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Owen, who scored twice, still did not give up the game, and once again came to the middle circle with the football.

At this time, Jiang Feng couldn't help but lament the opponent's toughness. If he met other teams, he might have surrendered long ago, but Liverpool's fighting spirit became stronger the more they played.

Only such opponents are worthy of respect, and a team needs to have such a spirit of never giving up.

The spirit shown by Liverpool also made the Kaiserslautern players on the field more motivated. Facing such an opponent requires all efforts to conquer it, which is also a way of expressing respect.

The back-and-forth offense of the two sides is really breathtaking. Today's game is a feast of goals.

The real climax of the game came in the 75th minute.

After Owen steals the ball from Alves in the frontcourt, he crosses to find Gerrard in the middle. After receiving the ball, Gerrard looks up and then evades Gattuso's press with a dunk. , followed by a powerful long shot.

The football drew a beautiful arc in the air. Although Cech judged the direction and made a save immediately after Gerrard shot, he still failed to prevent the football from drilling into the goal.

3 to 3, the tenacious Liverpool equalized the score in the 76th minute of the game.

After seeing the goal, Gerrard, who played a super world wave, ran frantically under the stands of Liverpool fans, raised his arms and yelled loudly at the fans in the stands, venting his feelings.

Jiang Feng stood on the sidelines watching the Liverpool players celebrating and shook his head helplessly.

In the 78th minute of the game, Jiang Feng chose to make another substitution.

Junior Juninho went up to De Rossi and Klose replaced Ibrahimovic.

The game restarts again.

Saviola, who just came on in the second half, advanced at a high speed. When encountering the opponent's interception, he did not entangle with the opponent. Instead, he handed the ball to Juninho who came to meet him, and then went forward without the ball. The action of Juninho receiving the ball surprised everyone. Instead of giving the ball to Saviola, he found Klose in the frontcourt with a big foot. Klose was interfered by the opponent. After barely stopping the ball, he handed the ball to Kaka who came to meet him. After receiving the ball, Kaka made a pass and threw the ball to the left of the penalty area. It turned out that Saviola had already killed the ball. In the penalty area, the high-speed Saviola rushed ahead of everyone and shot the ball towards the goal with a poke shot.

The football went between Dudek's legs and into the goal.

4 to 3, the game progressed to the 82nd minute, Saviola made the final decision and once again took the lead for Kaiserslautern.

Saviola was also extremely excited after scoring a goal. In the first half of this season, he can still occupy the main position of the team steadily, but in the second half of the season, Ronaldo also brought him a lot. The pressure, so being able to score a goal in such an important game is certainly something to be excited about for Saviola.

At the moment when Saviola scored a goal, the singing that had been resounding throughout the game in the stands suddenly paused for a moment, and then a louder voice broke out again, but the pathos in this voice was gone. It became clearer and clearer, and even some shots of the game were aimed at the Liverpool fans in the stands at this time. Many fans' faces were covered with tears, and many people were singing while crying singing the team song.

Even the fans knew that there was no hope for Liverpool in this game, but the singing of support for the team still continued, just like the first sentence of the lyrics: "When you walk through a storm, you will never walk alone .Keep your head up, and don't be afraid of the dark."

Saviola's goal was also the last goal of the two teams.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, many players of the two teams sat on the ground at once, almost all of them tried their best, but at this moment the mood of the players of the two teams was completely Different.

Jiang Feng came to Houlier immediately after the whistle sounded, and stretched out his right hand.

"Jiang, I have to admit that you were very good in this match, you won! But the next time we meet, the victory will definitely belong to us."

"Mr. Girard, thank you for your affirmation."

"Come on, Jiang! You are the most talented young man I have ever seen as a head coach. Your observation skills and on-the-spot command ability are too good. I believe that one day you will be everyone's look up to. By the way ! Now that we have won, we must get rid of that invincible Real Madrid."

"Ha ha! I'll do my best, Mr. Girard."

The hug of the two head coaches was also photographed by reporters on the sidelines.

Afterwards, Jiang Feng also walked into the stadium, and together with all the team members came to the stands where the Kaiserslautern fans were, and shared the joy of winning with the fans.

The second round of the UEFA Cup semi-finals in the 2000-2001 season ended here. Kaiserslautern finally eliminated Liverpool with a total score of two rounds of 6 to 4 and got the final ticket. Madrid returned home and easily defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-0, and finally eliminated Tottenham with a total score of 5-0, thus meeting Kaiserslautern in the final.

This season's UEFA Cup final is on May 5. The final venue is also in England, at Wembley Stadium, home of the Premier League team Arsenal.

At that time, the leagues of the two teams participating in the finals will all end, and the two sides will have no worries about the final championship competition.

After interacting with the fans for a while, all members of Kaiserslautern returned to the locker room, while Jiang Feng came to the post-match press conference. When he arrived, Houllier was already answering questions from reporters. .

"Mr. Gillard, what do you think about the loss of this game?"

"The failure of the team is my responsibility as the head coach. The opponent is a very strong team. I underestimated the opponent. I think it is the reason for the loss of this game. My players tried their best on the field, so I think the ball It has nothing to do with them when the team loses."

"Mr. Gillard, you made a substitution in less than 20 minutes of the game. May I ask if you made up for your mistakes in tactical arrangements?"

"I don't think it's a mistake. Every head coach has his own judgment when arranging the lineup."

After dealing with the difficulties of several reporters, Houllier also left the press conference. After all, Liverpool had to face several opponents in the league after losing the game.

After Houllier left, the reporters began to ask Jiang Feng questions.

Jiang Feng, who was in a good mood because of the win, also answered some questions from the reporters very seriously, and then ended the press conference.

On the second day after the game, Kaiserslautern returned to Germany by plane with the joy of reaching the final.