Villarreal attacked aggressively, and Liverpool fought back calmly. Both sides put all their energy into the attack, and you come and go.

Smooth coordination, wonderful stopping, clever breakthrough balls, positive forward crosses, calm and strong headers, thrilling aerial saves.

Huang Ping sat in the broadcast box and shouted wonderful, and even his old partner Li Long bluntly said that even in the Champions League, he couldn't play such a high-level offensive battle, which was worthy of the Europa League semifinals - of course, there may be reasons why Dai Zhiwei bragged.

Whether it's the top-level Champions League or the second-level Europa League, this should be the level of the European semi-finals!

Lucas latched on to Coutinho's pass, struggled to dodge Bruno's defence, seized a fleeting chance of a mistake in Villarreal's backline, and used his graceful footwork to complete a stunning finish.

Firmino struggled to rely on Ruiz, who wanted to sneak up behind him, and after stopping the ball, the Brazilian striker turned around and rushed to the Villarreal penalty area with the ball desperately.

Ruiz, as the anchor of the Yellow Submarine's backline, naturally couldn't watch Firmino quickly burst into his own penalty area, and he reacted quickly to use his last move - tackle, first put the Liverpool kid outside the penalty area.

Firmino didn't have the speed of Dai Zhiwei, and even if he noticed Ruiz's sliding tackle, he could only watch as he was brought down by the opponent just a step away from the penalty area.

Liverpool won the first free-kick of the first half and Ruiz also contributed a chance for the referee to show him a yellow card.

With a "beep" whistle, Lallana kicked a small curling in-spin ball towards Asenjo's left-hand side, although Lallana's footwork was good, but the free kick was too close to the penalty line, which meant that if the ball was too fast, the ball would probably not be far enough to fall within the goal range after going around the wall.

Sure enough, Lallana didn't have much power in order to pursue the arc of the shot, which was not enough to threaten the ten fingers of Asenjo, who comfortably took the ball into his arms.

Although the attack did not result in a goal, the two attacks in a row were very threatening, Liverpool attacked more methodically, the speed of the transfer between the players was significantly faster, and the two full-backs and wingers switched positions quite frequently, constantly relying on speed and passing to impact Villarreal's backline.

With the support of high balls from the wings, Firmino's threat increased dramatically, and in less than ten minutes, he had three shots on goal -

Liverpool had a chance in the 18th minute when Lallana and Lucas crossed in quick succession, and Firmino's shot from 14 yards on the left side of the box was saved by Asenjo in time.

In the 23rd minute, Milner broke through on the left, Asenjo rushed to attack, the Englishman's volley was blocked by Bailly, and Firmino's clever follow-up shot from the right side of the box was also cleared by Ruiz's header.

Two minutes later, Firmino's cross from the right side of the box hit Suarez and deflected towards the goal, where it was again confiscated by Asenjo.

Firmino's three shots were on target, but they were all saved by Asenjo and Villarreal defenders to keep the home side in the net.

After falling behind, Liverpool dominated the opponent and occupied the initiative on the field, and they kept moving the defensive line forward, from the arrow man on the forward line to the defensive titan Lucas in the midfield, as long as the Liverpool players in the front field all strictly implemented the counter-robbery order.

Liverpool are putting more and more pressure on the home side, Klopp's attack is like wave after wave, and Villarreal's defence is almost on the verge of collapse, but it is getting closer to the end of the first half.

Just when the yellow submarine fans were praying that time would move faster, the minute hand jumped to the 45th minute of the first half, and it was Liverpool's counterattack again!

Firmino received the ball up front and did it back, and when Lallana won the ball on the left, the yellow submarine wide open, and he was able to play wild on the left flank.

As Costa desperately chased back and was about to chase after Lallana, the Liverpool midfielder made a change of ankle and picked the ball into the box.

Ruiska was in his position and was about to clear the football kick that suddenly passed into the penalty area out of the bottom line, but suddenly a red figure appeared.

Firmino, who had been lying in ambush behind Ruiz, successfully countered offside and stabbed the football away before Ruiz.

Ruiz also reacted quickly, but when he wanted to start, he was more than one step slower than Firmino, and he couldn't stop the other party from doing whatever he wanted.

Firmino won the ball and burst into the left flank of the penalty area 15 yards, at which point the yellow submarine goalkeeper Asenjo also gave up the goal and chose to attack.

Firmino made a feint to pick the ball and hang the goal, and after deceiving Assenjo's center of gravity, he poked his toes and fired a low shot into the near corner of the goal, Assenjo made a half-beat save, and the ball went straight into the net.

1:1！

Liverpool not only equalised, but also scored an extremely crucial away goal!

“gooooooooooooooooooooooooal！ Ha ha! Hooray, Liverpool! It was the turn of the Sky Sports commentators in England to cheer, and they who have always loved to boast about themselves were eager to praise every Liverpool player in the sky at this moment.

After Firmino scored the equaliser, he was thrilled to celebrate the classic machine-gun fire of Batistuta.

"Rub! Is this a provocation? Dai Zhiwei was dissatisfied at this moment, "I'm blowing the muzzle, you are machine gun strafing, what is the stinky fart?" ”

After Liverpool's goal, the referee on duty blew the whistle at the end of the half, and the two teams played relatively smoothly in the first half, with only one minute of stoppage time.

Although he was depressed by the opponent's equalizer at the end of the first half, Bruno still felt a little funny when he saw Dai Zhiwei glaring at Firmino's indignant look, and went up to pat Dai Zhiwei's buttocks.

"Huh?"

Seeing that it was the captain he respected very much who photographed him, Dai Zhiwei gave up the idea of shooting back.

With the continuous flashes on the green field, his status in the team is no longer the same as at the beginning of the year. Except for a few bigwigs, other people's attitude towards Dai Zhiwei did not dare to be so casual.

"Save your strength for the second half!" Bruno walked into the players' tunnel with Dai Zhiwei in his arms, "You are the key to our victory!" ”

Although it was only a draw at half-time, Villarreal at home were confident of beating any opponent!

(End of chapter)