Chapter 90
Marseille’s round own goal
In a world-famous double-red match, the two sides played 0:0 in the first half, but no one who has watched the game would think that this half was a boring half. Except for goals, this first half had almost everything.
All elements that a game should have.
After the halftime break, neither side made any personnel adjustments. Generally speaking, the performance of both players in the first half was pretty good. Even Manchester United's goalkeeper Butters almost lost the ball due to his butter hand, but Manchester United's substitute
The goalkeeper is not much better than Butters, or even worse than Butters.
Moreover, as far as football matches are concerned, as long as the goalkeeper does not cause outrage, the goalkeeper is rarely replaced. Nine times out of ten when a goalkeeper is replaced, it is because he is injured and cannot continue to play.
After the start of the second half, the home team still took the initiative, but it was difficult for both sides to get chances in front of the goal. Both Heskey and Diouf began to warm up on the sidelines.
Obviously, Houllier, who is playing at home, is even more impatient than Ferguson. In such an important game as the Double Red Club, if Liverpool loses at home, it will definitely suffer huge pressure from public opinion, and may even be in danger of dismissal.
In the 58th minute, Manchester United launched another counterattack. This time, Yin Jun took the initiative to pull to the right, and he decided to join Solskjaer to attack Liverpool's left.
After the previous hour of the game, Yin Jun has discovered that the 22-year-old Liverpool left-back has an obvious shortcoming: he is impatient but likes to show off his skills!
The Mali international, who was born in France, has inherited the talents of black people. He is very strong and has extraordinary confrontation ability, but his skills are relatively average, and because of his tall stature, his turning speed is slow, but he likes to show off his football skills.
Compared to Carragher on the other side, Traore is obviously more likely to open up the situation.
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Manchester United's counterattack was very fast, which caused some confusion in Liverpool's defense. After Yin Jun dribbled the ball past the center line, he passed the ball behind the Liverpool defense, intending to find Solskjaer.
The Norwegian forward was in very good condition today. He also anticipated Yin Jun's pass and quickly went down to chase the ball.
As Liverpool retreated in panic, captain Hyypia took the initiative to pull out to defend Solskjaer because he was positioned further back. At the same time, he directed the left-back Traore, who had been relieved by Solskjaer, to fill his position.
Following the captain's instructions, Traore, as a young player in the team, did not dare to disobey. From the corner of the penalty area, he ran diagonally towards the front post of the goal, filling the gap left after Hypia pulled to the left wing.
As the captain of Liverpool, the 29-year-old Hyypia is undoubtedly the first-class central defender in today's world football. However, he faces Solskjaer, who is in excellent form today. In the entanglement between the two, Solskjaer is still
Gaining a slight upper hand, he carried Hyypia and passed the ball to the small penalty area.
However, this cross seemed more like a forced one, because there were no Manchester United players in Liverpool's small penalty area at the moment. Ruud van Nistelrooy and Forlan hadn't come up yet, and Solskjaer was running in front.
Slightly behind is Yin Jun who has passed the ball, and Giggs who is outflanking him at the back point.
But with Solskjaer's weak pass, it was completely impossible to pass through Liverpool's penalty area and reach the back point.
As for the front point, Traore is also in front of Yin Jun. He is tall and blocks Yin Jun like a wall.
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Although there seemed to be no chance of grabbing the football under Traore's blockage, Yin Jun did not give up and followed Traore closely, waiting for an opportunity to get around.
Traore didn't pay much attention to the kid behind him in such a deadly enemy formation. Although the kid performed very well in the World Cup this summer, his performance in the past few months after joining Manchester United was also remarkable.
But in Traore's view, it was because Manchester United did not encounter any strong opponents that allowed Yin Jun to perform like that.
Traore also felt that Yin Jun had been following him. He didn't understand. What was the point of that kid doing this? It was completely impossible to grab the ball before him. Why was he wasting his energy?
Traore shook his head secretly. He planned to teach that self-righteous Eastern boy a lesson and let him see what a truly world-class defender looked like.
With this in mind, Traore ran to the football, but he did not choose to kick the ball out of the baseline to complete the clearance, nor did he choose to pass the ball to goalkeeper Dudek. He made an action that surprised everyone: pull.
The ball turns!
Traore chose to use a Marseille spin move to complete the defense against Yin Jun, and then pass the ball out, allowing the team to immediately launch a counterattack!
Traore was imagining how warm applause and cheers the home fans would give him after he completed such a beautiful defense, as well as the surprised expression of the Oriental boy behind him...
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Traore did see Yin Jun's surprised expression, but he did not hear the applause and cheers of the home fans, but heard a violent exclamation!
Because Traore’s Marseille slalom was a mess!
Because he was doing this Marseille slalom in the process of quickly returning to defense, Traore was a little confused at his feet. In addition, there were some deviations in his judgment of the trajectory of the football. As a result, there was a problem with his pulling the ball.
It did not pass over Yin Jun behind him, but slipped between his legs.
Similarly, Traore also made a mistake in judging the position of Yin Jun behind him. After Yin Jun approached him, he judged in advance that Traore had no intention of directly resolving the siege and took a step back.
.Then, when Traore completed the Marseille slalom turning action, the two people came face to face.
And Yin Jun's surprised expression was not because a big dark face appeared in front of his face, but because in the corner of his sight, he happened to see the football being pulled by Traore, crossing a line.
The weird arc bypassed Liverpool goalkeeper Dudek and rolled into Liverpool's goal!
In other words, the Liverpool left-back in front of him used a very cool Marseille spin move to score the ball into his own goal!
At that moment, Yin Jun was really shocked: Is this okay?
As for the more than 50,000 home team fans at Anfield Stadium, as well as the Liverpool players on the field, and Liverpool coach Houllier on the sidelines, everyone was shocked: Liverpool fell behind because one of their own players scored an incredible own goal?
After a burst of exclamations, Anfield suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
Yin Jun, on the other hand, rushed towards the corner flag area with his hands raised high.
Although he did not score the goal, it was our team that took the lead after all, which is something worth celebrating.
Chapter completed!