football dynasty

The Red Army's small loss to Benfica is regrettable in the eyes of the fans, but it is not a big deal.

But the media doesn't see it that way. Since Li Wei coached Liverpool, Liverpool has performed very strongly.

After Liverpool's upset away game on March [-]th, when they lost to Wigan Athletic, known as the relegation madman, they have won five unbeaten rounds in all competitions, and this unbeaten is not based on a large number of draws, but four wins Yiping's proud record.

Teams are looking for ways to beat Liverpool.

However, including Ferguson's Manchester United, they all failed, and they all eventually fell under Liverpool's quick counterattack.

This is not the case now, why was Benfica able to beat Liverpool?

Is it because Benfica players are more powerful?

Although Liverpool is now down, but on paper, Liverpool is still more than one level stronger than Benfica.

So what caused Liverpool to lose?

Left back!

Because of Insua's departure, Liverpool's full-back assist tactics died immediately. Not to mention, Liverpool didn't even have a positive left-back.

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In the next round, Liverpool's opponent is the Birmingham team, which is familiar to Chinese fans. The chairman of the team is the first owner with a Chinese background in the history of the Premier League - Hong Kong tycoon Yang Jiacheng! (In order to avoid being harmonized, use homophones, not typos)
Hong Kong tycoon Yang Jiacheng has been interested in English football for a long time. Before buying Birmingham, he offered 2006 million pounds in January 1 to buy Reading, who was still playing in the British Championship at that time.In March of the same year, he offered another £1.2 million for Wigan Athletic. In April 3, Yang Jiacheng offered Sheffield Wednesday 5000 million pounds, but all three acquisitions ended in failure.

Yang Jiacheng was not intimidated by the setbacks. In June 2007, he acquired a 6% stake in Birmingham through Hongfeng International, thus becoming the club's largest shareholder.

On October 2009, 10, Hongfeng International fully acquired Birmingham, and Yang Jiacheng also became the "boss" of the team as he wished. He also became the first Chinese owner in the history of the Premier League.

Because of Li Wei's Chinese soul, he is also very friendly to the Chinese boss Yang Jiacheng.

The two are relatively good friends in the British club, but they will not show mercy to you just because you are friends in the game.

As soon as the game started, Birmingham seized the opportunity and stormed Liverpool's left.

Left-back Insua was under tremendous pressure.

Mascherano frequently shifted to the left to relieve Insua's defensive pressure.

Even so, Birmingham still found a chance to score.

In the 403rd minute of the game, Birmingham player McFadden broke through Insua's defense and made a cross near the bottom line. Liam Ridgwell stabbed the football into the goal from a long distance.

Birmingham 1-0 Liverpool at home!
This time the problem again appeared in the defense on the left.

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Commentator: "Liverpool is in unprecedented trouble! It can be believed that after scoring a goal, Birmingham will focus more on attacking Liverpool's left. In the final moments of the first half, Insua showed signs of collapse. If Birmingham continues the offensive intensity of the first half, Insua is definitely not showing signs of collapse, but is about to collapse! If Liverpool want to win this game, they can probably score more goals than Birmingham. "

The commentator's words also expressed the thoughts of most people.

Liverpool's defense on the left has already failed. If more players are invested to strengthen the defense on the left, it will lead to more loopholes in the defense in the center, which is more serious than the failure of the left defense.

At this time, Li Wei boldly made a substitution during the intermission.

Boateng comes on, replacing Insua.

But Boateng is not playing the left-back position.

当博阿滕上场后，利物浦的站位立刻从4-3-3变为3-4-3.博阿滕、卡拉格、阿格三人组成三中卫，在他们前面则是莫塔和马斯切拉诺组成的双后腰。

Flanked by Glenn Johnson and Steven Gerrard, both players have excellent physical fitness and can attack and defend well.

In front of them is the front trident composed of Dirk, Torres and Gareth Bale.

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The narrator was very strange. "Three defenders? I also know that Birmingham play 4-4-2. Three defenders defending two forwards is not an ordinary danger. And although Levi has coached in Italy, the typical Italian tactics of three defenders, Li Wei is still rarely in the queue, could it be that he went to the doctor in a hurry?"

Not to mention that the commentator didn't understand, even Birmingham's head coach McLeish was surprised by Levi's change.

But since you don't understand, then you don't need to understand, and continue to stick to your own style of play!

Only when the game restarted, McLeish found that the situation was completely different from what he had imagined.

It is difficult for football to pass smoothly through the midfield.

利物浦不仅仅是中场有四名球员绞杀，库伊特和加雷斯·贝尔也经常回撤帮助防守。利物浦的阵型与其是说3-4-3，还不如说是3-6-1。

With numerical advantages, Birmingham's football is difficult to easily push past Liverpool's midfield.Even if he finally dribbled the ball through the meat grinder in Liverpool's midfield, other Liverpool players have already returned to defense at this time.

Soon McLeish thought of a solution again, and he asked his disciples to play high balls behind Liverpool.Although such an offensive method has a high turnover rate, as long as there is one success, it is likely to be a single-handed goal.

In this case, Liverpool's three central defenders had a surprisingly tacit understanding and created offside traps many times, which made Birmingham's striker very irritable.

And when there were more such situations, Birmingham's forwards were not only irritable, but other midfielders were also annoyed at not being able to open the situation.

Although the score was still Birmingham 1:0 Liverpool, the situation on the football field began to slowly tilt towards Liverpool.