Fanni kept hovering around Raitt because whether it was Barbour or Jones, they frequently passed by Raitt on their backcourt drives and Fanni's harassment of Raitt was very effective.
But it's clear that Yang Cheng has arranged a task for him that is more than just harassment!
Very soon, Kaiserslautern again in a midfield position at the front end, Ballack directly sent the ball forward, penalty you back to Liverpool's goal, saw clearly the direction of the ball, turned around and rushed forward, but just as David James made a timely tackle, grabbing the ball from under his feet.
Another fruitless return!
Fanny was gnashing his teeth in frustration, wondering how he always seemed to be unable to keep up with the team's pace.
Barak, Bellon, Daillet, Nedved, and Denilson, these teammates passed the ball to him time and again, each pass was obtained by Kaiserslautern players through desperate pressing and intercepting, it can be said that they were all earned with blood and sweat. However, every time the ball came to Van Nistelrooy, it completely fizzled out.
His headers were a fraction of a second late, always ended prematurely; direct passes were a bit slow, always intercepted by the opponent in advance; even many passes to his feet were blocked and destroyed by being positioned in advance.
The match has been going on for 35 minutes, and apart from the initial stage, Kaiserslautern created one chance after another, although they were far inferior to Liverpool in terms of possession, but all were wasted by Van Nistelrooy time and again.
The Dutchman was so desperate he wanted to kill himself, but the more he did, the less chance he had!
For Vanni, every opportunity was very obvious, and his teammates' passes were also very accurate. All he had to do was appear in the position where he should have appeared and complete the final shot, but somehow, he always slowed down.
Half a year of running-in, Van Nistelrooy absolutely can't say that he is not familiar with his teammates, and several times his teammates have obviously been accommodating him, but still didn't work. 4
"Does this kid really have the instinct of a shooter?" Paul Beyer saw Vanni make another futile dash, shaking his head in dismay, and it was already the 7th scoring opportunity.
Yang Cheng also felt a headache, Fan Ni's sense of smell was beyond doubt, but the key to the problem was that he seemed somewhat out of place.
How to say it? He seems to be very mindful of his teammates, very mindful of the route of their passes. Even many times when he makes a move, he will consider it first and then proceed, which makes him half a beat slower in timing.
What's going on after all?
Yang Cheng couldn't understand either, he was always puzzled, many very good opportunities, if replaced by other forwards, could have been scored, but Van Nistelrooy always disappointed people, did he really not reach the moment of enlightenment?
Paul Bier, who was beside Yang Cheng, saw his worried expression and knew the pressure he was under. This game against Kaiserslautern can be said to be a last stand. If they can't take down their opponents at Anfield Stadium, it will be even harder for Kaiserslautern to beat Liverpool.
It can be said that Yang Cheng's tactics were correct, and the team did create a lot of opportunities. The key is still in the final shot, Vanney's long-standing shortcomings are exposed without a doubt.
"Don't worry too much, scoring is a matter of course when the time comes. As long as we maintain our current momentum, it's only a matter of time before we score!" Paul Bailey comforted his good friend.
Yang Cheng knew in his heart that they were kind, but he couldn't help but smile wryly. Liverpool and Evans weren't easy to deal with, and sooner or later they would change their tactics, at which point Kaiserslautern's situation wouldn't be good.
Just then, Yang Cheng suddenly had an epiphany, "Shadow writer 007, Ah-ha! Water flows to where it's needed!"
Paul Bier was startled by Yang Cheng's shout and thought something had happened.
This guy who suddenly realized something rushed to the sidelines. In an instant, there was a dead ball opportunity on the field, and Vanni was beckoned by Yang Cheng to come to the sidelines.
Far away, a bottle of water was thrown to Vanni, who immediately opened his mouth and gulped it down, clearly he had also consumed a lot. "What are you doing there, Rude?" Yang Cheng suddenly asked seriously.
Fanny knew she was performing poorly, even tragically so. She shook her head in embarrassment, but quickly nodded instead, feeling at a loss.
"The task I assigned to you before the game was to be the core of the offense, which means that everything the team does revolves around you, they need to coordinate with you, not the other way around!"
Saying that, Yang Chengzhong patted Fan Ni's shoulder, "But look at your performance from the start to now, you've always been trying to accommodate them. Don't you understand? Continuing like this, even if you're given ten or a hundred more chances, you still won't score because you're always following others' rhythm, which is already very slow!"
Van Norden was taken aback because he found that what Yang Zhen said was exactly his current situation. "Then what should I do?"
Yang Cheng pointed to Fan Ni's heart, "Believe in your own feelings. When you find the defensive loophole of the opponent, don't care about your teammates around you. You have to believe in yourself and drill towards the loophole, further expanding this gap."
"Rudy, you have to understand that not finding a gap is your problem, but if you find one and your teammates don't pass the ball to you, then it's their responsibility. What you need to do is fulfill your own responsibility, find the gap and make use of it. When your teammate passes the ball to you, just score, it's that simple, isn't it?"
Yang Cheng patted his shoulder encouragingly, "Go on, once you're on the court, trust your instincts, don't hesitate, and don't try to accommodate others. Just follow your own feelings and you'll be fine!"
Vanney nodded heavily and returned to the court again.
Yang Cheng returned to his position and continued to watch the game with a calm and leisurely attitude.
Fan Ni made another mistake after returning to the court, and Yang Cheng almost scolded him on the sidelines, but he quickly corrected himself.
In the 39th minute, Liverpool's offense just passed the midfield and was immediately intercepted by Gattuso who came out from the middle of the field. He then gave the ball to Bellon, who didn't stop the ball and directly pushed it to the left side, giving it to Nedved. The latter sent the ball forward and it reached Denilson's feet.
At this point, Jones shifted to the left, opening up a gap between him and Wright. Vanni immediately picked up on this and remembered Yang's previous words, so he tried it out and made a cut towards the gap between Wright and Jones.
Denilson kept his head up when he saw Van Nistelrooy come in before Wright, level with Liverpool's backline, and immediately sold Jones a dummy, playing the ball directly into the space behind Liverpool's defence.
What happened next was simple, Van Nistelrooy made a forward pass and naturally became a successful counter-attack. Raitt's turn-over was very fast and appeared in the forbidden area on time, blocking Van Nistelrooy and the goal. However, after stopping the ball with his back against Raitt, the Dutchman skillfully turned around with the ball at his feet, then pulled to the right, pulling out a defender, and shooting with his right foot.
The ball wasn't traveling fast, but the angle was very tricky, almost sticking to the right post into the net. David James made a diving attempt, but could only watch helplessly as the ball went in!
At the moment of scoring, Van Nistelrooy was stunned because when he kicked and shot, his eyes were always staring at the right post, and the ball seemed to enter the net as he had expected.
All of this seems too simple!
"Awesome, you finally scored a goal!" Denilson jumped directly onto Van Nistelrooy's back.
The players of Kaiserslautern rushed up one by one to celebrate with the goal-scorer Vanni, while Vanni himself was stunned and kept repeating in his mind the feeling of scoring that goal.
"What? A goal! Are you out of your mind with joy?" Barack excitedly asked, hugging Vanni's head.
The Dutchman shook his head vigorously, "No, no, it's just that the feeling and training are completely different!"
Everyone burst out laughing at once!
"Of course it's different, this is your first professional league goal in your career!" Bellon laughed and scolded.
Fan Ni also smiled silly, turned his head and saw Yang Cheng smiling on the sidelines.
The latter saw Fan Ni looking over and immediately nodded in approval, then pointed to his own heart, hinting to Fan Ni that he must remember the feeling from just now.
After Van Nistelrooy's goal, Evans was furious because in his view, Liverpool had the upper hand in this match but failed to turn their dominance into goals.
Every time Liverpool found a gap in Kaiserslautern's defense, just as they wanted to speed up and change the rhythm, Kaiserslautern's players either committed fouls or intercepted and pressed together, or defended collectively, always managing to slow down Liverpool's offense.
But hesitate for a moment, and the opportunity is lost!
"Continuing like this in midfield control is not feasible, that's too dangerous!" Evans muttered.
Once Liverpool's midfield control is broken, it directly leads to a counter-attack. Moreover, as Liverpool are originally an attacking-strong and defensive-weak team, they cannot withstand such intense pressure.
Just as Evans was about to change tactics, Kaiserslautern scored again!
“llllllllllllll!”
As the live commentator's prolonged shout of a goal, Van Nistelrooy flew out of the penalty area like a flying Dutchman, and in his excitement he almost shook off all his teammates who wanted to celebrate with him, ran directly to the sidelines, found Yang Chen, and hugged his head coach who had just pointed at himself and urged him.
For professional player Vanni, Yang Cheng's weight class was nothing, but when all the Kaizerslautern players had already rushed up, Yang Cheng became a soft persimmon that could be pinched at will, almost collapsing!
"Haha, this is really a funny celebration! Even the live commentator couldn't help but laugh."
The live broadcast screen showed a slow-motion replay of Van Nistelrooy's goal just now, and Bellon's precise long pass found Daisler on the right. The latter faced Barber, skillfully stopped the ball, accelerated quickly, shook off his opponent and passed into the penalty area.
Van Nistelrooy scored with a close-range header after outmuscling Reiter.
"This is a very beautiful team cooperation goal, Van Nistelrooy's final nail, also let people see the Dutch young general's keen shooting sense of smell, although in the previous 35 minutes, wasted a lot of opportunities, but also in 5 minutes, twice almost. Helped Kaiserslautern go 2:0 lead!"
"Plume opens twice, this will be the most memorable match in the Dutch career!"
The Kaiserslautern players celebrating their goal returned to the field under the urging of the main referee, and the match resumed.
Liverpool, who had been scored two goals by Van Nistelrooy, finally made a change. Evans no longer dared to take risks and immediately made adjustments. However, Kaiserslautern actually turned the tables, and Liverpool's advantage suddenly turned into a disadvantage.
In the second half, both sides changed sides and fought again. Evans made continuous substitutions, but Yang Cheng did the same, abandoning the defensive counterattack tactics in the first half and adopting a more active and proactive tactic to attack Liverpool's defense, intending to continue the momentum of Keizer's two consecutive goals and crush the opponent.
Nowadays, Liverpool is too gentle, the players are biased towards being delicate, which is not good. Every team needs a combination of different types of players, just like Kaiserslautern's lineup has both muscular players like Gattuso, Nedved and Ballack, as well as technical players like Dresler, Bellon, this can achieve a balance between strength and softness.
But now Liverpool lacks hardness, after being scored twice by Kaiserslautern, the morale is greatly dampened and can't turn over. Until the 52nd minute of the second half, Van Nistelrooy's shot in the penalty area was blocked by the defender, and Nedved's long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area broke through Liverpool's goal again, 3:0!
After that, Evans made some adjustments again, but they were all based on defense. The Whirlwind Kid Michael Irvin didn't get a chance to play either. Now he's just a rookie who can only sit on the bench and wait patiently for his opportunity.
3:0 defeated Liverpool, Kaiserslautern has undoubtedly set foot in the semifinals of the Winners' Cup. The entire German media began to reverse their previous doubts and criticisms of Kaiserslautern, instead praising them for showing a stunning level of technical and tactical ability in this match.
But only Granach continued in his column, neither praising nor criticizing D., just a simple slogan: "Our Caesar has returned!"
As if to echo Granach's prophecy, Yang Chengxian returned to the main coach seat on the field with an unstoppable shot.
The subsequent home game against Uerdingen, who was relegated last season, although Marshall was injured in the pre-match training and missed the match, Desler was replaced by Fritz Wheeler for the sake of protecting the young general, but still relied on Van Nistelrooy's hat-trick to defeat Uerdingen 3-0 and stop the decline in the league.
2 games 5 goals 1 assist, Van Nistelrooy also relied on the recent two rounds of outstanding performance, making himself the hottest striker in the German Second Division for a period of time, and Kaiserslautern re-became one of the most powerful contenders in the German Second Division.
After three days of rest, the team opened away to Liverpool at Anfield Stadium. Yang Chen's team was scored by Robbie Fowler in the first half, but in the 69th minute of the second half, Marshall's header in the penalty area helped Kaiserslautern equalize the score.
Kaiserslautern drew 1-1 at Anfield and won 4-1 on aggregate against English giants Liverpool, advancing to the semifinals.
The day after Kaiserslautern forced a draw at Liverpool, the semifinalists of the European Cup Winners' Cup were also determined.
Fiorentina, despite losing 0-1 at home to Benfica, won 2-0 away in the first leg and ultimately eliminated Benfica with a total score of 2-1, advancing to the semifinals of the Winners' Cup.
The opponent of Fiorentina is the La Liga superpower Barcelona, led by Ronaldo, the top scorer in today's football. They first defeated Athens team Stockholm 3-1 at home and then drew 1-1 away with a goal from Ronaldo, advancing to the semifinals with a total score of 4-2.
Ronaldo scored one goal in each of the two matches, continuing his good form in La Liga. Barcelona, who own this Brazilian super newcomer, are also considered to be the biggest favourites to win the European Cup this season.
Kaiserslautern won a hard-fought victory over Liverpool, and then immediately beat the defending champion Paris Saint-Germain.
Currently, this team has won the Champions League in the previous season. Although core player De Jong was poached by Inter Milan, many main players have stayed with the team, such as Yang Chen and Rai, who is Kaká's most admired player and now the soul of the team.
In addition, Paris Saint-Germain also signed the Japanese Kashima Antlers' Brazilian star Leonardo, who later became the coach of Milan and Inter Milan. Now he is a mainstay of Paris Saint-Germain.
As for the backline, team captain Paul Le Guen is the defensive core of this team. He is a sweeper-style player who is ruthless and stable in his defense. He is one of the top defenders in Ligue 1 and after retiring as a player, he went on to coach Lyon from 2002 to 2005, leading them to three consecutive championships and starting their seven-year dominance, making him a very powerful head coach.
It can be said that in the current Paris Saint-Germain lineup, there is a group of outstanding players. However, Nicolas Anelka transferred to Arsenal during the winter break, otherwise, this team's front line would make Yang Chen even more fearful.
As for the current Paris Saint-Germain head coach, this is a legendary goalkeeper Joel Bats, who was a contemporary of Platini's legendary goalkeeper. However, as a head coach, Bats' ability to guide is relatively general. Until 2000, he changed his career and went to Lyon as a goalkeeper coach, but instead cultivated many good players, such as Coupet and Lorris, who received his training and made rapid progress.
But as the saying goes, a single spark can start a prairie fire, and Yang Chen felt very confident that he could defeat the Paris Saint-Germain led by Joel Bartz!
