As it turned out, Yang Yang's worries were right.

The away game against the Gunners was very intense after the start.

Liverpool started cautiously as Mascherano was not available, and the combination of Gareth Barry and Xavi Alonso needed a little time to get used to, and it was an away game, so they didn't dare to be careless.

Arsenal, on the other hand, were patiently looking for opportunities and didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

It was Liverpool who started the attack, but in the 24th minute, when Arsenal won the ball in midfield, Liverpool took the initiative to press, and Nasri sent the ball forward with a long pass.

At the edge of the penalty area, Van Persie grabbed the ball under the bag of two central defenders, Carragher and Daniel Agger, stopped the ball on his chest, deducted Carragher, and volleyed at the edge of the penalty area to open the scoring for Arsenal, 1-0!

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On the field, when Yang Yang saw Van Persie excitedly rushing out of the field to celebrate the team's goal, he sighed heavily and felt very depressed.

What he feared finally happened.

Liverpool's three trusted centre-backs are not in particularly good form, having already exposed their potential against Hull City and this afternoon's game against Arsenal.

Carragher was visibly depressed by this, and kept shaking his head and pointing to the sun in the sky, "Flashed by the sun's rays." ”

Everyone is also helpless about this explanation, who let Liverpool not draw Arsenal when they opened the draw?

The Gunners were clearly prepared to win the draw and not to kick off the ball and to choose the side of the first half that was in their favour, hoping to let Liverpool defend against the light.

As for an hour later, by the time the second half switched sides, it was already nightfall.

Gerrard was also speechless about this, who let him lose to Cesc Fabregas in the draw?

"Don't be discouraged, it's only one ball, you try to pass forward, I'll rush, the most important thing is to guard our goal, and leave the attack to me!" Yang Yang said confidently.

Arsenal are not very good defensively and he is confident that he can score as long as his team-mates hold on to the net and create chances.

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The game resumes.

Both teams were once again engaged in aggressive scrambling and pressing.

Denilson fouled Yang Yang and gave Liverpool a free kick from 30 yards out, but Yang Yang's free-kick failed to create a threat and was held by Almunia.

Although Yang Yang's free kick strength has risen sharply, he has never been strong enough to kick a free kick as a penalty.

If you really want to have this kind of strength, it will be too rebellious.

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Arsene Wenger lined up in a four-four-two formation for this game, with Bam Adebayor and Robin van Persie playing as the two strikers, Nasri playing on the left, Cesc Fabregas in the centre and Alexandre Sung in the centre, and Alexander Song as a full-time defender.

Not only that, Wenger also arranged Denilson to play full-back on the right side, Sagna to play full-back, Gallas on the left foot to play right center-back, and let Djolu play left center-back, and the purpose of this is to limit Yang Yang.

After seeing Yang Yang brought down by Denilson, the free-kick was held by Almunia and Wenger nodded appreciatively.

It's been more than thirty minutes, and Yang Yang hasn't performed too well.

"Benitez is still not there!" Wenger said secretly rejoicing.

If that damn Spanish bald man hadn't had surgery, it would have been Wenger's turn to have kidney pain.

He has always been able to come up with some targeted tactics to defuse Arsene Wenger's adjustments and make his players a threat on the pitch.

But now that he's not there, Yesterdam's on-the-spot command is obviously much worse than Benitez.

"Liverpool is now fighting around Yang Yang, as long as Yang Yang is choked, Liverpool's attack will be greatly reduced." Assistant coach Pat Rice said with a smile.

Arsene Wenger nodded incessantly, Yesterdam is using an approach that is not the way to go, and that is to rely on the players.

As he spoke, Liverpool began to instigate an attack, and Aurelio on the left tried to get involved in the attack, but was fouled by Bam Adebayo, for which the Togo striker received a yellow card.

But a Liverpool attack was stillborn.

After the opening, the offensive of the Red Army was obviously unable to open up the situation and was somewhat passive.

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Yang Yang saw that he was a little isolated in the front court and couldn't get the ball.

If you can't get the ball, you can't create a threat.

However, what sets him apart from other players is that he is very physical and very athletic, especially without the ball.

As a result, he soon began to change his position and style of play.

In the 39th minute, Yang Yang took the initiative to retreat from the front, ran to Gareth Barry, and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

The England midfielder was looking for a spot to get the ball out, and as soon as he saw Yang Yang, he immediately passed the ball over.

After Yang Yang received the ball, he turned and rushed to Crouch diagonally with the ball, and saw the opportunity to send it over.

Crouch understood and blocked Djoroux with his body before knocking the ball back behind Gallas.

It was supposed to be a wonderful one-two, but unfortunately, Crouch was in a hurry and passed a little too big.

Yang Yang chased all the way up at the fastest speed, and finally caught up with the ball on the left side of the penalty area, but missed the opportunity to enter the penalty area, and could only be forced to take the ball and face Sagna one-on-one, making a gesture to force the bottom cross, but suddenly buckled back and passed back to the front of the penalty area, and Gerrard followed up and hit directly.

The ball hit Gallas and bounced off the baseline.

Xavi Alonso then whipped in a corner and Crouch headed in the box, and Gerrard got a chance on the edge of the box to shoot from distance but couldn't find the back of the net.

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After tasting the sweetness once, Yang Yang continued to learn from him, or expanded his scope of activities and retreated.

But soon, Arsene Wenger made adjustments on the sidelines, signaling for Alexander Song and Denilson to keep an eye on Yang.

That's the benefit of having a manager on the sidelines, who can make adjustments to the situation on the pitch whenever and wherever he wants, but Yesterdam lacks Benitez's tactical acumen and the courage to make adjustments.

Yang Yang was quickly restrained again, but he and Gerard looked at each other, and immediately saw the move.

So soon, Yang Yang went up, and Crouch retreated to the midfield.

And this time, Arsenal's defence itself has been exposed.

In a back-and-forth midfield scramble, Crouch dropped back to catch the ball, but was soon snatched away by Arsenal.

Cesc Fabregas counter-attacked and tried to hit Liverpool's back, only to be tackled by Carragher and the ball was cut off, with Daniel Ag quickly passing the ball to Xavi Alonso.

As soon as the Spanish midfielder stopped the ball, he looked up at the front and made a long pass.

The ball was pinpointed across the half-pitch and down behind the Arsenal defence.

Yang Yang was like an incomparably sharp knife, cutting through Arsenal's defense in an instant, shaking off the veteran Gallas as quickly as possible, and chasing the ball.

Sania and Jolu both chased back at the same time, but neither could stop Yang Yang.

Between the two defenders, Yang Yang judged the trend and landing point of Xavi Alonso's long pass, and calmly seized the position that was most advantageous to him.

He didn't stop the ball immediately, but felt like he was one step ahead of Sagna and Gioru, so he allowed the ball to bounce off the edge of the box.

Almunia wanted to attack, but was a little hesitant because he saw that Yang Yang's sprint was very fast.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Yang Yang had already rushed into the forbidden area.

Yang Yang saw the point where the ball fell back and fell after it landed, and he didn't stop the ball, he chased it directly, and after standing with his left foot, he faced the falling ball with his right foot and shot directly with one foot.

Almunia flew to make a save, but the shot came quickly and quickly, and the Spanish goalkeeper couldn't do anything after all.

One-to-one!

After Yang Yang's cushion shot, his speed did not decrease at all, he turned a corner at the front of Arsenal's small penalty area, raised his arms high, and rushed directly to the corner of the Liverpool fans, and pulled up his shirt high, revealing the white T-shirt inside.

I saw that it read, "I wish you a speedy recovery, Raphael!" ”

Gerrard and other Liverpool players also rushed towards Yang Yang, and they were a little surprised when they saw this shirt on him, I don't know when he wrote it, and they didn't even tell other teammates.

But everyone was also standing beside Yang Yang and pointed to the jersey on his body, because they all knew that at this moment, the live TV camera must be aimed at Yang Yang, who scored the goal.

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"Yang Yang is obviously giving this goal to Rafael Benitez, who has just undergone kidney stone surgery."

"The Spanish coach should be watching this game at home now, and I believe he should be quite excited and proud to see his favorite players use this goal to comfort him."

"It's the 42nd minute of the first half, Liverpool is temporarily tied with Arsenal with Yang Yang's goal, 1-1, but Liverpool, who is playing away and has no coach on the spot, still has to be cautious."

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After the game resumed, Liverpool took advantage of the momentum of the goal and continued to launch a fierce attack on Arsenal.

This is also the kind of play that Liverpool is best at, that is, taking advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold and eating the opponent in one go.

Arsenal had just kicked off when they found Liverpool pressing hard, which made the Gunners a little uncomfortable.

After a couple of successive passes, Gareth Barry cut the ball off as he tried to get his way through Liverpool's midfield, and Xavi Alonso was split on the right.

Arsenal's defensive focus is on the left side of Yang Yang, and the right side is thin.

Arbeloa stepped in to receive the ball and played a wide link with Kuyt and Gerrard, who went down to the bottom line and passed the ball to the penalty spot in the middle of the box.

Crouch attracted the attention of the defense at the front point, and Gallas and Alexander Song, who were staring at Yang Yang in the middle, actually leaked, Yang Yang ran to the right side of the penalty spot like a ghost, and in the face of Kuyt's cross from the right without defense, he directly turned and volleyed in a half.

The ball went through Almunia's hands like a cannonball and into the Arsenal goal.

Two to one!

Liverpool have reversed again!