Before half-time, Rafa Benitez asked his team to tighten up their defence to avoid another dangerous counter-attack from Leeds.

Kuyt's header was the closest Leeds came to scoring in the first half.

After the intense first half, the players ran into the tunnel after hearing the referee's half-time whistle and headed for their team's dressing room.

Smith was the last player on the team to walk into the team, and when he entered the locker room, he found the atmosphere in the locker room a little oppressive. Some of the players were wiping the rain from their bodies when just before half-time the skies in Yorkshire changed and it started to rain lightly.

After receiving the towel handed over by the substitute player, Smith immediately began to wipe the rain off his body.

George Lee was the last of all Leeds United to enter the dressing room and found that morale was not very high.

“Shit！ It's Liverpool again, it's this freckled kid again. He laughed and cursed.

It was his words that broke the original silence of the originally quiet locker room in an instant. The players burst out laughing, and some of them started talking.

"Edwin, look at Renna, how can you save that ball, how can you not save that Spaniard's ball?" Woodgate said to Van der Sar.

"It's not you yet, if you can keep an eye on him, I won't do it." Van der Sar first hammered his team-mate at the back too hard, then saw that he was naked, and handed over his new shirt.

Woodgate immediately put on his shirt to keep out the cold.

And Smith also quickly changed his jersey and led the players to sit down, waiting for the head coach to assign tasks for the second half.

After seeing that everyone was ready, George Lee began to lay out the tactics for the second half.

"Alain, I need you to continue to play in the back, I'm sorry today, I'm going to make you sacrifice again." The first tactical arrangement is to find Smith, who performed well in the first half, and George Lee's change today may be done in the next few games, and he found that Smith is really in the middle except for goalkeeper and central defender, and can play in any other position.

"It's okay, it's a good position, and to be honest it's more interesting than playing as a winger." Smith scratched his hair, and he was a little embarrassed to be told that by the head coach.

Originally, the captain should have taken a little responsibility, but he was a little embarrassed to be said so directly by the head coach. It's okay to sacrifice a little, as long as the team can win and win the championship, he can completely obey any arrangement.

"Then the next time I have a chance, I'll let you try as a centre-back."

"Don't ......"

'You don't necessarily have a chance if you want to play, Martin and Andrés are waiting to play.' George Lee pointed at Albchester and Granqvist.

Smith wanted to say a few more words, but immediately George Lee stopped him with a gesture.

Now there are other tactics that need to be arranged, and George Li feels that it is better to stop laughing. He just said this because he needed to liven up the atmosphere in the locker room, otherwise he wouldn't have been the first to come up and praise Smith first.

"In the second half, James and Charlotte switch positions, I need James to play the position of a full-back, and on the left side of Leiton, you don't have to go too forward, continue to do a good job as a full-back, I won't say much about defense and crossing."

Milner and Baines looked at each other before nodding.

The two of them came to play under George Li relatively early, so they can understand George Li's tactical play. Generally, after the team raises one full-back position, it needs the other full-back position not to be too far forward, otherwise the team's two wings are easy to be beaten behind, and the pressure on the central defender will increase.

"Charlotte, I need you to lean into the middle in the second half, and I even allow you and JR to be further forward than Dirk."

George Lee took the pieces representing the two wingers a little closer to the middle.

Then he pointed to the left side and said, "JR, after your position is moved forward, you will have Alan behind you to fill in the attacking position, and Alan can make up for it behind JR when attacking." ”

He went on to put a white number 17 behind Arneson.

"Right, Dirk, when you spot Charlotte cutting inside or cutting into the middle, I need you to be in this position to give support."

George Lee took Kuyt's piece closer to the wing.

"Because James' position as a full-back can't be too far on the side, once Charlotte goes to the middle, the position on that side can only be filled by Wesley or Dirk."

George Lee hasn't forgotten that he also has Sneijder up front.

"Anyway, you two need one to support the attack on Charlotte's flanks and behind in this situation."

"Whew~"

George Lee breathed a sigh of relief after finishing the arrangement, and then said: "Of course this is a little change in the formation under special circumstances, if we can score goals in the normal way, then I still hope that this tactic will not be used. Because we haven't experimented after all. ”

"My original idea was to find a weak team or use it in the League Cup or FA Cup, but today it seems that I have to use it in advance, after all, Liverpool is too comprehensive, except for the two wingers' independent attacking ability, there are no too obvious weaknesses in other aspects."

"And we are lagging behind now, and we can't expect people to attack and be powerless to solve our problems."

"Now, I'll talk about some other ...... as soon as possible."

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Compared with the heat in the dressing room here at Leeds United, the visiting dressing room at Liverpool is not so lively.

After setting up a few tactical priorities a bit, Benitez didn't say anything and let the players hurry up and rest.

"Coach, don't we need to make any more changes?" Gerard approached Benitez and asked in a voice that wasn't too small or too loud.

"Change what?"

'Don't we need another striker, Fernando is a bit isolated up front and we can't attack on his own.'

"I've just arranged for you and Harvey to step forward properly to support him."

Gerrard was speechless by his own manager, and he couldn't help but raise his voice.

'We can't threaten Leeds with pressure forward in midfield, they counter-attack quickly and you can disconnect us in midfield.

"Captain, I don't need you to arrange the tactics, you just need to kick the ball according to my arrangement."

Benitez couldn't help but be a little angry when he noticed that the players had all looked at it. Now that the team is in the lead, there is no need for me to set up too much, just play like this. The first meeting of the season was to win, and today we can still win if we play this way.

Seeing that his idea had not been adopted, Gerald prepared to leave. He decided to talk to a few of the team's core players when he went out.

Obviously, this isn't the first time Gerald has done this.