The strongest winger

Chapter 475: Clever Assist
After seeing the quality of Gerrard's long-range shot, Flores knew that the second half of the game would definitely not be so comfortable. The Liverpool coached by Benitez would not easily give in at the Mestalla Stadium.

Sure enough, in the following game time, Liverpool's defensive attention was more on cutting off the passing routes between Valencia's midfielders, which allowed them to pass the football across or back.

At the same time, it will also increase the pressure on your own defense.

After cutting off the connection between Valencia's midfielders and forwards, Liverpool had more opportunities to attack. There were fast horses such as Zenden and Bellamy on the wing, and the forward who was at the top of the front was also a striker who was good at seizing opportunities, which made Valencia's defenders dare not neglect.

Liverpool's midfielders Gerrard and Harvey Alonso both have excellent long-range shots. While taking care of the defense on the side, they also take care of the defense in the center. This is a bit difficult for Valencia, who is not good at defense.

But it's not without good news for them, at least they haven't conceded a goal during this time.

Seeing teammates who were forced to defend, Ai Luo also realized that he had to increase the number of times he took the ball to help the team relieve the pressure on defense, because the best defense is offense!

Saying that he is also the number one star of the team, if the team did not stand up when it needed help the most, then it would definitely not be worthy of its current honor and status.

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"Liverpool's ball possession has improved significantly after the start of the second half. If it is not restricted, then Valencia's goal will be in danger..." Hyde frowned and said worriedly, "...the team has reached a dangerous moment. As the team's number one star, Ai must stand up at this time and help the team establish an image..."

The director of the Mestalla Stadium took advantage of Riise's time to ask the ball boy on the sidelines for a football, quickly switched a camera position, then aimed at Ai Luo, and used technical means to shorten the distance, and gave him a close-up shot of his face.

Ai Luo frowned.

"It seems that he is also very dissatisfied with the passiveness of the team during this period."

After 1 minute, Valencia finally took advantage of the integrity of the defense to force Xavi Alonso to pass the ball to the wide player Zenden, who was too weak.

After Ballack got the football, he habitually looked up at Aiello's position. At this moment, he found that an opponent's player wanted to counterattack in the frontcourt, so he pulled the ball back with the sole of his right foot, turned 360 degrees while protecting the football, and avoided Gerrard's attack.

However, because of his ball-protecting action, he also missed the best time to find Aiello with a long pass at the first time. Mascherano has already run to Aiello, so he can only choose to pass the ball to David Silva who retreats to his own arc.

As soon as the Liverpool players saw that Valencia took the initiative to slow down the counterattack, they ran back slowly, and they didn't have the impatience when they saw Ballack swinging his feet to prepare for a long pass.

Seeing that his teammate did not pass the ball over long, Ai Luo had to run back a few steps, because both Carragher and Arbeloa ran two steps forward, which means that he was in an offside position. If he did not run back, it would affect the rhythm of the team's offense.

Sure enough, the team also slowly advanced to Liverpool's defensive 30-meter area, but it was still a bit difficult to continue passing inside, because there were too many people in the middle, so they could only choose to pass the ball across or back.

With the overall retreat of Liverpool's defense, Aiello moved to the touchline on the left side of the attack and gained a little space to get the ball. Before he could reach out for the ball, David Silva's football was passed.

This foot sticks to the earth at a long distance of more than 20 meters, and the speed is very fast.

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Mascherano's defensive position is good, completely blocking the route that Aiello can break through the inside, and while watching Aiello, he also pays attention to the passing routes around him, because he has tasted this kind of sweetness before. He can steal and organize the attack. If he can directly assist and score after the steal, it will be even more wonderful.

But he saw a large space behind Ai Luo.

At this moment, David Silva, who was in possession of the ball, suddenly twisted his waist and smashed the ball, and passed the ball with the arch of his left foot in the direction of Aiello. This pass made Mascherano's eyes light up, and he realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for had arrived.

With the preparatory action of the previous move, he was able to increase his speed in a short time, and then made a sliding tackle, trying to keep the ball under his feet, but he seemed to underestimate the acceleration of the football on the wet turf.

"Javier Mascherano fell to the ground!!" The BBC commentator shouted fiercely, but his mood quickly sank, because the Argentine Javier Mascherano didn't shovel the football in the camera.

Instead, Sky TV commentator Andy Gray, who was sitting next to him, shouted: "It's gone!!!"

From his tone, one could clearly hear a sense of excitement.

Aiello did not perform well in this game. A large part of the reason is that Mascherano defended him too tightly and did not give him any room to relax. However, Mascherano is now lying on the turf. Andy Gray can imagine with his toes that this is an excellent opportunity!

Originally, Ai Luo had already run back to make up for the defense, but he did not expect that Mascherano's shovel left the ball and did not shovel the football. His excellent body reaction speed allowed him to catch the ball and turn around in one go.

David Silva, who had just passed the football, also breathed a sigh of relief, then turned a corner and ran forward.

AIAIAIAAII——
At the same time, the fans of the home team in the stands suddenly shouted Ai Luo's surname, which resounded throughout the stadium.

In the midst of the shouts from the stands, Ai Luo moved the ball forward. Facing Arbeloa's defense, he directly shifted the center of gravity of the latter with a swaying upper body. He flicked the ball to the right with the outer instep of his right foot. With a kick of his left foot, the whole person followed.

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When Mascherano made a mistake, Harvey Alonso consciously approached the route of Ai Luo's cut.

Sure enough, Arbeloa was more like a wooden pillar in front of Ai Luo. There was no way to do it. Harvey Alonso watched Ai Luo's next move, and subconsciously made a tackle on the ground.

After Ke Ailuo flicked the ball to the right sideways, the arch of his right foot was connected, he dunked the ball towards the baseline, and then tapped his right foot to the ground, avoiding Harvey Alonso's right foot who couldn't shovel the ball and wanted to shovel someone.

Facing Agger, who came up to defend, Ailuo didn't even think about it. The toe of his left foot pushed the football towards the baseline. He increased his speed in two or three steps.

But his second reaction is very fast. In the deployment of Benitez before the game, Ai Luo's first choice after breaking into the penalty area must be to shoot by himself, so pay attention to him using the change in rhythm to dunk the ball back and shoot from an angle.

Agger remembers that when Benitez mentioned that Ai Luo left the ball near the bottom line, what he specifically told was to ask the defenders to stand still and block the angle of Ai Luo's right foot shot, forcing him to use his left foot to handle the ball.

Agger is a player with a very strong comprehension ability. From Benitez's explanation, he knew that Ai Luo's left foot skills must be poor, and this time the defense is to compress the space used by Ai Luo's right foot, forcing him to use his left foot to handle the ball.

Therefore, Agger consciously stayed back when chasing back, and he was completely sure that he would be able to turn around and destroy the ball when Ai Luo made an emergency stop to kick back.

But Ai Luo's thoughts are not something he can guess.

When the football was two meters away from the bottom line, Ai Luo suddenly swung his left foot.

cross?

Agger immediately denied this possibility in his mind.

So... only fake moves, fake fax buckles?
Definitely is!
Agger didn't even extend his right foot to block the pass, but just looked at Ai Luo who swung his left foot to make a pass.

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Don't take it lightly!
Although Benitez can't see how far Ai Luo is from the bottom line, he thinks Ai Luo's fake fax dunk this time must be a fake action, because in the video collection of Ai Luo's breakthrough, he used this trick many times, so he hopes Agger will block the space where Ai Luo kicks the ball back.

But what neither of them expected was that instead of kicking the ball back with his swung left foot, Ai Luo chose to directly... cross!
what?
Benitez on the sidelines was stunned in place immediately, this... is unscientific!
Agger, who is defending Ai Luo, is like a spectator, with no other purpose than cutting off Ai Luo's inward cut.

Ai Luo's crossing line is very good, fast and flat, and there is an arc of outward rotation, so the goalkeeper Reina dare not attack and can only guard the goal line.

Agger was pulled close to the sideline of the penalty area by Aiello, so another central defender, Carragher, needs to keep an eye on Valencia striker David Villa, while left back Riise must recover the defense to make up for Carragher's position.

In this way, the gap on the left side of the defense was leaked.

David Villa and Carragher jumped up together, but neither of them could hit it, and Riise, who was on the small penalty area line in the middle, also jumped up, but also missed it.

Reina moved his footsteps with the running of the football and turned his head to look far away.

If there are no opponent's players here, then this crisis will be resolved, and I can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

With this hope, he took a deep breath, and when he was about to exhale, Reina's eyeballs almost popped out. The sense of crisis that a goalkeeper should have was all over his body, and the breath was also stuck in his throat.

David Silva flew out like a rocket in the face of the football flying in the air. The football hit his forehead and changed direction, flying towards the goal.

Reina's body's instinctive reaction was really fast. After the brain nerves were stunned, his body made a flying movement to catch the ball.

But David Silva hit a bouncing ball, which indirectly increased the difficulty of his save. The football flew into the goal against the right post.

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(End of this chapter)