After Leeds United scored, Benitez once again emphasized defense, and the two midfielders shrank tighter.
The two full-backs and Leeds United no longer pressed high to avoid another counterattack by Leeds United.
However, Leeds United still found an opportunity to counterattack.
In the 86th minute of the game, Liverpool wanted to launch a counterattack, but Cisse in front did not easily receive a pass from Luis Garcia, but he immediately encountered Matteisson's defense.
Cisse turned around to protect the ball, waiting for his teammate to come in.
But the first thing he saw was Fowler behind him. The England veteran was far away from him. In other words, Fowler had no idea of intervening. He really couldn't run anymore. He was no longer the incompetent person before. The incompetent Liverpool "god".
Cisse found that apart from Garcia, there was no one who could pass the ball.
So I thought about turning around again, getting rid of Matteisen's defense, and going it alone.
However, he was immediately double-teamed by Mills, and in a panic, the ball was snatched away by Matteisen behind him.
After Matteisen got the ball, he did not directly choose to move forward. Instead, he directly started a long pass and found Leeds United's Kevin Davis at the front.
Kevin Davis wants to stay in position and give the ball to his teammates.
However, Carragher behind him arrived at the landing point of the ball one step ahead of him. Even if Davis used all kinds of tricks, it was of no avail.
The ball was headed away by Carragher.
However, the position of his push was not very good. He wanted to push it to Haman, but he did not control the strength well and used too much force.
So Haman has to run two steps forward to catch the ball.
Hamann had just secured the ball when Robin van Persie, who suddenly appeared next to him, touched the football with his toes. The ball lost control and rolled to his side.
Then the two people competed for body and speed.
Finally, Van Persie took one step ahead and got the ball.
Hamann struggled behind Van Persie to disrupt Van Persie's attack.
Van Persie didn't think much about it, mainly because he didn't want to tangle with Hamann, so he passed the ball horizontally to Smith on the side.
At this time, Smith got the ball outside the penalty area, still some distance away from the penalty area.
It's just that Liverpool's other midfielder Sissoko retreated deeper and defended the penalty area line.
This time, Smith was given a chance to kick.
A place 20 meters away from the goal is within Smith's shooting range.
"Pounce on him! Don't let him get up!"
Benitez shouted from the sidelines, and he didn't care if Sissoko could hear it.
"Don't block me!"
This is what Liverpool goalkeeper Reina shouted to his teammates on the back line.
Smith's ball flew to the right side of the goal like a shell.
Another goal was about to be scored, and Leeds United was about to complete the victory.
Reina stood up again, made a side dive, held up the ball, and changed its path.
"duang~"
The deflected ball hit the goal post and bounced out.
Like the previous goal, Robin van Persie once again appeared near the ball's landing point.
However, this time, Riise got ahead of Van Persie and made a sliding tackle to clear the ball out of the baseline, denying Van Persie a chance to make a follow-up shot.
"Huh~" All the fans at Liverpool's home court exclaimed, and then they burst into warm applause, dedicated to goalkeeper Reina who performed well in this game.
It was the Spanish goalkeeper's two heroic performances today that kept the score 1-1 until now.
In fact, when Liverpool conceded the only goal, Reina had already tried his best. There was nothing he could do about Van Persie's second follow-up shot, and it was impossible for the gods to save him.
On the sidelines, John Sheridan walked up to George Li, leaned into Li's ear, and told him softly.
"It's over at Chelsea and it's time to award awards."
"Won?"
"It's a tie, the Portuguese guy scored one last time."
"okay, got it."
After hearing this, George Li scratched his hair.
In his heart, it is actually best for Chelsea to win, so that even if Leeds United does not beat Liverpool today, it can shorten the gap with Manchester United.
Of course, it would be better if they could win, so if Leeds United wins and Manchester United loses, the two teams will have the same points. Leeds United can even complete the overtake of Manchester United with the advantage of goal difference.
However, it now seems that the gap will still be 3 points.
The field has already entered injury time. Because there are not many timeouts in the second half, the stoppage time is very short, not to mention that the ball is still at Liverpool's feet.
In fact, Benitez also wants to win this game so that they can have the same score as Leeds United. Moreover, Liverpool has had several big-scoring victories this season, and they can even finish the match against Leeds United through goal difference. overtake.
However, Benitez did not dare to gamble at the last moment. He was still afraid of Leeds United's counterattack, and after Morientes came off the field, he did not have a better weapon to smash Leeds United's defense.
"du~, dudu~"
The referee blew the whistle at the end of the game. Chelsea drew 1-1 with Manchester United and Leeds United drew 1-1 with Liverpool.
Now, except for Chelsea who think they won the championship ahead of schedule, the other three teams have stayed put.
Manchester United wants to stay in second place, Leeds United wants to stay in third place and fight for second place, and Liverpool wants to stay in fourth place and fight for third place. Who will win depends on the final two rounds of the league.
However, before that, Liverpool has to play in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, and their opponent is Chelsea, who has already won the league championship. This will be a tough battle.
Leeds United here will also have to compete with Steaua Bucharest in the second leg of the Europa League semi-finals before the last two rounds of the league.
^^^
"Steaua Bucharest counterattacked. Center back Tamash stole the ball from Grenchar's feet and passed it directly to Pintili in the midfield. Pintili dribbled the ball very quickly... ...passed Gravesen on the tackle...passed past Parker...shot! Direct shot from outside the penalty area!...The ball went in!!! "
"But it was too late. This goal came a little too late. It was already the last moment of the game. They finally tied the score 1-1, but they fell behind 1-3 with a total score of 1-1. To score two goals in less than five minutes is almost impossible."
"Pintilly was about to pick up the football from the goal and run back, but Van der Sar stopped him. Van der Sar got the football early and kicked it out!"
"Pintilly pushed Van der Sar...the two started arguing...the conflict started!"
"When it comes to fighting, Leeds United are definitely better at it. Almost none of the players they have on the field are good at it."
"The referee came over and showed Van der Sar a yellow card."
"The Dutch were smart and delayed it for a long time with a yellow card."
"We saw in the stands that Sevilla's coach Juande Ramos had gotten up and was about to leave."
"Just yesterday, Sevilla defeated their opponent and entered the final ahead of schedule. Today, coach Ramos also came specially from Spain to watch this game."
"I don't know if Coach Ramos saw anything about his opponent in the final today. I think if Leeds United entered the final, he would have come today in vain."
No wonder the commentator said so. Today, George Lee directly arranged a 532 formation, making it clear that he wanted to defend two away goals. Moreover, Leeds United "stole the chicken" to advance by one at the beginning.
Then George Li set up the bus and set up the whole game.
The defense consists of Edwin van der Sar, Mills, Matthiessen, Anton Ferdinand, Kelly, and Hart, plus the double defensive midfielder of Parker and De Jong.
Steaua Bucharest head coach Kosmin Olaroiu grabbed the hair on his head from the beginning of the game and never let go.
"du~, dudu~"
The referee had just blown the whistle to end the game, and all the Leeds United players rushed onto the field to celebrate with the fans.
"We're going to Holland!"
May 11, UEFA Cup final at Philips Stadium in Eindhoven.
Leeds United vs Sevilla.
