Volume 1: Males Are Out, People Are Paying Attention Chapter 45 This Is the Merseyside Derby

"Eat shit! You red clowns!!"

Everton fans wearing blue jerseys stood in the stands, leaned down, raised their middle fingers and cursed angrily at the Liverpool players in the stadium.

Such shouts and curses echoed through the sky, becoming the only sound at Goodison Park.

The background to their shouts and curses was the stadium's electronic scoreboard, which displayed the score - 2:0. International practice is that the home team goes first and the visiting team goes last.

"This is the Merseyside Derby!" the commentator roared excitedly. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Merseyside Derby! Before the game, everyone thought that Liverpool would have no problem winning the game. During the game, they were trailing the home team Everton with a score of 0:2! Distin I just took a corner kick and scored the team’s second goal!”

Everton centre-back Distin was surrounded by his teammates as they celebrated a goal.

Behind them were dejected Liverpool players.

For forty minutes in the first half, Liverpool didn't score a single goal, but Everton, who they looked down upon before the game, scored two goals.

This frustrated everyone at Liverpool.

Martin O'Neill even angrily kicked away a bottle of water on the sidelines. He had reason to be angry, because he repeatedly warned before the game not to underestimate the enemy, not to underestimate the enemy... and here's the result!

If this is not the point of underestimating the enemy, then there is no way to underestimate the enemy!

"In the first half of this game, Liverpool's players performed very poorly, especially their defense, which allowed their opponents to score two goals so easily!"

"Liverpool's forwards were weak in the first half. Neither Hero nor Suarez was able to score. Chen Yingxiong, who was in good form before, seemed to have forgotten to put on his shooting boots in this game."

The TV broadcast also gave Chen Yingxiong a close-up shot.

In the camera, Chen Yingxiong frowned and looked at the celebrating Everton players.

"Since the beginning of the new season, Liverpool's performance has been very good, but for them, this has been a little too smooth... Now they have to pay the price for underestimating their opponents!"

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Liverpool did not score until the end of the first half.

Everyone walked back to the locker room with their heads lowered, knowing that what awaited them during the halftime break was not the smile and praise of the head coach, but a storm!

They guessed correctly.

Martin O'Neill scolded Liverpool's players at half-time.

Including captains like Chen Yingxiong and Gerrard, but his tone softened slightly when scolding Gerrard and Chen Yingxiong.

But that severity is still felt by everyone.

"I won't make any adjustments in the second half!" Martin O'Neill finally said. "There is nothing wrong with my tactics. If you lose the game, it's because you underestimated the enemy! As long as you can correct your mentality, equalizing the score is not a problem. Even winning the game is not impossible! But if you still don't change this With the mentality of underestimating the enemy, just wait to lose this game! Lose to your opponents in the Merseyside Derby!"

After scolding, O'Neal turned around and left the locker room. At this time, only five minutes had passed since the intermission, and there were still ten minutes left before the start of the second half.

Normally at this time, O'Neal would definitely talk about the team's performance in the first half, and then talk about what the team should do in the second half...

This time, O'Neal left so simply that it showed that he was really angry.

In fact, after he first came to the team, O'Neal gave the players the impression of a serious but elegant head coach. He rarely loses his temper and appears to be very well-educated while wearing glasses.

Being able to irritate Martin O'Neill so much shows that Liverpool's performance in the first half was indeed very bad...

The head coach has left, but the halftime break is not over yet. What should we do next?

A group of people looked at each other.

At this time Gerald stood up.

"I apologize to everyone!" was the first thing Gerrard said, and he raised his arms. "We really underestimated our opponent in this game. None of us, including myself, took our opponent seriously... This was a very serious mistake, and now we are being punished. I don't want to lose to our opponent away from home. The Merseyside derby has special meaning to me. Every season, Liverpool has two opponents that cannot lose no matter what, one is Everton and the other is Manchester United! So in the second half of the game, I hope everyone can join me Cheer up together. There are still forty-five minutes left in the game, and there is still a lot of time. Although we are two goals behind, I believe this is not a problem at all!"

"Yes, what's the big deal behind being two goals behind!" Chen Yingxiong also stood up and waved his fist. "Everton is not a very good team, forty-five minutes is enough for us to defeat them!"

"Now let's discuss how to play in the second half..." Gerrard continued.

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At the beginning of the second half, Everton's players returned to the court from the locker room, with obvious joy on everyone's face.

At halftime they were praised by head coach Moyes. Before the game, Moyes told them that the entire Liverpool team looked down on them because Liverpool performed so poorly last season and were able to double-kill us. This season they will definitely take the double-play for granted.

He successfully aroused the fighting spirit of the Everton players and gave Liverpool a fierce attack in the first half, catching Liverpool off guard!

They had a two-goal lead in the first half, so what if there was still half a game left? We will definitely win!

That's why Everton's players are so happy.

When they came on, not a single Liverpool player showed up.

The Everton players thought that the Liverpool players must have been scolded by the head coach for ten minutes, and now they are seizing the time to arrange tactics and arrange how to beat us in the second half... How pitiful!

Huh?

The proud Everton players suddenly discovered that Liverpool's head coach Martin O'Neill and other members of the coaching staff were sitting on the visiting team's coaching bench.

The head coach isn't in the locker room? So what are the Liverpool players doing?

Moyes followed the players to the sidelines. He also saw Liverpool's head coach Martin O'Neill, and he was a little surprised.

He thought O'Neal would nervously arrange the tactics for the second half in the locker room, trying to counterattack in the second half.

But looking at this posture, O'Neal doesn't seem to care about being two goals behind?

That’s not right!

When Liverpool lost the ball in the first half, he saw O'Neal kicking away the water bottle with his own eyes. Does this seem like a sign of not caring?

But if he cared, why was he not in the locker room during halftime, but on the coaching bench?

Moyes, like his players, was puzzled by O'Neill's behavior.

As time went by, this doubt became more serious.

Because the second half of the game is about to start, but there is still no movement from Liverpool!

Not a single Liverpool player came out of the locker room, not even a substitute.

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As the second half approached, Everton fans were in the stands singing and cheering for Everton while trying to put pressure on the Liverpool fans and the players who were about to take the field.

But the intermission time is getting shorter and shorter, Liverpool's players still haven't done anything, and the singing voices of these fans are getting smaller and smaller.

In the end, it was simply gone because everyone found it strange.

What's going on in Liverpool?

Everyone turned their attention to Liverpool's coaching bench.

Maybe Martin O'Neill knows something?

But they guessed wrong, and Martin O'Neill didn't know what happened. But he kept his composure. He vaguely guessed something. Anyway, it didn't matter what those bastards did. In the second half of this game, he planned to not even leave the coach's chair.

So what are the Liverpool players doing?

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They were chatting in the locker room...

Gerrard proposed to discuss how to play in the second half, and everyone started discussing. But in fact, as Martin O'Neill said, there is no problem with the head coach's tactics, but the problem is the attitude of the players.

Now that the attitude is correct, there is really very little that can be discussed.

So everyone finished talking quickly.

Next, it was time to prepare to appear, but at this time everyone was stopped by Chen Yingxiong.

"Don't worry, guys. I'll tell you a story..."

Then Chen Yingxiong told everyone the story of "all in one go".

"So, Everton led us by two goals in the first half, and their morale was at its peak. I think we will encounter a very tenacious resistance from them in the second half. So we have to find ways to drain their fighting spirit and morale. I think We can delay the appearance as in the story. Let them quickly consume their morale while waiting. By then, their energy will be greatly reduced and they will no longer be able to pose a threat to us! And what about us? We can kill them in one go. !”

After hearing what Chen Yingxiong said, Gerald's eyes lit up.

"Yes! The hero is right, we postpone the appearance and let them wait outside!"

Suarez also laughed: "Leave them outside and let's chat here. Hero, you are so bad, haha!"

So just like that, everyone listened to music, chatted, and some even closed their eyes and fell asleep.

It wasn't until the referees of the game came out that they discovered that Liverpool hadn't played yet. After waiting for a minute, there was still no sign of anyone, and then they came to remind them that it was time to play.

In this way, Liverpool's players slowly walked out of the locker room and reappeared on the court in small groups.

The second half of the game can finally begin!

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