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Chapter 904 Great victory to lock the first place

After conceding two goals in a row, Porto no longer wants to win. Or regaining a little face has become Porto's most important choice. After all, they played Besiktas in the last round. The Turkish team was very threatening at their home court, but they were just like the bottom of the game away. They performed normally, and there was no problem for Porto to beat Besiktas to qualify.

If you want to save face, you have to score a goal. Previously, most of Porto's energy was spent on defense, but he didn't defend. Now Porto is not ready to defend anymore. Anyway, if you can't defend, it's better to use attack instead of defense. Liverpool may still score goals, but Porto can also score goals. Even if both sides score goals, the result is better than not being able to score a goal.

Facing Porto's attack, Liverpool, who was leading two goals, did not give up in a small amount of land. Today, Liverpool is going to beat Porto and show the world the strength and majesty of the defending champion.

Both players wanted to hit the opponent's penalty area, but both sides were unwilling to retreat, and the midfield became the main battlefield for both sides to fight.

With the midfield fighting and hand-to-hand combat ability alone, the Premier League is proud of the five major leagues, and Liverpool's midfield hardness ranks high in the Premier League. Porto is a Latin football style and wins with his skills. They and Liverpool will definitely suffer when fighting in hand-to-hand combat in the midfield. With Liverpool's state today, even if the referee's penalty standard is the same as the first leg of the two teams, Porto may not have the advantage. Moreover, the referee's penalty standard today is relatively loose, which is more beneficial to Liverpool. Quaresma, who performed outstandingly in the first leg, was very restricted in this round. Under Liverpool's pressing, the teammates dared not pass the ball to him again.

Porto reduced his defense and hoped to use offense instead of defense, but their defeat in the midfield made them unable to attack, making the defense even more stretched. The defense line was hit by Liverpool. However, after scoring two goals, Liverpool's offense was a bit casual and not as nervous as the opening. As a result, many opportunities were created, but they were unable to grasp it.

Although the score has not expanded, Liverpool's offense is very exciting. In addition, Liverpool's players have some performances after leading two goals, which the coach dislikes. However, in the eyes of the fans, the game has become more and more beautiful, so the applause and cheers in the stands have become more and more enthusiastic, and the atmosphere on the court has become more and more intense.

Porto head coach Ferreira originally intended to use attack instead of defense and use conceding goals to exchange for goals, but his intentions were not realized. The defense became worse and worse, and the offense did not improve much. The threat to Liverpool was very small. The reason why he did not concede the ball again was that Liverpool had a little worse grasp of the opportunity and was not as decisive as the previous time.

Strong teams like Liverpool have strong adjustment ability. Even if the head coach is not commanding, they can adjust themselves. Seeing that their teammates in front are too hesitant to shoot, veterans like Gerald and Chen Yu immediately pointed out their teammates' problems and made them play more resolutely. Don't play, your opponent is definitely not easy to deal with. Don't give your opponent a chance to breathe, and you will be beaten to death if you fight.

Players like Chen Yu and Gerald are the backbone of the team. Their words are no worse than the head coach. Under their guidance, Liverpool's players' offense is much more decisive than before, and the threat of shooting is getting bigger and bigger.

In the 40th minute of the game, Liverpool once again had an excellent goal chance. Crouch pressed in the frontcourt and caused a pass error from the Porto defender. The ball was cut off by Chen Yu alertly and immediately took a kick.

Chen Yu's shot after stealing was very decisive, and he completed it in one go, with almost no pause in the middle. Goalkeeper Nuno was still thinking about what Chen Yu would do next, but Chen Yu had already shot. Nuno couldn't react in time. Fortunately, Chen Yu's shot was too pursuing speed and the angle was not tricky enough. Nuno subconsciously reached out to block it. The ball deflected slightly and bounced out on the post.

Liverpool players were very excited today and were very active in running and grabbing points. Although no one could have expected Chen Yu to shoot, after the shot, the first ones to run over were Liverpool players. Their reaction was obviously half a beat faster than the Porto players.

Luck finally favored the model worker Kuyt, and the ball rebounded to the direction of Kuyt's running. Facing the huge empty goal, Kuyt didn't need to aim, and blocked it with his foot, and the ball flew into the goal.

3:0

Kuyt scored a goal and Liverpool scored twice with the opportunity to make a goal, which shows that Liverpool is better than Porto in terms of motivation, and Liverpool's strength is stronger than Porto. If he works hard, Porto really has no choice but to play.

The cheers in the stands continued for a long time, and then one stand started to make a Mexican wave, and then the entire stand started to make a wave of people, and the atmosphere of the court reached its peak at this moment.

Benitez on the sidelines couldn't help laughing at this time. He was happy that not only was the victory decided, but the players' state. Liverpool Benitez didn't see much of this season, and it was a bit of the momentum of winning the double championship last season. Liverpool will soon enter the Christmas Devil schedule. If Liverpool can maintain this state, it will be no big problem for Liverpool to maintain the lead position.

Porto's head coach Ferreira had a long face. His original purpose was to sacrifice defense to complete the attack, but now the defense is gone and the offense is not done. Instead, Liverpool has expanded the score again. Now Ferreira dares not let the players attack rashly anymore. He can only wave helplessly, let his players shrink, defend the last five minutes, and is already behind 0:3. If he does not stabilize his position, Liverpool may also score again in the last five minutes.

Porto shrank his defense in the last five minutes, while Liverpool's willingness to attack after leading three goals was reduced. Neither side created a shot in the last five minutes, and the score remained 3:0 until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half.

During the break, Liverpool did not make any adjustments, but Porto directly replaced two players, one in the front line and the other in the midfield, with the goal still being to strengthen the offense.

The first half led by 3-0, and Liverpool's fighting spirit was obviously not as good as the first half in the second half. Porto was determined to save some face, had stronger fighting spirit and more active running. As time went by, Liverpool's advantage was not as obvious as the first half. Both sides were evenly matched on the scene and the opportunities they created were similar.

In the 10th minute of the second half of the game, Porto intercepted the ball in the midfield and launched a counterattack. Quaresma dribbled the ball and drove straight in, breaking through Liverpool's midfielder Gerrard and Alon in a row intercepted, and directly penetrated into Liverpool's penalty area center, forcing two Liverpool's central defenders Carragher and Agel to come together to attack Quaresma.

Quaresma is Porto's offensive core. Not only is he excellent in his skills, he also has a broad vision. Seeing Carragher and Agel coming to defend himself, Quaresma immediately distributed the ball to Sandro, and continued to step forward to attract Liverpool's defensemen.

Quaresma, who was not in the ball, naturally didn't need two people to defend, so Carragher immediately intercepted Risandro who was getting the ball.

Originally, there was no problem with Liverpool's defense. Carragher did not lose his position in the past. It was not easy for Lisandro to pass through his defense, and it was difficult to pass it to Quaresma again. Agel kept following Quaresma, but at this time, Lisandro showed the unique spirituality of South American players. He knocked his heel back and continued to penetrate forward, making a pass and cut cooperation with his teammate Asongsang who followed behind.

Carragher is not easy to deal with. If he runs with Risandro, there will be no one to defend Asongsandro. If he doesn't run with Risandro, as soon as Asongsandro passes the ball, Risandro will face the goalkeeper directly.

The two evils are the least, and Carragher can only run with Risandro and ask other teammates to make up for the attack on Asson Sang.

Asongsang has no defense, so he has many choices, such as passing or leading, and of course he can also shoot. However, he is about 30 meters away from the goal and the shooting distance is too far. In the absence of defense, shooting is not the best choice.

However, not all players are the most rational. Asongsang has the ability to shoot a long shot. He took two steps horizontally, pulled his foot and shot. The ball flew towards the goal against the turf.

The angle of this shot was not very tricky, but it was very powerful. Liverpool goalkeeper Reina saw Asongsang's shooting distance and felt that he could save it. He fell to the ground and wanted to throw the ball into his arms, but Reina was at a low point in Asongsang's strength. He threw it and didn't hug it. The ball was out of his arms and bounced out of his arms.

This dehydration is very dangerous because a forward and a forward in Porto are running into the penalty area, which is easy to give them a chance to shoot.

Goalkeeper Renner was also very clear about the situation on the court. After the ball was removed, he was covered in his head and quickly got up to make his second save.

However, Reina's second save was too late. Sandro did not dare to run with all his strength when he was forward, and was worried about offside. After seeing Asongsang shot, he immediately ran to the goal with all his strength. At this time, he came to the horse and fell to the ground and shot with a kick and made the ball into the net.

1:3

Sandro's follow-up shot from Porto scored a point for Porto.

After scoring the goal, Risandro was very excited. This was an honor to score here at Anfield Stadium. Risandro got up from the turf and ran towards the stands. While running, he patted his chest. His emotions were as if he had won the game.

There were very few Porto fans in the stands, with less than two thousand people. Because this game did not determine Porto's right to qualify, and the chances of winning were very small, Porto fans were unwilling to come. All of them were irons. However, Porto played too poorly in the first half and was scored 3 goals by Liverpool, which also disappointed the Porto fans who were prepared to lose. Now seeing Risandro scored a goal, Porto fans were very happy and cheered and gave applause to Risandro.

Seeing Sandro scored, Porto coach Ferreira's heart suddenly felt relieved. Until now, he had no idea of ​​winning the game. He just wanted to score one goal so that the result would not be ugly, and he could shoot a few more shots, making the scene less ugly. As for qualifying, he could just return to home court to win Besiktas.

Porto was satisfied, but Liverpool people were not satisfied, especially Liverpool fans. They not only wanted to win, but also wanted to win beautiful things today. Seeing Porto's forward Sandro was disappointed, they immediately started shouting "Liverpool enter one! Liverpool enter one!"

Even if the fans don't shout, Liverpool's players will not give up. If Risandro doesn't score, Liverpool will be satisfied with the 3-0 score. After all, Porto is not an unknown person, but Risandro's goal makes Liverpool's players very unhappy. If the coach and the captain don't greet each other, everyone will start to attack.

Since they relaxed for a while before, it is not easy to suddenly become nervous now. Liverpool's offense did not immediately gain the upper hand. After Porto scored the goal, he was in a strong morale and did not suffer any losses on both offense and defense. They fought with Liverpool in the midfield, and there was a come and go, and no one could do anything to the other side for a while.

The deadlock is difficult to break, but this is in other teams. For Liverpool, they have superstar Chen Yu and Gerald. As long as these two people want to play, Porto cannot stop the two of them.

Sure enough, in the 32nd minute of the game, Liverpool's Chen Yu dribbled the ball from the wing and suddenly cut across the middle. Chen Yu's mind was very clear when cutting inward and found a relatively spacious space. At the same time, he avoided the sliding tackle of a defensive player and the follow-up defense of another player through the frequency under his feet.

When Porto's back midfielder had already predicted to stand in place, Chen Yu was expected to continue cutting inward, but Chen Yu was very capable of continuous movements. He shook his ankle and dunked the ball, preparing to go to another channel. Porto's back midfielder had no choice but to stretch his foot to trip Chen Yu.

Chen Yu made continuous movements, and at this time he had reached the limit and could not avoid it. However, he saw that the inward cutting caused the double-team of several Porto players. He poked the ball before being tripped and passed it to Crouch in the open position.

The referee had already put the whistle in his mouth, but when he saw that Crouch was in a good position, he could shoot with just one step, so he gave up blowing the whistle and let the game continue.

Crouch did not disappoint Chen Yu's pass. He took two steps forward and shot at the far corner of the goal from the penalty area line. Porto goalkeeper Nuno fell to the ground to save the ball but was a little bit worse. The ball rolled into the net from his fingertips.

4:1

Crouch, who scored the goal, let out a long roar, waved his fist hard in the stands, and then turned around and ran towards Chen Yu who was still lying on the ground. He was worried that Chen Yu would be injured.

Chen Yu was actually fine, but the game was very nervous at that time. It was the critical moment when Crouch shot. He didn't get up and sat on the ground to watch, which resulted in a misunderstanding among his teammates.

When Chen Yu saw Crouch running over, he got up and hugged Crouch, "Big! He's shooting well!"

Seeing that Chen Yu was safe and sound, Crouch smiled and said, "You're okay! That's good! Thank you for your pass."

Chen Yu smiled and said nothing, thinking: I'm a big fool, if I can continue to take it on, I will pass it to you.

After Crouch turned the score into 4:1, Liverpool and Porto had another melee. Liverpool wanted to continue to expand the score, and Porto wanted to make another one, but it was the end of the game. The physical fitness and attention were also reduced, and the defense was not good, but the ability to seize opportunities was poor. In the end, neither side could seize the opportunity, and the score of 4:1 remained until the end of the game.

Liverpool fans have nothing to say about this score, they can only applaud and cheer and cheer, and they cannot have any opinions. Although the goal was not perfect, facing the team that tied their team in the first round and scored like this, the scene completely gained the upper hand. There is no need to ask too much. After all, Porto is not a bottom.

Although the Porto people were not satisfied, they also expected the result, but the score was a bit big. However, considering that Marseille lost to Besiktas in an upset, Porto has actually qualified in the group. Since he can't get the first place in the group, it doesn't matter what kind of score it will be, so Porto can also accept such a result after the game.
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