Greatest Of All Legends
Chapter 854: First Premier League Start II
Lloris got down quickly, blocking the shot that had been aimed low and sending it out of play.
{Powerful save from the captain to deny Alexander Arnold!}
{Liverpool have a corner}
The game continued with a cornerkick that Tottenham’s players managed to clear outside their penalty box and then they continued defending.
Everyone knew how draining Klopp’s gengen pressing tactic was on his players so the Tottenham players were waiting for the Liverpool players to lose a little more energy before they began attacking.
Klopp also knew this weakness of his tactics so he had set different times during the match when the team would press heavily before then reducing efforts to regain a bit more stamina before they went again.
Therefore for the first ten minutes of the game, it looked like Tottenham’s players were barely able to keep defending against Liverpool, but the moment the pressure reduced, the ball was won quickly by the Tottenham players and the ball was send flying forward immediately.
Ndombele received the ball in midfield and passed it to Jason who hadn’t gone running up the field like Son and Kane.
Receiving the ball on the turn, Jason pushed the ball into the final third before passing the ball to Emerson who was making the overalapping run.
Receiving the ball, Emerson squared off against Robertson, used a couple of step overs to confuse the opponent before cutting right, pushing the ball half a step and then sending a low cross to Kane in the center.
Receiving the ball with his back to goal, Kane trapped the ball and tried to hit the ball on the turn, but the power just wasn’t there and the ball was easily gathered by Allison.
{He just couldn’t get the shot away and Tottenham’s first chance of the game comes to nothing}
The game resumed with a goalkick punted up the field by Allison, but the ball was quickly recovered by the Tottenham side that was finally beginning to look dangerous.
The ball was soon sent up the field again, Ndombele trying to pick out Harry Kane with a through ball, but Konate got in the way of the ball and it smashed off him and bounced towards the right.
Jason quickly gave chase and caught up to it, just before it rolled out of play, but on turning back with the ball, he saw that he was already surrounded by Liverpool players.
{It’s Jason. We haven’t seen much from him today and right now he’s completely surrounded}
Even Jason knew that he couldn’t take the ball up the field at this point, because despite surrounding him, the path up the field was more tightly guarded than his path back.
If he couldn’t go forward, he would retreat, but even then he still had a player in his path and if he delayed any further, then he’d be pressured from behind too.
Pulling out something unconventional from his bag of tricks, Jason pulled the ball in-between his two legs and did a rainbow flick over Keita coming at him.
Muscling past Keita to catch the ball behind him, he hit it back into to Ndombele in the center while also running back infield as well.
{Amazing skill to get away from his marker! That’s something we don’t see everyday and especially here in the premier league!}
The ball went to Ndombele who received it calmly and gave it to Dele on his right.
At this point, Jason who had moved infield, turned around and began moving out wide again, and his move was spotted by Dele Alli who immediately sent the ball towards the right flank.
Jason increased his pace as soon as the ball left Alli’s feet and he caught up to it about a meter away from the throwing line, catching it on his left foot and letting it bounce upward and down to the ground.
Robertson who was marking Jason was fast enough to be slightly in front of Jason and with Jason not even looking up at him, he felt he had Jason covered and moved closer to try to kick the ball out of play.
But Jason had let the ball loose so he could get slightly ahead of it and as soon as Robertson came flying in, Jason flicked it with the heel of his right foot back infield sending it behind Robertson while he ran on the outside to go and catch up to it behind the Liverpool man.
{Beautiful flick behind the defender. He’s gotten past one but hasn’t gotten away just yet!}
Robertson quickly recovered and gave chase, in no mood to admire his opponents skills, but Jason was already facing off against Konate.
Doing two step overs as if to confuse him before picking a direction, Konate stayed patient, but Jason suddenly went against the script, flicking the ball to the outside while making a run on the inside and behind.
For a split second, Konate didn’t know which one to choose and that allowed Jason to get past him and catch up to the ball behind him.
{He’s gone past another defender! They just can’t hold him!}
{He’s looking for help, he might not need it!}
Robertson had now arrived behind Jason and was almost close enough to tackle, but he couldn’t be hasty as Jason was in the penalty area.
However Jason had little patience and had already picked out Kane in the center, sending a chest level pass that Kane lunged at in a diving header and sent to the bottom left corner of the goal.
Allison couldn’t even get into a good enough position to jump and could only watch the ball fly past the goalline and into the back of the net.
Kane ran down the sidelines and jumped into backslide infront of the Tottenham fans while his teammates ran over to join him. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
{Oh my word! What is that!?}
{What! Is! That!}
{Tottenham take the lead in the most impressive manner possible!}
{Its always good when you know your teammates can get past their marker and get the ball to you, but even his teammates would be surprised such impressive play!}
{Beautiful run from the outside and a perfect cross to pick out the man in the center and Kane rounded everything up with a perfect finish!}