Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 137

After Sunderland scored, the old coach Hodgson spread his hands, facing the stands, with a sarcasm in his smile——

This expression is very puzzling. Is he expressing regret, or is he throwing the blame—and if he throws the blame, to whom: Reina?Or the opposing player, or the referee?

Just now Liverpool scored a goal by virtue of a "misjudgment" and reasonable use of the "quick free kick" rule.Now Sunderland has pulled back strongly, and the strength of the two sides is immediately clear.

I don't know who took the lead, another fan in Anfield yelled "Hodgson dismissed get out of class", Hodgson shook his head, saying that this sound was really unpleasant and he didn't listen.As a result, the fans changed their tune after a while and shouted "Roy England needs you".

——But isn’t that all the same meaning?

Liverpool fans suddenly felt speechless towards their coach.

When I was young, someone put up a handwritten slogan: "Kenny, please save us!"

Kenny is Sir Dalglish's name.Dalglish should be in the VIP box with the new boss and potential investors at this moment.Hodgson seemed to be a little worried after thinking about it, and looked to the box frequently.

At this time, Sunderland made a sudden attack, and Liverpool's front door was immediately in danger.After Anton instructed the team to press forward, Hodgson has not made any adjustments to the tactics on the field. Only captain Gerrard is trying his best to direct and arrange the positions of his teammates.

But that's the case, Liverpool still lasted until the halftime break, trying to keep the goal.

This is Mrs. Huo's luck.

Anton was in the locker room, answering the players who cared about his teammates: "...Pickford seems to be fine now. The team doctor's suggestion is to observe for a few days and not let him run around now. Otherwise, the guy would have already run out Cheering you on the sidelines..."

Everyone thought about it: Well, this is indeed like Pickford.

"We can definitely win this game, as long as we play according to the originally arranged tactics." Anton said, "However, if we lead in the second half, we must prevent their counterattack, especially near the end of the game, I guess Liverpool, who are behind, will be desperate."

It has nothing to do with whether the head coach will go or stay, it is about the dignity and honor of the team.The Red Army has always had a tradition of iron and blood. In order not to fall into the relegation zone, Anton guessed that all players will spare no effort to attack.

"So Gordon will have a heavy task in the second half." Anton looked around at the midfielders. "Everyone needs to support him. Sammy, can you?" He turned to Hyypia.

Hyypia returned to Anfield, but Anton did not arrange him to start. When asked again, Hyypia nodded generously: "No problem!" As a professional player, even facing his old club, Hypia would do Ready to play.

Sure enough, as Anton said, Sunderland scored as soon as the second half started.

In the 48th minute, Messi received a pass from Eriksson and started his small-step dribbling performance again.After a while, Liverpool's defenders have been almost done by him.

But Messi's shot was blocked by Reina. This false nine who is quite Buddhist in the Premier League is not greedy for merit at all, and passed the ball back to Eriksson with a horizontal kick.Eriksson took the ball to the outside of the penalty area, reorganized-

At this time, Sunderland's forward line is all in place: they have three points, namely Messi, Vardy and Royce.

Royce has been in a hot state recently, and it was he who rushed to the front point in a long-distance attack.As long as Royce touches the ball, the ball will undoubtedly be scored.

However, someone poked the ball into Liverpool's goal before Royce.Goalkeeper Reina, defenseless, watched the ball roll past his feet and into the goal.

The person who scored the goal was covered in sweat, sitting on the ground and panting heavily - Reina couldn't bear it, and stepped forward to pull him up - this was none other than Liverpool's deputy Carragher.

This is an own goal.

Just now Eriksson made a pass, Sunderland had three support points in front of the goal, Reina had no idea who to defend against, and the goal was almost guaranteed to be scored—unless Carragher could clear the ball before Reus bottom line.

Who knew that Eriksson gave the ball too fast, Carragher made a clearance from a slightly different angle, and sent the ball directly into his own goal.

Anfield was quiet for a while, followed by sighs.

Seeing the blue veins on Ka Dasang's forehead burst out, full of sweat, standing on the goal line with his hips akimbo in great frustration, some fans couldn't bear to be harsh.But there are also some extreme ones, yelling and yelling-the love is deeply blamed, and these scoldings intensified the pain in the players' hearts: Carragher's expression was dull, and he stood there, unable to move.

1 to 2, Liverpool fell behind at home.The setbacks and pain that this team experienced in the first five rounds of this season seem to be staged again.

At this time Age came over. He stretched out his fist and thumped Carragher heavily on the shoulder, as if he wanted to wake him up.Then Agger waved his fist in front of Carragher-you know, Agger has the initials of the Liverpool team's song name tattooed on his fist.

Carragher moved immediately, exhaled a long breath, and started running after Agger again.Running near the middle circle, Captain Gerrard stepped forward and patted Carragher on the back. Carragher regained his spirits and turned around to nod to Gerrard. The latter stepped forward and rubbed his big head. , to show comfort.Several people immediately gathered at the kick-off place in the middle circle, ignoring the head coach on the sidelines, but discussing the next tactics by themselves for a while.

In stark contrast to the players on the court was Taigong Huo outside the court.

After witnessing the own goal with his own eyes, Hodgson spread out his hands and shook his head helplessly, with a naturally disappointed expression on his face.He doesn't need to find someone to take the blame for this conceded goal, Carragher is ready-made.But facing Sunderland's offensive, he didn't seem to think of a solution.

Perhaps this is why he is called "Huo Taigong": Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who wish to take the bait.Huo Taigong coached and let himself go.

So the fans suddenly stopped scolding Carragher, and instead scolded Hodgson, and the calls for him to dismiss got louder.Hodgson was also apparently taken aback by the sudden turn of the spear.The members of the coaching staff behind him were scolded so deafly that they got up and quarreled with the fans behind him.

There was chaos near the home team's bench.

Anton was also standing on the sidelines. After Sunderland took the lead, he didn't appear particularly excited, but frowned a bit.

Sunderland took the lead too early.

He foresees that in the next 45 minutes, all Liverpool members will repeatedly attack Sunderland's defense at all costs.

A team pushed to the brink cannot predict what kind of energy it will explode.

And he only has two substitutions left.

After thinking about it for half a minute, Anton decisively replaced Hyypia.

Seeing that they were old acquaintances, the Liverpool fans didn't bother to scold Hodgson, so they clapped and clapped for a while before talking.

Hypia nodded to the surroundings, but ran to his station conscientiously.

No matter how deep the friendship is, they are still rivals now.

The next moment, Liverpool kicked off.As Anton guessed, under the "command" of Gerrard, Liverpool pressed up as a whole and started to attack.They are now one goal behind, one goal is a loss, and ten goals is a loss.At this point, Liverpool simply went all out to attack.

For a while, Sunderland's backcourt began to feel tremendous pressure:

Needless to say, "Golden Boy" Torres, his shooting skills and running position made Sunderland's defense break out in cold sweats all over his body; There was no time to stop; coupled with other teammates piled up to respond, Gerrard interspersed in series, Liverpool's offensive line was like a sleeping giant, suddenly waking up without any warning.

At this time, Sunderland's backcourt was under heavy pressure. Anton was pacing anxiously on the sidelines, and at the same time he heard Russell slapping his thigh behind him and screaming: "It would be great if that kid Pickford wasn't injured?"

Anton: Russell saw it too.

Originally, the best way to deal with Liverpool's desperate army was to hit the back and launch a fast break.It is best if the counterattack is launched directly from the backcourt, but the substitute goalkeeper Gordon is still a little less talented than Pickford. , Messi...

Now Sunderland can only wait patiently and try to survive Liverpool's stormy attack.Wait until 70 minutes later, when Liverpool's physical fitness has problems, and then make plans.

In the 75th minute, Anton replaced Vardy, who was not in good form, and replaced a full-back Horton.So far he has dealt all the cards in his hand.No matter what happens in the game, the players on the field can only rely on themselves.

Liverpool's physical fitness also declined very quickly visible to the naked eye.Hodgson soon used up all three substitutions in his hand.However, as soon as the game reached the 81st minute, Dirk Dirk suffered from cramps—it's no wonder that this guy ran the first distance in the game. Compared with him, Messi is really ashamed.

Messi: ... No, I don't compare with others.

But Couit endured the pain and jumped to the sidelines, let the team doctor deal with it briefly and then returned to the court.He would not let his teammates delay the game for him, nor would he miss the final stretch of the game because of treatment.

His teammates are also similar to Dirk. Everyone seems to be pushing the remaining physical strength to the limit. This team no longer relies on physical strength or technology to support them, but only their will.

The Liverpool fans on the sidelines have stopped booing the team.Even the most demanding fans can't say anything serious about this team at this moment: they have witnessed the team attacking Sunderland's defense time after time, and returning in vain again and again... Everyone feels in their hearts. Depressed to the extreme.As a result, the stadium once again erupted into a tsunami of shouts, and tens of thousands of fans seemed to be fighting side by side with the 11 people on the field.

Anton on the sidelines felt very uncomfortable. It was not his wish to force such a team to this point.And to make matters worse, he had an instinctive hunch that Liverpool's efforts would eventually pay off.

Finally, after entering stoppage time, Liverpool won a corner kick.Even the goalkeeper Reina also caught up together.Captain Gerrard sent a corner kick, and there were several points in front of the penalty area where players from both sides jumped at the same time.

Carragher, who scored an own goal earlier, jumped higher than anyone else. Facing the incoming ball, he shook his head vigorously-he had to make up for the points lost in his hands before.