The game against Manchester City at home was very intense from the first minute. The whole Liverpool team held its breath and wanted to defeat Manchester City led by Wansheng at Anfield Stadium.

There is actually no deep hatred between Liverpool and Manchester City, the two clubs.

This is true in history and in recent years, which may be related to Manchester City's poor performance. After all, the team that always competes for the championship (Liverpool) will not have any connection with the team that always relegated (Manchester City).

The hatred between the two teams started more last season.

Manchester City had a very good performance last season. They won the league championship. In addition, the unpleasant fight between the two teams, so the conflict began. Although the head coaches of the two teams, Wan Sheng and Benitez, are not good friends, they are definitely not called enemies, and Liverpool players and Manchester City players are not much hostile. The conflict between the two sides is mainly concentrated in the competition between the media, fans, and the two teams and players in the England team.

Since Benitez took over Liverpool's coaching post, Liverpool's performance in the Champions League has been very good. He persisted until the end in 2005 and won the European championship. Not to mention Liverpool's performance in the Champions League last season and this season was also quite good.

In comparison, Liverpool's performance in the league is much worse.

In the 0405 season, Liverpool only won the fifth place in the Premier League. Relying on the qualification of the European Championship, they qualified for one to enter the Champions League. Last season, Liverpool almost entered the Champions League by stepping on the line. At the last moment of the league, they won the fourth place in the Premier League with only one more point than Arsenal, thus qualifying to enter the Champions League.

This season, Liverpool's league performance is also very dangerous. In the previous games, they lost to their city rival Everton, Chelsea, and Manchester United. They lost to Bolton and even lost to Arsenal three goals at the Emirates Stadium. Especially in the last game, it is a very bad morale. At this stage, many media divide the Premier League into three levels. The first-level teams are Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea. The three teams have very good results, so they are qualified to compete for the league championship, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, and Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton with outstanding performance. They can only be the second-level teams. In other words, all the teams in the second-level are only one place to participate in the Champions League, which requires many teams to compete.

For Liverpool, the league's biggest competitor is Arsenal, and the two teams are likely to compete for the last Champions League place at the end of the season.

Because of this, the whole Liverpool team is encouraging morale and wants to save the league results. Otherwise, they are likely to not be qualified to participate in the Champions League next season, so this home game against Manchester City is very important - they have almost lost all the opponents who are "possibly lost". If they can win Manchester City now, they can somewhat regain some morale and the league image they lost in front of the media and fans.

Therefore, the whole Liverpool team, including head coach Benitez, was holding their breath to defeat Manchester City.

In this game, Liverpool's main players were sent out. Renner, Finnan, Carragher, Riser, Pennant, Gerrard, Alonso, Crouch and Kuyt all won the main players who can play. The game location was Anfield Stadium, regardless of lineup, fighting spirit, or venue. Liverpool are very powerful. They also started an oppressive offensive against Manchester City from the first minute, hoping to relied on their advantage to score first.

The player that should be paid attention to in Liverpool's team is undoubtedly Steven Gerrard.

After several years of core training, Gerald's role and personal performance in Liverpool have become better. Many media and fans even believe that Liverpool with Gerald and Liverpool without Gerald are completely two teams, which shows the importance of Gerald in Liverpool.

Gerald is also very excited about the game.

In Manchester City's team, the one who inspired him to perform well was undoubtedly Morris.

In the England team, Gerald and Lampard have different situations. They are called "Double Germany" together, and there is not much difference in technical strength. But in fact, Gerald's position in England is much stronger than Lampard. If the head coach wants to replace one of them, it will definitely be Lampard. In addition, what makes Gerald have a competitive advantage is that he can also be both wing forward and forward, and can also perform well. A versatile superstar will naturally not worry about being replaced in his position, but despite this, Morris is still his direct competitor. More importantly, many media are now making voices, they believe that Morris is the best midfielder in England, and his technical strength is much stronger than Gerald and Lampard, and the same is true for his performance in the league and Champions League.

In fact, it is not only thought, but also seen from the goals. Morris has scored five goals in the league so far and has one goal in the Champions League. Gerrard may be affected by the team's joining excellent strikers such as Kuyt... So far, he has not scored a goal in the league, and Gerrard has only one goal in the Champions League.

In terms of assist data, Morris also led the league and Champions League with a total of 7 assists.

Morris is much stronger in data. In terms of real game performance, Morris has been repeatedly praised by the media, and Gerald is often criticized. In the different situations of the two, we can also know that there is indeed a gap in performance, but Gerald will definitely not convince. He hopes that his performance can surpass Morris in this game to prove something.

But in fact, when the game started, Gerald found that his direct opponent was not Morris, but David Silva. No, to be precise, it was a combination formed by David Silva, Ivan Crew and Lescott. Whenever he was in the midfield and did not get the ball, David Silva or Ivan Crew would follow nearby. When he got the ball, at least two people rushed over to keep a serious guard against him. When he defended, it was difficult to find Morris. The smooth cooperation on Manchester City on the right alone made him feel overwhelmed.

Faced with such offense and defense, it was difficult for Gerald to deal with it himself, so he wanted to ask his teammates to deal with it, but he soon discovered that the situation his teammates encountered was similar to his. Whether it was offense or defense, they seemed to have to face several Manchester United players, and it was difficult for them to take time to help themselves.

What's going on?

Does Manchester City have more players than Liverpool?

This is certainly impossible.

As an excellent midfielder core, Gerrard knew that the reason was that Manchester City players ran more. Running more could bring more space and position. Often, their players would have many choices when passing the ball. So it seems that one-on-one is like the opponent has a few more players, and the opponent is the same when defending. They will keep running and make a second interception if they fail to achieve one interception. So no matter who gets the ball, they will face defense again and again. It is best to deal with this kind of intensive pressing defense.

The solution is to keep doing short passes and cooperate with the opponent, but this is also a headache. In terms of short passes, the team is more than a little different from Manchester City. Whenever they make a few more short passes in the frontcourt, the possibility of conceding the ball will greatly increase. The opponent often takes advantage of the opponent's mistakes and controls the ball firmly under his feet again. Then they will launch a very stable offensive, constantly cooperating and turning the foot forward, constantly tentatively moving forward, and the formation will slowly move forward. This oppressive offensive is a bit breathless.

Less than twenty minutes into the game, Liverpool was already somewhat suppressed in the situation.

Gerrard has done some research on Manchester City's game. He knows that at this time, if the game continues to develop, Liverpool will become more and more passive, and it will be very difficult to even attack and cross the center line in the end. The best way now is to force the situation with offense or goals and push the opponent back, so that the team will have more chances.

So Gerald began to try to lead the team to attack, but the problems he encountered were the same as before. Whenever David Silva came to defend, he still had to pass the ball. Occasionally, he didn't pass the ball once, Gerald found that he underestimated this young Spanish boy. Not to mention the opponent's foot skills, just such stable face-to-face defense is not something that ordinary young players, even defenders, can do. Faced with this kind of defense, Gerald can only choose to cooperate with his teammates.

But often it is difficult to pass the football back when it is passed!

When the football reached Crouch's feet, the 'tall man' had not even had time to stop the ball, but the opponent's young Portuguese central defender was directly tackled and blocked.

Wan Sheng sat in the coaching seat and saw this scene, he couldn't help laughing.

Among the forwards in England, Crouch is pretty good. He is very tall, a tactical center, and is very good at heading. However, because he is a tactical forward, his flexibility is much worse in both position and personal. A player like this, even if he is in Manchester City, he will not be able to use Wansheng because he cannot adapt to Manchester City's flexible tactics at all.

Perhaps only the "simple and rough" tactics adopted by Liverpool are always inseparable from tactical centers such as Barroche, Crouch, and Husky.

But Manchester City is not afraid of this type of center forward, because the team has Kopelle Ferreira in the backcourt. Portugal's central defender is very good at defending high-altitude balls. He is simply a master in this regard. In addition, he is also very decisive in defense, just like just now, Crouch just stopped the ball a little bit and was directly tackled by Ferreira. Perhaps this movement sometimes looks rough, but it has to be said that sometimes it seems very decisive and effective.

In front of Kopelle Ferrera, it was too difficult for Crouch to show any performance.

Before the game started, Liverpool's media was still advocating how powerful Liverpool is. They used various praise words to enhance Liverpool's fighting spirit, hoping that they can win at Anfield Stadium and restore Liverpool's image of being in the league's disadvantage.

But after thirty minutes of the game, when many people saw that Gerald, Alonso, Crouch and others could not do anything in the frontcourt, they could only remain silent.

At the same time, Liverpool has been suppressed by Manchester City as a whole. The ball-handling time ratio of the two teams has begun to develop in data of more than 1:2. Manchester City has twice the ball-handling rate, more flexible playing styles and stronger offense targeting, so they will naturally get more opportunities.

At the 34th minute of the game, David Silva helped Manchester City break the deadlock!

"David Silva!!"

"goal!! A cold shot! David Silva, outside the penalty area, used a sudden shot to allow the football to successfully break through Reina's ten fingers!!"

"The ball has entered! 1:0, Manchester City took the lead!"

"David Silva! David Silva! Congratulations to him, this young Spanish player has already scored three goals in the Champions League, but in the league this season, he only scored one goal in the third round of Manchester City and Arsenal. Many media said that he has entered the league's 'goal drought', but now he scored directly with a kick to the media's statement, proving his stability."

Just as the commentator said, the goal is indeed very important to David Silva.

In the Champions League, Silva has scored three goals, but in the league, he has only scored one in the third round with Arsenal. Until now, after eleven rounds of the league, he has not scored another goal. Although the media said that he and Morris are "Marcelona Stars", he still scored too few goals in the league, which has put pressure on him.

But with this goal, the pressure no longer exists.

A direct score outside the penalty area is enough to prove his condition.

After scoring the goal, David Silva relaxed and celebrated, ran, and shared the joy of scoring with his teammates and fans.

At this time, Anfield Stadium also heard a "boo" sound, which was the sound of all Liverpool fans. They were not David Silva who was celebrating the goal. In fact, some fans were still giving David Silva's thumbs up in their hearts. They were "boo" the Manchester City coach who rushed out of the coach's seat and had an extremely arrogant expression - Wan Sheng.

Wan Sheng will not forget the "gift" given to him by Liverpool fans at the beginning of the game. Now there is a gift hanging in the east stands, and Liverpool fans are still holding it up as if to express something.

So Wan Sheng rushed to the sidelines excitedly and raised his little finger in that direction in a high profile.

Everyone saw it, and the referee even ran over to warn Wan Sheng not to make similar provocative moves. At the same time, Liverpool fans responded with anger.

Under the clear camera, you can see that with the louder "boo" sound on the scene, the smile on the young Chinese coach seemed to have become stronger. (~^~)
Chapter completed!