Chapter 23: Header
It turned out that George focused the attention of Svensson, and even the entire Southampton defender, on himself when he was cycling, but he didn't know that George didn't plan to shoot himself in the first place.
Indeed, George was very close to goal at the time, and as long as he passed Svensson, then there was definitely a nine-layer possible goal, not only George, but everyone else thought so.
At the same time, George also happened to take advantage of everyone's psychology of thinking like this, when he was pedaling the bicycle, George had already seen Gerrard who was inserting it in the corner of his eye, and it was obvious that Svensson didn't pay attention and passed the ball directly to Gerrard with his heel.
In fact, to put it bluntly, George himself was not sure to score under the joint defense of Svensson and the other two defenders, when George saw Gerrard in front of him, he calculated in his heart and thought that Gerrard's chance was greater than his own, so he chose to pass.
After receiving George's pass, Gerrard didn't make the slightest adjustment and shot directly from the edge of the penalty area. You must know that Gerrard's long-range shooting skills are notoriously powerful, although the current Gerrard is not as terrifying as the long-range shooting when he became the captain of Liverpool in the future, but his current long-range shooting strength is naturally undoubted.
Shoot with your feet, or when the Southampton goalkeeper is unprepared, scoring is the most natural thing to do.
The first assist in the Premier League, and the first purposeful assist, was a success, and it was still his good buddy Gerrard, George was also very happy, and at the same time knew in his heart that it didn't matter whether he scored or not, the important thing was that the team won the game.
Of course, George thinks like this, can he not say that he will give up shooting and attacking, and go to play passing, if so, then George and Liverpool say goodbye is not far away, after all, George is a striker, a striker who can't score, no matter what club, is unacceptable.
I have to say that Liverpool is an absolute strong team in front of Southampton, no, in the 35th minute of the game, Hamann broke the ball, directly shouted and transferred, and sent the football to Murphy on the left.
Murphy, who got the ball, did not hesitate at all and began to run wildly with the ball, while George and others naturally rushed all the way to Southampton's penalty area, ready to respond.
In fact, this is not the first time this has happened, compared with Liverpool, Southampton except for a goalkeeper Finn Niemi's strength can be regarded as comparable to Liverpool's goalkeeper Dudek, other places, whether it is the back, the middle, the front, the strength can not be compared with Liverpool.
More often than not, Southampton's ball was cut off by Hamann, who was in good form today, in midfield, and then a pass and Liverpool's counter-attack began.
No, Murphy ran directly with the ball, although a rear of Southampton chased desperately, but he didn't defend Murphy well at the beginning, so that Murphy ran calmly with the ball, and now Southampton's defenders just want to chase, and it is difficult to catch up.
Running all the way, Murphy came directly to the bottom line, looked at the penalty area, George and Litmaning were ready, and at the same time, Gerrard and Maxlit also rushed to the penalty area at this time.
Without waiting for the Southampton defenders to rush over, Murphy, who had plenty of time to adjust, directly crossed with his feet after adjustment, and because of the adjustment time, Murphy's ball passed fast and straight, flying directly towards George.
Looking at the football flying in the air, George pressed against the Southampton defenders behind him, while constantly judging where the ball would land so that he could adjust it in time.
"Let me in!" George yelled and jumped high on the spot, while Svensson, who was defending George, also jumped up, ready to get ahead of George and push the ball out.
"Fouls are not just the preserve of defenders, sometimes strikers use small hidden moves that often lead to unexpected results, most notably Maradona's hand of God."
Keegan's teachings drifted through George's mind, indeed, Keegan's words were correct, just like Maradona, with Maradona's strength, do you really need to rely on your hands to be able to score?
No, it definitely won't. It's a pity that although Maradona was not tall at that time, he had good bounce power, and when he was in the air, Maradona didn't want to deliberately handball, but he could only say that the ball just smashed into Maradona's hand, and the hand of God began to appear.
Thinking of this, George did not hesitate at all, when he was in the air, his elbow was very hidden, but it was extremely ferocious and hit Svensson's chest, who was also jumping up.
With this collision, Svensson couldn't help but feel a pain in his chest, and then the breath he was holding suddenly leaked out, and his body couldn't help but be in the air, and at the same time, his body began to fall. And at this time, Murphy's pass just came to George's head.
If such a good opportunity is let go, I am afraid that even George himself will not forgive himself. Without making any adjustments, in the face of the oncoming football, he shook his head directly, and the football turned and flew towards the lower left corner of the goal, and because Svensson had not fallen to the ground at this time, George's header this time, in the eyes of everyone, was obviously a header against Svensson.
Although Niemi is very strong, in the face of such a close, and at the same time not slow header goal, although Niemi's excellent reaction made Niemi subconsciously reach out, but unfortunately he was unable to stop the football, and the ball slipped from Niemi's palm into the goal.
“Goooooooooooooooooal!!! The goal was scored, this time it was our little prince of Liverpool who scored the goal, a beautiful header, 1.88 meters Svensson, and even was pressed under George, at this moment, I sympathize with poor Svensson. ”
"Three goals in three games, overhead kicks, breakaway assists, it all made me see an all-round striker. And this game has just begun, continue George can still score, with such an excellent performance, now who dares to say that George is just a shooting star! On the contrary, George is definitely a superstar, a superstar who hangs high in Liverpool and lights up the beautiful night sky of Liverpool. ”
The narrator was full of exclamation and kept talking. And George was brutally put to the ground by Gerrard and others at this moment, ravaged by his ruthless teammates.
"Referee, he fouled, the opponent's No. 21 just fouled, oh my God, didn't you see it?" Liverpool and others were celebrating, but Southampton's Svensson rushed to the referee at the moment and kept explaining.
"No, no, no~ I don't think so, it's a beautiful header!" In response to Svensson's words, the referee unwaveringly made his own decision, and said while slowly retreating towards the midfield.
"Sample, such a big head was pressed by others to score a ball, you really wasted such a good body that God gave you."
The referee didn't believe Svensson's explanation at all, because the referee only regarded Svensson's complaints and explanations at this time as being pressed by George after scoring a goal, feeling very embarrassed and trying to find a step for himself.
The referee is not actually biased in favor of Liverpool because this is Anfield Stadium, Liverpool's home stadium. The reason is because when George just scored with a header, whether it was George or Svensson, both of them had their backs to the referee, and in the eyes of the referee, Svensson's bounce was not good, and he didn't jump high and fell, of course, he couldn't defend George well.
What's more, when George scored, the referee didn't see the linesman signal that there was a foul, so he naturally ruled that George's goal was valid.
"Damn, what the hell is in your eyes, and have you been bought by the Liverpudlians too?" Anger has rushed to Svensson's brain at this moment, seeing that the referee does not believe his words, Svensson feels extremely angry, and at the same time, he can't help but pop out of his mouth Some things that shouldn't be said.
Originally, because of Svensson's chatter, the referee was already a little disgusted with Svensson, and now when he heard that Svensson dared to insult his professional reasoning, the angry referee did not hesitate at all, took out a yellow card directly from his pocket, flashed at Svensson, and showed Svensson a yellow card warning.
"O~ Poor Finn, could it be that George's goal just hit Svensson's fragile psychology, this time the stupid Svensson dared to insult the referee, isn't this buying things to do, poor Svensson."
The commentator saw the referee show a yellow card to Svensson, and from Svensson's angry expression, the commentator also guessed that Svensson must have been dissatisfied with the referee's decision, or insulted the referee, so he was yellow carded. Thinking of this, the narrator naturally did not let go of this opportunity and began to be sarcastic.
Fortunately, Svensson was held by Southampton's team-mates, otherwise, I am afraid that Southampton would really be two goals behind, and at the same time there was a person sent off.