Chapter 126: The counterattack is coming

Under the appeasement of Gerrard and others, the Liverpool players quickly regained their composure, except for Arberoa, who received a yellow card, his face was still full of anger, and the other Liverpool players returned to their positions.

The game also resumed quickly with Liverpool's ball at the back.

Liverpool, who were one goal behind, quickly launched a counterattack, and as the commander of the team, Xavi Alonso still had a lot of time to get the ball.

Xavi Alonso is a Spanish player, but he is not known for his short rumors like the Xavi of Barcelona, but for his outstanding long balls.

The timing of his long passes, the accuracy of his long passes, are among the best among the midfielders in world football today, and there are very few active players who can surpass him in this regard.

Liverpool's two wingers opened up the space in order to play to Xavi Alonso's characteristic.

However, Xavi Alonso's long ball could not be played out before he received the ball before Drinkwater was tipped to the ground.

Drinkwater, who was whistled for a foul by the referee, did not walk away, but stood at the place of the foul to prevent Liverpool from being driven out of the set-piece.

"Xavi Alonso's weaknesses – speed and the ability to get rid of it!"

"Stick to him! Don't let him take a long pass easily! ”

One of the big tasks that Gao Bo assigned to Drinkwater before the game was to limit Xavi Alonso!

Now Liverpool's two midfielders, Xavi Alonso and Mascherano, Mascherano is a pure sapper player, his defensive ability is far greater than his offensive ability, so if Xavi Alonso is limited, even if the ball is given to Mascherano's feet, it will not help Liverpool's attack.

Mascherano is a world-class defensive midfielder, but if he were allowed to organise the attack, he might be able to do some of the usual pass-forward work, but it would be a bit difficult for him to pass beautiful long balls that are as imaginative and penetrating as Xavi Alonso.

Xavi Alonso's game so far has not been too smooth, because as soon as he gets the ball, Drinkwater sticks like kraft candy.

Xavi Alonso is the epitome of the central midfield in modern football, with more and more teams moving their commanders from the front to the back in order to avoid the opposition's dense defensive midfield. And Xavi Alonso is undoubtedly the epitome of this!

However, contradictions always correspond to each other, when the commander of one side retreats, the defender will naturally move the defensive force forward to limit the opponent's attack organizer!

Gao Bo's move is not new, and Benitez thought of it before the game.

Luton Town's strongest defensive midfield was N'Golo Kante, with Rafael Benitez expecting before the game that Gobo would let N'Golo Kante defend Xavi Alonso. After all, in midfield, Drinkwater has a large part of the task of organizing the attack.

But from now on, it seems that Drinkwater has been clinging to Xavi Alonso the whole time!

Benitez was a little surprised, and he glanced at Gao Bo on the other side.

What is this Chinese doing? Don't his team need an offensive playmaker?

Even on the counter-attack, it takes a linker, and most of Luton's counter-attacks are initiated by Danny Drinkwater's passes.

N'Golo Kante broke the ball and handed it to Drinkwater, who split the ball and launched a counter-attack. This is almost the most common counter-attacking routine used by Luton.

Now, though, Drinkwater seems to be putting too much of his energy on defense.

Xavi Alonso tried to run up to catch the ball, but Drinkwater seemed to follow him, Xavi Alonso was not fast, and his ability to get rid of it was relatively limited, so Drinkwater still clung very close!

When he saw Xavi Alonso running, Gao Bo smiled.

This kind of scene is his favorite thing to see! Because the nineteen-year-old Drinkwater is much better than Xavi Alonso in terms of fitness, if Xavi Alonso can be forced to pay most of his fitness in the first half, then Luton will undoubtedly earn it!

Xavi Alonso played frustratedly.

The Spaniard was a little annoyed when he was once again stuck by Drinkwater and couldn't turn around and had to be forced to pass back.

He beckoned for the ball again, and then as Drinkwater was sticking to it, he slammed his back into Drinkwater's chest.

Drinkwater screamed and rolled on the ground.

Xavi Alonso didn't care so much, he spun with the ball and was ready to unleash a long ball.

It feels so good that no one sticks to it...

Xavi Alonso's good mood was interrupted by the referee's whistle.

"Foul ?!!"

The face of the Spaniards is incredible!

The referee ignored that, pointing to the foul and running over to warn Xavi Alonso!

"Watch your movements!!"

Xavi Alonso spread his hands: "Did you see that kid's movements?!" ”

"If it was a foul, the kid would have been red carded a long time ago."

The referee on duty had a gloomy face, and no referee would be happy in the face of the players' doubts about the decision.

Gerrard hurry up, Xavi Alonsora go.

He took Xavi Alonso into his arms and kissed the Spaniard on the head: "Calm down!!" Calm Harvey! ”

"They did it on purpose!"

Xavi Alonso is also a seasoned player and he quickly learns that he is being swayed by emotions.

Alonso took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

"They've made too many small moves, Steven!"

"I know... But this is not much in the normal way, because they can't kick us in the usual way! Gerard became serious, "That's why they're playing such little tricks!" ”

Gao Bo doesn't think he's playing a small trick, and in order to beat Liverpool, Luton, who are absolutely weak in strength, must do everything they can.

What's more, it's just a little bit more defensive intensity...

Liverpool's stars probably don't know that for teams in the lower leagues, there is absolutely no such thing as a gentleman on the football field.

There are no gentlemen covered in sludge.

Drinkwater is picked up by his team-mate.

"Are you alright, Danny?"

Adam asked, a little worried.

Drinkwater quietly winked at Adam.

Adam knew right away that this guy was acting!

However, after seeing that the referee did not mean to take a yellow card, Drinkwater got up from the ground with some regret and rubbed Adam's head.

"Hurry up and prepare this set-piece!"

Drinkwater pressed the ball at his feet and it was out!

However, the referee did not allow him to serve quickly, and blew the ball back.

There were boos from the stands, and the Luton fans were of course very unhappy with the referee's decision.

Gao Bo on the sidelines was also quite dissatisfied, and he jumped on the sidelines: "Why can't you send it quickly!" Damn..."

Lin Sen on the side hurriedly pulled the angry head coach back.

For Lin Sen, he really didn't understand why Gao Bo, who was so calm on weekdays, seemed to be a different person when he stood in the position of commanding the game.

The game was quickly resumed, with Luton's free-kick not threatening as it had been on the previous occasion and the ball quickly returned to Liverpool.

Xavi Alonso was limited and Gerrard dropped back to catch the ball.

Compared to Xavi Alonso, Gerrard's ability to protect and get rid of the ball is much higher, and after Gerrard's return, Liverpool's midfield has an additional receiving point.

The long pass could not be played, and Liverpool simply advanced to the front through a short pass.

Liverpool are still strong, and they simply broke the tricks that Luton Town had laid out before the game.

Gao Bo has no regrets, let Drinkwater limit Xavi Alonso, just so that Liverpool's wide open and close long pass scheduling can't be played, but if Liverpool advances through ground cooperation, there is no good way for Luton's side, after all, you can't completely strangle Liverpool's attack with such a trick - with Luton's strength, you can't do this.

However, when Liverpool advanced to the front pitch, they encountered new difficulties.

Gerrard found the little black man in Luton to be too tough. He failed to take advantage of his confrontations with N'Golo Kante on several occasions.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Gerrard received the ball near the top of the penalty area when he was hit by N'Golo Kante and almost lost the ball, but Xavi Alonso also pressed it up, and he controlled the ball that Kante poked out of the outside name.

However, as soon as he got the ball, N'Golo Kante pounced!!

Gerald's eyes are popping out!

N'Golo Kante tackles straight and gets the ball off the feet of Xavi Alonso!

And Drinkwater, who had been following Xavi Alonso, immediately took the ball and turned around and launched a long pass directly!!

Adam White runs out of space in the front court!

This time... It's really fighting back!