At the 41st minute of the game, Liverpool still led 1-0.
Baldwin Zenden, who just arrived on a free transfer from Middlesbrough this season, launched an attack on the left. When facing Parker's defense, he distributed the ball to Riise who was on the side.
After receiving the pass from Zenden, Riise quickly moved forward and acted more like a winger than Zenden.
Faced with Mills coming up, he first accelerated and passed the ball past Mills, then made an emergency stop and dunked with his left foot over the defender who was catching up with Mills.
Mills immediately stopped, turned around and went to guard Rise.
Riise had already begun to cut inside at this time, and Mills had no choice but to pull Riise.
When he pulled harder, Rise was pulled to the ground by Mills.
"Du~" The referee gave Liverpool a set kick on the left side of the penalty area.
That's not all. Faced with Mills who kept arguing with the referee, the referee also showed a yellow card.
Mills thought that his movements were very subtle, and said that he had no additional movements, and Rise fell down, which was a fake fall.
But in fact, Riise had already passed him at that time. If Mills had not brought him down, the threat would have been greater.
The referee Rene on duty also recognized this and showed Mills a yellow card.
Van der Sar began to direct his teammates to set up a wall. Because this position is quite threatening, Van der Sar paid more attention to the defense of the set piece this time.
"Not enough, not enough, add another one to the wall." Van der Sar shouted loudly.
Then I saw Alan Smith, who had returned to the penalty area to defend, also walked into the wall. Leeds United lined up five people to defend the set piece.
The other five people were all marking people in the penalty area, leaving no offensive player in the frontcourt waiting for a counterattack.
George Lee looked at the nearly half-time data on Chris Casper's computer and prepared to change his tactics in the midfield. Otherwise, it would be difficult to win this game against Liverpool, which has almost no weaknesses.
At this time, Li George glanced at the field and saw that Riise was standing behind the set kick in Liverpool. He was the only one in Liverpool. It was obvious that Liverpool was preparing to let Riise take the kick.
Here at Leeds United, Smith lined up into the wall as requested by Van der Sar.
Suddenly, something flashed in George Li’s mind.
"Fxxk!" he yelled.
Then he quickly said to Mai.
"Quick, tell Alan not to enter the human wall, quick!"
"What, what did you say?"
"Let Alan..."
Before George Li could finish speaking, the referee blew the whistle, and then Riise started to run.
The Norwegian's shot is powerful and heavy, so he is called the "Norwegian Heavy Cannon", so his run-up distance is relatively long.
After Rise finished his run-up, he was ready to hit the goal.
He stepped heavily on the turf with his right foot, which was located behind the right side of the football field. He raised his left leg, then tilted his body, and finally slammed his left foot on the football.
"Dong~"
It seemed like everyone on the court could hear it.
Leeds United's wall jumped, and then the ball hit Leeds United's wall hard.
Then a player wearing a white jersey fell to the ground.
The ball bounced very far. Finnan, who was defending in the backcourt of Liverpool, caught the football that bounced near the midfield. He looked up at the situation in front and prepared to launch another counterattack.
But this time Finnan did not see his teammates retreating to receive the lead. Instead, they gathered in front, and Leeds United players also gathered there.
"Kick it out, kick the ball out..."
Liverpool captain Steve Gerrard quickly signaled Finnan to kick the ball out.
Finnan kicked the ball out of bounds and then started running up to see what was going on.
Finnan rushed to the frontcourt and saw a Leeds United player lying on the ground, motionless.
"Team doctor, team doctor...come here." Van der Sar kept urging the team doctor to come over.
Leeds United's Graveson and Parker squatted on the ground to check the situation.
Finnan approached again and finally saw clearly who was on the ground.
The number 17 is written on the trouser leg, and the captain's armband is worn on the left arm.
Alan Smith.
After constant urging, the team doctor finally came to the center of the field to check on Smith's condition.
Finnan raised his head and looked at the big screen at Anfield Stadium on the sidelines. The situation just now was being played on the screen.
Riise's powerful free kick hit the jumping Smith.
Slow motion and close-up shots clearly showed that the ball hit Smith's chest. Although Smith had one hand on his crotch and one hand protecting his chest at that time, you can still see from the replay that the ball hit Smith hard. The ground hit Smith in the chest.
With the help of the team doctor, Smith finally had some reaction on the ground, but Smith, who was slightly more awake, was still holding his chest, obviously in great pain.
The team doctor signaled for the stretcher to come up quickly.
In the Anfield Road stands, George Li and Casper also saw the replay on the big screen.
"Do you see clearly?" George Li asked Casper.
"It must have hurt."
"It's not the legs, is it?"
"It's the chest, do you have poor eyesight?" Casper asked back. He felt that it was a little abnormal since George Li shouted to Smith not to enter the wall just now, as if he could predict that Smith would be injured.
"It's not the support legs, you saw that too, right?" Lee asked Casper again.
Casper didn't answer this time. He felt that the two of them were not on the same page.
A stretcher finally carried Smith to the sideline.
George Lee quickly asked Kidd through the communication device about Smith's situation on the sidelines.
"Hit the chest... not the legs... ok, ok... a bit stuffy, right... no need to try, yes, yes... .Direct substitution...Yes, replace Smith with De Jong...Yes, Gravesen pushes forward a little...Okay, okay, send it directly to the hospital for careful examination. .....Yes, don’t listen to him, go to the hospital and don’t play again.”
George Lee communicated with Kidd for nearly 5 minutes. When he continued to see the court, Leeds United had completed the substitution and replaced Smith with De Jong.
"How's it going?" Seeing that Li and Kidd had finished communicating, Casper asked George Li about Smith's situation.
"It's not a big problem, it's just a false alarm, but I think it's better to check it carefully."
"Yes."
"Show me the data just now."
Hearing that Smith's situation was relatively optimistic, George Li was ready to continue the unfinished work and make some changes in the midfield. After all, his team was still lagging behind on the field.
I had just started thinking before, but was interrupted by Riise's kick. Now I need to think about it again. Because of Smith's end, in order to consolidate the midfield, George Lee could only replace De Jong first and replace the midfielder. The defense settled down.
"damn it......"
George Lee slapped his leg hard, thinking that his two most capable offensive players were not on the court. Smith had just left, and Van Persie would still have some time to come back.
"Hiss~" Casper shouted in pain.
Because what George Li photographed was his legs.
"du~du~"
At this time, the referee blew the whistle, and the stoppage time of the first half ended. Liverpool led 1-0 at home into halftime.
