Chapter 416: Hand-to-hand combat
At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, FIFA decided to introduce a new mandatory rule at the World Cup.
In order to protect attacking players from the increasing number of rough fouls, FIFA has decided that in the future, any tackle from behind, whether or not it touches the ball first, will be sent off with a red card.
In the opening game of that World Cup, defending champions Germany faced Bolivia, and the core of the Bolivian midfield, nicknamed "The Devil", who came on for less than three minutes in the second half, became the first player to be sent off under this rule because of a behind-the-back tackle.
However, in later competition practice, there was more and more controversy about the specific implementation standards of this strict rule.
In modern football, it is rare for referees to enforce this rule in a "one-size-fits-all" manner.
More referees tend to rely on the recognition of specific tackles to make the most correct decisions possible.
Despite this, Li Liang's shovel in the high-speed pursuit of Ali still made the entire home team extremely nervous.
Li Liang concentrated all his energy and attention, and he actually tried to stretch out his leg to tackle the ball between Ali's legs at the moment he fell to the ground!
Yaldim felt that he couldn't breathe, and he stared at Li Liang extremely nervously - this guy actually stretched his leg between Ali's legs and actually touched the ball that was still rolling!
Ali, who was pushing with all his might, didn't expect the opponent to make such a crazy tackle, he didn't make defensive moves, and as a result, Li Liang really stretched out his left leg and shoveled the ball from the only gap left in the only angle!
Li Liang stepped on the ball with his left foot close to the turf, and his body continued to move forward under the strong inertia, and his left foot immediately hooked the ball with the arch of his foot - a textbook standard tackle that did not touch Ali's legs and successfully intercepted the ball.
Fabinho, who was closest to them, nervously looked at the referee not far away, and Yaldim's heart hung high!
Pochettino and the Tottenham players on the pitch all raised their hands and shouted, including everyone on the away bench, and all the screaming Tottenham diehards in the Capdale corner stands signaled that it was a red card!
The referee gritted the whistle tightly in his mouth and waved his hand to make a gesture to continue the game!
He thinks it's a clean and beautiful defense, and Monaco's No.17 doesn't profit from anything outside the rules.
Pochettino was still shouting, of course he knew in his heart that he couldn't change the referee's decision, but what shocked him more than that-
How could this be a defensive move that a traditional midfielder could make?!
Gremandy, who was born as a central defender, was also stunned, he even forgot to record in his notepad that Li Liang actually had such rare defensive skills?!
Grimandi suddenly reacted, wait, this guy's movements seem to have been seen somewhere!
He immediately remembered that this amazing tackle defense was strikingly similar to the sliding tackle action that Rosicky, the midfielder who had just left from the Arsenal team he played for, and was once known as "Little Mozart"!
Nasser sat down heavily, and he and Kluivert, who was still standing, looked at each other, Nasser nodded, and Kluivert immediately understood what the boss meant.
But he was still very surprised, because the purpose of his trip with Chairman Nasser was not actually to observe the 17th.
The suffocating atmosphere at the scene boiled instantly, and the home fans immediately cheered.
This kind of tackle action is extremely rare, and everyone even seems to have seen a sensation like a goal in the world. After all, his home team was suppressed too hard by the opponent, and this was a rare morale-boosting scene.
Ali was caught off guard, and when he stopped the car and looked back, Li Liang had already quickly supported the ground with his hands, and stood up half-turned and stood up with the left leg of the tackle as the axis.
Ali immediately grabbed back, and Li Liang immediately protected the ball, but his eyes did not stay on Ali.
Fabinho suppressed the excitement in his heart, and he immediately shouted, signaling Li Liang to pass the ball to himself, after all, Ali was still fiercely counter-robbing.
Extremely excited, Li Liang was completely immersed in his own world, and his gaze had also passed over Fabinho.
Unbeknownst to everyone at the Stade Louis II, to the television screens, computer monitors, and even to the screens of various mobile phones, the brains of the 17th Monaco are processing everything they see with their eyes at an astonishing rate.
Li Liang first observed Falcao's position, the distance was more than 50 meters, even if he was sure that the error of the landing point would not exceed 1 meter of the long pass, but the ball flew in the air for too long, Dale and Vermer next to the Colombian must have the most reaction time to destroy this long pass.
Lemar on the left, right-back Kieran Trippier, who had just chased Tottenham's assist, is still near the halfway line, and passing the ball to Lemar is easily influenced by Trippier and is not the best option.
Wait, where's Trippier?
Ignoring any more observations, Li Liang moved his gaze to the right again, and Silva, who had retreated sharply after the unsuccessful assault just now, suddenly began to run back, and Tottenham's left full-back Ross reacted obviously slower, and was left behind by Silva.
This is undoubtedly the best option right now! Less than 30 meters away from Silva, Li Liang is absolutely sure that he can pass a precise long pass, and he can completely control the landing point just in front of the sprinting Portuguese, and even make the ball bounce up at the right height after landing!
Li Liang's body had already begun to run, he took a step back quickly, stretched his arms and balanced his body, and prepared to lift his right foot and immediately move forward!
He was still swinging his leg backwards and had already noticed that something was wrong, and in an instant, a black shadow swept by, and someone tackled himself from the side and back!
He had already come and stopped swinging his legs, the opponent had already touched the ball first, Li Liang's high-speed swinging right leg touched the body of the tackler, and instantly lost his balance in the air and fell down towards the turf!
It turned out that when Li Liang was observing left and right, he neglected to protect the ball, and Trippier on the right side had already sprinted to his side at full speed to decisively complete this equally wonderful counter-attack.
To be fair, Trippier's tackle violated Li Liang's forward line and the space for the ball, but because the speed of action of both of them was very fast, the referee who did not see it clearly subconsciously judged that this counter-grab was also a good ball!
Li Liangyan, who pounced heavily on the ground, saw the ball roll to the feet of Ali, and the Englishman changed direction to wipe past Fabinho, who was desperately rushing forward, and then sent a straight plug forward steadily.
Li Liang immediately saw in despair that the ball passed through the gap between Sidibi and Glick, and Tottenham's No. 7 Son Xingmin had started synchronously and rushed to the ball in a desperate manner!
The South Koreans, who had been pressing the offside line to run, threw off the entire defense line of Monaco in the blink of an eye, and successfully completed the wonderful anti-offside insertion in an instant!
Glick hadn't completely turned around at this time, Sidibi had just started to speed, and it was obviously impossible to catch up with Son Heung-min, who was already close to full speed!
Subacric was in an awkward position as he was further away from the ball and had to stick to the six-yard line.
In the horrified shouts of the audience, it was seen that the Koreans were about to completely form a single knife!