Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 171 Anfield
After the game against Tottenham, Chelsea will face the first strong opponent they have encountered this season. In the fourth round of the Premier League, Chelsea will go to Anfield to challenge Liverpool. The whole Chelsea team also attaches great importance to this game.

With 8 goals and 7 assists in the three Premier League games in August, Chen Xiao was successfully selected into the best team of the Premier League in August. In just three games, Chen Xiao basically conquered all Chelsea fans.

On September 9, the Chelsea team arrived in Liverpool, and the match between the two teams will officially start at 2 o'clock in the evening.

Liverpool, a traditional giants team in England, was established in 1892. It has won 18 English top league titles, 7 FA Cup titles, 8 League Cup titles, 5 UEFA Champions League trophies and 3 UEFA Cup titles. However, for Liverpool, it is very tragic that Liverpool has never won the Premier League title.

There are two tragedies in the history of Liverpool's team that shocked the world football. One was the Heysel tragedy in 1985. In the 1985 UEFA Champions League final, Liverpool played against Juventus. Liverpool fan charged with manslaughter.

Another time was an FA Cup semi-final in 1989, when Liverpool played against Nottingham Forest. Due to the poor organization and management of the scene, there was a stampede and the collapse of the stands, resulting in the death of 96 Liverpool fans and more than 200 injuries.

These two tragedies have cast a tragic color on Liverpool's team history.

Last season, Liverpool invited Benitez as the team's head coach. As Benitez's first season after taking office, Liverpool only ranked fifth in the league last season, but in the Champions League. In the end, Liverpool defeated AC Milan in the final and won the fifth Champions League trophy in team history.

Mourinho knows that this season's Liverpool is the most difficult Liverpool. After a season of adjustments, he believes that the current Liverpool is the team that Benitez most wants to see.

The time soon came to 6 pm that day, only a few minutes before the start of the game, and the starting players of both sides stood in their positions, waiting for the referee's whistle.

Chelsea continued to use most of the first three league games in this game. Only Essin replaced Makelele, and Drogba was still Shevchenko's substitute.

Liverpool's starting lineup is: goalkeeper Reina, four defenders are Finnan, Hyypia, Carragher, Traore, two defensive midfielders are Gerrard and Alonso, left midfielder Riise, right midfielder Luis Garcia, midfielder Kewell, forward Baros.

Benitez took out the starting lineup he won the Champions League last season. The only difference is that Reina replaced Dudek as the starting goalkeeper. Liverpool played a 4231 formation in the Benitez era.

The referee standing near the center circle raised his hand and looked at his watch, then gestured to the fourth official on the sidelines, and immediately blew the whistle to start the game.

The focus of the fourth round of the Premier League 05-06 season has officially kicked off.

After the opening, Liverpool occupied a little advantage because of the advantages of the number of people in the midfield. However, with the retracement of Chen Xiao and Robben, this advantage was also offset. The two sides were very familiar with each other, so there was no test after the start of the game. After the opening of the game, Chelsea tried to speed up the pace of the game. Liverpool itself was a counterattack formation. Therefore, when entering the position war, he has been trying to curb Chelsea's attempt to speed up, so the two sides have a lot of investment in the midfield.

After seeing that this is not going to work, Mourinho signaled to the players on the field to recover the formation. Mourinho hoped to attract the opponent to press forward, so that there would be space for the players in the frontcourt, but after seeing Mourinho's arrangement, Benitez did not follow Mourinho's arrangement, but still followed his own deployment slowly in the midfield, and was not in a hurry to attack.

Seeing Benitez's arrangement, Mourinho on the sidelines also had a toothache. He also understood what Benitez's intention was, that is, he hoped that his side would continue to attack so that he could find a chance to counterattack.

When the tactical advantages are not reflected, sometimes a star's inspiration can play a very important role. This is one of the reasons why many wealthy teams like to spend a lot of money to buy stars. So football is indeed a team sport, but you should never ignore the role of stars, because football is round, and anything can happen.

As the game time passed, the match between the two sides had reached the 42nd minute of the first half. Just when everyone who followed the game thought that the first half would end 0-0, two new players from Chelsea, Chen Xiao and Shevchenko, stood up.

At this time, Chen Xiao returned to the midfield to respond as in the previous rounds. Lampard handed the ball to Chen Xiao. Alonso immediately posted it up after seeing Chen Xiao taking the ball. Alonso thought that Chen Xiao would hand it over immediately as before. But this time Chen Xiao did not choose to pass the ball.

Then Chen Xiao raised the ball backwards with his left foot, turned around and blocked the unsteady Alonso behind him. After getting the ball he picked up, Chen Xiao accelerated forward and used his swing arm to open Alonso's hand holding his jersey. This time he completely got rid of his opponent. The most troublesome thing for Liverpool was that Chen Xiao's advancing route made it difficult for Liverpool's defensive players, because Chen Xiao did not advance along the side, but from the right diagonally, and Thiago also Taking advantage of the trend, he came to the right side and made a forward movement, which made Traore, who originally wanted to step forward to defend Chen Xiao, dare not move.

The other defensive midfielder, Gerrard, was restrained by Lampard who was following Chen Xiao. In this way, if the entire Liverpool defense wanted to defend Chen Xiao, it could only be a central defender.

(End of this chapter)