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Chapter 221 The Red Army's Offensive

"It's unbelievable. Until now, people are still talking about the penalty just now. At the same time, after taking the lead, Liverpool's offensive has become sharper and smoother, which has repeatedly brought Leeds United's defense. Under such circumstances, Leeds United coach O'Reilly could only use his first substitution quota early. He replaced right back Gary Kenny with Mateo. To form a lineup of three central defenders to temporarily delay the attacking momentum of the Liverpool people."

"I have to say that this is really a magical and interesting substitution, because after Mateo came on, he did effectively stop Liverpool's attack on the left. Maybe he knows Liverpool players too well, or maybe he has anger. The bonus of value, haha! It seems that the game is getting more and more interesting!"

When Leeds United's substitute central defender Mateo blocked Liverpool's attack twice, the unscrupulous commentators in the commentary laughed maliciously, but the Liverpool fans in the stands couldn't laugh at all. The familiar figure on Leeds United's defense line was filled with emotion for a while.

It turns out that although the 26-year-old Dominique Mateo is a descendant of Italian immigrants, his player career started at Liverpool Club.As a member of Liverpool's famous youth training system that trained Fowler, McManaman, Redknapp, Owen, Carragher, Gerrard and many other stars in the 20s, Dominic Matt Although not so star-studded, Ou was once an indispensable member of Liverpool's first team.

As early as the 1996-97 season, Mateo has become an extremely important part of Liverpool's defense. With the characteristics of being able to play both left back and center back, he can play in Liverpool's relatively weak defense at that time. Gained a lot of playing opportunities and eventually became the main force of the club. Since the 96-97 season, Mateo has played more than 20 games in Liverpool every season.

However, in the summer of 2000, coach Houllier made great improvements to the team's defense and successfully formed a steel defense line with Carragher-Hypia-Henkutz-Marcus Babel as the core. Mateo inevitably became a marginal figure and was abandoned.So Mateo had to leave his favorite Liverpool for the main position, and transferred to Leeds United for 425 million pounds.

The irony is that in the first season Mateo joined the team, as the absolute main force of Leeds United, he helped the team reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. But he is still an important defensive general in Leeds United, and even the club has intentionally made him the team's vice-captain.Therefore, when he came off the bench in this game and blocked the attacks of his old teammates many times, the emotional Liverpool fans couldn't boo any more because they were their children.

So when the situation of the game was temporarily stalemate after O'Reilly made a decisive substitution, the commentators started their unfinished business again, which was the analysis of the starting lineups of both sides.

“在这场比赛之中霍利尔排出了别出心裁的4-2-2-2阵容，可以说单从这一点来看两名主帅都为这场比赛做出了充足的准备，不过相比之下霍利尔这样的布置的确是大胆，因为这并不是一个常规的长纵深的4-2-2-2阵容，而是一个极其不规则的！
On the whole, because the three midfielders on the left are completely arranged in a diagonal line, this style of play is completely based on quick attacks.The 4222 formation, which originally promoted the middle lane, has become a speed formation with a strong counterattack effect by attacking from the wing under Houllier's transformation.And because of the parallel configuration of its bilateral lanes, the side lane counterattack is also very fast.

Of course, under this circumstance, the entire Liverpool lineup has extremely high requirements on the two players at the top, but Liverpool does have such capital right now, because they almost have one of the two tallest players in this position, Liverpool The god Fowler and the chasing teenager Irving in the hearts of fans.It can be said that this combination of twin stars is also the main reason why Houllier dared to try boldly. "

As this commentator said, the existence of Owen and Fowler is the most important reason why Liverpool dare to try various formations, but what he did not mention is the young talents Gerrard and Redknapp at the moment, The outstanding performance of Bambi and others is also one of the conditions for Liverpool to be as successful as last season.You must know that Liverpool has always been the leader in the Premier League, which is dominated by long passes and slings, with its delicate technical flow style and mercury-like ground penetration offense.

Among the previous Liverpool coaches, Houllier's predecessor Evans, this traditional Red Army coach can be said to have added a lot of color to Liverpool's tactical board.Relying on his unique understanding of the Premier League, he boldly transformed the formation into a "3-6-1", penetrated the opponent's defense through more continuous small-scale cooperation, and carried forward Liverpool's traditional classical tactical style to a higher level.For a while, a large number of star players with superb skills and imagination appeared in Liverpool's frontcourt, and at the same time, the game scene became pleasing to the eye.

And if Liverpool's offensive method during the Evans period was a light sword, then it became a swift gun during the Houllier period.It can be said that the word "fast" runs through Houllier's entire offensive thinking.Houllier gave full play to Owen's unparalleled speed of starting and changing direction, and cooperated with Gerrard and other midfielders to pass the ball directly behind him, achieving the effect of picking a line.Therefore, under the impact of Owen, the traditional tall British defenders can only look at the ball and sigh because they cannot turn their bodies quickly.

But it is precisely because of this that Houllier, who has tasted the sweetness, has preferred counter-attacking forwards who are good at speed in the past two years, and gradually began to give up Fowler, who has a keen sense of smell in front of the goal. At the same time, he is willing to seize the opportunity of this game to restore his image in the heart of coach Houllier again.

"Gerrard has the ball again! What choice will this young talent in the Liverpool team make? Another through to Fowler, God in the hearts of Liverpool fans, it is beautiful that he passed Ducourt Get rid of it! At the same time, Irving ran out of space on the other side, will Fowler pass the ball?!"

(End of this chapter)