As Liverpool's manager, Frenchman Houllier is also ill-fated.

At the turn of the century, he created a small brief success as Liverpool's manager.

Liverpool's five-time title under his leadership is, of course, far less than Barcelona's six-time triumph, which was won in various cup competitions, including the Community Shield and the League Cup.

But in any case, for Liverpool at that time, such a result was indeed okay.

You must know that that season, except for the league championship, Liverpool won all other championships.

League Cup, FA Cup, Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup.

It was in the Premier League era, Liverpool's best period, of course, not after Rafael Benitez became Liverpool's manager.

But there won't be a Benitez era anymore.

So now Houllier has become Liverpool's meritorious coach.

Originally, according to his results, he could continue to coach at Liverpool, but unfortunately his own body was not strong and he suffered a heart attack, so he could only leave Liverpool.

The success of two seasons at Lyon has put Houllier back on the Liverpool club's radar.

So after struggling for several seasons without success, the Liverpool club brought the "meritorious coach" back.

In this way, unlike Chang Sheng's memory, Houllier entered the palace for the second time and became Liverpool's manager again.

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Houllier only became Liverpool manager this season.

Clearly, he is not yet familiar with Liverpool.

After a few seasons away from Liverpool, he was unfamiliar with the team.

Actually, don't say Hollier. Even Chang Sheng is a stranger to this Liverpool team.

Because Benitez didn't come, the strong Spanish characteristics in Liverpool's team naturally disappeared. Harvey. Alonso didn't go to Liverpool, he went to Real Madrid. Louis. Garcia is also not in the Liverpool squad. What else is Torres, Reina, Arbelloa...... None of these Spanish players joined Liverpool.

Chang Sheng took the gun from Benitez and likes to buy Spanish players everywhere. Lazio is now ridiculed by the media as "the most Spanish-like team in Italy". You must know that Liverpool used to be "the most Spanish team in England......

Without so many Spanish players, Liverpool would not have played Spanish football. Instead, they continued their traditional English style of football.

Steven Gerrard is the heart of the team, and Owen has long since left Liverpool and has not come back after a circle.

Up front is Kuyt, who is not very good at scoring goals, but he is very diligent and will often drop back to help the team defend, creating the school of "defensive forward".

Today, Liverpool's main scoring tool is mainly based on Steven Gerrard's back insertion. Despite the absence of Benitez, Gerrard's attacking talent was developed. His long-range shot from behind has become Liverpool's signature scoring skill.

The way Liverpool score is a bit monotonous, so Chang Sheng believes that this team is doomed to not go far in the Champions League.

In the last round of the group stage, Liverpool won at home to Debrezen and are currently at the top of the group.

But everybody knows that it can't be counted.

Debretzen is the weakest team in the group and there is nothing to be happy about beating him at home.

In the league, you may be able to eat all the tricks in one move, but in the Champions League. This will never work.

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Chang Sheng faced Liverpool, who were unrecognizable because of his arrival, and he felt no regret at all.

And he also intends to beat them at home. It's really not a shame at all.

Against Liverpool, the winning team did not support the big and sent the strongest squad at home.

Although the strength of this Liverpool team is like Benister's Liverpool, their attacking style is monotonous. But Liverpool, as a traditional English team, still have their advantages.

That's super willpower.

Liverpool are a resilient team.

The jīngshén power embodied in Istanbul Night was not instilled in them by Benitez, but was innate to them. That's why Liverpool can be a giant, it's in their genes.

If you despise them, you will die a miserable death.

They will not give up until the last minute of the game.

This kind of team may not win the championship, but kill a strong opponent in one game. That's not a problem at all.

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Lazio, who played the main team, played a jīliè match at home against Liverpool, who were also the main player.

The Spanish-style delicate ground cooperation is matched with the traditional British long-pass punch hanging.

The conclusion is...... Lazio's Spanish-style ground coordination is more dominant.

And on the back line, Jose. The centre-back duo of Passarella and Giorgio Chiellini had excellent headers, and Liverpool's long balls didn't work for them.

Gerrard was also closely marked by Ledesma, making him uncomfortable.

Gerrard's technique is not too good, and as long as enough pressure is put on him, he lacks the ability to get rid of the defense.

In the 38th minute, Gotze broke the deadlock for Lazio.

It was his first Champions League goal of the season.

"Mario. Gotze!! A beautiful solo performance! Flexible, he is like a slippery fish among Liverpool's defenders, he can't catch it! In front of Gotze, Liverpool's tall centre-backs look so clumsy! He opened the scoring for Liverpool! Now the score is 1:0! Liverpool lead! ”

Amid the cheers of the commentators and the Lazio fans at home, Götze ran with open arms to celebrate the goal.

At this time, no one even thought to mention David. Silva too.

Even the TV broadcast did not mean anything to David. What a close-up of Silva.

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After Gotze's goal, Liverpool's attack became more intense, and they were not affected by the goal conceded, and they looked very calm.

Maybe they've seen a lot of such scenes.

It is also the time when their jīngshén comes into play.

The whole Liverpool team were still fighting after conceding the goal, and Jīngshén was full of fierce attacks into the Lazio penalty area.

Kuyt is still running tirelessly. Gerard also plugged in again and again.

The Liverpool fans who came with the team also chanted the song "You'll Never Go Alone" in the stands to motivate the team.

There was no saying at all that the team was behind and that the game was not good-looking, so there were all kinds of boos.

They will always be with their own team, and that is the real "love you even if you win, love you when you lose".

But in football, it's not just jīngshén and love that decide the outcome of the game.

When the strength of the two sides is about the same. Something at the level of jīngshén can play an important role.

But if there is a huge difference in strength between the two sides, then forget it...... jīngshén is not omnipotent.

Football is played with the feet, not imagined with the brain.

Liverpool are significantly inferior to Lazio.

Hardly any of them have a player on the wèizhì who can overtake Lazio.

Even Steven Gerrard, the biggest star in their ranks, was not at all dominant in front of Lazio's midfield.

After the two sides changed sides in the second half, Lazio surrounded Gerrard in midfield and forced him to concede the goal, before Lazio launched a counter-attack and Cazorla scored another goal for Lazio.

2：0！

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Although Liverpool still did not give up and continued to attack. However, the technical gap between the two sides made them have no strength, but they can't use it.

Until the end of the game, they were unable to pull a single ball back.

The final score was 2-0, with Lazio beating former Premier League champions Liverpool at home.

It's embarrassing that the red storm that once swept across Europe has now fallen to such a level.

But that's football, professional football.

No one, no team, can dominate for a long time.

Even Lazio himself did not know when their dynasty would be buried.

Chang Sheng shook hands with Houllier after the game. Houllier praised Lazio's performance, with envy in his words.

In fact, he entered the palace for the second time this time. I also want to promote technical football in Liverpool, but Liverpool has been playing English football for a long time, and some concepts have been ingrained, and it is difficult to change them for a while. You can only take your time.

The meaning of Houllier's words, of course, Chang Sheng could hear it.

Sooner or later, English football will want continental football to capitulate, this is an inevitable trend. Among England's traditional powerhouses. Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have all fallen completely into continental football, emphasizing technique at the feet and working together on the ground, gradually moving away from the high-flying style of traditional English football.

In addition to these three teams, there are many more Premier League teams trying to fit something into the continental football group.

This is the evolution of football tactics. Which football tactics can help the team win better will be sought after and welcomed, and it will become a trend.

Any football tactics appear in pursuit of victory, and I have not heard of any football tactics that are purely produced for the sake of good looks, and even if there is, such tactics have no vitality and will soon be eliminated.

How did Tikitaka come about? There is an interesting theory that this kind of possession tactic first appeared in England, and unlike the current tikitaka, people think that the current tikitaka represents good looks, but the original football people did not invent the pass and possession tactic for the sake of looking good, but out of a very utilitarian idea.

In 1872, England travelled to Patrick for the first international football tournament in the history of football, and the opponent Scotland players all played for Queens Park (note: the current Scottish third division team, not England's Queens Park Rangers). The Scots knew they were nowhere near as heavy as England and realised they would be at a disadvantage if they used the long pass and hang style that was commonplace at the time, so they decided to play to an extreme style.

There is no direct evidence to fully prove this, but according to the Scottish Football Museum's Richard. According to Bilarti, it is quite possible that this is how it will be, when the Queen's Park players decided that they had to keep passing around their opponents to keep the Englishman away from the ball to stop the big guys from scoring.

The strategy worked. England, with a much longer tradition and a much larger pool of players to choose from, were the absolute favourites, but the game ended in a goalless draw. "England," wrote the Glasgow Herald, "have an all-round advantage in weight, with an average weight of twelve kilometres (a slight exaggeration, of course) for the Scottish team, and they are also faster. ”

One of the great things about the homegrown Scots is that they work as a team.

This was the original form of tikitaka.

Used by the Scots to defend, in order not to lose.

When people find that offensive or defensive tactics can help them win, they choose this tactic.

Some people say that Barcelona has insisted on tikitaka for more than 20 years, even if there is no championship, it is not easy, they are an increasingly utilitarian counterexample in today's football, blowing a breath of fresh air to football.

It's not easy, but that doesn't mean they're not utilitarian.

First of all, Barcelona are a La Liga giant, and they have no shortage of trophies themselves, even in the years when they did not have the Champions League, they often won the league and the Copa del Rey.

These trophies can prove that they are on the right track, and it takes some luck to win the Champions League, they just have to wait for their luck.

If Barcelona is a second-rate team in Spain, playing in the league every year to work hard for a European qualification without a title at all, can this team still hold on to tikitaka for more than two decades?

That's not for sure......

ps: It's really hard, I take the tablet and squat in the toilet to code words, about a few hundred words.

But it's really uncomfortable......

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