Chapter 594

"Watford's defensive approach has led to a significant drop in Liverpool's passing success rate."

"Arnold's recent form is indeed not very good. Joe Gomez has kept him on the bench for the past three games. He finally got a chance to start in this game. Arnold must seize the opportunity!"

Scholes and Arnold are both English players, so he must want Arnold to perform better, and the same goes for Ashley Cole.

The FA Cup semi-final continued, and Watford once reduced Liverpool's pass success rate to below 80%.

Not only Arnold, Robertson also started to make frequent passing errors, which was completely different from what Zabia had expected before the game.

He would have thought that the two full-backs would be under the least pressure because Watford didn't even play with wingers.

As a result, the two full-backs were under the greatest pressure, because Watford did not place the bottom of the tornado straight in the middle of Liverpool. They kept moving the bottom position according to the direction of Gray's pressure, from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, and the pressure on the middle was not that strong.

Zabia made some mistakes in his defensive tactical judgment, which resulted in Liverpool not having the overwhelming power that the fans had expected before the game. Instead, the backcourt was shaking and the formation was unstable.

The 29th minute of the game!

"Watford's defensive style has not changed. This is the most uncomfortable game I have ever seen Salah play."

"Before this season he was able to play out wide but now both he and Shaqiri are a bit out of form."

"Solanke's shortcomings have been magnified. His shooting skills are good, but he doesn't have the endurance of Firmino. If he dribbles the ball for a little longer, he may be robbed!"

Lin Chen did not feel the threat from him in the middle, but without the support from the wing, it became difficult to force a breakthrough from the middle.

Especially Dukure, this was not the first time he faced Lin Chen.

Lin Chen left a deep impression on Doucoure in his debut. In the subsequent U17 World Cup, Doucoure also felt the terror of Lin Chen. But in this game, Doucoure learned his lesson. He and Capoue defended Lin Chen together.

If you can't defend, you'll commit a foul. Once Lin Chen gets the space to shoot, the two of them will put their strong bodies together. If they can't knock you down, how can they stop you?

Both of them are black and slender-shaped players. Putting them together is like two pieces of iron plates, completely blocking the shooting space in front of Lin Chen.

Although Doucoure was beaten black and blue by Lin Chen and was grimacing, as long as Lin Chen wanted to take a long shot, he would stand in front of Lin Chen regardless of his own safety, as if he was willing to sacrifice everything for Watford.

Most of the first half of the game has passed. Although Liverpool has the advantage by relying on the strength of its stars, Watford's backcourt is not under much pressure. Instead, Liverpool's backcourt flanks are under greater pressure.

Zabia frantically thought of a way to deal with the situation, as he had to make up for his own mistakes.

After repeatedly watching Watford's tornado-like pressing runs, and combining the characteristics of the tornado itself, he finally figured it out!

This tornado-like tactical formation seemed to make both sides of Liverpool very uncomfortable, but in fact the biggest weakness was exposed in front of them, but they had always ignored it, that is the center!

Because the wind is relatively weak in the middle of a tornado!

Coincidentally, there is a player named Lin Chen in the central part of Liverpool who can smash the eye of the Watford tornado with one punch and can kick the center of the Watford tornado with one kick!

After determining the counter-attack tactics, Zabia immediately delivered the new counter-attack tactics to the field. After receiving the news, Lin Chen began to adjust the team formation.

Tearing open the eye of the Watford tornado is the first step!

As the game continued, Watford's tornado pressure was still showing its prowess on Liverpool's two flanks, but then Liverpool's way of passing the ball from the backcourt began to change, from passing the ball from the full-back to directly passing the ball from the goalkeeper, with Alisson playing the role of passing the ball.

Alisson's timing of passing the ball is very clever. He would not pass the ball early or late. He would wait until Watford's tornado formation was formed on the wing before passing the ball!

The 32th minute of the game!

"Robertson was forced to face Watford's pressure again, but he didn't rush the ball out this time!"

Watford waited until Perreira was about to rush in front of them before suddenly passing the ball back to Alisson. After Alisson stopped the ball, the time to pass it came!

The Brazilian goalkeeper passed the ball with excellent footwork. After Lin Chen stopped the ball, Watford's tornado formation on the wing had no time to disperse, but Lin Chen had already used his excellent dribbling to rush towards Watford's backcourt!

This time, he will not give Watford the chance to reorganize their backcourt defense!

Because Pereira and Will Hughes helped build a tornado pressure in the frontcourt, this indirectly led to Watford's midfielder having to face Lin Chen directly.

And this time, Salah finally created an opportunity on the wing!

But he didn't create a chance for himself, but for Shaqiri on the left!

Lin Chen made a straight pass to find Shaqiri, Capoue hurried back to the penalty area to participate in the defense, but the wing attack was still a cover for Liverpool!

Solanke's involvement pressed down Mariappa, and Cathcart lost his defensive target until he saw Lin Chen appear in his own penalty area!

But at this time, Cascart's defensive opportunity had slipped away!

Watford's seemingly brilliant tornado tactics, the most stable but also the most deadly eye of the tornado, was found by Lin Chen!

Shaqiri's cross landed at Lin Chen's feet!

Lin Chen felt the surge of air around his body, and before the tornado had time to form the most turbulent wind wall, he raised his foot and kicked!

The deadly and powerful shot went straight to Watford's weakest point!