Football’s First Defender

Liverpool's winning streak continues. Since Yang Feng's comeback, Liverpool, who has made a qualitative leap on the defensive end because of Yang Feng's joining alone, has achieved repeated gains on the offensive end through crazy attacks.

In an away game against Wigan Athletic, the third-to-last 2-0, Yang Feng still showed his own defensive level, and cooperated with Skrtel to complete many wonderful defensive counterattacks and interceptions in the game.

This time, although Liverpool scored two goals in a row after 70 minutes in the second half, the whole away game process was a bit thrilling, but winning is a good thing.

While Liverpool completed their three-game winning streak, they also had zero seals in all three games, and performed well on both ends of the offense and defense. After this round of competition, relying on their recent winning streak, Liverpool has the same points as Arsenal in the standings, ranking 5th and 6th in the league. Chelsea, ranked fourth, is only one point ahead of the two teams.

With a huge gap of more than 10 points between the top Manchester City and the second Manchester United, the Premier League Manchester duo formed a championship group, while Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool with similar points will fight for two. Champions League seats, continue to fight in the second half of the league.

The entire December schedule is a torment for the Premier League giants.

Especially for Chelsea, a team that wants to fight in the Champions League, the League, and the Carabao Cup.

Although the English League Cup and the Champions League matches are all in early December, the exhaustion of multi-line battles, after accumulation, at the end of the year and under the atmosphere of the Christmas holiday, will consume players' physical and mental will , becomes extremely influential.

For those who are familiar with the Premier League, throughout December, the giants in the Premier League, especially those with the task of the Champions League, are the most likely to be upset and lose points. It may also be the time to decide the final ownership of the Premier League champion. , the critical period when the rankings are settled.

In addition, the Premier League itself has no underdogs. At this time, for many mid- and lower-level teams, working hard and fighting hard is the most likely to complete a big upset and show a good opportunity to prove themselves in the media.

Chelsea's good momentum in the early stages of the league has seen a direct decline in the near future. Although in the UEFA Champions League, Chelsea played at home in the last round, not only in the third unfavorable situation in the group, they beat the second Valencia 3-0 at home, but also because of the unexpected accident of Leverkusen, which was ranked first. A tie with Genk, while Chelsea got away with topping the group.

But in the league, Chelsea was not so lucky. Injury factors still plagued Chelsea, and after Torres was obviously dissatisfied with Chelsea, Drogba, who had no competitive pressure, became a little more advanced in the league. I can't get up.

Chelsea's offense has been greatly restricted in recent rounds, and the defense has also become very unstable.

The cooperation between David Luiz and Terry is still a little tacit, especially the problem of David Luiz's willingness to attack, too unsteady, which will always bring uncertainty to the team's defense.

On Boxing Day after Christmas, a new round of Premier League battles continued.

As the first game of the Boxing Day War, Chelsea played at home against "The Farmer" Fulham.

Drogba played a rare role in this game. In the stalemate between the two sides, in the 71st minute of the second half, Drogba took advantage of a free kick and scored a header to break the deadlock for Chelsea at home.

After Ancelotti, he has already made substitutions, shrinking the defense and counterattacking.

But Chelsea's defense, facing Fulham's not-so-good offense, made a fatal mistake.

In the process of passing the ball from the wing to the middle of Fulham, David Luiz thought he could go up and steal the ball, but he failed to meet the defensive expectations. Fulham's midfielder turned around and passed it cleanly. After that, Chelsea played in the center In the obvious absence of a central defender, the defense appeared chaotic.

Everyone can only approach the center to help defend the big space left by Louis, but Fulham's team leader, a diagonal through ball, hits the space left on the left.

With almost no defensive interference, the Fulham forward received the ball near the left side of the small penalty area and volleyed successfully. In the 87th minute of the game, the score was equalized.

The Stamford Bridge Stadium, which was full of laughter and laughter before, was instantly silent as Fulham scored an equalizing goal.

Chelsea was finally tied tenaciously by their opponents at home again.

The three consecutive draws were all 1 to 1, except when they were behind in the away game against Tottenham, they reversed and equalized.

The remaining two games against Wigan Athletic, and this one against Fulham, were equalized by their opponents when they were leading at home, which made many Chelsea fans feel as uncomfortable as eating flies.

Although Chelsea, which finished this round of the game first, is still ranked fourth with a 2-point lead, but behind Arsenal and Chelsea, as long as one team wins the game, then Chelsea will be squeezed out of the Champions League. .

"I don't know why the team's defense suddenly sucks!"

A perennial Chelsea season ticket holder, an absolute Chelsea loyalist, made a complaint against the team management when he was interviewed by media reporters after the game and interviewed Chelsea passers-by fans.

"When Yang Feng was still there last year, Chelsea's defense was not that bad!"

"Chelsea at the beginning, as long as they took the lead, when facing weak teams like Wigan Athletic and Fulham, they almost won the victory."

"And now, with two home games in a row, being tied by a team in the relegation zone and a team in the middle and lower reaches, I don't know what Chelsea's defenders are doing!"

"I'm talking about that Brazilian, David Luiz, what is he doing? He's ruining the team's victory..."

At the beginning of Chelsea, no team dared to let Chelsea take the lead. After leading, Chelsea's tight defense was a nightmare for all teams.

At the beginning, when Chelsea did not take the lead, they could attack boldly with confidence, because there was a young man named Yang Feng behind them, who could defuse the threat of the opponent's counterattack for them.

Now, Yang Feng's departure, one year later, is mentioned by more and more Chelsea fans.

As a fan, you won't know so much insider information. You just saw that Chelsea sold Yang Feng to Liverpool and paid a lot of cash in exchange for Torres, who was already close to becoming a parallel player.

And Chelsea also bought back at a high price to replace Yang Feng's new defense star David Lewis. Just now in this game, he used a reckless grab. The reverse comparison proved how good Yang Feng was who didn't make any mistakes at the beginning!

On the personal social media of a Chelsea fan, such a message was posted after the Chelsea game.

"Back then, we called Petr Cech the team's last patron saint. Then a young Chinese came along, and he made the patron saint's performance very rare."

"That year, the young Chinese, and his teammates in blue, won the first Champions League in Chelsea's history."

"The following year, he even won the Premier League title with the team."

"He is the nightmare of all non-rich teams. He is the defense guarantee for a team that dares to go forward and attack bravely. He makes all the forwards of non-rich teams kneel down and call 'Dad' and cannot pass."

"Now that 'Dad' is gone, Chelsea's defense has no one to take care of it, and anyone can bully it..."

After mutual reposting by fans, media fermentation, and Yang Feng's phenomenal defensive performance in Liverpool, the title of "Yang Feng's father" began to spread like wildfire. Inexplicably, Yang Feng received deep greetings from many senior team fans...