The game was a long one, but the pace was very fast.
"Don't stop! Run! Speed up the pace!!!"
Although they had taken the lead, Li Shiguang had no intention of slowing down the pace of the players after the restart. He could see that Leeds United's bombardment over the past 10 minutes had made the Liverpool players a little dizzy. Now only Alonso and Gerrard were able to handle the ball calmly.
The left side where Riise, who had just been broken through and caused Liverpool to lose the goal, became Li Shiguang's breakthrough target, because in the previous few attacks, he keenly discovered that Riise seemed to be a little red-hot, especially when defending Lahm, Riise was very active and could not wait to rush up and use his strong body to block the position. Lahm had been knocked to the ground by him several times.
Li Shiguang knew a little about this Nordic strong man from Norway. Although he lacked a little in defense, it was not a big deal. He was also a versatile player who could play as a left back and a midfielder. However, he had a fatal flaw, which was that he was a little emotional. Before his rebirth, Li Shiguang had seen him flying tackle his opponent many times on TV, and then he was directly sent off the court by the referee with a red card.
So taking advantage of the opportunity of Leeds United's sideline ball, Li Shiguang pulled Ram who was preparing to serve and whispered a few words.
He asked Ram to tell Mascherano to pay attention to the defense on the left side, because he asked Ram to participate in the attack more often, just to catch Riise's side!
Time passed by minute by minute, and Leeds United used a very fast offensive rhythm to keep Liverpool in their own half and unable to move. Liverpool's only few chances to attack the half came from long passes after intercepting the ball near the penalty area, which also surprised the Liverpool fans who came to watch the game today. They never thought that Liverpool would be bombarded in their own half at Anfield by a team that was promoted to the Premier League this season, and they were still one goal behind, but this one goal was just the beginning of their nightmare today.
In the 39th minute of the game, the tactics that Li Shiguang had just arranged finally worked.
Lahm pushed the ball forward on the wing, and Riise rushed over aggressively as in the previous few minutes.
Riise was very angry about being passed through by Ram before, but fortunately, he had the upper hand in the recent direct dialogues. He had figured out the tricks of this little guy. As long as he got on his body, he would be finished immediately. Just when he was thinking about rushing up and knocking Ram away again, Ram suddenly passed the ball to the right.
Seeing Ram pass the ball, Riise subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the football, and as soon as his eyes fell on the football, he saw a white figure kicking the football back again, but the direction kicked back was behind him.
Riise was more emotional on the court, but he was not stupid. When he saw the football being kicked back, he immediately realized that Ram was playing a two-on-one cooperation with his teammates, so he turned around and started. Sure enough, when he turned around, he saw that Ram had run in front of him.
"FxxK, this despicable little dwarf, he can't fight me head-on so he plays dirty with me!" Riise's face flushed red, but his speed was not slow. Just when Lahm received the ball and rushed into the penalty area, Riise had already caught up with Lahm.
At this time, Lahm had already observed the movements of his teammates in the penalty area, so he raised his left foot and prepared to kick the ball to the middle, but when his left foot was still in the air, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right foot that was used as support, and then he lost his balance and fell in the penalty area.
"Foul!!! Penalty!!! Red card!!! This is a shameful back-tackle!!!" Seeing Lahm rolling wildly in the Liverpool penalty area holding his right leg, Li Shiguang immediately called the team doctor to enter the field before waiting for the referee to signal, and then he rushed to the side of the fourth official with an exaggerated expression, and directly gave a set of three consecutive quality punishments. His relentless look made Benítez, who was watching coldly, feel terrified.
Why did Benítez watch coldly? Because when he saw that Riise didn't touch the ball after kicking, Benítez knew it was over. He couldn't escape the red card package, so he was very calm at the moment, even a little bit of a bad calm...
Of course, the referee's penalty also responded to what Benítez thought in his heart, red card + penalty, Riise paid the price for his impulsiveness.
Already scored 1 goal
Deisler scored from 12 yards. Before the end of the first half, Leeds United had already led by two goals away from home. The most important thing was that they had one more player on the field for the entire 45 minutes of the second half.
After returning to the locker room, after the treatment of the team doctor, Lahm was fine, which made Li Shiguang feel relieved, but for safety reasons, he still replaced Lahm with Milner.
And Benitez was so relaxed. For a full 15 minutes, the atmosphere in the Liverpool locker room was terribly depressing. Benitez spoke in a calm tone, but it was often this calmness that made the players more uneasy.
After making tactical arrangements and substitutions for the second half, Benítez glanced at Riise, who was sitting next to him and didn't dare to look up, and felt helpless: "Alas, maybe the only gain from this game is that I confirmed on the spot that Deisler is in good shape and his playing style is also suitable for Liverpool now. It shouldn't be a big loss to replace him with Alonso..."
After a short break, both sides returned to the field. In order not to lose too badly, Benítez withdrew Morientes and replaced him with the substitute left back Traore.
But in this way, Liverpool, who could have threatened Leeds United's goal with high-altitude balls in the first half, completely lost the offensive means of high-altitude bombing. They were already behind by 2 goals and withdrew a striker. In Li Shiguang's view, this was already a signal of surrender.
So in the second half, he kept sitting in the coach's seat thinking about the remaining signings list and never stood up.
But today, the very excited Deisler seemed to want to show his strength thoroughly in front of his future club. When Li Shiguang let him play freely, he not only scored another direct free kick to complete a hat trick, but also assisted Falcao to score a goal.
In the end, Leeds United won a hearty victory away from home with a score of 4:0.
After the post-match interview, Moores took the initiative to find Li Shiguang and told him that Liverpool had agreed to his proposal to exchange Alonso for 1.5 million euros plus Deisler.
This news made Li Shiguang even happier. Coming to Liverpool, hey, double happiness!!!
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