After Liverpool took a 2: 0 lead, Real Madrid were eager to equalize the score. Instead, they gave Liverpool more chances in the following period. Real Madrid's defensive line trembled.
In the 22nd minute of the game, Kuyt intercepted Gago's pass to Ronaldo and spurred a counterattack. Qin Xiong rushed forward on the left flank, received Gerard's pass and swept the ball directly into the penalty area!
Torres rushed out from behind Pepe and slid the ball towards Real Madrid's goal.
Casillas did not panic in the face of danger and saved the ball horizontally, blocking it out of the end line!
Two minutes later, Alonso directly passed a long ball to Torres in the backfield. The latter passed the ball back to Gerard in front of the penalty area. Gerard broke through László Diarra and stuffed the ball diagonally into the left side of the penalty area.
Qin Xiong cut inside the penalty area to stop the ball and got rid of Pepe to return to defense to shoot. He pursued a small angle to shoot at the near corner of the goal and successfully deceived Casillas. However, the football hit the goalpost and bounced out of the end line!
Qin Xiong was extremely regretful that the ball did not go in.
Before the 30th minute of the game, Qin Xiong cut across the middle and changed positions with Gerard. Gerard went straight to the front.
Qin Xiong passed the ball diagonally in front of the penalty area, and Gerrard jumped to head the ball in the middle of the run. His header was aimed at the far corner, and it was impossible for Casillas to move to block the far corner of the goal immediately. However, the ball eventually went slightly over the crossbar and landed on the top of the net.
Anfield was filled with sighs and applause. The Red Army fans were looking forward to seeing the team score the next goal, but the goal was always missed by a hair's breadth.
The Real Madrid crowd watched with trepidation, including Pellegrini.
But Comain was frowning.
Continuously missing good opportunities was not a good sign. On the football field, there was always a situation similar to a sixth sense. If you did not grasp the opportunity, you would be punished.
Real Madrid finally calmed down and began to organize their attacks more patiently and steadily.
In the 32nd minute of the game, Van Der Vaart dribbled the ball from the right flank to the edge of the front waistline. Then, he attracted Alonso's attention after he made a tendency to cut inside. Alonso had just moved a step to prepare to assist in the defense when Van Der Vaart stuffed the ball diagonally behind Alonso.
In that small space, as soon as the football rolled over, Skrtel rushed forward to break the siege. However, Kaka was one step faster than him. He used the tip of his foot to poke the ball into the penalty area first. At the same time, he dodged Skrtel before running wildly into the penalty area.
The ball passed by!
After Kaka entered the penalty area, he did not make any adjustments. Once he caught up with the ball, he shot a shot!
The ball came so suddenly that Liverpool's defensive line seemed to have a flaw in an instant. Kaka also suddenly broke out in his former peak form!
Reina had almost no reaction. The football flashed in front of his eyes like an aurora, and then flew straight into the goal behind him!
"Wow! Kaka, Kaka scored! He pulled a goal back for Real Madrid. Now Real Madrid is only one goal behind Liverpool.
Kaka's goal was clean and neat. He received Van Der Vaart's pass and used the ball to pass into the penalty area. Then he volleyed and broke the goal. This goal reminds people of the best Kaka of the past. "
Real Madrid's morale was boosted. Kaka rushed to the sidelines to celebrate.
In fact, for Real Madrid, it was acceptable even if they lost 1: 2 in the away game.
After all, they still had a home game to play.
Therefore, they did not need to deliberately race against time.
The confidence of the Liverpool players was not thwarted, but they still needed to coordinate with each other in the middle and backfield defense.
After the game restarted, the Red Army immediately launched a new offensive.
In fact, the Red Army did not play smart after 2: 0. But because it was Anfield, which was their home ground, the Red Army needed to play with their own style, especially in front of an opponent of Real Madrid's level. This was especially crucial.
It was a temperament that was not inferior to the opponent's in terms of posture.
In the 35th minute of the game, Qin Xiong passed the ball diagonally to Torres in the front field. He kicked the ball out and passed it to Gerard in the back. The latter kicked straight and passed the ball back to Torres. At this time, Torres had already turned around and ran forward. He stuck close to the right side of Albiol's body and took the ball before he forced his leg to shoot.
The football was directly sent into Casillas's arms.
Real Madrid instigated a counterattack.
Casillas threw the ball to Ramos, who passed diagonally to Kaka in the front field. Kaka passed the ball diagonally to Ronaldo under the shrinking defense of Liverpool's midfield defensive line.
Ronaldo could not wait to complete a long shot after he took a step inside the ball.
The football was also directly received by Reina. Ronaldo appeared to be a little too hasty.
In the 38th minute of the game, Liverpool's coordination in the middle and front field was intercepted.
Dirk Kuyt's pass to Gerard was successfully intercepted by László Diarra, who directly instigated a fast attack. He passed the ball to Ronaldo.
When Glen Johnson came forward to close in on Ronaldo, Ronaldo directly dribbled the football and cut across the middle to shake off his opponent.
Mascherano shifted to defend against Ronaldo head-on. The Portuguese superstar made sure that Mascherano would not interfere with Kaka before he passed the ball to the Brazilian attacking midfielder.
After the pass, Ronaldo directly cut into the penalty area.
Mascherano at least still moved to block the passing route between Kaka and Ronaldo.
Kaka saw that he was about to be surrounded by Gerard, Alonso and the others, so he immediately passed the ball to Van Der Vaart on the flank.
Van Der Vaart looked up and swept a glance at the situation in the penalty area. He chose the flank to raise his leg and pass.
He used his left foot to rub out an inward-spinning curveball to cross.
The football's landing point was near the penalty spot.
When Benzema was heavily marked by Carragher and Skrtel, as the football fell, someone cut diagonally to the position in front of the penalty spot, jumped high, and then pressed the ball down with all his might!
The man who had a terrible sense of stagnation in the air was Real Madrid's number one superstar, Ronaldo!
His header attack was more like a hard smash of the ball!
The football flew straight to the bottom right corner of the goal!
Reina took a step back to make a save, but it was obviously too late. When his arm reached the front of the goal line, the football had already rolled for at least a second inside the goal.
After Ronaldo landed, a wild look immediately appeared on his face. He saw his teammates around him begin to rush towards him in ecstasy, while he turned and rushed to the sidelines.
As he ran, his cold and proud gaze searched for Qin Xiong's figure.
This goal did not return the game to the starting point, but it meant that Real Madrid had a certain advantage and was ahead of Liverpool!
Ronaldo, who was running wildly, seemed to be carrying out his will with every step on the Anfield turf: to flatten Anfield!
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