959 Counterattack exploded
Torres didn't succeed on his own and got past Las Diarra with a bit of a big ball that Cannavaro stepped up to cut off.
Liverpool played defensive counter-attacks today, so the counter-attack in the midfield was not strong, giving Real Madrid breathing space after a successful defense.
In the 6th minute of the game, Qin Xiong suddenly sent a direct pass over the top after exchanging passes with Sneijder in the midfield.
The ball flew over the heads of Liverpool's defenders at the backline, and when Carragher and Aager focused on Higuain, Raul stepped in to form an unexpected attacking point, and he rushed forward to head the ball as the ball fell, but the angle of the header was too square, and Reyna confiscated the ball directly.
Liverpool defended tightly at the back, and Real Madrid couldn't cut through the opposition with every pass.
This made Qin Xiong occasionally try a simpler and cruder way to create opportunities.
Liverpool's positional attack is also not ideal, they have to push forward slowly from the back, it takes some time for the receiver to run forward from behind, and it will be difficult for Real Madrid to shake up the Real Madrid defence with passing and cutting until they press too hard.
In the 11th minute of the game, Qin Xiong controlled the ball and pushed forward, his speed was a little slow, and when Gerrard was about to press behind him, Qin Xiong would suddenly accelerate and take a step forward, so that Gerrard's pressing failed.
When he dribbled the ball into Liverpool's back two, the space left for him to handle the ball became small.
At this time, Sneijder suddenly ran sideways towards him, and the Liverpool defenders naturally saw Sneijder's running position and were immediately alert.
When Sneijder rushed in front of Qin Xiong, Qin Xiong suddenly activated. Transverse dribbling. Shook the angle in front of Mascherano. Alonso, on the other hand, was held back by Sneijder's movement.
When Mascherano quickly moved to Qin Xiong's side, Qin Xiong passed the ball to Mascherano's right side and cut the passing line back!
Mascherano looked back and saw Raul appear in front of the penalty area and receive a pass from Qin Xiong.
He felt the wind behind him, and when he turned his head to look again, he saw that Qin Xiong was gone.
Qin Xiong slashed diagonally into the penalty area from the other side of his body!
Under the cover of Raul and Higuain, Qin Xiong received Raul's horizontal pass, and he strode the ball to accelerate. Directly diagonally into it, he forced a corridor from between Carragher and Agger to pierce into the heart of Liverpool!
But Reina had already abandoned the goal at this time, and when Qin Xiong entered the penalty area with acceleration and explosiveness to form a shooting opportunity, Reina was less than a meter away from him.
Between the lightning and flint, Qin Xiong made a choice and pushed with one kick!
Reyna reacted sharply, pressed his weight down, and touched the ball with his left foot, only slightly!
But the ball rolled in the direction of Liverpool's goal, and Reyna looked back in horror.
Bang!
The soccer ball hits the post and pops up!
Higuain immediately went to grab the penalty and shoot. But Agg, who preempted him, swept the ball to the wing.
The Reds fans in the Anfield stands had a false alarm, while the Real Madrid fans who came from afar were disappointed!
What makes Real Madrid fans even more shocked. After Liverpool escaped death this time, they actually got a very good chance to counterattack!
Real Madrid have five players in the attacking danger zone.
When the ball was swept to the flank, Kuyt rushed forward and sprinted forward without hindrance.
At this time, the full-back Heinze rushed up and pounced very fiercely, and the momentum was scary enough, but when Kuyt passed the ball to Gerrard in the middle in front of him and bypassed him and continued to rush forward, Heinze didn't even have a chance to chase back!
Gerrard then crossed the ball diagonally to the right flank, and Kuyt galloped forward with his legs, a simple but very effective combination that allowed Liverpool to play the most powerful counter-attack.
Las Diarra, Cannavaro, Pepe, and Ramos are all retreating quickly, but the retreat in the open space is not enough distance to form a joint defence, especially Liverpool's Torres and Gerrard's attacking in the middle, their running position will certainly not be static.
And Kuyt had a tendency to cut inside after dribbling into the danger zone!
Cannavaro had just moved towards Kuyt to make a frontal block, but Kuyt, who was attacking diagonally, flicked the ball in the direction of the baseline, and after he rushed past Cannavaro, it could be said that Real Madrid's back line was already fragmented.
Las Diarra, who had decent speed, rushed to intercept Kuyt, who at this time crossed the ball diagonally to the middle of the box parallel to the small penalty line, and returned the trajectory of the inverted triangle.
Torres sprinted diagonally towards the ball, and Pepe followed him, even using hidden moves in the box to interfere with Torres' runs.
Both missed the football!
But after Torres, on the rolling trajectory of the football that no one interfered with the direction of rolling, there was also a Red Army who killed violently!
The soul of the Red Army, Gerald!
Casillas had just run to the near post and had made a hasty move down the middle of the pitch to clearly miss the chance to make a save.
Gerrard met the ball and fired a low shot into the bottom left corner of the goal from a tight angle, and after a clean push shot, Casillas could only look at the ball and sigh!
Ramos, on the other hand, almost hit the post in the middle of the goal, but he couldn't stop the ball from rolling into the goal!
Gerrard roared to the sidelines to celebrate when he saw the football go in.
Anfield shook as Reds fans celebrated Gerrard's goal with excitement.
"The ball is in! Gerrard! Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard opened the scoring!
It was a brilliant counter-attack for Liverpool, with Kuyt's 60-yard assist in the lead, Torres missing the chance to shoot, but Gerrard calmly pushed the shot through Casillas near the penalty spot!
Real Madrid's defense is terrible, and both Heinze and Cannavaro are inescapable of taking responsibility for the goal conceded!
Now the aggregate score is 3:2 and Liverpool leads. ”
The Real Madrid players will see their team's goal breached first, which is bound to be a huge psychological blow.
Especially with Liverpool's lightning-fast counter-attack, they never found a way to limit it.
Does the midfield have defensive interceptions?
If Las Diarra could cover the entire cross-section alone, he would have been a world-class defensive defender long ago.
Is the defensive strength of the back line reliable?
Don't be funny, Heinze, Cannavaro, even Pepe and Ramos occasionally get nervous, the first two have had ups and downs this season, when it's good, it's terrible!
Being counter-attacked by a team of Liverpool's calibre and conceding a goal seems reasonable. (To be continued.) )