There is a dream called football

Chapter 207 Leverkusen is not easy to play

Leverkusen's Brazilian player Franza sat on the bench, which later proved to be the biggest parallel import in Leverkusen's history.

The reason why I want to tell a story like this is that Leverkusen was going to buy Kaka back then, but by a strange coincidence, Kaka's home team wanted to raise the price, so Leverkusen later bought Franza, who looked good.

But after coming to Europe, everyone knows the story behind. Kaka became a superstar, and people who don't watch the Bundesliga don't even know who Franza is.

In fact, it is not that Franza is not good, but that he came to the wrong league. The Bundesliga must have strength, and pure technology is not enough.

Liverpool originally wanted to grab the start, just like the Premier League, holding down their opponents and beating them violently, but what I didn't expect was that Leverkusen was not afraid. They held off several waves of Liverpool's attacks.

Benitez scratched his head and had to say that the Germans are the last opponents in European football because they are too tough.

Gerald.

Alonso.

Cowell.

Baros.

The ball came to Li Qiao's feet after a series of passes in the Liverpool midfielder, and the white Leverkusen players immediately gathered.

Going in from the back row is a very classic tactic. Riise saw that there were two people in the penalty area, one was Li Qiao and the other was Barosh, so he sent a kick to Li Qiao who was in front.

However, under the interference of the Brazilian Juan, Li Qiao could barely complete the shooting action, and the ball missed!

Liverpool had just completed a shot, and Leverkusen also launched an attack. The ball fell to Berbatov's feet three times and two times. Just when everyone thought he was going to shoot, he suddenly paused, and then passed the ball to Voronin four or two times.

but……

Just when Benitez was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't expect that Voronin didn't catch the ball either.

He smiled wryly, as if he was saying, buddy, your pass is too stealthy, you fooled me too.

Berbatov chuckled. Shevchenko might have scored the ball if it was replaced. This is the gap between players and stars.

Voronin is Ukraine's No. [-] striker, the one who lives next to Shevchenko, and his level is indeed far behind Shevchenko.

After a while, Hyypia and Carragher discovered that Berbatov was too demonic to play football.

It looks slow, but firstly, it protects the ball very well, and secondly, it is more important to handle the ball very calmly.

Berbatov is the kind of person who can play football with his brain. This kind of player is very strange, but in fact it has become less and less common.

Benitez slowly discovered that the core of Leverkusen's offense turned out to be Berbatov. He took the most balls in the frontcourt and basically did not concede the ball.

This is Ibrahimovic of Leverkusen!

But for this kind of player, he can't forcefully pounce, because what he likes most is the opponent's pounce, so he can quickly dispose of the ball.

Or just hit your back.

However, Premier League defenders are very experienced in this situation, that is, to be a little rough and make you afraid of me.

So Hyypia added a little strength when he went up to grab and kicked Berbatov's calf, but he paid great attention to the scale and couldn't let the referee play cards.

After Berbatov was kicked, the Leverkusen players became angry and surrounded them one after another.

"They just want to get rid of Berbatov."

"It must be a red card."

"Shut up."

Hyypia kept making shut-up gestures, which angered the Leverkusen players, who ran to surround Hyypia.

"What? Want to fight?"

"You don't look like a pro."

"I don't know what it's like to play professionally in Germany, but here, that's how I have to play."

The Leverkusen player swears.

Hypia was not reluctant, but neither side made a move. At this time, the referee ran over and gave Hypia a yellow card first.

"My God, my movements are so small."

"Don't tell me that."

If Hypia's actions are in the Premier League, there is really no problem, but unfortunately this is the Champions League, and the scale is far lower than that of the Premier League.

Benitez is a little helpless, Hyypia will be in trouble, he is a central defender, if he has a yellow card on his back, it will be very troublesome to do the next move.

Benitez immediately called Alonso over, "You want to protect Hyypia, you know?"

Alonso nodded.

Augenthaler is very strong. He was keenly aware that Hypia might have problems, so he let his players hit hard.

The ball was also sent to Hyypia's defense zone, as if hoping to get him out soon, Hyypia told himself repeatedly.

"Be sure to calm down, or you will go down."

But the tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps blowing. After taking the ball, Berbatov went towards him. At this time, Hyypia seemed to be doing a multiple-choice question. Either let him pass or make some moves.

In the end, the defender's instinct still made Hyypia make a move, just a slight hand movement.

"A red card."

The Leverkusen players all surrounded the referee to beg for a red card, emotionally, they felt that they had succeeded, and Gerrard also ran over here immediately.

"This is not a yellow card action."

The referee needs to find a balance. After all, this is the Champions League knockout match, so he did not give the card in the end, which angered Augenthaler.

"Okay, home whistle, I can understand."

"Home whistle."

The fourth official reminded him to calm down, Augenthaler laughed: "Do you have a red card?"

The fourth official just laughed.

"Then you should really send off the referee."

Benitez gradually realized that Leverkusen's offensive rhythm was obviously slower than Liverpool's, but the effect was very good, even better than Liverpool's. This shows that Leverkusen's midfielder is very smart and they handle the ball very well.

As long as a team does not make mistakes in the midfield, it will be difficult for the opponent to counterattack, which is why Liverpool did not have many opportunities in this game.

Benitez made a gesture to make Harman stand up. In this case, more pressure needs to be put on the opponent. In fact, whether to make a mistake or not to make a mistake depends on whether you can put pressure on the opponent.

If you can put pressure on your opponent, then even the strongest opponent will make a pass error, after all, they are all human beings.

Benitez let Harman up is also a shock, not to say that the substitution will be made immediately.

"I want the opponents to know that Liverpool can also play strong football."

But for the time being, Benitez can only rely on Gerrard in the frontcourt. If there are no substitutions, then he has to do a little more work.

So you can see that Gerrard is basically doing the work of two people alone.

(End of this chapter)