Today's Premier League is going through its toughest period of the season. Affected by this round of the epidemic, many teams in the Premier League are no longer eligible to continue to participate, including Manchester United, Everton and Brentford and other teams have begun to choose to postpone the game, and the originally fiercely competitive Premier League has been shrouded in dark clouds for a time. In fact, according to the information that has been made public so far, those teams that have not applied for postponement of the game are not all fully loaded, taking Liverpool as an example, they currently have many people infected with pneumonia in the midfield position in addition to the injured players, and before the liverpool and Tottenham games, the manager Klopp said in despair: "We have lost the entire midfield". It was in this extremely difficult situation that Liverpool welcomed a match against Tottenham Hotspur on the road.
Tottenham Hotspur host Liverpool remnants, determined to win?
In fact, before this game, Liverpool's opponent Tottenham Hotspur situation is not optimistic, several of its players have also contracted pneumonia before, but some people have already had the conditions to play, so from the perspective of the completeness of the lineup, Spurs have a greater advantage, at least Spurs did not have the same as Liverpool, the entire midfield starting lineup was scrapped. At the same time, Spurs have been resting for up to two weeks due to suspension, and the physical fitness of the players is obviously better than that of their opponents, Spurs were originally the first team in the Premier League to be affected by the epidemic in this round, and now their situation is starting to improve, but they have an unexpected advantage in the competition with many teams plagued by injuries.
Before the game, Liverpool's Fabinho, Van Dijk and Jones were all seriously ill, and these were the key players in Liverpool's former midfield, which made the Liverpool midfielder, who already had shortcomings, suffered a worse blow. To be honest, Klopp was actually ready to lose before the game started. It was only the result of the final game that made him more difficult to accept than watching the team lose in a fair way, and in Klopp's view, the Liverpool players could not win because of the unfair judgment of the referee.
There was no one on the pre-match scum midfield line
When arranging the team's starting lineup, Uncle Scum was extremely difficult, because looking at the big list of the whole team, the Liverpool midfielders who could be named by the fans were all unable to play, except for the previous three, Henderson and Thiago have not been able to recover their health after illness. In other words, Liverpool's midfield position has not been able to put together a starting lineup, in desperation, Klopp from Liverpool's youth team to draw 19-year-old Morton, plus water dispenser veteran Milner and nabi Keita, who has just recovered, just to make up the starting 3 players in the midfield.
On the Spurs side, not only do they have tens of thousands of home fans, but the dressing room is far better than Liverpool's. Kane Son Joined forces to start, other starters are also all on duty, Conte saw Liverpool's starting list, it is estimated that he has secretly laughed out loud. Although Tottenham's previous record and form were not good, after a period of rest, Spurs can be said to have the advantage.
A wonderful and unusual game, but encountered a Buddhist referee
After the start of the game, the situation on the field is indeed as predicted before the game, Spurs rely on home advantage, immediately launched a fierce attack on Liverpool's weak midfield, it is obvious that Tottenham's tactics are very targeted, Conte and his team this time is organized and premeditated to launch a revenge operation against Liverpool. At the beginning, Spurs did not rush to attack, but first let Liverpool's trident form a sudden position, at this time, Liverpool's midfield is obviously not capable of completing the corresponding connection, and it is impossible to keep up with the footsteps of these forward players, so that liverpool's front and midfield ruptures occur, Spurs seize the opportunity to start attacking Liverpool's rear.
Just 13 minutes into the opening, Tottenham's Side Ndombe came to use a straight-forward to send Kane ammunition supplies in an empty midfield position, and the latter responded quickly after receiving the ball, shooting low in the box, Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson just failed to defend the attack, Spurs got the perfect start. In the first half of the game, Spurs under the guidance of Conte, the tactical style is refreshing compared to the past, especially in the transition between attack and defense, can clearly a strong Italian football wind to hit the face, the home fans cheers and shouts have shown the recognition and support of Conte.
However, the laughter of the Tottenham fans did not last long, and after only twenty minutes, after the Tottenham hot spot was saved, Liverpool quickly gave Spurs a heavy punishment, and a few minutes later, Robertson won the hand on the flank and staged a cross on the left side of the box, Jota, who was directly in front of the goal, seized the opportunity to jump up and head the goal to help Liverpool equalize.
The whole field was evenly divided, with both sides leading the way for 45 minutes
In the first half of the game, the two sides were equally divided from the score, and Tottenham Hotspur showed a high-open-low posture, and since losing a chance to score, Tottenham's morale seems to have been slightly affected. In the end, Liverpool regained the rhythm of the game. After the equaliser, Liverpool's front line-up began to show a stronger offensive momentum. The pressing power in the front is even greater, and if you don't pay attention to the state of the midfield, Liverpool at the peak are clearly back at that moment. Just when the outside world was expecting who could take the lead in breaking the deadlock, a very controversial bridge section occurred. Robertson wanted to launch a counterattack from the back again, and Kane on the side immediately put the shovel down, it was obvious that this was an undisputed foul action, according to the standard of many times, the referee should give Liverpool a chance to take a penalty, and even said that kane could be sent off directly, but the referee just showed a yellow card, for Tottenham just scratched an itch, no one thought of it, soon Jota encountered such a picture, two major fouls in a row, the referee did not ask VAR to intervene, Uncle Scum, who was watching the game from the sidelines, was extremely annoyed.
And Tottenham's side in the second half of the game, quickly adjusted the state, if not Alisson is too powerful, otherwise Kane can score another goal in the second half, seeing that the situation on the field is not good for himself, Klopp chose to sword the side, let Firmino replace Morton, so that Liverpool's midfielders only have two people left, and the forward position has become four people, obviously a desperate rhythm. Klopp's change of formation soon had a clear effect in a short period of time, and in the 69th minute, the oppressed Tottenham rear line had another problem, and Robertson used another header to avenge his own arrow.
Repeated fouls were not stopped, and Klopp's outburst was inevitable
It is worth noting that Robertson took on the offensive task before the header was broken, Salah was suspected of having a handball action, but the referee also did not say that it was fair and just to another extent. Just when the fans were talking about it, Spurs did not seem to be affected by this incident, but used the last period of time to step up the counter-attack, but Liverpool's goalkeeper Alisson made a second mistake and was easily won by Sun Xingxuan. Equalised. It is also worth mentioning that near the end of the game, Robertson kicked Emerson in anger because of repeated interference by his opponents, and finally received a red card. Fortunately, near the end of the game, Liverpool did not let the opponent turn the tables.
Objectively speaking, there is no problem with the state of the players on both sides of this game, except that Liverpool cannot play to the fullest due to the strength of the residual team, the quality of this game is quite high, especially the operation of replacing Morton with Firmino, here must give Klopp a thumbs up.