Football’s First Defender

Manchester City took the lead in scoring at home. Dalglish's tactics for Liverpool's game did not play much. Not to mention that the defensive end did not form a solid wall. Before Manchester City scored, Liverpool's counterattack had no effect.

Now, the score is behind, and it is time for Dalglish to make a choice. Whether to continue to defend and wait for the opportunity to attack at the last moment of the second half to find opportunities, or Liverpool immediately counterattack and return to Manchester City with offense.

For Dalglish, this season so far cannot be said to be a success. When he temporarily took over the team last season, Dalglish used his fame to integrate Liverpool, which was in disarray. Judging from the situation, Dalglish felt that he was really old.

Even if he could overcome the problems inside the dressing room, Dalglish found that he really couldn't adapt to the trend of the times in terms of overall tactical design.

But Dalglish's affection for the Liverpool team is naturally very deep. He still wants to help the team better so that the team can go further under his leadership.

Of course, if the final result of this season is not satisfactory, then Dalglish also has the courage to put down the coach and let a better coach come to Anfield.

For Dalglish, after realizing his own shortcomings, Dalglish's main purpose this season is no longer to bring Liverpool the first Premier League title. Now the realistic goal is to help the team strive for success. For the Champions League quota, as long as they can enter the Champions League next season, Liverpool will have more capital income, which can better sign up next season, and also make the team qualified to attract the best players.

In addition to the pursuit of performance on the court, on the other hand, Dalglish is preparing to help more players in the team, inject the soul of the Red Army, and let more players quickly integrate into the team. In the overall tactics, it can also help the team to better complete the reconstruction of the lineup.

Although at the beginning of the game, Dalglish still chose the team to withdraw to defend somewhat utilitarianly, but with the team's absolute disadvantage in the scene and the situation of being scored by Manchester City, Dalglish Glish still decided to change directly.

Even though there is still a slight gap between Liverpool and Manchester City in terms of lineup, Dalglish also wants to see how much better the luxurious lineup Manchester City has piled up with money than his own lineup!

Liverpool, which was behind, began to return to the most normal game state. In the game, a large number of players were invested in the offense, hoping to rely on offense, find their own rhythm of the game, use offense to equalize the score, and retreat in the away game.

However, in this game, in order to focus on strengthening the team's defense, Dalglish put Carroll, who is obviously playing a blue-collar role in the game, on the bench.

This also makes the team lack an extremely important frontcourt fulcrum when they want to attack now.

Although Couitt can indeed play a guest role as a center forward, but as he grows older, his physical resistance ability is declining day by day. There is really no way to compare it with the original.

Liverpool had a very simple and effective offensive mode in the past few games. In this game, when they broke their own arm, they fell into a stagnation.

Dalglish prepares for the first half, let the team play the attack in the center first, and in the second half, Carroll will focus on the attack from the side.

But Liverpool's organizational ability in the midfield has a big problem. Although there are Charlie Adam, Henderson, and the teenager Spilling in the middle, they can all receive the ball, and their long-range shooting ability is relatively good. The vitality of the midfield trio is not a problem, and there is nothing to say about running.

But all three of them lack the ability to pass the ball in the last pass, and there is no way to provide the team with the necessary threatening ball pass.

Suarez in the penalty area, alone in the confrontation with the opponent's central defender, has no way to create an offensive threat alone.

When there is no way to complete the attack in the middle, it naturally makes Liverpool's overall attack unconsciously biased towards the two sides.

Especially Downing, who is in his prime on the left flank, and left back Jose Enrique, their breakthroughs and crosses on the left flank are now Liverpool's easiest way to create threats.

On the offensive end, Liverpool, which relies so much on the wing, now lacks an effective high point like Carroll, and obviously does not have an advantage in the fight for high points.

When the left flank formed a full pressure, even Suarez and Dirk Dirk in the penalty area wanted to receive the pass, but they were firmly restrained by Manchester City's defense.

The defensive line composed of Kolo Toure and Kompany, one relying on physical strength to hold Dirk, the other is firmly defending against Suarez's running, Liverpool passed the ball into the penalty area, and could not find themselves at all The team members can only watch Manchester City complete the clearance.

And if Liverpool's frontcourt is pressing and it can effectively complete the interception, it is okay. If it cannot be stopped at the first time, Manchester City's counterattack against Liverpool's two flanks can be launched immediately.

The more aggressive Liverpool's attack, the sharper Manchester City's counterattack.

Especially in Yaya Toure, who also used his height advantage to join Manchester City's defense in the penalty area. Liverpool's crosses from the wing made it even more difficult to pass Manchester City's high points in the penalty area, and Liverpool are also most afraid of the ball. Yaya Toure's first point of attack was directly controlled by Yaya Toure, because that meant that Yaya Toure could be used as the team's first offensive point, and directly launched a long pass in the backcourt, directly leading Manchester City's attack. counterattack direction.

"Tangning once again kicked the ball from the left to pass, but when there is no such high point as Carol in the penalty area, is such a simple and rough cross really possible to have an effect?"

Facts have proved that even if you try many times, Liverpool's single offensive method still cannot get enough offensive threats when facing Manchester City's heavily built and long-running defense.

And Manchester City made effective counterattacks on the wing twice in a row. It's a pity that although Milner is active, there are still natural problems in terms of speed and technical ability.

When Liverpool's defense mainly contained the counterattack threat from Silva's side, Milner got two counterattack opportunities in a row, but he was always unable to raise the speed fast enough alone.

Milner chose to hit the goal himself, and under the defense of Skrtel who stepped forward to interfere, he directly hit the goal.

And another time he chose to pass the ball to Aguero, but Yang Feng saw it through in advance and intercepted it.

Off the court, Mancini was a little disappointed with Milner's performance in the opposite extreme.

At this time, the role of Nasri, who was absent due to injury, showed up. If Milner's position was replaced by Nasri, then Manchester City might have scored the second goal long ago!

The score of 1 to 0 has not changed since then, and the two sides entered the intermission...