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"Robbie, great job!" After returning to the visiting team's dressing room, George excitedly slapped Robbie Keane on the shoulder. Obviously, seeing his team lead Liverpool by one goal at Anfield, the young coach's heart was not very peaceful at this time. After all, no matter what George said in front of the Red Army players, Liverpool has always been one of the most successful clubs in English football and one of the only three top clubs in the Premier League. Although there are many future stars in the Tottenham team , in terms of potential, it is far superior to the current Liverpool, but for now, Tottenham is still far behind the Red Army in terms of strength. Therefore, being able to lead Tottenham ahead of Liverpool in this head-to-head confrontation, even if it is only one goal ahead of the opponent, and there is still a second half to play, is enough for George to be satisfied.
"Hiss... Boss, please be gentle, that slap you just made almost knocked me apart." Robbie Keane said, quickly running from George's palm to the bench closest to him, and put C Luo staggered, "I'm sorry, Ronaldo. Boss, his hand is too strong, I really can't stand it anymore."
"Uh, it's okay, I can understand." Looking at George who was banging the small blackboard on the wall of the locker room, Ronaldo couldn't help but shrink his neck and squeezed next to Robbie Keane to talk. Whispered, "To be honest, I have always felt that even if the leader becomes a professional player, he will definitely become a first-class player. If nothing else, just with the strength and agility of the leader, it is not necessarily possible for the two guards to play together. I can stop the boss."
It’s no secret within Tottenham that Ronaldo has always wanted to play on the same pitch as his brother George. Therefore, he took this opportunity to mention it to Robbie Keane again to see if there was any possibility of promoting this matter.
"Come on, don't let your imagination run wild about this." Robbie Keane raised his hand and rubbed Ronaldo's carefully permed and dyed hair in a funny way, which aroused the latter's dissatisfaction, "You too Don't think about it, in addition to being our boss and head coach, the boss is also a British nobleman with the hereditary noble title of Viscount. Let such a big man play football with us on the court? Even if the boss wants to, The people around him will also try their best to obstruct this. Not to mention, if the leader really steps onto the court with us, then who is responsible for directing us off the court?"
Hearing Robbie Keane's answer, Ronaldo couldn't help but hang his head in frustration. But not long after, he was frightened by George's sharp shout and raised his head again: "Chris (C Ronaldo), what are you thinking about? Listen carefully to me!"
Just when the Tottenham players were surrounding George, happily watching Ronaldo, who was singled out by George as a villain, and listening to their coach's tactical arrangements for the second half, in the home team's locker room on the other side, at this time There was a faint cloud of melancholy in the air. The Liverpool players sat silently in their accustomed positions. The atmosphere could be said to be extremely depressing.
"Dietmar (Hamann), Danny (Murphy), Steven (Gerrard), the three of you must pay attention to protecting and sweeping the frontier of the penalty area in the second half, and don't just focus on man-to-man defense. Otherwise If Tottenham switches positions during the attack, they will tear a hole in our defense." However, Houllier did not seem to notice the low pressure permeating the locker room, and still faced the players in front of the small blackboard They instilled his tactical intentions, "Also, you must ensure the connection with Michael (Irving) during the offense, and do not let Tottenham players easily separate our midfield and frontcourt... So Michael (Irving) ), your performance will largely determine the fate of the team tonight, don’t let us down.”
Regarding Houllier's arrangement, Irving just nodded silently and did not make any additional remarks. This former trend-chasing boy is no longer thinking about how to lead the Red Army to win. For Owen, who lacks heavyweight collective honors, Liverpool, whose performance has not improved over the years, can no longer satisfy his ambitions. Therefore, Irving has been thinking about where he should go for some time, which naturally affects his performance on the court.
We have to do all the work, so what else does this kid Owen do? Is it just the field goal that steals the show? Gerrard couldn't help but feel depressed after hearing Houllier's arrangement. After taking over the captain's armband from Hyypia this season, Gerrard is preparing to lead the Red Army in a big fight in the new season. Unexpectedly, head coach Houllier still does not trust his talent on the offensive end - you know, since he Since his debut, he has scored 16 Premier League goals for Liverpool from the defensive midfielder position, which is enough to show that Gerrard has huge potential on the offensive end, especially in long-range shooting.
If Gerrard had hesitated before because of the friendship between Gu Nian, Houllier and Owen, then before the start of this game, faced with George's provocation, Owen's attitude had nothing to do with him. Gerrard began to feel alienated from his good friend from the bottom of his heart - he couldn't tolerate Owen's failure to defend Liverpool's dignity when Liverpool was in trouble!
Therefore, after seeing what Houllier and Owen did, Gerrard, who was extremely disappointed with this, felt that he had to stand up and do something at this time. However, in order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble and confusion to the team, Gerrard cannot yet openly challenge Houllier's authority in the locker room, and can only make some innocuous adjustments to Houllier's arrangements in private - -For example, don’t insist on feeding Irving the ball directly when attacking, but also give some opportunities to players in other positions who are better and have the same offensive ability.
So, taking advantage of the end of the halftime break when Houllier and Owen took the lead to walk out of the locker room, Gerrard stopped Hyypia and Carragher and several other teammates who also had a large say in the team. His plan was revealed.
However, although Hyypia and others were also very dissatisfied with the performance of Houllier and Irving, they did not agree to immediately follow Gerrard's plan. They only assured Gerrard that if the game did not go according to Houllier's plan, If Lear develops as expected, then they will turn to support Gerrard's plan!
Regarding this result, Gerrard expressed his understanding and nodded in agreement. After all, if Houllier's tactical arrangements prove to be effective, then he doesn't want to cause these things.
But in Gerrard's eyes, it was really unwise for Houllier to let the team continue to play Tottenham's defensive counterattack when Liverpool had the advantage in overall strength but was lagging behind in the score. Apart from anything else, as long as Tottenham continue to put on a defensive counterattack in the second half, it will be enough to make all of Houllier's halftime arrangements come to nothing!
In this way, when the second half of the game started, Liverpool players discovered that according to Houllier's tactical arrangement, they could not break through the heavy defense lines set up by Tottenham. With Houllier clinging to the defensive counterattack, the Red Army, which had only Irving as a reliable firepower on the offensive end, found it difficult to find an opportunity to equalize the score.
Under the pressure of reality, other Liverpool players couldn't help but think of the revised plan they heard from Hyypia and Carragher, and involuntarily began to try this plan, gradually reducing the number of passes that were just barely fed to Irving. Quantity - Houllier's tactical adjustments have proven to be a failure anyway, and there is no point in them trying other options without changing the overall framework.
Since the plan proposed by Gerrard was not based on completely overthrowing Houllier's tactical play, but made some fine-tuning on the basis of the original tactics and increased the role of other players on the offensive end, the players on the sidelines Houllier didn't notice anything unusual, but just wondered why Heskey and the others passed fewer passes to Irving, and other players also took more shots.
This change from Liverpool has put huge defensive pressure on Tottenham players. After all, under Houllier's original tactical system, Irving was the first offensive option, so Tottenham players only needed to concentrate on defending Irving; but now, Liverpool's offense has not only become much more proactive, but also There is some intention to blossom more, and coupled with the fact that Riise, Hamann, and Gerrard all have excellent long-range shooting skills, Tottenham have to distract their energy to defend players other than Irving, and the defensive pressure will naturally increase. Got bigger.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Kewell, who came on as a substitute for Riise, broke through Karl's defense and passed the ball high, and Heskey headed the ball over. However, the high center forward did not pass the ball to Owen on the other side as Houllier requested, but chose to pass the ball back to Gerrard who intervened in the attack!
This time, Gerrard became the hero who saved Liverpool. Facing the flying ball, Gerrard used a powerful and heavy instep volley to break through Cech's fingers, and tied the score at one to one at the last moment!
In this way, with Gerrard's last-minute life-saving goal, Liverpool managed to maintain a thrilling draw at Anfield and did not allow Tottenham Hotspur to take away three points from their home court.
Despite this, Liverpool fans are still very dissatisfied with Houllier's performance - after the end of this round of Premier League games, Liverpool only achieved two draws, one loss and two points in the first three rounds. This obviously does not meet the expectations of Red Army fans. The team’s psychological expectations. Not to mention, Houllier's ugly defensive counterattack tactics are not popular with Liverpool fans who have experienced the Tigers' gorgeous offensive era.
Therefore, after the game against Tottenham, Liverpool fans who were dissatisfied with the team's record once again launched a wave of "betraying", demanding that the club give a reasonable explanation for the team's poor results since the start of the new season!
On the other side, after drawing with Leeds United and Liverpool, Tottenham's tragic fate of consecutive draws seemed not to be over yet - in the fourth round of the Premier League three days later, Tottenham played at home. Tottenham Hotspur and visiting Fulham had a goalless draw within 90 minutes of regular match time, earning their third consecutive draw in the Premier League!
