Chapter 1348: Liverpool (6)

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Not to mention Benitez, who was pleased with Liverpool's excellent performance on the sidelines, as the form of Liverpool's players collectively improved, the Fiorentina players who held the initiative began to feel some pressure, and the attack became less fluid than before. At the same time, the number of mistakes in the small range of passes and cuts between the players and the large area of the ball transfer has also increased a lot under the active pressing and pressing of the Liverpool players, giving the opponent several opportunities for quick counter-attacks.

Arteta, in particular, the Spanish midfielder's overall vision and passing awareness are quite good, and he kept Fiorentina's midfield in order in this game, and sent several dangerous passes to his teammates in front of him, which is not at all the so-called parallel goods in the mouth of the media and fans. However, as Liverpool gradually regained their rhythm and stepped up their pressing of Fiorentina's midfield, Arteta's weaknesses in physical ability and lack of experience in the tournament began to emerge.

Mourinho naturally did not ignore Arteta's increasingly struggling performance under Liverpool's pressure, or rather, after Arteta was repeatedly intercepted by Liverpool players and passed the ball, the Portuguese immediately used up his last substitution - Arteta went off and replaced him by Fiorentina's number one ace in midfield, Andre Pirlo!

Although Pirlo's arrival successfully helped Fiorentina stabilize their position, while greatly reducing the rate of passing errors and reducing the chance of being directly counter-attacked by opponents, mistakes were inevitable under the increasing momentum and aggressive pressing of Liverpool's players. And this made Fiorentina's originally impregnable backline inevitably have a crack.

In the 79th minute of the game, De Rossi's pass to Zambrotta was intercepted by Reese in the middle of the game, and in the counterattack, he pulled the Fiorentina defense with a series of large shifts, trying to make it difficult for the opponent to find the focus of the defense in this way. Immediately afterwards, although Luis Garcia's cross was blocked by Carlos's outstretched foot, the ball did not bounce off the sideline, but returned to Garcia's feet, and the Spaniard immediately got up again to cross!

Gerrard, who stepped forward into the penalty area, jumped high with the inertia of his body, grabbed Lucio before he came directly to the header ten meters in front of the goal!

Steven Gerrard's shot was so powerful and awkward that even Gianluigi Buffon couldn't do anything about it. As a result, the ball successfully passed Buffon's palm and fell into the far corner of the goal, and the score became 1-2, and Liverpool pulled one back!

“…… Things are not good. Looking at Gerrard, who rushed to the goal without any intention of celebrating the goal, picked up the ball and ran to the middle circle of the stadium, as well as other Liverpool players who were in the same pace as him, Mourinho's expression began to become solemn, "What a mistake, I didn't expect Liverpool to be able to play such a strong counterattack in this predicament." If this was the case, Danielle (De Rossi) should have interrupted Liverpool's rhythm with one or two vicious tactical fouls, and it would have been better if they hadn't been allowed to get up so easily. ”

Momentum may sound a bit mysterious, but on the football field, it plays a very important role in a lot of the time. For example, now, as the momentum of Liverpool's players continues to rise, the stronger Fiorentina has been forced by the Reds to make frequent mistakes on the field, and has to choose to retreat to avoid the edge for a while.

In Zhuang Mingge's previous life, AC Milan successively lost the original huge lead on the two nervous knife teams of Laco and Liverpool and was completed by the opponent to complete the desperate reversal, which of course there are factors such as the decline of the players' third-line combat form, but in the same way, the momentum of these two teams in the game that far exceeds AC Milan is also the key to their final turnaround.

Once a team plays with momentum in the game, and the opponent does not choose to interrupt or suppress for a while, then the more aggressive side will often burst out with unconventional combat power, thus taking the game to a completely unknown path.

Sure enough, as Mourinho feared. Gerrard's header boosted the morale of the Liverpool side, and in the next game, the Reds played at a very high level at both ends of the pitch, and even Fiorentina was temporarily suppressed by them for a while!

After Steven Gerrard's opener, Liverpool had six shots on goal in just five minutes, and an average of less than a minute was a test of Buffon's goalkeeping skills and focus on the game, leaving the world number one goalkeeper to his wk.

In response to this extremely passive situation, Nesta and Lucio can only say that they have done their best. It can only be said that Liverpool's shooting during this period is too unreasonable, and the luck is too rebellious, and they can still blast a shot with good angle and speed when they block most of the angles, so that Nesta and others can only say that they can't do anything about it even if they are unscientific.

However, just when the Liverpudders saw a glimmer of hope for a comeback, Cristiano Ronaldo, who had already scored a goal in this game, stepped up again and kicked the Reds back into the abyss of Champions League exit. In the 89th minute of the game, the current hot superstar in European football received a tactical corner kick from Andrea Pirlo in the corner of the penalty area, first took two steps horizontally along the line of the big penalty area, and then picked up his right foot and volleyed into the far corner of the goal!

The ball spun in a wonderful arc, brushed shoulders with Hamann and then Henkez, and headed straight for Liverpool!

Dudek was blocked by the crowd in the box, so when the Pole spotted the ball coming towards his goal, there was not enough time for him to make a save......

"The ball is in! It was Cristiano Ronaldo who scored the goal! The Portuguese youngster played a brilliant curling ball on the edge of the penalty area to seal the win for Fiorentina! ”

In this way, with a brace from Cristiano Ronaldo and a goal from Di Natale, Fiorentina successfully withstood the Liverpudlians' late comeback and won the game with a score of 3-1, successfully knocking the Reds out of the quarter-finals and advancing to the semi-finals of the Champions Cup!