Before the game with Liverpool started, Li Bin found all the game materials of Liverpool in recent years and studied them carefully. And after researching, he quickly realized two things: first, it is very difficult to break Liverpool's door in sports battles now. If your team is hoping for an athletic battle at Anfield, then their team, no matter how lucky, will be able to win a 1-0 at best. Secondly, although Liverpool defensively do a good job, they have a big problem defending set-pieces. Their zone defense has always been a big drawback, and their head coach Rafael Benitez has never been able to correct them, and these details are what Parma can use.

Li Bin knows that it will be very difficult to get a win at Anfield. In the first two years, Chelsea was suppressed at Anfield's home stadium and couldn't turn over, so they were out of the games in a row. These strong teams in the Premier League, when they are at their strongest, none of the goals are particularly easy to break, but Liverpool has such a huge problem that can be exploited.

Liverpool's set-pieces have been one of the biggest reasons they have conceded. They have created a team that has been the result of defensive errors from set-pieces for half of the season. In Li Bin's memory, they were eliminated by Chelsea twice, the first time was a mistake in the corner kick defense, the second time with Chelsea played a two-legged 5-7, and four goals were conceded in set-pieces - their set-pieces are their big weakness, and the reason why they have such a weakness is because their defense is too rigid to defend the area.

In football, there have always been two kinds of set-piece defense in the penalty area, one is that the players are marking people, using the way of marking defense, using their tallest players to mark the best players to defend the opponent's attack, and the other is to use zone defense, everyone in the penalty area defends the area they should defend, and does not run with people. The former is based on the opponent and walks around the opponent's strong points, while the latter is based on himself and walks around his own forbidden area.

The problem with the former is that some teams with strong set-piece ability can rely on running to pull players in the penalty area, so that the loopholes in the penalty area can be exploited by the opponent. And then there is the problem, that is, when the players' ability to defend the ball is insufficient, so the defense is easy to be eaten by the opponent. In today's football world, more and more defenders tend to use zone defense.

The general method of zone defense is to put a high ball at the front point, so that the opponent can not attack the front point, if the opponent is around the back point, the goalkeeper will come out and take off the set-piece directly. At the same time, near the penalty spot, put a player with strong header ability to prevent the opponent's strong charge, such a style of play, often only use two or three people, you can complete the set-piece defense in the penalty area, so it is also regarded as the best set-piece defense idea. One of the biggest reforms in English football in recent years has been the introduction of the idea of zone defence. In the original English football, the anti-corner kick did not stand on the goalpost, which was simply a big rebellion, but in the past few years, their thinking has changed a lot.

There are many teams that play like this, and Liverpool's side has Hyypia at the front point, and his heading skills are among the best in Europe, and he can defend this point well. Then it was Reina who fought for the header. Another team that insists on zone defense is the future Barcelona, they also let Pique defend at the front point, Puyol sweeps at the penalty spot - this makes up for the lack of average height of the team's players, although the whole Barcelona team, the height is enough, there are only three or four people with header ability, but their headers have not had any problems.

But this style of play has a big problem: it requires all but those two players to have enough enthusiasm to run forward in time when the ball is up, on the one hand to create offside, and on the other hand to block the opponent's strong rush to the top of the penalty area. The mobile players in the penalty area can't stand still and watch, they have to block the opponent's line.

But these are things that Liverpool can't accomplish: what is needed to card the opponent's forward rush is not the body, but a good sense of position and cooperation, but Liverpool players have always liked to rotate, and the players do not cooperate well, so the work of preventing the opponent from rushing forward will not be done well. Zone defence has its advantages, but it makes the players have no individual defensive responsibility, only collective defensive responsibility, and sometimes the players don't work hard enough and feel like 'somebody is going to intercept anyway', which makes them lose the ball. Barcelona can play like this, because in the years of their peak, the players really worked hard, but Liverpool's players who rotate often sometimes don't work very hard.

Moreover, this season's Liverpool also has to add that Reina has gradually lost the ability to control the high ball due to injury, they did not have a few strong points, and lost another one, so that they conceded more goals from set-pieces.

Benitez is not unaware of this, in terms of set-piece tactics, he can be said to be very knowledgeable, but he stubbornly insists on what he thinks is a better style of play, because he thinks that the zone defense is more advanced, so he insists on zone defense and does not think about marking. His refusal to set up for Liverpool's realities has made Liverpool's set-piece troubles irreparable.

And Parma is now taking advantage of this, after already taking a 1-0 lead, Li Bin immediately made adjustments: he asked Keita to replace Mota, who had a relatively high physical exertion, to enhance Parma's long-range shooting ability in the frontcourt, and then, let Cannavaro Jr. replace Thuram in the backfield, enhance the header attack, at the same time, he also signaled to Parma to stop trying to organize, no matter who gets the ball in the front, he must directly try to score from a distance.

Parma's game, the organization has not been very good, and at this time, they directly gave up all the organization. In a devil's home stadium like Anfield, it is difficult to break down Liverpool's defense by penetrating the ground, so they no longer try, but use a simple and rough style of play to directly target the opponent's weakness. Parma's players have a good long-range shooting ability, they got the ball under the instruction of Li Bin, and passed it directly to the front, as long as it was within 30 meters of the goal, they dared to shoot with their feet. An attack, from Frei to the ball out, to the front of Yaya Toure and others tried to shoot, even two passes can not be used, the first half is still a stalemate between the two sides, to the second half, Parma's long-range shots, significantly increased - such a shot is difficult to succeed, however, such a shot, but can increase the front-court set-piece opportunities, so that Parma's set-piece role highlighted.

Rafa Benitez stood up on the sidelines and yelled at his players: he signaled his players to hold on to the box, press more and not give Parma too many chances. However, Liverpool's players are already very tired, Li Bin has someone in his hand to change into, but Liverpool's bench depth is insufficient, at this time, they are powerless to resist Parma!

From the very beginning, Parma made up their minds to let Liverpool indulge in the idea that their Torres could break down Parma's door, and then in the second half, Parma relied on the advantage of bench depth and the all-round advantage of the midfielders to create set-pieces and the opponent to besiege, which was a tactic they had prepared long before the game.

Liverpool do have the best midfield combination, but Parma are better on their depth and their players are more capable of shooting from distance.

Just past the center circle, Yaya Toure directly crossed a wide range of horizontal kicks and gave the ball to Grosso on the wing. Grosso immediately slashed the ball into the way and gave the ball to Arshavin in front of him. Arshavin was on the outside of the box, with a long-range shot that went straight into the box. In the penalty area, Carragher made a timely leg to block the ball off the line.

However, it also resulted in a corner – a way Parma increased significantly in the second half to take advantage of set-pieces and try to find the back of the net again.

Arshavin stood on the corner kick and kicked the ball up.

The ball flew towards the back post, and Carragher struggled to take a step back, pressing Cavani hard behind him and flicking his head out of the ball. However, at the edge of the penalty area, Yaya Toure received the ball and immediately followed with a long-range shot close to the ground. Mascherano, who was standing in front of him and was in charge of the defense, was not able to stop him, the football passed through the entire defense, with a crisp sound, knocked on the post and bounced out!

It's a pity that it's a good opportunity! Li Bin sighed, but the football was touched by Arbeloa, who was in a hurry to save the danger, and it was another corner kick opportunity.

This time, Arshavin looked at the position inside the penalty area, and he did not choose to find the back point again, but kicked the ball to the front point!

In the penalty area, Ag also started running. He started his run a little further from the penalty spot, and instead of hitting Carragher's defensive area directly, he chose to strike from Alonso, who was a little further away, and he cut in from behind Alonso and went straight in front of him. Alonso tugged at his shirt but couldn't stop him, and seeing that he had run beyond his defensive position, Alonso didn't follow. However, Ag took a step forward and had already run in front of Hyypia, who was defending on the edge of the small penalty area!

This step forward, he did very beautifully, Hyypia was completely unaware that someone would go around from behind in front of him, and when he saw Agger rushing over, he was already a step slower. Arshavin's ball came at this time, and he passed it very accurately, just to find the front point. Agger jumped one step in front of Hyypia, he completely obscured Hyypia's vision, Hyypia didn't even see the ball, just watched Ag on the line of the small penalty area, and after jumping, a neat header smashed the ball towards the goal.

Reyna didn't even react, just watched as the ball flew into the goal from the top right of his own, and with a corner kick, Parma took a 2-0 lead!

In the entire stands, there was an instant sound mixed with roars and boos, and the emotions of dissatisfaction and anger were ignited here at once. This is Anfield, the fans can't accept it anyway, they are 2-0 led here!

However, Ag, who scored the goal, stretched out two fingers and strode to the stands of the visiting fans, celebrating the score! To be able to play a 2-0 at Anfield is something that many people have not been able to do!

"Parma scored another goal! Before the game, I also said that Parma may have been made by Liverpool's strangulation tactics without any attacking ability, and they could not realize their offensive tactics, but now it seems that Parma is not capable of visual attack tactics, and their attacking tactics have been implemented in the best way! ”

Glancing at the situation on the field, Li Bin also turned his head. He looked at the bench and also made the decision for a third substitution.

'Palmeri replaces Grosso...... Are Parma looking to take their header home with a wild header? It's just that a child who is less than seventeen years old, can he? ”