"The second half is about to start...... We've seen players from both sides play...... Oh, I see Julio Cruise! Did Dick choose to make a substitution at halftime? In the first half, Atletico's players did not play badly, especially Baraja, his movement in the midfield was a strong support for Atletico's defence, if he was replaced...... Wait, Baraja is still on the field, so who did Cruise replace? ”

The commentator shouted in shock, and then he counted the number of people who played at Atletico: "It was the right-back Héctor who was substituted...... It's a strange approach, Atletico have become a back three, so can it be balanced on the field? Liverpool did not make any substitutions, it seems that Atletico Madrid is planning to launch a more ferocious attack in the second half, but their attack in the first half was not bad, and now one more striker may not be able to achieve a better offensive effect, football is not a sport that can score goals by stacking forwards...... Anyway, let's take a look at the second half of the game! ”

Strange difference with the commentator, Houllier took a deep look at Dick - he just laid out the contraction defense at halftime, patiently using counterattacks to find set-pieces and attacking opportunities, and saw Dick change at halftime, one less full-back will not weaken Atletico Madrid's defense much, because to a large extent, they only need to defend Liverpool's quick counterattack, one less person will not be too much of a problem, but it can make Atletico's positional ability to increase a lot!

Dick completely guessed Houllier's tactical change, although Houllier also guessed Atletico Madrid's tactical change, but he didn't expect Dick to directly replace a striker and a defender, this change can be described as extremely decisive!

"No wonder this young coach has become more and more famous over the years, it seems that there are indeed two brushes...... Hollier thought to himself, and then immediately after sitting down, he said to the players on the bench: "You guys go and do some preparations, maybe I'll send you out at any time." ”

Houllier also kicked all the substitutes out to warm up...... It seems that the two managers can't wait to make substitutions, and they really want to steal the show on the sidelines! ”

In the sigh of the commentator, the second half of the game officially began!

In the second half, it was Atletico's turn to kick off, and immediately after the kickoff, Atletico launched a crazy attack!

After receiving the return pass from Cruise, Belleron let the ball go a little too much at his feet, and then passed to Capdevilla on the left side, Capdevilla distributed the ball to Vicente in front, Vicente pretended to pass to Belleron who was plugged in the middle, but he shook his ankle and stuffed the ball straight to Cruz in front!

Cruise leaned over to take the ball, completed the turn before Gerrard came up to interfere, then he raised his foot to pass the ball horizontally, and then cut forward, Belleron received the ball, and distributed the ball in front of him at the first time, and Cruise grabbed Huntez's block and immediately picked up his right foot and volleyed hard!

The ball whistled into the bottom left corner of the goal, Westveld quickly fell to the ground, lifted the ball with one palm, and Carragher immediately cleared the ball with a big foot after receiving the ball!

The ball whistled and flew to the frontcourt, Owen and Thuram rushed to the landing point of the ball at the same time, although Owen threw off Thuram a little distance, he needed to wait for the ball to fall at the landing point, Thuram was not polite, with the power of the sprint, Thuram jumped up, and then headed the ball into the Liverpool half again!

Atletico are attacking again!

The ball was picked up by Baraja, who was at the back of the pitch, who turned and passed the ball to Makelele, who immediately distributed the ball to the left and Liverpool's defence began to retreat.

Vicente took the ball and saw that there was no room for his own breakthrough, he didn't force the ball - he knew that his small skills were not particularly good, and in this case it was better to leave it to the experts......

Belleron received a pass from Vicente and then controlled the ball well under the attack of Hamann and Gerrard, and seeing that the opposition defence was very well recovered, he did not continue to dribble the ball, but found a gap and passed the ball to Camoranesi who cut in on the right.

Camoranesi began to move forward with the ball, Carragher came up - all he had to do was to block Camoranesi's advance, Atletico's attack rarely used the player's individual skills to form a breakthrough, and even if there was, it was to rely on Vicente's speed to break through when the offensive space was relatively large, Camoranesi has always been a diligent running collective player, and he doesn't seem to have any excellent breakthrough footwork......

This time, however, he began to dribble on the wing, and the continuous back and forth dribbling made Carragher a little unprepared, knowing that Carragher is not the top defender of the future Liverpool captain-level defender, but only a rookie - he is not a main defender in Liverpool.

After stangling with Camoranesi for a while, Camoranesi relied on his foot skills and confrontation to get rid of Carragher's defense, and then began to go down the wing at high speed, and then quickly raised his foot to pass the ball into the penalty area!

When Camoranesi did not break through, Liverpool's central defenders could not be dragged too late, because this would make the opponent's attack more careless, as a mature backline, should keep their position parallel to the opponent's most attacking player, so that they can defend at any time or move ahead to create offside - this has nothing to do with whether it is dense defense, this belongs to a professional team back line must have a quality.

When Camoranesi broke through to the bottom line, Atletico Madrid's two center forwards began to step forward, and at this time, Liverpool's central defenders were a little slow to react, being stopped by Jadel and Cruz, and at the same time, Camoranesi's timely cross had flown into the Liverpool penalty area!

Jadel jumped up to entice Hyypia to jump with him, but the ball flew over their heads, and Cruise jumped high against the ball, leaving Huntez completely behind, and then immediately headed it over!

Westerveld only had time to wave his hand before the ball raced into the Liverpool door!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! The ball is in! Julio Cruise! What an amazing super sub! Just three minutes into the second half, substitute Cruise headed the ball in front of goal - into the Liverpool goal! Three to two! Atletico Madrid is ahead of the curve! It's incredible! Atletico Madrid, who fell behind by two goals in the first 22 minutes, scored three goals in a row in the following time! Liverpool's defense has a problem! ”

Dick jumped up from the dugout with his hands raised, and the Atletico fans let out a huge shout, in addition to the shouts, they kept chanting Cruise's name, and added a "saint" in front - San Julio Cruz!

As soon as he came on the bench, Cruise was like the legendary magical warrior, always with such a magical performance! With his diligence and excellent form, he proved that Dick's investment in him was definitely not in vain!

Houllier cursed loudly, what happened during this time was so unacceptable, he slapped the rain canopy on the bench, and then called Smitchell on the bench: "Play!" ”

After Atletico's celebration, Liverpool also made their first substitution of the game, attacking midfielder Smitchell and replacing central defender Huntez!

An attacking midfielder replaces a centre-back! Houllier also showed his drive and desire to win!

"After Smitchell came on, Babel and Carragher shrank in the middle, and Liverpool's formation changed from 442 to 352...... All four of their defenders could have played centre-back, but Babbel and Carragher were more flexible than Huntez, and with them they would have been much better in the middle......

Dick muttered silently in his heart, then immediately stood up and called Vicente on the sidelines: "Tell Mauro that you and him are going to press up!" Suppress their two wings! Now they don't have full-backs, and if we hold down their two full-backs, we don't need to worry about defending on the wings! Tell Claude to deal with the guy who just came on the pitch and cut off the connection between him and the two strikers! ”

After saying this, Dick sat back down - more than the command? That's my brother's forte!

Houllier's substitution is nothing more than to strengthen the attack, such a change can be regarded as decent, adding a midfielder with excellent attacking ability, connecting the bridge between the striker and the midfielder, but Dick replaced the fullback Héctor with Cruise instead of midfielder Baraja, just to prevent this, now Atletico Madrid's defense in the middle is still solid, Liverpool wants to connect the striker and the midfielder, it is not so easy!

After the restart, Liverpool immediately launched a much more violent attack than before, for Liverpool's attack, Atletico Madrid did not give up the hope of their own attack, immediately launched an interception in the midfield, Atletico Madrid's defensive ability in the middle is also quite strong, Baraja, who runs well, plus Makelele who judged accurately, Belleron also often retreats to help defend, and it is not easy to open Atletico Madrid's defense from the middle.

Smitchell, who had just come on the field, finally got rid of Baraja's pressure and received the ball, Makelele quietly covered from behind, and before he turned around, he accurately stretched out his foot and poked the ball from under his feet, and Baraja, who ran over, just got the ball rolled out, and immediately turned around and passed the ball to Belleron not far in front of him!

Belleron made the pass as soon as he turned, and the ball passed like a bolt of lightning between Gerrard and Hamann, and then landed exactly in front of Vicente on the left!

Vicente accelerates, breaks!

McAllister dragged his pace desperately back to the defense, but could not keep up with Vicente's pace, in this case, Babbel had to move over to defend Vicente, Vicente did not continue to dribble the ball, but raised his foot to distribute the ball to Cruise, who came to meet in the middle......

Cruise was about to break through with the ball, Hyypia was forced to put Cruise to the ground, free kick, Atletico Madrid won a direct free kick twenty-five meters away from the goal, the free kick in this position is also quite dangerous!

Dick stood up and looked closely at the pitch – Atletico are now ahead and if they can extend their lead again, they will have an even bigger advantage in this game – Liverpool had a two-goal lead in the first half, and now it's the second half!

"We scored from set-pieces...... Then let you guys see what kind of set-piece tactics Atletico Madrid are! Dick began to sneer, he had always grasped the tactical arrangement of set-pieces, and this was the only training method he was familiar with - he naturally had countless set-piece tactics in his head!