There is a dream called football

Chapter 185

The Riazor Stadium was full, and the fans hoped to beat the mighty Liverpool.

Head coach Irureta crossed his arms and looked confident. He couldn't wait to take a bite out of his fellow.

But after the game started, Irureta found that it was not so good, Liverpool was different.

Liverpool became 451, which formed a midfield advantage. It was not easy for Belleron to pass the ball. Although the opponent lacked a striker, the two sides played very sharply, especially Li Qiao on the right.

Li Qiao felt particularly excited when he returned to Spain. Looking at the map, he knew that La Coruña is very close to Porto, and the climate is almost exactly the same, just like a wanderer returning home.

Ilureta thought that Liverpool would show weakness and came to Depor with a defensive counterattack, but what he didn't expect was that the opponent turned away.

Benitez chuckled, he just wanted to put pressure on his compatriots.

Sure enough, the fans looked at it and felt that something was wrong. Why was the team under pressure?The last time he was able to overwhelm his opponent in an away game, could it be that he has regressed?

It's like an exam. If you often get 60 points in the test, your parents will accept it over time, but if you get 90 in one test and 60 in another test, your parents will definitely get mad.

So there were sporadic boos at the scene.

"Hush." ​​Irureta was a little dissatisfied, and he blamed these fans for not understanding football.

But in all fairness, Benitez's five midfielders really surprised him. 451 vs. 442, the midfielder was a complete victory. This made Pandiani and Albert Luke, two excellent forwards, only bask on the court.

Belleron has never encountered such a situation. Alonso, Gerrard, and Hamann formed a triangle and took turns to encircle him.

In La Liga, he usually faced the opponent's parallel defense, but here, he encountered a three-dimensional battle.

Benitez is indeed a master tactician. He knows that if Belleron is pinched, Deportivo's offense will be misfired.

And Belleron is not a midfielder at the Spanish international level, so this is not particularly difficult.

Mourinho, who is far away in London, is also watching this game. Any good coach must be a person who is good at learning. He is also thinking at this time, what would happen if he faced such a situation?
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"If my midfield is facing such a siege, then I will play wide."

But the problem is that Irureta does not have an excellent winger, and La Liga's style of play is also centered.

Later, when the Spanish dynasty couldn't play pass control, such as during the World Cup in Brazil, many fans wondered, long pass and hit him.

But the problem is that it is easy to say, but it is impossible in reality, because I have never played like this since I was a child.

So even if Mourinho is on Irureta's side, it is impossible for him to turn the team into Chelsea immediately.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Riise and Li Qiao completely tore through the opponent's defense line on the right side, and made a pass. Gerrard in the middle followed up in time, with a pad of his foot, and scored the ball into the goal.

1:0.

After conceding the ball, Deportivo became even more impatient, and even made mistakes in short passes in midfield.

The boos of the stadium became louder. At the end of the first half, many fans were very excited, but Benitez was still very calm. He carefully studied the opponent for half a month, and now it finally worked.

After a 15-minute break, Irureta still didn't find a way to deal with it. He just asked the players to pass the ball faster.

"Everyone spends less time holding the ball, pass the ball to me if they can."

"Also, shoot when you can, don't have to be in the penalty area to shoot."

The players nodded.

After the start of the second half, I don't know whether Irureta's strategy worked or the opponent relaxed the pressure. In short, the rhythm of the game slowed down, and Deportivo also sought to equalize the score, but soon, the opponent pressed back.

Only then did Iluretta realize that the other party was just taking a normal rest, not really relaxing.

After the game, Irureta admitted that he had learned a lot. Li Qiao remembered that he didn't seem to be a famous coach, and his level was estimated to be like this.

In the second half, Irureta changed three players in a row, but did not turn the game around. At 67 minutes, Baros broke through the penalty area and scored another goal, which also sealed the victory.

2:0.

Although this does not guarantee that Liverpool will definitely appear in the group, it can already give the players a breather.

After 0 to 2, Irureta sat back on the bench. To be honest, he was completely defeated in this game. He can only hope that the other two teams can PK in the next game, and then there may be a group.

But what he is most unwilling to do is to fail in the process of fighting with his Spanish fellow, and he failed at the beginning. Benitez is indeed far ahead of him in this respect.

After 75 minutes, Benitez replaced Li Qiao and Alonso to give them a rest. At 85 minutes, Baros was also replaced.

In the 89th minute, Benitez went to Irureta's side, and he said he would leave early to show respect for his hometown team.

Exiting early is a kind of respect, and Mourinho later did the same in the game against Manchester United.

Ilureta hugged Benitez, babbled for a long time in Spanish, he patted Benitez, "Rafael, I lost to you."

"Haha, don't say that, maybe you will be the first in the group in the end. You know, the Greeks are particularly difficult to deal with."

"Haha."

Benitez then paid tribute to the fans at the scene. Some people bought it and gave applause, but there were also sporadic boos, thinking that Benitez was very pretentious.

In stoppage time, Pandiani scored a goal, but it couldn't change anything. Liverpool won 2-1 away.

When the players want to leave this city, they are actually reluctant to part. It is beautiful here, but the players must return to the cold England.

Back in the UK, there will be another match against Birmingham, another tough, middle-lower team, but the kind of team with a desperate style of play.

To put it simply, teams like Birmingham, Bolton, Fulham, and Reading are all about the same. They are all hard nuts to crack, because their biggest advantage is that they don't want to die.

Benitez is also most afraid of this kind of team. The team that Liverpool lost this season, such as Norwich, is this kind of team. He has already felt the nonsense of this kind of team. The tactics used are still decades ago, but the effect is surprisingly good.

"We must think of a way."

Benitez must not let his team capsize on the middle and lower reaches of the team.

(End of this chapter)