Sheffield Wednesday's opponents in the Carabao Cup semi-finals are Premier League giants Liverpool, and although Liverpool have yet to win the Premier League, they are undoubtedly one of the four strongest teams in the United Kingdom, and they hold the Champions League place in the Premier League along with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all year round.

This season, Liverpool also changed a new coach, the original manager Houllier voluntarily left because of poor results and emaciation, and Liverpool ushered in a great coach, Spaniard Benitez. Perhaps Benitez has such and such flaws, especially not being good at dealing with players is his hard injury, but Benitez, known as the "master tactician" and "cup expert", is also a moment of brilliance with Mourinho, a fanatic who came to the Premier League to coach Chelsea in the same season, and also led Liverpool to a heavyweight championship this season - the European Champions Cup, the Istanbul miracle can be said to be the most beautiful stroke of his coaching career.

However, although Liverpool are strong, Sheffield Wednesday are not without opportunities. Liverpool's results in the league this season are not good, and they have been working hard to qualify for next season's Champions Cup, but the results are not ideal, and they have been entangled with Everton for fourth and fifth places, which is really a step of heaven and one hell. In the real world, Liverpool only finished fifth this season, and if they don't win the Champions Cup, they will miss out on the Champions Cup next season.

However, at this time, Liverpool did not know that they could win the Champions Cup, their minds were on the league rankings and the Champions Cup, where could they still care about the chicken ribs of the League Cup, as long as the Sheffield Wednesday team could show a desperate momentum, they would naturally not play with the Sheffield Wednesday team, and the schedule of the away team first and then the home team was also more beneficial to the Sheffield Wednesday team.

For this game, Li Chengfeng started a small rotation a month in advance, and the last game made the main players rotate a lot, and now the team's lead in the league has reached as much as 10 points, and he is qualified to be willful. Lee Seung-peak hopes to win the League Cup and enter Europe next season, which is at stake for his life.

Lee's first season in charge was in League One, and the points he earned while winning the EFL Cup would only keep him alive. This season was promoted to the Championship and can no longer participate in the English League Cup, which is 30 points missing, and it is estimated that it cannot be made up elsewhere. When it comes to participating in the Premier League next season, not to mention the difficulty of the game, but the league has 8 fewer rounds, this problem is very serious, if you can't enter the European arena through a game like the League Cup, I'm afraid that the points you can get next season will be very bleak, and it is also a high probability that you can only get half of the points you need.

Li Chengfeng doesn't want to go to a dead end, and he doesn't want to be in his seventies and eighties and have to struggle at work, in this case, he must seize every opportunity to increase his points, so he must win the League Cup semi-final against Liverpool, this is his only chance, and it may be the opportunity to determine his future.

Lee Seung-feng's rotation has had an effect, except for the last game because of the rotation of most of the main team at home 1 goal loss to the Championship Wonderful Crewe team, the other games Sheffield Wednesday team still won consecutive games, the first 26 rounds achieved 21 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, leaving all competitors far behind. They can do their best in the next Carabao Cup game, but Liverpool can't, their captain Gerrard is injured again, their main striker Cisse was also kicked out of the previous game and may not be able to play again this season, another striker Baros is out of form after returning from injury, and the main goalkeeper Dudek is also lying in a hospital bed. If it weren't for Alonso's timely return, their midfield would not even have anyone to keep the ball.

The first leg of the game was played at Liverpool's home stadium, and Lee Seung-peak chose a very pragmatic style of defensive counter-attack. Liverpool is still very strong this season, to win the Champions Cup shows their strength, coach Benitez is a cup expert, good at targeted formation, but in the face of a strict defensive team, they have no good way, so in the years of Benitez's coaching, although they have been good in the cup, and have reached the Champions League final twice, won a Champions Cup, but they have not been able to break through in the league, mainly because they often lose points on weak teams that are desperately defending.

In the face of such an opponent, Li Chengfeng will of course choose to defend and counterattack, but it can't just be defensive, Li Chengfeng also wants to score away goals.

Liverpool this season, while strong, are not without their weaknesses. One is their goalkeeper position, the main goalkeeper Dudek is still in the hospital bed, and the backup goalkeeper Kirkland is also injured, so he can only send the third goalkeeper Carson. Striker Barosh, who has returned from injury, has also become a Givash, so there is nothing to worry about. The midfield also lost their captain, tough guy Steven Gerrard, and veteran Hamann was also on and off. Seriously, it is a miracle that Liverpool has been able to go hand in hand in the league, the Champions Cup, and the League Cup with such a serious injury this season, and Benitez deserves the title of master tactician.

However, this is good news for Sheffield Wednesday, as long as the Sheffield Wednesday team can show toughness in the game, Liverpool, who are short of young generals, will not fight hard in a chicken rib competition like the League Cup, the only thing to worry about is the frenetic atmosphere at Liverpool's home stadium Anfield Stadium, can Sheffield Wednesday's young players withstand the pressure? Li Chengfeng has no bottom in his heart, Anfield Stadium is one of the famous devil's home stadiums, and his reputation is outside, so Li Chengfeng can't help but worry.

There was some depression in the locker room, and Li Chengfeng could hear the singing of the Liverpool fans outside through the door. The famous "You Will Never Walk Alone" Li Chengfeng is also very familiar, he also looped this song in the real world, it felt very good and meaningful at that time, but now it really annoys him, I didn't expect that after such an emotional song was sung by tens of thousands of people, there would be a vigorous momentum.

Li Chengfeng could hear the heavy breathing of the players, he knew they were nervous, and so was Li Chengfeng, but he had to give them confidence, "Boys, don't be nervous, we can win." ”

'Liverpool are not the Liverpool they used to be now, they are a lot weaker. Li Chengfeng did an analysis for the players, "Their golden boy, Owen, transferred to Real Madrid this season, and the new striker is injured and disabled. Their captain, Steven Gerrard, is now confined to a hospital bed and unable to play. Combined with their injured defenders, half of the teams are unplayable. ”

"The whole Liverpool is very strong, but we are also a Premier League level team, and we beat Plymouth in the Premier League in the last round of the League Cup, can't we win even half of the Liverpool team?" Li Chengfeng cheered for his players, "And they have to be distracted by the league and the Champions League, as long as we work hard, we have a good chance of beating them." ”

'Think about it, if we beat Liverpool, we'll be in the final of the Carabao Cup and even next season we'll have a chance to qualify for the Europa League. Li Chengfeng tempted his players with European qualifications, and he shouted loudly, "Let's defeat them and march into Europe!" ”

"Entering the European !!"

Lee Seung-bong could see his players start to get excited, there seemed to be a light in his eyes, and the nervousness disappeared, and he felt that there was a chance in this game. Although young people have the shortcomings of lack of experience and relatively large ups and downs in form, they have dreams and are full of motivation, and if they are given a goal, they can give it their all.

Of course, Li Chengfeng will not pin all his hopes on chicken blood, and he has also made some tactical adjustments. Due to Gerrard's injury and absence, Liverpool's midfield operation basically revolves around Alonso, as long as he can limit Alonso's play, his hope of winning the game is greater, and he decided to send someone to limit Alonso's play.

Alonso is a midfielder, and it is impossible for Li Chengfeng to change the overall operation of the team for him, but drawing on the experience of later generations, Li Chengfeng has come up with a way to use a savage forward to limit the organizational core in the opponent's back position. Although there is no such type of player in the team, and Ederson is now just a skilled shota, and it is unrealistic to expect him to be black and rough, but the Swede Braten in the team is a strong and fast Nordic strong man, although the defensive ability is average, but he can always interfere.

"Braten, you have a lot of work to do in this game. Alonso is the playmaker at the heart of this Liverpool team, and if we can limit his play, we win half of the game. Li Chengfeng explained, "This task is handed over to you, you don't need to be completely restricted, as long as you can interfere with his ball." ”

Seeing Blatten nodding, Li Chengfeng added: "Alonso's speed is average, as long as he can stop in front of him, it will be difficult for him to get rid of you, don't let him comfortably organize the pass forward, even if it is a completed task." You can be tough, Liverpool have a serious injury situation at the moment, they can't afford new injuries, Alonso has only just recovered from injury, so they don't risk injuries and fight us in games like this. ”

Li Chengfeng looked at his players and continued: "Be tough, try to fight for every opportunity, don't be afraid of fouls and injuries, the other party is even more afraid." If we give it our all, we have a chance to win this game. ”