Liverpool didn't expect Marseille to play so boldly and toughly, not only did they not give their opponents a dismissal after the opening, but they almost let Marseille give themselves a dismissal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is nothing in the momentum that does not overwhelm the opponent, after all, the strength is still there, and there is a home advantage, but the midfield is controlled by Marseille but Benitez is a headache.

The midfield is like a person's waist, both offense and defense depend on him, so the midfielder has to say that if the midfield is controlled by the opponent, it is almost equal to the fate in the hands of others, unless the fight is counterattacked, but Liverpool's strength and reputation are stronger than Marseille, or at home, the defensive counterattack is definitely not played, otherwise, even if it wins, I am afraid that the fans and the media will also applaud.

Since you can't defend and counterattack, you can only fight hard in the midfield, but Liverpool's technology is not stronger than Marseille's, and the body is stronger than the opponent's, and it doesn't seem to have much advantage under Marseille's desperate efforts, the most important thing is that Marseille has one more person in the midfield than Liverpool, and there are already many people, and the running is so active, so that Liverpool's midfielders are anxious but can't change the situation in the midfield.

Benitez saw that the start was not very smooth, and he was anxious, but he didn't have any good moves, just started, whether it was tactical adjustment or substitution adjustment, he could only patiently observe to see if the players could self-adjust, find the feeling of the game, and break the unfavorable situation on the field.

Marseille's head coach Greets is not happy because Marseille has the advantage in the midfield, he is very aware of the comparison between Marseille and Liverpool, and knows that he can play so well at the beginning, not because of how strong Marseille is, but because his players are active enough today and enter the game quickly, in addition, he has five people in the midfield, and the numerical advantage has also played a big role, but how long this advantage can last, even Gretz does not know, what he can do is the same as Benitez, is to wait.

Such a start made the Liverpool fans in the stands a little disappointed, although Marseille is famous in the history of Ligue 1, but now Marseille is a declining aristocrat in Ligue 1, even the Champions League is difficult to score, and Liverpool compared to the huge gap, Liverpool fans thought that the beginning would press Marseille to play, and then easily lead, and finally won by more than two goals, but the reality surprised them, Liverpool not only did not take advantage, but fell into the disadvantage, the team's three lines, the middle was cut off, The forward line can only rely on the big foot long pass of the back line to get the ball, and the game is very passive.

And Marseille's fans are overjoyed, although they are Marseille's diehards, but they didn't dare to expect Marseille to play well at Anfield when they came, after all, the difference in strength is there, but Marseille's performance makes them ecstatic, where is Marseille, which has lost consecutive games in the league, is simply a giant at the same level as Liverpool.

Under the excitement, the fans of Marseille applauded the players desperately, chanting the names of the players who played well such as Cendon and Cisse, but they soon found that their voices could not be transmitted at all, in front of more than 40,000 Liverpool fans with a unified pace, their voices were not much louder than the buzzing of flies, although the performance of Marseille players on the field was better than that of Liverpool players, but in the stands, Liverpool fans were crushing their existence.

It took eight minutes for Liverpool to have their first shot on goal.

This is the first time that Liverpool midfielder Benayoun got rid of Cendon and gave Chen Yu a short pass, Chen Yu was even worse today, Crouch couldn't share the pressure on him at all, after Benayoun passed the ball, Chen Yu didn't even look at the goal, pulled the ball and turned around, raised his foot to shoot.

Although there was not much power movement, and the position of the shot was twenty-five or six meters away from the goal, Chen Yu was explosive, and the power of the ball was not small at all, and it went straight to the upper left of the goal.

Marseille goalkeeper Mandana had nothing to do in the first eight minutes, but his attention was highly concentrated today, and Chen Yu's cold shot did not escape his eyes, and at the moment when Chen Yu got up, he had already flown to save.

Mandana fingered the ball off the line, and when he landed, Mandana secretly congratulated himself that if he didn't concentrate enough, Liverpool's first shot might have scored.

Marseille's first shot came in the 12th minute, and the dominance of the midfield gave the Marseille a lot more chances to pass the ball to the striker than Liverpool, and Ziani finally broke through Liverpool's layers of blockade on the third through ball and passed the ball to the feet of striker Cisse.

Cisse is actually a striker with very good shooting skills, scored 24 goals in more than 70 games in Liverpool in three years, in the era of "weak forward" Liverpool, Cisse who appeared in the center forward position is the player with the highest goal rate, but Benitez always puts him in the right winger position, which is a waste for Cisse, who is good at attacking and grabbing points to shoot at the first time, but the stubborn Benitez prefers him to make a blue collar in a bottom cross, and Cisse is not as versatile as Chen Yu, of course, it looks like a waste, In the end, it could only be sold to Marseille.

Cisse got the ball on the penalty line with his back to the goal, and behind him was Liverpool defender Carragher, but Carragher was almost two meters away from him, which gave Cisse room to make a move, he did not stop the ball, but pulled the ball and turned around, entered the penalty area, so that Carragher did not dare to foul, and then raised his foot to shoot the ball into the far corner of the goal.

Cice's two treatments are very beautiful, and there is no waste of time, but the Liverpool goalkeeper stands Reina is his former teammate, the two have had countless confrontations on the training ground, and he Reina is no longer familiar with him, when he pulled the ball into the penalty area, Reina has already attacked, and when Cisse shoots, Reina just saves, and when the ball just leaves Cisse's feet, he holds the ball in his arms.

It was the first time that the two teams had entered the opposition penalty area after more than ten minutes of play, and the Liverpool fans were shocked at the time, but Reina's timely and decisive attack prevented the Liverpool goal, and his performance also won the applause of the Liverpool fans.

Seeing that Marseille actually formed a shooting opportunity in the penalty area, Benitez was very nervous, and he shouted at the Liverpool players: "Seal the box, don't let him catch the ball!" ”

The "he" Benitez said is of course Cisse, when he was in Liverpool, Benitez and Cisse also had a contradiction, and now he knows that Cisse wants to perform, but Benitez can't let him play, because Cisse's good performance is a slap in the face.

In their own home stadium, in front of tens of thousands of fans, even if Benitez doesn't say it, Liverpool's players will not let Marseille penetrate into their penalty area again, after Cisse's shot, Liverpool's midfielders Alonso and Mascherano are back in the position, and the distance between the two central defenders is closer, further compressing Cisse's activity space, and it has become very difficult for Cisse to get the ball.

Both Liverpool and Marseille have tightened their control of the midfield, and it has become very difficult for the ball to pass from the ground through the midfield, and the error rate of long passes is too high, almost equivalent to giving the ball to the opponent, so the battle for midfield has become the focus of the game after ten minutes.

The players on both sides are fighting for me, this side has just been robbed, and has not passed the ball with two feet, and was immediately destroyed by the opponent, not only can the pass not be passed, the physical contact between the two sides is also very powerful, and from time to time there is a scene of people turning over on their backs, and the referee Austrian Plautz is busy and has a yellow card, but it is still not able to reduce the number of fouls in the midfield.

Although the game was very tight, the number of times that both sides were able to reach the opponent's penalty area was very small, let alone the dangerous shot, from the first shot of each side until the 35th minute, neither team had a shot on goal.

In the 35th minute of the game, Marseille suddenly launched a long pass, Nasri didn't know when to cut diagonally to the left wing, he picked the ball past Finnan and swept the ball towards the penalty area near the baseline.

Cisse quickly inserted into the penalty area from the middle when Nasri went down, and no one could stop Cisse from running without the ball in such a large space in the penalty area, so he could only jam important positions and increase the difficulty for Cisse and Marseille players to grab points.

However, Marseille's attack has been practiced countless times, and Liverpool's players thought they were stuck, but the speed of the ball was so fast that neither the players in the front and middle could grab the landing point, and the ball flew straight to the back point.

Cisse ran right to the back post and stabbed the ball three yards out, the ball sticking to the turf and heading into the near corner.

Cisse didn't pay attention to goalkeeper Reina when he fell to the ground and shot, the speed was too fast, he was too late, but he felt that the ball was almost there, the distance was too close, as long as it was in the goal frame, no one could react.

But after the ball flew out, Cisse suddenly felt like a dog, because goalkeeper Reina was standing in the near corner again, and the ball hit his leg and bounced out.

It's not that Reina's judgment of the ball path is better than that of defenders and forwards, but that Reina knows Cisse too well, and when he is looking at the ball, his eyes are still looking at Cisse, so he was able to block Cisse's shot angle in the first place.

However, Reyna just passively blocked the ball with his legs, the direction and force of the ball were random, and the ball bounced at the feet of Marseille midfielder Ziani, who had just inserted into the penalty area, Ziani subconsciously pushed with his foot, and the ball flew into the empty goal.

Ziani didn't expect pie to fall from the sky, he excitedly covered his head with his jersey, raised his arms and ran out of the field, not realizing that the assistant referee had raised the offside flag at this time.

Marseille's other players fell from the peak of their joy to the trough, their anger uncontrollable, and they rushed to the assistant referee to ask him why he was offside.

The assistant referee ignored him, and referee Plautz hurried over to support the assistant referee, signaling that the offside decision was valid and letting the Marseille players disperse.

At this time, Ziani also felt that the situation was wrong, because he heard the applause like a tsunami, such a loud applause would definitely not be a Marseille fan, he put down his shirt and looked, and found that his teammates were surrounding the assistant referee, and immediately understood what was going on, he rushed over angrily and said to the assistant referee and the referee: "Which point is offside, there are still their people in front of me when I shoot." ”

No matter how Ziani argues, the referee Prodz of course ignores it, not to mention that he doesn't think that the assistant referee misjudged, even if it is a misjudgment, he must insist, if he can't maintain the authority of the referee, this game will not be able to go smoothly.

Ziani saw that the referee ignored him, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, regardless of his teammates' blocking, he reached out and pushed the assistant referee, and the assistant referee was pushed by him, which angered the referee Plautz, and he immediately took out a yellow card to warn Ziani.

Ziani was not convinced, and wanted to plead, but the captain Kanna and Cendon were worried that he would receive another yellow card, so they quickly forcibly pulled him away.