Chapter 766: Critical Clearance
48_48474 Milan is behind again
Compared to the first time they were behind, this time it was even more dangerous, the last time they were behind, Milan still had more than 90 minutes to catch up, and this time they were behind, and they only had more than 50 minutes left to catch up.
Time is of the essence, especially when the opponent is defending very well, and it can be a heavy psychological pressure for the underdogs.
The Milanese people are now feeling this pressure, the players' expressions have become very solemn, there are still people talking to each other, discussing the game, now this kind of communication is gone, everyone is stuffy, not a word, the air seems to be frozen.
Goalkeeper Carlo Ancelotti frowned on the sidelines, and even forgot to chew gum.
'It's hard to limit the opposition's front three with a Christmas tree formation, Liverpool have used it well on the flanks, opening up from the flanks on a couple of occasions, with Kaka and Seedorf focusing too much on attack and not putting enough energy into defence.
The assistant coach complained to Carlo Ancelotti.
Ancelotti also saw this problem, and he replied: "Liverpool shrinks the defense, the attack relies on counterattacks, Kaka and Seedorf are at the forefront of the attack, if they can't form a press at the first time, it will be difficult to help in defense, and they can only be a waste of body to chase back." The first thing we need to do is the attack, and the defense should still do a good job of counter-attacking at the first time when we lose the ball, so as to slow down Liverpool's counter-attack time. It's a problem to deal with defensive teams, they don't have a lot of opportunities to attack, and we can't spend most of our energy on defending. ”
Although Ancelotti said this, he still talked to Seedorf and Kaka, Otto and Jankulovski, he asked Seedorf and Kaka to try their best to counter-rob at the first time they lost the ball, even if they were foul tactics, they must delay Liverpool's counterattack, so that Otto and Jankulovski boldly advanced the position, to grab the second drop point after the attack, and try to resolve Liverpool's counterattack in the midfield, instead of waiting until near their penalty area to foul, although Otto and Jankulovski advanced later, The defense on the wing is a bit empty, but Liverpool will not invest too many troops in the counterattack, and the middle can completely make up for the defense, if the opponent is allowed to light the midfield, even if the four defenders stand up, it will be difficult to defend.
Ancelotti is still very experienced, although his on-the-spot command ability has been criticized, but this response is very reasonable, Liverpool's counterattack is very sharp, but the number of counterattacks is not much, it is not cost-effective to let Seedorf and Kaka put too much into the defense, not to mention that now Milan is still behind the score, it is better to let Otto and Jankulovski position premise, grab the second point, reduce Liverpool's offensive opportunities.
Carlo Ancelotti's response worked well, and after the positioning of Odor and Jankulovski, not only brought more receiving points to the attack, but the second drop point cleared by the Liverpool defense also fell more to the feet of the Milan players.
Liverpool soon felt this change, it turned out that there were still a lot of times when they grabbed the landing point, but the siege speed organized by Milan was very fast, and it was difficult for Liverpool to fight back, but now it is difficult for them to even grab the landing point, let alone counterattack.
can grab the landing point, with the personal ability of Chen Yu, Gerrard, Kuyt, and Crouch, there are still many opportunities, but they can't even grab the landing point, and the three forwards can only stare at it.
What makes Liverpool in a dilemma is that if Chen Yu, Crouch, and Kuyt retreat to get the ball, the distance of their counterattack will be greatly increased, and Milan's defense will become easy, but if they don't retreat to get the ball, they won't even be able to touch the ball.
When Liverpool was entangled, it was the most comfortable time for Milaners to play, because Liverpool's counterattack was too sharp, Milan's players were very cautious when passing the threat, not an absolute opportunity even Pirlo did not dare to pass, and now, not only Pirlo and Seedorf dared to pass the through ball in the penalty area, but even Ambrosini dared to boldly pass behind the defender.
In the 40th minute, Milan's chance came out.
Kaka held the ball to attract the defence, and he pretended to rush forward, but passed the ball back to Pirlo, who was following him, and he quickly ran to the left to open up space for Pirlo's pass.
At this time, Inzaghi quickly cut in to the position where Kaka ran away, and Seedorf went straight to the ribs.
The Milanese's flower-like running position made the brains of Liverpool's iron men a little chaotic in an instant, and at this time, Pirlo directly rubbed an over-the-top ball into the ribs of the penalty area to find Seedorf without stopping the ball.
Kaka and Inzaghi's running, Pirlo's possession of the ball attracted almost all of Liverpool's attention, and at this time Seedorf was ignored again, and when the ball came out, the Liverpool players realized that Seedorf was running towards the open ribs.
Liverpool's player to follow the defense is Gerrard, Gerrard's speed is not slow, but he was left behind by Seedorf, he had no way to defend at all, it was too late to go around, if it was a boccia, he could also risk putting a shovel from behind, such a half-high ball, he had no way at all.
If Pirlo passed a boccia ball, Seedorf would have hit the goal with his feet, but Pirlo had passed a half-high ball, and Seedorf had to control it and shoot again.
Seedorf chested the ball and by this time goalkeeper Reina had quickly approached Seedorf, raising his hands to block the angle of Seedorf's possible shot.
Seedorf's ball was not easy to handle, goalkeeper Reina had already pounced at high speed, and the ball had not yet landed, the angle of the shot was blocked by Reina's body, and Seedorf had almost no angle except for the hanging shot.
Seedorf didn't wait for the ball to land, flicked it with the instep of his foot, and decisively chose to shoot.
Reina kept his hands high, just worried about Seedorf's hanging shot, but Seedorf's hanging arc was so high that Reina's raised hands didn't touch.
The ball crossed Reynard's hands and fell to the back corner of the goal, seeing this scene, the Liverpool fans at the scene were like being poured a basin of cold water on their heads, and their hearts were pulling out the cold, and they felt like they were being slowly sent to the gallows.
Benitez's eyes were fixed on the ball flying towards the goal, his nervous heart was about to rise to his throat, his hand unconsciously crossed and prayed for God's blessing, at this time, it seemed that nothing could help Liverpool except God and the goalpost.
Milan fans, coaches and players were ready to celebrate, not believing the goal would hit the post again.
After flying to the highest point, the ball opened, and at this time, both Liverpudlians and Milanese believed that there would be no more accidents, so the Liverpudlians sat down and the impatient Milanese began to applaud.
But just as the ball was about to reach the goal line, a red figure rushed from the right side, jumped high, and pushed the ball out of the goal line.
The red figure is definitely from Liverpool, but who this person is and where he came from, but few people can see clearly, the player who cleared the ball ran too fast, and after pushing the ball out, he himself was like a rolling >However, the mystery was soon revealed, and the slow-motion replay clearly showed the jersey behind the player: No. 9
Liverpool's No. 9 is Chen Yu, yes is Chen Yu, he returned to the defense when Pirlo stepped forward, and when Pirlo passed the ball, he had returned to the front of the penalty area, and when Seedorf picked the shot, he just chased over to clear the ball.
If Seedorf hadn't been so slow to shoot, Chen Yu would definitely have no chance to clear the ball, but if Chen Yu hadn't run so actively, even if Seedorf's shot was twice as slow, Chen Yu wouldn't have had a chance to push the ball out.
The scene was thunderous, but at this time it was no longer the Milanese, but the Liverpudlians.
The Liverpool fans were bouncing and cheering as if they had scored a goal, but in fact it was a goal.
Goalkeeper Reina ran over excitedly, pounced on Chen Yu's body, hugged him, and kissed Chen Yu's face, Chen Yu had no experience of being kissed by a man, he just pushed Reina, Liverpool's defenders also rushed over, Carragher gave Chen Yu a bear hug, Ager gave Chen Yu a punch in the chest, and the color of gratitude was overflowing.
Ancelotti spat out the chewing gum that had been chewed in his mouth, and sighed to the sky, he really didn't have much confidence in winning without scoring so much.
The Italian commentator at the scene couldn't help but lament: "...... It's so sad that a goal that must be scored is pushed out, it's too unreasonable, Chen Yu is a striker, if it's a defender, it's just a big blow to Milan, they could have overtaken the score......"
Chen Yu's clearance was indeed a big blow to the Milan players, originally Milan put the two fullbacks on the premise, and occupied a great advantage, almost freezing the Liverpool people's counterattack, and also created a chance that was almost a must-score, such a chance could not score, plus a goalpost in front, which made Milan's players begin to doubt whether their efforts could get good results, and some players with more religious beliefs even doubted that God did not plan to let them win today.
In the next five or six minutes, Milan still dominated the field, and Liverpool's counterattack was still very few, but because the two must-score goals were not scored, Milan's players became more complicated when they cooperated, and they didn't shoot lightly, and they couldn't pass the ball into the goal, in the face of Liverpool's dense defense, such an attack couldn't be effective at all, and in the last five or six minutes, the ball was almost eighty percent of the time at the feet of the Milanese. But there were only two shots on goal, one of which hit the defender.
Referee Van Del gave two minutes of stoppage time, and the Milanes were even more impatient in the two-minute stoppage time, not only did they not have a chance to score, but they were also counterattacked by Chen Yu Crouch and Gerrard, but fortunately Gerrard's shot was a little off, otherwise it would have been another conceded goal