Liverpool took the initiative on the pitch from the opening kick-off with greater possession.

But Liverpool didn't pick up the tempo.

It can be said that Liverpool's attacking group today has a very strong possession ability up front.

Qin Xiong, Suarez, Gerrard, Cabaye, plus Alonso, a trailing playmaker behind Cabaye.

These five are distributed in various areas of the midfield, maximizing the attacking space up front.

Liverpool's control is divided into two levels: front and back.

The midfield is dominated by Cabaye, Alonso, Baines and Johnson, while the front field is dominated by Qin Xiong, Gerrard and Cabaye.

Cabaye's role is crucial and Koeman's ability to start this game is a sign of trust.

Fortunately, Liverpool have too many players who are more dangerous than Cabaye, so that Cabaye can have enough space to play under cover.

Ramirez was deployed to play as a right midfielder today, and his main task was to defend and freeze Qin Xiong on the wing with Branislav Ivanovic.

On the other side, the starter Di Matteo's prediction was disappointed, he thought it would be either Raul or Kuyt, but he didn't expect Koeman to "darelessly" put Gerrard in the right winger position.

In fact, think about it, Gerrard used to be in the England national team, Liverpool club, in the early days after 2000, they all played in the right midfield position, and played well, at that time, if Beckham could not play, Gerrard was the main candidate for the right midfield, until Gerrard played a famous role in the midfield, the England team fixed Gerrard in the midfield position, which also opened the prelude to the long-term difficult coexistence of the two Germans.

Today, Koeman's formation and tactical arrangements are mainly based on control.

Despite being a civil war in England.

But he can't let this Champions League semi-final turn into a Premier League!

In other words, the blood-pumping and out-of-control rhythm of England is something he doesn't want.

Because Chelsea's tactics are clear at a glance.

Chelsea's elimination of Barcelona must have been a repetition of their old tactics to eliminate Liverpool.

Extreme anti-reverse!

This is especially true on the road.

That's it, Liverpool can't play too fast and almost out of control, once Chelsea seize a chance, it will be an away goal!

So Liverpool played very cautiously and carefully in this game, relying more on the overall functioning of the team.

The ball rolls back and forth in the front court, the players skillfully run off the ball and look for space to respond, and then find an opportunity to shoot from distance after frequent lateral tears!

In the 8th minute of the game, Gerrard won the ball on the right side of the front field and passed the ball to Suarez, who ran to receive it, and Suarez, who had little space to play, did not hesitate to pass the ball back.

Once the ball was at Cabaye's feet, he crossed diagonally to the left in front of the penalty area.

As soon as Qin Xiong touched the ball, he fell into a three-fold trap, in addition to Ramirez and Ivanovic, there was also Meireles.

He slick the ball into the middle diagonally behind.

Alonso rushed up and fired a volley from 28 yards out of goal!

Frank Lampard fell to the ground and made a sliding tackle and the ball hit his thigh and bounced off the stands.

Chelsea's counter-attacks were hard to play.

With Ashley Cole having miscalculated Liverpool's starting right winger, it may be difficult for Ashley Cole to freeze Gerrard alone, and Mata will have to drop back to at least compress space to disrupt the Liverpool players in finding Gerrard's passes.

In such a situation, Chelsea have only one person up front.

In the 16th minute of the game, Suarez turned in front of the penalty area to volley, but was successfully intercepted by Terry's ferocious foot, and the football rolled to the feet of Ashley Cole.

Ashley Cole was afraid to play the ball down the middle for fear of Cabaye breaking the ball at the feet of Mikel or Frank Lampard, and the Chelsea defence dropped back so much that they had less space to catch the ball.

Liverpool's counter-attacking efforts were in place, which meant Chelsea had to choose a simpler approach when it came to counter-attacking.

Ashley Cole kicked the ball up front.

Drogba was the first to stop the ball in the scramble with Mascherano, but he stopped the ball a little wide, and Alonso, who rushed back, took control of the ball first and passed it to Baines.

Liverpool have always been slow in attack, but when the timing is right, they choose to pick up the speed when they create the final blow.

In the 25th minute of the game, Qin Xiong retreated on the left side, and he suddenly passed the ball into the penalty area after receiving a pass from Cabaye.

The ball was behind Cahill.

Cahill thought that Qin Xiong's pass was big, but when he turned to look, he suddenly found Suarez jumping up behind him and shaking his head to attack the goal!

It was a goal that Liverpool fans were looking forward to.

However, Suarez's head-to-head attack was more like a football rubbing against his head, and then there was no obvious change of direction, and the football flew straight out of the bottom line.

Suarez gave Qin Xiong a thumbs up after landing on the ground.

Qin Xiong's eyes showed a thoughtful expression.

Chelsea's defence is really united at the moment, and the defence is quite leaky.

Liverpool have to do more in attack.

At least in a more varied way.

After he went to Cabaye to say a few words, Liverpool's attack caught Chelsea off guard in the 38th minute of the first half.

Qin Xiong, who had been operating on the left side of the frontcourt, suddenly switched positions with Cabaye!

After receiving a pass from Cabaye, Qin Xiong controlled the ball on the spot, and Ramirez, Ivanovic and Meireles cautiously came up to form an encirclement.

After Qin Xiong waited for the time to be basically ripe, he pulled the ball behind him, and immediately stepped out of the ball and passed it back!

Ramirez was passed by Qin Xiong, he turned his head to look, only to see Baines rushing up.

After the pass, Qin Xiong immediately moved to the middle of the penalty area.

Meireles pulled his legs and galloped towards Qin Xiong, while Ramirez turned around and forced Baines.

If they can cut off the ball at Baines's feet, Chelsea will be able to launch a dangerous counter-attack!

Branislav Ivanovic withdrew parallel to the back line.

Baines glanced at the direction of Qin Xiong's running, and he immediately passed the ball to Qin Xiong.

Qin Xiong looked like he was rushing towards an encirclement.

Behind Mereles, Mikel in front, Chelsea penalty line on the left and Frank Lampard on the right!

But no Chelsea player noticed that when Qin Xiong was running, Cabaye was also running!

He was running towards Qin Xiong's previous position!

Three seconds ago, there was an encirclement formed by Qin Xiong.

Three seconds later, there was a noticeable vacancy!

As soon as the football from Baines arrived in front of Qin Xiong, Lampard was ready to steal, Meireles was ready to steal, and Mikel was ready to steal!

The situation of being surrounded on three sides.

Qin Xiong kicked the ball!

This kick made all the Chelsea players unable to react!

The ball knocked on his heel and the ball rolled in the direction he had come from, where Cabaye had gone! (To be continued.) )