There is a dream called football

The Riazor Stadium was packed with fans hoping to defeat the powerful Liverpool.

Head coach Iruretta crossed his arms over his chest, looking confident. He couldn't wait to bite his fellow countryman hard.

However, after the game started, Irureta found that it was not so beautiful, and Liverpool was different.

Liverpool became 451, which created a midfield advantage. It was not easy for Belleron to pass the ball. Although the opponent had one less forward, the two wingers played very sharply, especially Li Qiao on the right.

Li Qiao felt particularly excited when he returned to Spain. Looking at the map, he knew that A Coruna is very close to Porto and the climate is almost exactly the same. It's like a traveler returning home.

Iruretta thought that Liverpool would show weakness and use a defensive counterattack to come to Deportivo, but what he didn't expect was that the opponent turned around.

Benitez laughed, he just wanted to put pressure on his compatriots.

Sure enough, the fans looked at it and felt something was wrong. Why was the team being beaten? The last time they were beaten in the away game, they were able to beat their opponents. Could it be that they have regressed?

It's like taking a test. If you often score 60 points, your parents will accept it over time. But if you score 90 points once and 60 points once, the parents will definitely go crazy.

There were sporadic boos at the scene.

"Shhhh." Irureta was a little dissatisfied. He blamed these fans for not understanding football.

But to be fair, Benitez's deployment of five midfielders really surprised him. 451 vs. 442, the midfielders were completely victorious. This left two excellent forwards, Pandiani and Albert Luk, with nothing but the ability to play on the court.

Bask in the moon.

Belleron had never encountered this situation before. Alonso, Gerrard, and Hamann formed a triangle and took turns to encircle and suppress him.

When he was in La Liga, he usually faced the opponent's parallel defense lines, but here, he encountered a three-dimensional battle.

Benitez is indeed a master tactician. He knows that if he chokes Belleron, Deportivo's offense will be half off.

And Belleron is not a Spanish international-level midfielder, so this is not a particularly difficult thing.

Mourinho, who was far away in London, was also watching this game. Any good coach must be a person who is good at learning. He was also thinking at this time, what would happen if he faced such a situation?

Wings!

"If my midfielder faced such a siege, then I would play on the wing."

But the problem is that Iruretta does not have excellent wingers, and La Liga's style of play is mainly in the middle.

Later, when the Spanish dynasty couldn't play pass-and-control, such as during the World Cup in Brazil, many fans wondered if they could hit him with a long pass.

But the problem is that it sounds simple to say, but it’s impossible in reality, because I haven’t played like this since I was a child.

So even if Mourinho stands by Iruretta's side, he cannot turn the team into Chelsea immediately.

At the 35th minute of the first half, Riise and Li Qiao completely tore through the opponent's defense on the right wing and passed the ball. Gerrard followed up in time in the middle, stepped on the arch of his foot, and hit the ball into the goal.

1 to 0.

After losing the ball, Deportivo became even more impatient and even made mistakes in short passes in the midfield.

The boos in the stadium became louder. At the end of the first half, many fans were very excited, but Benitez was still calm. He had carefully studied his opponent for half a month, and now it finally worked.

After a 15-minute break, Iruretta still didn't find a way to deal with it. He just asked the players to pass the ball faster.

"Everyone should reduce the time they hold the ball and pass the ball to me if they can."

"Also, if you can shoot, shoot. Don't shoot only in the penalty area."

The players nodded.

After the start of the second half, I don't know whether Iruretta's strategy worked or whether the opponent relaxed the pressure. In short, the rhythm of the game slowed down, and Deportivo also sought to equalize the score, but soon the opponent pressed back.

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At this time, Irureta realized that the other party was just taking a normal rest, not that he was really relaxed.

After the game, Irureta admitted that he learned a lot. Li Qiao remembered that he didn't seem to have become a famous coach, and his level was probably about this.

In the second half, Iruretta made three substitutions, but they failed to turn the game around. In the 67th minute, Baros broke through in front of the penalty area and scored another goal, sealing the victory.

2 to 0.

Although this does not guarantee that Liverpool will appear in the group, it can already give the players a breather.

After 0 to 2, Irureta sat back on the bench. He was honest. He was completely defeated in this game. He could only hope that he could defeat the other two teams in the subsequent games, so that he could still appear in the group.

But what he was most unwilling to accept was that he failed in the battle with his Spanish fellow countrymen, and he failed from the very beginning. Benitez was indeed much ahead of him in this regard.

After 75 minutes, Benitez replaced Li Qiao and Alonso to let them take a rest. At 85 minutes, Baros was also replaced.

In the 89th minute, Benitez went to Irureta's side and said he would leave the game early to show respect for his hometown team.

Leaving the game early is a sign of respect, and Mourinho later did the same thing against Manchester United.

Irureta hugged Benitez and talked in Spanish for a long time. He patted Benitez and said, "Raphael, I lost to you."

"Haha, don't say that. Maybe you will be the first in the group in the end. You know, the Greeks are particularly difficult to deal with."

"Ha ha."

Benitez then paid tribute to the fans at the scene. Some people bought it and applauded, but there were also sporadic boos, thinking that Benitez was showing off.

In stoppage time, Pandiani scored a goal, but nothing could be changed. Liverpool won 2-1 away from home.

The players were actually reluctant to leave this city. It was beautiful here, but the players had to return to the cold Britain.

Back in the UK, there was another match against Birmingham City, another tough team, mid-to-lower, but with a desperate style of play.

To put it simply, teams like Birmingham, Bolton, Fulham, and Reading are all similar. They are all hard-boiled teams, because against the giants, their biggest advantage is not to lose their lives.

Benitez is also the most afraid of this kind of team. The teams Liverpool lost this season, such as Norwich, are this kind of team. He has already felt the chaos of this kind of team, and the tactics they use are still decades old.

before, but the effect is surprisingly good.

"We must find a way."

Benitez must not let his team capsize against the mid-to-lower teams again.