Chapter 262 Controlling the Situation

At 2:30 p.m., Anfield Stadium is already full. Although Liverpool has not done well in the league recently, Liverpool fans still hope to see a team's rising game. The opponent in this game is not strong, but their support for the team spares no effort.

The most eye-catching is the position on the left side of the East Stand, where a large banner spans half of the stands, which reads "Jack, one more!" in English. This banner is specially customized by the fans of Liverpool's largest fan association 'Entay'. There is only one purpose, that is, to add Don Jack. Oil.

Seeing this banner, even Gerard was very jealous. After guessing the coin on the stage, he ran directly to Don Jack's side and hit him fiercely with his arm. Jack Don's smiling face was about to bloom. Even he would have a great sense of satisfaction by this loyal fan.

When the game was about to start, Liverpool fans had begun to shout slogans neatly, and there were bursts of drums from the West Stand, highlighting the warm atmosphere of the game.

In addition, in the chairman's stand, there was one more person sitting in the seat of the FA law enforcement official. It was Burden, the CEO of the FA. The middle-aged man's face was full of smiles. After the player entered the field, when the screen turned around, he waved his hand to the fans, and his mouth looked like It's talking about 'Liverpool will win'. Of course, this is the explanation of the live commentator 'Big Mouth' Belt, and supporters of Birmingham think that's saying 'Birmingham will win'.

It is impossible to hear clearly at such a messy scene. I'm afraid no one knows what is said specifically except Burden himself.

"Bing..."

Soon, with the whistle of the referee Pisle, the normal game began, the cheers in the audience weakened slightly, and more fans focused on the game.

At this time, Belt, who had just published his speculation on Football League President Burden, began to introduce the players of the two teams---

"Liverpool's first strikers are Jack and Jibril. Jack hasn't scored in the two games at the end of the suspension, but I believe this game is the moment when he broke out after saving two goals. I believe we will see a wonderful game at Anfield. The best is Liverpool's 10-zero victory. ..." He seems to be in a fantasy, and the Birmingham fans at the scene have been completely angered by this sentence.

But Belt ignored it. He was there alone to help Liverpool: "I think we will see the goal soon, Jack, another one will also be a real encouragement!"

Cise seems to have been forgotten by Belt. After talking about Don Jack, Belt talked about Gerrard: "Steven's recent performance is very stable. He is still the starter in this game, but I think Mr. Benitez should consider letting Steven rest one or two games, otherwise it will affect his state."

After the introduction of Liverpool players for a long time, it has been five minutes since the game. At this time, Liverpool's attack on the court was very smooth, and Belt also stopped the introduction in time and turned to the field.

"Look! Gerrard's long biography!"

With Belt's words, the football has flown out of Gerrard's feet and a long pass to the position of Alonso in the frontcourt, who squeezed the defender away and barely kicked the ball to Louis who followed. Garcia.

After García got the ball on the left side, she quickly took it forward.

On the middle road, Don Jack has run from the penalty area to the left. In Liverpool's recent training, who has improved the most is obviously Don Jack. In the Liverpool team, only his technical and tactical awareness is the worst. With such a great improvement, he will not wait for the ball in the middle, and he will freely run to the most favorable position. Set up and cooperate with your teammates.

Under the defense, Garcia knocked the ball back to Don Jack. Don Jack got a look at the direction of the penalty area, but did not choose to pass the ball, but cut the ball inside.

"Jack Neche! God, what is he going to do!"

With Belt's words, Don Jack passed a pass, but suddenly passed the ball. He passed the ball straight to the front of the penalty area, where Gerrard just followed from behind and pushed the ball with his inner instep. The football passed between the two Birmingham defenders and rolled into the open space on the left.

By this time, Don Jack had started and received a pass between the bottom lines.

After receiving the ball, Don Jack subconsciously smashed the ball, dodged the tackle of a Birmingham player, and hit the door directly with his instep!

"Gerard's pass, Jack again, shot!!! Whew..." Beltt exhaled and said regretfully, "The football is on the side net. It can be clearly seen that this is a spinning player, and Jack shoots with the back of his foot."

Jack Don also hugged his head with some regret.

His shooting technique is good, but it's just a long-range shot. He wants to draw an arc with the instep of his outer foot at close range. The technical content is too high. He wanted to shoot like this but didn't score. It's really a pity.

The game is just the beginning, and there are still many opportunities to try the footwork. He is not too annoyed.

Only one and a half minutes after the start of the game, Liverpool gave the Birmingham team a break with a wonderful cooperation. There was a crazy cry from the audience. I think Liverpool fans were also very excited.

At the same time, Bruce was also nervous in the coach's seat. There was not much time for the game to start. 'Fortunately, the ball didn't score'. He thought so. In case Liverpool scored first, Birmingham really played away from home. Bruce suddenly regretted paying too much attention to the game. If it was a 'must lose. If the competition is too fierce, it's really not worth the loss.

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It was not until this time that Belt was in the mood to start introducing Birmingham's starting lineup after regret that he didn't score a goal: "Goal Mike. Taylor, full-back Gasper. Glenshar, then No. 16 striker Emil. Husky..."

For the Birmingham lineup, Belt is just passing by. There is no momentum when he just introduced the Liverpool lineup. He also knows that Liverpool fans certainly don't like to listen to it. Even if he introduces it, Liverpool fans feel that those are all ' passers-by A 1' and ' passers-by A 2'. Anyway, they don't care much about it. After all, Berm Han is really not a team, and there are no big football stars in the team. Passers-by A players, that is, Birmingham fans, will care about it.

Such an introduction is too biased towards the home team, but who let this be at Anfield?

The Football Association does not stipulate that the home team's game commentator must be fair. Any team will find a loyal fan of its own team as the live commentator, which is inevitable and a reflection of the home team's advantage.

At this time, the game on the court has also shifted from the tentative stage to the fierce competition stage.

Birmingham head coach Bruce has studied Liverpool, but he only knows the recent Liverpool, but the Liverpool that was not very strong last season, Bruce still doesn't know much about the real Liverpool. Since Benitez took over as Liverpool's head coach, the team has changed a big change in lineup and playing style. This kind of change will bring a lot of things to a team, and there are also great risks.

However, judging from the performance of Liverpool's front-end time, this change is positive, but Liverpool, which has won three games, has interpreted the disadvantages brought about by this change.

What Bruce knows is Liverpool with drawbacks.

Therefore, before the game, he told all the players to work hard to steal and actively compete in the midfield. He felt that with such a hard physical competition, Liverpool's error rate will definitely increase extremely in short passes, so Birmingham will have a chance at that time.

From the perspective of the general trend, Birmingham is still playing a defensive counterattack today, and they dare not attack: a Premier League bottom team and Liverpool attack? This is a complete joke.

Bruce's strategy is undoubtedly correct.

After ten minutes of the game and officially entering the most intense period, with the strengthening of Birmingham's competition, Liverpool's error rate has indeed increased, but this increase is different from the previous two games. Now Liverpool is more stable than before. While making mistakes, the whole team strives to defend quickly, which also makes Birmingham's The attack doesn't work.

This reflects Benitez's tactics.

Generally, the tactics of full attack and defense will make the team's players' physical fitness decline quickly, but in fact, Benitez uses a ball-rounding tactic to greatly reduce the player's running distance on the field, thus reducing physical energy consumption. This kind of tactic is called the ball defense, and the direct one is where the ball is, and the team's formation is closer to the football.

In this way, unless Birmingham plays an offside fast long pass counterattack, they want to break Liverpool's double defense with a positional battle, unless they transform into a rich team... That's obviously impossible.

From the audience, if you pay attention, you can clearly find that when the football is at the feet of a Birmingham player, there are always about three Liverpool players near the same position. As long as the Birmingham player delays a little time in the attack, Liverpool's midfielder can immediately form the first defense line, and then the defender. It's another line of defense. Unless there are special circumstances such as corner kicks, Liverpool's midfielders generally do not return to their own half, and the defender consciously form a position defense line and only stand in a good position, but not against the ball. This kind of defense is the most basic Spanish formation defense.

This also makes Birmingham's attack seem weak.

And Liverpool is different!

Benitez changed his tactics. The first is to give the front line a better and more stable opportunity. The effective pass in the midfield makes the Birmingham players exhausted. Even if they try to fight, it is really difficult to grab the ball in front of the slightly mature Liverpool players. When Liverpool attack, that kind of coincidence The wonderful pass gives Birmingham players a headache. Although their traditional two-back England-style standing pile play can fill the penalty area with players, which makes it difficult for Liverpool players to shoot, there are many opportunities.

In the tenth to twentieth minute, Don Jack himself got three shots. Although both shots hit the defender a little depressed, another time hit the goal frame, which made the Birmingham people in a cold sweat.

No goal in 20 minutes, but all the fans know that the situation is in Liverpool's hands.