green waist king

Chapter 291
On October 10, the tenth round of the Premier League, Liverpool ushered in the challenge of the newly promoted Huddersfield at Anfield Stadium.

Huddersfield is a football club located in West Yorkshire, England like Leeds United, and they also have a long history.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Huddersfield won the English League One Championship for three consecutive years. They were also the first team in the history of British football to "three consecutive championships". At that time, they were known as the strongest in the UK and the world team.

But Huddersfield declined after World War II, and they have been hovering in the lower leagues for decades, and they were not promoted to the British Championship until 2012.

This season, Huddersfield have been promoted to the Premier League for the first time in history through the play-offs, which is a zero breakthrough in their team history.

Although this is a newly promoted team, the tactics and even the game style are completely unfamiliar or even unfamiliar, but Klopp is still confident to win this game.

Because Huddersfield coach Wagner is his old friend for more than 20 years.

He still has some understanding of this old man's coaching philosophy.

Although confident, he did not dare to take it lightly.

Since the start of the league this season, Huddersfield's record is 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, with 12 points, ranking eighth in the Premier League standings, only 4 points behind Chelsea, which is in a downturn this season.

This is a very impressive result.

In the ninth round of the Premier League, the biggest upset was made by Huddersfield.

They defeated the mighty Manchester United 2-1 at home, which made Manchester United and Mourinho the laughingstock of the media.

The first season of a newly promoted team has never been very bad, but this team that entered the Premier League through the play-offs is very surprising.

Many media and fans believe that this is because the Premier League teams are not familiar with their tactics and underestimate the enemy.

But Klopp doesn't think so.

He and the coaching staff have studied this team. The thickness of the bench is very strong. Although most of the players are practical and functional players, the overall strength is not weak, and it is not weaker than those relegation teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League standings.

Especially defensively, they have only conceded 8 goals in the past nine league rounds, and Arsenal and Chelsea have conceded more than ten goals.

This shows that Huddersfield's defensive strength has the strength to gain a foothold in the Premier League.

Moreover, Klopp has always felt that most of the newly promoted horses who can break through the particularly intensive competition in the British Championship will not be mediocre.

Because "devil" is not enough to describe its cruelty in the British Championship.

They won Manchester United in the last round, and now is the time when morale is high, so he thinks this game should be a little troublesome.

The media learned the lessons of the first two rounds of this game, and no media predicted the outcome in advance.

Because most of the media in England were swollen by Crystal Palace and Huddersfield in the eighth and ninth rounds.

In the eighth round of the Premier League, they predicted that Chelsea would easily win Crystal Palace, which is currently the last in the league. As a result, Chelsea was beaten 2-1. If Kante hadn't pulled a goal back in overtime, Chelsea would have lost face.

As a result, in the ninth round, they predicted that Manchester United and Huddersfield would continue to be slapped in the face.

After the match between Liverpool and Hudson, the media collectively stopped.

In their eyes, these traditional giants in the Premier League this season are all a little out of their minds, and they are just a bunch of scams.

Although Liverpool's state of play in recent rounds looks normal, who knows if they will continue to show nervous performance.

The last game against Tottenham was a typical nervous performance. Although Liverpool won in the end, it was completely a manifestation of Mo Yang's strong personal ability. It cannot be said that Liverpool won Tottenham with their overall strength.

Considering that the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League match against Maribor will be at home in four days, Klopp did not start Moyang in this game, but planned to let him play again in the second half to find his feeling.

But after the game started, Klopp frowned.

Because he found out that he was given a trick by his old friend Wagner.

Huddersfield did not play the familiar 4231 formation they are best at.

Instead, he played a 451 formation uncharacteristically. Harbin coach Wagner hoarded heavy troops in the middle of his own backcourt. It was clear that the premise was to stabilize the defense and not lose the ball, and then consider the offense.

On the field, Huddersfield's defense and the two tight midfield lines directly blocked Liverpool's central attack.

It forced Liverpool to put the offensive line on the two sides in many cases.

Once the ball came to the wing, the two defensive formations of Huddersfield's defense and midfielder immediately compressed the space in front of Mane and Shaqiri.

Many times when you get the ball, you will encounter the zone defense of two or three players from the opponent.

This makes it difficult for Mane and Shaqiri to get a breakthrough space outside the penalty area.

Even if they break through by luck, they will be surrounded and suppressed by the defense and midfielders, and they will not be able to transfer the ball. Most of the time, they can only pass hastily, or they will pass back to reorganize the attack.

Moreover, Huddersfield pressed hard in the area 30 meters away from the penalty area, and they could get the ball to counterattack from time to time.

Fortunately, this newly promoted team is not strong offensively, otherwise Liverpool may concede the ball first.

Although Liverpool have the ball possession advantage, in the face of intensive defense, there are not many opportunities to threaten Huddersfield's goal.

Therefore, the first half of the game was so boring that the Red Army fans in the stands around Anfield actually started playing the human wave game out of boredom.

After the start of the second half, Klopp made substitution adjustments in the 55th minute of the game.

He replaced Ibrahimovic, but the effect is still not great.

After Ibrahimovic went up, although Liverpool had a fulcrum in Huddersfield's penalty area when attacking, the success rate in passing the ball was not high.

Huddersfield's central defenders and midfielders have quite strong air defense capabilities, and they often double defend Ibrahimovic.

In the 605th minute of the game, seeing that the team was unable to start the situation, Klopp directly called Mo Yang, who had returned from warming up, to explain his tactics.

When the Red Army fans saw Mo Yang playing, they immediately stopped playing human waves and started singing instead.

The loud Liverpool team song sounded like the horn of the Red Army's attack.

After Mo Yang came on the field, he actually only did one thing, which was to increase his ball holding time in the Huddersfield half.

After attracting the attention of multiple defenders, he then uses his vision to deliver the ball.

This is the task that Klopp entrusted to him, using his ability to advance with the ball to disrupt the opponent's defensive formation, and then hit weak points.

In the 85th minute of the game, Klopp's substitution finally had an effect.

Mo Yang advanced with the ball in the middle, and after Lallana and the retreating Ibrahimovic passed consecutive kicks, Mo Yang came to the free throw arc and directly hooked a central defender of Huddersfield.

Then Mo Yang turned his back to the penalty area, and at the same time formed a wonderful tacit understanding with Ibrahimovic who passed by. He stepped on the ball with his heel, and the ball bounced up, and he knocked it into the penalty area of ​​Huddersfield with his heel , just fell to Ibrahimovic's feet.

Ibrahimovic leaned on Hades' central defender in the penalty area and forced a kick to hit the goal. The ball bounced off the goalkeeper's thigh and allowed Salah, who came off the bench, to make a supplementary shot and rewrite the score to 1-0.

This goal was also the only goal of the game.

This game also made countless people understand why Hades' team ranked so high and how they defeated Manchester United.

The answer is that Huddersfield has a tough defense, running without hesitation, tenacious willpower and a seamless teamwork spirit.

(End of this chapter)