"Doot-doo-"

The competition has officially begun.

Although it was the second game of the Christmas schedule, neither West Ham nor Liverpool had conceded since the game began. The two teams started the game with the ball in the midfield, and they grabbed it very well.

'Both sides are stockpiling heavily in midfield and fighting for the ball. The game was played rather dullly. Neither side created much of a threat and didn't produce any good attacking performances. ”

The game looked intense, but it was very dull. Because the two teams hoarded heavy troops in the midfield, they kept grabbing the ball. Neither created some threatening shots nor organised some good attacks.

"Leo, Leo. ”

From the beginning of the game, Chen Ping stood on the sidelines to pay attention to the situation of the game. After watching it for a while, Chen Ping was still satisfied with the game process. But Chen Ping thought about it and still called Leo Cork's name.

"Come here, come here. ”

Chen Ping beckoned to Leo Cork and told him to come over quickly.

"Head. ”

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Leo Cork came to Chen Ping's side. For Leo Cork Chen Ping is very fond of it. Because Leo Cork is a typical England midfielder, with good physical fitness and a lot of energy, his movement can cover the entire midfield.

Of course, Leo Cork has his drawbacks.

Like the rest of England's midfielders, Leo Cork doesn't have flashy skills or too good passing ability. Leo Cork is mainly able to run, grab, and has excellent basic skills. Passing, shooting, defending can all be done, but of course it's not too top-notch. This limits Leo Koke from becoming a top midfielder.

But as a midfield mixer, Leo Cork is still very qualified. Because Leo Cork can grab and run.

What's more, Leo Cork himself is obedient. He played wherever he was asked, and there was no complaint at all. Since Chen Ping arrived at West Ham, Leo Koke has played on the right wing, as a central midfielder, as a midfielder, as a right-back, wherever he needs to be. And as long as he is on the field, he is conscientious and completes the assigned tasks very well every time.

Historically, Leo Cork captained West Ham after Carrick's departure for a reason. When Leo became West Ham captain, he was just 20 years old. In other words, Leo Cork became West Ham captain at the age of twenty.

If it weren't for the fact that West Ham are far more powerful now than they have been in history, Leo Cork would certainly be the main force. However, even among the substitutes, Leo Cork is the one who has played the most games.

If it weren't for the fact that the system gave too few potential points and strength points, Chen Ping really wanted to build Leo Cork into a top midfielder. Because compared to Mascherano, Leo Cork has a deeper affection for West Ham and is more committed to the game.

"Run, run. Mess up the Liverpool midfielder for me completely, and let the Liverpool midfielders run with you. Go tell Michael to get him to run more, to pass more, to increase the pace of the game. You know what I mean? You guys compete with the Liverpool midfielders who can run faster and who runs more. ”

"Yes. ”

"Go ahead. ”

Chen Ping is well prepared for this game.

The reason why Ribery, Arshavin and Defoe were chosen to sit on the bench to rest was to compare their physical reserves with Liverpool. Many of Liverpool's players are participating in the Christmas schedule for the first time.

Such as Xavi Alonso, Luis Garcia.

As Spanish players, they have never played on the Christmas schedule. However, they are Benitez's favourites at the moment and have played a lot of games this season. Liverpool and West Ham are not the same, and the pursuit is not the same.

Liverpool are playing Champions League games this season.

Although Benitez is a coach who likes to rotate, he does not rotate all players. Some core players, even if Benitez wants to rotate, can't be rotated casually. Liverpool's Champions League group stage appeared but stumbled, and Benitez can't just change those core players. As a result, Liverpool's core players have played more games than West Ham's players.

Chen Ping can use the substitute to pass the UEFA Cup, but Liverpool can't do that.

So Liverpool's core players, such as Xavi Alonso, Gerrard, Luis Garcia, they play more games. The same goes for striker Baroshe, who includes Liverpool. Mainly because Liverpool let go of Owen this season, Saha has received another serious injury, and Diouf is overwhelmed. So Barosh played a lot of games, despite his average performance.

In addition to them, Colwill on the bench is a glass man who gets injured at every turn. There are also Hamann and Smitchell, both players in their thirties. These people have played a lot of games, which is a great test of physical strength.

Chen Ping never believed that players were iron men.

Chen Ping has a system in his hands, and he doesn't dare to say that the players under him are iron men, so most of the main players are rested in the cup. Not to mention these players of Liverpool. Chen Ping has carefully analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of West Ham and Liverpool.

Liverpool's great thing is that they have tactician Benitez. Competing tactics with the current Benitez, Chen Ping is not confident enough. But when it comes to the physical fitness of the two teams, Chen Ping is confident enough.

Many of the players under Chen Ping's hands were originally players with excellent physical strength. With the "basic training course" given by the system, the physical fitness and basic skills of these players have been greatly improved.

For top players, a little bit of improvement, that's not easy. West Ham's players who are very physical, with a little bit of stamina, are remarkable. And the training course designed by Chen Ping for them is to improve their ability in this regard.

So in this game, Chen Ping didn't want to compete with Benitez in terms of tactics.

Chen Ping wanted to crush him with his running.

After Leo Koke communicated Chen Ping's deployment, West Ham immediately increased their passing and running in midfield. In addition to Mascherano stabilizing his position, Carrick, Leo Coke and Benayoun immediately increased their running. Carrick is a first-class midfielder when it comes to controlling the tempo of the game and is the best player in control of the game in the entire Premier League.

Leo Cork and Benayoun ran up and down. 88

In the last game, Leo Cork and Benayoun were both rested and did not play, and they have been recuperating. The two of them haven't played in the league much this season, so they really appreciate the opportunity. They didn't feel tired at all, on the contrary, they were very excited. The movement of Leo Koke and Benayoun completely messed up the Liverpool midfielders.

Rafa Benitez is a great master tactician.

He also knows the weaknesses of his team. After all, it's a game every two days, and the players can't stand it even if they are iron. Although West Ham is getting better and better at the moment, they are much stronger than the first time they met. However, Benitez believes that as long as the game is controlled, there is still a chance to beat West Ham. Like Chen Ping's careful analysis of Liverpool, Benitez also carefully analysed the situation at West Ham.

West Ham's problems are still there, but they cover up their defensive problems with a strong attacking force. So Benitez's idea is to keep the tempo of the game under control and then find an opportunity to strike a lethal blow at a weakness in West Ham's defence.

But when the game started, the situation was completely different from what Benitez had thought. West Ham didn't play any tactics with you at all, and they didn't rush to attack, but the midfielders were crazy to grab the ball. Carrick, as the core of West Ham, is also not thinking about how to attack, but keeps running and passing the ball to keep the pace of the game going.

Liverpool, on the other hand, can only run at this fast pace.

Rafa Benitez wants Xavi Alonso to take control of the game, but he is clearly unable to take on that responsibility. The current Xavi Alonso is not the Xavi Alonso of a few years later, he is still very immature. Xavi Alonso can be said to have not adapted to the Premier League for long, and compared to Carrick, he is a lot worse.

Carrick himself is an excellent England midfielder, and now he is a top midfielder created by Chen Ping with the system.

The result was a Liverpool midfielder who kept running along with the West Ham players. Once the pace of the game was getting up, the direction of the game was no longer under Benitez's control. With this rhythm of the game, Xavi Alonso is the most tired. Because he can't be said to be a defensive player himself, his style of play actually needs a defensive player to protect him. However, there was no such partner in this game, and he had to play both as a playmaker and as a defensive midfielder.

Benayoun or Leo Coke came to him when they ran.

He was exhausted.

What's more, where did Xavi Alonso play on the Christmas schedule, and it was such a dense Christmas schedule. The human body has a memory. Xavi Alonso has never played such a high-intensity game in Spain, and it was Christmas when he should have rested. So for playing at Christmas, the body itself is not adapted.

However, after playing two games in a row, this game followed the West Ham midfielders too much, and soon began to feel tired. After about 30 minutes of the first half, Xavi Alonso felt that his legs were already heavy and he couldn't run. In fact, although Xavi Alonso played the match two days ago, he didn't feel tired so quickly. Mainly because the West Ham midfielder accelerated the pace of the game, allowing Alonso to run too passively, so he felt tired after 30 minutes.

He wondered in his heart.

The West Ham players also played two days ago, but how could they run so easily? Especially look at Carrick, who is also the core of the team's organization, and also played in the Premier League game two days ago, but Carrick is so capable of running.

I don't understand.

Xavi Alonso, of course, couldn't figure it out.

Carrick was originally an England midfielder with a lot of physical strength, and after the transformation of Chen Ping's system, plus training according to Chen Ping's training course. For Carrick's age, it is a golden age for rapid development in all aspects of body, experience, and technology. Therefore, combined with the basic training course specially formulated for him by Chen Ping, Carrick's physical fitness, basic skills, and even physical fitness have developed very much. It can be said that the basic training course given to Chen Ping by the system is something that surpasses the current sports science for a hundred years. The basic training according to this is to make the West Ham players more physically than all the Premier League players and more than all the European players.

And Carrick is an England player himself, so he knows the Christmas schedule very well and has played a lot of Christmas games. These advantages are comparable to Xavi Alonso. Xavi Alonso's running and passing began to slow down due to physical reasons, and as a result, the entire Liverpool midfield began to be chaotic. Because Xavi Alonso is Liverpool's playmaking midfielder, there are problems on his side, and Liverpool's attack and defense are starting to have problems.

"Gerrard, Gerrard passes...... The ball went to Luis Garcia. Garcia, he's going to cut inside!"

If there's one more alive player in Liverpool's midfield, it's definitely Steven Gerrard. Although he played two days ago, he is significantly better than Xavi Alonso and is familiar with the Christmas schedule.

Therefore, they know how to distribute their physical strength.

Because Alonso gradually decreased the number of times he got the ball, Gerrard could only keep dropping back to attack with the ball. This time it was again that he strode forward from midfield, passing the ball to Luis Garcia on the right before Carrick blocked. Luis Garcia mainly uses his left foot, so he didn't break down the wing, opting to cut inside.

"Garcia, Martin Anthony tackles! nice tackles, Martin Anthony tackles the ball very accurately. Garcia's movements were a little slow, probably because of his physical strength. ”

Luis Garcia is a Spanish player like Xavi Alonso, so his technique at his feet is still okay. And as a winger, the speed is also very good. But this time it was different, he moved much slower, and the problem was the same as Alonso. After the West Ham players picked up the tempo, they passively followed the run, and as a result, there was a problem with physical strength.

Running with some of the "brutes" in West Ham's midfield was too physically exertional. By the time it was more than thirty minutes later, Luis Garcia had clearly felt that his stamina had reached a point. It took some time for him to regain some strength.

As a result, his movements were much slower when he cut in, and he didn't have his usual agility. Martin Anthony went up and made a direct tackle.

"Anthony, give the ball to Carrick who came over to pick it up. Carrick handed the ball to Leo Coke. ”

West Ham players have a lot of runs, so they pass a lot.

The offense was fast.

Leo Cork picked up the ball and Benayoun, who was moving on the right, dropped back to pick it up. Gerrard had just passed the ball in front of him, but by this time he had run back and was ready to defend Benayoun. But instead of passing the ball to Benayoun, Leo Koke played it to the left. It turned out that Carrick, who was behind to pass the ball to Leo Coke, had already stepped forward.

"Carrick, Carrick is fast. Xavi Alonso can't keep up with Carrick's pace, Carrick, diagonal pass!"

Xavi Alonso really can't keep up with Carrick.

Xavi Alonso's speed is not as fast as Carrick's, and his physical strength has reached a point where he needs to rest, so his legs are not obedient at all. Alonso still relied on strong willpower to allow himself to block Carrick's running route.

It's a pity that the heart is more than enough but the strength is insufficient.

Not to mention blocking Carrick's running route, not even Carrick's passing lane. Carrick aimed at the box with great ease and crossed the ball diagonally into the box.

"Lambert, Lambert's header is back!"

"Hasselbaink, veteran Hasselbaink's shot!"