Soccer Card System

Chapter 621 The Attacker Behind the Forward (Third)

Chapter 632 The Attacker Behind the Forward

The game against Liverpool is coming as scheduled!

Anfield was full of seats, and under the bright lights, bursts of enthusiastic cheers erupted from the stands from time to time. When Gao Bo walked out of the stadium, he walked from the player tunnel to the coach's bench, and he was greeted by the middle fingers raised in the stands and boos all over the sky.

Liverpool fans didn't have a good face towards Manchester City, but now they have encountered the "enemy" Gao Bo, so the fans at Anfield will naturally not be polite.

Their voices completely drowned out the Manchester City fans. Although the Manchester City fans who came to the away game were trying their best to fight against Anfield, they were ultimately outnumbered. They were arranged in the corner of the top stand, and they had no way to compete with the Liverpool fans in this stadium.

They are not the masters here.

This is Anfield.

Here, Liverpool people call the shots.

Gao Bo was already used to such scenes.

He's a winner, and he's going to die.

He wins, someone always loses.

Losers will always be upset, unconvinced, abused, and dying.

But none of this will affect Gao Bo. The harder he yells now, the stronger his sense of loss will be when he loses.

Gao Bo walked to the coach's bench, and the boos stopped.

His suit was straight, his hair was combed back, his face was expressionless, and he looked at the court with a cool and handsome face.

No matter how he usually wears, as long as he is directing the game, Gao Bo must wear a straight suit.

He doesn't take any slack in his work.

Even if he loses, he will not let his image on the bench look embarrassed.

At this point, the game has begun,
He's staring at the field!

Both sides have sent the strongest lineup that can be sent!
In this game, Gao Bo chose Vardy as the starting center forward, with Hazard and Griezmann still on the left and right.

On the Liverpool side, it is a 442 formation. Suarez and Sterling partner as two forwards, behind Gerrard and Joe Allen two central midfielders, the left midfielder is Borini, and the right is handed over to Lucas.

Rogers did also put on a defensive counterattack posture in this game, but what Rogers didn't expect was that from the beginning of the game, Manchester City aggressively pressed the offense! !

After the game started, Manchester City kicked off, and they took advantage of this kick-off opportunity to launch a fierce attack on Liverpool's goal.

Rogers was still sitting on the coaching bench at this time. He thought this was a normal start. Manchester City hoped to use the start to attack and break through Liverpool's goal as soon as possible.

Rodgers has been preparing for this game for a long time. He has specially studied the game habits of Gao Bo's team.

The opening attack is very common in the games of the teams coached by Gao Bo.

Therefore, he believes that as long as he overcomes the offensive at the beginning stage, the initiative of the game will return to Liverpool's injury.

Rodgers said this to his players. He asked Liverpool players to pay attention to defense when they came up, not to press out easily, and give Manchester City any chance, especially pay attention to the inward cuts of the two wingers defending Manchester City, so that they cannot successfully go inside.

The players were indeed following his tactical arrangement. From the first minute of the game, Liverpool shrunk their defense, held the middle, and occasionally got a chance to counterattack, but it was only for Suarez and Sterling to harass the opponent's defense.

Although Manchester City's offensive is fierce, they also believe that after a week of preparations, their defense will not fall so quickly. After all, Liverpool sacrificed the number of people on the offensive line for defense.

Rodgers also learned a lesson from their first-round loss to West Bromwich Albion.

However, what he didn't count is that although Rogers has strengthened his defensive numbers, Manchester City's offense is not comparable to West Bromwich Albion!
Even after 10 minutes of continuous attacks, the intensity of Manchester City's offense has not weakened significantly.

Their speed is still very fast, their passing is very sharp, their passing and shooting are very threatening!
"David Silva shoots!!!"

Accompanied by the roar of the commentator, David Silva kicked and shot from one meter in front of the penalty area!

The football rushed straight to the goal!

Reina made a brilliant save, throwing himself sideways, taking advantage of his height and length to block David Silva's shot.

Football pops off the baseline!
corner kick! !
And it was Griezmann's breakthrough from the wing that created this shot for David Silva.

When Griezmann took the ball, Liverpool's left back Glenn Johnson kept Rogers' teaching in mind and stuck inside tightly, preventing Griezmann from having any possibility of breaking through the inside!
However, after Griezmann saw this, he was also unceremonious. Since the inside line was blocked, he went outside!

With a dunk of his left foot, Griezmann easily broke through from the outside line to the bottom line!

And Gro Johnson seemed a little at a loss. He was just about to pounce, and Griezmann passed the ball.

Instead of looking for Vardy in the penalty area, he passed the ball to the center in an inverted triangle, outside the penalty area line, at the top of the arc!

Griezmann's breakthrough pushed the Liverpool formation back and gave David Silva behind him a chance to shoot.

"It's dangerous!!! This is Reina's third rescue!! Technical statistics tell us that in just 13 minutes, Reina has made three key saves, and two of these three saves were from long-range shots from two Manchester City midfielders near the arc of the penalty area, and the other was Hazard's shot from a small angle after breaking into the penalty area from the outside!!!"

Rogers can't sit still now.

He previously asked the players to focus on defending Hazard and Griezmann's inside cuts, but the inside cuts were blocked, but their breakthrough from the outside made Liverpool very uncomfortable. When the two wingers break through and pass the ball, whether it is sweeping the goal or passing back to the attacking midfielder, they can create a very big threat!

Rodgers stared at the court, Manchester City's offensive routine is still very simple.

Relying on the personal abilities of the two wingers, in addition to cutting inside, Manchester City can also evolve several tactical coordination routines.

The biggest threat now, of course, is the shot from Manchester City's two midfielders at the top of the arc in the penalty area.

When one side breaks through, Vardy and the striker on the other side will press in front of the goal, and the Liverpool midfielder will be forced to withdraw from the penalty area, which gives the two Manchester City midfielders outside the penalty area a chance to kick.

It looks like a simple routine, but it is very difficult to guard against.

If Liverpool's midfielder does not recover, their defense line will form a hollow area in the penalty area. If the football passes here, it is definitely more dangerous than letting Manchester City's players shoot outside the penalty area.

The lesser of two evils, Liverpool had to dance with Kobo's baton.

Now Rogers is very distressed.

Faced with such a situation, of course he has a way. First of all, of course, let Suarez and Sterry come back to defend and let them occupy the top position of the arc in the penalty area, so as not to weaken Liverpool's defense in the penalty area.

It's just that in this way, Liverpool can only defend and not counterattack.

Of course, the most fundamental trick is to limit Manchester City's breakthroughs on both sides.

But now it is obvious that the two full-backs alone cannot limit Manchester City's performance on both sides.

Even when the two full-backs in the front field come back to participate in the defense, it is difficult to limit the opponent.

Rogers thought about moving the two central midfielders to the wing to defend, but he quickly rejected his idea.

On the football field, the number of people is limited. If Liverpool transfer too many people to the wing, the center will be empty!
This is contrary to Liverpool's strategy of guarding the middle before the game!

The game has progressed to No. 18 minutes, and Rodgers has not figured out a way.

So now David Silva and Eriksson are free to play.

They are frequently kicking shots from outside the penalty area, and the three forwards in the frontcourt are all shooting for them.

Eriksson and David Silva also felt that their long-range shots were very smooth today, and the probability of hitting the goal frame was very high.

No one knows why, except Gao Bo.

This is the effect of the card.

There is such a card that enhances the shooting rate, so it is a pity not to keep it.

Since Rogers made up his mind to defend and counterattack in this game, one of the weapons to break the dense defense happened to be a long-range shot.

This gives this card an excellent opportunity to play, which can increase the long-range hit rate by 15.00%!
If you want to score a goal, you must first kick it within the range of the goal frame. This probability increases by 15.00%, and of course the probability of scoring also increases.

After Gao Bo watched Reina make another embarrassing save from the sidelines, he shook his hand regretfully, but no one saw the smile on his mouth.

He believes that Rogers has seen the threat of Manchester City's offense now, and Rogers is probably trying to figure out how to limit the two points of David Silva and Eriksson.

If Liverpool come up to defend against Manchester City's long-range shots, Gao Bo also has other offensive methods. At worst, he will pass the ball into the penalty area. If their people want to press out to defend against long-range shots, won't the penalty area be empty?

Rogers had to do a very painful multiple choice question.

Is it to let Manchester City kick outside the penalty area, or to press out to prevent long-range shots?

If it is pushed out, the defense against the striker will definitely go wrong. Hazard and Griezmann are like two sharp knives, and Vardy, who is constantly running, is also looking for opportunities for fatal blows.

You can guard against things far away, but you can't guard against things near you.

In addition, both sides can also cut in and shoot.

In this way, it greatly increases the difficulty of Liverpool's defense.

Gao Bo turned his head and looked at Rogers. At this time, the head coach of Liverpool had his arms folded and his brows were furrowed.

Gao Bo smiled, if you haven't come up with a countermeasure, then Manchester City will go to the next city first!

Gao Bo did not give Rogers time to continue thinking.

He made a gesture on the sidelines, signaling Manchester City's players to continue to strengthen their offensive!
The two full-backs also came up to assist the two wingers in their attack!

Hazard and Griezmann get more space with the full-backs at bay - and if Liverpool concentrate on defending them, the two full-backs can get space again.

Liverpool is a bit leaky now, and the wind is jittery.

Manchester City's shot is like a cold arrow, which may fly to Liverpool's goal at any time.

The Liverpool players became more and more confused the more they played on the court at this time, and the more they played, the lower their morale became.

Anyone who gets shot like this will be like this.

However, when Manchester City played more routines like this, Liverpool players also developed inertial thinking.

When Hazard came in from the outside again, Joe Allen immediately felt that Hazard was still passing back in an inverted triangle, creating opportunities for the two Manchester City midfielders to shoot.

So he stepped forward suddenly on his own initiative and blocked the passing line.

However, just when he lost his defensive position, Hazard suddenly dribbled the ball and sprinted in!
Joe Allen failed to steal the ball, but stared at Hazard's turn and rushed into the area he was originally defending. When he was scrambling to go back to defend, he slipped and fell into the penalty area.
Liverpool was taken aback, and Gerrard hurried out to make up for it.

At this time, Hazard flicked the outside of his instep, and the football passed to the other side horizontally!
Griezmann made a move to shoot directly, and Coster, who was cheated, hurriedly shoveled, but the Liverpool central defender failed to shovel the ball, and he directly kept the posture of shoveling out of the baseline.

Griezmann's fake action made Liverpool lose a defensive general in the penalty area. One can imagine the pressure Griezmann brought to them in this game!

Skrtel couldn't care about anything else, he rushed forward.He put down Vardy who was defending him.

A few passes in the penalty area of ​​Manchester City completely disintegrated Liverpool's defense, and now Liverpool is completely in a state of panic and chaos!
Manchester City fans are on their feet, there are Liverpool fans clutching their hearts.
But Griezmann didn't choose to shoot, Skrtel blocked the angle of his shot, so he passed the ball.

He passed the football to Vardy!

This is one of Gao Bo's tactical characteristics.

He asked the players not to allow themselves to take the ball too much when they were in the penalty area, but to pass it out as quickly as possible, so as to get better shooting opportunities, instead of being interfered by the opponent when shooting, or simply being intercepted.

When Gerrard received the ball, he was in a relatively open position, and the player closest to him was Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.

Gerrard rushed up, but how could his speed compare to Vardy's shooting speed?

Vardy was ready to shoot when Griezmann passed the ball. When the ball reached his feet, he volleyed with his right foot!
After the football was shot by him, Gerrard's foot shoveled over, but it was too late.

At this time, Gerrard and other Liverpool players and fans can only pray that Vardy's shot was saved by Reina. With such a good angle in the penalty area, the possibility of the shot being missed is very low.

Reina quickly fell to the ground and jumped sideways. He was really in good shape today, and he threw the ball!
But he just rubbed it with his fingertips, and the football changed direction and went away.

Will the ball end up flying off the baseline?
A leg wearing Manchester City's sky-blue socks suddenly hit, and then shoveled the football on the ground.
The football changed course and flew into the goal!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!! HAZARA!!! HAZARA GOAL!!! MAN CITY GOAL AWAY!!!"

(End of this chapter)