Houllier was confident at the pre-match press conference, saying that his team had the ability and confidence to take away three points away from home.
Constant victory means cut the crap and see the real story in the competition!
Compared with Houllier’s high-profile, Changsheng is much lower-key.
It looks as if Liverpool are in the bag.
This situation is very strange. The home team is low-key and the visiting team is high-profile, but no one is willing to delve into it. What is this?
Liverpool fans are blindly optimistic. They stepped into the Mestalla Stadium with strong confidence and bright prospects.
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In fact, Houllier’s thinking is fine. To deal with Valencia’s mad dog tactics, we really need to play with strength, just as Barcelona’s nemesis will always have Drogba Chelsea.
But he has a problem that he overestimates the ability of his players.
Heskey is not Drogba after all …
This Liverpool is not the one built by Mourinho in the future, but Liverpool is far from being purely tactical.
After the game, when Liverpool planned to play long-distance suspension, they found that they had little chance to do so.
Except for the game, after they played like this, the football was firmly controlled by Valencia and handed back and forth. They were in no hurry to push forward or score goals.
Just don’t stop playing, as if you were practicing the ball.
Although houllier has seen Valencia’s tactics in the video of the game, he still feels different when he experiences it personally.
He was amazed at the proficiency of Valencia players in returning the ball. Facing Liverpool players, they could make a very quick backward transfer, and they could throw the football out with two or three feet to make Liverpool’s snatch successful.
Then they always pass it back and forth like this.
After another failure to grab the ball, Owen waved to everyone to put more pressure on the striker to grab the ball in the frontcourt.
So Liverpool pressed forward layer by layer.
When they were pressed close enough, they didn’t expect that there were already large films behind them.
Just then Deco took the ball in midfield and suddenly sent a straight ball!
Because Liverpool players are pressed enough by themselves, several lines are compressed into one line, but the difference is that Valencia actively compressed their offense to facilitate offside in ball defense, while Liverpool passively compressed them, and they didn’t even realize it, which shows that they lacked tactical literacy …
Deco’s straight ball penetrated all the defence lines of Liverpool!
This is an oblique straight ball from the middle of the court to the left of the court, and there is still enough foreplay.
This ball is for Vicente!
The fastest of Valencia’s three strikers is Vicente.
This ball can give full play to his specialty.
"Deco! ！” Seeing a figure in the commentator’s exclamation is like an arrow from Liverpool’s defense line!
Vicente ran after the football at high speed, and the rest of the things became simple.
This is a standard single-handedly going to the meeting!
Vicente knocks down Polish goalkeeper Duddeck and shoots!
The football flew into the goal without any suspense.
"Vicente! ! Vicente! Valencia took the lead at home! It’s only been 17 minutes! Valencia has already led by 1! "
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In the cheers of Mestalla, Changsheng raised his fist
The test was successful!
Mad dog tactics can advance, attack and retreat, and defend against a pseudo-strong team like Liverpool. That’s really no pressure at all
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Valencia played more smoothly after leading, and now they can be aboveboard and more afraid of the earth to delay.
This scene made Liverpool players gnash their teeth, so they jumped even harder, trying to break the football and then directly fight Valencia back.
And the result?
English teams lack tactical literacy, but they don’t lack hard work and fighting spirit. When tactics are suppressed, hard work and fighting spirit have become an important factor for the players to die.
Valencia did the same and scored another goal.
This time Vicente assisted in the middle and followed Ibrahimovic to score a goal.
Valencia led by two goals before half-time.
The game lost its suspense.
When Ibrahimovic took off his jersey to show off his muscles, Houllier looked very ugly sitting in the coach’s seat.
He worked so hard to come up with a countermeasure!
It’s a good idea to hang the ball for a long time, but first of all, the football must be under their control. Now Liverpool has few chances to control the ball. What are the chances? Liverpool’s attack success rate is not 100%, so there is no way to kick your own team …