Chapter 586 How Can You Still Score Goals?

Yang Yang returned to the UK after a week off in China.

What greeted him was a piece of news from the Premier League's official website. Liverpool once again won two Premier League best of the month.

With a four-game winning streak in August, Benitez beat Manchester City's Eriksen for the title of manager of the month.

Manchester City under the coaching of Eriksen also had a very eye-catching start, winning three consecutive victories and not conceding a goal. There was also a 1-0 lore against Manchester United in a derby match. unanimously praised.

But unfortunately, the Swedes were unfortunate enough to encounter Liverpool and Benitez who were in great shape.

Also unlucky is Manchester City defender Richards.

The young homegrown defender has had a solid start to the season, arguably one of the Premier League's best starters and a favourite for Player of the Month.

But unfortunately, Yang Yang scored an amazing record of six goals and one assist in the first four rounds of the new season, leading Liverpool to a four-game winning streak, which made Richards unable to shake Yang Yang's position in the end.

In the end, Liverpool swept the two best of the month awards.

When the official announcement of the Premier League, Yang Yang once again stood on the cusp of public opinion, and major media all praised him, believing that he was the best player in the Premier League at the beginning of this season, and he is also the best player in European football so far in the new season. The best player.

"We absolutely have reason to believe that he is having a milestone season!" Alan Hansen looked forward to.

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After a two-week absence from national team games, the Premier League has rekindled the war.

Liverpool ushered in the sixth round of the opponent, away to the Pompeii Legion Portsmouth.

Redknapp's team has a schedule of the devil's devil this season.

In the first five rounds of the league, Pompeii had two hosts and three visitors, but one of them was against Manchester United at home and two against Chelsea and Arsenal. They encountered three of the Premier League’s top four in the first five rounds. The bad schedule is evident.

What's more terrible is that in the sixth round, they ushered in the top-ranked Liverpool at their home.

Under Redknapp's coaching, Portsmouth's home results have always been good, especially their defense.

Portsmouth conceded just 15 goals at home last season, just fewer than Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Aston Villa, and their home record ranks sixth in the Premier League, more than Aston Villa. outstanding.

In this season, Portsmouth's home results are still good, with a one-to-one draw with Manchester United, a three-to-one victory over Bolton, and a good away game, except for failing to win Derby County in the first round, they lost zero-to-one. Chelsea, losing 1-3 to Arsenal, are all acceptable results.

It can be said that Redknapp's team is definitely a tough stubble that should not be underestimated.

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On the other hand, Liverpool's overall strength is indeed ahead of each other, but the situation is not ideal.

There are many international players in the team. After receiving the call-up, they all go to play games all over the world, which leads to players returning to the team later. Some European international players who participated in the European Cup qualifiers even returned to Liverpool non-stop after the game, and then again. Non-stop south to Portsmouth.

In this case, the overall consumption of the player will be greater and the preparation is less adequate.

But more importantly, Liverpool have a Champions League group stage away game to play in the week.

The three teams of Porto, Marseille and Besiktas were drawn in the group stage. Liverpool's draw was lucky, and among these three teams, Porto was the most likely to threaten Liverpool's group top player.

In the first round of the group stage in midweek, Liverpool will play Porto away, which is undoubtedly a highlight.

Benitez's decision is to stick to both hands, the league and the Champions League will not relax.

Therefore, Liverpool's lineup in this game is reserved, including Mascherano, Gerrard, Yang Yang and Kuyt did not appear in the starting lineup, but all sat on the bench. .

Yang Yang has no pressure from the national team, and he also returned to the team early to prepare, but Benitez still decided to hide him and let him concentrate on preparing for the Champions League in the middle of the week, which is the most important battle for the team.

But the game was clearly not as smooth as Benitez had expected.

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The home court has always performed very well, with outstanding defensive ability. Portsmouth, who can draw Manchester United 1-1 at home, showed a rare aggressiveness in the face of Liverpool who did not do their best.

Redknapp is also a veteran coach of the Premier League. He has a lot of coaching experience. He knows Liverpool's strategy very well, and he wants to profit from it. So at the beginning of this game, his Portsmouth was unable to move an inch. Let's fight with Liverpool.

The midfielder, led by Montari, made Liverpool's game rhythm a mess.

Xavi Alonso and Benayoun are both closely guarded by the other side, and their performance is relatively average.

Even in the 30th minute, when Albeloa was defending the opponent's striker Kanu, he was called for a foul by the linesman. The referee did not hesitate to award a penalty kick, which made the Liverpool players on the field very dissatisfied. Coach Benitez is even more excited to complain to the fourth official.

And Kanu's penalty was saved by Reina. Although the Spanish goalkeeper often makes some major mistakes, he also performed brilliantly at many critical moments.

Then Liverpool and Portsmouth still have each other's offense and defense.

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, the Red Army still failed to open the situation.

Benitez quickly made a substitution adjustment, first replaced Benayoun with Gerrard, and then replaced Voronen with Yang Yang.

Both substitutions were very obvious and wanted to strengthen the team's offense.

Portsmouth also made a substitution, replacing a striker and replacing a midfielder.

Redknapp is obviously also very afraid of Yang Yang and Gerrard.

All substitutions were made between 65 and 70 minutes, and in the next ten minutes, the two sides still failed to get a good chance, and neither of them was able to create a good chance to score.

Until the eighty-third minute...

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When Yang Yang saw Crouch pull to the right to catch the ball, his choice was to lean towards the middle along the penalty area line.

Portsmouth always had two defenders following him closely, so Yang Yang could only continue to expand his running range.

Now, he looked like he was going to pick up Crouch.

Pennant crossed the ball from the right and fell to the front point, but Crouch, under the control of the opposing centerbacks Campbell and Distin, although he grabbed the first landing point, he did not dare to stop the ball, but the first time He headed the ball directly out of the penalty area and handed it back to Gerrard, who was twenty meters away.

All attention fell to the right, especially when Crouch headed back to Gerrard.

Yang Yang naturally noticed it too, so he suddenly stopped on the left side of the top of the penalty area, and after passing Montari, he rushed directly to the rear of the penalty area.

Portsmouth's right-back Glen Johnson just moved from Chelsea this summer. Attacking ability is his strength, but defense has been criticized all the time. After all, he is still relatively young.

Yang Yang stopped suddenly and went straight to the back of the penalty area, which surprised both Glen Johnson and Montari, who were in charge of defending him, and followed him immediately.

On the other side, Gerrard waited for Crouch's header farther away from the goal. He was also marked by the Portsmouth midfielder and had no time to stop the ball. Pass behind the restricted area.

For this diagonal pass, Gerrard has no hope, it is more of an attempt, so the quality of the pass is not particularly high, and the landing point is in the left corner of the small penalty area.

But Yang Yang is also paying close attention to the trajectory of the ball in the air and the distance between Glen Johnson and the midfielder Montari on the other side.

Two Portsmouth players were planning to attack him one after the other.

Yang Yang made a decisive decision, rushed to the left corner of the small penalty area at the fastest speed, and jumped high.

After a long period of strength training, especially equipment training in the gym, cycling and stair reentry training, Yang Yang found that his jumping ability was getting better and better, which made him more and more confident.

Especially with the continuous practice and improvement of [Klinsmann's header], he is more and more sure of his header skills, so even if this time he avoided Glen Johnson and Montari's balls. In defense, he took off a small step ahead, but he still intercepted a ball from Gerrard, relying on his own jumping advantage.

But he can only take a far corner.

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"Gerald volleyed into the penalty area..."

"Yang Yang ran out of the space, jumped high, and headed the goal!"

"The ball is in!!!!"

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"In the 83rd minute, when no one expected, maybe even Liverpool players, including Gerrard himself, Yang Yang scored Portsmouth with a wonderful header. goal."

"Let's see his goal in slow motion this time."

"Yang Yang jumped high, Glen Johnson and Montari didn't dare to foul, they could only watch him take off."

"He jumped so high, it felt like he jumped over Glen Johnson and Montari, because those two guys weren't tall."

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After Yang Yang scored, he rushed to the sidelines excitedly and slipped and knelt in front of the stands of the Liverpool fans who came with the team to the away game.

Behind him, Liverpool players rushed out to celebrate.

In front of the visiting team's coach, Benitez was a little overwhelmed with excitement.

Six straight wins!

Liverpool's performance this season is amazing!

And this also completely depends on Yang Yang's scoring state!

On the contrary, the coach of the home team, Redknapp, looked very depressed. His eyes were full of resentment when he looked at Yang Yang, who was kneeling on the sidelines. Woolen cloth?

After defending for more than 80 minutes, they conceded the ball in the end, which was too painful for Portsmouth.

Even Redknapp had to admit that this game was lost!

His tactics completely defended Liverpool's organization and attack, but lost to Yang Yang.

What else could he say?