Houllier watched the game on the field, his expression extremely calm.

Atletico were slower to advance and only occasionally attack quickly, while Liverpool's attack was much faster, quickly passing through the midfield and then creating chances for the attacking players.

This style of play made Liverpool's attack look a little messy, and it didn't create many chances in Atletico's orderly defense, and Owen struggled to get any chances under Thuram's defense, because he rarely dropped back, and Heskey grabbed a few balls under Marchena's defense, but it didn't seem to have much impact on the overall situation.

However, Hollier continued to sit in his position without moving, as if he was not worried about the situation on the field at all, Dick glanced at Hollier from a distance, and muttered in his heart - abnormality is a demon, what is Hollier thinking?

Is there some conspiracy, or is it pretending to be calm?

Dick's brain was running at high speed, and then decided to ignore the rest, first use the attack to score a goal, and then say, scoring first means that he has a certain advantage on the field, if the other party really has any conspiracy, then the time will be to see the move......

After a back-and-forth pass in midfield, Belleron sent a behind-the-back ball, Jadel defended the ball at the edge of the box and quickly sent a final pass into the box, where Hyypia was solid enough to make up for it and get in front of Camoranesi to keep it out.

The ball fell to Carragher's feet, Carragher immediately passed straight to Murphy in front, Atletico Madrid's players began to have a level of defense, this time Liverpool still played a fast attack, Murphy directly passed the ball to Owen who was slightly behind, Owen turned around and began to break through!

Thuram knew that it would be a bit of a hassle to get Owen's speed up in this situation, so he immediately caught up with him, and when Owen turned to break through, he overturned Owen from the side with one shoulder!

The referee's whistle sounded, he ran over and warned Thuram twice, but Thuram was not worried, he was very measured, although it was a deliberate foul, but the foul was when Owen just turned around and had no time to break through, it was not a foul in a dangerous situation, plus the action was not big, at most it was just one or two warnings.

Sure enough, the referee only warned Thuram twice, and did not do much, taking advantage of this opportunity, Atletico Madrid's players have returned to the defense one after another to prevent a fast attack from Liverpool.

Dick nodded slightly, with Thuram, is to use his point, he has excellent physical fitness, excellent defensive awareness and rich experience, now Thuram can be called one of the top central defenders in the world, this choice is undoubtedly extremely correct, although he can always stick to Owen not to be thrown off by him, but after all, it is more dangerous to do that, or to commit a decisive foul, with the minimum cost to stop the opponent's attack.

Liverpool didn't seem to be in a hurry to take a free-kick, McAllister ran slowly, and as he did, Liverpool's defenders poured into the Atletico penalty area......

Dick's eyes narrowed slightly, he sensed a hint of danger, and this sense of danger came from the height of the Liverpool players......

Hyypia is 1.96 meters tall, Huntez is 1.99 meters tall, Babbel is 1.91 meters tall, and the shortest Carragher is also 1.82 meters tall, plus Gerrard of 1.86 meters, Husky of 1.9 meters and Hamann of 1.9 meters, Liverpool's average height is extremely surprising, and now among these seven tall men, except for Carragher defending in the back and Hamann waiting for a long-range shot at the front of the penalty area, the other five people are all in the Atletico Madrid penalty area, which has brought great trouble to Atletico Madrid's defense!

Atletico Madrid is not afraid of the opponent's high-altitude ball in the positional battle, but in this kind of set-piece confrontation, although Atletico Madrid's height is enough, it is far inferior to the opponent......

Thuram, the tallest in the backline, is also only 1.86 meters tall, Marchena is 1.83 meters tall, and Baraja is 1.82 meters...... Although it is in the penalty area, Atletico's defense still feels overstretched!

"Original...... Is this guy playing with the idea of solving problems with set-pieces? A thought crossed Dick's mind.

Before he could shout out for the players to pay attention to this, McAllister had already kicked the ball away!

Atletico Madrid's penalty area was immediately in chaos!

Although Jadel also defended, but the threat of the five big tall men in the opponent's penalty area was too great, the ball flew past the front point and began to fall rapidly, in the front of the Hypia Hunt Zturam Marchena and others have not been able to grab the first landing point, the ball flew to the back point, Babbel stopped Capdevilla behind him, and then rushed directly to the top of the ball!

In the face of this close-range header, Molina could not save the team with a brilliant save, he just subconsciously waved his hand, and the ball had already flown into the door of Atletico......

The song "You Will Never Walk Alone" reverberated in the stadium suddenly became higher, and then the Liverpool fans in the stadium began to shout loudly, and they frantically celebrated the team's goal!

Dick clenched his fists: "Hell, it turns out that they were thinking of using set-pieces to settle the game...... Damn it! ”

In the first leg of the semifinals against Roma, Atletico Madrid solved the opponent with a set-piece, and the two high school forwards and the defenders who inserted the assist made a mess of Rome's defense, that is, the height of the back line that bullied Rome was not enough, but in the face of Liverpool, Atletico Madrid's defensive height was nothing, and it was directly killed by a group of tall men from Liverpool......

After understanding this, Dick couldn't think of any way to deal with this tactic, he was not worried about Liverpool's long pass in the positional battle, but in this kind of set-piece, the height of Liverpool players can indeed exert terrifying ability, there are five players on the field who are 1.9 meters tall, Liverpool deserves to be a Premier League team......

Even if he has a thousand strategies, he can't let his players grow taller quickly.

So Dick just thought about it for a moment, and immediately called Camoranesi, who was closest to him.

'Tell them, step up the attack, don't worry about conceding goals, we need to score more goals than them!' Dick simply said a few words, and then slapped Camoranesi on the pitch and asked him to tell all the players - it is unrealistic to adjust the tactics for targeted defense at this time and a half, what Dick can do is to try to make the loss as small as possible in the first half, anyway, it is better than scoring goals, even if Atletico Madrid's set-piece tactical defense against Liverpool is not very good, but as long as you can score a part of the goal in the attack, you can also minimize the loss.

For the rest, wait until halftime to make better adjustments.

Camoranesi quickly passed his instructions to the pitch, and the Atletico players launched a much more fierce attack after the kick-off!

The speed of their back and forth is a notch higher than just now, basically seizing the opportunity to take a long shot from the edge of the penalty area, and when the midfielders start to shoot from a distance, the two wings will rush into the box to prepare to shoot, which is the rhythm of the disrupted battle.

"Atletico launched a frantic counterattack...... This does not seem to be a wise approach, as such a fast pace is more detrimental to Atletico, and Liverpool have not taken any chances in the previous game, only taking the lead through a set-piece......

Some commentators sighed and said that their comments seemed to be correct, because after Atletico Madrid pressed on the attack, Liverpool's quick counterattack seemed to be more handy, in the 22nd minute, Liverpool played a beautiful quick counterattack, Owen received McAllister's pass and turned to face Thuram, after attracting Thuram's attention, he put the ball straight to the front, Gerrard, who was inserted at high speed in the middle, received Owen's pass, and in the face of the attacking Molina shot hard, although Molina pounced on the ball, But it still can't stop the ball from going into the net!

2-0, Liverpool extended their lead!

The cheers of the Liverpool fans in the stands grew louder and louder, and they began to believe that their team could win, and a two-goal lead was a huge advantage, with a two-goal lead in more than 20 minutes, Liverpool would definitely win the final victory!

Dick stood with his hands folded, silent, such a conceded goal was expected by him, after all, after pressing the attack, there will definitely be some flaws in the defense behind him, but he believes in his players, in such an attack, they can't fail to score enough goals!

This is his confidence in Atletico Madrid, and also in his work in the past year.

We've had a lot of difficulties in the league, we've taken the lead in bad situations and more importantly, I've used enough cards to score in this game, is it possible that we won't score? No kidding!

His performance stabilized the mood of the players on the pitch, and they began to continue to attack according to the previous arrangement, passing quickly back and forth, and creating chances with through balls or long-range shots after tearing open gaps......

Such an attack quickly paid off.

In the 31st minute, after passing back and forth through the front court, Belleron passed the ball to Camoranesi in the corner of the penalty area, Camoranesi took the lead to shoot, the ball was not on target, and flew to the back point against the lawn, Vicente quickly appeared in that place, picked up his left foot against the rolling ball, and shot directly with his feet!

The ball flew into the near corner of the goal, and after the shot, Vicente did not start to celebrate, but ran into the Liverpool gate, raised his hand to scoop up the ball, and then quickly ran towards his own half!

Atletico fans cheered from the stands - it's good to be able to score, even if they are still one goal behind, Atletico's goal gives them hope!

Dick sneered on the sidelines: "Than a goal? We're not afraid! It's just a bit of bad luck to not score just now, no matter how you arrange, the problem of slow turning of defenders can't be removed, although Hyypia and Huntez are very good central defenders, but their slow turn is their hard injury! It's not something that can be compensated for by the manager's tactics, unless you start to recycle the defense now in order to keep the lead, but can you do it? Even if you do it, we can easily recover the disadvantage of a ball! ”

"Go on the offensive! Before the end of the first half, I want to see the second goal! ”

Dick shouted at the field, and the Atletico players who were running towards their own half of the field waved their fists one after another, like a rainbow!

Hollier's brow furrowed for the first time.