Chapter 121: The Tenacious Pompeii Legion (Part II)
With Babbel substitution, Liverpool's attack could be more threatening.
In the 60th minute, Modric broke through the middle and distributed the ball to Kuyt on the right, Kuyt crossed with his foot, and Torres headed high in the unguarded box.
The Pompeii Army was not reconciled to this score and organized a counterattack.
In the 67th minute, Crouch passed the ball through on the counterattack, and another Portsmouth striker, Nugent, successfully countered offside, dribbled into the penalty area and pushed the goal near the penalty spot, and the Pompeii equalized.
'Fernando Torres just wasted a good chance and now Liverpool are being punished, and this goal is actually Crouch's proof that he has to prove his quality in front of his former club and his through ball is important.
Liverpool didn't expect Portsmouth to equalise so soon, but everyone felt more offended and went on a rampage.
In the 69th minute, Liu Ting passed back from the side, and Mascherano shot wide in front of the penalty area.
In the 72nd minute, Liverpool had another chance.
Kuyt's aggressive running up front paid off, Crouch was ready to pass the ball back to goalkeeper James, Kuyt stepped forward and almost tackled the ball, Crouch barely avoided being cut off in front, but Portsmouth goalkeeper James made a mistake and touched the ball with his arm.
As we all know, the goalkeeper can receive the ball in the penalty area, but it can only be the opponent's shot or the non-kick return pass of the side, the goalkeeper can receive the ball with his head or the chest return pass and the thigh return pass, but the goalkeeper can not touch the ball when kicking the goalkeeper back, of course, the goalkeeper can also directly touch the ball if he unintentionally misses the ball.
Although David James is an England international, it is only the tallest of the short, England has not produced good goalkeepers, most of the time the main goalkeepers of the Premier League giants are foreign players, this time James showed his low level very well, this mistake gave Liverpool a free kick opportunity in the box.
After some deliberation within the Liverpool team, they planned to take it by surprise.
Xavi Alonso was at the penalty spot, but Liverpool had several catches in the box. It's an indirect free-kick and you have to drive the ball out and shoot at goal, and of course Alonso can hit the goal, but it has to be touched by someone else in front of the goal to be considered a valid goal.
Liu Ting and Kuyt stand on Alonso's left, Arbeloa and Aurelio stand on Alonso's right, Torres and Alonso stand in front of the ball together, Liverpool can Alonso step on the ball Torres to hit the goal, or dial to the left or right to someone else to hit the goal.
The Portsmouth wall was lined up on Torres' direct path to the goal, and there were also two players who were paying attention to Liu Tingna, and it was obvious that the other side thought that the ball would either be Torres or Liu Ting.
Alonso flicked the ball to the right and Aurelio got up to hit the goal, and to Portsmouth's surprise, the ball flew straight into the goal.
"The ball is in!! Strike!! Liverpool took a surprise indirect free-kick in the box, and left-back Aurelio came to the goal. ”
After such a complicated free kick combination, he finally overtook the score again, but a goal lead is the most unsafe score, and Liverpool has to continue to attack.
In the 75th minute, Liu Ting received a pass from Kuyt and volleyed, his right foot did not eat the right part, and the ball bounced off the ground and was confiscated by James.
In the 78th minute, Alonso planned, Liu Ting went straight into the penalty area, Kuyt ran back and pushed the goal, but the linesman raised the flag to signal offside.
Liverpool's attack was fierce, but Pompeii's were surprisingly stubborn.
In the 82nd minute, Portsmouth counter-attacked, Aurelio was fouled tactically, and the opponent won a free kick on the right side of the penalty area.
The opposition Berhaji took a free-kick, and Hredelsen shook off his defender Ag in a defted position, and scored with an undisturbed header from eight yards in front of the penalty area to give Pompeii another equaliser.
"Hreddarsen!! He redeemed himself, he helped his side to equalise again, he scored an own goal early in the second half and now he has redeemed himself. ”
Looking at Hredelsson who was celebrating wildly, Liu Ting didn't expect that Portsmouth was really tenacious, equalizing again and again, and now with injury time, it should only be about 10 minutes before the end of the game, and all Liverpool has to do is score.
In the 85th minute, Portsmouth's Distin made a mistake and let Torres easily burst into the penalty area, which disrupted Portsmouth's defense, Torres passed back on the right side of the penalty area, Kuyt pushed the near corner in front of the penalty area, but the ball bounced back on the post, Liu Ting followed up with the supplementary shot and was cleared by Campbell, who returned to the defense in time.
“Wow…… Kuyt missed a great opportunity! He had the opportunity to be a hero of the team, but he missed it. ”
Seeing that the time entered injury time, Heynckes couldn't sit still, this draw would really be overtaken by Manchester United, he stood on the sidelines and kept shouting, but no one could hear his shouts clearly when he was so nervous on the field, and it was time to fight the bayonet, and the role of tactics became much smaller.
In the 91st minute, Alonso distributed the ball to Liu Ting on the left side, Liu Ting took the ball past Glenn Johnson again, Johnson debuted as a right midfielder, and now it is not good to change to a right back defense, this time Liu Ting suddenly came and went several times, but he was fast as long as someone helped him make up for it and block him, he quickly ran back to entangle, Liu Ting wanted to break through the pass to create opportunities for his teammates, and it was difficult to break into the goal by himself.
This time Liu Ting also chose to pass the ball, otherwise he would be entangled by Johnson back after a while, Liu Ting directly got up and passed to the front of the penalty area, and Kuyt jumped high and rubbed his head.
"Kuyt's header ferry!! Golden opportunity!!! ”
At the moment of Kuyt's crossing, Torres stepped forward on the right side of the penalty area, completely shook off the defense, and hit the goal with a header, David James had no choice but to watch the ball fly past him and into the goal.
Hansen was shouting, "Gooooooooooal!! Torres!!! Torres struck the opponent!! ”
Zhan Jun also said: "This is a cooperation between the three Liverpool strikers, Liu Ting takes the ball, Kuyt excessively, Torres completes the goal, although Kuyt is nicknamed a coolie, he is the striker who works best with TNT." ”
The title TNT is also well-known in China.
There was not much time left for Portsmouth after this goal, and with the fact that Grandpa Hai was still delaying time with substitutions, Liverpool won the game in a thrilling way.
Zhan Jun said: "It was a fantastic game, Liverpool won and Portsmouth also showed their tenacity, suffering own goals and two beatings to the lead, but they equalised twice and almost held Liverpool to a home draw. ”
'In the first half of the game, both sides didn't take their chances, but in the second half both teams scored a total of five goals, and it was definitely an up-and-down game.
Liu Ting, Fernando Torres and Kuyt all received a game-high eight points after the game, and Babel was Liverpool's lowest four.
Liverpool narrowly won, Manchester United also narrowly defeated West Ham United 1:0 away, or chasing Liverpool, and it will be Manchester United's make-up match soon, Manchester United will win the make-up game will overtake Liverpool by 2 points, Liverpool has a lot of pressure up and down.
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Liverpool's narrow win at Portsmouth and their unbeaten run in the league continued, a brilliant game that would have been discussed by fans for a few days at other times, but this round was quickly forgotten as someone stole the show, and even Arsenal's 0-0 draw away at Tottenham in the north London derby was not the most talked-about thing in London.
Another London side, Chelsea, came out to steal the show - a 0-0 draw at home to Hull City, and Scolari's dismissal was already on the agenda.
At home, there were already plenty of Blues fans pulling banners that read: "Scolari fuck off!"
There were only a handful of banners prepared in advance, but it didn't bother the smart Chelsea fans, who sang a song at Stamford Bridge throughout the second half – 'You don't know what you're doing?' This is a satire that Scolari doesn't understand the ball, Scolari can't understand the ball or not, it's hard to say, but he really doesn't understand English, which made Scolari only know from reporters after the game that he was being 'praised'.
This home was forced to draw, Chelsea even fell out of the top three, the standings were overtaken by Aston Villa for the first time fell to fourth, this position may be comfortable if Arsenal stays, but Abu is obviously unwilling to stay in this position, as expected, the next day Chelsea announced that Scolari was out of class, the assistant coach temporarily led the team to train, and Chelsea opened the new manager search mode.
Rafael Benitez, who has been resting at home for more than half a year, has immediately become a favourite, and is not just a favourite for one club, Chelsea has fired the manager of the club and he has been rumored to be involved, and Bayern Munich, who may have been out of class.
Benitez has become popular in recent days, and he really 'just happened' to stand up and make a statement, claiming that all Liverpool's achievements so far are due to him, and most of the players in the Liverpool team are now brought in by him.
So the media began to analyze whether Benitez was the biggest contributor to Liverpool, and for a while Bei Bald became a famous coach again.
The media hyped it, but the players were going back to play in the national team.
Liu Ting took the opportunity to go to Paris to meet Léa Seydoux, the two had not seen each other for a long time.
In the hotel in Paris, after an in-depth exchange between the two, Seydoux suddenly said: "Liu, let's break up!" ”
"Why?" Liu Ting originally wanted to ask this sentence, but immediately wanted that the matter between herself and Gelk had already been reported by the British tabloids, and it was impossible for her not to know, so she couldn't ask the words until she spoke.
didn't know what to say, so he had to be a man of action, Liu Ting buried his head in kissing her lips, and the two were entangled again.
Liu Ting stayed in Paris for a few days, and I don't know if it was the last time for the two.