Football’s First Defender

Ivory Coast Warcraft Drogba, in this game, seems to have lost his shooting boots, and he really has no luck scoring goals on the offensive end!

In this counterattack opportunity, Drogba once again gained the upper hand in the confrontation with Carragher, and Skrtel was also attracted by Malouda's breakthrough to defend. It can be said that there is no interference from anyone else. Under the circumstances, Drogba abruptly wasted another excellent opportunity, and missed the opportunity that Malouda worked so hard to create!

Perhaps it was due to the physical confrontation with Carragher during the running process, which led to Drogba's body still in the previous confrontation state when he hit the goal at the end, and his strength was overwhelmed!

Anyway, Hiddink was staring at Drogba eagerly just now, hoping that he could expand Chelsea's lead, but in the end he could only turn around in frustration, not wanting to see this scene!

However, Chelsea's counterattack this time did scare Benitez into a cold sweat!

But be afraid, be afraid! Benitez can only hold back by himself!

Now that the score is behind at home, there is no room for Liverpool to go step by step and play steadily! If you don't seize the time to attack at your own home court, score goals, equalize or reverse the score, do you want to go to the more difficult away game at Stamford Bridge and try your luck amidst the cheers of the opponent's fans?

Benitez can only choose to continue to let the players maintain an offensive posture, that is, to attack, and to try desperately to equalize the score!

"Liverpool still wants to focus on the attack on the left side!"

"It's just that, after the last time he failed to forcefully break through Ivanovic, Riera is no longer as big as before!"

"Riera is now starting to play without the ball, giving the ball from the left to the Brazilian left-back Aurelio who came in to participate in the attack, and he is cruising in Ivanovic's ball without the ball. Be around, ready to speed up and get rid of Ivanovic's defense!"

At this time, Ivanovic has to follow and defend Riera, and also divide part of his attention to take care of Aurelio in front of him. After all, although his striker Kalu can come back to defend, but let a striker defend a Brazil People, even if this Brazilian is just a full-back, but no one knows whether Kalu can withstand Aurelio's attack! The Brazilian's offense can be known a little bit from the tricks at the feet of the Brazilian goalkeeper. This is a country that integrates offensive attributes into its bones!

In fact, Ivanovic should be more worried about himself!

"Aurelio, got the ball on the left side, paused to look for an opportunity, and suddenly made a direct pass!"

"Riera accelerated in an instant, throwing Ivanovic away! He quickly ran behind him!"

"The ball should not be offside!"

"Ivanovic, quickly turn around and chase back. However, in addition to the pure speed competition, it is not only the backhand to deal with, because Ivanovic also needs to join the turning movement, which is naturally a distance slower than Riera!"

"This ball depends on Riera's stop!"

Because he is defending the position, Yang Feng is not only watching Torres, but also paying attention to the defensive situation on the right side of his side, and is in a position where he can support at any time!

Therefore, during the intermission, when Liverpool arranged offensive tactics for Ivanovic, Benitez actually emphasized that the through ball can try to pass to the penalty area to find opportunities, but it takes enough time to pick a pass. Don't pass the ball into the penalty area, and give Yang Feng a defensive stat!

When Aurelio took the ball just now, he saw that the space in the penalty area was not wide enough, it was not suitable for through balls at all, and his own ball balls were not that good, so he just went straight to Ivanovic. Behind him, a kick pass came, and the rest was left to his teammates, and he chose the attack method himself!

"Riera, stopped the football directly deep on the left, do you want to cut inside the penalty area?"

"Ivanovic didn't run towards the Riera man, but turned around and ran to the deep position before, just to protect the penalty area and not be broken by Riera!"

"Now, Riera is head-on again, against Ivanovic!"

"Also, Essien in the middle is already close to Ivanovic's side, looking for a chance to defend!"

With his height and long legs, Ivanovic played his physical advantage in wing defense. Originally, Riera wanted to find an opportunity to pass a half-high ball, so that Torres could use his advantage in the penalty area to grab points. After all, a simple pass high ball, under the defense of Yang Feng and Terry, Liverpool's Torres and Dirk. , In fact, there is no certainty of successfully competing for the header!

Therefore, for Liverpool's wing, Benitez also made a request, unless there is a loophole in the opponent's defense in the penalty area, or there is a huge space, otherwise try not to simply pass the high ball, try to use the horizontal ball as much as possible Sweeping passes, or half-high balls, to take advantage of one's own players to grab points, not the disadvantages of headers!

But now, the angle of Riera's pass is almost blocked by Ivanovic's body. Some angles that are not blocked and exposed may be reacted by Ivanovic even if the ball is passed. Vanovic moved his body to block it!

Riera gave up his original idea of ​​passing the ball into the penalty area and turned to a new solution!

Out of the corner of Riera's eyes, he glanced at the front of the penalty area, because Essien had just recovered, revealing a small empty area!

Although there are no Liverpool players in that area, Riera believes that when his pass is in place, there should be players who can rush to that position!

Making an instant decision, Riera passed the ball without hesitation!

"Riera, on the left, chose to pass the ball!"

"Instead of passing the ball directly into the penalty area, the ball was inverted and swept towards Chelsea's big penalty area. Just now Essien retreated back, leaving an empty space!"

"Gerald!"

"Come in quickly! Respond to Riera's pass!"

"Essien has already reacted and quickly rushed back to the straight forward position, and Ballack, who was in charge of defending Gerrard, was also chasing him at Gerrard's side!"

"Gerrard one two, this one! Is there a chance?"

"Barack's flying shovel! Essien's flying block in the front!"

"But Gerrard has a ruthless energy at the moment, and he just doesn't give in. He hits the door first and then talks!"

For Gerrard, the shot opportunity in front of him is crucial. For other things, the defensive action of the defensive player is not important. Now, the main goal is to hit the goal, to shoot the ball into the goal, to help The team equalized the score!

"Shoot the ball! Gerrard!"

Essien's flying block did not stop the football. Essien himself had just retreated a bit deep, and when he ran back, he was still two steps away. The path of the shot happened to bypass Essien!

Seeing that Gerrard had already hit the goal, Ballack straightened his flying toes, pointed the spikes down, and faced the ground. Although he had already made the tackle and couldn't stop his feet, Ballack could Unlike those villains in football, under normal circumstances, they are unwilling to make hurtful actions. After putting away the spikes, it shouldn't cause too much damage to Gerrard!

Gerrard's eyes were fixed on the football he shot. Although he wanted to avoid Ballack's tackle from the side and rear, he ran with all his strength just now and hit the goal at high speed. , can no longer make other evasive actions!

Gerrard only felt that his perspective had changed, and he was directly shoveled to the ground by Ballack, but Gerrard, who was lying on the ground, was still staring at the direction of the goal!

"Let me in!"

Gerrard shouted in his heart!

It's just a pity that Gerrard's kick is not bad. For this shot opportunity, Gerrard can't be said to be desperate, but sometimes the wonderful performance is corresponding to both sides!

Although Gerrard hit the goal with great strength and a tricky angle, but from the time Riera passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area, and then Gerrard ran to catch the ball and hit the goal, there was enough left for the goalkeeper. reaction time!

As a world-class goalkeeper, Cech is not comparable to the background goalkeepers of other teams. Cech's stability is famous! For long-range saves, it's even easier!

You must know that the essence of long-range shots is always suddenness. For a top goalkeeper in the world, when dealing with this kind of long-range shot with sufficient preparation time, unless a player appears during the flight of the football Change direction, otherwise, even if you can't catch it, you should be able to block it with your palm!

Gerrard's long shot, because the passing distance is a bit long, and the goal is very clear, Cech is ready!

When Gerrard shot angrily at the goal, Cech flew towards him, covering half of the goal on his right!

"Cech!"

"Critical moment! Fly out!"

"Put Gerrard's foot straight to the upper left corner for a long shot, and hit it with a single punch!"

"It's just a pity that Gerrard hit the goal this time. Facing the front and rear blocks of two Chelsea players, he still grabbed the knife mountain ball and completed the goal!"

"Never mind! Petr Cech's save is also wonderful! Liverpool's corner kick!"

Because there are not many high points in the team, for Liverpool players, when serving corner kicks, most of them are still willing to send tactical corner kicks to increase their chances of attacking penetration, instead of directly driving corner kicks to the penalty area to let their own The two central defenders are lucky!

Especially when facing the strong enemy Chelsea, the Liverpool players all understand that Chelsea is unique in the Premier League in the field of air defense. For Liverpool, there is no need to touch one's nose in matters that they are not good at!