The fifteen minutes of halftime passed quickly. Liverpool players wearing red jerseys and Manchester United players wearing blue returned to the court one after another to prepare for the exciting game in the second half.

There were no substitutions on the sidelines. It can be seen that both Klopp and Mourinho were satisfied with their employment in the first half.

"Beep~"

Anthony Taylor blew his whistle, and a fanatical game atmosphere broke out over the Anfield Stadium again, and the cheers came one after another. The

Manchester United players, who had the advantage of kick-off, sought stability and chose to pass the ball first in the midfield and backcourt. , opened up the offensive formation.

Liverpool changed from the Buddhist attack and defense in the second half of the first half, and suddenly strengthened the press. Fortunately, Herrera reacted quickly, made a clearance, and kicked the football towards the Liverpool half.

The placement was not very good, Yi Brahimovic glanced at the football and gave up taking off. The football missed and was easily picked up by Karius after bouncing off the ground. The ball changed hands and the Manchester United players filed back into their own half.

With home court advantage, Liverpool began to try to take the ball from both wings, with Firmino Sturridge responsible for the top position. Unfortunately, the two were short of height and could not get the ball in the joint defense of Bailly and Smalling.

The cross failed to work, and Klopp's team launched plan C, hoping to involve the Manchester United defense through penetration in the midfield and frontcourt, and then Henderson or Coutinho would send exquisite passes to penetrate the Manchester United defense.

Many times The idea is too perfect, but it is a bit difficult to implement.

Mourinho started defensively, and it was an away game. How could he dare to be too presumptuous? He must give priority to defense and then wait for opportunities to counterattack.

Rashford and Van Kerry, the fastest players in the team, are on the same field. The purpose of starting the game is to counterattack!

Liverpool strengthened their offense, which is exactly what they want.

Klopp keenly observed that Van Kerry was much more active than in the past, and his return rate was extremely high. He tried to take advantage of Blind behind him several times. The openings were missed by Van Carey in advance.

Mourinho naturally noticed Van Carey's active defense. He is not as easy to fool as Faria. I always feel that there is something wrong with Van Carey's condition today. He is so good at running!

In addition to his technique His ability was as outstanding as ever, and he was like two different people when running.

I don't know if he was trying to comfort himself, but he muttered:"I hope I can really break through the physical limit."~"

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Liverpool, who have strengthened their offense, have greatly improved their ball possession rate, from a slight lead to 64 points now, and it is still improving.

Klopp was not happy because of the improvement in statistics. On the contrary, he was full of worries.

Continuous offense cannot lead to goals, and it is very likely that goals will be conceded.

Thinking of this, he quickly shook his head and put this terrible thought behind him. Then he looked at the bench and shouted to Lallana:"Adam, go warm up and come back in five minutes." The second half of the game reached ten Minutes later, Mourinho realized that the team should make adjustments to the lineup, and Martial, Lingard, Rooney and Mata went to the warm-up area.

This scene was captured by the live broadcast. Xinying Sports commentator Jin Xiangkai said:"Mourinho seems to be not satisfied with Manchester United's offensive state. Both Martial and Lingard can maintain pressure on Liverpool from the wing. Rooney He and Mata can strengthen the connection between the midfield and the backcourt. Who should be replaced?"

"aoaaooooooo——"

Five minutes passed very quickly in a high-level event. Lallana came to the coaching bench, listened to Klopp's explanation of tactics, and put on the jersey handed by the staff.

Liverpool was still organizing the offense on the field. Coutinho was holding the ball about 35 meters away from the goal in the middle. Considering that he had already scored a wonderful goal in this game, the Manchester United defensive players did not give him any more kicks. Foot chance.

Coutinho, who likes long shots, saw that the opportunity was not good, so he had to pass it to Klein on the right, who passed the ball directly without stopping.

Both Coutinho and Mane were unhappy. There was only Sturridge, who was not very strong, in the penalty area, and the cross would certainly not pose a threat. as expected!

Smalling pushed the ball out of the penalty area at the front point. Fellaini, who was guarding the arc area of ​​the penalty area, relayed the header and the football flew towards Pogba.

Emre Can got past him immediately and didn't let Pogba turn around.

Pogba didn't even think about turning around. He stuck in position, with his back to Emre Can, facing his own baseline, raising his left foot, and the arch of his foot will fly the football end at waist height to the right.

The football flew towards left back Blind. Emre Can pushed with both hands and used the force fed back from Pogba's back to turn the corner again, cooperating with Klein to press Blind.

Klopp, who was standing in the home team coach's command area, felt strongly uneasy. When he looked at Van Carey who ran out of the space, his heart skipped a beat.

Almost at the same moment, Blind, who had caught the ball, stopped the football, looked up for Van Carey, stepped forward with his right foot, and quickly launched a powerful low pass with his left foot.

The football quickly rolled from the defensive left to the left front rib, sticking to the ground, exactly in the same direction as Van Carey's acceleration.

Klein participated in the attack and was out of position. Henderson, the extremely restless deep-lying midfielder, took action directly, preventing Van Kerry from rushing forward.

He grabbed the jersey tightly with his right hand. He didn't know whether it was because the quality of the jersey was too poor or because Van Kerry's forward movement was too strong. With a hiss, a large piece of blue fabric was torn off the blue No. 7 jersey.

At the same time, Fan Carey, who was speeding up with all his strength, felt a resistance coming from in front of him, and his upper body leaned back slightly, but the push that followed quickly restored his center of gravity.

His balance ability is very good, he swings his arms quickly, adds another level of speed, and chases the football at full speed.

Matip looked at the football that was getting closer to him, and ignored Van Kerry, who was running faster and faster, and chose to fall to the ground decisively and shovel.

Just complete the rescue!

The accompanying hurtful actions have nothing to do with me!

Sooner or later, Van Kerry, who was running faster and faster, extended his right foot while running, lifted the rolling football up with his toes, and used the inertia of his landing right foot to take off and jump over Matip who fell to the ground. Jumped over.

Matip didn't expect Van Carey to move so fast, so there were no additional moves, so Van Carey jumped over easily.

Lovren is in a panic now. His one-on-one defensive ability is weak, his speed is slow, and he has no teammates around him to help him.

Van Carey is getting closer and closer, and there is only so much he can do

"foul!"

Klopp stood on the sidelines and roared wildly, but the boos that broke out in Anfield were so loud that his voice could not reach Lovren's ears.

Van Kerry dribbled the ball across the center line and rushed towards Lovren.

He didn't Using fancy dribbling moves, when the two of them were still two meters away, the outside instep of his right foot moved the ball forward to the right.

Forcibly accelerating in disguised form!

The speed is overwhelming!

The weakness of Lovren, who is 1.88 meters tall and has a slow turn speed, was infinitely Zoom in, it's not much different from a wooden stake standing there, Van Carey dodged past him before completing his turn……

"Single sword!"

Klopp closed his eyes in pain.

Just when Karius was about to attack, he saw Van Carey adjust his steps, pick up his right foot forty meters away from the goal, and the football shot up from the ground across the sky. He gave up the struggle at the penalty area line……

"Goooooooooooooal——"

The football in mid-air hit the snow-white net along a parabola, and the iconic elongated voice of Sky Britannia commentator Andy Gray echoed through the Anfield commentary box.

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