Chapter 100: Unbeaten in the league and the first defeat of the season

Failure is inevitable, success is also inevitable, but at this point in time, we ushered in failure, but also ushered in the opportunity to correct and renew. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

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On May 17, all West Bromwich Albion players stood outside the players' tunnel to welcome the arrival of the new champions.

According to the unwritten rules, after a team has won the championship early, the home team's players must be welcomed by the team before the match on the following away journey.

However, in this game, none of Liverpool's main players appeared.

Because on the 27th and 30th, two consecutive finals are waiting for Liverpool.

Therefore, in this game, almost all the main players did not participate with the team, and everyone enjoyed a good holiday.

Maybe others don't know it, but the Liverpool hierarchy are well aware that they are not welcome in the league, especially in front of the FA, and they will never change the time of the final round of the league and the FA Cup final in order for Liverpool to play in the Champions League final.

Although Liverpool has also made efforts, the FA's answer is very formal and official. Because as soon as the end of May is over, there will be World Cup qualifiers, and the FA believes that delaying the final round of the league or postponing the FA Cup final will cause opposition from the football associations of the countries concerned.

And it just so happens that Chelsea is a team with many international names.

Benitez's reaction at the time was, fuck you.

However, it was a foregone conclusion, and Benitez's response was to give up the so-called unbeaten title and the so-called 96-point maximum league title points that would surpass Chelsea.

Don't want anything, hard to win the championship final.

So, send all the substitutes to play.

And the full substitution does not mean that Liverpool has directly given up on these.

Benitez needs his players to keep fighting.

It's good to say that the entire Liverpool substitutes, many people have been sitting on the bench all season, and many people have already had the idea of leaving, but since they can play, they must perform well, otherwise which team will want players who have not performed well once a season?

The game was finally played by Liverpool.

Liverpool have 93 points on their table, and if they can win the final round, then there is no doubt that Liverpool will be really shining this season.

However, the bad news is that the opponent in this game is Tottenham.

In the final round, against Tottenham, it would have been good news.

However, the headache is that Bale has successfully walked out of the cycle of not winning as long as he is on the court.

After getting out of the strange circle, Bale quickly became the darling of the stars of the English media.

Liverpool's substitute, against Tottenham, met the great sage who opened his mind after being tempered in the gossip furnace.

I don't know if it's the reason for the butterfly effect, in Wang Zhen's memory, Bell stood out and didn't do it so quickly.

But everything has already happened.

At home, Liverpool faced Tottenham Hotspur in their first home game after winning the title, and although the team played very aggressively, in the end, they played 0-0 with Tottenham.

It was also a rare game for Liverpool not to score this season.

In this game, Bale's play was indeed very crucial, and his sharp breakthrough forced Liverpool did not dare to attack with great fanfare, so he was kept a clean sheet.

However, Liverpool still completed their unbeaten season.

Combined with last season's seven-game unbeaten run, it has been a total of 45 games unbeaten across the season, quickly approaching Arsenal's record of 49 games unbeaten.

However, they also missed the opportunity to surpass Chelsea's 95-point league title.

Overall, this Liverpool team is very strong in attack, scoring more than ten goals than Chelsea back then, but conceding a lot more.

Chelsea conceded just 15 goals that year, while Liverpool conceded almost 15 goals in just the four games they conceded the most.

After the game, the Tottenham manager also expressed his opinion: "It is a great achievement to be able to draw against Liverpool at Anfield this season, but we all know that Liverpool cannot play fully in the league due to the impact of the championship schedule, and we have missed the record for the most championship points, we will not be complacent because of this draw, but I think Tottenham will always rise, we have a lot of good young players, and this game proved it." ”

In short, this record, as the media speculated, Liverpool did not complete in the end.

But they also completed an unbeaten season and had more points than Arsenal's unbeaten season.

The media has also quickly shifted its focus to other aspects.

For example, the next Champions League final!

Rome, Stadio Olimpic.

Wang Zhen helped Gerald and sat in the audience.

Gerald's right leg wears a special fixed shoe.

The appearance of the two has also attracted long-term attention from the broadcast camera.

"The absence of Steven Gerrard and Wang Zhen at the same time was a devastating blow to Liverpool and cast a shadow over their title journey, compared to Barcelona doing better in this regard, and I am sure that Barcelona will not let go of this opportunity."

Although Liverpool is a team known for its tenacity, and although Liverpool represents the toughest beliefs, everyone feels that Barcelona has picked up a soft persimmon.

"On the 27th of Italy, we have reached two o'clock in the morning on the 28th, today is the Dragon Boat Festival, but Liverpool has not been reunited, and they are missing the two most important players of the team."

"This season is full of a lot of surprises, Barcelona and Liverpool will meet in the final, almost everyone did not expect, if Liverpool wins, they will win the team's sixth Champions League, they are currently the third team with the most Champions League titles, and after winning it will further stabilize all this, and if Barcelona wins, it will be Barcelona's third crown, so that their number of titles will enter the top six."

From the very beginning of the game, Barcelona immediately got into their rhythm.

Without Steven Gerrard, it will be difficult for Liverpool to control the football with control, let alone spend more time on the ball than Barcelona in passing.

The game looked boring because it was going very slowly, and every now and then Barcelona would pick up the speed and then calm down.

They are very good at finding that kind of opportunity and they are good at controlling the tempo.

Someone once joked: "Mainz's style of play is to keep the ball moving in front of the court, so that the opponent is always terrified and feels that someone will kick his goal." And Barcelona's style of play is that the football is constantly running in the front and back courts, making the defenders fall asleep, and then taking advantage of the defenders to fall asleep, and pass smoothly. ”

Although it is very exaggerated, it sharply points to the essence of transmission and control.

Barcelona's style of play, to a large extent, is to paralyze the opponent's spirit through long passes, making them think that the next pass is still aimless.

If the defender really thinks so, then the moment to concede the goal will come, because the defender can't be tight, but from slack to tight, starting again is the strongest and best thing for Barcelona to do.

If you have to find a very similar tactical style of play for this model.

You can think of it as a defensive counter-attack with the ball at your feet.

Because they are attacking instead of defending.

Constantly passing and possessing the ball, controlling the ball, and the goal is not to attack better, but to stop the opponent's attack.

The ancient philosophical adage that the best defense is offense can be found in any era, any situation.

Since the seventh minute, the game fell into this mode, Wang Zhen and Gerrard glanced at each other, and it was over.

The reason is that on the pitch, Alonso is not good at attacking, and Riera and Babel's attacks are inferior to Xavi and Iniesta.

What's more, there is also a Messi who is extremely dazzling this season, and Henry, who has been famous for many years.

If the whole team rarely gets the ball, and the attack after getting the ball can only be taught to the opportunist Torres to attack, then there is no doubt that this rhythm is what Barcelona would like to see the most.

The outcome of the match is almost confirmed, unless Benitez can make any earth-shattering changes.

But on the bench, there is a lack of material for earth-shattering changes.

In the 36th minute, after more than 10 passes, the football suddenly went up.

Messi, who was on the right touchline, picked up the ball and quickly cut to the middle, walked through the famous Messi corridor, Liverpool was heavily crowded, but could not stop Messi, and in the end, Messi got the chance to shoot in this heads-up and opened the scoring.

Messi was not excited after the goal and ran back with his head bored, but his teammates were willing to celebrate, but they couldn't find the protagonist of the celebration.

At the start of the second half, the commentators had already begun to make up their minds: "It's over, Liverpool will lose the first game of the season, but it will be the most important game of the whole season." "Of course, if the Carlin Cup, which was abandoned early, is also the League Cup, it doesn't count.

As a result, the Liverpool players still gave everyone a resounding slap in the face.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Alonso's long ball went straight across the half, and Torres drove in at full speed to score a shot from inside the box to equalise the score.

Suddenly, the atmosphere of the whole stadium was warm again.

However, this situation lasted only five minutes, and then Barcelona once again dragged the pace of the game into their own rhythm.

In the 78th minute, Samuel Eto'o scored the winning goal.

Two to one.

Since then, nothing has changed, Liverpool is like a fighting beast trapped in a net, Liverpool has lost its sharp teeth and claws, and there is no way to tear this net.

"Liverpool's performance is enough to make them proud, and it is difficult to play the game to have a chance to win after missing the two most important of the three points of attacking firepower, and maybe the next matchup between Liverpool and Barcelona will be the strongest dialogue between the two teams."

This sentence set the general tone for the game.

In the end, Liverpool lost 1-2 to Barcelona.

Barcelona reached the top again after four years.

"In 06, Wang Zhen's red card, sent Barcelona through, in 09, Wang Zhen was red card in the game against Arsenal, and let Barcelona reach the top again, perhaps, what Wang Zhen wants to do most now is to play a good game with Barcelona, but this has to wait until later."

In the stands, Wang Zhen sighed: "Next year." ”

"Next year?" Gerald shook his head and stopped talking.

Gerrard is well aware of the damage that Alonso and others will have on the team.

Wang Zhen frowned, and then suddenly stretched: "Then the year after tomorrow, we will win, I hope the opponent is Barcelona." ”

Gerald nodded: "I want it too." ”

Unbeaten in the league and the first defeat of the season, this year, Liverpool only have one last goal, which is the FA Cup final.

On May 30, Wembley Stadium, Liverpool meets Chelsea!

(To be continued.) )