Volume 1 Chapter 89 Handball! Penalty kick!

Ye Qiu has always felt that Lucio, as a central defender, still has a deep tactical value to explore.

Generally speaking, any team's ball advancement is either on the side or in the middle, and the side is generally an important means of ball advancement because the defensive strength is relatively weak and the space is relatively large.

For example, Figo, Overmars, Ryan Giggs and a series of excellent wide breakers, they are an important means of ball advancement, and teams with this type of team will often create more one-on-one opportunities on the wing for them when designing tactics, so as to maximize their tactical value.

And what about the mid lane? For what is no one going in the middle?

If you go to the side, when you get to the front, you still have to find a way to transfer the ball from the side to the middle, so why don't you push directly from the middle, isn't it more convenient?

The middle is often the most densely defended area of the opponent, and it is often easy to get caught in the encirclement when advancing in the middle, but once a player can have the ability to force a breakthrough through the dense area in the middle, then the tactical value of this player will be huge.

After AC Milan introduced Kaka, they entrusted the Brazilian with a heavy responsibility in the first season, and then Ancelotti did not hesitate to let Kaka out of the team's offensive and defensive system, just to give full play to Kaka's ability to force a breakthrough in the middle of the dense area, because as long as Kaka breaks through, he can directly pose a threat.

Kaka's success is not so much the success of his personal ability as it is the success of his tactical value!

The value of the breakthrough in the middle is best reflected in Kaka's body, and more importantly, Kaka is the forward midfielder.

As for the midfielders, as long as they can push the ball forward 10 meters, they will be in the most threatening area of their own attack.

Perhaps, from the perspective of tactical value, Lucio, a central defender who also has the ability to advance in the middle, is not as good as Kaka, who plays as a striker, but his value to any team in terms of enriching tactical means and enriching the means of ball advancement is also huge.

However, because he is a central defender, his tactical value often represents an increase in the cost of defensive risk, so Ye Qiu has always focused on carving the defensive line, Gilberto? The cooperation and tacit understanding between the three Brazilian players, Silva, Lucio and McConn, and Colo? Toure and Heitinga, they are also the objects of Ye Qiu's attention.

Tactics are always relative, and it is impossible to have an absolutely safe and safe defense, so what Ye Qiu considered was to maximize Lucio's advantages in advancing with the ball in the middle, and to minimize the defensive hidden dangers caused by the advancement of the Brazilian central defenders.

The Brazilian central defender has not disappointed Ye Qiu, although he is the one who makes the most mistakes in the Ajax backline, but many times, he is also a defender who has brought the most surprises to the team, just like this time.

Liverpool's repeated attempts to play on the left side of Litmanen failed, and McCone reminded the former Ajax senior again and again that you are 30 years old, not young, with many injuries, and your form is no longer what it used to be, and again and again Liverpool's left attack was futile, and the Reds' attacking direction was forced to shift to the right.

Gerald became Hollier's main offensive weapon.

In the 59th minute, Gerrard played up with McAllister on the right flank, avoided Abidal and crossed low to the edge of the box to find Heskey.

Husky was firmly stuck in his position, he was always fighting with Lucio, the Brazilian was so good at his physical fitness, although he was not far behind, but it was a real headache, so he had to stand up for position again and again.

This time, however, the Brazilian chose to go around the front.

Oh my God!

Husky looked at the Brazilian who walked around in front of him in amazement, and it was hard for him to understand how a guy with such a tall and strong stature could have such flexibility and explosiveness.

Because Gerrard passed the ball on the horizon, defended around the front, and after breaking the ball, Lucio did not hesitate at all, in the end, it was the Brazilian players who came out, and the skills did not have to be said, raising his head and looking ahead, very wide, Liverpool's group of players who were originally rushing forward were suddenly braking suddenly, ready to return to defense.

Is it in time?

There's a saying on the football field that you can't be wrong about, and that's that people are never as fast as the ball!

Lucio pushed forward a dozen meters and he saw that Robben and Van der Meyde were already in place.

This is a hallmark of Ajax's attack, with the two wingers always able to get close to the opposition defence in the shortest possible time at the moment when they switch between attack and defence, and at this time, they need someone to pass the ball to them from behind.

Lucio picked up his right foot and kicked it hard over the top.

The ball crossed an arc, flew quickly from Lucio's side, and after reaching the apex, it fell quickly, but the landing point was on the left side of the Liverpool penalty area, Ye Qiuguan's offensive routine is called diagonal attack.

Robben was like a gust of wind, flashing the tall but bulky Babbel, which is also a very interesting part of the Liverpool defence, they are all a group of tall guys, the frontal defense ability is very good, but there is a huge weakness behind the turn and defense.

Therefore, Houllier's defense can only choose to retreat and avoid being beaten as much as possible.

But once you are beaten by someone, sorry, it is almost a hit.

The hearts of the Reds fans at Anfield jumped to their throats, and Houllier pressed his chest harder, and it was clear that they all knew that Ajax's most threatening counter-attack was coming.

Robben was very fast, sprinting forward like lightning, while not forgetting to look around, Van der Meyde was a little deliberately slowing down, Ibrahimovic was rushing forward, the Swede's explosiveness was not very good, but the speed was not slow, coupled with his tall and strong body, the impact was very terrifying.

Stopping, dunking, stopping, Robben stopped the ball firmly at his feet on the left.

By this time, Henkoz had already chased back into the penalty area, and he went out to block Robben, Hyypia followed Ibrahimovic closely, and the Swede leaned to the left, as if to find a forward point, forcing Hyypia to follow to the left, giving up a large space on the right.

Robben faced Hencoz, made a sharp stop, suddenly accelerated, this continuous change of speed, so that Henkotz could not do anything, in the face of the following Robben's cross, he could only symbolically raise his foot, but there was no way.

The cross was high and landed at the back post.

When Hyypia realized this, he wanted to go to the back point, but it was too late, so he could only loudly remind his teammates, "Back point! ”

Ziggy and Van der Meyde were racing their pace, but the latter was clearly faster than Zigger, taking a step ahead of Ziggy and catching his body in front of Zigge, and both leaping high at the same time to meet Robben's cross.

Everyone watched this scene, it happened in the blink of an eye, but it made everyone's heart beat faster.

Ye Qiu clenched his fists on the sidelines, this is one of the offensive routines he focuses on, diagonal attack, looking for the opponent's weakness after taking the ball, which is equivalent to handing over part of the organizational offensive power to the two wingers, in this situation of not being able to play an effective counterattack, the effect is still obvious.

But just when Ye Qiu was expecting Van der Meyde to smash the close ball into Liverpool's goal, he saw the ball fly high over the crossbar and out of the bottom line, looking like Zieg had cleared it first.

Call~~

The Liverpool fans in the stadium had a bit of a sense of the aftermath of the disaster, and Ajax's quick counter-attack was too fast and sharp.

Whether it's that Robben on the left or Van der Meyde on the right, it's very fast, and Robben's speed is even a bit like Liverpool's Michael? Owen, and Ibrahimovic is even more eye-catching, at least the Swedish highman is much better than Husky, and there is nothing to say about the ability to handle the ball and make the ball.

But just when Liverpool fans thought they had escaped, Van der Meyde raised his hands high, slapped his right hand with his left hand, ran towards the referee, and pointed at Zigger, "Hey, Mr. referee, he handballed, he handballed deliberately!" ”

"Handball, I can clearly see that he is using his hand to rack the ball out!" Ibrahimovic is the closest, and it doesn't matter if he sees it clearly or not, he has to support his teammates at this time.

"I don't have handball!" Ziggy was the first to force up to defend himself!

"I can see very clearly that he knocked the ball out of the hole with his head, not his hand!" Liverpool's players also came to support their team-mates.

This is a kind of time that often happens on the pitch, where both sides are arguing and putting pressure on the referee, but both keep a certain limit, at least not to give the feeling of rushing and threatening the referee.

The referee kept making a move with both hands to calm down and not move forward, then ran to the linesman, and soon walked back to the pitch, first separating the Ajax and Liverpool players, and then showing a yellow card to Liverpool's Zigge, then a red card, because he had already received a yellow card in the first half, and the last point was to the penalty spot.

"Deliberate handball, yellow card plus penalty!" The on-site commentator explained the referee's move.

The Liverpool players looked a little dissatisfied with the referee's decision, but the referee looked resolute and kept shaking his head, and the Reds fans on the scene didn't care about 3721, in short, boos and curses flew in unison.

"Judging from the slow motion, Ziger was indeed behind Van der Meyde at the time, and his hand was also out of his body at that time, which is difficult to explain that he had no intention of going down to shoot the ball, it can only be said that Ziger was deliberately handball after he couldn't snatch Van der Meyde, trying to find a loophole for the referee."

Slow motion explains this foul from many different angles, and it is clear that this is indeed a deliberate handball, but sometimes, the naked eye can never keep up with the changes in the game, so there are still many fans and players who feel that they are wronged.

On the contrary, Ziggy, who received the ruby truce card, did not dwell on it, turned around and walked out of the court, without saying hello to head coach Houllier, and went directly into the players' tunnel, he must be well aware of his behavior.

"Ajax got a penalty in the 74th minute of the second half, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Ajax, and we should take advantage of this opportunity to see who they take the penalty!"

Ajax's chief penalty taker is Van der Vaart, but this player is not playing now, originally in the second team, Sneijder's penalty also took a good penalty, but now in the first team, the young Sneijder is behind Ibrahimovic in the penalty spot-kick right.

The Swede is Ye Qiu's hand-picked penalty taker, but the result of the penalty is not very ideal, which has a certain relationship with his character.

"Do you want another one?" Bobby? Harms came to Ye Qiu's side on the sidelines and asked.

It was a hard-won penalty that would have been Ajax's most valuable away goal and could have led to a victory, but if it didn't, it would have been a devastating blow to the team's morale.

Ibrahimovic's psychological quality has always been more emotional, firstly, he is younger, and secondly, it is related to his character, so he is easy to get out of the basket at every critical moment, but Ye Qiu knows better that if he vetoes Ibrahimovic's penalty at this time, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the Swedes.

With Ibrahim's sensitive and fragile emotions, it is estimated that he will turn back from Ajax and flee from here.

"Let him punish!" Ye Qiu gritted his teeth.

The ball didn't score, and there was still a chance to score again, but he finally cleaned up Ibrahimovic, so that this kid was obedient and obedient, and he couldn't fall short because of a penalty, right?

Seeing Yi Bu's inquiring look, Ye Qiu nodded and made a soothing gesture towards him.

"Your greatest stupidity is your lack of patience and the tendency to let your emotions control your mind!"

After getting Ye Qiu's nod, Yibu walked to the penalty spot with the ball in his arms, and involuntarily remembered Ye Qiu's reminder in his mind, as well as the sentence that Ye Qiu said when he scolded him at the police station that day.

There are many things, he doesn't understand, a lot of words, he just didn't say them, but that doesn't mean he's an idiot and a fool.

Since he was a child, he has become accustomed to living a self-centered life, because only in this way can he protect himself, not be bullied, and be able to get to where he is today, all because of his character.

In this life of Eevee to the present, there are two people who have made him think about changing for them.

One is Haas? Borg, but this person who was once regarded as his father was always taking advantage of, deceiving, cheating him, which made him feel an unprecedented betrayal, so, when he saw Haas? When Borg still wanted to show favor to himself as he had done in the past, he threw his fist in anger.

The other one is Ye Qiu.

Although he has only been together for more than half a year, Ye Qiu gave him a feeling that this person knows himself very well and trusts him, but he has always maintained a distance with himself, making him feel very comfortable and harmonious, which makes Yi Bu, who has not known how to trust and understand others since he was a child, is already the best way to get along.

But at the same time, Ye Qiu put forward very high requirements for him, which not only did not make Yi Bu rebellious, but made Yi Bu feel that this was a product of trust, and he was ambitious, and he also knew that the harvest of the Dao was often proportional to the effort, so he did not object to Ye Qiu's high requirements at all.

Sometimes, getting along with people doesn't have to be intimate to be called understanding!

Taking a deep breath, Ibrahimovic raised his head, looked at the night sky over Liverpool's Anfield stadium, closed his eyes, and what he heard was the tsunami of fans wafting around the Anfield stadium.

He felt as if he was in the middle of a vast ocean, but he didn't feel scared at all, his mood gradually calmed down, and then looked at Liverpool's goalkeeper Westerved, Ibrahimovic exhaled softly.

As soon as the whistle blew, Ibrahimovic rushed forward, his legs long and his stride were big, and when he got close to the ball, he struck a powerful right foot with a powerful re-slam of the ball.

The ball went straight into Westerved's goal at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, who made the wrong save and chose Ibrahimovic's left side, because the Swede had a right foot, but Ibrahimovic hit the right side this time, and it was the most difficult half-high ball to save.

"The ball is in!" The on-site commentator shouted cleanly at the moment when the ball drilled into the goal.

"From Swedish teenager Zlatan? Ibrahimovic's penalty, Ajax finally took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field in the 75th minute of the second half, 1:0! ”

"It's not an interesting game, the two sides think about the defense the most, the away Ajax take a defensive counter-attacking strategy, and even once people have the idea of wanting to ask for a draw, and Liverpool in the first half and most of the time, also put defense first, which is also Houllier's typical defensive thinking."

'It was a dull game, but we have reason to believe that with Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goal, the situation of the game was broken and both sides should adjust and change.

Sure enough, after Ibrahimovic's goal, Liverpool took the lead in making adjustments.

Holier learned from the pain this time and replaced Michael? Owen, who was replaced by Fowler, wanted to strengthen his ability to take chances in the box, and then replaced Litmanen on the left with Smitchell to strengthen the midfield's playmaking and passing ability.

It was clearly a set-up for Ajax's defensive counter-attack.

But as soon as Holier adjusted, Ye Qiu also adjusted.

Van der Vaart replaced the physically weak Van der Meyde, Yaya? Toure replaced Sneijder, and although Ajax made a substitution, they changed their previous defensive strategy of shrinking and boldly adopting a high-post defensive tactic of pressing up and attacking, and further strengthened the pressing and pressing of the midfield.

This made Holier vomit blood with anger, because when he wished that Ajax would press out to play a high defense and give full play to Owen's speed counterattack, Ye Qiu chose to defend to the end, but when he replaced Owen and replaced Fowler, who was not fast but had a keen sense of smell in front of the goal, Ye Qiu pressed it out.

Just imagine, a Fowler who is far away from the penalty area, plus a Husky who has no advantage in speed, how can Liverpool attack?