Born to be a coach [soccer]

Torres and Gerrard's injury and retreat, to a certain extent, led to the strength of Sunderland and Liverpool becoming closer, and the two sides were evenly matched.

Sure enough, both sides scored a goal in the second half, and the two sides played to a 1:1 tie.Liverpool advanced the goal, while captain Garner withstood the pressure and scored a goal in stoppage time to equalize the score and drag this FA Cup third round knockout game into extra time.

From the end of the main game to the start of overtime, players have no time to go back to the locker room to rest.Sunderland's players gathered directly on the sidelines, while the team doctor relaxed their leg muscles while listening to Anton's final tactical arrangements.

"Liverpool is really unlucky in this game. Because of injuries, Benitez was forced to use up three substitutions one after another." BBC commentator Fletcher said loudly into the microphone, "But the visiting team, the visiting team What changes will the coach make? Let's not forget that they have a striker who has scored a dozen goals this season and is sitting on the bench."

"Sunderland's head coach, Anton, will he replace Darren Vincent in overtime? I heard that there are recent rumors about Vincent's transfer. Well, Anton still has two substitutes. The quota has not been used up... There is no movement from the fourth official, it seems that Anton still chose to save the opportunity to change people until the end..."

Vincent sat on the bench with a gloomy expression on his face.He was very complicated: it was indeed his fault that he violated the rules and contacted other clubs before, but he did not expect that the head coach was really willing to let go and just kept him on the bench.

Vincent could understand that in order to maintain the discipline of the team and the authority of the head coach, the club must show some "color" to the players who made mistakes.However, the head coach really doesn't care about winning or losing this game?Or, he was not in the head coach's plan, and Anton didn't care if he was in the game or not?

The referee blew the whistle to start overtime.Players from both sides continued to run and fight on the field.Anton watched coldly from the sidelines, and saw that Sunderland's players were in good physical condition.Especially Eriksson, although he is young and has already run more than [-] meters on the field, he is still faster than a galloping horse, and he can't stop it even if he breaks through.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and 15 minutes passed quickly.The players took a short break to prepare for overtime in the second half.Anton still has no intention of changing Vincent up to this time.At this time, even the Sunderland fans in the visiting team's stands couldn't sit still-could the head coach really want to watch the game dragged into a penalty shootout?But even in a penalty shootout, Vincent is one of the best penalty shooters in the team.

At this time, Anton finally asked Vincent to warm up. Apart from Vincent, there were several players warming up together.Vincent got up with a proud face, and started to exercise his muscles, thinking in his heart that it would be best to score a goal in the final stage of the game, so as to increase his transfer weight.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the situation on the field changed suddenly.Eriksson broke into the penalty area, and the Liverpool defender was a step slower when defending. He failed to touch the ball first, and instead tripped Eriksson to the ground.The referee blew his whistle and pointed to the penalty spot.Liverpool's field captain Carragher stepped forward to defend, but the referee did not mean to change the sentence.Sunderland won a penalty kick before the end of extra time.

Vincent jumped vigorously on the sidelines, turned to look at Anton arrogantly, waiting for Anton to speak and put himself on, so that he could take the penalty kick.

Unexpectedly, Anton didn't even look at him, and went straight to the field and stretched out his hand to say "one": the team's number one penalty shooter is not Vincent, but the captain Garner on the field.This is the discipline of the team: as long as the No. [-] penalty shooter is on the field, the penalty kick will be taken by Ghana, and even Eriksson, who made the point, will not pass Ghana.

Since Anton took office, he has repeatedly emphasized this discipline in the team. Anyone who dares to violate the discipline must bear full responsibility.So at this moment, the captain Garner is under pressure and standing in front of the penalty spot.Other players, such as Eriksson, all stood behind Garner.The boys are all concentrated and ready to make up shots at any time.

The referee blew the whistle, Garner took a deep breath, looked up at Liverpool's goalkeeper Reina, then ran up, raised his foot and shot angrily-everyone's heart was in their throats, and they saw the ball drifting towards the goal In the middle... On the other hand, Reina has already jumped to the right of the goal, he is still in the air, and it is no longer possible to go back to the middle. He can only watch the ball fly into the goal.

Garner actually kicked a scoop penalty.

"Spoon penalty kick" is close to a lob shot. After all, when saving a penalty kick, the goalkeeper's reaction is usually to throw to one side of the goal.The player who takes the penalty kick can choose to lob the football to the middle, and the trajectory of the ball is shaped like a spoon, so it is called "spoon penalty kick".

The "spoon penalty kick" is very difficult, and it must be very deceptive before kicking, pretending to shoot to the side of the goal but actually hanging gently to the middle, which has a high impact on the player's skills and strength Requirements, otherwise it will be self-defeating.Ghana's kick not only reflects the Albanian's footwork, but also a manifestation of his growing self-confidence.

At this time, there was a sigh of frustration from the Anfield audience, mixed with the cheers of the Sunderland fans.Then there was a burst of applause from the audience.Obviously Garner's scoop penalty kick is very subtle and has won the respect of many Anfield fans.

Vincent was on the sidelines at this time, dumbfounded watching Garner's "spoon penalty".He knew that Anton's choice was right, and even if he made a penalty, he would never make a better penalty than Garner.

But at this time, it is even more impossible for Anton to replace Vincent. He still has two substitutions. After a while, Vincent was fine again and sat back.

At this time, there were only five or six minutes left before the end of the game.Even if the home team fell behind by one goal, the Anfield fans continued to spare no effort to support the home team and cheer loudly.

The Sunderland players felt tremendous pressure at this time: the Liverpool players burst out of physical strength out of nowhere, and launched wave after wave of attacks towards Sunderland's goal.Sunderland's players have all returned to their own half, and most of them gathered in front of the penalty area, trying to block the opponent's final counterattack.

Vincent was sitting idly on the bench at the moment, and heard the assistant coach Russell sitting next to him muttering repeatedly: "Hold on, you must hold on!" The voice was extremely anxious.

But for Vincent, if he doesn't play, this game has nothing to do with him.So he doesn't care whether Sunderland defends to the end or Liverpool equalizes the score. "So what if you win this game, can you really win the FA Cup?" Vincent laughed secretly at his teammates.

"After this match, don't you still want to continue playing in the English Championship? And me, I'm going to the Premier League!" Vincent thought.

"God—"

"Pity--"

As Liverpool player Dirk Dirk's tricky shot was saved by Halldosson, the game was coming to an end.When Halldosson made a big kick, the referee on duty blew the final whistle.

Sunderland fans cheering and celebrating in the visiting team's fan area.In contrast, the fans of the home team Liverpool just stood in silence, swallowing the bitterness of the team's home defeat.

Football games are like that, there are winners and losers.The pain of the loser can only set off the joy of the winner.It's just that no one in the world will always lose, and there will also be no permanent winner...

"This was a very tough game. The two sides played for a total of 120 minutes. Sunderland won the game with the help of captain Garner's 'spoon penalty'." BBC commentator Fletcher's voice was sonorous and powerful. "In this game, Liverpool's luck was really bad. Torres was injured in the 26th minute, captain Gerrard was injured at half-time, and all the substitutions of Benitez were forced substitutions. In contrast , Sunderland executed the head coach's tactics very well today... Didn't Bei Shuai also expect that his 460 formation would be carried forward in the hands of young latecomers?"

Anton said at the post-match press conference: "Today I would like to thank all the players in the team, whether on the field or on the bench, they worked together today and perfectly executed the tactics arranged before the game. We tried our best. But I have to admit that we won this game, maybe just a little luck than our opponent."

"I sincerely hope that the few players who have been injured and retired by Liverpool are not seriously injured." At the end of the press conference, Anton said.

The day after the game, however, news came from Liverpool that Fernando Torres, the leading striker and Spanish golden boy, was being examined for a knee injury and might need surgery.Once the operation, it means that Torres needs at least six weeks to start recovery training.This is not a small blow to Liverpool.Fans all over the world who like Golden Boy are worried about this.

Captain Gerrard suffered a hamstring injury and will be able to return to the game after a two-week break.

Madrid, Ronaldo happened to be watching this Liverpool game.He doesn't know what's wrong, but he will watch a match between a British Championship team and his "mortal enemy"—no, he has left the Red Devils Manchester United, Liverpool is no longer his "mortal enemy", and now he is also in La Liga. is.

When he saw the end of the game and the Championship team won the game to celebrate, Ronaldo realized that the reason why he stopped to watch the broadcast just now was because he remembered someone who said that the team he coached was going to play Liverpool coming?

Prior to this, Ronaldo never thought that there would be a Championship team against Liverpool at Anfield and eventually won the game.

At this time, the TV broadcast screen cut to the face of the young head coach of the visiting team. The young man's slightly curly short black hair was slightly raised in the night wind on the west coast of England, and the pair of gray-blue eyes behind the wide-rimmed glasses With a faint smile - such a young head coach is really surprising.Then the voice of the commentary sounded: "This is Anton, the head coach of the Sunderland team. He is leading the players to express their gratitude to the fans of the visiting team who came from afar for their support."

Sunderland?

Ronaldo seemed to understand something at once, and immediately searched the news of the game on his mobile phone until he saw the name of the head coach of the visiting team: Antonio Lin.

Antonio?

Anton?

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...Player A?

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