Section 588 Champions League promotion
Chinese After a 3-up lead, the game quickly lost its suspense. Miracles don't always happen, and in this game, there's obviously no chance of a miracle.
Although in the final stages of the game, Ballack's pass allowed Mackay to score a face-saving goal, but with an aggregate score of 4-2, Liverpool was able to eliminate Bayern Munich and successfully advance to the next round.
After the game, Zhao Yaning's several abusive kicks against Lahm also became the focus of discussion. As a player who had high hopes from Bayern and the whole of Germany, but was forced to eat several times in the game by players who were physically stronger than him, Lahm was also criticized quite a lot. However, even so, Zhao Yaning still feels that he still has a very good future: technology aside, not everyone, after being passed three times in ten seconds, there is still willpower to be able to chase back the tackle.
At this time, the other games were also decided.
Arsenal played a game against Real Madrid at home stadium – a surprising ending that Arsenal have played in the league this year in a mess that anyone dares to blame them. But when it comes to the Champions League, they immediately become extremely violent, no matter how the defense is pieced, they can ensure that they just don't concede a goal. Arsenal and Real Madrid have only scored one goal in two games, and this kind of game is not a bit like the style of play of these two attacking teams.
Chelsea, on the other hand, did lose but did play a thrilling game – scoring two goals away from home and taking advantage of Milan's lack of preparation to storm the Milan defence. If it weren't for Inzaghi's spot-grabbing and Andrea Pirlo's excellent free-kick, they could have reversed the tables with a win and eliminated Milan again.
Clearly, though, Milan didn't give them a chance. Andrea Pirlo assisted Inzaghi's header to make it 4-3 on aggregate and Chelsea were knocked out of the quarter-finals.
It was perhaps the worst year for England – Manchester United made it out of the group, Chelsea lost the round, and the rest of the hope was on Liverpool and Arsenal.
In the other games, there were no upsets. Inter, Barcelona, Juventus, Lyon, and Villarreal have all qualified, and the names of the Champions League quarterfinals have all appeared.
And at the weekend, Liverpool ushered in another piece of good news: Chelsea, who had spent a lot of money in the Champions League, also played extremely badly in this round of league games, they lost the game, and the difference between them and Liverpool reached as many as six points.
This made Liverpool even more jubilant: with a six-point gap and ten rounds remaining, maybe Liverpool could consider winning the title early. If you are more ambitious, you may even win the Triple Crown. But if there's anything bad about it...... Liverpool now, after all, is a third-tier battle, compared with Chelsea's first-line attack, it has to play six or seven more games, and the loss of any game may cause Liverpool to bid farewell to a championship, and if the luck is really worse, then, I am afraid that the four will be empty.
And in the weekend game, when the Liverpool players played, they were also very excited, although they were tired, but they were in a happy mood, which still made them play energetically.
During the game, Liverpool also made some rotations: Morientes and Fowler partnered as double strikers, while the midfielder was Alonso rested and replaced with Arteta, and the front court was Zhao Yaning and Gerrard on the two wings, and even the back line was replaced by Hyypia, Bruno, and Finnnan, but even so, their lineup was slightly weaker than against Bayern, but in the face of the midfield led by Zheng Zhi on the opposite side, they were still too strong.
In fact, the current Zheng Zhi's strength can be said to have improved somewhat. His skills are comprehensive, and his physical fitness is rare among Asians, Charlton bought him this season, he swung in a decent way, and even many people think that his swing is better than that of Hidetoshi Nakata, who is also a Asian star and also plays for the English team Bolton this season. Of course, the main reason for this is because Nakata Eishou is old, and Nakata, who was originally unrestrained in life, slipped too fast, causing his strength to slip too quickly, but more, it is indeed because Zheng Zhi has his own strength.
Of course, this also has something to do with his own technical characteristics: the strength of many outstanding Asian players is not as different from that of European players as expected. But when there is a big difference, Asian players often can't play in other positions when they can't play in their favorite position. The reason why Sun Jihe and Zheng Zhi can play is not that they are much better than others, the key is that they are both players with quite all-round attributes, they can play multiple positions, and the team can play positions that they are not familiar with when they need to, and they can also play brilliantly, which makes them have many more opportunities to play than others, and this adaptability is the reason for their success.
It's just that although Zheng Zhiwei is very good, in this game, he needs to fight against Zhao Yaning in the back position, and he will be in big trouble.
When Zhao Yaning faced him, he didn't even have to shake much, just gently plucked the ball on the spot with his left and right feet to deceive him.
This is because Zhao Yaning's strength is strong, and secondly, he met Zhao Yaning, he really didn't dare to kick, and if he was timid, he couldn't kick no matter how he played.
This also made Zhao Yaning rush up unscrupulously, and in the seventeen minutes after the start of the game, he kicked the goal directly after breaking through in the middle!
The ball had already been pounced on by the goalkeeper, but when he fell to the ground, the ball hit the ground and bounced again. Fowler didn't waste that opportunity and fired straight into the net.
Another goal! Fowler raised his hand happily. He really didn't expect that after returning to Liverpool this season, he would be able to have such a swing!
And soon, Liverpool's Chapter 582 schedule will indeed be too tiring, and he is understandable that he is not in shape. It seems that in this game, Liverpool can't count on him too much. ”
Figo is old after all. Although he could still play well in the first half of the season, but now, his running is becoming more and more inadequate, after all, he is a veteran, and with the special environment of England without a winter break, he really does not adapt well. Too many games have caused him to wear out too quickly, and now he has degenerated from playing one game and one rest in the early days to playing two games and resting.
But at this time, Liverpool did not have too many suitable candidates to replace him. He was tired, but Gerrard was even more tired than he was. Gerrard's kicking style is inherently extremely hurtful, he scrambles a lot, sprints a lot, and although his physical fitness is good, he also kicks the ball much bigger, and he is easy to get injured due to excessive running and scrambling. The beginning of the season was fine, but now, the more critical it is, the more Benitez dares to use him excessively, for fear that something will go wrong, and the player will be injured, and it will be difficult to arrange later.
The long schedule of the game is the biggest pressure on the team.
However, fortunately, in this game, there is also Zhao Yaning.
"Luis, you go to the middle, I'm on the side." Zhao Yaning said to Figo. He could see that Figo's lack of active running was not because he was lazy, but because he was too tired and couldn't run, but his consciousness was still keeping up, in this way, Zhao Yaning also believed that he would be able to make some more contributions if he changed his position.
In the middle of the road, he has less running and hopefully he can play better again.
And soon, Zhao Yaning's approach paid off. After Figo got the ball at the top of the arc of the big penalty area, after two shakes, he picked up a pass and flew directly to Zhao Yaning in the penalty area.
Zhao Yaning's position is not good, the angle is very small, and he made an unexpected choice in the face of this ball.
He took a step forward, flicked his header and headed it into the far corner of the goal!
“ga1!!!! Zhao Yaning's header opens the scoring for Liverpool! Almost a header at a zero degree angle! Zhao Yaning now, what else will not be? "Cat flutter Chinese