Revive Liverpool

Chapter 64 Facing Hodgson Again

The time is coming to April soon, the international match day is coming to an end, and the 31st round of the Premier League is about to start.

当地时间4月2日中午14点00分，2010-11赛季英超联赛第31轮的比赛开始了。

Liverpool host West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns.

After entering the Premier League era, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion have played against each other 9 times. Liverpool won all of them, scoring 25 goals and not conceding 1 goal.

This game is also a game worthy of fans' attention. The highlight of the game is the head coach of West Bromwich Albion.

The head coach of "Bloomers" is Liverpool's head coach Hodgson who was fired in the middle of this season.

After Liverpool fired Hodgson in September, Hodgson stayed at home until January this year when he received an invitation from West Bromwich Albion, found a job again, and became the head coach of West Bromwich Albion.

On July 7 last year, after Benitez left office, Liverpool finalized Hodgson, who led Fulham to success, as the new coach of the Red Army.

However, the next 88 days were a nightmare for both Liverpool and Hodgson. Hodgson, who led Fulham to the Europa League final, did not succeed in Liverpool.

Although Hodgson's coaching history at Liverpool was a failure, Hodgson has achieved success in terms of income.

His 88-day Anfield career earned him a total of £880million.

The 880 million pounds includes the newly obtained 805 million pounds in compensation, and the salary of 75 pounds during the coaching period, which means that Hodgson can receive an average of up to 10 pounds per day during the coaching of Liverpool.

According to the 2010 world football coach income list released by "French Football" a few days ago, Real Madrid coach Mourinho topped the list with 1350 million euros.

However, converted into an average daily income, the madman can get 3.27 pounds a day, which is much worse than Hodgson.

Hodgson earns more than three times his daily income.

Whether Hodgson, who is now leading the team again, can lead the team to defeat Liverpool, which he once coached, and prove his coaching ability is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of this game.

Liverpool's striker lined up a trident, with Griezmann, Dirk Dirk and Suarez appearing in the frontcourt.

In addition, Kanter, Lucas and Meireles partnered in the midfield, Glenn Johnson and Agger appeared on the two wings in the defense, Skrtel and David Luiz partnered in the middle, and the goalkeeper was still Navas.

Two minutes into the game, Liverpool had an excellent chance. Meireles' corner kick found David Luiz, who headed the ball towards teammate Didier Dirk.

In the 7th minute, Glenn Johnson strained his thigh in a chase. Liverpool were forced to make a substitution. Carragher got the chance to play and replaced the injured Glenn Johnson. Carragher moved to the left back position.

Pochettino had planned to let Carragher come off the bench, but he didn't expect it so early.

If Carragher plays in this game, this will be the 661st appearance for Liverpool defender Carragher on behalf of the team, which will allow him to surpass the legendary striker Rush to become Liverpool's fourth-most played player.

Although still far from Callaghan's record of 857 appearances, Carragher is expected to become the second most played player on behalf of Liverpool this season. He is currently tied for second place with Clemens and Hughes' 665. Not far away.

Although West Bromwich Albion is still a relegation team, because the head coach of West Bromwich Albion is the former Liverpool head coach Hodgson, who is very familiar with Liverpool players, West Bromwich Albion has made a lot of targeted preparations for Liverpool.

In this game, the West Bromwich Albion team can often break into Liverpool's penalty area and test Navas from time to time. Fortunately, Navas has not made any mistakes and gave the West Bromwich Albion team a chance.

But in the 25th minute of the game, Liverpool was hit hard again. A defender Agger was also injured and left the field. Pochettino was forced to replace him with Kyrjakos.

Liverpool used up two substitutions in the first half, and then had to save some of the team's substitutions.

This is not the most important thing. The key point is that the team's defenders who were injured in this game were all defenders, and the only few defenders on the team had to play the game.

After losing two defenders, Liverpool's defense problems frequently occurred, and the team had to be kept under pressure by West Bromwich Albion.

In the 34th minute, West Bromwich Albion made a diagonal pass from the left, Reid headed the goal and Navas leaped to get the ball.

Then Odenwijer got the ball from the left and shot from a small angle, but the ball was still taken by Navas.

In the 40th minute, Odenvijay shot from the left after shaking continuously, and the ball hit high.

In the 44th minute, Brent took a free kick and shot from a long distance, and the ball was blocked by Kanter.

Then Brent tried another long shot in front of the penalty area, and the ball was taken by Navas.

In stoppage time, Brent also tried a long shot, but the ball was still confiscated by Navas.

In the first half of the game, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion were able to draw [-]-[-], thanks to the outstanding performance of Keylor Navas.

At the beginning of the second half, West Bromwich Albion Cox shot from a small angle on the right after successfully countering offside, and the ball was blocked by Navas.

Navas still followed the good state of the first half of the game.

In the 50th minute, Meireles took a right corner kick, Skrtel rushed to the top, the ball went straight to the far post and Liverpool led [-]-[-] away.

This is a good start for Liverpool.

After all, Liverpool's defense in this game is very unstable, and two generals are injured and retired. If they can take the lead early and all the team retreats to the half court to strengthen the team's defense, then the team's defense may be able to change.

At least it is possible to defend this goal and get three points away.

After all, Liverpool's defense, which was fully retreated, still had problems and failed to escape the fate of being scored by West Bromwich Albion.

In the 62nd minute, Oden Vijay was brought down by Liverpool defender Kyrjakos in the penalty area, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty kick.

Kierjakos, who came off the bench, gave West Bromwich Albion a big gift.

Then Brent took a penalty kick and easily hit the left goal. Navas guessed the wrong direction, and the two sides drew one to one.

In the 87th minute, Kirjakos was squeezed by Oden Vijay, and then the latter faced Kanter, who was coming to defend, and was cut off by Kanter in the process of trying to pass Kanter. Without success, Kanter successfully resolved the crisis.

In stoppage time, Suarez saw the opportunity and chose to hang the goal. Although the ball passed the goalkeeper, it was cleared by the West Bromwich Albion defender on the goal line. In the end, the Red Army had no choice but to accept the result of a draw.

(End of this chapter)