Volume 1: When a Hero Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 57: Marseille Made the Wrong Calculation (Seventh Update, Please Vote for Me!)

Chapter 57: Marseille made the wrong calculation (Seventh update, please vote for me!)

Marseille's head coach Elie Pope knows how difficult it is to play Liverpool away from home, and he also knows exactly what Martin O'Neill's idea is.

Because he and Martin O'Neill thought of going together.

The two teams now have the same points, and in terms of goal difference, Liverpool has the advantage. Therefore, Liverpool is currently ranked first in the group.

If Marseille wants to qualify as first in the group, they have to find a way in direct dialogue with Liverpool.

In the away game, Pop plans to let the team play defensive counterattack, first solidify the defense, and then wait for opportunities to sneak attacks. If there are no good opportunities, then there will be no need for sneak attacks and just focus on defense. As long as they can draw with Liverpool on the road and return to home, Marseille can find a way to beat them.

Pope really has such confidence, and I don’t know whether to say that he believes too much in his players, or that he underestimates Liverpool’s strength...

In fact, he was relatively well prepared, but he underestimated Chen Yingxiong's determination to compete for the top scorer in the Champions League - before this round of league games, Real Madrid's game had been played, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored another goal in the game. , now has scored five goals in three Champions League games, ranking first in the scorer list.

How could Chen Yingxiong sit back and watch the gap between him and himself widen?

In this game, Martin O'Neill needs a victory, while Chen Yingxiong needs to score. When Marseille embarks on the journey, their fate seems to have been doomed...

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"Hero! Hero! Hero!!!"

The fans in the stands gave a huge cheer.

Chen Yingxiong, whose name was called by them, was under the kop stand, waving his fist vigorously and matching the rhythm of the fans' shouting.

"Hero - this is his fourth goal in the Champions League this season! He scored for Liverpool with a header!"

"The game only started 20 minutes ago, and Liverpool took the lead! They scored again without any suspense!"

"Marseille defended with all their strength from the start of the game, but they still failed to defend against Liverpool's onslaught of attacks!"

Harry Levy, who took over from Hartson to commentate on the Liverpool game, shouted: "Welcome to Anfield, Marseille guys!"

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Pope saw the Liverpool players celebrating the goal on the sidelines. He waved his hands in annoyance, looking helpless.

This lost ball...the hero's aerial advantage is too obvious.

Now that your team has conceded a goal, what should you do?

Pop's decision was to continue to defend and fight defensively.

Now that a goal has been conceded, the first task now is not to equalize the score as soon as possible, but to try not to concede any more goals in the next game.

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After Chen Yingxiong scored, he did not stop. His team's desire to score will never be satisfied.

Besides, the Portuguese was still pressing on him.

He must pull him off himself!

Facing such a Chen Yingxiong, Marseille still wants to keep the tie? What a wishful thinking!

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Pope's intention was not to concede any more goals before the end of the first half, and before the 43rd minute, it looked like his team had a good chance of accomplishing this goal.

Then in the 43rd minute, Chen Yingxiong personally shattered his dream.

Liverpool launched an attack from the wing and the football was passed to the center. This time it was not a high ball, so the Marseille defenders had to relax a little more defensively against Chen Yingxiong - Chen Yingxiong's header is so famous that some people will forget it sometimes. In fact, Chen Yingxiong is now a very versatile center.

You must know that Chen Yingxiong once forced himself to use his right foot for a season because of safety issues with headers, so his ability to score with his feet has long been developed.

Chen Yingxiong stepped forward, received the ball before the Marseille defender, turned around and shot. Chen Yingxiong's shot was so fast and tricky that Marseille goalkeeper Mandanda didn't react in time. When he had time to wave upward, the football had already rushed into the goal!

"Beautiful! Beautiful! Hero! He scored twice!"

"The hero's movements are too agile! They are completely inconsistent with his height of 1.96 meters!"

"Before the end of the first half, two heroic goals helped Liverpool take the lead! Now Marseille is facing a crisis, will they make any adjustments during the halftime break?"

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Bullshit adjustment!

Pop cursed in his heart, but he didn't know whether to scold Chen Yingxiong or his own players.

The first half was about to end, but the opponent actually seized an opportunity to expand the lead...

All the calculations were in vain!

As soon as the ball was lost, everything about continuing to defend and waiting for opportunities to counterattack...all came to nothing.

Marseille has no choice or confidence to continue to defend. All Marseille players know that they are now in danger. If they are asked to continue to defend during the halftime break, they must strictly implement tactical requirements. No matter how high Pop's prestige is, I'm afraid it won't work.

What if it's an attack... Pop frowned.

He knew what would happen if he attacked, but did he choose? Can he keep his players from attacking? If not, won’t the players attack on their own? Players are people with thoughts and brains, not cold statistics. They have their own ideas.

Rather than letting them attack without any structure according to their own ideas, it is better to organize it yourself. Maybe it will be effective...

Pop, who had made up his mind, did not watch the first half of the game. He walked off the court early and returned to the locker room.

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In the second half, the Marseille team really opened up its posture and attacked Liverpool.

Pop is betting on his team's ability to score goals in the game, or even tie the score. Bet on your team to score before Liverpool scores.

Not everyone in this world is good at gambling, and some people will lose every time they gamble. Of course, Pop is not a person who always loses when gambling, but his luck in gambling today was very bad... In other words, he lost the gambling!

Opening up a posture and attacking Liverpool, this is Liverpool's favorite. Because there will be more space behind the opponent's defense, and for Liverpool with Gotze, this situation is Liverpool's favorite!

In the 68th minute, Gotze assisted Gareth Bale with a through ball and scored Liverpool's third goal of the game.

Five minutes later, Gareth Bale assisted Gotze. The German genius dunked past the bulky Marseille defender in the penalty area, and then rubbed the ball lightly. The football went straight to the far corner and crashed into the goal...

Marseille only scored a face-saving goal in the 88th minute when Liverpool was unprepared.

At that time, Martin O'Neill had already replaced three players in one go, including Chen Yingxiong. Judging from O'Neal's substitution posture, if there were no rule restrictions, he would definitely want to replace all eleven players.

Because there is another highlight on the weekend - the first English national derby of the new season, Liverpool vs. Manchester United at home.

O'Neill is no longer thinking about the Champions League at this time, he is thinking about the domestic league.

Even so, Marseille has no chance.

The result was that Pop, who wanted to keep a tie and win in the away game, almost lost his underwear in the end.

The 1:4 defeat was Marseille's first defeat in the Champions League this season, and it was also the most disastrous.

After losing this game, Marseille's planned goal has to be adjusted from competing with Liverpool for first place in the group to competing with Fiorentina for second place in the group.

Fiorentina narrowly defeated Olympiakos 4:3 in an away game, scoring three points and approaching Marseille in points.

Liverpool, which has won all three games, has basically locked a spot in the group stage. Although there are still three games before the end of the group stage, no one thinks that they can't even qualify in the group stage.

What made Pop even more unhappy was that at the post-match press conference, O'Neal talked most about the game against Manchester United. As for the game against Marseille, he only briefly mentioned it. It’s like he doesn’t care about Marseille at all…

Not only Martin O'Neill, but also other English reporters were not very interested in Marseille. When it was his turn to play, only a few French reporters asked some questions, and the English reporters were too lazy to raise their hands - British and French The relationship between people is not good to begin with, and their thoughts are really not here.

So in Pop's eyes, it means losing and being insulted.

But as a loser, what else can he say at this time?

He could only hold this breath back and wait until he returned to his home court to find a chance to vent it out.

On November 4th, Marseille will face Liverpool at home. This is Pop's revenge battle.

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No wonder Martin O'Neill doesn't take Marseille to heart. It seems to be the strongest opponent in this group. Previously, the points were the same as Liverpool, scoring five goals and not conceding a single goal. No matter how you look at it, you have the qualities and symbols of a powerful enemy, right?

But as soon as the war started, Marseille quickly surrendered... It only took less than a chapter to solve them. Why do you ask Martin O'Neal to take such an opponent to heart?

Compared with them, Manchester United is the real strong enemy.

Although they defeated Manchester United at Old Trafford last season and snatched the league championship. This game was considered by many to be a watershed moment, but Martin O'Neal did not dare to think so.

Because the outcome of a game doesn't explain much. A famous Argentinian football commentator once said a wise saying: "There is no logic in a game."

Just because Manchester United lost that game doesn't mean they will lose again in the new season.

Therefore, every encounter with Manchester United is not careless.

The so-called centipede is dead but not dead. A team as powerful as Manchester United is a centipede. A defeat in one game cannot kill them.

With an opponent like Manchester United, Marseille is naturally not enough to watch.

The whole of England has already entered the "El Clasico" atmosphere in advance at this time, and no one has time to pay attention to Marseille.

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