111 Liverpool in a bad year
One is five-time champions Liverpool, one of the best teams in the Premier League at the moment - the top - point - small - said - and the other is the middle and lower teams of League One, Grims FC.
Two is not a heavyweight at all.
One is a giant team that is ranked first in European football, and the other is a team in the lower leagues that few people know in English football.
If Liverpool is an elephant, then Grimes is an ant. As a team in the middle and lower reaches of the English League, Grimes has the most valuable star in the team.
Jevons has just moved this season, and the transfer price is only £250,000.
But he is the biggest player in the Grimes club, and the player with the highest transfer fee in the history of Grimes.
This player is also very interesting. This is a player who was born in Liverpool and has been a die-hard Liverpool fan since childhood. However, he entered the Everton academy by mistake and grew up at Everton Club.
However, there were not many opportunities at Everton, so he moved to Grimes FC.
Compared to Grimes, Liverpool are star-studded. Some of the players in Liverpool's main squad are worth more than Grimes as a club.
If you look at Liverpool's players right now, even the cheapest players have a transfer fee of millions of pounds. Even many players have a transfer fee of more than 10 million pounds.
What is the result of such a match between two teams.
One-sided.
It's a one-sided game. Liverpool have been bombarding Grimes since the start of the game, and they have not given them any chance at all.
"Murphy, Murphy passed, and the ball went to Litmanen. Litmanen's through ball, it was a brilliant pass...... Husky, Husky shoots! ”
Liverpool has a lot of technical flow players.
Including Murphy, Borg, Fowler, these people have good skills. And Litmanen is thirty years old, but his strength is still outstanding. In particular, his beautiful passing is a sharp weapon to tear apart the opponent's defence.
Owen didn't play in this game.
Because after all, it is the third round of the League Cup, and it is a team from the English League. Killing chickens with a knife, an ace like Owen doesn't need to waste time and energy for such a game.
Therefore, the combination of Liverpool's forward line in this game is Litmaning and Heskey, and the two wings are Borg and Murphy. In the middle is a combination of McAllister and Steven Gerrard.
It's easy to overwhelm Grimes with such a combination.
"Husky, shoot! This is what shot can hit the birds of the sky. The ball flew off. What an opportunity. ”
Once the game started, Liverpool had a good chance. It's a pity that Litmanen's second pass was knocked away by Husky. Husky, a big buffalo, has height, strength, and headers, and can be said to be the most standard center player in terms of body.
It's a pity that he also has a huge weakness.
The shot was too bad.
Husky's shot was outrageous, something all of England football was aware of.
The opportunity just now is actually very good. If it were handed over to a small penalty area king like Vanney, such an opportunity would not have been wasted. But Husky was a kick in the air.
The squandering of such a good opportunity at the beginning of the game also indicates the course of this game.
"McAllister, long pass...... Heskey header, Litmanen gets the ball. Litmanen is fast, Litmanen shoots! ”
The opportunities are plentiful.
Whoever concedes against a mid-to-lower League One team, Grimes, is simply too poor compared to Liverpool. Therefore, Liverpool has frequently created various opportunities since the start of the game.
"Litmanin, Litmanen...... Oops, Coyne, Coyne saved the ball. ”
"Coyne, Coyne has world-class saves. Coyne saved Grimes. However, judging from the game, Grimes was completely unable to withstand Liverpool's attack. ”
The narrator is right.
In the space of time, Liverpool created several chances on goal. And all of them have quite good chances.
Unfortunately, sometimes the game is just weird.
There are so many good opportunities, and Liverpool has not grasped any of them.
Soon after Heskey and Litmanen had shots, Liverpool had several shots on target. Borg's free-kick and McAllister's long-range shot were a huge threat.
But today Grimes' goalkeeper Coyne was extremely impressive. It's like drinking doping, swooping left and right, and blocking Liverpool's shots out of the goal anyway.
That's what the game is.
If you don't take advantage of several opportunities, then you're running out of luck.
"McAllister, the long pass was given to Borg. Borg smashes the ball, Borg passes through...... Litmanen got the ball! ”
Can't get in.
As the saying goes, one blow and then three failures, Liverpool is like this. At first, they tried to swallow Grimes, but unfortunately they couldn't. Instead, important opportunities are wasted one after another.
Liverpool's momentum has dropped.
By the thirty minutes of the first half, Grimes had also become accustomed to Liverpool's attack. It was getting harder and harder for Liverpool to create chances, and it was hard for Borg's pass to give Litmanen a chance.
"Litmanen is very fast, Litmanen is going to erase it. Litmanen, Litmanin fell to the ground. ”
Seeing Litmanen fall to the ground, Jack ran over with a smile. Litmanen's performance was too clumsy, seeing that there were defenders next to him, the angle of the shot became smaller and smaller. Therefore, under the pressure of the defenders, he fell down.
"Hey, Arley. Get up yourself. ”
It's not the same as before. When he was in the lower league, Jack ran into a Premier League team and was very cautious about giving them fake falls. Because his status was so low at the time, any decision was easily questioned by the players. But now Jack is also the head referee of the Premier League and an international referee, so he does not have any psychological pressure on the fake fall.
"Ally, don't play with such cleverness. If there is a next time, I will give you a yellow card. ”
Jack gave Litmanen a yellow card directly. There was no violent reaction from Liverpool, just McAllister came over to talk to Jack. In fact, the Liverpool players are very embarrassed.
It's really because Litmanen's fake fall is so bad that even they can see it.
In fact, Litmanen's performance is exactly the outward manifestation of Liverpool's players' current agitation. Otherwise, with Litmanen's strength and his usual style of play, he would not have played such a clumsy fake fall.
"Grimes' defense is getting better and better."
It's not that Grimes is getting better, it's that Liverpool is getting worse. What a strong team needs is to calm down. But Liverpool was too confident before the game, after all, they looked down on Grimes.
But the game was fought and all the good chances were wasted. Then everyone couldn't hold their breath and began to get agitated.
That's what people are.
Things that seem simple will eventually become impetuous. Although Liverpool is a strong team with a lot of experience, it is no exception.
Even Jack didn't expect the game to be like this.
Stalemate.
The game dragged into a stalemate.
The first half was over and Liverpool couldn't get the ball through the opposition. And in the second half of the first half, Liverpool didn't create many good chances.
In the second half, Liverpool's performance remained unchanged.
The more they kicked, the more they got agitated, and the more Grimes played, the more confident they became. They came to Anfield mentally prepared. After all, there is no shame in losing to Liverpool. They are a League One club, it is normal to lose to Liverpool and no one will laugh at Grimes.
However, when it was discovered that Liverpool were not as good as they had imagined, Grimes' players were more confident.
It turned out that the opponent was a paper tiger.
Thinking about it this way, Grimes' players are no longer afraid of Liverpool and are playing more and more freely. The tension at the beginning of the game was gone.
The second half continued to be deadlocked.
"Doodoo-"
At the end of the second half, Liverpool still did not break through the door of Grimes. Even Holier was angry, and even their ace Owen was already on the field. Unfortunately, he still couldn't break through the gate of Grimes.
After Jack looked at the time, he could only blow the whistle for the end of the regular game.
There are no replays in the Carabao Cup, so there is a 30-minute extra-time.