Chapter 610 Falling Behind
"Damn it!" Alisson kicked the ball to the front court angrily. The ball he just lost was really aggrieved.
Lukaku really deserves the title of Little Monster. His cross just now looked like a pass or a shot, and it was a half-high ball. Alisson was very uncomfortable to save it.
In addition, it was drizzling in today's game. The ball and the grass were much slippery than usual. As a result, he slipped out of his hands, allowing Lingard to almost pick up a shooting opportunity and score to equalize the score.
"They seem to be a little distracted..." Firmino stood beside Li Qing and thought for a long time before organizing such a sentence.
"You can see it too?" Li Qing turned his head to look at Firmino and found Mane standing next to him with an embarrassed expression.
"Maybe after taking the lead before, our midfield was a little careless." Firmino was very careful with his words.
Li Qing, however, looked unconvinced, "This is a Manchester United game, and this is our home ground. Listen, those damn flies have been awakened!"
After saying that, Li Qing ran to the center circle to kick off. Firmino subconsciously looked in the direction that Li Qing had just indicated, and saw Manchester United fans in the stands waving their arms and singing and dancing, while Liverpool fans next to them were dead silent.
Really...Firmino shook his head, and Mane came up to ask his partner at this time: "Hey, guys, the flies that the captain just mentioned, are they referring to those Manchester United fans in the stands?"
"Focus on what you should pay attention to!" Firmino glared at Mane unhappily, "The coach is watching us!"
Mane immediately glanced at Klopp when he heard this, then quickly shrank his neck and ran away. Klopp was already standing on the sidelines, and his expression looked a little ugly.
Klopp was indeed a little restless. He thought the players on the field played well just now, but he was slapped in the face in the blink of an eye. Lingard's goal made him unable to sit still anymore, and he walked to the sidelines.
Something was wrong in the midfield, the defense was not good enough, Shaqiri told him to pay attention to the attack, but why did he run so far forward? Want to compete with Li Qing for position?
After the restart, seeing Manchester United attack from the midfield behind Liverpool players, Lukaku broke into the penalty area and shot the ball on the crossbar, causing a burst of exclamations from the audience, Klopp finally couldn't help but get angry.
"Pay attention to defense, pay attention to protection in the midfield, be careful behind you, Van Dijk directs the defense, the opponent continuously attacks behind the midfield, didn't you see it?"
As soon as Klopp finished speaking, Manchester United intercepted Shaqiri's ball in the midfield again, and then started to counterattack quickly. At this time, Liverpool's backcourt only had two central defenders, Van Dijk and Lovren, while Manchester United fired three arrows at the same time.
Lovren rushed to tackle the ball, but because he misjudged the distance between the ball and him, he watched the ball slide past him.
Damn! Van Dijk didn't expect that the midfielder and his partner would make mistakes one after another. He had no choice but to go up and grab the ball, but Lingard, who was dribbling the ball, didn't think of Van Dijk and passed the ball directly to the middle.
At this moment, Liverpool's midfielders and fullbacks had not returned to their positions, and Rashford had already appeared in the middle of Liverpool's penalty area, with no one defending him.
"What the hell!" When Alisson attacked, he saw Rashford swinging his right foot to shoot. Obviously, the opponent was preparing to volley.
Alisson reached out to block the shooting angle, but it was too late. Rashford had already completed the shooting action. The ball was very fast and rushed directly from Alisson's head into the upper right corner of Liverpool's goal.
The ball went in! In the 33rd minute of the game, Manchester United came from behind and overtook the score.
"Manchester United scored again!" BBC commentator Lineker was a little bit unbelievable, "What is Liverpool's midfield doing? The midfield is completely out of control, and it was so easily counterattacked? How can the genius Lee lead Liverpool like this?"
"Shit!" Klopp turned around and kicked the water bottle at his feet. Losing the ball is not terrible, but this kind of losing the ball makes him a little unbearable.
Both goals were scored by the midfielder who lost the ball and let the opponent counterattack. The second goal was scored when he was coaching. What is going on? Do you want to lose the game?
"What's going on? Who was in charge of No. 21 on the opposite side just now?" Mane couldn't help but complain, "Why did they counterattack so easily?"
Shaqiri frowned: "What do you mean by this? Blame me?"
Van Dijk stared at Shaqiri with an angry face, "Why blame you? The ball was hit from behind you, and what were you doing running in front? Don't you know where you are?"
"Tsk, you can't defend yourself, and you want to pass the blame to me? What position should I be in that you need to remind me?"
"Oh, shit! Say it again, what did you say just now?"
"Okay!" Lovren quickly grabbed Van Dijk, "It's my fault, the ball has been lost, we should get it back quickly, we..."
"What's it to you!" Shaqiri pointed the spearhead at Lovren again, "It's inexplicable, you made a mistake and want to blame others, don't think you are so great!"
"Shut up!" Just when Van Dijk was about to be completely enraged by this insinuation, a voice interrupted.
Li Qing stepped forward and pushed Van Dijk back. "Don't waste time here. Do you want others to laugh at us? It's just one goal behind. We can just make it back. Go back to your positions!"
After that, Li Qing pushed Van Dijk and pushed him to the center back position. Seeing this, Shaqiri moved his lower lip, as if he was unwilling, but he didn't say anything in the end.
"It seems that there is a little dispute in the Liverpool team!" Martin Taylor, the commentator in the live broadcast room, keenly captured the scene just now on the field, "It seems that the Liverpool team started to get a little impatient after losing the ball, but it's too impulsive to fight on the field at this time!"
Klopp frowned more tightly on the sidelines. The abnormal behavior of the players on the field made his mind ring with alarm bells. After falling behind, the players blamed each other. It seems that he was too indulgent to them on weekdays. He actually had an internal fight in front of so many people!
Liverpool fans also made a noise, and the team CEO and boss and others looked unhappy. When they were leading by one goal, they were tied by the opponent twice. How long has this situation not happened to Liverpool? I didn't expect it to happen today!
After the restart, Liverpool's attack still did not improve much. Players from both sides only tried outside their respective penalty areas and used long shots to threaten the opponent's goal, but all of them were fruitless.
The time of the first half quickly passed in this stalemate. Liverpool ended the first half with a score of 1:2 behind Manchester United and entered the halftime break.