FA Cup final, Wembley Stadium.
Dalglish sat on pins and needles in the coaching bench, holding his chin in his hands and staring at the pitch with a heavy brow.
Fell into a trap Assistant coach Steve Clark could not sit still for a long time.
He stood on the sidelines and watched, shouting something towards the court from time to time to remind the players to pay attention.
This is a very experienced assistant coach who even has the ability to act on his own.
At the beginning, Liverpool recognized that Dalglish had not coached for many years and was somewhat out of touch with modern football, so they invited this former assistant of Mourinho to Liverpool to assist Dalglish.
Therefore, the assistant coach's prestige within the team is not small.
But even so, it still cannot change Liverpool's disadvantage on the court.
Southampton launched a fierce attack on Liverpool almost from the beginning of the game, attacking the Red Army's midfield and defense again and again.
In this game, Liverpool also made a big problem with their formation.
The goalkeeper is Reina, and the defense is Jose Enrique, Skrtel, Agger and Glen Johnson.
The midfielder is a three-man midfield combination of Gerrard, Spearing and Henderson, and the frontcourt is Downing, Suarez and Bellamy.
The reason why Dalglish and Clark formed such a lineup was more because they wanted to control the initiative in the game.
But what they didn't expect was that Southampton would press hard from the beginning.
Goalkeeper Neuer, the defense is David Alaba, Javi Martinez, Gary Cahill and Carvajal, the midfield is Stroman, Matic and Vidal, and the front three is Inner.
Marr, Drogba and Sturridge.
Toni Kroos didn't show up This completely disrupted Dalglish's pre-match arrangements.
In yesterday's two targeted training sessions, Liverpool focused on how to surround Toni Kroos and suppress Southampton's midfield.
But yesterday evening, at Southampton's press conference, Bielsa announced that Toni Kroos would be absent due to injury.
This disrupted Liverpool's deployment.
Today, in the last pre-match training session, Liverpool was unable to conduct tactical drills due to confidentiality.
What Dalglish and Clark can do is to remind the players to deal with it as carefully as possible.
How does one say it?
The game is the result of training.
If the training is not good enough, it will be difficult to play well in the game.
With Southampton's strength, even if Liverpool is a tactical rival, they may not be able to defeat the opponent.
Not to mention that the current tactics are completely wrong.
The simplest point is that Southampton kept attacking Spearing's point, and Vidal and Stroman boldly pressed on.
Liverpool had no choice but to send Gerrard and Henderson back.
This results in passivity across the board.
Steve Clark, who was standing in the coaching bench, looked at the time, then looked at the situation, and sighed helplessly.
"Kenny, we have to make adjustments."
Dalglish still looked straight ahead and asked in a nonchalant manner, "Substitute" Clark was suddenly speechless.
It's only ten minutes before I have to change someone.
In professional leagues, unless there is a major injury, the head coach will not make substitutions in the first half.
Even midfield substitutions are relatively few.
First, it is an admission that the team's starting tactics have failed, damaging the team's morale and the players' morale.
Secondly, the player who was replaced must be unhappy because he will feel that the head coach is dragging him to be the scapegoat.
If we really want to make substitutions now, the players will definitely be angry, and the fans in the stands will definitely not do it.
"But the situation now is very bad," Clark said worriedly.
"Southampton's midfielder pressed hard and used Spearing to play the defensive midfielder.
The effect was not effective.
Instead, it exposed its weaknesses.
Gerrard and Henderson retreated across the board.
The defensive input of the three frontcourt players was not high.
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Our defense is under too much pressure.”
How could Dalglish not know?
However, Liverpool currently does not have a trustworthy defensive midfielder at all.
Since Mascherano switched to Barcelona, Meireles switched to Chelsea.
Although Liverpool has trained a Lucas, the Brazilian midfielder suffered frequent injuries and missed this game due to injury.
Now he is also a clever woman who cannot make a meal without rice.
Under the alternating impact of Vidal and Stroman, Spearing made frequent mistakes after the start and became very nervous.
Henderson is basically a soy sauce character, without decent passing or performance.
The only one who is more satisfactory is Gerrard.
The captain of the Red Army is hard-working and has very good skills and awareness.
But the key is that he is old and no longer as brave as he once was.
"Let's take a gamble, maybe there is a chance to counterattack" was all Dalglish could say.
Not to mention, within two or three minutes, Southampton's offense seemed to have slackened a bit, and Liverpool seized an opportunity and launched a counterattack.
Henderson, who had no performance throughout the first half, actually made a long diagonal pass.
Bellamy quickly followed the right path and rushed up after the ball.
This move immediately made the Red Army fans in the stands of Wembley Stadium burst into enthusiasm.
For a time, the entire Wembley Stadium was filled with the shouts of Red Army fans.
Bellamy finally caught up with the ball on the right side of the Southampton penalty area.
After a pause, he raised his head and saw a figure flashing in front of him.
David Alaba is back This guy is really fast.
Bellamy had forgotten that he was about to turn thirty-three.
I saw the Welshman skillfully dribbling the ball, and suddenly made a fake move to get rid of David Alaba.
Suarez and Downing were already up in the middle, and Gerrard and Henderson also rushed into the 30-meter area.
As long as you get rid of David Alaba, you will have a lot of opportunities, and maybe you can even create a threat.
But at the moment Bellamy got rid of David Alaba, Javi Martinez, who had been helping to defend behind David Alaba, suddenly stepped forward and poked Bellamy's ball away.
The Spaniard defended very decisively and calmly this time After the ball was knocked away, it fell behind Bellamy.
David Alaba quickly chased after him, got ahead of the Liverpool players, and made a big kick to clear the ball forward.
The ball was cleared not far away and landed in Southampton's half, at the top of the center circle.
Drogba blocked Agger with his body and headed forward towards the ball's landing point.
The ball was knocked back to Stroman.
The Dutchman faced the direction of attack, raised his head, looked at Neymar on the left, and then looked at Sturridge on the right.
He knew what he was doing, and waited until the ball arrived, stopped, and rubbed it.
The ball drew a low, flat and fast arc, almost over the head of Liverpool left back Jose Enrique, and fell behind the defense.
Sturridge was like a cheetah that was ready to go.
He had been waiting for the opportunity to stare at the prey.
When the ball came, he immediately started like a bolt of lightning, sprinted forward, and in an instant, Jose Enrique was left behind.
Behind him.
Now, the whole crowd cheering became Southampton fans.
All Saints fans are chanting Sturridge's name and cheering for the England youngster After Sturridge got rid of Jose Enrique, there was no defender in front of him.
Liverpool's other central defender Skrtel is still a bit far away.
Even if he runs over to defend, Sturridge can already rush into the penalty area.
It can be said that Sturridge's opponent at this time is no longer someone else, but himself.
Stop the ball well, take the ball well, and hit this single shot well Sturridge sprints very quickly but is also keeping an eye on the ball.
To avoid being caught up by Jose Enrique, he did not turn around to stop the ball, which was slow.
He directly faced the ball's landing point, raised his foot and flicked it gently.
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When the instep felt contact with the ball, he knew he had picked it.
The ball bounced, his body caught up with him, and his chest pushed the ball forward.
Although Jose Enrique caught up, Sturridge blocked him with his body.
The Spanish left back stretched out his hand, trying to pull down Sturridge from behind.
But the Englishman just staggered, but did not fall to the ground.
Instead, he took advantage of the situation and started to accelerate again.
After facing the ball, both the man and the ball entered the penalty area.
Skrtel came over, Jose Enrique was behind him, but Sturridge didn't even look at them.
He looked at Reina in front of the goal.
This is his only opponent now Reina did not dare to attack, his eyes were fixed on Sturridge, constantly making judgments.
The angle is too big, where will he hit?
Left, right, far corner or near corner?
Reina was a little confused.
He couldn't guess Sturridge's choice at all.
He could only watch his movements and react instinctively. far corner The Spanish goalkeeper dives into the far corner But Sturridge hit a short corner with his left foot.
The ball almost missed the right post and went into the lower right corner of the goal.
"goa" The whole Wembley Stadium suddenly burst into excitement.
In the stands, all Southampton fans rushed out of their seats crazily, cheered crazily, and shouted Sturridge's name crazily.
"In the 13th minute, Southampton finally broke through Liverpool's goal" “The one who opened the scoring for the Saints was the young Englishman, Daniel Sturridge.”
"The Saints striker has performed well this season and has played many times for the team.
He has scored 13 goals so far, including goals in the Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup and Championship. " Sturridge excitedly rushed to the sidelines and did his unique dance celebration to the Saints fans in the stands.
Behind him, Southampton players pounced on him one after another, knocking Sturridge to the ground.
“Amazing” "Southampton played very resolutely after the opening, using a wave of attacks to completely suppress Liverpool."
"The Red Army seems very passive.
Now they are one goal behind.
This game will become very difficult for them."
"This is Liverpool's manager, Kenny Dalglish, he should start thinking of something."
When the Southampton players finished celebrating from the sidelines and walked into the stadium, the head coach Bielsa on the sidelines was also shouting loudly and waving to the players.
Anyone familiar with Southampton must know that Bielsa's action is telling the players.
Don't relax, it's just one goal, keep attacking me, press forward, attack like crazy When you encounter a team like Liverpool, you have to be patient and unforgiving.
Seize a weak spot, attack desperately, and strive for more goals.
Once you relax and wait until this tenacious team adjusts and stabilizes the situation, you will have no chance.
At the beginning of the Istanbul Miracle, AC Milan led by three goals.
However, in the second half, after the team adjusted, they also scored three goals.
In the end, they relied on penalty kicks to defeat AC Milan and win the championship.
Champions League title.
It can be seen from this that if we don't take advantage of the situation to attack Liverpool, we will beat him to death and cripple him.
If the centipede is dead but not stiff, he will still fight back sooner or later.
Therefore, after the restart, Liverpool took the lead in sounding the clarion call for counterattack.
But Southampton, who was one goal ahead, showed no fear and started a head-on battle with Liverpool.
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