midfield god

Chapter 397 The Not Easy Gerald

Speaking of which, the current Liverpool is not their strongest lineup, because their core midfielder Harvey Alonso has hardly played due to a foot injury at the beginning of this season, and the injury has stopped. This is obviously a very big loss for Liverpool.

In Liverpool's midfield, no one can replace Alonso. Gerrard himself is more like a B2B midfielder with an enhanced attack. Although his organizational ability is also very good, it is obviously not comparable to Alonso. If Alonso is in charge of the team's organization and sorting out the ball, it will undoubtedly greatly liberate Gerrard's offensive ability.

For a long time, Gerrard has been both a father and a mother in Liverpool. He is responsible for defense, organization, and helping the team score goals.This season, the arrival of Mascherano has greatly liberated Gerrard on the defensive end, but Alonso's injury prevented Gerrard from fully devoting all his energy to the offense, which is somewhat a pity.

But even so, Gerrard still has a very important position in Liverpool's offensive system. You can clearly understand this by looking at Liverpool's offensive performance in the first half.If you think about it from Gerrard's point of view, you can understand why Gerrard later said that his biggest regret in his life was not being able to catch up with Klopp's Liverpool era and not being able to play for a coach like Klopp. In Gerrard's Liverpool era, he was under too much pressure!

Someone once asked, in the double virtue, Lampard obviously crushed Gerrard in honor, the career statistics of the two people are not much different, and even Lampard still has the advantage, but it feels that Gerrard fans seem to be more and more recognized, why is this.

In fact, the reason is very simple. For a long time, Gerrard was equal to Liverpool!But when you mention Chelsea, it’s hard to think of Lampard in the first place. Chelsea’s glory days have too many players to recall, such as the monster Drogba, Cech, Robben who used to have hair, and even Mourinho, who is more famous than the players.So this is both Gerrard's glory and his sorrow.If you let Gerrard choose, I think he would be happy to be Lampard, wouldn't he?
Going back to the game, when the second half of the game started, both teams more or less noticed some changes in their opponents. Manchester United, although there was no change in tactics, began to invest significantly more in the offensive end. The formation began to gradually press up, while Liverpool began to appear a little conservative, perhaps because of Manchester United’s increased investment in the offensive end, or their own tactical arrangements. Anyway, after the start of the second half, Manchester United gradually grasped the initiative of the game.

In the second half, Ronaldinho's desire to attack suddenly became stronger, and he frequently reached out for the ball. Recently, Ronaldinho is in a hot state and scored consecutive goals. Naturally, Yunfei has no reason not to give the ball to the team's big brother.

So for a while, the game became Ronaldinho's show alone. First, he took a long shot from outside the penalty area, which shocked the opponent's goalkeeper Reina in a cold sweat.

Ronaldinho's continuous activity also attracted a lot of defensive attention from Liverpool. Mascherano had to cover more defenses on the flanks to help the team stabilize the defense.

Yunfei was standing in the midfield right now, watching Ronaldinho stir up the wind and rain in Liverpool's backcourt. Even if Ronaldinho didn't score a goal, his role on the field was unmatched by others. From Yunfei's perspective, he saw that Liverpool's defensive center of gravity began to gradually shift to their left. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer defensive players on Bell's side, in the end he even left a very large gap for Bell.

At this moment, Yunfei felt that the opportunity had come, and stepped forward to catch the ball, but Gerald had been staring at Yunfei, and when he saw Yunfei suddenly stepped forward, he realized that this guy wanted to make trouble, so he posted it immediately, not giving Yunfei a comfortable chance to catch and pass the ball, which made Yunfei a little uncomfortable.

"Currently the situation on the field has reached a stalemate. Ronaldinho can pose a threat by himself, but it is difficult to break through the opponent's goal. Yunfei is tightly entangled by Gerrard. Manchester United needs more people to stand up and help the team!"

At this time, the veteran Ryan Giggs stepped forward in time. First, he got the ball from Ronaldinho, and then passed the ball directly to Liverpool's weak defensive right!

Bell picked up speed in an instant on the wing, trying to get rid of Abeloa, but this time Abeloa was not thrown away in the same way by Bell. Abeloa was not outstanding in offense. He was able to start because of his good defense. When he realized that there was no help from his teammates around him, he kept retreating inadvertently, and was always careful of Bell's surprise attack. Sure enough, this time he successfully blocked Bell's advancing route.

Seeing that there was no chance to pass the opponent directly, Bell thought for a while and passed the ball back. Hargreaves, who came in, received the ball. Since he came in suddenly, there was no defensive player to keep up with him at the first opportunity, so he chose to pass the ball directly to the penalty area without any defensive pressure!
The back point of this pass, the high jump of Rooney at the front point affected the attention of the defensive players. Hyypia, who was defending Rooney, had to jump up, but neither of them touched the ball!
Hyypia realized something was wrong when he saw the ball go over his head. He turned his head and looked back the first time it landed, and saw that Ronaldinho had rushed to the rear point at this time. Although Carragher was firmly stuck beside him, Ronaldinho stretched out his foot and landed on the ball!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

There were two consecutive sounds, the first sound was relatively quiet, it was the sound of the ball being caught by the arch of the foot, and the second sound was relatively loud, it was the sound of the ball hitting the crossbar hard.

Cold sweat was streaming down Reina's forehead at this time, not to mention him, all the Liverpool players were terrified at this time, but this time the attack was not over yet, after the ball flew out of the penalty area, Yunfei rushed to the landing point at this time, followed by a volley with his left foot!

But at the moment when Yunfei was about to exert his strength, a huge force came from behind him. Yunfei was pushed violently by this huge force. He didn't stand firmly on his feet, and directly sent a soft and weak shot.

"Dudu!"

The referee immediately came to the area where the incident occurred and punished the defender Gerrard for a defensive foul. Yunfei helped the team win a free kick. This distance is almost Ronaldinho's favorite shooting range.
(End of this chapter)