As a result, Aston Villa formed an attacking lineup with Norwegian striker Kalou as the bridgehead, Ashley Young, Abonlahor and Petrov breaking through in the left, middle and right directions, and Leo Coke behind the lineup. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although this attack lineup does not invest many troops, but the attack power cannot be underestimated, Ashley Young, Abang Raho and Petrov have speed, and they are accidentally broken through to form a chance to cross the bottom, and the Norwegian striker Kalou in the middle is a giant who is close to two meters tall and weighs 90 kilograms, he rushes up like a giant elephant, no two people look at it at all, not to mention that there is a black whirlwind like Abang Laho next to him.

Aston Villa's attack focus is Liverpool's right Pennant side, today Pennant was very stimulated by the fans, the mood is impetuous, Aston Villa's players also see this, ready to use him here as a breakthrough, in addition to Aston Villa's side, Ashley Young is extraordinary attack, even if it can't surpass Pennant, it can be completely matched.

Liverpool's right-back Pennant was in an unstable state after the opening, and his attacks were also sharp, but he was always impatient and could not find the best attacking opportunities, so the effect was not obvious.

Pennant was on fire, and now seeing the opponent slashing him, Ashley Young rushed to him with the ball, Pennant was furious, he didn't wait for his teammates to help defend, but went directly to steal.

Defenders are inherently passive to offensive players, unless the level of defense is extremely high, the opponent's attack is average, and the defenders are likely to directly cut off the ball at the feet of the offensive players.

Ashley Young seems to be aggressive, but he is actually very calm, and he also has spare strength in the high-speed dribble, Pennant came to steal, he was very calm in the high-speed dribble to change the direction of the ball, avoiding Pennant's defensive limit, directly from the side of the breakthrough.

Pennant rushed over with blood, thinking that Ashley Young was so fast with the ball, he could break the ball, and being passed by Ashley Young so simply was unbearable for Pennant, and when Ashley Young flashed past him, Pennant grabbed Ashley Young's jersey with a backhand, ready to block Ashley Young's breakthrough with a foul.

In fact, after Pennant was broken through, there were fullbacks behind him, and Pennant didn't need to directly pull people to foul, just run with Ashley Young, which was his impulse, whether offensive or defensive, he didn't take the best way.

Originally, Pennant had been shaking his head when he rushed over to steal Benitez so recklessly, and when he saw that he reached out to pull Ashley Young, Benitez was so angry that he scolded a stupid pig.

Ashley Young didn't slow down much just now, Pennantrad only made him stumble a few steps, in fact, he was completely able to control his body and continue to attack forward, but Ashley Young was cunning and chose to fall instead of moving forward.

It was the most favourable option, with a definite free-kick up front and a possible yellow card certainly going on to be much more favourable than him continuing to break through Liverpool's old full-back Finnen.

The Aston Villa fans in the stands also took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, chanting "Foul!" Yellow! "Pennant yellow card!"

The noise in the stands instantly became louder, all of which were shouts forcing the referee to give Pennant a yellow card.

The commentators at the scene couldn't help laughing and said: "Pennant is angry today, it's all the fault of that middle finger, it is estimated that he will not get out, this boo will always belong to him, Chen Yu avoided it." ”

The referee, Hairy, was an experienced and assertive referee who did not give Villa defender Bouma a yellow card the first time and Pennant a yellow card the second time, but only awarded a free-kick.

Such a free kick is also an opportunity for Aston Villa, which has been suppressed by Liverpool, to breathe a sigh of relief, the most important thing is to be able to let their fans out of anger, play at home, and be pressed by the opponent for 20 minutes, the players can stand the fans and can't stand it, if the fans defect, the home advantage will be greatly weakened.

Set-pieces have always been an important means for Aston Villa to score, O'Neill has put a lot of effort into set-pieces, invested a lot of troops, and even the defenders have all come up, the central defenders come to the penalty area to grab points, and the full-backs are also waiting around the box to grab the ball out of the box.

The free-kick was taken by maker Ashley Young.

The free-kick created by Ashley Young was still far from the goal, and it was a bit difficult to shoot directly at goal, and when the goalkeeper was fully guarded, the chances of a long-range shot being effective were slim, and Ashley Young sent a high, spinning free-kick to his centre-forward Kalou.

Ashley Young's ball because of the long distance, the force is very strong, the spin is very strong, when flying to the halfway, the player and the goalkeeper did not judge the trajectory of the ball, which is exactly what Ashley Young needs, Aston Villa's players are mostly strong and savage, this kind of competition for position in the crowded penalty area is what they are good at, especially the high school forward Kalou, obviously superior, physically strong, quickly occupied the most advantageous position in the scramble, when the ball flew over, The Liverpool players had to jump up and fight him for it, while the other secretly tugged at his shirt at the risk of being sentenced to death.

But in the face of a player as strong as Drogba like Kalou, the pull did not play a big role, and Kalou still jumped up to grab the landing point under the attack of the two.

Karui jumped up and was about to smash the ball to the bottom right of the goal, but because of Carragher's pull, he jumped a little higher, and his forehead hit the ball, but there was no way to hit it down, and the ball that should have been smashed to the bottom left was pushed to the top right.

Liverpool goalkeeper Reina is standing close to the right side of the goal, if Karui really pushes to the bottom right, the distance is so close, it is difficult for him to have time to fall to the ground to save the ball, but the upper right is the most comfortable for the goalkeeper, he only needs to jump up lightly and wave his arms.

Reina's reaction speed was not inferior to Taylor's, and his attention was always on Kalou, who jumped almost simultaneously when Kalou headed the ball and finally got the ball out of the line before it flew into the goal.

"Good! Reina mighty! ”

"Reina!"

At this moment, Villa's commentators were feeling sorry for Kalou, and the Liverpool fans in the stands took the initiative to cheer for Reina, telling Reina what a great thing he had done with applause and shouts.

Liverpool's defenders also exchanged high-fives with Reina, and this free-kick was able to be successfully defended, relying not only on Taylor, but also on the cooperation of defenders, but the crisis did not pass, and it was Aston Villa's corner that followed.

With the experience of defending a successful free-kick last time, Liverpool were more confident when defending Aston Villa's corners, but in the face of Aston Villa's set-piece tactics of assisting everyone, Liverpool's defense still had some problems, they blocked all the attacking players in the box, but they were not able to prevent the defenders standing on the outside of Aston Villa.

After Ashley Young sent the ball corner, the two sides fiercely competed for position, Aston Villa grabbed the front point and rubbed back, pushed the ball to the back point, Liverpool deployed heavy troops in the front, middle and back three points, the ball was pushed to the sideline by Liverpool players, but the sideline was also controlled by Aston Villa's players, Gardner grabbed the landing point, took a few steps laterally, and directly hit the goal 30 meters away, and the ball flew quickly to the left of the goal.

The long-range shot was sudden, powerful and fast, and Reyna jumped up almost without any preparation, as if he had descended from the heavens, and poked the ball out of the bottom line again with his fingertips.

Liverpool were more prepared for the second corner, and there were no defenders to give up on the second spot, but Ashley Young's corner kick was wrong, and the ball spun straight over the crossbar.

Ashley Young kicked the corner flag with remorse, he would not make a mistake when he took such a free kick a hundred times, but he made a mistake on such an occasion, why this happened, he couldn't figure it out.

Aston Villa's manager O'Neill slapped his thigh in anger, and the continuous set-piece attacks made Liverpool all the woods, which was the time to win in chaos, but he didn't expect his most relied on big player Ashley Young to make such a low-level mistake, O'Neill had to sigh that luck was no longer on his side.

Liverpool withstood the opponent's three set-piece attacks, although the lure of the opponent into the depth did not succeed, but it was almost rested, and then under the leadership of the forward line and the planning of Alonso, the fierce attack was launched again.

Compared with the previous wave, this wave of attack is more fierce and lasts longer, this wave of continuous attacks has been played until the end of the first half, 40 minutes later, Aston Villa's backline made mistakes under continuous pressure, and gave Liverpool two consecutive opportunities to shoot in the penalty area, but at that time Liverpool's players in the box were Kuyt and Arbeloa, the two were Kuyt once Kuyt did not expect the opponent's defender to leak the ball, reacted half a beat slowly, and did not send force when shooting, On one occasion, Arbeloa didn't expect his team-mate to pass the ball over, and when he fell to the ground, his shot was blocked by Villa goalkeeper Taylor with his legs.

Chen Yu also had a good free kick opportunity in stoppage time, but Chen Yu's direct shot from a tricky angle was saved by Taylor again.

In the end of the first half, neither side could break through the opponent's goal, and it could only end 0-0, although Liverpool had the absolute upper hand in the first half, but Villa's defense was not destroyed, they only made mistakes to give Liverpool two chances to score, and Liverpool's goalkeeper Reina also had a very beautiful save, overall, Liverpool and Aston Villa played at a normal level, 0:0 is also the correct reaction of the game, no matter which side wants to win the game in the second half, changes must be made, Otherwise, the winner will have to wait for God to roll the dice.