Liverpool, who lost a goal at the start, quickly stabilized their position and continued to maintain intensive defense in the half.

The Dortmund Hornets continued to attack madly like crazy.

Gotze made a series of fatal passes, and Lewandowski made all kinds of breakthroughs after receiving the ball in the frontcourt.

Liverpool's defense was very passive and was pushed to the edge of the cliff several times.

Dortmund's group of young new players almost completely crushed Liverpool. Not to mention having a chance to counterattack, it was already very difficult for Liverpool to just stop Dortmund's fierce attack and not lose the ball.

In the 4th minute of the game, Dortmund's third shot came.

First, Reus was intercepted and turned back to pass the ball to Gundogan who was responding. Gundogan immediately passed the ball to Lewandowski who had already broken into Liverpool's penalty area. Lewandowski knocked away Carragher who was defending him and kicked the ball -

Fortunately, Reina reacted quickly enough and stretched out his hand to tip this extremely dangerous shot over the crossbar.

Liverpool's Red Army fans were terrified when watching this.

Dortmund gets a corner kick.

Gundogan took a corner kick, and center back Hummels jumped over two Liverpool players, but unfortunately his header was a little off target.

In the 7th minute of the game, Dortmund's 5th shot came again!

Lewandowski once again demonstrated his strong ability in the midfield and frontcourt. When Gotze was blocked by Gu Ran and could not break through, Lewandowski quickly retreated to the midfield to receive the ball. Gotze immediately turned around and pushed the ball to Lewandowski, who immediately dribbled the ball straight into Liverpool's penalty area.

Gu Ran immediately chased back to defend Lewandowski.

Lewandowski is extremely fast and physically strong, but Gu Ran is even faster and more physically strong.

Lewandowski was stuck by Gu Ran and couldn't get rid of him at all, let alone increase his speed.

Seeing that two other Liverpool defenders were double-teaming him, Lewandowski could only force a shot when his center of gravity was about to be knocked down by Gu Ran.

The shot went slightly wide of the goal.

To be honest, if Gu Ran hadn't pressed him closely, Lewandowski's long shot from outside the penalty area would have most likely succeeded.

After the ball was shot, Lewandowski lost his balance and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

Gu Ran immediately stopped resisting and generously reached out to pull Lewandowski up from the grass.

Lewandowski also gave Gu Ran a silly smile.

The game continues and Dortmund's wasp-like attack continues.

In the tactical area on the sidelines, Liverpool head coach Mourinho was hugging Sterling, who seemed to be still asleep, and arranging tactics.

Judging from his gestures, Mourinho seemed to be telling Sterling where the opponent's goal was.

In the 10th minute of the game, Dortmund's sixth shot came.

It was Gundogan's precise long pass from the backcourt that found Lewandowski. Lewandowski shook off the double interception of Coutinho and Henderson with his superb personal ability, and used his body to knock away the "old and weak" Gerrard, and accelerated with the ball to the top of Liverpool's penalty area.

Just as Lewandowski was about to go deeper, Gu Ran sprinted back from the center position, made a death sliding tackle from the side of Lewandowski, and accurately shoveled the ball out of the baseline.

Lewandowski was caught off guard at all, and by the time he discovered the ball had been tackled, it was too late. Gu Ran's body slid over and he was sent flying into the air, falling heavily to the ground.

This looks very painful.

However, Gu Ran did not commit a foul because he was clearly going for the ball and he tackled the ball first.

Liverpool's Red Army fans were the first to scream, they were very worried that Gu Ran would be injured.

Fortunately, Gu Ran quickly got up, and with a smile, he reached out and pulled the grinning Lewandowski up from the grass.

Lewandowski is still in shock.

This death slide was so fierce, it was completely the style of a beast-waist level player.

Lewandowski really couldn't understand why Gu Ran, a center forward, was playing in a position where a defender should be.

The game continues.

Dortmund's fierce attack almost made Liverpool players breathless.

Dortmund is obviously a defensive counterattack team, but when they attack with all their might, they will not be polite at all.

This is exactly Klopp's distinctive defensive counterattack strategy - first attack fiercely for 10 minutes to gain the advantage, and then recover the physical strength during the period, slowly grind with you, play defensive counterattacks, and when the physical strength is almost recovered, attack fiercely for another 10 minutes.

This kind of fast and slow tempo tactics can confuse countless top teams.

Especially when the team is full of passionate young players, this defensive counterattack style of play becomes even more passionate, and Klopp is also known as the head coach with the most passionate tactical play.

Yes, even a tactic that sounds conservative, such as defensive counterattack, can be played with a passionate rhythm.

The only weakness of this style of play is: physical fitness.

In itself, defensive counterattacks do not consume too much physical energy, but Klopp's 4231 defensive counterattack is a high-pressure defensive counterattack. In addition, they have to rush and attack for 10 minutes at the beginning of the game, so Dortmund's physical condition declines very quickly. It will take about 35 minutes for Dortmund's physical strength to recover and continue another wave of fierce attacks.

In the 25-minute gap between 10 and 35 minutes, Dortmund can only focus its tactical focus on high-pressure defense and counterattack when there is an opportunity.

Fortunately, Dortmund scored a goal at the beginning, so Dortmund's tactics seem to be very effective at the moment.

Most teams would still be scared after being beaten by Dortmund for 10 minutes, and would reflexively strengthen their defense. By the time they realized that Dortmund was not physically fit, Dortmund had basically recovered and were ready for a second round of beatings.

But Liverpool is not an ordinary team, and Mourinho is not an ordinary head coach.

As soon as 10 minutes were up, Mourinho patted Sterling's buttocks, signaling Sterling to come on the court.

The fourth official raised his card and Liverpool made a substitution.

A sleepy Sterling replaced Henderson.

He made a substitution 10 minutes into the game, and when Henderson was performing well and was not injured, only Mourinho could do this.

Henderson looked depressed. Being substituted off the field like this was a big blow to his self-confidence.

But Mourinho took the initiative to hug Henderson when Henderson came off the field, and said in Henderson's ear: "Hey, Henderson, you played great, but this is a football game, I need you to sacrifice for me, I need you to sacrifice for the fans, I need you to sacrifice for Liverpool, can you do it?"

Henderson immediately nodded solemnly.

Mourinho patted Henderson on the shoulder and said, "Go sit on the bench, stand up straight, don't be frustrated, don't be sad, the camera is watching us."

The game continues!

...(End of this chapter)