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After the 32nd round of the league, Kaiserslautern will also usher in the first round of the UEFA Cup semi-finals. May 5 is the first round of the UEFA Cup semi-finals this season.

Kaiserslautern's opponent in this series is Liverpool, a giant from the Premier League. For Kaiserslautern, this opponent may be relatively unfamiliar, but for Jiang Feng, he was very impressed. Last season, he was still in Leyton Orient At that time, it was Jiang Feng who led Leyton Orient to defeat Liverpool in the League Cup and started his dark horse journey.

Before the start of the game, the English media also turned up the game and reminded Liverpool.

Liverpool coach Houllier said when he was asked about the game in an interview with reporters: "Kaiserslautern is a very strong team, and Jiang Feng is also a very good coach. As a team, we must play with the spirit of twelve points, but I believe that the final victory must belong to Liverpool."

At 5:10 p.m. on May 5th, players from both sides were in the locker room to be arranged and mobilized by the head coach. There was still half an hour before the official start of the game.

As time passed and the time for the start of the game was getting closer, the referee began to notify the players on both sides to prepare to play.

The moment the referee led the players from both sides out of the player tunnel, the atmosphere of the Fritz Walter Stadium was suddenly pushed to the top by tens of thousands of home fans.

After the simple ceremony, the two sides began to guess under the organization of the referee, and Kaiserslautern was lucky to get the right to attack.

Kaiserslautern's starting lineup for this game is goalkeeper Petr Cech, left back Evra, right back Alves, two center backs are Coloccini and Metzelder, midfielders are Gattuso and De Rossi, midfielder Kaka, center Klose, left and right wingers are Saviola and Quaresma.

The starting lineup for Liverpool is goalkeeper Dudek, the four defenders are Traore, Huntez, Carragher, Babel, the midfielder is Bambi, Gerrard, Litmanning, Murphy, and the striker it's irving and fuller
Houllier still sent a traditional 442 formation on Liverpool's side. What is beneficial to Kaiserslautern is that Liverpool's main central defender Hyypia was suspended for this game, and Carragher replaced Hyypia.

Before the start of the game, Jiang Feng always thought that Liverpool would play away and the main central defender was suspended, so they would definitely shrink their defense and fight back.

However, after the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Jiang Feng realized that he was completely wrong, and Houlier was indeed scheming.

After the game started, Kaiserslautern was suppressed by Liverpool on the scene at home. Originally, Kaiserslautern's side should have made some tentative attacks on Liverpool's defense according to Jiang Feng's arrangement. After all, now The Kaiserslautern players on the field were very unfamiliar with their opponents, so Jiang Feng made the tactical arrangement after studying some of Liverpool's game videos and concluded that Liverpool would not attack after the start.

On the other hand, Liverpool immediately accelerated the pace and crazily attacked Kaiserslautern's defense line after the opening, which made the Kaiserslautern scene on the field a bit chaotic.

Such a result is exactly what Houllier hopes to see.

Although Jiang Feng anxiously gestured to the players on the field to stabilize when he realized something was wrong, he was still caught by Liverpool.

In the 24th minute of the game, after Coloccini grabbed Liverpool's cross in the penalty area, he immediately kicked it out. However, under Liverpool's pressure, Coloccini did not drive the ball very far. The frontcourt was taken by Gerrard, and then the ball was handed over to Litmanning. After receiving the ball, Litmanning dunked the ball at the top of the arc, and found Owen in the penalty area with a straight kick. , Owen didn't stop the ball at all and volleyed directly following the oncoming football. Although Cech tried his best to stretch his body in the air and rushed towards the football, Owen's shot angle was extremely tricky and he got into it smoothly. goal.

0 to 1, Kaiserslautern fell behind at home.

After scoring the goal, Owen frantically ran to the stands of a few Liverpool fans and kissed the team logo on the jersey.

Houllier on the sidelines also smiled, and Jiang Feng on the other side also knew that the responsibility for conceding the ball should be borne by himself. This is still a gap in experience. Indeed, he was calculated by Houllier in the entire tactical arrangement Deadly, and the players on the field are the same. If there are one or two experienced players among the Kaiserslautern players on the field, maybe the current situation is not so bad. This may be the price that young people have to pay, This season, Kaiserslautern's games have always been smooth sailing. Even if there are some small gaps and hurdles, Jiang Feng easily resolves them. He has never encountered such a passive situation. In terms of the entire team's tactics was completely suppressed by the opponent.

The fans of Kaiserslautern on the sidelines were not hit by the conceded goal, and they cheered louder than before in the stands. Although the team fell behind, they still supported their team as always.

Jiang Feng didn't think about the conceded goal, but looked at the players on the field worriedly. He was worried that the players would be hit by such a situation, which would affect the morale of the team. He took advantage of the Liverpool players celebrating the goal , Jiang Feng called Kaka, who looked a little lonely on the field.

"Don't hang your head down, tell everyone let them see what all the fans are doing in the stands, what are we? We are the new Bundesliga champions, the fans haven't given up, how can you give up? A goal counts What, just go and score more goals."

Jiang Feng's words also rekindled Kaka's morale, which was a little low. Then Kaka nodded and went back to the field to pull all the Kaiserslautern players on the field. Everyone gathered around and looked at In the surrounding stands, in their eyes, all the fans of Kaiserslautern were singing the team anthem loudly. Looking at the fans in the stands who were still loudly supporting themselves, Kaiser, whose morale was greatly hit Slautern's players on the field rekindled their fighting spirit.

"Yes, the boss is right, conceding a goal is nothing, it's not that we haven't conceded, we just go and score more." De Rossi said.

Then everyone formed a circle and put their hands together.

"Come on, 1, 2, 3, kill them!"

Players from both sides returned to their positions again, ready to restart the game.

At this moment, all the players on the Kaiserslautern field can no longer see the depression and loneliness when losing the ball, but look at the murderous look of Liverpool players.