“This_is_Anfield！”

Dai Zhiwei walked from the dressing room to the pitch, which is Anfield's famously narrow tunnel for players.

It is said that this design is to put more psychological pressure on the away players.

He looked up and saw the famous "This is Anfield" sign above him.

For a long time, all that hung here were replicas, and it wasn't until Rogers took office that they were replaced with originals.

Inadvertently, his eyes were full of yearning, "This is the essence of the world's top giants!" ”

Villarreal's Love Song Stadium is good, but it is not at all a grade compared to the world's top football stadiums such as the Bernabeu Stadium, Old Trafford Stadium, and Allianz Stadium, and it is also inferior to Anfield Stadium and Stamford District Stadium.

Obviously, the Love Song Stadium could not satisfy Dai Zhiwei's ambitions.

For the second leg of the Europa League semi-final at Anfield, both Villarreal and Liverpool fielded their strongest starting line-ups.

There's no other way to say it, just do it!

However, compared to Liverpool, which has a deep rotation lineup, Villarreal is more stretched.

Villarreal line-up –

Goalkeeper: Areola

Defenders: Mario Gaspar, Ruiz, Musacchio, Costa

Midfielders: Suarez, Bruno, Pina, dos Santos

Forwards: Dai Zhiwei, Soldado

Liverpool line-up –

Goalkeeper: Mignolet

Defenders: Klein, Chloe-Toure, Lovren, Moreno

Midfielders: James Milner, Emre Can, Lallana, Coutinho

Forwards: Roberto Firmino, Sturridge

In the tunnel of players, the Villarreal players did not greet the players of the opposing team as they did in previous games, but Dai Zhiwei turned his head and looked at Liverpool's No. 10 - Coutinho.

The media hyped up the confrontation between the two talented young talents before the game, and although the two men did not match each other very much on the pitch, the media were still happy to compare the two men to each other because they were both the most important personnel in the team's attack.

In his pre-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp praised Dai Zhiwei's performance this season: "Dai Zhiwei is truly a phenomenon, he has injected vitality into a team with a fine tradition. But it was difficult for him to score against our team in this game, and we are very confident in winning this game, but we will be careful of Dai Zhiwei's impact, and the momentum of young people can never be underestimated. ”

Being praised by Klopp, a world-class manager, Dai Zhiwei was very excited, especially the comparison with Coutinho, which made him hold back his energy and prepare for a big fight.

Coutinho deliberately glanced at Dai Zhiwei when shaking hands before the game, of course he knew the player in front of him who was greatly praised by his manager, and he had also reviewed some information and videos about Dai Zhiwei, so that he did not have any contempt for Dai Zhiwei.

Dai Zhiwei showed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled brightly, making Coutinho stunned, and when he came back to his senses and wanted to smile back, Dai Zhiwei had already pulled out his hand and stretched out to the Liverpool player behind him, and the smile on his face was also retracted.

The mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings, and the war is about to break out!

Dai Zhiwei also packed up his thoughts and stared at the referee in front of him seriously.

As soon as the whistle blew, Firmino moved his feet and flicked the ball out, and then slowly ran into Villarreal's half.

The competition has officially begun!

There was jubilation in Anfield Stadium, and Liverpool fans put up a lot of small banners and slogans in the stadium - in recent years, the FA has always emphasized the security of the stadium, this is because the spectator seats of the English stadium are very close to the playing field, and because of the many fan riots in English football, UEFA has imposed heavy penalties on English football clubs and the Football Association, and the Heysel tragedy is the most famous example, so the FA has always been very strict about the safety of these stadiums.

After the first leg of the competition, Liverpool's defense against Dai Zhiwei in this game can be described as not tight.

Soon after the opening, Dai Zhiwei experienced what the defense of a Premier League team is, all kinds of physical contact and collisions emerge in endlessly, but the scale is well mastered, between the referee's whistle and no foul.

Although Dai Zhiwei's body is relatively strong in the Chinese Super League and can barely cope with most confrontations in La Liga, it is a little insufficient in front of the Premier League team.

In the last game, because it was Villarreal's home stadium, the defensive action of Liverpool's players was not as big as today, and Dai Zhiwei could use his speed and agility to deal with it, but today he was more difficult.

Coupled with Lovren's judgment and mobility are much better than many defensive players, coupled with Kolo Toure behind Dai Zhiwei who is responsible for protecting the penalty area, and Emre Can who also retreats from time to time to help defend, he is completely caught in the encirclement of Liverpool.

"It seems that after returning to China this summer, I can't rest, and I have to find a coach to work iron!" Dai Zhiwei rubbed his shoulder, which was hit painfully, and secretly made up his mind.

In fact, in China, Zhang Linpeng, Zheng Zhi and other Evergrande players have not bad physical confrontation ability, but Dai Zhiwei rarely goes to the gym, and he focuses more on training with the ball.

Even in the system space, Dakong Tsubasa had reminded him that only by raising the core strength of his body to a certain height could he maximize his strength-based skills such as tiger shooting.

Dai Zhiwei once again struggled past Emre Can, and before he could pass the ball, he was entangled by Lovren again.

After being delayed a little, Emre Can who got rid of it followed again, and he didn't dare to be careless under the two of them, and if the ball was lost, Liverpool played a counterattack, it was not fun, especially this season's Coutinho has strengthened the frequency of forward insertion, and he is about to become a striker, and his sense of moving forward is very strong.

Dai Zhiwei had no choice but to pass back, Klopp smiled lightly after arriving on the sidelines, and before the game he said that attaching importance to Dai Zhiwei's defense was not a smoke bomb, but his true inner words.

Having been in football for so many years, he knows how to use the media to achieve the effect of confusing the opponent.

20 minutes into the game, because Dai Zhiwei was restricted, Villarreal's attack was tepid, some fans of Villarreal were already a little impatient, hearing the voices in the stadium getting higher and higher, Marcelino also found a stalemate on the field, and the Spanish coach, who had been unable to fight Klopp, stood up and shouted a few times into the stadium, signaling to strengthen the side attack.

Under Marcelino's command, Villarreal's players suddenly increased their running speed and the pace of the game, the frequency of midfield cross-pass return became lower, and the deep pass and change of position breakthrough suddenly accelerated, and Liverpool's back line suddenly became a little chaotic.

However, without Dai Zhiwei, the most crucial point in the front line, Villarreal could not convert the attack into goals.

Coutinho drew Bruno's attention with a quick inward cut with the ball, and Bruno hurriedly put it up, but this season's Coutinho has entered the peak of his career, and the artist is so bold that he doesn't pay attention to Bruno's threat nearby, but follows the ball to get up and shoot!

Bruno was almost shaken by Coutinho's change of direction before, when the captain of Villarreal, who was not in a good situation, swerved his body and kicked the ground hard, and quickly tackled out.

Coutinho had already got up and was about to shoot when he suddenly felt a strong pass from behind, and then a pain in his ankle, and the whole person fell in front of the penalty area.

"Tick!"

The referee blew the whistle and ran to the side of Bruno and Coutinho to prevent the players from both sides from getting excited.

Coutinho rolled on the ground in pain, holding his foot and neck to ignore the referee's cries and pretending to be pitiful on the ground.

This seems to be a trick that Brazilian players are good at!

Liverpool's frontline players all gathered around and negotiated with the referee on the pitch to demand a red card for Bruno, and Klopp protested loudly on the sidelines.

Dai Zhiwei, who had always felt that his "acting skills" were not bad, went to Coutinho's performance to know that he still had to learn!

La Liga has Neymar, and the Premier League has Coutinho, which is really a peerless double pride!

Dai Zhiwei didn't know if Coutinho was really tackled by Bruno, but the place where he fell before was outside the penalty area, who expected him to fall into the penalty area several times in a row after falling, and even almost to the penalty spot.

But perhaps because Coutinho also has a reputation for faking falls, the referee only gave Liverpool a free-kick from outside the box and a yellow card for Bruno after asking the linesman's opinion.

Liverpool was naturally responsible for taking this free kick Coutinho, who created it, and Coutinho's free-kick skills at this time were already very good.

Coutinho's free-kick was of high quality, and the ball went around the wall of people who jumped up to block it, and suddenly appeared directly in front of the goal.

This ball is fast and has a large arc, and there is a faint tendency to fall when looking at the flight trajectory.

In a matter of seconds, Areola, the yellow submarine goalkeeper who made his debut because of Assenjo's injury, didn't have time to think so much, and subconsciously lowered his body and stretched his body with all his strength.

Areola stared at the flying ball and could even hear the wind blowing in his ears, and finally touched the ball with the tips of his fingers before it flew to the goal, and poked the ball out of the sideline with the momentum.

The fact that the ball could be saved immediately made Areola excited, and he jumped up from the ground in one fell swoop, waving his fists excitedly and provoking the Liverpool players, and he couldn't stop screaming and swearing.

He didn't care if the Liverpool players and fans heard it, he just shook his fists and shouted loudly with excitement.

Villarreal's players all patted Areola's head excitedly, and even Dai Zhiwei ran back, unceremoniously punched him in the chest, and shouted at him excitedly, "Wow, Alphonse, your chest muscles are really good!" ”

Today, Dai Zhiwei's attack was very unsmooth, and even affected the team's defense to a certain extent.

On the sidelines, Klopp patted his forehead with some regret, he was ready to get up to celebrate, but the goalkeeper still made him happy in vain.

Klopp quickly stabilized his mind again, and the current situation on the field was under his control.

After helping Dos Santos make a successful breakthrough, Dai began to play up the flanks frequently, activating himself through his movements.

Lovren's close pressing began to appear tired under Dai Zhiwei's tireless running, Dai Zhiwei stopped the ball beautifully, turned to find Dos Santos was about to pass, but unexpectedly a person suddenly rushed out of his side, and the football he just got flew out of the bottom line.

Dai Zhiwei didn't complain, he knew that Emre Can in the tackle didn't commit a foul, it was just a throw-in.

Dai Zhiwei really didn't have a deep impression of Emre Can, who did not appear in the last meeting, but remembered that after his contract with Liverpool expired, the two sides did not renew his contract and were able to join Juventus as a free agent.

Because he is a free transfer, and he is not a veteran, Dai Zhiwei has always thought that Emre Can is not at any level, but he never thought that today, a young player of the same age as himself, would frequently make himself deflated in defense.

Whenever Dai Zhiwei receives the ball and turns around, even after trying everything to get rid of the difficult Lovren, Emre Can will always come up.

In addition to close scrambling, every time Dai Zhiwei wants to pass the ball, Emre Can always spares no effort to step forward and steal, even if he can't break the ball, he will always interfere with Dai Zhiwei's passing route.

There are some feelings that I can't beat you, and I'm going to disgust you.

Dai Zhiwei immediately understood the opponent's intentions, but when he looked around, there were no teammates around him who could help him share, Soldado was seen dead by Kolo Toure, and the other players did not have the ability to explode one-on-one.

Dai Zhiwei couldn't open it, which also determined that Villarreal's offense would be difficult to make a difference.

This made him a little anxious on the field, the attack couldn't be organized, and he couldn't even touch the penalty area, how could he talk about scoring goals?

In the following game, Dai Zhiwei fell into trouble, and Lovren and Emre Can continued to strengthen his close defense, interfering with his stopping the ball with their bodies.

Suddenly there was a sigh in the stadium, it turned out that there was a mistake in the coordination between Dai Zhiwei and Suarez, Suarez took the ball in the front court and rolled inward, but Dai Zhiwei was to the side of the coat, and the two missed a good opportunity to break through.

"The idea is good, Suarez's passing is also in place, but it's a pity that Dai Zhiwei's running missed the opportunity." Zhang Haixuan, who was in charge of commenting the game on Penguin Live, said with some pity.

Dai's mistake was a microcosm of the poor form since the first half of the game when Lovren and Emre Can combined for a lock-up, and when the Yellow Submarines' attacking strength was suppressed, their attack struggled to come true.

Although Dai Zhiwei also had two shots on goal and one that posed a certain threat to Mignolet, he was completely lost in the muscle forest of Liverpool's defence.

(End of chapter)