Chapter 78 Anfield vs Liverpool

"Two yellows turn one red!"

Central 5 commentator Liu Jiayuan clearly saw Sun Xingmin elbowing Martin, and his voice was octave higher: "This action is too bad, there is no problem with the yellow card! Wolfsburg leads Leverkusen by two goals as a guest, and one more player! Victory The balance is starting to tip heavily towards Wolfsburg."

"This is an obvious misjudgment! Son Xingmin did not touch Martin! Ugly flop!!"

Choi Jin-soo, the commentator of SBS Sports TV from South Korea, was filled with righteous indignation and vented his dissatisfaction with the referee Aitkin: "Disgraceful game! Dirty Bundesliga!!"

It wasn't until the on-site director restored the slow-motion playback just now that Choi Jin-soo, who had spoken righteously before, shut his mouth in embarrassment.

After a while, he said calmly, without blushing, "Aside from the facts, is there nothing wrong with Martin?"

Liverpool coach Rodgers, who was watching the game from the auditorium, was lost in thought as he watched Martin, who performed well on both offense and defense.

Able to play two full-backs, man-to-man, single-defense, make-up defense, interception, and steals are very strong.

He vaguely remembered that Martin was the only defensive player in the Bundesliga and even in Europe this season who was not broken by an offensive player.

The Liverpool in charge did not have the thigh of Suarez, Sterling and Sturridge were beaten back to their original form, and their offensive ability has dropped significantly. If they face a defensive player like Martin, the offense will be difficult to be effective.

Avoiding Wolfsburg's strongest defense is an important guarantee for winning the game at home.

After clearing his mind, Rogers probably knows what to do in the first round of the Europa League 1/16 final.

……

At the Allianz Arena, Guardiola was sitting on the coach's bench with his legs crossed, and his assistant Delphi said a few words in his ear.

"Oh? Sun Xingmin was sent off? It seems... There was no accident in the Wolfsburg game."

……

Leverkusen fell behind by two goals and lost one player.

Morale is down to freezing point.

Fortunately, Wolfsburg has to take into account the first leg of the UEFA Europa League 1/16 final at Anfield next Thursday. They did not continue to strengthen their offense and focused on controlling the rhythm.

But sometimes goals can't be blocked.

With Sun Xingmin sent off, Martin returned to the right.

At the end of the second half, Martin played successively with Arnold on the right, against De Bruyne and Vierinia who came off the bench.

Substitute Perisic overwhelmed Papadopoulos and leaped high, returning the ball to the middle of the top.

Dorst, who was in excellent form, lobbed the ball to the upper right corner of the goal and completed his third goal of the game!

2: 5!

In the end, Wolfsburg beat Leverkusen in the away game.

At the same time, another focus battle played an outrageously huge score.

The South King Bayern defeated the North King Hamburg 8-0 at home.

Martin heard Bayern's score from assistant coach Bremser, and he was speechless: No wonder Hamburg went to the Bundesliga and didn't want to come back. Every season, he was mistreated by the South King. Who the hell wants to come back?

The leader and the second place win respectively, and the points increase by three points respectively, and the ranking of points difference remains unchanged.

Except Borussia Borussia defeated Cologne 1-0 at home this round, Augsburg, Schalke 04 and Freiburg all lost and fell behind, which means that apart from Wolfsburg, there is no team that can threaten Bayern this season League champion.

Longguo self-media and fans did not waste such an opportunity. They went to South Korea's social media to mock Sun Xingmin's incompetence and rage.

South Korean media and fans wanted to refute, but... they had no confidence.

Wolfsburg, who won the game, did not have extra thoughts to manage Bayern's affairs. They still had to focus on the first round of the Europa League 1/16 final.

That... but a guest at Anfield Stadium!
The leader Bayern also shifted their attention to the Champions League. Their opponent Shakhtar Donetsk is of course much inferior in ability, but the terrifying home atmosphere is what the strong Bayern needs to overcome.

The training atmosphere in the Wolfsburg training center is a bit dignified, and the midfielder Tresch is even more proactive. He is afraid of being caught in the moment of fishing, and dare not neglect at all.

Next, in addition to being a guest to challenge Liverpool, after the European game, you have to return to the home court to welcome the challenge of Bayern, the king of the South.

From the perspective of league competition, the result of the game will directly affect the final league championship.

Four points behind, points unchanged for draws and seven points behind in losses.

In the second half of the league, even a draw will seriously affect the final league championship.

The depth of Wolfsburg's bench cannot be compared with that of Bayern. When it comes to the intense stage, Bayern's bench depth will perfectly reflect the advantages.

Winning the game at home is the only way to compete for the league championship!

Martin has a very high degree of concentration. He has focused on gaining muscle since November last year. By mid-February now, he has achieved great results.

The height of 1.8 meters three has not changed, the weight has changed from the original 69KG to 72KG, and the [Strong] value has exceeded 60 and reached 61.

Although the increase is only three kilograms, and the strength value is not very high, what has been increased is solid muscles and resistance.

On Tuesday night, local time in Europe, the first two UEFA Champions League 1/8 final first-leg matches were Paris Saint-Germain VS Chelsea, Shakhtar Donetsk VS Bayern.

Both games were dull, Paris Saint-Germain drew 1:1 with Chelsea, and Shakhtar Donetsk drew 0:0 with Bayern.

The entire Wolfsburg team paid attention to Bayern's Champions League 1/8 final first leg. They played as a guest at a very economical price, without taking risks, and they used the ball possession step by step to kill the opponent's patience and game time.

Bayern's overall strength is superior, and they hold the ball for a long time, so the physical consumption of being a guest is very small.

Coupled with the fact that the European match day is two days earlier, Wolfsburg, which only played the Europa League knockout round on Thursday night, will suffer a lot.

The first is that the opponent is too strong and you must do your best, and the second is physical recovery.

In both respects, Bayern has the advantage.

Wolfsburg's only advantage is that they beat Bayern 3:2 in the first leg as a guest, and the second leg is at home.

Thinking of this, the diehard Wolfsburg fans decided to do something on the home game day to increase the chances of winning for the team off the field!
On Wednesday morning, the entire Wolfsburg team took a flight from Hannover to Liverpool.

At four o'clock in the afternoon that day, the head coach Hei Jin took the absolute core De Bruyne to the press conference hall to participate in the routine press conference before the game, and the assistant coach Bremser took the players to the Anfield Stadium to adapt to the venue before the game.

Although today is not Liverpool's game time, there are still many diehard Liverpool fans who come to the stadium in order to give Wolfsburg players a blow.

The overwhelming abuse started from the hotel where Wolfsburg took the bus and continued to Anfield.

Players such as De Bruyne, Martin, and Dost are all key players in Wolfsburg, so they naturally receive the greatest care.

However, due to the relatively small number of people, the Wolfsburg players wearing expensive headphones could not hear it at all.

Came to Liverpool, Martin is quite excited.

But what impressed him the most was the [This-is-Anfield] plaque on the narrow passageway from the visiting team's dressing room to Anfield.

This is Anfield!
Entering the stadium to adapt to the venue, UEFA staff in the auditorium are furiously arranging the Europa League logo decoration.

Fortunately, the capacity of the current Anfield Stadium has not been expanded in the Klopp era, and the capacity is still about [-].

Still, the energy unleashed by the stadium on matchdays should not be underestimated.

The never-ending chants of "You'll Never Walk Alone" keep the home players motivated and trouble the visitors at the same time.

At 8:45 in the evening, the first round of two more UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals kicked off.

Basel drew 1:1 with Martin's youth club Porto at home.

Schalke 04 lost 0:2 to Real Madrid at home.

At the end of the game, the entire Wolfsburg team fell asleep. For professional players, adequate sleep is an important means to ensure the state of the game.

Liverpool fans have no off-the-ball tricks, otherwise the sleep quality of Wolfsburg players will be quite bad.

One night without words, the sun rises the next day.

The temperature in Liverpool in February is not much different from Wolfsburg, and it is still cold.

However, the weather on the match day was good, it was no longer continuous rainy weather, and the sun was slowly rising.

Martin couldn't help stretching in the courtyard of the hotel where he stayed, fully feeling the tranquility before the game.

The game time to challenge Liverpool as a guest is 8:05 in the evening. The whole team will have a meal at 04:30 in the afternoon, rest until [-]:[-] in the lobby of the hotel where they are staying, and then take the bus to Anfield.

Compared with the "warm treatment" they encountered when they set off to warm up at the stadium yesterday, the Liverpool fans on the match day are the real effort.

After all, there were still many Liverpool fans who had to go to work yesterday afternoon.

The fans who gave them off were either skipping work by taking advantage of it, or they were asking for leave, vacation or vagrant.

Today, football hooligans from England also began to exert their strength.

Since staying in the hotel, the 'magic attack' of Liverpool fans has not stopped.

This continued until the Wolfsburg players entered the pitch from the bus.

"Finally clean!"

Martin entered the inner passage, and finally couldn't help complaining.

"It's quiet now, and the next game will be another trouble."

De Bruyne, who had an unpleasant experience at Chelsea, turned to Martin and said.

"Hey~"

Martin shrugged and smiled: "We came here to win!"

"Yes, win."

De Bruyne couldn't help thinking of his little brother Maranda in Belgium, his eyes became firm.

Ten minutes later, the players went to the court to warm up one after another.

Anfield, which can accommodate [-] fans, has already poured more than [-]% of fans, and the remaining vacant seats are also being filled by fans queuing up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"aoaoaooaoooo—"

The fanatical atmosphere of the game has spread from the warm-up of the players to the audience.

Sterling, the new European golden boy who came to the stadium to warm up a few minutes ago, couldn't help looking at Martin, who was still joking with his teammates, and he became a little dignified.

Before the game, head coach Rodgers specifically mentioned Martin, the only defensive player in the current European League who has not been broken by any goal scorer.

Martin has such an achievement not because he continues to fight and retreat without giving you a chance to break through, but that he always completes the football clearance, block interception or interception at the most appropriate time.

He has seen the highlights of Martin's defense summarized by the technical analysis coach several times, and he is helpless every time.

Top breakers like Robben and Ribery couldn't break through Martin, and Sterling didn't have much confidence.

After entering the court to warm up, Martin felt someone looking at him out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw Sterling, who was not happy right now.

Four eyes facing each other.

Martin smiled and was about to raise his hand to say hello, but Sterling turned his face away...

"I'm really not confident."

(End of this chapter)

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