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Liverpool used their excellent frontcourt pressing ability to gain the offensive and defensive initiative on the field, which can be regarded as completely controlling the rhythm of the game in their own hands.

Liverpool, on the other hand, can not only organize their own offense in the midfield, but also use the high pressure in the frontcourt to create opportunities for ball conversion and counterattack. They have always held the absolute initiative in offense during the game, and can create a lot. offensive opportunities.

Offensive opportunities not only have quantity, but also quality.

In the 9th minute of the game, Liverpool's midfield steals the ball and creates a murderous opportunity.

In the on-the-spot counterattack, Henderson directly sent a through ball to find Lallana who accelerated to the right.

Lallana is at the corner of the penalty area on the right and sends a diagonal through ball directly into the penalty area.

Firmino and Lallana, who inserted in the middle, had a tacit understanding, and the two directly completed the connection.

With his own speed, Firmino took the lead to run to the pass point, and forcibly under the interference of the Swansea central defender, he came to the vicinity of the small penalty area first, without stopping the ball, and directly chose a volley between the kicks Hit the goal and try to hit the close corner directly.

It's just a pity that Firmino didn't fully control the turning angle of his body while hitting the goal at high speed this time.

A shot hit the goal, but it hit directly at the junction of the post and the beam at the near corner. It was a pity that he didn't score.

And three minutes later, Liverpool's attack made a comeback.

In Liverpool's offensive on the right, with Lallana as a check, the right back Klein suddenly advanced at high speed and directly set the bottom.

Swansea's side defense was instantly broken by Lallana's through ball and Klein's speed.

Klein accelerated forward, and even because of his speed advantage, he could advance obliquely and directly into the penalty area.

Klein's side attack from the bottom directly flattened Swansea's defensive line, and he had to separate defensive players to block Klein's side.

After that, it was a regular side assist operation.

Klein made an inverted triangle pass on the move, and accurately found the ball to the weakness revealed by Swansea's defense.

It was Sturridge who followed up. Facing Klein's pass to the front point, Sturridge directly chose to push with his left foot.

Forcibly hit the ball to the far corner at high speed.

A goal that tested Sturridge's control ability, but it also made it impossible for the Swansea goalkeeper to complete the save before the point.

It can only be said that Liverpool was really unlucky at the beginning stage today.

Firmino's front-point shot did not score before, but at this time Sturridge's push shot aimed at the back post also flew out of the baseline by rubbing against the back post.

Swansea escaped unharmed in the two attempts to score goals with shots on target.

However, once again, but not twice.

Those ordinary threatening attacks are not counted. If you make such a threat to hit the goal, you can't score the goal twice, and you should score the third time.

It can only be said that Swansea's defensive end today was completely hoisted by Liverpool. For Liverpool, too many opportunities were created and it was too easy. It is not surprising that they can score goals.

In the 26th minute of the game, in the positional battle, Liverpool suddenly changed the offensive rhythm.

Coutinho, who holds the ball on the left, no longer chooses to break through and cooperate with his teammates.

After accelerating down to the bottom to attract the follow-up of the defensive player, he pulled the ball back with an emergency stop and got a passing space directly on the left.

A half-high ball with an external spin directly allowed Coutinho to pass into the penalty area.

Perhaps Liverpool played such a "rough" offense and made a direct wing pass, which made Swansea a little unresponsive.

When Swansea's defensive players were all focused on marking people and defending the passing space on the ground, suddenly this time the ball was passed, and no one was able to come out to complete the interception at the first time.

At the moment when Coutinho passed the ball, Firmino got rid of the entanglement of the defender, used his explosive power to accelerate directly, and came to the landing point before the small penalty area.

Although some of the defensive players had already reacted at this time, Firmino gave up the jump directly, raised his legs high, and faced Coutinho's pass, forcing his way over.

And took advantage of the situation to directly complete a volley shot.

The forward rush of the defensive player should have arrived before Firmino, but he did not expect that Firmino would use this extreme way of hitting the goal to forcefully reach the football and complete the goal.

He stepped forward to block, did not block, and the speed of the ball was not slow, and the Swansea goalkeeper's save did not touch the football.

It was such a wonderful volley shot from Firmino that made Liverpool finally hit the goal with the 9th kick in the away game to break the deadlock and make the score 1-0.

Liverpool, leading by one goal, did not show any strength.

Although this is an away game, in Liverpool's pre-match plan, it is prepared to determine the lead in the fast-paced game and completely end the suspense of the game earlier.

Because in the middle of next week, Liverpool will usher in the previous make-up match with Chelsea.

Facing Chelsea, whose strength has recovered after the coaching change and the performance of the players is stable, Liverpool must adjust the physical fitness of the players to the best state.

So if you can solve Swansea in half a game, you will definitely not use 50 minutes.

This is also the reason why when Liverpool faced Swansea today, they put out all their strength and launched an attack with all their strength from the very beginning.

After taking the lead in the score, it will be easier for Liverpool to play.

The harder Swansea was on the pitch, the more effective Liverpool's counterattacks would be.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Liverpool counterattacked and delivered another good news.

Although the players in Swansea are already fast in defensive positioning between offense and defense, but there is no systematic defense. In the face of Coutinho's breakthrough impact, Swansea's defense is still a little shaky. .

Coutinho dribbled the ball directly to the front of Swansea's penalty area, forcing Swansea's defense to press all out to prevent Coutinho's long-range shot from hitting the goal.

And Coutinho did not force the goal. When the long-range shot angle was blocked very small, Coutinho directly distributed the ball horizontally to Lallana who inserted it.

Just when everyone thought that Lallana would shoot directly from a long distance, Lallana smashed the ball with another kick, and directly smashed the ball into the penalty area without stopping the ball.

After passing the ball, Coutinho went straight into the penalty area, using his speed and running position, directly got rid of the defender, and directly hit the goal without stopping the ball.

Coutinho completed a counter-angle shot, which was still a flat ball. The ball wiped the ground and slid directly into the lower left corner of the goal.

2 to 0, Liverpool led by two goals.

This is Liverpool's offensive ability. Not to mention the excellent individual offensive ability among the players, there is also a wonderful ability to cooperate.

A two-goal lead in an instant.

For Liverpool, the victory of this game is already a high probability event...