Aston Villa's home game against Liverpool was just an ordinary league game, but something gave the game a special meaning - it was Gerrard's 300th game for Liverpool since he joined the first team in 1998, and the game was very meaningful to Gerrard.

Many of the Liverpool fans who absolutely support Gerrard came to watch the game, so more than 5,000 Liverpool fans came to Villa Park today, which is almost the limit of the number of away fans in the league, and no matter how many fans want to enter the stadium to watch the game, it is impossible to buy tickets.

However, in this game, Benitez arranged a 'jack-of-all-trades' position for Gerrard - right midfield.

This is to compensate for the 'weakness' of Liverpool's right flank.

Liverpool's two wings have always been the team's weak point, Garcia on the left is fine, and the players on the right have been swapped, Finnan, Zenden, and Reese have all played in this position, but their tables are not satisfactory, so Gerrard, who can play in any position, is on top.

Zhang Tiehan and Alonso, who have been pulled in the middle, have been able to withstand Aston Villa completely, so Gerrard has no problem going to the right.

Although on the right, everyone knows that Gerrard wants to score and at least the team should guarantee the victory, otherwise the 300th game for Liverpool will be a draw, which is somewhat unfortunate.

But with 80 minutes played, Liverpool still failed to score.

Liverpool are already pressing very high!

Aston Villa is not a weak team, and the gap with Liverpool is not as big as imagined, when they play together, it is even possible to press Liverpool to play, but now the situation on the field is that Liverpool is out of breath when Aston Villa is pressed, which shows how strong the desire of Liverpool players on the field is to score.

The Aston Villa players felt the last 10 minutes would be a disaster.

Full game. They were under pressure defensively, and Liverpool's attack was getting stronger over time, which was a bad feeling, but it did get tougher and tougher defensively, and the good thing was that Liverpool hadn't scored yet, but there were still ten minutes left to end the game.

Can the goal be kept?

The Aston Villa players don't have much confidence. All they can do is try to keep the goal.

If you want to keep the goal, you must limit the number 13 of the home opponent...... This big man really deserves to be reported by the sports media all over England, and his impact and threat are just too great.

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Melberg and Ridgewell are a pairing of Aston Villa's central defences.

Melberg is the captain of Aston Villa, he is a Swedish player, since coming to Aston Villa in 2001, he has always been very stable and strong, and officially took over the captain's armband a year ago, can become the captain of a Premier League team, can also show Melburg's strength. He's in his prime and is an absolute pillar at the back for Aston Villa.

Ridgewell is a tall 21-year-old who was part of Villa's youth team who won the FA Youth Cup in 2002.

He can play as a defender and defensive midfielder, has an excellent header and good footwork, and made his league debut in December 2003 in Villa's 3-0 win over Fulham.

Ridgewell is now Aston Villa's starting centre-back.

The partnership of Melburg and Ridgewell has been called the 'iron pillar' of Villa's backfield. The two of them cooperated and had a strong control in the penalty area, and they brought countless troubles to Zhang Tiehan throughout the game. Zhang Tiehan was deeply touched by the defense of the two, and it was precisely because of these two people that Zhang Tiehan only had one goalpost in this game.

The goalpost is not a goal.

In Zhang Tiehan's view, he is equivalent to having no appearance.

What he didn't know was that Melberg and Ridgeville were much more troublesome to him than he was to them. This may have verified Newton's third law - the force is mutual, the defense and the attack are also mutual, in order to stop Zhang Tiehan's impact in the Villa penalty area, Melberg and Ridgewell put almost all their energy into it - they did not even collide with other Liverpool, they have been defending Zhang Tiehan.

Two-on-one. The two of them were able to restrain Zhang Tiehan, and it really took a lot.

Even so, Zhang Tiehan had a couple of dangerous shots, including a kick to the post, and now that the game between the two teams was in its final stages, both Merberg and Ridgewell were looking for a quicker time and a more cautious defence.

In the 81st minute, Garcia burst into the bottom line with the ball, and after being forced into a corner, Garcia kicked the ball to the Aston Villa player and bounced off the bottom line, and Liverpool won a corner.

Corner kick.

This gave Melborg and Ridgewell another headache.

Ridgeville is a bit better, he's young, he's more on the pitch and he's more under pressure than Melberg as captain, and the corners have proven to be dangerous a few times because the tall man seems to have a good idea of corners - he always gets the right spot first.

This time, the defense was still the same as before, Ridgewell tried his best to squeeze the position with Zhang Tiehan, and Melberg was on the side to ensure that Zhang Tiehan did not jump calmly.

Zhang Tiehan was very uncomfortable being restricted.

His body is stronger, his strength is greater, he can squeeze Ridgewell away, but grabbing a header to attack the goal is another matter, even if he predicts the point, it is difficult to squeeze Ridgewell and then run to the point and jump, this series of actions is not a football can be done in the two seconds that the ball flies in the sky, and with so many players in the penalty area, it takes more luck to grab the point.

However, Zhang Tiehan was still able to make a lot of trouble for the two.

When the football flew out from Garcia's feet, Zhang Tiehan had already judged that it was weird, and he knew that it was easier to grab the ball at the front point, but it was difficult for him to run over in the middle.

He didn't do nothing, either.

Zhang Tiehan rushed forward as soon as possible, Ridgewell has been holding him, there are other Aston Villa defenders in front of him, and even goalkeeper Sorensen, Zhang Tiehan is almost impossible to grab the point, but the Aston Villa players don't know, when they saw Zhang Tiehan rushing forward, Ridgewell and Melburg reacted immediately, and the front of the goal became very chaotic, and as a result, in the chaos, the football was pushed out of the bottom line by the Aston Villa front point player.

Another corner.

Both teams regained their positions in the box and Garcia continued to take free throws. Liverpool have taken such corners many times, but so far there has not been a single threat in the position, and even only one of them has been successful, Garcia thought about making a corner with Alonso, but seeing Zhang Tiehan waving in the penalty area, he still decided to continue to take penalties. After all, Zhang Tiehan's ability to grab the header is clear to him, which is more threatening than a corner kick, after all, there are too many people in the penalty area, and it is difficult for a long-range shot to penetrate the penalty area and pose a threat to the goal.

The soccer ball flew again.

The ball floated a little high, and the landing point was in the last position, Zhang Tiehan knew that he couldn't grab the point at the first time, so he immediately rushed forward, and the penalty area was chaotic again, and when the football chased back to the back point, the other players of Aston Villa had no time to defend.

The player in Liverpool's ambush at the back post was Steven Gerrard.

Steven Gerrard held on to the opposition player's defence. He was about to volley at the ball, but he couldn't get the ball in the end, and the ball was destroyed by the opposing player first.

Continuing the corner, this time on the right side.

Gerrard, who had just grabbed the ball, walked to the corner flagpole with the ball and prepared to take the penalty, and the players in the penalty area changed directions and continued to prepare to grab the point.

It was the third corner in a row.

Three minutes were wasted in the first two corners, and the game was almost 85 minutes. However, the players from both teams looked more nervous, with Liverpool players surrounding the Aston Villa penalty area. The Aston Villa players waited nervously for Gerrard's penalty and focused on defending.

Melberg and Ridgewell had their third straight headache.

Melburg thought to himself that this time he had to drive the ball out of the box anyway, and he couldn't continue to take corners, otherwise he would have such opportunities again and again, and the tall man would probably score as long as he found an opportunity. It's so torturous to defend like this.

Gerrard stood on the corner flagpole and prepared to take a free throw.

He looked at the position of his players in the penalty area, and his face looked very solemn, and this corner became quite important, because there was not much time left, and the team's chances were getting fewer and fewer. So he found Zhang Tiehan's position.

Zhang Tiehan is still in the middle.

In fact, Zhang Tiehan has always stood in the middle of the corner, which is also Liverpool's corner kick tactics, Zhang Tiehan's body is strong, the ability to grab the header is very strong, he is also the team's high school striker, he can attract a lot of defense when he stands in the middle, and at the same time the opportunity is the most, but the pressure is also more, which has a tactical role, but also a positional role, in short, Zhang Tiehan's role in the middle is the largest.

This time, Gerrard's ball directly found Zhang Tiehan's point and landed in the middle of the goal!

Melberg was quite cautious, and when he saw where the ball landed, he immediately shouted 'Stop him' to remind Ridgewell that Ridgewell was the one to compete with Zhang Tiehan, he was not stronger than Zhang Tiehan, but his height advantage also made him an iron tower in the penalty area.

Hearing Melberg's shout, Ridgeville immediately resisted Zhang Tiehan.

But at the same time, he also felt a strong force coming, which made him even a little unsteady, and then he saw Zhang Tiehan jump up to meet the ball. Zhang Tiehan looked quite calm, the ball landed very well, right above his head, he only had to jump a little to complete the attack.

This kind of good ball, Ridgewell's restriction is not very useful.

However, Melberg's entanglement is still a headache, Melberg can't let Zhang Tiehan complete the header, so he has more movements in his hands, Zhang Tiehan's jersey was pulled, he just felt it with his feet, his body was a little unbalanced in the air, but at this time Zhang Tiehan still reluctantly shook his head and prepared to attack the goal.

"Get in!" Shaking his head for a moment, Zhang Tiehan shouted fiercely.

Just this shout made Ridgewell, who was squeezed away, immediately make an unwise choice, he is still very young, young people are always impulsive, he did a good job of defending Zhang Tiehan in the whole game, but Ridgewell didn't know, he felt that he and Melberg defended Zhang Tiehan together, and let the opponent shoot so wantonly, it was tantamount to failure.

He was very unwilling.

No matter what, this game can't let Zhang Tiehan score a goal, if that's the case, his defense is equivalent to a complete failure, he has been thinking about this in his heart, and he keeps looking at the time, hoping that the game will end soon, as long as Zhang Tiehan doesn't score, no matter luck or strength, in short, his defense is a success.

This became his obsession.

Ridgewell has always wanted to prevent Zhang Tiehan from scoring goals, and when he was squeezed out of the way, and Zhang Tiehan shouted 'go in', he almost subconsciously grabbed Zhang Tiehan's jersey with his right hand, and pulled Zhang Tiehan down with all his strength.

That's not a small gesture anymore......

Zhang Tiehan's header had just been put out, and his already unbalanced body was completely unbalanced and fell directly on the grass, when the referee rushed over and blew the whistle and showed a red card directly to Ridgewell.

Malicious foul!

Ridgewell walked off the pitch without even arguing, he knew how bad his foul was, it must have been a red card, he couldn't run, but when he walked straight off the court, he realized that he was really a little impulsive - in front of his own door, the tall man rushed over actively, hugged his teammate happily, and there was no chagrin on his face.

Probably, he was deceived?

That may not have been a must-score...... I'm too impulsive. (To be continued......)