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Chapter 586 How can you still score goals?
Yang Yang returned to the UK after a week's break in China.

What greeted him was a piece of news from the official website of the Premier League. Liverpool once again won two Premier League players of the month.

With a four-game winning streak in August, Benitez beat Manchester City's Eriksson to take the title of manager of the month.

Manchester City under the coach of Eriksson also had a very eye-catching start, winning three consecutive victories without conceding a goal, including a [-]-[-] lore in the derby against Manchester United. In that game, Eriksson's formation received unanimous praise.

But it is a pity that the Swede was unlucky to meet Liverpool and Benitez, who were out of form.

Also unlucky is Manchester City defender Richards.

The young, homegrown talent has enjoyed a stellar start to the season, arguably one of the best starts in the Premier League, and is a strong favorite for Player of the Month.

But it is a pity that Yang Yang scored six goals and one assist in the first four rounds of the new season, leading Liverpool to four consecutive victories, which made Richards unable to shake Yang Yang's position in the end.

In the end, Liverpool won the two Best of the Month awards.

When the Premier League was officially announced, Yang Yang once again stood on the cusp of public opinion, and all major media praised him as the best player in the Premier League at the beginning of this season, and also the best star in European football so far in the new season.

"We have every reason to believe that he is ushering in a milestone season!" Alan Hansen looked forward to.

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After a two-week absence for national team competitions, the Premier League has reignited the flames.

Liverpool ushered in their opponents in the sixth round, away to challenge the Pompeii Legion Portsmouth.

Redknapp's side have had the devil's devil's schedule this season.

In the first five rounds of the league, Pompeii played two hosts and three away, but one of them was at home against Manchester United, and two away games were against Chelsea and Arsenal. In the first five rounds, they encountered three of the Premier League semi-finals. The bad schedule can be seen.

What's even more terrible is that in the sixth round, they ushered in the top ranked Liverpool at their home court.

Under Redknapp's training, Portsmouth's home performance has been good, especially their defense.

Last season, Portsmouth only conceded [-] goals at home, only less than Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Aston Villa, and their home score ranked sixth in the Premier League, better than Aston Villa.

This season, Portsmouth's home results are still good, with a [-]-[-] draw with Manchester United and a [-]-[-] win over Bolton, and the away game is also okay, except for the failure to win Derby County in the first round, [-]-[-] loss to Chelsea, and [-]-[-] loss to Arsenal are all acceptable results.

It can be said that Redknapp's team is definitely a stubble that should not be underestimated.

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On the other hand, Liverpool's overall strength is indeed ahead of the opponent, but the situation is not ideal.

There are many international players in the team. After receiving the call-up, they all went to play games all over the world. This caused the players to return to the team later. Some European international players who participated in the European Cup qualifiers even returned to Liverpool non-stop after the game, and then went south to Portsmouth non-stop.

In this case, the overall consumption of players will be greater and less prepared.

But more importantly, Liverpool have an away game in the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week.

Porto, Marseille and Besiktas were drawn in the group stage. Liverpool's draw was lucky, and among these three teams, Porto is the player most likely to threaten Liverpool's top spot in the group.

In the first round of the group stage in the middle of the week, Liverpool will play away to Porto, which is undoubtedly a highlight.

Benitez's decision is to stick to both hands, neither the league nor the Champions League will relax.

Therefore, Liverpool's formation in this game is reserved, including Javier Mascherano, Gerrard, Yang Yang and Didier Did not appear in the starting lineup, but they all sat on the bench.

Yang Yang is not under the pressure of the national team, and he returned to the team early to prepare, but Benitez still decided to hide him and let him concentrate on preparing for the midweek Champions League, which is the most important battle for the team.

But the game was obviously not as smooth as Benitez expected.

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Portsmouth, who have always performed very well at home and have outstanding defensive capabilities, were able to draw Manchester United [-]-[-] at home. Facing Liverpool, which did not do their best, they showed a rare aggressiveness.

Redknapp can also be regarded as a veteran Premier League coach with rich coaching experience. He is very clear about Liverpool's strategy, and he wants to profit from it. So at the beginning of this game, his Portsmouth refused to give up an inch and fought against Liverpool.

The midfield led by Muntari has messed up Liverpool's game rhythm.

Both Harvey Alonso and Benayoun were under the tight marking of each other, and their performance was relatively average.

Even in the No.30 minute, when Arbeloa was defending the opposing striker Kanu, he was signaled for a foul by the linesman. The referee awarded a penalty without hesitation, which made the Liverpool players on the field very dissatisfied.

Kanu's penalty was saved by Reina. Although the Spanish goalkeeper often made some major mistakes, he also performed brilliantly at many critical moments.

Then Liverpool and Portsmouth still had offense and defense with each other.

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, the Red Army still failed to open up the situation.

Benitez quickly made substitution adjustments, first replacing Benayoun with Gerrard, and then replacing Voronin with Yang Yang.

The two substitutions are very obvious, and they want to strengthen the team's offense.

Portsmouth also made a substitution, replacing a striker with a midfielder.

Redknapp is obviously also very afraid of Yang Yang and Gerrard.

All substitutions were made between 65 and 10 minutes, and in the next 10 minutes, both sides still failed to get too good opportunities, and neither of them could create a good scoring opportunity.

Until No.803 minutes...

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When Yang Yang saw that Crouch pulled to the right to catch the ball, his choice was to follow the penalty area line to the middle.

Portsmouth always has two defensive players close to him, which makes Yang Yang can only continue to expand his running range.

Now, he looks like he's going to catch Crouch.

Pennant passed the ball from the right, which fell to the front point, but Crouch, under the restraint of the opponent's central defenders Campbell and Distin, although he grabbed the first point, he did not dare to stop the ball. Instead, he immediately headed the ball out of the penalty area and returned it to Gerrard who was 20 meters away.

All attention was on the right, especially when Crouch headed back to Gerrard.

Yang Yang naturally noticed it too, so he stopped suddenly on the left side of the arc top area of ​​the restricted area, passed Muntari sideways, and rushed directly to the rear of the restricted area.

Portsmouth's right-back Glenn Johnson just transferred from Chelsea this summer. His offensive ability is his strong point, but his defense has always been criticized, after all, he is still relatively young.

Yang Yang made an emergency stop suddenly, and went straight to the rear of the penalty area, which surprised Glenn Johnson and Muntari, who were in charge of defending him, and immediately followed him.

On the other side, Gerrard waited for Crouch's header back from a position far away from the goal. He was also marked by the Portsmouth midfielder and had no time to stop the ball.

For this oblique pass, Gerrard had no hope. It was more of an attempt, so the quality of the pass was not particularly high, and it landed in the left corner of the small penalty area.

But Yang Yang was paying close attention to the trajectory of the ball in the air while he was running in from the back. At the same time, he was also paying attention to the distance between Glenn Johnson on his side and the midfielder Muntari on the other side.

Two Portsmouth players were planning to attack him in tandem.

Yang Yang made a decisive decision and rushed to the left corner of the small restricted area at the fastest speed, jumping high in the first step.

After a long period of strength training, especially equipment training in the gym, cycling and stair running, Yang Yang found that his jumping ability is getting better and better, which makes him more and more confident.

Especially with [Klinsmann's Header] continuous practice and improvement, he is becoming more and more sure of his header skills, so even though he took off a small step earlier this time in order to avoid the defense of Glenn Johnson and Muntari, he still intercepted the ball from Gerrard with his own jumping advantage.

But he can only top one far corner.

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"Gerrard volleys into the box..."

"Yang Yang ran out of space, leaped high, and scored with a header!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"No. 803 minutes, when no one expected it, maybe even Liverpool players, including Steven Gerrard himself, Yang Yang used a wonderful header to break through Portsmouth's goal."

"Let's see his goal in slow motion this time."

"Yang Yang jumped high, Glenn Johnson and Muntari didn't dare to foul, they could only watch him take off."

"He jumped so high it felt like he jumped over Glenn Johnson and Muntari because neither of those guys was tall."

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After Yang Yang scored a goal, he rushed to the sideline excitedly, slid and knelt in front of the stands of the Liverpool fans who came with the team to the away game.

Behind him, Liverpool's players rushed out to celebrate excitedly.

In front of the coach of the visiting team, Benitez was a little overwhelmed with excitement.

Six straight wins!
Liverpool's performance this season is too good!
And it all depends on Yang Yang's unstoppable scoring state!
On the contrary, the home team coach Redknapp looked very depressed, looking at Yang Yang who was kneeling on the sidelines, his eyes were full of resentment, as if to say, I have already arranged two people to watch you, how can you still score goals?
After guarding for more than 80 minutes, they conceded the ball in the end. This was a terrible blow to Portsmouth.

Even Redknapp had to admit that this game was off!
His tactics completely defended Liverpool's organization and offense, but lost to Yang Yang.

What else could he say?

(End of this chapter)