Chapter 115: Bloody Battle for Juventus (6)
Damn it. Seeing Liverpool score, Lippi couldn't help but curse. Angry, seeing that the first half of the game was about to end, but at this time Liverpool scored a goal, which made Lippi of course very depressed.
"Forget it, there are only a few minutes left anyway, even if Liverpool's morale goes up, it's not a big deal, anyway, the first half of the game is about to end."
When Liverpool pulled a goal back, Lippi naturally saw that the morale of the whole Liverpool team was also boosted by the goal, and for any manager, when he sees this situation, he is generally worried about the opponent's crazy counterattack, or reminding his players to pay attention to defense.
However, when Lippi saw that there were less than five minutes left until the end of the first half, he thought about it and gave up making adjustments. In Lippi's thoughts, no matter how powerful Liverpool is, it may be perverted to score two goals in a row.
Of course, it is not an exaggeration for Lippi to have this idea, after all, all the players of Juventus have a certain amount of experience in the competition, and at the same time, their mental quality is excellent, and their own strength is not weak, all of which is destined for Lippi to have this idea.
But at this time, I seem to have forgotten that in football, there is another saying, that is, anything can happen, especially the more you think you can control the situation, the more likely it is to change.
Lippi is good, the players in the Juventus team have experience in major tournaments, and their psychological quality is also very good, but Lippi only did not calculate that in his own team, not everyone has experience in major tournaments.
This is at least one of the Ghanaian Appia, who has just come to power. It can also be said that in the entire Juventus squad, only Ghana can be regarded as participating in the knockout round of the Champions League for the first time.
It is important to know that in the past, Appia's Udinese and Parma did not have the strength to enter the Champions League. In the Champions League group stage, Juventus also appeared with its own strong strength, and it can be said that Juventus has not encountered any hard bones before meeting Liverpool.
In the strong Juventus team, Appia may also be able to rely on the strong strength of Juventus, coupled with the weak strength of the opponent, to play smoothly. But at this time, it is different, the Champions League, which has entered the knockout stage, every game is extraordinarily hot, and Liverpool is not a bully, whether it is Gerrard or Alonso, it has brought a lot of pressure to Appia.
It's not. The game started again with Juventus kick-off. Pi: Finally at the foot of the land of Appia. Or maybe it's because of the hot atmosphere of the game. Or maybe they were hit by Liverpool's goal. Anyway, Smitchell suddenly appeared in front of Appiadi. Break the ball. At the same time, he knocked the ball across to Gerrard.
Get the ball to Gerrard. Forty meters away from the goal. Kick the door. It's a pity that the distance is too far, plus Buffon's mental concentration. Gerrard's long-range shot didn't make much difference.
"Damn it. Stephen. What the hell are you doing? You're so fierce. Where did it go. Take it out. 'Gerrard didn't score from distance. But Juventus was still scared out of a cold sweat. It can be said that Liverpool attacked this time. It has a lot to do with the mistakes of Appia. Therefore, even the good-natured Czech Nedved could not help but roar at Appiah.
Don't look at the Juventus team in which Piero is the captain. But in the team, Nedved has a much higher prestige than Piero. It's not just that Piero has a milder personality. At the same time, the Czechs were constantly running and scrambling on the field. And that ferocity is the main reason for the convincing Juventus players.
"Pavel. Feel relieved. I know what to do. Hearing Nedved's roar, Appia knew it was his own mistake. I didn't dare to say anything, I could only nod and say.
"It's good to know, you must know that this game is very important, if you can't bear it, ask the head coach to change." Nedved said, glancing at Appia again.
Listening to Nedved's words, Appia's heart was suddenly full of bitterness, although Nedved's words did not mean to look down on himself, but the meaning was very clear, that is, to tell himself that his strength was not enough. Although Appia also knows very well that he has a few taels, he is a little unhappy that his teammates say this about him.
However, Appia could only suppress the unhappiness in his heart, and did not dare to say it, knowing that Nedved was the master who was working against Lippi.
Or Apia really has no experience in the big game, or his own strength is really not as good as Liverpool's midfield, in the subsequent meetings between the two sides, Liverpool players also showed that Apia is indeed the best and easiest to bully, frequently breaking through to Apia's side, constantly attacking.
Although Appia tried his best, the gap in strength was reflected at the moment, and it was completely burst by the Liverpool midfield.
"It seems that Stephen's strength can only be used as a substitute, and when he encounters a team like Liverpool that is no less powerful than Juventus, without the support of his teammates, Appiah is completely the fatal point of the team on the field, and it seems that it is time to find someone in this position again."
Seeing that although Appia had tried his best, he was still suddenly exploded by the Liverpool midfielder, and Lippi on the sidelines shook his head helplessly, secretly playing his own little abacus. At this time, watching Liverpool continue to attack from Appia, Lippi couldn't help but secretly curse the high-level officials of the club, if the Dutchman Davies was still there, Liverpool would not dare to be so arrogant.
Obviously, even at this time, Lippi, the head coach, is still very unhappy with the club's decision to let Davies go.
George has been running and wandering in the area at the top of the Juventus penalty area, although he has been closely followed by Lerotalie, but George believes that Lerotali is not a god, and it is impossible to crucify himself for the whole game, as long as Lerotali is distracted, his opportunity may come.
Not to mention, George's idea is not wrong, the game has been played for about forty minutes, and Lerotari has greatly consumed both physical and mental strength, after all, forty minutes of time, Lerotari did not dare to relax a little, staring at George, and there was some lack of persistence in the mental aspect, not to mention that George also rushed over from time to time to compare two strengths with Lerotali, all of which made Lerotali tired enough.
Don't look at Lerotaree being able to follow George closely at this time, but in fact, he is already a little powerless, just pretending, if George takes the ball and rushes towards Lerotari at this time, Lerotari will collapse like a building in an instant.
At this time, Lerotalje's only thought was to hope that the first half of the game would end early so that he could have a good rest.
The first half of the game
After receiving Owen's pass and looking around, his teammates were all dead, and Lerotari was also rushing over.
Seeing this situation, George thought about it briefly and decided to go it alone. Determined, George rushed towards Lerotari with the ball, ready to break through Lerotari directly.
Seeing George thinking that he was rushing over, Lerotari knew that George was ready to break through himself, thinking of this, Lerotari suddenly concentrated his attention, carefully defended, and did not dare to be careless.
Although Lerotale is already very tired at this time, it is undeniable that Lerotalje's strength is still very strong, otherwise, Juventus would not have brought Lerotale from Chievo to Juventus.
However, at this time, Lerotale was not the mature Lerotale of Juventus after the phonegate incident, and Lerotale at this time still seemed to be somewhat worthy of the name and was considered one of the few failures of Juventus. Thinking about the fact that when Lerotari first saw George, he was a little contemptuous at the young age of the current George, and it can be seen that Lerotarie's mentality and attitude towards the enemy at this time are indeed not good.
Faced with defensive preparation, George did not intend to break through with the skill zone, because Thuram had already rushed towards him at this time, and George did not have much time to prepare. Therefore, George directly took a forced breakthrough of physical confrontation, if your strength is greater than mine, and your body is stronger than me, I also admit it, if not, you will obediently wait to be broken through by me.
As he flicked the ball to the side, George's left side collided with Lerotalie. You must know that George's body is very perverted, not to mention that George still has the inertia to add, although Lerotarie's body is not weak, but in the face of George's collision like this, he still can't help but take a small step back.
And it was this small step back that George immediately caught up with the ball and smashed into the penalty area. Although Lerotalie adjusted his center of gravity in time and reacted quickly towards George, and at the same time stretched out his right hand to grab George's jersey and began to interfere, but at this time, Lerotalia's defense can be said to pose no threat to George.
"Hah!" Watching George enter the penalty area, although Laurerotalia was still interfering with George, Buffon knew very well that this kind of interference was nothing to a good striker like George.
Thinking of this, Buffon chose to attack, after all, at this time Buffon no longer has any expectations for Lerotalje, of course, while attacking, Buffon has not forgotten a big trick of the goalkeeper when attacking, that is, a roar, as for Buffon's roar, it is unknown whether it has any impact on George.
"Hehe, I can't hold my breath, you're finally out." Hearing only a loud roar, George saw Buffon rushing out, seeing this scene, George couldn't help but be overjoyed, because Buffon's attack had already told George that Juventus' goal was dangerous at this time.
After all, the average goalkeeper will not be easy to attack, once you choose to attack, it is also when the goal is very dangerous, it is in the absence of a way, after all, the attack is likely to be scored by the opponent's hanging shot, but there is no way, not to attack.
At this time, George is five meters away from Buffon, seven meters away from the right side of the goal, and there is Lerota Lie next to him to interfere, in this case, George can not choose to shoot, after all, let alone the distance is too short, even if George is confident in his footwork, but there is also Lerota Lie on the side to interfere, and the hand that keeps pulling his jersey will definitely affect his shot.
After thinking about it for a moment, he knew that he couldn't take a hanging shot, so George took a push shot. Without giving Buffon the slightest chance to block, George directly used the inside of his right foot to rub the edge of the ball, and the ball suddenly crossed Buffon's defensive range and rolled towards the far corner of the goal, and because George used the inside side, the ball had a strong spin, and in the case that it would roll out of the bottom line in a straight line, the ball entered the goal guarded by Buffon because of a strong spin.
In fact, they were all born in a split second, and the time from George's breakthrough to shooting was only two or three seconds.
'1 Alan George, a great goal, Liverpool finally equalised as the first half drew to a close.
The moment the ball drilled into the goal, the entire Anfield stadium was like a volcanic explosion, crazy, countless Liverpool fans kept cheering and shouting, inside the stadium, outside the stadium, inside the ball bar, and even the world, as long as it was Liverpool fans, at this moment, they joined the sea of carnival.
You must know that when the first leg of Liverpool and Juventus is over, it has been two goals behind according to the strength of Liverpool and Juventus, plus two goals behind, Liverpool fans are a little bit not expecting Liverpool to eliminate Juventus and advance.
After all, Juventus is not a soft persimmon, you can pinch it as much as you want, and it can be said that there is basically no possibility of advancing after two goals behind.
But Liverpool fans never imagined that Liverpool would be able to equalize before the end of the first half at their home stadium. If Liverpool can continue to play with this momentum, then there is still a second half, and Liverpool has time to eliminate Juventus in the opposite order and advance to the next round. How can you make Liverpool fans not excited when you think of this?
And with Liverpool's equalizer, Lao Bei could no longer restrain his excitement at this time, and hugged the assistant coach tightly excitedly, if he didn't know that Lao Bei was married, I am afraid that outsiders would still think that Lao Bei has a special hobby.
Compared with the excited old Bel Juventus head coach Lippi looked very ugly at this time, Lippi at this time how can he compare to Liverpool at this time, he really scored two goals in just five minutes. How long has it been since Juventus scored two goals in five minutes.
At this time, Lippi was full of regret and regret that he was too confident, thinking that the final score of the first half was only 1:2. But it is precisely because of his self-confidence that the score has now become 2:2.
"Damn, are you and your Liverpool really Lao Tzu's nemesis?" Lippi, who looked depressed, looked at Lao Bei, who was constantly applauding and cheering for the players on the court because of his excitement, and thought secretly.
"Oh my God, it's so embarrassing that Liverpool can score two goals in five minutes, it's horrible. At this moment, Liverpool showed the level of a second-tier team, and Juventus was like a third-rate team, contributing to the goal in Liverpool's frenzied attack. ”
Although the Champions League commentators are all neutral fans, after all, this is Liverpool's home stadium, and the commentators' commentators are more or less important
Lower Liverpool. What's even more unbelievable is that the commentator, a neutral fan, happens to be a fan, although he is not a Torino fan, but the commentator does not have a good impression of Juventus, a team that often grabs the Serie A championship with his beloved Inter Milan. Now seeing that Liverpool scored two goals within five points and equalized the aggregate score, the commentator naturally praised Liverpool unceremoniously and hit Juventus.
"Damn, you kid did a great job." George, who was running wildly with a goal, was finally caught up by Alonso, pulled him deadly, and kept ravaging George's head and praising him.
Because the first half of the game was about to end, and Liverpool also equalized at this time, and the double reversal was once again on the same running line, George and others did not want to score the first goal without celebrating, but remembering to replay again, but began to celebrate after the goal.
"Damn, how can you be so lucky, to meet such a garbage defender, if I can meet it, how nice it would be, I'm afraid I can score a hat-trick." At this time, Owen and Gerald and others rushed over excitedly, joining Alonso's army to ravage George, ravaging George, while sighing.
However, Owen is just talking about it, others are not coarse, Owen is a striker, and he is always with George, so he can see it clearly.
The reason why George just broke through Lerotaree and scored a goal is because before the breakthrough, George took Lerotalie on the field for 40 minutes, and it can be said that George's goal was completely the first 40 minutes of continuous running, and the consumption of Lerotari was still there.
If Owen does this, Owen is also confident that if he really does what George did, I am afraid that no defender in this world will be able to stop him. However, this idea is just Owen's casual thinking, but Owen doesn't have George's perverted physical fitness, if he really does this, don't talk about how the other party is, I'm afraid Owen himself will die of exhaustion first.
Or because this is Anfield, Liverpool's home stadium, the referee also gave Liverpool half a minute to celebrate, and when Liverpool celebrated, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half less than ten seconds after the game started again.
When the whistle blew for the end of the game, George and his teammates walked to the players' tunnel with a smile and a smile. After all, at this time, the aggregate score between the two sides has been drawn, and the pressure on Liverpool's head has disappeared.
The Ventus generals are bowing their heads, looking lost or unhappy to the players' tunnel, in the last five minutes, the opponent scored two goals in a row, and the lead is gone, this kind of thing is born in whom, I am afraid it will also be very unhappy.
"OK~ guys, everyone's performance in the first half was really good, not to say kind words, I mean really, you guys were really good." Lao Bei returned to the locker room, looked at the Liverpool soldiers sitting in the chairs, and couldn't help but speak.
This is not Lao Bei's compliment to the players, Lao Bei as the head coach does not need to compliment the players anything, on the contrary, the players generally have to pat the old Bei's fart, what Lao Bei said is true, after all, five points scored two goals in a row, and the opponent is the Serie A giant Juventus is not something anyone can do, just by virtue of this, the Liverpool generals are worthy of Lao Bei's praise.
"Hohoey" heard Lao Bei's praise, and everyone couldn't help cheering.
"Okay, guys, I know you're having a good time, but there's still a second half before it's time to celebrate, and we're going to talk about how to beat the old woman to go home and bring the baby in the second half."
Stopping the cheers of the players, Lao Bei continued. Hearing Lao Bei's words, Zhi and the others also quieted down, only to think that this was only the first half of the game and there was a second half to be played, and it was indeed too early to celebrate now.
"OK~ Juventus's recent situation in Serie A is not very good, and the cup is also very bad, I believe that if there is no accident, Juventus has no hope in the league and cup this season, so all Juventus' energy will be put on the Champions League."
Speaking of this, Lao Bei paused, thought alone for a while and continued: "I believe that for this game, Juventus will definitely not give up so easily. I believe that in the second half Juventus will change the formation a little, if my guess is not wrong, Juventus will make a substitution, replacing Appia with Mikoli, after all, Juventus did this in the last game, and the effect is known to everyone, Juventus who changed the formation in this way is very strong, so strong that it scored two goals in the first round. ”
Hearing Lao Bei's words, George and the others couldn't help but nodded, in the first round of the competition, Juventus's change of formation really made it strong, although it was related to Liverpool's lack of adaptation, but it is undeniable that Juventus, which changed the formation, has a huge improvement in both offensive and defensive aspects.
"I also want to defend, but Juventus' strikers are not rubbish, they are very strong, and I am not confident that we can hold Juventus attack throughout the second half. I'm sure not only me, but even Jamie and Sammy don't have that kind of confidence. ”
As he spoke, Lao Bei suddenly asked about his Carragher and Hyypia, and after hearing Lao Bei's words, the two nodded without hesitation and admitted. After all, for forty-five minutes, the two were not at all sure that they would be able to prevent Piero and Trezeguet from death. Not to mention that if Juventus really changes formation as Lao Bei said, and there is also Mikoli, then Carragher and Hyypia will not be able to defend it.
"Since we can't hold it, it's very simple, we don't defend it, we attack too, just like last time we changed formations, we also play three strikers, Harry on the left, Michael on the right, George you are in the middle, is there a problem?"
George, Cowell, and Owen immediately shook their heads, indicating that they had no problem.
"In the midfield, Smitchell, Gerrard, Alonso, the three of you play straight, Smitchell in the middle, Gerrard on the left, Alonso on the right, your task is very simple, that is, while defending, you also have to pass the ball to George, and the attacking thing can be less involved, so that George and the strikers are responsible. Of course, I'm not saying you don't need to attack, you still need to press up and attack if you have the chance. ”
Gerald nodded in understanding.
"Hum Ventus wants to attack, we Liverpool will not be polite, give me a bold press, I still said last time, both sides will attack with all their might in the second half, in the end who is eliminated and who will advance smoothly, it depends on who can withstand the pressure of the other party, and the second half is the moment of the final."
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