The players from both teams left the field and returned to their respective locker rooms to rest.

"Good job, boys!" Head coach Adkins took the initiative to applaud and cheer for the players.

In the first half, when Liverpool was leading 3:1, Southampton almost collapsed, but fortunately, Gu Ran stepped up at the critical moment to turn the tide and narrowed the disadvantage to just one goal with a powerful long-range shot.

This is already a very good situation.

Back then, when Southampton played against Tottenham at Wembley Stadium, they fell behind by three goals in the first half alone, but were caught up by Gu Ran in the second half.

In the eyes of the Southampton team, as long as Gu Ran is there, there will be endless miracles.

Coach Adkins didn't say much nonsense. Instead, while the players were resting, getting massages, replenishing electrolyte energy drinks, and applying snuff oil, he quickly fine-tuned Southampton's tactics on the tactical whiteboard.

In the new tactics in the second half, Gu Ran was no longer fully committed to defense and waiting for opportunities to counterattack. Instead, he focused on counterattack and took defense as a supplement. Other players also had to fully support Gu Ran and strengthen the confrontation as a whole. They should perform small moves when necessary, pull when necessary, and shovel when necessary, and try their best to consume the physical energy of Liverpool players, especially the big-name and older players.

Of course, Mikel, who has already received a yellow card, should try to play more conservatively and avoid receiving a second yellow card, otherwise, it will be really troublesome.

After the 15-minute halftime break, players from both teams left the locker room in high spirits and returned to the court to continue the game.

As soon as Liverpool came on, they launched a smooth and fierce attack.

After receiving Gerrard's long diagonal pass, Kuyt dribbled the ball into the right side of Southampton's penalty area and shot into the far corner! Davis missed the ball, but the ball hit the post and bounced back, and Fonte, who got to the first point, kicked the ball away.

Southampton fans broke out in a cold sweat.

I have to say that Liverpool's oppressive attack is really sharp.

And that’s not all.

In the 57th minute, Gerrard made a half-high pass, and Suarez withstood the defense of Jaidi and Fonte and forced a header into the goal.

Fortunately, the football hit the upper edge of the goal beam and bounced out of the bottom line.

Southampton escaped another disaster.

The Liverpool fans are getting a little impatient.

To be honest, Southampton is only a League One team in terms of level, but Liverpool has not been able to achieve the expected crushing effect when playing against a League One team.

The game continues.

In the 63rd minute, Liverpool's offensive came back. Joe Cole broke into the penalty area and shot, but was blocked by Gu Ran. Kuyt followed up with a shot, but kicked the ball out, missing the chance to expand the score again.

Then, in the 68th minute, Maxi Rodriguez took the ball on the wing and cut inside. Suarez was in a good position, but Maxi Rodriguez did not choose to pass the ball. Instead, he made a diagonal shot himself - the football went past the goal and flew into the stands.

In the first 70 minutes of the game, Liverpool absolutely had a crushing advantage. Their traditional oppressive offensive style was also brought to the extreme, and their playing style was really pleasing to the eye.

But... Liverpool has 80% ball possession, 27 shots, and 9 shots on target, such impressive statistics, but so far they have only scored 3 goals.

On the other hand, Southampton had a ball possession rate of only a pitiful 20%, 6 shots, 3 shots on target, but scored two goals.

In the 75th minute of the game, Liverpool's second window of physical fatigue had appeared. Liverpool's offensive pressure rhythm slowed down significantly again, and Liverpool players' running was not active enough.

In the 77th minute, Joe Cole passed the ball forward to Gerrard who was running.

Gu Ran, who had been lying in ambush on the interception route, suddenly broke out and intercepted the pass again with a death slide.

Gerrard quickly accelerated to chase Gu Ran, but Gu Ran straightened his waist and abdomen and quickly stood up and immediately sprinted at high speed with the ball.

By this time in the second half, Liverpool's physical strength was already insufficient - this was not because of their poor physical fitness, nor was it entirely because the Liverpool team was overall older. The main reason was that Liverpool had played a Premier League game against Manchester United three days ago. Under the pressure of desperately maintaining a top six position, Liverpool naturally played very hard in that game.

Liverpool thought this game would be easy, but the physical exertion of this game was no less than that of playing against Manchester United.

It was only now that Gu Ran really began to explode.

Gerrard couldn't pull Gu Ran, Joe Cole couldn't catch up with Gu Ran, and Lucas couldn't tackle Gu Ran!

Gu Ran drove straight into the penalty area with the ball. When facing the interception of Carragher and Agger, Gu Ran directly cut across with the ball and pulled Carragher and Agger to the left side of the penalty area.

At the same time, Lallana moved to the right side of the penalty area, while Chamberlain cut into the small penalty area at high speed without the ball! Gu Ran stopped suddenly, and Carragher and Agger also stopped quickly!

Before Carragher and Agger could steady themselves and stretch their feet to steal the ball, Gu Ran made a smooth deep-fried meatball move, followed by a reverse-foot pass through the crotch!

The ball passed through Carragher's legs and, like a magic lamp, was passed directly to Chamberlain's feet! Chamberlain shot directly! Reina predicted Chamberlain's shooting path in advance and jumped to save the ball!

The ball was blocked and flew out of the baseline! Chamberlain held his head and lamented.

In this ball, Gu Ran intercepted, sprinted in the counterattack, attracted Carragher and Agger, and then Lallana attracted firepower on the right, and then Gu Ran passed the ball through the crotch with his reverse foot. Southampton really brought the cooperation between the midfield and the frontcourt to the extreme! However, Chamberlain's finishing shot was still a little short.

Fortunately, Southampton also got a corner kick thanks to Chamberlain's shot.

Gu Ran patted Chamberlain on the shoulder and trotted towards the corner area.

Liverpool's defensive players also all returned to the penalty area and conducted man-to-man defense on Southampton's important players.

Gu Ran glanced at the restricted area.

At this time, Lallana trotted towards the corner area again.

Southampton has used this corner kick tactic twice, and it worked both times.

Liverpool naturally watched the games between Southampton, Manchester City and Tottenham, so when Lallana ran towards Gu Ran, Liverpool's defensive players all kept their eyes on Gu Ran, ready to provide all-round defense against Gu Ran and prevent him from touching the ball.

but……

Before Lallana could run to Gu Ran, Gu Ran sprinted forward and kicked with a crescent-shaped scimitar!

!!! (End of this chapter)