Coach, I want to play football!

Chapter 829 The midfield is actually empty?

Rainy night, losing the ball, falling behind.

This made Mourinho a little irritated. What made him even more irritated was that Pogba was shown a yellow card for protesting the referee's decision.

As a result, both Blind and Pogba, who are double midfielders, received yellow cards.

From aiming to get three points at Anfield, to down to one point.

The Madman does not intend to continue to lower his expectations. This game must be guaranteed to get one point no matter what.

In the 57th minute of the game, Manchester United, which was one goal behind, began to make substitutions.

Blind was replaced and followed by Belgian midfielder Fellaini.

Although they are both defensive midfielders, Fellaini has the ability to attack from behind, and he is not bad.

After Mourinho took office, he even tried to let Fellaini in the defensive midfielder position directly play as a guest center.

Mainly to take advantage of the Belgian's height and header advantages.

Now letting Fellaini play is naturally hoping to take advantage of the opponent's ability to penetrate from behind, and if it works, he can even play a double center with Ibrahimovic.

After completing the substitution, Manchester United's main focus was a cross from the wing, and the ball was thrown towards the center like a grenade.

Sometimes even Mata goes to the wing to cross.

Slowly, some changes occurred in Manchester United's formation. Most of the time, Fellaini stayed in the defensive midfielder position, but when Manchester United began to move down the wing or needed to cross at a 45-degree angle, he inserted back and reached Ibrahimovic.

This is only one goal behind. If it were two goals behind, Mourinho would probably have to replace a fast horse like Martial or Rashford.

Klopp naturally understands that just one goal lead will not kill Manchester United.

So he didn't ask the team to take it back, but continued to fight against the opponent!

However, during this period, Manchester United pressed higher, and the center and backcourt were slightly empty.

In the 63rd minute, Liverpool seized upon this void.

Luke Shaw made a cross to find Fellaini. Fellaini, who came in from behind, was full of momentum and beat Lovren to head the ball.

However, he did not hit the goal directly, but gave the shot to Ibrahimovic beside him.

At this time, Matip guessed the opponent's thoughts in advance, immediately stepped forward, and then jumped to save Fellaini's header.

Ibrahimovic immediately turned around to grab the second point, but the ball was taken by Leiva who came back. He then quickly gave the ball to Klein on the wing. Klein just got the ball and wanted to dribble it himself.

But he was quickly flanked by Luke Shaw who came back to defend and Rooney who came up, and lost the ball.

However, Henderson came back just in time. Just when Rooney took the ball and turned around to find his teammates in the penalty area, Henderson came back and regained the ball.

This time, Henderson didn't hit Klein's feet, but in front of him, which was equivalent to an advance.

Following Klein, he came in from the sideline and got the ball. With one stride, he launched a counterattack.

Luke Shaw was chasing after him, but he didn't give up.

Zhan Jun: "Both teams launched a fierce frontcourt press, but the ball was still won by Liverpool, Klein!"

Ye Qi saw the ball being picked out by his teammates, turned around and quickly moved forward!

This caught his old friend Bailly off guard, but Bailly reacted quickly and turned around to chase after him.

However, he was not too worried, because his position and Lovren's were relatively parallel, and Ye Qi was in an offside position after passing him.

At this time, unless Klein himself dribbled the ball into the penalty area and passed the ball, it would be offside.

Offside looks at the position of the receiver at the moment the ball is passed. But the person passing the ball breaks through himself, and there is no other defensive player in front of him. The pass at this position is naturally not offside, so it is called a single shot!

Pogba understands this, and Fellaini and Mata in the middle are pushing up. At this time, he is the only defensive midfielder.

At the same time, although Luke Shaw was not distanced by Klein, he did not look like he could defend and stop Klein.

So Pogba chose to move forward and intercept Klein who was dribbling the ball.

Bailly soon caught up with Ye Qi. As he expected, Ye Qi stopped running after realizing that he was in an offside position.

He wanted to say to Ye Qi: You should keep running!

But thinking that the best way to defend Ye Qi was to shut up, he kept his mouth shut.

Liverpool transitioned from defense to offense very quickly. Here, Klein dribbled the ball, and Ye Qi was at the forefront in the middle.

Coutinho and Mane on the left and right flanks are quickly following up behind Ye Qi. At the same time, behind Coutinho is the veteran Milner. This "little strong" who can't run to death is actually better than the one following up from behind in the middle. Wijnaldum has to move forward.

In terms of Manchester United's defense, center backs Bailly and Smalling are "retreating". They are on the left and right next to Ye Qi. They also have to watch out for Coutinho and Mane who are cutting in the ribs.

Pogba is forcing Klein, who is dribbling the ball, and Fellaini has just rushed into the penalty area. Although he is actively returning to defense at this time, he has just passed the center line, and his position is even behind Wijnaldum in the center.

Zhan Jun looked at this scene and said: "Manchester United is a bit dangerous. This defense can be easily penetrated!"

Liu Yue said: "After Little Blind came off the field, there was a lack of protection in front of the central defender. Pogba had to advance the attack, Fellaini also had to go forward to compete for the header, and Mata needless to say. "

Mata is also returning to defense, but his speed is relatively slow, and his defensive ability really cannot help much.

Mata was the best player in the team at Chelsea this season. At the same time, both league goals and assists were in double figures. He had the most 12 league goals in the team, second only to Lampard.

But it was such a performance that Mourinho was purged in his first season at Chelsea.

There are many reasons, two of which are slow speed and poor defense.

Of course, this is not Mata's fault, it is just that the tactics of the two do not match. But I didn't expect that Mourinho would sell Mata to himself two and a half years later...

Klein saw Pogba and immediately passed the ball diagonally to Coutinho on the other side.

Seeing this, Smallin said nothing and went out to press the Brazilians.

Coutinho stretched his foot to stop the ball without interference, but failed to stop it. The football hit his foot and rolled a meter away.

This just gave Smalling the confidence to speed up and rush towards Coutinho who was chasing the ball.

Zhan Jun: "Although there were some mistakes in this ball, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Liu Yue said: "It doesn't seem to be Coutinho's problem. His stopping skills are still guaranteed. It is probably because there was a lot of rain on the ball, so it was not stopped properly."

Fortunately, the ball didn't roll far, and Coutinho got the ball back before Smalling came up.

Smalling didn't stop. He didn't have a yellow card on him, so he planned to rush towards the opponent boldly.

There must be one person and one ball left!

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