Football’s First Defender
Chapter 512: Thrilling victory
In the penultimate round of the league, Liverpool went to London to challenge the mid-range team Crystal Palace.
Crystal Palace is the kind of team that ranked in the middle of the league and lost the league goal early.
However, Crystal Palace, which has been "holiday" and "played" for several games, seemed quite attentive to the role of "shit-chucking stick".
Both the players and the coaches made it clear before the game that they must fully show themselves in front of Liverpool.
Liverpool's away game to London is not easy.
Although Crystal Palace's home record is not too good, the record of 8 wins, 2 draws and 8 losses cannot be said to be extremely eye-catching.
However, there are few draws, which means that the probability of winning or losing is high. The change shows that Crystal Palace is the kind of team that doesn't kill you and you kill me.
Any team that encounters Crystal Palace, especially on their home court, must be careful of Crystal Palace and go crazy directly in the game.
This season, Crystal Palace is at its home court, but they have defeated Chelsea and Manchester United one after another. It can be seen that their players still want to be in a game with more spectators in the hopeless league environment. Brush your own sense of existence.
Every enterprising player just uses Crystal Palace as a springboard. They need to use the shortest time to complete the "leveling" in Crystal Palace and go to a bigger giant and a better team.
Now Liverpool only leads Manchester City by two points, and Manchester City, with the same terrifying offensive firepower of the team, is ahead of Liverpool in goal difference.
With two rounds left in the league, Liverpool has an unbeaten record and only 54 goal difference, while Manchester City's goal difference is now a terrifying 62.
It can be seen how many big-scoring victories Manchester City have played throughout the season.
Was questioned at the beginning, this kind of inhumane approach, but now it can be regarded as winning a slight advantage for Manchester City.
Liverpool cannot tolerate a tie with Manchester City unless Liverpool can use two rounds to smooth out the gap of these eight goal differences.
For Manchester City, as a chaser now, although they are two points behind, as long as they continue to maintain a winning streak, and Liverpool have made even one game error and did not win, even if they get a draw, Manchester City will eventually reverse the championship.
38 rounds of undefeated total runner-up, Liverpool can not bear such irony now.
Even if it can't win from Chelsea, at least the undefeated record is maintained. What Liverpool have to do is to strive for the remaining two games and win all without leaving any chance to the opponent.
In the away game, Rogers, who needs victory, will send Sturridge, who has completely recovered to his health.
The "3S" striker combination, plus the midfielder of Coutinho, Gerrard, and Lucas, and the team's constant defense line, Liverpool will take the game away directly.
Although Crystal Palace claimed to cause trouble for Liverpool before the game, at the beginning of the game, Liverpool easily occupied the absolute advantage on the scene.
Crystal Palace originally knew that defense was not their strong point, and wanted to fight Liverpool.
However, Liverpool's repressive offense and the pressing defense of the frontcourt have disrupted Crystal Palace's wishful thinking.
With wave after wave of offensive, Liverpool allowed Crystal Palace to give up unrealistic illusions and can only do a good job of defense first.
For Liverpool, on the back line, there is Yang Feng restricting the possible counterattack of Crystal Palace. Liverpool as a whole is extremely high. It is to use continuous offensive pressure to directly and quickly defeat Crystal Palace to avoid any unexpected factors.
In the 21st minute of the game, Liverpool, which has always had the initiative to attack, finally broke the deadlock on the field.
Gerrard's corner kick was taken, and Yang Feng's header after a vertical take-off in the middle of the field, with an excellent shooting angle, passed through the home team goalkeeper's ten fingers, helping the team temporarily take the lead 1-0.
The goal is scored first, and then things are very simple.
In the 38th minute of the first half, Sturridge replaced Sterling with Sterling in Liverpool's offensive.
Sturridge suddenly came to the right. After receiving the pass from Coutinho, he did not directly choose the bottom like Sterling did. Instead, he moved laterally with the ball in front of the penalty area.
Originally, Crystal Palace's defensive players kept following up, but with Coutinho's interspersed and Suarez's running position in the penalty area, the home team players' defensive attention for Strich was involved.
Sturridge caught the open space of the opponent's defense line, suddenly started to speed, after taking a step more horizontally, he directly left his foot and forced a volley outside the penalty area.
Hit a low flat ball, the ball is not fast, but the angle is extremely difficult, so that the home team goalkeeper's save turned into futile.
2 to 0, Liverpool further expanded the lead away.
Liverpool, which is leading 2-0, already have some winning tickets. What they need to do afterwards is to stabilize the situation in Pisa, win this game, and return to the home court to win the championship...
In the second half of the game, Liverpool's offensive, although much weaker than before, was still able to create a very threatening attack.
In the 58th minute of the match, Liverpool played an exquisite cooperation in the frontcourt.
Suarez, Coutinho and Sturridge passed consecutively, and finally Coutinho passed straight to find Sturridge in the penalty area.
Sturridge caught the ball with his back, leaning against the opponent's center back, but instead of turning around and hitting the goal, he swiped the ball horizontally and inserted Suarez to take advantage of the situation. After receiving the ball, he went directly into the small penalty area. .
Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Suarez made a calm low shot and went through the goalkeeper's wicket to extend the score to 3-0 for Liverpool!
Liverpool has almost secured the victory.
Countless people think that Liverpool, which has a three-goal lead, has stabilized, but the home team, which has just awakened from a dream, has since made a series of substitutions and adjustments in the center and front to enhance the team's offensive ability.
Perhaps it was only at the last home of the season that the team could score goals and save some face.
However, the sudden outbreak of the substitute striker at Crystal Palace almost made Liverpool suffer a big loss in the away game.
In the 76th minute of the game, the young forward Gail, who came off the bench, suddenly kicked the ball after receiving the ball in the penalty area.
It wasn't a long shot that was too threatening, but it was because he was hitting the defending area in the penalty area to complete a change of direction and flew into the goal.
1 to 3! Crystal Palace pulled back a goal.
The original gap between the two goals ~lightnovelpub.net~ can still allow Liverpool to do well in the subsequent games.
However, in the 82nd minute, the offensive of Crystal Palace came back.
A long pass from the home team's midfielder, through the chest of the Crystal Palace midfielder Delaney, put the ball into the Liverpool penalty area.
Gail's astute running position appeared directly beside Scott, Yang Feng's defense was not in place, and Gail had already taken the lead to complete the goal.
2 to 3!
After Gail played, he scored twice, allowing the home team to see hope again.
It also made Liverpool players suffer the most defensive pressure in the last 10 minutes.
Three goals ahead, if they are evened again, Liverpool can't bear such a result...
Fortunately, Yang Feng finally led the team to build a solid defense.
With a long shot from Gael's stoppage time, Yang Feng, who was defended, directly stretched his leg to intercept. This game is the most important away game for Liverpool and finally scored 3 points safely!
The team will return to Anfield to face the last opponent in the league, which is also the final battle on the way to the championship...
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