0115 Two draws
After Leeds United's goal, Benitez once again emphasised defence, with the two midfielders shrinking even tighter.
The two full-backs were no longer pressed to avoid being counter-attacked by Leeds United.
However, Leeds still found an opportunity to counter-attack.
In the 86th minute of the game, Liverpool wanted to launch a counterattack, but Cisse in front of him could not easily receive a pass from Luis Garcia, but he immediately met the defense of Mathieson.
Cisse turned to protect the ball, trying to wait for his teammate to cut in.
But the first thing he saw was Fowler in the back, the England veteran was far away from him, or Fowler had no idea of plugging in, he really couldn't run, and he was no longer the omnipotent Liverpool "God" before.
Cisse found that apart from Garcia, there was no one who could pass the ball.
So I thought about turning around again, getting rid of Mathieson's defense, and going it alone.
However, he immediately encountered Mills's bag, and in the panic, the ball was snatched by Mathieson behind him.
After Mathieson got the ball, he didn't choose to cut forward directly, but directly took a long pass and found Kevin Davies in front of Leeds United.
Kevin Davis thought about getting stuck in position and then making the ball his own teammates.
However, Carragher came to the landing point of the ball one step ahead of him, even if Davis's various little tricks were used, it was to no avail.
The ball was headed away by Carragher.
However, he didn't get to the position very well, and he wanted to push it to Haman, but the strength was not well controlled, and the force was a little bigger.
So Hamann had to run two steps forward to catch the ball.
Hamann had just secured the ball when Van Persie, who was suddenly next to him, struck the ball with his toes, and the ball lost control and rolled to his side.
Then the two of them fought for their bodies and speed.
In the end, it was Van Persie who got the ball in front of him.
Hamann harassed behind Van Persie to disrupt his attack.
Van Persie didn't think much about it, mainly because he didn't want to entangle with Hamann, so he passed horizontally to Smith on the side.
At this time, Smith got the ball outside the penalty area, some distance from the big penalty area.
It's just that Liverpool's other midfielder, Sissoko, retreated deeper and defended on the penalty line.
This gave Smith a chance to get his feet up.
It was 20 metres away from the goal, which was within Smith's range.
"Pounce! Don't let him get on his feet! ”
Benitez shouted from the sidelines, and he didn't care if Sissoko could hear it.
"Don't get in my way!"
That's what Liverpool goalkeeper Reyna shouted at his team-mates at the back.
Smith's ball, like a cannonball, flew to the right side of the goal.
With another goal on the horizon, Leeds United are about to complete the stunner.
Reyna stepped up again, made a side pounce, lifted the ball and changed its course.
“duang~”
The ball that changed back hit the post and bounced off again.
As with the previous goal, Van Persie was again near where the ball landed.
However, this time, Reese caught up with Van Persie and made a sliding tackle to clear the ball off the line, not giving Van Persie a chance to make up for it.
"Huh~" All the fans at Liverpool's home stadium exclaimed, and then burst into warm applause, dedicated to the goalkeeper Reina, who performed well in this game.
It was the Spanish goalkeeper's two brave performances today that kept the score 1-1 until now.
In fact, Liverpool's only goal conceded, Reina has done his best, and Van Persie's second follow-up shot is really helpless, and the gods can't save it.
On the sidelines, John Sheridan walked up to George Lee's side, leaned into Lee's ear, and gently told him.
'It's over at Chelsea, it's time to give awards.'
"Win?"
"It's flat, the Portuguese kid scored one last."
"Okay, got it."
George Lee grabbed his hair after hearing this.
In his mind, it would be better if Chelsea could win so that even if Leeds didn't win against Liverpool today, they would be able to close the gap with Manchester United.
Of course, it would be better if they could win, so that if Leeds United win and Manchester United lose, both teams will have the same number of points. Leeds could even rely on goal difference to complete the comeback over Manchester United.
However, it now seems that the gap will still be 3 points.
It was time for stoppage time, because there weren't too many timeouts in the second half, so stoppage time was short, not to mention that the ball was still at Liverpool's feet.
In fact, Benitez also wants to win this game so that they can have the same points as Leeds United, and Liverpool have won several big games this season, and can even complete the comeback against Leeds United through goal difference.
However, Benitez did not dare to gamble in the final moments, he was still afraid of Leeds United's counter-attack, and he had no better weapon to break up Leeds' defence after Morientes was gone.
“du~,dudu~”
The referee blew the final whistle as Chelsea drew 1-1 with Manchester United and Leeds United drew 1-1 with Liverpool.
Now, except for Chelsea, who won the title early, the other three teams have all stepped in place.
Manchester United, who wants to stand firm in second, Leeds United, who is fighting for three, and Liverpool, who is fighting for three, will depend on the last two rounds of the league.
However, before that, Liverpool have an FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea, who have already won the league title, so it will be a tough one.
Leeds United, on the other hand, will also face Bucharest Stars in the second leg of the Europa League semi-finals before the final two rounds of the league.
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'Steaua Bucharest counter-attacked, centre-back Tamash stepped up, cut off the ball at Glen Char's feet, and passed him directly to Pintilly in midfield, who dribbled the ball and was quick...... Past Gravison who grabbed up...... Wiped past Parker...... Shot! Shoot directly from outside the box! ...... The ball went in!! ”
'But it was too late, the goal came a little too late. It was the last minute of the game and they finally leveled the score at 1-1, but they were 3-1 down on aggregate and had less than five minutes to go to score two goals, which was almost impossible to complete. ”
Pintilly picked up the ball from the goal and ran back, but Van der Sar stopped him, Van der Sar got the ball early and kicked it out!
Pintilly nudged Van der Sar...... The two began to get into a verbal altercation...... The conflict begins! ”
"In terms of fighting, Leeds United are definitely good here, and the few people on the pitch are hardly good birds."
'The referee came over and showed Van der Sar a yellow card.'
'The Dutchman was smart and delayed for a long time with a yellow card.
'We saw that Sevilla's manager Juan de Ramos in the stands had gotten up and was ready to leave.
"Just yesterday, Sevilla FC had already beaten their opponents and reached the final early. Today, Coach Ramos also came from Spain to watch the game. ”
"I don't know if Coach Ramos saw the opponent in the final today, I think if Leeds United entered the final, he would have come for nothing today."
It's no wonder that the commentator said so, today George Li directly discharged a 532 formation, making it clear that he wanted to hold two away goals, and Leeds United "stole chickens" as soon as they started.
Then George Lee set up the bus and set up a whole game.
Van der Sar, Mills, Mathieson, Anton Ferdinand, Kelly, Hart at the back, plus Parker and De Jong at the back.
The head coach of the Bucharest Stars, Kosmin Olaroiu, grabbed the already small hair on the top of his head from the start of the game and never let go.
“du~,dudu~”
The referee blew the whistle for the end of the game and all the Leeds players rushed inside to celebrate with the fans.
"We're going to Holland!"
Philips Stadium in Eindhoven on May 11, UEFA Cup final.
Leeds United against Sevilla.