From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 380 Strong

After conceding the third goal, Liverpool tried to counterattack. Although they were already three goals behind, the dignity of the wealthy team did not allow them to admit defeat so easily in front of their mortal enemy.

Liverpool's head coach Klopp stood on the sidelines and personally supervised the battle. Just now, while the Manchester United players were celebrating a goal, he pulled the team's core offensive player Coutinho aside, gave him a face-to-face meeting, and asked him to be more active on the offensive end. .

At the same time, in order to ensure that he has more energy to devote to offense, Klopp specifically asked him not to go back to participate in defense.

The 24-year-old Coutinho joined Liverpool at the buzzer in the 2014 winter transfer window. After more than two years of development, he has grown into the core of Liverpool's offense.

It's just that in today's game, his performance so far has not been outstanding, and it can even be said to be a failure.

As the team's offensive organizer, he did not create any threatening offense for Liverpool at all. He appeared in zero television close-ups, and many times he was on the field like someone who wasn't even playing.

What is the reason for all this?

It's Manchester United's No. 8, standing next to Coutinho at the moment, less than five meters away from him, Bruno Fernandez, who is two years younger than Coutinho.

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Now it's Liverpool's attack and Manchester United is on the defensive. Bruno is mainly responsible for clearing threats for the defense. Only threats that he cannot clear will be passed over to the defense. Leave it to goalkeeper De Gea.

As for what De Gea can't handle, that's conceding the ball.

To put it simply, the defense of Manchester United under Mourinho is like a filter composed of several layers. The first layer is the frontcourt players including Bruno, and the second layer is Kante and Fellaini. The defensive midfielder, then the back line, and finally goalkeeper De Gea. After being filtered through these four layers of defense, from the largest and easiest to clean impurities to extremely fine dust, if the first few layers of filters are handled well , then the water that finally flows to the goalkeeper is clear water.

In fact, it is unfair to say that Coutinho has not performed at all before. In fact, Coutinho also performed well, but whenever he wanted to be active, he would be filtered out by Bruno, the first layer of filter.

The offensive engine was stifled here, and Manchester United truly nipped the danger in the bud.

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Liverpool were now desperate to get a goal back so that they could have hope in the remaining forty minutes.

Coutinho glanced at Bruno next to him, a little worried.

But when he thought of the coach's special instructions to him, Coutinho still raised his hand and asked his teammates for the ball.

The football was passed over by his teammates, and at the same time he felt Manchester United's No. 8 pressing forward again.

This is what he fears most. If the opponent just blocks the position and does not press, he can also make calm movements to induce the opponent to reveal flaws, or simply pass the football.

But if the opponent presses hard, he won't be able to make any moves.

This is how we lost possession of the ball a few times before, and this time is no exception.

Coutinho was just about to receive the ball when Bruno bumped into him from behind. The violent collision prevented him from even stopping the ball, and the football bounced off his toes.

"Oops!" Coutinho secretly yelled. When he tried to chase the ball again, he saw a figure passing by him. In the blink of an eye, the figure was in front of him, blue. On the jersey, the number is very clear: 8.

It was no different from before, even the result was the same. He was intercepted by the No. 8 ball again, but this time it couldn't end like that.

Coutinho struggled to catch up. He grabbed Bruno's shoulder with one hand and tried to pull him, but there was a clear gap in strength between the two: the Brazilian midfielder was 68 meters tall and weighed 77 kilograms; Bruno is meters tall and weighs kilograms!

The result was such a strange scene: Bruno seemed to be running forward with a person hanging on his body.

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Coutinho himself knew that this was too ridiculous and he could not stop the opponent at all, he could only shovel. As a result, the No. 8 in front of him seemed to have expected it and passed the football one second before he decided to make a tackle.

Since the opponent doesn't even have the ball, it would be a typical foul if he shovels again.

Coutinho was not the kind of villain who would do anything to achieve his goal and maliciously harm the opponent's players, so he let Bruno go.

Bruno took this opportunity to launch another offensive. After the football hit the left wing, Rashford passed it to the goal. After receiving the football, Ibrahimovic shot 11 meters away from the right side of the penalty area. As a result, the football hit the crossbar. superior!

"Manchester United's attack...Ibrahimovic!! Ah...hit the crossbar!"

"Look at this ball... the ball... almost! The ball missed! It hit the crossbar and bounced out... Oh!"

Ibrahimovic's crossbar startled everyone in the stands at Anfield from their seats. Manchester United fans were ready to cheer again, while Liverpool fans were frightened.

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<divclass="contentadv">Klopp's eyes widened and his mouth opened unconsciously the moment Ibrahimovic shot.

At this moment, the German head coach thought the team was going to lose the ball again.

Fortunately, God was on his side at this moment, and the football hit the crossbar.

But Klopp's mood did not improve. Because judging from the situation, his team was still completely at a disadvantage. This disadvantage came out of nowhere, and he himself didn't know why.

In terms of strength, although his team may be worse than Manchester United, it is by no means what the current score and scene reflect.

In terms of player reputation and club heritage, Liverpool is not much weaker than Manchester United, or even worse.

In terms of state, Manchester United, which has won seven consecutive games at the beginning of the season, is certainly very impressive, but Liverpool is not far behind.

After an away draw with Tottenham in the third round, the Red Army has won four consecutive league victories, including 4:1 victories over defending champion Leicester City and 5:1 Hull City, as well as a victory over the Blues at Stamford Bridge. Such a powerful dialogue between the military and the military.

Why is it that our own team is at an absolute disadvantage now, from the score to the scene?

Klopp can't figure out this problem. If he can't figure out this problem, he won't be able to reverse the situation.

Now, facing Manchester United's successive attacks, he really feels helpless.

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However, his helpless state did not last until the end of the game, or even for long. Manchester United woke him up with successive waves of offensives.

Klopp made substitution adjustments and replaced center Sturridge with midfielder Lallana.

Lallana's football skills are very good and he can show many wonderful skills on the court. His pace and agility allow him to break through defenses with ease and create spectacular goals. His technical movements are also very superb. He can control the ball in various ways and make the ball fly at his feet. In the UK, he is known as "Little Gascoigne".

Klopp obviously hopes that this "little Gascoigne" can use his speed and breakthrough to break up the situation on the field and find a way for Liverpool to score goals.

Coutinho has been completely frozen by Manchester United's No. 8. There is no way to go through the middle, so he can only make a fuss from the side.

Then he replaced Firmino with 21-year-old Belgian forward Origi. The Brazilian worked very hard, but today his movement made him look like a headless fly flying around.

Despite two substitutions, Klopp still had no confidence in this game. All he could do was wait quietly to see if his substitution adjustments had any effect.

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In fact, the head coach's influence on the game is very limited. After all, he is only responsible for formulating tactics and making adjustments, but the players are the ones who put his tactics and adjustments into practice.

If the players do not perform well, no matter how sophisticated the head coach's tactics are and how excellent his adjustments are, it will not help.

For a head coach, this is a profession where "results determine the process". If the result is correct, then all the processes you have done before are correct, but if the result is wrong, then even if you still have the same process before, That's wrong too.

Klopp made the adjustment in the 64th minute and waited for it to take effect. But unfortunately, what he waited for was the team's fourth goal conceded three minutes later.

Manchester United's right back Valencia threw a throw-in from the wing. Bruno received the ball near the center circle and passed it straight. Rashford countered offside and went to the meeting alone. Facing the attacking Karius, he pushed with his left foot inside the arc of the penalty area, and the football rolled from Karius' side into the net.

4: 0!

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"Fourth! Fourth! Manchester United scored their fourth goal of the game! Marcus Rashford! This is the goal of this talented forward who only turns 19 at the end of this month. 3rd Premier League goal of the season!”

"This talented forward who emerged in the second half of last season has still performed well in the second year of his career and has not encountered the bottleneck that most people have encountered. This season, Rashford has already played a key role for Manchester United in the second year of his career. He scored 5 goals and provided 4 assists in all official games. His outstanding performance also made him one of the favorites for the 2016 European Golden Boy Award."

"It was Bruno who provided the assist for Rashford. This is also Bruno's fifth assist in the Premier League this season. He is also first in the Premier League assists list."

"It is worth mentioning that the other favorite for this year's European Golden Boy Award is also related to Bruno Fernandez. Bruno's teammate in the Portuguese national team transferred to Bayern Munich this summer for a sky-high price of 3500 million euros. The talented Renato Sanches, Sanches had an outstanding performance in the European Cup, and his performance after joining Bayern Munich was not bad either."