Chapter 177: Who's Redder (Part I)
Although Lovren had already guarded Dai Zhiwei strictly, he didn't expect the other party's tenacity to be stronger than the last time he met him.
In a previous physical confrontation, Lovren actually felt that the strength in Dai Zhiwei's body had become very strong, although the center of gravity was still crooked by him, but the two were much stronger when they fought for the first time.
Roared by the manager and captain one after another, Liverpool's attacking players finally picked up their spirits, and the previously mediocre Emre Can, Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino stepped up their running.
However, Liverpool stepped up their attack, which also meant that there was finally a gap at the back, and Manchester United, who were already mainly defensive and counter-attacking, were even more satisfied, and Nemanja Matic sent the ball to the feet of Dai Zhiwei in front with a wonderful long ball.
This time, Dai Zhiwei took advantage of Henderson's assist to rush forward with the ball, but unexpectedly, Brazilian defender Emre Can used his speed to catch up, pestered him, and kept delaying him with small movements on the side, and almost pounced on him.
"It's annoying!" Dai Zhiwei was harassed by this annoying guy, so he simply smashed the ball and turned around to stop, and then reorganized the attack after stopping and shaking him off.
Emre Can triumphantly stopped and turned around, and the fact that Lovren couldn't even guard the guy was easily entangled by him couldn't help but make him a little proud.
But before he could rejoice for two seconds, he heard Klopp's roar on the sidelines.
When Emre Can turned around, the company suddenly found that Dai Zhiwei was gone.
It turned out that just as he turned around, Dai Zhiwei slyly suddenly activated from his back, and it was this time that he got rid of Emre Can's defense, and Emre Can turned around in place looking for someone, and that blank look looked too pitiful.
Dai Zhiwei continued to drive straight into the midfield, and in the face of Lovren's strict formation in front of him, he rushed over without a trace of hesitation.
Left protrusion, right protrusion, and then redirection.
"Pendulum over?" Lineker exclaimed in disbelief.
Indeed, the passing moves made by Dai Zhiwei now are the pendulum passes learned from Ronaldo through the computer, with his current ball sense and passing skills, even if it is not a skill that the system directly exchanges, other passing moves can make it look like in the game as long as he tries a few times.
Lovren was completely unmoved by Dai Zhiwei's "pendulum pass", but just stabilized the rhythm under his feet and stared at Dai Zhiwei, waiting for him to break through.
Dai Zhiwei naturally saw Lovren's thoughts, and immediately rushed straight over, and suddenly smashed the ball to break through when he was getting closer and closer to Lovren.
Lovren finally waited for this opportunity, but he didn't expect Dai Zhiwei to take such a quick step.
Dai Zhiwei stepped into broken steps, stepped on the ball with his left foot, rotated 180 degrees with his body, blocked Lovren with his body, and in an instant, his right foot pushed the ball away very quickly, and beautifully avoided Lovren's broken ball.
"Oh my God! Marseille maneuver! Lineker shouted during the live broadcast.
Jurgen Klopp was very nervous, and Lovren almost decided the fate of the ball.
And Lovren did not disappoint Klopp, when he saw that Dai Zhiwei had almost broken through himself, without any hesitation, decisively chose to foul, his body increased his strength, and tried hard to knock Dai Zhiwei down, even if he risked eating cards, he had to stop Dai Zhiwei's breakthrough.
"Foul!" Seeing Dai Zhiwei rushing forward with messy steps, Martin Taylor immediately shouted loudly: "Is it in the penalty area or outside the penalty area?" ”
At this moment, the coaches on the sidelines and the fans in the stands all leaned forward into the stadium, trying to find out if the ball was a penalty or a free kick from outside the box.
"Oh!"
Suddenly there was an exclamation in the stadium, Dai Zhiwei staged a wonderful scene for more than 40,000 fans on the scene, when Lovren crashed into Dai Zhiwei, he was about to break through to the right side of the road by Lovren suddenly hit and lost his center of gravity, but the staggering Dai Zhiwei did not choose to fall, but supported his right hand on the lawn with one arm, stood up again, chased the football in front of him again, and went away.
Lovren and Henderson were both a little unresponsive, and only Mignolet, who was standing on the goal line, remained awake and immediately yelled at his team-mate to fill the position, while lowering his center of gravity and ready to make a save.
Mignolet's heart raced suddenly, and no goalkeeper was able to completely calm down when facing an almost one-on-one Dai Zhiwei.
At this moment, Mignolet suddenly saw a white sword shooting straight into his lower right corner, and Dai Zhiwei finally shot before Gomez, but this was also expected by Mignolet.
Mignolet made the first save, but when he saved, he found that Dai Zhiwei's shot was too fast, and he had just jumped up when the ball hit the post and bounced into the goal.
Everything was so fast, so fast that Mignolet couldn't believe it.
1:0!
“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal”
"Aha! Dai Zhiwei Gooooooooooooal! ”
Whether it is the Manchester United fans in front of the TV or Lineker in the live TV room, there is reason to cheer, because this goal is not only the Liverpool goal, but also this goal reflects Dai Zhiwei's strength, speed, dribbling ability, shooting skills...... Everything you need from a super striker.
This is a brilliant goal!
At that moment, Dai Zhiwei on the field pointed to a fan in the stands to give a flying kiss, which he knew was Anfield's most famous stand, the KOP stand.
To commemorate the Battle of Spion_Kop in 1900, Anfield Stadium built a grandstand called Kop, which was watched by the most ardent and loyal Reds fans, so Kop gradually became synonymous with Liverpool fans.
The Kop Stand was once the most famous standing stand in Europe and even in the world, and then due to the two massacres of Hillsborough and Heysel, the FA decided to implement a full-seat stand from 94 for the sake of stadium safety, and now this stand can only accommodate more than 10,000 people, and the seats can be occupied by die-hard fans with season tickets.
During the game, the singing of "you_ill_never_alk_alone" from the KOP stands was the biggest source of motivation for the Red Army soldiers. Every time the Reds fight at home, it's like having 12 men on the field!
The Liverpool diehards in the KOP stands saw Dai Zhiwei's flying kiss, and their lungs immediately exploded, and curses, boos and saliva flew everywhere, but who cares?
Dai Zhiwei shrugged, since the first day he joined Manchester United, he realized that he could only be Liverpool's mortal enemy in his life, and it was better to be able to make the opponent's hated teeth itch but unable to do anything about the nightmare!
Dai Zhiwei is happy, which means that Liverpool fans are very unhappy, and it also means that Lovren is very unhappy, and Klopp is also unhappy!
Since being given a hammer by Dai Zhiwei in the Europa League, although Klopp expressed his disdain at the press conference, he still vowed in his heart to give Dai Zhiwei a good look.
But he never thought that his arrangement still allowed Dai Zhiwei to open the scoring, and the performance of the players on the field made him very dissatisfied and very dissatisfied.
"Keep your distance!" Klopp just roared angrily, and this was what he emphasized before the game, but these guys all ignored their own reminders on the field, and let Dai Zhiwei face his central defender and goalkeeper so easily, even if Mignolet was superb, it was useless.
What's more, compared to De Gea opposite, Mignolet is a second-rate goalkeeper.
Being yelled at by Klopp like this, all the Liverpool midfielders were focused.
If Jurgen Klopp yelled now, they wouldn't have been so scared, but now that Klopp is calm, it means that the "storm" will be more violent at half-time.
After kick-off again, Liverpool, who went all out, had strong firepower, and everything that Mourinho feared before was also happening, the Manchester United midfielder without Pogba was at a disadvantage from the beginning, there was no one who could hold the ball, and the disadvantage of the midfield also caused the Manchester United back line to be in a state of turmoil.
Liverpool pushed forward quickly, Salah glanced at United's backline after winning the ball, and Salah was delighted with his chaotic positioning and aimless defence, as the Egyptian is gradually climbing to the top of his career this season.
Salah pushed forward and struck a cold left-footed shot that hit Jones' leg and flew off the line.
From a corner, Lovren's aerial duel came close to breaking the door for United, and after Jones cleared the ball out of the box, Salah seized the opportunity again to volley the ball into the back of the net.
This time, although Salah's shot was powerful, De Gea had already prepared for it, and the football was taken into the arms of De Gea, who had been in position early.
In a single round of club performance, De Gea is not inferior to any goalkeeper in history, but it is a pity that the performance of the national team has held him back.
After conceding the goal, Liverpool launched several ferocious counter-attacks, and on several occasions the United defence was in jeopardy, and it looked like it was about to be breached, but in the end it was all unharmed.
Among them, there is a "credit" to Coutinho - although Coutinho is the core of the current Reds, compared with Liverpool's passionate style of play, Coutinho's slow speed is always a bit out of place.
This is one of the reasons why Liverpool chose to sell Coutinho in the previous life.
In the second half of the first half, Mourinho spent almost a restless state of mind, worrying about the instability of the backline became a reality, although Manchester United also got a few respites, but Manchester United's backline was really shaky and could be breached by opponents at any time.
It wasn't until Anthony Martial and Dai Zhiwei took the initiative to withdraw from the front court to the midfield to get the ball to help the team stabilize the midfield, that Manchester United's situation changed, but Anthony Martial and Dai Zhiwei are both players who can not attack well, and they lost their scoring ability for the sake of their lame defense just for passive defense, which somewhat outweighs the loss.
It was Liverpool's attack again, Salah's flower-like passing action shook off Herrera, and then the through ball into the penalty area gave Firmino space to kick the goal, but unfortunately then Smalling desperately used his body to block Firmino's angry shot from the bottom line, and Liverpool won another corner kick.
Not far away, Lovren was constantly communicating with Salah, and Smarin was watching with his hands on his knees, trying to get more time to rest to relieve the pain, and Firmino's close-range volley was too painful.
At this moment, Liverpool suddenly sent a tactical corner, and Smalling was startled and immediately followed Lovren beside him.
Wijnaldum quickly crossed from the flank, and Smalling gave up on Lovren and rushed into the box, but he was still a step too slow after all, and Salah took advantage of Lovren's cover to quickly grab the front post and hit the back of the net with a ferocious header.
De Gea did everything he could to make the leap to block the powerful header.
However, Salah's header was too close to goal and David had just made a save before the ball flew over the goal line!
The soccer ball hit the net hard, and it was a stir.
"Oh! 1:1! The two teams are back on the same page! "The one-sided game is naturally not liked by the commentators, the head-to-head game is their favorite, and seeing Liverpool equalize, even Lineker, who is a fan of Dai Zhiwei, shouted excitedly.
Looking at Salah's flamboyant action of celebrating with the fans, Dai Zhiwei just sighed secretly, but it was his teammates who made mistakes in the backline, and he couldn't say anything, so he could only walk back to the center circle silently, waiting for the kick-off and then looking for opportunities to score.
"Damn it! Sure enough, it was still tied. Mourinho felt a little depressed, and the first half was almost over, and he stubbornly endured for almost 20 minutes, only to fall short, which made him very unhappy.
You have to know that going back to the dressing room with a one-goal lead and coming back to the dressing room with a draw is a very different situation, and the tactical arrangement of the second half is also very different.
The Anfield Stadium is heating up, and all Liverpool fans are suddenly feeling that as long as the team can score the first goal, there will naturally be a second and third goal......
In their eyes, goals are like a sluice gate to a faucet that comes out as soon as it is opened.
The Manchester United fans from afar were screaming as hard as they could, believing that their team would be able to take the lead again, and that the Liverpool guys would have to eat the dust behind their butts!
"You stinking boy raised by a son of a bitch, you've seen how powerful we are, you're going to die!"
"This is Anfield, you wait to be 'slaughtered'!"
“……”
The fans of the two teams vented their emotions wantonly, and every England national derby is no different from a war for them, even if they can't play, but they have to use their voices and momentum to knock each other down in the stands.
United were cautious after the restart, as it would have been nice for them to be ahead again on the road, but the seasoned Reds knew better that it was more important not to let them take the lead.
And at this time, Dai Zhiwei's excitement has passed, and his state has dropped a little compared to the beginning, trying to get rid of Henderson's marking, but he has failed to get rid of the opponent after several consecutive attempts, and he almost made a mistake with Ashley Young on the wing, and was counterattacked by Liverpool.
The game has entered first-half stoppage time.
(End of chapter)