Chapter 91 Midfield Engine
When the Manchester United people rushed to the corner flag area to celebrate wildly, Anfield, which had fallen into silence, erupted. More than 50,000 home team fans desperately booed. They would not allow their mortal enemy to act so wildly on their own territory!
Amid the boos, Traore lowered his head, feeling frustrated.
He didn't know why things turned out like this. Shouldn't he have completed a beautiful defense and instigated the team's new attack? Why did he score an own goal? God, it shouldn't be like this!
Liverpool captain Hyypia was angry, but looking at Traore's almost collapsed state, he could no longer blame his poor teammate.
What's the use of blaming him at this time? Ruining a young and promising teammate?
This season, Traore's performance has been good. He has started almost all the previous games and is one of the contributors to the team's ability to maintain the top two positions in the Premier League.
Moreover, this own goal was really an accident... Well, maybe Traore also needs to bear some responsibility, he was a little careless...
Hyypia walked up to Traore, touched his bald head, and patted his shoulder without saying a word.
On the Sky TV Sports Channel, Lineker and Kirsty, who were co-commenting the game, were also shocked when they witnessed Traore scoring such an incredible own goal. Lineker used consecutive
"Unbelievable" several times, and Kirsty said "Stupid" several times in succession in shock. It took a lot of effort for the Liverpool fan to restrain himself from using harsher words.
Reporters from other media felt the same way after witnessing this: unbelievable, stupid mistake...
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When the game restarted, Liverpool made substitutions.
Houllier forced himself to resist the urge to replace Traore immediately, and finally followed his previous decision and replaced Baros with Heskey.
Liverpool, who were lagging behind, then launched a crazy counterattack, hoping to equalize the score in the shortest time. Otherwise, when Manchester United catches their breath, they are likely to suffer a defeat at home.
However, as the saying goes, "Haste makes waste", Liverpool's successive waves of strong attacks failed to break through Manchester United's goal. On the contrary, their own goal was lost in a quick counterattack by Manchester United.
In the 64th minute, the Manchester United goalkeeper kicked the ball from the backcourt. Near the center line, Yin Jun used a very coquettish scorpion tail swing to complete the control relay and kicked the ball towards Liverpool's penalty area.
Carragher blocked Van Nistelrooy behind him and grabbed the ball. However, under the pressure of Ruud van Nistelrooy, the Liverpool defender did not have the confidence to stop the ball, so he chose to return the ball with a header.
This choice is not wrong, but sometimes if you are unlucky, your teeth will get clogged if you drink cold water, and Liverpool's luck today is obviously not good.
Carragher's header pass to Dudek looked very simple and there shouldn't be any problems, but Dudek accidentally let go of the ball and his hands holding the ball were obviously deformed in his technical movements. As a result
The loose ball just landed at Fran's feet.
Facing this pie falling from the sky, the Uruguayan striker did not show an attitude of "not taking it for granted", but accepted it unceremoniously and easily pushed the ball into the undefended Liverpool goal.
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The Anfield stadium fell into dead silence again, and the singing of Liverpool fans stopped. They had begun to doubt life: What happened to Liverpool's luck today? In six minutes, two goals were conceded in a row due to incredible mistakes by their own players?
In contrast to the despair of Liverpool, Manchester United was overjoyed. The two thousand fans who came to Liverpool with the team in the stands burst into enthusiastic cheers. And on the bench of the visiting team on the sidelines
, Ferguson also clapped with a smile on his face.
They were all defeated, and the morale of Liverpool, which had lost two goals in a row, fell to a low point. However, Manchester United was unyielding and turned against the visitors, launching a fierce offensive towards Liverpool's goal.
In the 67th minute, Manchester United launched an offensive from the backcourt. Yin Jun played a very good role as the midfield hub. He received Scholes' pass, successfully broke through Liverpool's press, and distributed the ball to the left wing.
Giggs, who was in high spirits, chose to force his way through the two Liverpool defenders. After breaking through the two Liverpool defenders, Giggs didn't waste any time and reversed the ball into a triangle.
The ball was passed near the penalty area line.
There, Fran suddenly rushed forward and volleyed hard with the outside of his right foot. Dudek flew up and touched the ball with one palm, but the ball still flew into the near corner.
3:0, Manchester United leads the home team by a big score in the away game, almost sealing the victory!
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Liverpool is indeed an extremely tenacious team. If other teams were three goals behind, they might have collapsed and surrendered long ago, but Liverpool did not.
In the stands of Anfield Stadium, more than 50,000 home team fans sang: You will never walk alone!
Liverpool, which was originally demoralized, cheered up amid the chorus of tens of thousands of home team fans and launched a fierce attack on Manchester United's goal.
Just half a month ago, they performed a crazy performance in Switzerland after falling behind by three goals, but finally scored three goals to equalize the score. Now at Anfield, with the support of tens of thousands of home team fans, they did not feel despair.
Manchester United, with a three-goal lead, used more control of the ball, or used foul tactics to counter Liverpool's crazy counterattack, preventing Liverpool from having a loose opportunity to control the ball.
In the 68th minute, Forlan tackled Owen from behind. Sylvester held on to the ball and had a brief dispute with the opponent's player. Forlan and Sylvester were given yellow cards. When Liverpool took a free kick,
Players from the two teams argued again.
Seeing the Liverpool players arguing with the Manchester United fans, Kirsty became anxious for them.
Arguing with Manchester United players at this time is not just letting the opponent achieve the purpose of wasting time?
Houllier on the sidelines saw that something was wrong and quickly stopped the players from competing with Manchester United players. He also made the second substitution adjustment of the game, replacing midfielder Smic with forward Diouf.
Er, Liverpool changed to 433, Houllier decided to fight Ferguson.
The Senegal forward performed very well in this summer's World Cup in South Korea and Japan and was one of the major contributors to Senegal's entry into the quarterfinals. Houllier sent him because he had high hopes for him.
Chapter completed!