Football Superstar Training System

Chapter 127 So Close, Yet So Far
August NO.18, at 8000:2012 pm local time in the UK, the Hawthorns Stadium was already packed. West Brom’s home stadium, which can accommodate more than 13 people, is about to start the first round of the [-]-[-] Premier League between the home team and Liverpool.

When the starting players of both sides walked out of the player tunnel, the big screen of the stadium also specially gave Lin Tian a close-up. All the fans of the Hawthorn Stadium saw this handsome Bundesliga golden boot through the big screen.But not everyone welcomes Lin Tian. Many extreme West Brom fans still boo Lin Tian, ​​because most of them have watched Lin Tian's game, so they don't believe that Lin Tian is really that good.

Lin Tian, ​​wearing jersey No. 7, stood at the end of the team and waited for the end of the pre-match ceremony. He didn't care about the boos of the West Brom fans. He was used to it. Could the West Brom fans be more terrifying than the extreme fans of Schalke 04?
As for the No. 7 jersey on his body, because Carroll left this summer, Suarez was also very willing to take over the No. 9 jersey, so the No. 7 jersey that was originally Suarez went to Lin Tian.

Although he doesn't care about the boos of the extreme fans of West Brom, but as his first Premier League match, Lin Tian is a little nervous while being excited.

Different from the previous warm-up matches, today is the real first game of the Premier League. Standing on the court, Lin Tian also took a deep breath to calm his emotions.

In Liverpool's lineup for the first round of the new season, coach Rodgers sent two new aids, Joe Allen and Lin Tian, ​​to start the game.At the same time, this game is also captain Gerrard's 250th appearance as Liverpool captain.

An embarrassing yet terrific number!

Goalkeeper: Reina.

Linebackers: Glenn Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Martin Kelly.

Back midfielder: Lucas, Joe Allen.

Midfielder: Gerrard.

Front midfielder: Lin Tian, ​​Tang Ning.

Forward: Suarez.

Rogers played a new formation in his debut as Liverpool's head coach in the new season, not because Rogers was too inflated, but because Rogers felt that Liverpool's formation was strong enough.

And judging from past encounters, Liverpool can be regarded as the nemesis of West Brom. Since West Brom first landed in the Premier League in the 2002-03 season, Liverpool have played against them in 12 games and achieved a brilliant record of 10 wins and 2 losses.Among them, Liverpool's away record is 5 wins and 1 loss. The only loss at the Hawthorns was a 0-1 loss to West Brom last April.

From the beginning of the game, Liverpool had the advantage in possession of the ball. Lin Tian also threw away his previous nervousness when he devoted himself to the game.

After the opening 10 minutes, Liverpool launched its first offensive.Gerrard intercepted West Brom center Sean Long's dribble in his own half. After successfully stealing the ball, Gerrard quickly passed the ball over the top to the left side of the front field.

Lin Tian, ​​who was on the left side, started to accelerate and ran towards the first point of the ball. This was the first time Lin Tian showed his speed and breakthrough ability in the Premier League. Lin Tian quickly swept past West Brom's midfielder Mulumbu. After a gust of wind passed by his ear, Mulumbu turned around and realized that Lin Tian had brought the ball to the front of the penalty area.

In front of the penalty area, defender Steven Reid is responsible for marking Lin Tian. The only advantage of this veteran who is ten years older than Lin Tian may be his rich defensive experience.

But Lin Tian didn’t think so. Facing Steven Reid who was marking him, Lin Tian touched the ball with the outside of his right foot, then turned his ankle and quickly cut back to the inside of his body.

Lin Tian, ​​who entered the penalty area, faced the West Brom defender who came up to defend, and passed the ball back in an inverted triangle to Suarez, who was already in place in the middle of the penalty area. Suarez followed up and scored with a low shot in front of the goal.

1-0!

Liverpool scored first!
After the goal, Suarez did not forget to give Lin Tian a high-five to celebrate.

The West Brom fans in the stands were still surprised by Lin Tian's speed and breakthrough just now, while some fans who booed Lin Tian before were even more stunned. They finally realized that they underestimated the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

At the same time, the two British Sky Sports commentators who were in charge of the commentary were also surprised.

"Oh! It's really surprising. We completely underestimated Liverpool's Bundesliga golden boot. His speed is too fast, and even the tail of the bull is fast and perfect. It's unbelievable." Gary Neville, a former England international who just came to Sky Sports as a commentator and a famous Manchester United star, said in surprise.

"It's really too fast. In my memory, Chinese players can have such a fast speed. It was Sun's clearance in front of Manchester City. But today, another Chinese player appeared in the Premier League. Lin, he is much faster than Sun!" said 59-year-old Martin Taylor, who has been working on Sky Sports for many years and is also one of the top ten commentators in England.

What the two commentators said was for the fans in front of the TV, Lin Tian naturally couldn't hear it, even if he heard it, Lin Tian just smiled and said nothing.

West Brom kicked off in the middle circle and the game restarted.Liverpool's long possession of the ball on the field makes it difficult for West Brom to find opportunities to attack, but the "Red Army" is increasingly creating murderous opportunities in front of the goal.

No. In the 207th minute, Joe Allen stepped in and sent "cannonballs" to Suarez. Suarez swayed twice in the frontcourt and passed another midfielder Jacob of West Brom.

West Brom's two defensive midfielders were unlucky today, one was bullied by Lin Tian with speed, and the other was a bit lost by Suarez.

After passing Jacob, Suarez lightly smashed the ball from the outside of the penalty area to find a shot from the side of West Brom defender Olsson.

It's a pity that the guidance ability of the "cannonball" is not accurate enough, and the ball was easily saved by West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster.

Afterwards, Liverpool launched an attack again. Glenn Johnson moved forward. Lin Tian tore apart West Brom's defense line again and again with Glenn Johnson's consecutive beautiful twos and ones in the frontcourt. Lin Tian repeated his tricks on the edge of the penalty area.

"Once again, Lin made West Brom's defense line on his side feel full of crisis! If this continues, they will lose the ball sooner or later." Gary Neville said very confidently.

"I think so. If he continues to put pressure on West Brom's defense, then the entire defense will be pierced, and then there will be big trouble." Martin Taylor also agrees with his partner's point of view.

I also agree with the West Brom coach Clark who is commanding from the sidelines. Clark can only shout loudly on the sidelines to call his players two or three to defend Lin Tian, ​​and he does not have a chance to play with Lin Tian.

Until the end of the first half, West Brom finally had a good counterattack opportunity. Sean Lang used his body to force the ball when he was fighting for the ball with Joe Allen in the frontcourt.

At the same time, the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the two sides entered the intermission.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Liverpool, which had already taken the lead, still had an absolute advantage on the field, and also took advantage of the advantage of possession to slow down the pace of the game.

Under Liverpool's possession, the time on the field was consuming every minute and every second, and West Brom were increasingly eager to equalize.But what makes West Brom's offensive players uncomfortable is that they don't have the ball, they can only press for it by themselves, and they give the opponent a chance by stepping forward to grab the ball.

No.609 minutes, Guerra, who was constantly pressing, also forced Lucas, who was holding the ball, to pass the ball forward with his big foot when he stepped forward to steal the ball.

On the left side of the front court, the ball rolled towards Mulumbu after it fell, and Mulumbu also ran towards the ball. At the same time, Lin Tian was also running, farther away from the ball than Mulumbu, but faster than him.

The two rushed towards the ball face to face. When Mulumbu was about to rush in front of the ball, he felt a little proud in his heart, thinking that he could already hold the ball.

"Haha, no matter how fast you are, it's useless, the ball is still mine."

Mulumbu regretted it less than a moment after he had this idea, because when he wanted to touch the ball with his feet, Lin Tian rushed ahead of him and stabbed the ball behind him.

The next moment, Lin Tian continued to accelerate and ran from Mulunbu's side to chase the ball, while Mulumbu, who wanted to turn around and chase back, watched Lin Tianyuan go again.

"There you are, so close, yet so far away."

If you want to ask Mulumbu what he wants to say to Lin Tian who is away, this must be Mulumbu's truest thought.

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