simple, Robbie Keane has not many ways to deal with a dense defense, but his goal efficiency has always been very impressive. So, in the face of Dudek, who was forced to abandon the goal, Robbie Keane gently flicked the ball out with his right foot, slid past the Polish goalkeeper and pushed the empty goal, 1-0!