In the twelfth round of the U8 Update, when Liverpool played Birmingham at home, fans were surprised to find that Liverpool's lineup had changed again.

Zhao Yaning was pushed up the front line, behind him, Colwill, Smitchell and Luis Garcia, and further back, Biscayne and Alonso - after the last 4-2 comeback, Dio was also blacklisted by Benitez, and it is already difficult to get a chance to play.

Such a lineup was somewhat unexpected, but it was not too unexpected. After all, Liverpool don't have any strikers to use. And seeing the strikers in the Birmingham team made the Liverpudlians sigh even more.

Liverpool's former main striker, and also the main striker of the England national team, Huskey, stands in that position.

In the summer, Heskey was sold to Birmingham City by Liverpool for £6.25 million after he refused to be a substitute. The price seemed a little too underestimated to Husky. He was born in the same year as Chelsea's big black man Drogba this summer, but when he entered the giants this year, he was dumped by the giants, and he was still dissatisfied with Liverpool in his heart.

In an interview before the game, he made his attitude very clear, "Now is the right time to meet his old club. I'm going to tell them I want to play and I don't want to sit on the bench, so I'm thankful to Birmingham for giving me that opportunity. ”

But he did show his support for Liverpool, "I think Benitez is a great coach and if he is given time, he will definitely be able to bring Liverpool back together." But for now, I'm hoping Birmingham can win this game. ”

But his idea is doomed to be nothing but a bubble. Since the beginning of this season, Liverpool has played all at home, while Birmingham has lost all away, and this game, although Liverpool has big problems, is still better than Birmingham.

In the game, Liverpool's new tactics still had a lot of problems in the first half. Several people's running positions are not skilled enough, and the rotation of fills in the front court is not timely enough, which also makes the attack situation unopen.

It wasn't until after the second half that Colwill and Luis Garcia began to get better with their insertions, and the team's form gradually improved. And such a midfield has multiple players, and the huge control advantage is gradually manifested.

But the first to open up the situation for the team was Smitchell, who stepped in from midfield. He scored the first goal for Liverpool with a long-range shot from midfield.

This surprised Zhao Yaning a little. He understands that Mitchell is actually in the midfield position so that he can be more involved in defence. This style of play requires a lot of interception work in the frontcourt, which is why Benitez arranged for Riser on the side to insert, and also put a physical Smitchell in the frontcourt, Colwill, Garcia and Zhao Yaning's defensive ability is too poor, therefore, the role of Smitchell and Reese, in addition to foreign aid long-range shots, the most important thing is to set up the first interception in front of Biscayne and Alonso.

And Smitchell's goal can be said to be a surprise. This also made Zhao Yaning feel that this style of play actually has a deep meaning that can be explored. In the fierce battle between the two sides, Birmingham had to advance the lineup a lot in order to intercept Liverpool. And this also makes Liverpool finally have a second chance. Alonso made a sharp overhead pass to the back of the Birmingham City backline, and Zhao Yaning relied on his speed to be fast enough, and after the successful anti-offside, he didn't have time to push the ball and kicked the ball over the goalkeeper's head and sent the ball into the goal.

After 2-0, there was no suspense in this game, and Liverpool won again and kept them in the top five.

But even so, with Chelsea and Arsenal winning at the same time, Liverpool's players have realised that winning the league this year is indeed unrealistic.

Not only them, but after this round of games, Ferguson, who had to accept the dull result of the Manchester derby, also had to admit after the game: this season, Manchester United has no possibility of winning the championship.

After the past 12 rounds of the league, the only remaining contenders for the league are Arsenal and Chelsea.

Although Arsenal lost unexpectedly to Manchester United, they still lead the standings, leading all the way. And now that Chelsea have promoted Arjen Robben as their main team, the game has started to become more pressing. They have not averaged one goal per game at the beginning of the season, and have scored four goals in three consecutive games, which has also allowed them to gradually catch up with Arsenal in terms of goal difference.

And after this game, Zhao Yaning also had to put two things on the agenda in his training space: training shooting footwork, and training defensive ability.

Of course, before that, he looked at the Murphy card first.

'You get a white card 'Murphy's Law', and against Manchester United, for each goal scored, all abilities 1.1 stack up to three times, valid for the match – not to be used in conjunction with other white cards. ’

At first glance, Zhao Yaning was taken aback. The all-power increased status card is an absolute artifact, but look at it again, it only works for Manchester United, and it has to score a goal to activate it - if I can score a hat-trick against Manchester United, what else do I need the card for?

And, Danny Murphy, how much do you hate Manchester United?

Cards don't care about it, training is the focus. The defensive ability is good to grow. After all, his stats are not bad, but he himself has been too lazy to defend and does not study, and now he can learn from Squeerage, Abidal and others in the training space. And there are some problems with shooting footwork, in his training space, there are mostly midfielders, but there are not many striker players.

And thinking about it, only Raul should be regarded as a striker. Although he was not known as a master shooter when he was a goalscorer, after all, his shooting skills were still excellent compared to those midfielders in other spaces.

When he found Raul, Raul pointed to another person, "Go find Nicholas." If you just want to improve your footwork, he's a better fit than me. I'm not a full-time centre-forward, but I am. ”

Nicolas Anelka?

After there were more and more people in Zhao Yaning's space, he rarely talked to Anelka. Anelka is not social, and he is not the type that Zhao Yaning can accept, recently, Zhao Yaning rarely asks him, but now that he is talking about it, it seems that he is really the best one in terms of pure forward skills.

Although his name is very bad in La Liga and Ligue 1, at least in the days of the Premier League, his footwork is indeed recognized as outstanding.

And Zhao Yaning found Anelka, but Anelka just sneered, "Want to play as a striker? You're not just bad at archery. You can rely on your strong resistance when you hold the ball with your back, but what about turning and cutting back? Anti-offside run? Judgment of the landing point? You won't. The striker's strategy is quite different from the midfield, can you? ”

"Learn a little bit." Zhao Yaning was not discouraged.

"If you have that spare time, I'll play with you." Anelka was noncommittal, "You just take the ball, I'll teach you slowly." ”

"When you shoot, you actually have a lot of cheapness. Your basic movements are good, it seems that Petit has mastered Petit's training well, the basis of shooting is adjustment, you can master this point, don't learn their nonsense theory with the Italians, the English, it is a fool's practice to shoot without adjustment. But when it comes to the issue of adjustments, you're confusing something. You're different from Trezeguet, Henry and me, and your shots are even more advantageous. ”

"One of the problems with soccer games is that the smaller the space, the more difficult it is to make moves. So, if it's us, I'm good, Thierry Henry, Trezeguet, the moment before the shot, we're all facing an absolute disadvantage. We have very little time to adjust, and we have to make choices in the first place. ”

'Before we shoot, everybody has to find a way to get more space and more preparation time to shoot. I relied on movement, and Trezeguet simply gave up the ball and shot on goal, so that he had more time to prepare. Henry is different from us, his explosiveness and speed are good, but his physical fitness is not good, so his method is not to grab points or run positions, but to rely on close to the goalkeeper and then use his explosiveness to shoot. If you look at his shooting highlights, he has a lot of shots into the far corners, and you can even say that he is the best striker in the world who can push the far corners. ”

"But these things are far worse than yours. Your technique and sense of the ball ensure that you can face the defence more calmly and easily, while your physicality and explosiveness are also excellent, and you have a lot of options when it comes to shooting. Anelka continued, "The ball feel and dribbling are the foundation of all skills, and with that, your shots will benefit as well. ”

"So how do I shoot?"

"Don't you understand all that? Your explosiveness is good, your body is strong enough, and when facing the goal, you don't have to think like us if you run out of position, you can pull out the space by yourself by dribbling, so what you think about is how to shorten the adjustment time, use your explosiveness, and grasp the space you make! Or to put it more simply, the sudden volley and the outside instep of the ball are the most important parts of the practice you need to practice! ”

"But the coach asked me to practice my pushing technique......

"Because pushing is the foundation of all shooting techniques, if you don't master pushing well, other shooting techniques will be in vain. But now that you've got a good grasp of it, you should also think about how to shoot more appropriately for you. The biggest problem with your shots is not that you don't have the ability, but that you don't use your brain. When you're dribbling, you're willing to put in the effort to think about how to dribble and how to pass, but you never think about how to shoot. You can't be a striker with this kind of play. Use your brain and mind more and you will be able to really learn to shoot. Anelka glanced at Zhao Yaning, "You have to understand that there is no free lunch in the world. If you don't use your brain, you can't achieve anything in this life! ”——

"Letting Joey play as a striker is what you call the solution?" Yesterdam felt a little unbelievable about Benitez's arrangement, "It's too much, isn't it?" ”

"I've developed him to play in a whole new position, what's too much?"

"You know what I'm talking about! He is now faced with the Golden Globe Award! Stability is the most important thing for him! One moment on the wing, one moment in the middle, and another moment playing as a striker, it will only make the judges feel that he is a player who has not yet been formed. And it is impossible to win the Ballon d'Or without a formed player! ”

"You're overthinking." Benitez replied, "Even if I had played him as a central midfielder and he played so well, he would not have won the Ballon d'Or in the first selection. It's common sense, isn't it? ”

"It's his business that he can't get it, but we don't help him, it's our business." Jesterdam replied, "We have to help him." ”

"I'm just helping him." Benitez replied, "You know very well what he is capable of. What he lacks is a stage to show himself. If he doesn't let the team win, can't guarantee enough wins, can't qualify for the Champions League, and doesn't even have the stage to show himself, why should he compete for the Ballon d'Or? By virtue of past credit? We can't let a player sleep on his laurels, what he needs to do is how to strengthen himself and fight for the future, not how to make the most of the accolades that have already been made! If he doesn't even understand this, what kind of football is he playing? ”

Heroes and the times are inherently mutually beneficial. The current situation that Zhao Yaning created for himself is the qualification for the Champions League. And what this situation gives him is naturally to let him show his heroic style of play.

Lying on the merit book, holding the honor in hand and stinking, what kind of ability is that? Want a Golden Globe? Then grab it yourself!

If you can't even drag a team forward, then what do you say, you are at the Ballon d'Or level? Mr. Football, not so easy to take! ω· u(8) Update the fastest reading network