1369 Looking up to the throne, the battle for supremacy

Under the watchful eye, Liverpool's fast attack played a galloping speed impact, breaking through Barcelona's defense with a thunderous momentum.

In the handling of the final blow in front of the goal, the audience felt the shocking beauty.

Everyone thought that Qin Xiong would receive Kuyt's cross and complete the shot.

However, Qin Xiong passed the ball diagonally back to the top of the penalty area when Puyol did not completely block the angle of his shot.

Looking at the whole process from the audience's point of view, a red figure seems to be dazzling, running all the way from the midfield at the beginning of Liverpool's attack, like a wind, fire, thunder and lightning to the front of Barcelona's penalty area!

He happened to receive the return pass delivered by Qin Xiong.

Red Army Captain Gerard!

He met the ball and hit the goal with a heavy shot without interference!

The soccer ball is like a cannonball in the bottom left corner of the goal!

Although it was the near corner of the goal where Valdés was ready to block Qin Xiong's shot.

However, Valdés moved after Qin Xiong had crossed the ball diagonally and Gerrard was caught off guard by a long-range shot.

For him, it's a reverse tangent line!

After Gerrard scored the goal, he was full of determination, solemn and murderous, nodding his head as he ran to celebrate.

"Liverpool reversed against Barcelona! OMG! What a classic teamwork! Liverpool played a dazzling fast attack!

Johnson, Kuyt, Raul, Qin Xiong, Gerrard!

The Reds relied on these four players to play a lightning-fast and tacit attack!

Barcelona's pass-and-control style of play exposes space in the midfield and gives Liverpool a fast-attacking environment.

It was clear that after Barcelona took the lead, they tried to take control of the game and approach the game at their pace, but instead they seemed to lose the initiative and Liverpool led again with two goals!

3:2, the defending champion leads Barcelona by one goal! ”

Coman celebrates with Sami Lee in a hug on the sidelines. Immediately after the celebration, he gestured to his players on the pitch and told them to take the lead into the dressing room as much as possible before the end of the first half.

Pep Guardiola is frowning and he needs to recalibrate his team's attacking and defensive.

When Barcelona try to completely suppress Liverpool with passing in a game of this level, such an idea is naïve!

In the past two years, Liverpool has elevated the run-in of fast attack and team cooperation to a frightening level, and has carried out targeted defensive training.

The whole world will look at Liverpool. So who is Liverpool going to study?

Of course, they are their main competitors in England and Europe!

The Reds walked to the back of the pitch after the celebration, with Gerrard walking side by side with Qin Xiong, and as the two were about to part, Gerrard said to Qin Xiong: "I can't wait to lift my third Champions League trophy." ”

Qin Xiong nodded and did not speak.

With a serious expression, he secretly said in his heart: I also can't wait to lift my fifth Champions League trophy and my fourth Ballon d'Or!

The Barcelona crowd is starting to panic!

They don't know why the pace of the game is like this all of a sudden!

This overwhelmed them a bit.

Pep Guardiola also gestured on the sidelines to calm his team, while temporarily retracting his edge and not being too aggressive to try to equalise.

Following Liverpool's momentum. Don't look at the fact that there are only a few minutes left at the end of the first half, maybe Barcelona will give Liverpool another wave of aggressive attacking opportunities if they are too aggressive.

On the pitch, it never takes much time to score a goal.

Pep Guardiola first needs his team to go back to the dressing room to calm down and then unify the whole team's thinking.

Barcelona were wasting time by slowing down the pace of the game after the restart.

Liverpool, on the other hand, defended heavily to ensure Barcelona were unable to equalise late in the first half.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the two teams at the new Wembley Stadium temporarily closed the game.

The players of both teams who walked into the dressing room were preparing for the second half under the adjustment of the head coach.

Although Liverpool are ahead, Koeman will not take it lightly.

Standing in the dressing room, he said to the players: "I believe everyone must remember our Champions League final last season, when we used a defensive counterattack to break down the opponent after leading Inter Milan. But today's opponents leave us with not much to choose from.

We can't just go on the counter-attack after taking the lead, remember what we agreed before the game?

Disrupt the rhythm of Barcelona. Keeping the opponent in control of the game, once we give Barcelona control on the field, then our goal is very dangerous.

In the second half we had to continue to tighten our pressing tactics, and our two full-backs had to be a little bit more daring, but bold at the same time, more tacit. Make sure the back line doesn't at least leave the two centre-backs at the back, then we're going to be beaten through a sieve.

Tighter marking of the two main passers in Barcelona's midfield was our main task throughout the game, not allowing Xavi and Iniesta to pass the ball too often, even if they didn't make threatening passes. But a seemingly unthreatening move to the ball could lead to a deadly attack that would kill us!

They have the ability to do that, they can do it, and Messi, I don't want him to be on the edge of the box and inside the box, to keep him out or to cut off his passing lines after he runs! ”

Koeman was definitely better prepared for this game, thanks to the fact that the team had already confirmed the title in the league and had more time to scout the opponents, study the opponents and improve the strategy of the game.

Even if the attacking strategy in the opening stage of the game ended with the team being reversed, the tactical arrangement for the game was completely correct!

The Red Army generals trusted Koeman and were of course willing to listen to his arrangement.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

The Reds and Barcelona reopened their positions on the pitch.

Barcelona had clearly undergone a mental baptism from Pep Guardiola at half-time, and the team looked in good spirits.

Pep Guardiola watched calmly from the sidelines with his hands in his pockets, still looking so calm that it seemed that falling behind on the scoreboard didn't shake his will.

He was always confident.

At least it seems.

This will certainly make the Barcelona players feel more calm and confident.

That's how charismatic a manager should be.

With the referee's whistle, the second half began.

The new Wembley Stadium is buzzing again!

The Reds are looking up for a seventh Champions League trophy in the club's history, Barcelona are looking to topple Liverpool as the modern hegemon, and if they can lift the trophy and reach the top of Europe for the second time in three years, who would dare to say that Barcelona are not the hegemon? (To be continued.) )