Chapter 298 Special Care
May 13th at 15:00 p.m.!
The sun is still releasing its heat in the sky, but there are countless fans around the Anfield Stadium who are not afraid of exposure to the sun around the thick red Liverpool Club scarf, shouting the slogan "Long live Liverpool" like soldiers who are about to step on the battlefield.
In another hour, Liverpool's home game against madman Lee and his Newcastle is about to begin.
This is the first time that [God on the side of the football field] has come to Anfield. Although I have seen and heard the reputation of madman Li many times on TV and print media, Red Army fans are eager to test whether the Chinese who saved English football are really as magical as the legend, so impossible to fight. Win!
Because in Anfield, Reds fans also have their own pride - Rafael Benitez, a legendary Spanish coach who has achieved the most incredible reversal in the history of the Champions League on Istanbul night.
This will be a magical game!
In addition, the return of Michael Owen, once Anfield's favorite child, has also made Liverpool fans full of contradictions: on the one hand, everyone is happy that Owen can return to the top of the competition under the command of madman Lee. On the other hand, they don't want Owen to give it to Liverpool by scoring goals in tonight's game. An embarrassing failure!
After a while, there was a sudden scratch in the group of fans in the distance!
It turned out that the bus with the Newcastle Club logo was slowly driving the Magpie players to the external player passage of Anfield.
The opponent has arrived!
Suddenly, countless white middle fingers and overwhelming abuses suddenly gathered for the bus.
It's not because Red Army fans hate Owen and crazy Lee, it's just a habit of treating the enemy. Because the battle has started early at this moment, coming to Anfield is the enemy of Liverpool!
Here, it's Anfield!
is the Reds Liverpool's Anfield!
...40 minutes later!
In the melodious chorus of more than 40,000 fans of "You'll Never Walk Alone" floating over the Anfield Stadium, the referee Andre Marina, who was wearing a sky-blue referee's uniform, was the first to walk out of the player's channel, followed by a fight in a few minutes. 22 green warriors on both sides in the robes of their respective teams!
At this moment, loud cheers broke out in the stadium stand!
Once Michael Owen's comrade-in-arms, now Liverpool's red soul Gerard skillfully turned around and waved his arms to the stands with a smile. Just like Owen did here five years ago, he easily took away the applause from the crazy fans that once belonged to Michael Owen in Anfield. And cheers!
The lens is closer.
Because they are also the captains of their respective teams, Michael Owen and Gerrard are the first to walk out of the player channel side by side, both closely behind the referee! The broadcast scene cleverly gave Owen a close-up of his face and let every fan see it clearly through the large electronic screen of the stadium.
All the older generation of Red Army fans were surprised at this moment to find that Owen, who was once as pure and young as the boy next door, had unconsciously become a mature man. The messy beard on the chin and the mature vicissitudes of life on the eyebrows tell every fan who once liked Owen that Golden Boy is no longer young!
After three years of trials of ups and downs, when the former wind-chasing teenager returned to Anfield, although the carving knife of time had eliminated the original sharpness of Owen's body, the golden boy who learned to bury the murder became more terrible!
For Michael Owen, a season of struggle and struggle is destined to make Benitez regret the Spanish man who once mercilessly drove him away from Anfield in today's 90 minutes!
Totally regret!
...Soon, as usual, Liverpool players lined up to shake hands with Newcastle players!
When Owen and Gerrard and Carragher held hands together, the flashes of countless cameras on the sidelines lit up at the same time at the same time. Because in the past two years, Owen had a wrong game between Newcastle and Liverpool because of his injury, today's handshake is more like the former Red Army. The first conversation between the leader and the soul of Anfield today!
Even the fans in the stands were much more silent at this moment!
force~~~~ The whistle finally sounded. Michael Owen, the captain of Newcastle, who got the ball in the pick, kicked out the first touch of the game. The merciless boos against the visiting players in the Anfield stands did not sound at the first time. It seems that even the KOPs have not learned yet. I'm used to booing Michael Owen!
... Li Tongfan did not choose the invincible 4-3-3 formation in this game, but unexpectedly returned to the 4-1-2-1-2 wings that he was best at flying together - Michael Owen's high school striker Ameibi, Alan Smith as the front midfielder, Juan Ma Tower and Duff were separated from each other, and Joey Barton appeared in the back of the waist. From left to right on the guard line are Habiby, Steven Taylor, A-Faye and Jose Enrique.
Goalkeeper Jiwen.
As for the opponent Liverpool, Benitez sacrificed his old routine 4-4-2.
The goalkeeper is the Spaniard Reina. The young Argentine players Insuya, Daniel Agger, veteran Haipia and deputy captain Carragher formed the Red Army's defense. Passing expert Harvey Alonso and the beast waist Mascherano sit in the midfield, and Norway ** Riser and the team's soul Gerrard are separated on both sides of the midfield. And Anfield's new golden boy Fernando Torres and Dutch striker Kuyt are responsible for destroying the Reds on the front line.
... After the start of the game, Newcastle habitually sacrificed Cheng Yaojin's head-to-head three-board axe, striving to give his opponent a blow at the beginning. Owen hit the football back to Alan Smith behind him. Smith did not pass back after receiving the football. After a little observation, he obliquely stuffed it to the left roadside striker Juan Mata.
It is Liverpool's soul Gerrard who defends Mata on the sidelines.
Although Gerald's best position is an offensive midfielder, his defensive ability cannot be underestimated by anyone, because anyone who knows the ball knows that the Liverpool captain is definitely the most balanced player in Europe. If you are in front of him just because Gerald is an offensive player. If you want to show off your breakthrough skills, then wait to lose the ball!
Therefore, in order to avoid delaying the aircraft, Juan Mata did not choose a breakthrough as Gerrard expected, but sent a direct oblique pass into Liverpool's penalty area!
In the forbidden area!
Newcastle high school striker Ameibi barely sent the football to the feet of Michael Owen outside the penalty area in the competition with the Finnish veteran, and Owen did not hesitate because his opponent was Liverpool. He immediately bent his bow and arrow to prepare to shoot... According to statistics, Owen was in this position in seven games in the second half of the season. The long-range world wave is no less than three goals, and the success rate of the shot is extremely high! Therefore, the exclamations of the KOPs in the stands have involuntarily sounded at this moment... However, this seemingly deadly shot did not happen in the end!
Because just a minute before Owen's instep touched the football, a red figure rushed out of the slash, poked the football out first, and then bumped into Owen fiercely under the action of the usual surname!
Mascherano!
This top football stadium attack destroyer, who is as famous as Ghana Buffalo Essien in FM2008, easily destroyed Newcastle's raid with a brutal shovel rush. And from the perspective of football rules, this is a steal that makes reasonable use of the body, so the referee did not blow a foul!
The game continues!
The football produced by Mascherano fell at Carragher's feet, and the deputy captain of Liverpool passed the long pass to Gerrard in the front court at the first time!
Liverpool have a great chance to fight back!
Gerrard jumped high for the first time and gave the ball to teammate Kuit accurately with the back of his head. Kuyt quickly ran to the right side of the Newcastle penalty area with the ball. He made a fake move near the bottom line to deceive Newcastle full-back Jose Enrique after a blocking action, he suddenly arched. The inside is weird to knock back... What received the football is... Gerrard!!!
After three seconds of a name that can be fatal to any team, the unguarded Gerrard has appeared on Kuyt's passing route!
The soul of the Liverpool team passed the fast-rolling football with a great curvature, sending the football high into the magpie's small penalty area!
This is a fatal pass!
The height of the football flight just exceeded the bounce range of goalkeeper Jiwen, but after passing the goalkeeper, there was another obvious fall. The clever pass made Fernando Torres, who appeared behind the Newcastle goal like a ghost, relax and send the football into the empty goal just through the strength of the waist and abdomen... 1:0!!
“......GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL......GOAL!!!!”
The voice of the on-site commentator** was like the roar of a Jew who finally escaped from the German death camp, which resounded through Anfield. Less than a minute after the start of the game, Newcastle, who was used to sneaking on his opponent at the first time, could not steal a handful of rice and was fatal by a sharp counterattack by his opponent!
Anfield has never lacked ** in the face of goals, and this time it is particularly fierce!
After the commentator's high-profile vent, the exciting melody of "You'll Never Go Alone" began to roll back over the court again like a reckless hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean!
At this moment, the afterglow of the fallen day leaked the last golden glory at the top of the stands!
On the green lawn under the red stands, the goal hero Fernando Torres and the Red Army soul Gerrard just hugged each other, and then waved their fists excitedly to greet the equally excited fans. In the first season of landing in the Premier League, the former young captain of Atletico Madrid has broken the first season goal record of foreign aid set by Van Nistelrooy, the long-held king of the small penalty area, and quickly became Anfair's new favorite!
This is a moment for heroes!
And just away from Torres and Gerrard's crazy celebration, Michael Owen, who was knocked to the ground by Mascherano, didn't stand up until this moment. During the collision just now, the hard elbow of the Argentine beast's waist hit Owen's shoulder!
A pain in the heart kept coming from his arm, but Michael Owen did not make any complaint, but stood quietly on the lawn and watched his former teammates celebrate crazily!
What a familiar scene!
Not far away, the Argentine beast waist Mascherano, who successfully grabbed the ball under Owen's feet, stood on the lawn with his hands crossed and looked at Owen provocatively with a sneer and disdain!
He did the elbow collision just now on purpose!
Because head coach Benitez specially reminded Mascherano to take special care of Newcastle's dangerous mission in the game when arranging tactics in the locker room before the game! The so-called special care has long become an "open secret" in Liverpool's tactics. Since joining the Reds, the people who have been specially taken care of by Mascherano include Chelsea's Drogba and Shepchenko; Arsenal's Van Percy and Henry; Manchester United's Rooney and Louis Saha; and... In Mascherano's concept, this is just the most common tactic.
Moreover, the Argentine beast waist found through the steal just now that Owen was the least dangerous of all the so-called dangerous players he had "taken care of".
The steal just now has not even played a role in warming him up!
It's extremely simple!
There is no challenge!
For Mascherano, Owen had left Liverpool before he joined, and the two did not have any intersection. Therefore, the Argentines have no good feelings for the former leader of the Red Army. The game will continue minute by minute, and Mascherano firmly believes that this is not his last "care" for Owen!
Take care of the former leader of the Red Army until he collapsed!
... Fifteen minutes later, the Red Army scored again!
Deputy captain Carragher rarely assists to the front court. After receiving Alonso's precise big-footed long pass, he shook off the block of Newcastle full-back Jose Enrique and made a slightly curved close pass!
The football crossed the fingertips of Given, who struggled to save, bypassed the blockade of Steven Taylor and A Faye, and once again came to the foot of Fernando Torres, who was unguarded at the back point. Anfield's new golden boy easily pushed the empty goal!
2:0!
It is worth mentioning that this Liverpool goal was started by Mascherano after breaking Michael Owen's foot and passing it to Alonso!
In less than 17 minutes of the game, Owen conceded the ball twice, allowing the Red Army's chief and deputy captains to get an assist each, while Torres, the new golden boy who made up for Owen's departure, easily scored two goals!
At least from the perspective of the game during this period, it makes sense for Benitez to drive Owen away in those years!
(to be continued)