Volume 1: When a Male Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 49: It’s Not on the Same Level at All...

Martin O'Neill feels that his firm statement of support for Chen Yingxiong has played a certain role. The relationship between Chen Yingxiong and himself has become closer.

At least when he criticized Chen Yingxiong and other players the day after the game, Chen Yingxiong's attitude was very good - he accepted it humbly!

Speaking of which, before the training started that day, Martin O'Neal really trained everyone again with a straight face. He didn't praise the players' spirit and fighting spirit just because the team won the game.

"We won this game, yes we got three points, and we rose to first place in the league. But what does this mean? It can only mean that you are lucky!" On the training ground, Martin O'Neal said Standing in the middle of the players with a serious face, the players formed a circle with their hands behind their backs and stood with their heads lowered to listen to the head coach's criticism.

"If it weren't for the hero's second goal, I dare not say whether we would have won the game. Although we won the game, I want you all to know that this is a lesson! Good luck will not favor us every time! If you are always so proud and underestimate the enemy, I don’t think we will go very far! I don’t want to see you put the team in trouble for such stupid reasons next time!”

He actually said these words in the locker room after the game, but Chen Yingxiong's red card was very controversial at that time, and he had to go to the press conference to challenge Chen Yingxiong, so he didn't bother to say it.

After saying it now, he observed the players' reactions and found that the effect was good.

The team did not get carried away with their eventual victory.

Especially Chen Yingxiong, as the biggest contributor to the team's victory, he did not take credit or show any disdain. Along with other players, he kept his head down and accepted criticism and education honestly.

Martin O'Neal was thinking, could this be related to the fact that he beat him yesterday?

Um……

He found that treating Chen Yingxiong was really like treating a child. When he made a mistake, you could never criticize him in front of everyone. You even had to support him and not let him down. Then you two can communicate with each other in any way. Because Martin O'Neill and Chen Yingxiong had several separate conversations, which also proved that Chen Yingxiong was not the kind of unreasonable, self-righteous, and self-centered person.

Martin O'Neill feels that after he understands Chen Yingxiong's temper, it will not be difficult to get along well with Chen Yingxiong and make full use of him...

To put it bluntly, you have to save enough face for him, and then he will give you face.

O'Neill feels that he has gained some ground, and he is more confident about his coaching prospects in Liverpool.

I am also more confident about the upcoming away game against Anderlecht in Belgium.

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After playing the Merseyside derby with Everton, the Liverpool team took a short rest and flew to Belgium collectively.

Going to the third match of the Europa League group stage, their opponent was Anderlecht.

This game is very important for Liverpool. If they can beat Anderlecht away from home, their qualifying situation will be bright.

Anderlecht is currently ranked second in the group, with one win and one draw after two games, with four points. Sporting Lisbon has one draw and one loss, with one point and third place in the group. At the bottom is Grica, with two losses and zero points. Liverpool has won both games and has six points.

However, for Chen Yingxiong, qualifying for the group is not the goal he wants to pursue at all.

He was allowed to score more goals in the group stage!

The Eat, Drink and Play band is in action, and the goal of this game is for Chen Yingxiong to score as many goals as possible.

If Martin O'Neal knew the true thoughts of these players, he would find that there was no need for him to be more confident before...

Even if he doesn't criticize the players, it won't affect the outcome of this game...

Anderlecht are no unknowns, they are the most successful team in Belgian football. Since the end of World War II, Anderlecht has gradually become the greatest team in Belgian history. After winning the league championship for the first time in 1947, they were out of control. In the following sixty years, they won nearly half of the league championships-31 championships. They have also won the Belgian League Cup eight times and eight Belgian Super Cups.

In the 1970s, Anderlecht focused on European competition. Between 1976 and 1983, they won five European trophies, two Cup Winners' Cups, two European Super Cups and a UEFA Cup.

It is the most successful team in Belgium.

Enzo Schiff, the greatest player in the history of Belgian football, also made his debut at Anderlecht.

In addition, the offside tactic, which is now very commonly used, was originally invented by the Anderlecht team.

This is definitely not a nobody, but a famous and wealthy noble. It's just that as football becomes more and more commercialized, the gap between teams in small national leagues and teams in top leagues is widening, and Anderlecht can only play the role of a quarrel...

Facing such an opponent, Martin O'Neal did not dare to neglect, but Chen Yingxiong didn't think about whether he could win at all. All he could think about was scoring goals, and nothing but goals!

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Chen Yingxiong is full of motivation because Messi did not score in the Champions League match yesterday. His goal tally is still three.

This gave Chen Yingxiong the opportunity to overtake him.

He's going to kill everyone in this game!

Although Anderlecht once invented the offside tactic, it was a special product of a special period. The offside rule at that time was that as long as there were players on the offensive side between the defense and the goalkeeper at the moment of the pass, it was considered offside regardless of whether these people participated in the offense or not.

So when watching the game at that time, football fans will often see that when the opponent's players intend to pass the ball, the defensive players will press forward very quickly and neatly, leaving the offensive players behind. At this time, as long as the football is passed, The referee will blow the whistle to indicate that the attacking team is offside.

This move can kill many opponents' offensive opportunities.

Later, this trick was learned by Milan's Sacchi, and Milan carried it forward.

It’s just that this kind of game looks a bit fun now... because the defense has become a simple back line pressing forward to keep the opponent behind, rather than a competition of man-to-man, one-on-one, tactics and technology. …

Therefore, FIFA later felt that this offside tactic was too rampant and had completely damaged the development of football and made the game lose its meaning and fun. The offside rule was modified to stipulate that as long as the offensive players left behind do not participate in the attack and do not interfere with the defensive players, they are not offside.

As a result, those offside tactics become impossible to implement, and teams that attempt to create offside will die miserably.

The offside tactic invented by Anderlecht completely disappeared from the history of football development.

Nowadays, the tactic of offside is still used, but it is more complicated than before, and the timing is stricter. Of course, the possibility of failure is also very high... the risk is greater, and it has become a typical double-edged sword. Not too many teams use it.

Nowadays, Anderlecht no longer uses offside tactics - now when facing strong teams, the best defensive strategy for weak teams is not to create offsides, but to park a bus in front of the goal and then attack important teams. Play hand-to-hand defense.

Chen Yingxiong and Liverpool both suffered such treatment.

Anderlecht knows how powerful Liverpool is, and they know even more how terrifying Chen Yingxiong is. They didn't rush out to attack Liverpool very arrogantly just because they were playing at home.

Anderlecht's goal is to qualify from the group, rather than beat Liverpool at home. If we can draw with Liverpool at home and get a point, it will be a victory. Because their direct competitor is not Liverpool, but Sporting Lisbon. This round of Sporting Lisbon is an away game against Grica, so winning should not be a big problem for them.

If Anderlecht loses to Liverpool at home, it will tie Sporting Lisbon on points.

On the contrary, what if Anderlecht draws with Liverpool at home? They have one point more than Sporting Lisbon and still have the advantage.

So Anderlecht's goal in this game is to draw their opponent.

But how could Chen Yingxiong give them such an opportunity?

Doesn't being tied by Anderlecht mean that he won't score many goals? If you say that you can score a lot of goals even in a draw, it means that Anderlecht can also score a lot of goals. I'm afraid not many people believe it, right?

Although Anderlecht is at their home court, under the tactical guidance of fully defending and striving for a draw, it is great to be able to score two goals.

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Anderlecht had enough energy to draw with Liverpool at their home court. For this reason, they gave up attacking and chose to defend.

But they only lasted twenty-one minutes with this kind of defense...

In the 22nd minute, Chen Yingxiong grabbed a point in the penalty area. After receiving a pass from Suarez, he scored the football with his right foot and opened the scoring for the team!

At the same time, this is also his fourth goal in the Europa League this season, and he continues to lead the scorer list.

This loss of the ball did not make Anderlecht give up the idea of ​​continuing to defend. After all, being only one goal behind was not a big deal. As long as they did not continue to lose the ball in the first half, Anderlecht still had a chance after halftime adjustments. Hope to equalize the score.

And the hope is not small.

But three minutes later, Liverpool made a comeback, and Chen Yingxiong made a comeback!

After Chen Yingxiong took the ball with his back outside the penalty area, he suddenly turned around!

Then he turned and shot a long shot directly from outside the penalty area!

Football is only in a blind spot, Liverpool leads 2:0 in the away game!

After falling behind by two goals, Anderlecht couldn't hold on... It wasn't just that falling behind by two goals that put them in a difficult situation, what was even more frightening was that through these two goals, they discovered that defending was a challenge for Chen Yingxiong... It's useless!

Should we continue to defend and hope that with better luck we won't lose the ball again?

Or should he change his tactics and switch to attack, hoping that with a bit of luck he can get back a point and narrow the score gap to one goal?

Anderlecht's head coach made a decision after thinking - defensive counterattack!

Not just defending, but also fighting back.

This decision was made quite rationally, which shows that he has not lost his calm yet and is not in chaos yet. If he allowed the team to press out and attack aggressively, he would probably die even more miserably. But if we stick to it, it will damage the enthusiasm of the players.

Therefore, defensive counterattack is the safest plan.

But such calmness and rationality are meaningless in front of Chen Yingxiong, who is not rational at all and has gone crazy in pursuit of goals!

Before the end of the first half, Liverpool got a free kick opportunity. Chen Yingxiong took the kick and took a beautiful and powerful free kick. The football was blasted into the goal for the third time!

"hero--!!!"

The narrator yelled in a long voice.

"Liverpool led the home team Anderlecht by three goals in the first half! The scorer was Chen Yingxiong again! He scored a hat trick!"

"It's incredible! The hero was able to easily score a hat-trick against Anderlecht, which was second in the group and not weak in strength, in an away game! The nickname 'bug' given to him by the British media is really well-deserved! For Anderlecht For me, Chen Yingxiong is an unsolvable 'bug'!"

"The Europa League has only played three games, and the hero has already scored six goals! Chen Yingxiong, who scored 13 goals in seven games in the Champions League, is back! This is his first time after a season. Rejoining the European competition, although it is only the lower-level Europa League, the hero's performance is as sharp as ever! He proved to us his terrifying scoring ability! The whole of Europe, are you ready to tremble under his feet!"

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I don’t know if Europe is trembling, but at least Anderlecht has started to tremble.

After a fifteen-minute intermission, it can be seen that Anderlecht's head coach did not make any targeted and effective adjustments during the intermission. He just allowed the team to attack in the second half - —It can’t be said that what he did was wrong. After all, he was already three goals behind and it was almost impossible to keep a tie. So instead of doing this, it would be better to score a few more goals. Maybe after Liverpool took a three-goal lead in the first half Just relax? If there are no more goals in the second half, then the home team can not only score goals, but also recover some of the loss in goal difference.

But this approach seemed meaningless in the face of Liverpool's still powerful offensive in the second half.

In the end, Anderlecht did score a goal. They got a goal back in the second half and saved a little face.

Chen Yingxiong did not score in the second half. His teammates Suarez and Agger each scored one goal to help Liverpool beat Anderlecht 5:1 away from home.

After three games, Liverpool has won three out of three and accumulated nine points, basically establishing its advantage in qualifying for the group stage. If there is any suspense, maybe it is the suspense of whether the group is first or second, but this suspense is actually very small... it has no meaning.

Chen Yingxiong scored a hat trick in the game and scored a total of six goals in the Europa League, continuing to dominate the Europa League top scorer list.

As I said before, Chen Yingxiong is a Champions League-level shooter, so coming to play in the Europa League is actually condescending, so the gap in strength between him and others on the scorer list is obvious.

It's not on the same level at all...