In the third round of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool played against St. Petersburg Zenit at home.

Situ Yunbing showed no sign of relaxing his vigilance and carefully observed the situation from the sidelines since the start of the game.

The head coach of St. Petersburg Zenit is Villas Boas, who is familiar with Situ Yunbing and once fought against Tottenham when the opponent coached Tottenham.

Simply put, coaching a team like St. Petersburg Zenit has high requirements for the coach, especially when the team has aspirations to improve their performance and record in the European arena.

Because in domestic domestic competitions, teams like St. Petersburg Zenit must be very strong, and their opponents are not fools, so they will definitely be very cautious when fighting against them!

However, when St. Petersburg Zenit participated in the European war, they did not have the strength to gain a scene advantage, so they needed to adopt a pragmatic style of play.

This requires the team to master at least two techniques with a relatively large contrast.

People often say that skillful skills and tactics and continuation of style are just compared to European strong teams, because the group that fans around the world pay the most attention to is European giants.

A wealthy family can hone a style of play and do not look at the opponent's expression after they are mature.

Teams like Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and other teams in the Ferguson era can be no problem to stick to one style of play in one season.

However, for strong teams in non-top leagues, how to switch tacticals freely is the biggest test for the coach. Whether the team can reasonably instill two technical and tactical concepts into the team, create a technical and tactical system, and present it well in actual combat.

Situ Yunbing was able to succeed in the first four years of coaching because he did a timely job in technical and tactical switching. The crisis awareness and response to the situation are important factors behind his success.

This has been fully recognized by many football critics around the world.

Boas did not show such qualities when he led Zenit, St. Petersburg to Anfield today.

Or he may have naive ambitions, hoping to win a tough attitude in Anfield and show off his power here!

Unfortunately, what he could not do even lead Tottenham in North London, and what he wanted to lead a team back to England from Leah in West to lead a team?

Too high posture, whimsical!

Situ Yunbing thought Gareth Bale would need one or two games to fully recover his form, but he didn't expect to start racing 20 minutes after the first half!

In the 27th minute of the game, Gareth Bale broke through from the right and rushed into the penalty area. Two people rushed into the penalty area and scored with a strong shot. All the Red Army fans were very excited!

Gareth Bale himself also yelled passionately and announced his strong return!

Boas still looked frowning.

Liverpool didn't make him proud for even a minute!

Situ Yunbing turned around and walked to Alonzo and said to him in a deep voice: "Do you know what Boas's biggest problem as the head coach is?"

Alonzo stared at Situ Yunbing with a questioning look. He knew that Situ Yunbing hoped to communicate more with him to teach his experience and help him grow.

Situ Yunbing said seriously: "He is not a commander who knows the current affairs!

He thought he had 4 points in his hand and ranked second in the group and had the opportunity to reach the top in the group. Whether it was embarrassing Liverpool or laying the foundation for St. Petersburg Zenit to advance to the top 16, this was his personal idea that overrides external reality!

This is a taboo as a head coach. Why did Mourinho succeed?

Because he is strategically raising his head and chest, but tactically down-to-earth. He can lower his head in the game, but he must hold his head high after the game!"

Alonzo nodded fiercely, remembering every word Situ Yunbing said.

In fact, Situ Yunbing is very conscious of the current situation. When he should bow his head in tactical terms, he will never insist on sticking to it. Just like Liverpool's wounded soldiers are full of camps, and the high-level oppression and attack will not be successful, and they will withdraw and deal with the opponent. They will establish an advantage in the field from the perspective of controlling the game!

Before the end of the first half, Vardy received a cross from Robertson in the penalty area and scored a goal!

Liverpool leads St. Petersburg Zenit with two goals at home!

This score is enough to make Boas a little discouraged.

Thinking about his debut trajectory, from being Mourinho's deputy to Porto coach, winning the UEFA Cup championship and then joining Stamford Bridge, then to Tottenham's business setback, now he has gone to the Russian Super League but has not been further recognized in European football.

After this road, Boas once had such a short time to chase Mourinho and Situ Yunbing to become the new idol "Young Marshal", but in the end it was just a moment of fireworks, and after the glory, there was a dark and dead silence!

Situ Yunbing's recent situation is not good, but his embarrassment is also on the stage of top competition. His position determines his crisis and pressure, which Boas basically cannot understand.

But if you think Situ Yunbing is in a situation where a tiger falls into a flat sun and is bullied by a dog like an outsider, then I’m sorry, not all cats and dogs can be presumptuous in front of him!

St. Petersburg Zenit's performance in the second half did not improve. Centers like Hulk are experts in abuse and basically did not perform well in front of strong teams. Dani is similar. Moreover, Liverpool's side has a bit of fierce momentum recently. His defense in the game is not only fierce, but also decisive and accurate!

After Benatia was injured, the first feeling outsiders was that Scotter would be reused again, but only after watching the game for a while, the idea could be overturned, because it was obvious that Coolibali was carrying the banner of the defense and becoming the mainstay of Liverpool's defense!

This also made people look forward to whether the defense line formed by the two will spark passion when Van Dijk recovers from injury a week later!

Those would be two iron gates that make many teams desperate!

In the 65th minute of the game, Mahrez shot a long shot outside the penalty area to make the goalkeeper save. The defender Zenit made a mistake in clearing the ball. Casemiro intercepted the ball outside the penalty area and sent a straight pass. Garez Bale easily rubbed the ball from the right side of the penalty area and scored in the far corner.

Liverpool leads St. Petersburg Zenit 3-0 at home!

Seize the victory!

Situ Yunbing began to substitution, Sane, Mbappe and Henderson appeared one after another.

Liverpool won St. Petersburg Zenit at home without any blood, and won all three Champions League group stages, and it was only a matter of time before qualifying.

After the game, Situ Yunbing shook hands with Boas after the game. During an interview, Situ Yunbing was asked by reporters what he thought about Boas's performance. Situ Yunbing shook his head and said, "I can comment on the game, but I won't comment on the opponent's coach after the game. Okay, goodbye."

No matter what his true view of Boas is, Situ Yunbing will not express it publicly to the public. Now he also needs to be cautious in his words and actions.

Liverpool's UEFA Champions League group stage was quite smooth, which is not an unexpected event. Compared with ten years ago and twenty years ago, the current Champions League is still likely to be upset in the group stage, but there is basically no problem qualifying. It is because of the development of football capital that strong teams are richer and have more resources, so their strength will naturally be stronger!

Back in the league, in the 9th round of the Premier League, Liverpool played against Hull City at home.

Hull City defended the whole game, and Liverpool besieged the opponent's defense line throughout the game, but the scene continued to be stalemate.

At this time, Lewandowski's absence was basically reflected, and there was a center with a more prominent role. This is something that Vardy could not provide in the tough battle. It has nothing to do with ability, but rather characteristics.

When Liverpool could not defeat for a long time, he tried his best. In the 81st minute of the game, Henderson, who came on the bench, broke into the penalty area and then returned Gareth Bale and was knocked to the ground while passing the ball. The referee decisively awarded a penalty!

No one thought it would be Henderson's point-making opportunity to bring Liverpool a great opportunity to score.

Gerald took the penalty and sent the ball into the lower left corner of the goal. Liverpool defeated Hull City with a penalty kick at Anfield!

Liverpool won a goal in the last three league rounds, and they scored the winning goal only in the last 15 minutes.

This is a negative impact from injuries on Liverpool, but it also reflects Liverpool's resilience!

Many media on Fleet Street have titled in the battle report: Liverpool is desperate!

You can win when you are strong, and you can win when you are not strong!

This is fate!

It is also a manifestation of Liverpool's strength as the defending champion!

In this round, Liverpool is watching the tiger fight, and Manchester United faces Chelsea at Old Trafford!

Chelsea took a corner kick in the early part of the second half of the game, and returned veteran Drogba scored a header to help Chelsea lead.

Mourinho thought these three points were sure to win, but he didn't expect that in the fourth minute of injury time, Manchester United's offense still caused chaos in Chelsea's penalty area. Van Persie made a follow-up shot in the chaos of the game and knocked the ball into Chelsea's goal!

The 3 points I got turned into 1 point, and Mourinho was completely unhappy!

This is the disadvantage of his style of playing. After Chelsea took the lead, he retreated to defend, as if he was the same as ten years ago, but the team did not have the tough midfielder ten years ago. At least there were tough combinations like Lampard, Marklele, and Thiago ten years ago. But now, it is hard for Chelsea to say that other midfielders except Matic are hard-pressed.

Liverpool narrowed the gap with Chelsea and is now only one point behind!

Although Arsenal also won the ball in this round, narrowing the gap with Chelsea, Manchester City unexpectedly lost to West Ham United away!

This made West Ham United play the role of Giant Killer at the beginning of this season, with both Liverpool and Manchester City suffering from murder!

After 9 rounds of the league, Liverpool and Chelsea are still two teams in the standings that have surpassed other teams to occupy the first group.

Chelsea, 23 points.

Liverpool, 22 points.

Manchester City, 14 points.

Arsenal, 14 points.

Manchester United, 13 points.
Chapter completed!