In recent league rounds, Benitez has noticed the impact of Zhang Tiehan's position on tactics and the team's attack.

Previously, Benitez wanted Zhang Tiehan to integrate into the team, and with Zhang Tiehan, Gerrard, and Alonso as the core, he created a 'three-core' tactic, in which Zhang Tiehan had a larger range of activities, and more passes and receptions with his teammates, so that Liverpool's attack was sharper, and his long-range shots could also be used to deter opponents.

Now he finds that this tactic has little merit against smaller teams.

Maybe the 'trio' will play a good role in the face of teams of the same level, such as Chelsea and Manchester United, because the opponent will always cause all kinds of restrictions to Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan is at the front, and it is easy to become a tactical striker, which cannot give full play to his impact and personal ability.

But playing against a small team, the opponent couldn't prevent him, so why use any 'three-core' tactics, he himself is a deterrent in the penalty area, a fixed 'battery'.

That was the way it was in the first half.

Zhang Tiehan pulled the back position, can not get more opportunities, the other party did not even make much restrictions on him, but Liverpool's two wings, plus the central midfielder Alonso, Hamann and striker Cisse divided Zhang Tiehan too many opportunities, he is only the same as others, in this case, it is normal for Zhang Tiehan not to score, once the watch is too good, or his own watch is too bad, Liverpool may fall into a passive situation, and the goal will not come for a long time.

Benitez felt he had to do something.

"Fernando, in the second half, you're ready to play!" Benitez said directly to Morientes that the atmosphere in the Liverpool dressing room, which had been quiet, became even quieter because of this sentence, and almost everyone looked at Cisse. Cisse's face also did not look good.

Morientes must have come on to replace Cisse.

At the beginning, Liverpool didn't feel much about such substitution adjustments, but now in several consecutive games, Liverpool has let Morientes play when they can't open the situation, which means that Benitez has more trust in Morientes. There is less trust in Cisse.

But everyone knows why.

All of England, and indeed all of Europe, know that Benitez admires the kind of player who can make a difference in tactics, and Cisse certainly doesn't do as well as Morientes, and with Zhang Tiehan moving forward, Cisse will almost certainly be substituted.

It boils down to Zhang Tiehan for the reason.

Zhang Tiehan's appearance is excellent, the team's offense often has to take his position as a change point, Zhang Tiehan needs to pass the ball to cooperate with the players, and Morientes naturally has a lot of advantages over Cisse.

It's really talking. Or Cisse himself.

If he could have done better, such as scoring in the first half, to open up the game for the team, Benitez wouldn't have replaced him.

No matter what Cisse thinks, it is impossible to change Benitez's decision, and in the second half, Morientes came off the bench again, and in recent times, Morientes has been the player who has been the most frequent substitute. Even the Anfield commentator wasn't surprised that he was on the pitch.

When he couldn't open up front, Benitez once again remembered the former Spain's top scorer. When Morientes first arrived at Liverpool, he was very mediocre, but you can see that he is gradually adapting to the team and the Premier League, and we can expect to be there for a while. He's sure to be able to show better. ”

Morientes is also very happy to be able to play.

He has always wanted to reach the top of the professional league in the Premier League, and he has been working hard for it, and his main rivals in the team are Cisse and Zhang Tiehan, not to mention the latter. Although he used to be the top scorer in La Liga, Morientes really didn't have the confidence to compete with Zhang Tiehan for the main position, so the remaining position had to compete with Cisse, fortunately, Liverpool had a lot of games, he had the opportunity to play before, and now he has been playing for Cisse, as long as he plays well, he is likely to fight for a stable starting position.

That's what Morientes has been looking forward to.

Partnering with Zhang Tiehan, Morientes feels very good, Zhang Tiehan is a partner who can score goals, and he has a lot less pressure, which may be what he doesn't want to see, because he is a goalscorer, and the shooter plays for passing, that's not his main job, but now Liverpool is like that, and he has to adapt to his new position - shadow striker.

After the start of the second half, Liverpool made a change.

When Morientes came on, even if Jewell didn't say anything, the Wigan Athletic players still knew about the adjustments made by Liverpool, and obviously Jewell did a lot of work before the game, and Wigan Athletic knew a lot about Liverpool's change of formation.

But it's one thing to know, it's another to be able to cope.

When Zhang Tiehan became a center forward, the impact on Wigan Athletic's backline was too great, just like Jewell thought, Wigan Athletic's defense against Zhang Tiehan really didn't have many ways, Zhang Tiehan hit again and again, they couldn't stop it at all, and many times they could only pray to God that Zhang Tiehan would not score.

It may be useful to pray once or twice, at least for ten minutes in the second half, Wigan Athletic did not concede a goal, but prayer is not always useful.

In the seventy-first minute, Finnan dribbled the ball on the side and passed straight to the penalty area, Zhang Tiehan carried the defense of the opponent's defender and volleyed directly to the ball!

This kick is clean and powerful!

Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Ferran could only watch the ball fly into the goal from a close angle, and then shrug his shoulders helplessly at his teammates.

This is the clarion call for Liverpool's counter-offensive!

Just five minutes later, Hamann crossed to the left of the box and Morientes burst into the box with the ball and fired diagonally for Liverpool's second goal.

Five minutes, two goals.

The Liverpool fans cheered with joy as they began to expect a comeback, albeit at Anfield, where the stakes were a bit weak and, most importantly, they wanted the team to win rather than lose at home to the likes of Wigan Athletic.

Liverpool relied on goals from Morientes and Zhang Tiehan to equalise.

After that, Wigan Athletic knew that it was very difficult for them to win at Anfield, and then they began a solid defense under the command of manager Jewell, which completely relied on the advantage of numbers, and the whole line retreated to set up an iron bucket formation in front of the goal, regardless of the defensive ability of the Wigan Athletic players, but it has to be said that this defense was quite effective, and then Liverpool did not find a good opportunity for a long time.

Zhang Tiehan was a little secretly anxious.

But the bucket formation is the best defense, which is definitely very reasonable, the opposing eleven players are crowded in the penalty area, squeezing the goal in front of the goal at all, even if the Liverpool players are allowed to shoot directly from the perimeter, it is difficult for the football to hang into the goal.

Liverpool want a win, and Wigan Athletic want to hold on to their hard-earned scoreline.

This is a battle between spear and shield, a collision between hope and hope, and it has been proven that when a Premier League team uses the method of iron bucket formation to hold on for ten minutes, another Premier League team, no matter how much stronger this team is, is really difficult to do.

In the end, the match between the two teams ended 2:2.

A draw is definitely not good news for Liverpool, especially after two consecutive rounds of winlessness, Liverpool have only accumulated two points in these two rounds, while their rival, Chelsea, the Premier League's most closely watched Chelsea, have won one and drawn four points in two rounds, so that Liverpool and Chelsea have opened a nine-point gap, counting two games less, the points gap between Liverpool and Chelsea is not small.

Chelsea's title form shì turned out to be pretty good.

More attention has been paid to Chelsea, with a lot of media analysing Chelsea's tactics, Chelsea's squad, and Chelsea's style is a perpetual debate, a topic that has been raised by many since the beginning of the league.

Chelsea's style is divided into two sides.

The opposing side is led by Arsenal, with Tottenham Hotspur boss Joel among the most prominent critics, while Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez will definitely fall for Chelsea, and they are one of them.

Arsene Wenger said Chelsea were driving the Premier League towards defence and utilitarianism, while Arsenal midfielder Gilberto sarcastically watched Chelsea's game like a tennis game, with their long ball style of play making the ball fly around and you have to twist your neck to watch.

After the defeat to Chelsea, Charlton boss Jurry Kubishli lamented the toughness of the style, saying that Chelsea were close to a point where "they can win the game if they score one goal"

It's Chelsea

It was Mourinho's turn to speak, saying: "The Chelsea style is to win. ”

He wants to use this sentence to push back Arsenal, who have lost two games in four rounds.

'Our style is that we play whatever the opponent doesn't like,' Mourinho said, 'for example, Arsenal complain that Chelsea play directly behind the scenes, if I don't play that way it would be stupid, Anderlecht will probably complain that we didn't give them space behind the defence, if I did, it wouldn't have been 1-0, they are one of the best counter-attacking teams in Europe, if I give them space they will score. ”

'Our style is a winning style and sometimes a winning style means playing very high quality attacking football, and we've had a couple of times this season, sometimes that means dominating the opposition, but in general, it's about taking advantage of the opponent's weaknesses and not playing the way they want them to.

Against Arsenal, even at home, there is no attack, against Anderlecht, the midfield is tightly contracted when necessary, and against a team like Charlton, you have to control the overall situation, winning 58% possession, 7-0 shooting efficiency on target, 7-2 corners In short, Mourinho's team can play in different styles, but there is only one goal - to win.

'The only game I was unhappy with was Wigan, we didn't play well and we were lucky to win, but after that every win we had was convincing, we won in three different competitions, we scored enough goals, we didn't concede a goal, we looked very solid and I'm very happy.'

Mourinho said. (To be continued......)