Chapter 248 What's left?

The next two league opponents are Fulham and Charlton.

Fulham is a strong Premier League team. As a London team, they are Chelsea's stasis. In the century-old competition between the two teams, Fulham does not occupy much disadvantage.

In the league in recent years, although Chelsea is getting stronger and stronger, the pre-match results of the two teams will always be a mystery. Even if Chelsea is now one of the top teams in the Premier League, Mourinho is the hottest champion coach, but in the face of Fulham, Chelsea dare not say that they will win.

On the one hand, there is a relationship between Derby, and on the other hand, it also shows Fulham's strength.

In the match with Fulham, Liverpool is playing away from home. In that case, it is a little unfavorable. It is really a little worse that the two most important generals of the team can't play.

The odds of European gambling companies for this game are 1 to 2.28, which is already very high. The odds of Liverpool winning are not much higher than that of Fulham's 2.70. From this point of view, we can intuitively see the impact of Don Jack's failure to play. In fact, this odds have always been 1 before. Between 8 and 1 to 9.

This shows a glimpse.

And the second league game is much easier. Liverpool's opponent is Charlton.

Charlton is a team that has just been promoted from the Champions League. Their strength can be imagined, but Don Jack and the two are not playing, which still makes Liverpool's odds plummet in this game. Many fans are even optimistic that Charlton can win at Anfield... Of course, these people are the most loyal... Gambler.

In such a situation, the views of the media can be imagined.

Many of the newspapers and magazines of the English sports media have predictions. In these pages, some famous stars or old people in the football world will be invited to predict the next league trend. This sounds a bit like stock speculation, and the two are indeed not much different.

After all, football is uncertain.

In the recent forecast trend, many footballers have said that Liverpool will be shaken away by Arsenal and Chelsea in the next two rounds.

Now for the three teams, Arsenal only played one draw, steadily ranking first in the league, while Chelsea has two draws, two points behind Arsenal, ranking second in the league. Due to the loss to Chelsea in the last game, Liverpool is one point behind Chelsea and ranks third in the league.

In the next two rounds, if Liverpool does not perform well, it is likely to be widened by the first two teams.

However, Liverpool's results are also good enough now. After eight rounds of competition in the league, Liverpool has 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. In the past, such results can be said to be extremely good, but this season they only ranked third in the league, which really surprised everyone. I have to say that Arsenal and Chelsea played Football is really great.

Some people even call for this to be a step backwards in the Premier League, because the small club does not have any competitiveness.

But this appeal was soon submerged in the praise of the three teams. After all, it supports more, and only those sour pens will be unfounded.

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Under the unpopular voice of the outside media, Liverpool's head coach Benitez is very calm. It should be said that the Spaniard still maintains his own pace and rules of life... And the expression.

It seems to be like this from the outside world.

Even the day before the ninth round of the league, at the regular press conference, Benitez still looked confident, and there was almost no difference from before. He frankly admitted the impact of Don Jack's absence on Liverpool, and said that Liverpool would try their best to win.

In a word, it's all nonsense.

In fact, the first team has some understanding of the mentality of the Spaniards. The day before, Benitez has confessed to the players his deployment and mentality for these two leagues: training!

Yes, training!

Recently, Liverpool have been training short pass cooperation and trying to play exquisite offensive tactics one by one. In addition, what kind of passing route can control the midfield and open the opponent's defense. Benitez is trying to implement these tactical concepts to the whole team step by step.

So, he just wanted to use these two real league games for training.

A Fulham and a Charlton. The former is a little risky for Liverpool, while the latter is a team that can win easily. There is no pressure on the players. When they hear the head coach talk about training, they have less pressure.

"Since it's training, it doesn't matter if you fail."

Everyone thinks that without Don Jack, the atmosphere of the team is very relaxed.

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Soon, the latest league began.

Don Jack watched the game at home. He was banned and did not follow the team to London. For professional players, their tactical literacy makes their mentality of watching the ball completely different from that of the fans. Don Jack is the same. While watching the game, he is constantly analyzing the tactics of the two teams and the next situation.

This kind of analysis is very good for improving your tactical literacy, which is equivalent to reviewing the tactical theory lesson for yourself.

Many media and fans originally thought that Liverpool would attack at the beginning, but unlike the previous game, Liverpool did not attack at the beginning, but stabilized their formation first. This stable process, even some ordinary fans can see it clearly, because they can clearly see the court for a long time. The white figure forms the standard 442 pattern.

After stabilizing the formation, Liverpool began to slowly look for offensive points.

Such a game has brightened many people's eyes, because they have seen something new in the Liverpool game. This kind of play usually appears on Spanish teams, and today they also see this in Liverpool.

This is obviously what Benitez brought to Liverpool.

However, Liverpool players obviously do not adapt to the new way of play. In the case of Fulham's rush, their cooperation is frequent mistakes, which gives their opponents a lot of opportunities. If Don Jack and Gerrard are present, these Liverpool players will obviously give up the coach's tactics appropriately in order to win.

But not now.

How to play next became a problem? Don Jack was anxious to watch it in front of the TV. If he had been on the court, he would definitely shout 'Steven, come here!' Similarly, the team's formation will change immediately, which is also the reason why Benitez has a headache for Don Jack, but the result is that Don Jack is easier to score goals, that is, Liverpool has a great hope of scoring goals, so Benitez has a headache and has to admit the black-haired boy's approach. It is the most promising way to win.

And now, Don Jack is not present, and Gerrard is not present.

Without the leader unanimously recognized by everyone, Liverpool players can only play according to the head coach's arrangement. This process is a little depressing. No one likes to be suppressed, and no one likes to play what he is not good at. But Benitez is satisfied that he can finally see his training in the game. The tactics have been implemented.

As the game time slowly passed, the Liverpool players also slowly found their form. Thinking of what Benitez said before the game, "I don't care about the result", they played more and more relaxed. This mentality was good, so the players played more steadily.

It's a pity that Fulham is still the first goal.

In the twenty-fourth minute, Fulham striker Malblank passed directly to McBride on the right side of the penalty area, and the American striker crossed in front of the goal, Boa. Mott got the ball five meters in front of the back goal and shot directly into the empty goal. The goalkeeper Dudke was weak.

Next, Fulham scored again...

That was in the thirtieth minute of the game, Malblank made a direct pass to the left side of the penalty area, Boa. Mott scored his second goal in the game against Dudeck, who faced the attacking on the left side of the penalty area, scoring his second goal in the game and scoring twice.

I lost two goals in the first half, and Don Jack wanted to smash the TV.

The extent of this game is more tragic than the last match against Chelsea. It is the first time that Liverpool is two goals behind in the first half since the start of the game. Fulham fans are very excited about the two-goal lead. Many TV commentators also claim that the gap between the current Liverpool and the previous Liverpool is too big.

Don Jack knows the reason. It's more that Liverpool are using the game to train troops. If they really play according to the original tactics, Fulham can't play so easily. Even if there is no attack but only defense, Fulham has to think about it if he wants to break through Liverpool's defense.

But Benitez thought it was worth it. At halftime, Benitez comforted the players and told them not to be under pressure and continued to play like this in the second half.

What many fans didn't expect was that the second half completely became Liverpool's world!

In the first half, Liverpool's performance was average and failed to create any good opportunities. Instead, Fulham scored two goals, but in the second half, the performance of Liverpool players was a little more stable than in the first half, which caused the football to have always been at the feet of Liverpool players, and Fulham's coach was obviously arranged. A defensive counterattack tactic.

So, the rhythm of the game seems to follow Liverpool.

In this case, Liverpool fans cheered up slightly. As a result, in the 71st minute, Liverpool finally broke through Fulham's goal and scored by Harvey. Alonso, the Spanish boy scored his third goal in Liverpool.

Unfortunately, although Liverpool is in control of the situation, Liverpool without Don Jack and Barrosh is almost a frontless situation. There is no player with a fatal blow in front of the goal. Even if there are many opportunities, it is difficult to score.

The final score was 2:1, and Liverpool suffered two consecutive defeats in the league.

For ordinary fans, they often look at the score. Which team wins, then which team must play better, and so do more media reporters. They will not analyze the whole game process, but just take the score.

So, the media tacitly misled the fans, and the fans also accepted it tacitly.

This is the football situation outside the field. To be honest, Liverpool played very well in this game, especially in the second half. The situation was once completely controlled by Liverpool. All they did was score. But after the game, the media reporters attacked Liverpool for nothing, and even Benitez's coaching ability was Questioned.

"Losing to Fulham, this is something that didn't happen last season."

The Times, which has always been at a bad relationship with Liverpool, said: "Benitez is very lucky because he got Jack. Lee, he kept Gerrard again, but now that the two stars can't play, Liverpool has become a mess, and they even lost to Fulham.

"If the two leave Liverpool, what is left for Benitez?"