Football’s First Defender

A torn cruciate ligament is definitely a serious injury comparable to a broken leg for football players.

Although Yang Feng himself really wants to catch up with Liverpool's debut in the new season, but for the sake of his career, Yang Feng is still cautious about coming back to the game.

As Yang Feng's recovery progressed, after a series of expert consultations, he was not very optimistic about Yang Feng's recovery from his injuries.

Although Yang Feng was recovering in all aspects strictly according to the doctor's orders, but through professional examination, Yang Feng's appreciation did not achieve the desired recovery effect within the expected time.

In the original plan, Yang Feng could recover from his injury and return to the game in 6 to 9 months. But because the current process is a bit slow, so far, Yang Feng, who has not undergone systematic training, has a high probability of not being able to play in the early Premier League games.

This may be due to the lack of physical recovery ability of the yellow race. Compared with European players with better physical talents, Yang Feng can only accept this result.

According to the latest results of Yang Feng's recovery, experts speculate that it may take a whole year to achieve 100% recovery and complete systematic training to allow Yang Feng to return to the game.

In other words, Yang Feng is destined to be unable to play in the first few months of the Premier League, and Liverpool can only wait for Yang Feng to return with full blood around December.

Dalglish is also very helpless about Yang Feng's inability to return in time, but player injuries are inevitable. In the modern professional football field, although professional players are the club's precious property, the team cannot require players to face the risk of re-injury. Play games early.

With Yang Feng's latest injury recovery status revealed to the outside world, and the latest news that Yang Feng will return in December with a high probability, Liverpool fans who have been full of expectations for the new season have become a little less optimistic.

Liverpool fans still have a good idea of ​​what their own defense looks like. In the case of two consecutive transfer windows, both of which were bought in the midfield and the frontcourt, Yang Feng, the only big player in the defense line, will continue to rest in the new season. For several months now, fans have been pessimistic about Liverpool's title ambitions for the new season.

Facts have proved that the worries of Liverpool fans have come true.

Not only the team's defense is a problem, but the team's overall performance from the first game has made Liverpool fans a little worried.

In mid-August, the opening game of the Premier League kicked off.

Liverpool sits at Anfield in the first round against "Black Cat" Sunderland.

Dalglish has a lineup of 442, of which the double forwards are Carroll and Suarez introduced in the winter window, forming the most popular combination of one high and one fast.

The four midfielders have not recovered due to Gerrard's injury. Except for Lucas who was a Liverpool player last season, the remaining three are all players introduced by Xia Chuang Dalglish.

Downing, Charlie Adam, and Henderson all played in the first game and started.

On the back line, the newly introduced Jose Enrique also started.

There are 11 starters in Liverpool, a full 6 changes from last year.

Although Carroll and Suarez arrived in the winter window, because Carroll has been suffering from injuries in the second half of last season, the combination of Carroll and Suarez has not been a long time.

What Liverpool need most now is the problem of team running-in.

Moreover, due to the team's constant injuries during the pre-season preparation period, Liverpool lost a right back injured in the first round of the game, so Dalglish could only urgently use Flanagan, the team's youth training system, to come. Started at right back.

With such a patchwork lineup, Liverpool started the first game of the new season.

In the 12th minute of the opening, Suarez used his personal ability to dodge in the penalty area, get room to hit the goal, and volleyed to open the scoring for Liverpool.

But in the case of taking the lead, Liverpool did not show the suppression of the giants they wanted.

Even though Liverpool has taken the lead, their performance on the field is still in a mess. It's not that Liverpool's players are unwilling to run, but that the players are running, but they lack purpose and lack the support of the tactical system.

Throughout the game, even at home, Liverpool played a 50-50 with the visiting team Sunderland on both ends of the offense and defense.

Jose Enrique, Charlie Adam, and Suarez performed well, but Henderson, Downing, and Carroll performed quite poorly.

Especially the chemical reaction between Downing and Carol that Dalgliesh expected was simply not possible.

Tang Ning, who was able to make breakthroughs on the side, should have been the midfielder, the easiest player to provide assists for Carroll, but Tang Ning and Carroll just couldn't reach a single point.

In other words, the two always have different judgments on the form on the court.

During the game, Tang Ning also made a few breakthrough crosses, but the ball was far away from Carroll.

When Carol was at the back, Tangning's pass was slightly weak. When Carol moved to the front, Tangning's pass would have been out of bounds. The two of them didn't have any tacit understanding.

Henderson, who is such a young player, suddenly joined a wealthy team, obviously not familiar with the feeling of playing football under the attention of so many spectators, he hesitated during the game, and handled the ball very procrastinated.

A group of Liverpool, who did not have a tacit understanding and could not form a whole when they kicked the ball, when they encountered Sunderland's mad attack in the second half, they held on for less than 20 minutes before declaring that their defense had fallen.

In the 63rd minute of the second half, Sunderland striker Larsson successfully grabbed a point in the penalty area and sent the ball into the gate guarded by Reina.

After the goal, Sunderland, who was content with scoring a point in the away game, retreated to their own half and began to defend.

But Liverpool's offense, after taking control of the ball, continued to stagnate.

Downing is indeed a strong wing player in England, but that doesn't mean he can play one-on-two on the wing and create an advantage.

Since the Liverpool midfielder lacks the offensive threat of Gerrard, Liverpool's central attack does not pose much threat at all when Henderson's state is obviously not good.

This allowed Sunderland to shift the focus of defense to the team's wing, restricting Liverpool from taking the ball from the wing, and looking for Carroll's obvious wing pass tactics.

Liverpool's offense is seriously out of touch as a whole, falling into a situation where they are fighting each other, but they don't have enough ability to rely on one person to solve the battle.

After the whole game, Liverpool had 65% of the possession rate, but the number of shots was the same as Sunderland's 14 times, and even Liverpool's shots were only a poor 3 times, one less than the visiting team Sunderland. .

In the first round of the match, Liverpool was tied by the "black cat" Sunderland at home. What makes Liverpool fans more unacceptable than the draw is that the problems of the Liverpool team seem to be impossible to solve in a short time.

Liverpool's new season's journey does not seem to be smooth sailing...