Chapter 22: The Christmas Schedule
The 16th round of the league was moved to 3 January, and that game was played at home to Aston Villa. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The next game is the last game of the season in the Champions League group stage, away to Twente.
The first half of the schedule, all the Champions League games, from the very beginning, were considered difficult, and this one was the only one.
It's not that Twente is strong, Suarez has played against this team over and over again in the Eredivisie, and he doesn't feel how strong he is.
There is only one reason, and that is the time, December 8.
At this time, the Netherlands must have been cold out.
However, Suarez told the others that it wasn't cold in Twente, and it wasn't cold in the whole of the Netherlands.
Everyone was disdainful, this month, the Champions League games in the Netherlands were all smeared, and it was already dark at three o'clock in the afternoon, just like St. Petersburg, how could it not be cold?
Dalglish seems to be more insightful: "First of all, I told you bunnies, you are not allowed to go to Rotterdam before and after the game, and there is a league on the weekend!" ”
This part of the Netherlands, especially near the train station in Amsterdam, is one of the most hated places for managers in the entire sports world.
Here it is legal to buy m, it is legal to buy x, and it is legal to gamble on b, not to mention all kinds of alcohol.
Anyway, what is considered a rival in an athlete's career is legal here.
Bell shuddered: "Don't worry, boss, it's so cold, I'm not interested at all." ”
The crowd also laughed on the plane.
Gerald looked at the sky, "Don't encounter another volcanic eruption." ”
Although Liverpool was out of the group stage last year, there are still some stories.
At that time, Liverpool entered the UEFA Cup competition with third place.
As a result, the Icelandic volcano erupted, the volcanic ash severely impeded traffic, and finally the coaching staff unanimously decided to give up the League Cup to secure the top three.
When they arrived in the Netherlands, the crowd was dumbfounded.
Here, it's really not cold, not even as good as England.
If you insist on it, then England is like the southeast coastal region of the country, the temperature is not low but it is cold to the bone.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, is like Yunnan and Sichuan in China, with a temperature similar to that of England, and there is no cold wind to the bone.
It seems that the Netherlands is an outlier among the Nordic countries.
In Twente, even more so.
It's not cold at all, it's just that it's too early, and on the first day, there's not much time to train.
I don't know if it's a group of people who are too lucky, that night it was a rare cloudless sky in the Netherlands, and the Northern Lights could be seen, and a group of people also happily drove to the suburbs.
Dalglish couldn't stop it.
However, there are people who run back and forth to Northern Europe in their lives, and they can't see it once, which is purely a landscape of luck, and Dalglish is not easy to stop.
It's not too common in Northern Europe, and it's not rare, but the Facebook posts of Liverpool players still attract a lot of attention from fans.
"666, everyone else is going to the game, you guys are going sightseeing."
Liverpool have already qualified ahead of schedule and their league results are stable enough, so the reason why Dalglish is going to play this game is that he is worried about meeting German or Nordic teams in the quarter-finals and will have to adapt to the snow battle first.
There's not a lot of snow in Twente, but it's always falling.
It stands to reason that this climate should not snow in this climate.
Here's the blame.
The climate of the Netherlands is very special, he is in northern Europe, but the geographical location is equal to the sea of tears, and the altitude is low, and there are high mountains to block it, so it has become a safe haven.
In the west, there are cold Atlantic currents, but in the east, hot currents are coming.
The temperature on the ground is high enough because of the low altitude, but the temperature in the sky is extremely low, and it is snowing all the time, and the population of Twente is not too dense, the urban heat island effect is not enough, and the snow does not melt much.
As a result, the Liverpool players happily had a snow battle with not low temperatures.
The FC Twente players have taken the lead in gaining a foothold with their experience, while Liverpool, who are based on English and Spanish players, are still a little uncomfortable.
However, there are always accidents, Wang Zhen, Modric, and Suarez are all familiar with snow battles.
Throughout the first half, Liverpool relied on the vitality of the three to play on a par with Twente.
It also makes people understand how much the climate affects football, knowing that Inter are not Liverpool's one-on-one rivals, let alone FC Twente.
In the second half, when all the players of Liverpool eased up, Twente immediately turned on the bloody collapse mode.
In the first half, although there were three players who were very active, they could not form a regional suppression, let alone a full-court suppression.
And it is not possible for Modric to directly assist two strikers, let alone Reveère, who is further away.
By the second half, almost everyone was adjusting to the snow.
It's just that the foot slips a little bit, and it takes a little longer to start up in the spike boots.
The underfloor heating equipment is well done, there is no snow and not too much water, it is not so difficult to kick.
And the German team may have better underfloor heating than the Dutch side, and in the event of a snow battle, the problem is not too big.
The Liverpool players who had adapted to it began to go berserk, as if to compensate for the idleness of the first half.
In the 51st minute, Bale galloped on the pitch, forced an overtake on the outside road, and then cut horizontally and rushed diagonally towards the penalty area.
Wang Zhen and Suarez are using their running positions to stir up the defense of the penalty area, and Wang Zhen himself calls this set of no-ball cooperation a-stirring stick A.
The two kept looking for each other's positions, and Bale was also looking for a few common points in training, seizing the opportunity to stuff the ball over.
It was Suarez who ran into position, and Suarez raised his foot directly to shoot, and the ball flew into the goal.
In the 62nd minute, Revue stepped up and made an unstandard collision with Modric on the half-court line, and when the ball came out for the second time, Modric swung directly on his thigh and passed the ball out.
On the left side, Kaka took the lead and got the ball, and Kaka, who had rested long enough and was in his prime, was a bargain in terms of physical strength alone.
Kaka, who got the ball after galloping, did not choose to pass the ball, but tried to break through and shoot from the left.
However, it seems that this set of action cards is not familiar, and the football did not hit.
However, trouble really came when the goalkeeper from Twente saved the ball.
Wang Zhen stood on the second drop point, with a top on his chest, and volleyed at the football that stopped towards the ground.
At such a short distance, the gods couldn't stop it, and the football went into the net, 2 to 0.
Next, it seems to have entered the goal gathering of the defenders.
In the 67th minute, Modric made a long shot, the football was blocked out of the penalty area, and in a farther position, Godin shot directly after getting the ball, although the long-range shot was not as good as Modric, and the strength was not so great, but Modric opened the way, and the Twente goalkeeper did not have the ability to guard against the second shot, and the goal actually flew into the goal without any stops.
In the 71st minute, Meriles, who had just been substituted to adapt to the game, grabbed the front point in the header tactics as soon as he came on the field and put the ball into the goal.
It was really difficult for Meriles, who was not very athletic, and it was also considered by the fans to be a welcome to Lady Luck to Merry.
In the seventy-ninth minute, Carragher came!
Carragher also fired a long-range shot through the net.
'It's a strange phenomenon, 0-0 in the first half and Liverpool scored five goals in the second half! It's like a tiger catching its prey and having to play with it for a while before killing it in one bite, lions are more accustomed to attacking and killing, while tigers with more dominance can do whatever they want. ”
Anything else, it was a special game indeed, with zero goals in the first half and five for Liverpool in the second.
However, the reporter of the good thing forcibly found a gimmick for the game: "The media argues about who is stronger between Barcelona and Liverpool, and now Liverpool is speaking with 5-0, and now it is Barcelona's turn!" ”
(To be continued.) )