Real Betis was fifth in La Liga last season and fought for a place in the Champions League qualifiers to reach the last 32 of the Champions League.

In the summer, Real Betis was the focus of Spain, selling Joaquín to Valencia and Oliveira to AC Milan, and the two deals "earned" Betis 53 million euros.

With this money, Betis bought people with a lot of momentum.

20.6 million euros, Betis's summer spending ranks fifth among the 20 La Liga, second only to Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Valencia, the two largest introductions are foreign aid, 10.5 million euros from Santander "mouth" to snatch the international team's popular striker Sobis, 6.5 million euros from Dortmund to eat the difficult Bundesliga "mouse" Odonko.

In theory, the impact of Joaquín and Oliveira's departures was minimized.

In addition, the arrivals of Dalmia, Wagger and Volger complement last season's instability at the back, while they also brought in Iruetta, who is considered by Clement to be one of La Liga's top three managers.

Irueta is the longest-serving coach in charge of a La Liga team, having recruited him in 1998 when Rondor had the foresight to recruit him.

During his seven-year partnership, Irueta led Deportivo to the 2000 league title (the only league title in Laco's history) and the 2002 Copa del Rey with a previously mediocre Deportivo team, and won the UEFA Champions League for five consecutive seasons, leaving a 4-0 victory over AC Milan in the memory of fans.

This is the second "ZTE" in the team's history since Arsenio created "Super Laco" in the mid-90s of the last century. After a one-year break, Irueta accepted Lopela's offer to return to the mountain as head coach of Betis.

In the face of Liverpool, Irueta really has little confidence.

His team is a strong team compared to other non-giants in La Liga, but Spain can only compete with the two giants of La Liga (Real Madrid and Barcelona). The rest of the team was much weaker than the others, and he was well aware of that, so Real Betis kept a low profile before the game, even though they were on their home turf.

Both teams have announced their starting lineups ahead of the game.

Liverpool's squad was unexpected, and unlike Jose Mourinho, who has always used Frank Lampard as a pillar in midfield, Gerrard was on the bench for this game.

The starting midfield pairing was Alonso and Sissoko. Zenden and Garcia split between the left and right, with Liverpool's formation returning to a midfield four, with the forward combination of Zhang Tiehan and Cisse.

This is the standard 442 formation.

As soon as Liverpool came out, it felt like they were going to 'go back to tradition'.

In the previous Liverpool in the league, it felt like a change, Zhang Tiehan's retreat, more passing and cooperation in the midfield, which made many people see Liverpool's ability to cooperate, they are striving to return to the ranks of the world's first-class giants. Rather than following Liverpool's tradition of playing rough English football, that style of play will not be able to enter the ranks of the strong teams in any case.

But in this game, Liverpool's formation showed that they were going back to the way they were.

Many people are quite confused, and this includes Liverpool's opponent Real Betis. To be honest, against Liverpool, even at home, Real Betis is not sure. After all, Liverpool won the Champions League last season, and their recent table is also quite good. A few days ago they also won against a strong Chelsea side.

But seeing Liverpool's starting lineup, Real Betis was somewhat sure.

If it is against Liverpool last season, Real Betis coach Irueta is still somewhat sure, although that team is the European champion, but not as strong as this season.

That winner may have been a little more lucky.

That's what Irueta thought, so he put the team on the line. In his opinion, if Liverpool can't play dazzling combinations, then it is still possible for their own team to defend the goal, while defending, looking for opportunities to attack. This is the easiest football to win in modern football.

But Irueta may not have paid much attention to what Benitez had to say before the game

Benitez said before the game, "Betis have a very good fast attack and a solid defence, but they don't have a central defender who is more than six feet tall and Zhang will cause them problems." ”

Iruetta probably didn't care about that.

When the game between the two teams began, it was too late for him to notice, it was only the eleventh minute of the opening period, and using a wide attack, Garcia took advantage of a wide attack, and Zhang Tiehan and Cisse were fighting for points in the penalty area.

Without a tall defender to defend, Zhang Tiehan came out of the crowd with ease, grabbed the first point, and topped the ball to Alonso, who was inserted in the back.

Alonso received the ball and scored it with his feet.

“GOAL！ Xavi Alonso! Eleventh minute goal! ”

'Alonso helps Liverpool take the lead! 0:1！ Zhang's pass was quite precise and clever, and Alonso stepped in to shoot with his feet unguarded! ”

"Well done!"

This goal made the Real Betis defenders feel very helpless, they listened to the instructions of the head coach Iruetta, and defended solidly in the opening game, originally thought that Liverpool would not get an easy chance, but the goal just now proved that their idea was obviously wrong, in the face of high balls, they were fighting with Zhang Tiehan, and even Cisse when fighting, they had no advantage at all.

What's more, Liverpool are using this to attack.

Irueta finally knows why Liverpool are fielding the old-fashioned 442 formation, which looks to be less flexible in attack and has more passing points on the outside.

Zhang Tiehan was originally a high school striker, and he was very good at grabbing headers.

But the strange thing is that Irueta didn't even think before the game, he knew Zhang Tiehan, knew that the team had to defend against Zhang Tiehan, so he arranged the defense at the front of the penalty area, in his opinion, Zhang Tiehan's long-range shot was the most threatening, who knew that in this game, Liverpool made a fuss about Zhang Tiehan's header.

There is nothing that Iruetta can do about this article.

Irueta now has a feeling of 'a good woman is hard to cook', the opponent has to constantly use the high ball to create a threat, and if you want to deal with it, you must have a tall central defender, but his team doesn't have one, there is none, he can't deal with it.

The only thing Irueta can do is keep the team shrinking.

At the Benitovilla Mariel Stadium, under the eyes of 50,000 Sevilla fans (Real Betis is Sevilla City), Real Betis fell behind by one goal and chose to continue to shrink the defence, such a game caused the whole stadium to resound with dissatisfied boos, this boo was obviously given to Real Betis by the home team fans, and some Sevilla fans even shouted the names of the Liverpool stars in protest.

For example, 'Xavi Alonso' was called so loudly, probably because Alonso had just scored.

Zhang Tiehan was a little jealous of this, and after hearing the voices in the stands again, Zhang Tiehan said to Alon, "Look, Xavi, you can have so many of their fans." ”

Alonso laughed.

Zhang Tiehan glared and said, "I thought they should have called me by my name, I knew that I should have shot myself just now." ”

"Zhang! It's not exactly the reason for the goal...... Alonso explained helplessly, "Also, I'm a Spaniard, and you're German, and here, it's Spain. ”

"Haha......"

Zhang Tiehan laughed, and his heart immediately balanced.

In the face of this type of 'Zhang Tiehan', Alonso can only smile helplessly, he has always wanted to try to adapt to Zhang Tiehan's personality and understand him better, after all, Zhang Tiehan is the most important player in Liverpool, definitely more important than him, Alonso knows this, although he has been in Liverpool for a longer time. But sometimes it's really hard to understand what Zhang Tiehan is thinking.

Zhang Tiehan didn't know Alonso's state of mind, he was only concerned about the problem of 'the home fans didn't call his name', so he began to constantly attack the Real Betis defense.

Real Betis is even more precarious.

They found Zhang Tiehan to threaten, but it was very difficult to defend because they didn't have a player who could compete with Zhang Tiehan in terms of height, physically...... The Spanish players probably prefer to talk about technique, and physical toughness is not what they are good at.

In short, they have no way to take Zhang Tiehan.

This time, Zhang Tiehan used a simple trick again - grabbing a header to attack the goal.

It's very simple for him, especially when his teammates pass the ball far away and are seen by him carefully, then the 'See' will be activated, he can clearly know where to land, and all he needs to do is run over it as soon as possible and then jump -

Rush to the top!

With a bang, the football flew towards the Real Betis goal with a twist in the air, and goalkeeper Doras was very serious about defending, but this was not the first time, he could not have made no mistakes every time, and played too long to save the ball.

So this time he couldn't do it.

Zhang Tiehan scored the second goal for Liverpool.

When the ball flew into the goal, the Benitovira-Mariel stadium fell silent for a while, and then the Sevilla fans shouted the names of the Liverpool players again, and 'Zhang' also took the upper hand, and it seemed to be louder than 'Alonso'.

Zhang Tiehan was satisfied.

Instead of celebrating the goal, he walked up to Alonso, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Look, I'll just say, it's the reason for the goal, not the birth, the nationality, although you are a Spanish player, but now you are in Liverpool." ”

Alonso could only shrug helplessly.

The good-tempered Spanish guy, looking at the smiling cheeks in front of him, really had the urge to swing his fist fiercely...... (To be continued......)