Football’s First Defender

Facing the current Premier League leader Manchester City, Liverpool not only took a two-goal lead in the half game, but also played against their opponents for a long time in the game, which made many fans who came to watch the game see the team. Dilemma, the hope of returning to glory.

Even though the halftime game is over, the excellent situation of Liverpool's first half game has made the fans on the scene, like a festival, continue to sing loudly and cheer for their team during the intermission.

During the intermission, when Dalglish arranged the tactics for the second half of the game, he did not ask the team to defend to the end in the second half of the game. Anyway, after the intermission, the physical strength of the Liverpool players has recovered. Now for Liverpool In other words, there is also greater capital to stick to their own offensive tactics in the second half.

On the other side, Manchester City, which was behind, made a lot of tactical arrangements during the intermission. Mancini knew that the team was going to attack, but in addition to attacking, he must first solve Liverpool's possible counterattack threat .

Mancini's change of approach to Liverpool's offense lies in the panacea Milner.

In the second half of the game, Mancini sent Milner to play the team's midfielder, and his full-time defense was to defend Liverpool's core midfielder Gerrard, and he handed over the offensive tasks involved in Milner to Barry and Yaya Toure. Finish.

Mancini knew that Liverpool's offensive end in this game was more active than in the previous league game, because in this game, Gerrard started the game and brought Liverpool's offense alive.

Gerrard is the core starting point of most of Liverpool's offenses in this game. Mancini intends to limit Gerrard's receiving the ball in the midfield to weaken Liverpool's ability to deliver the ball in counterattacks.

On the offensive end, although Milner's role in the offense is weakened, although it will reduce the threat of Manchester City's right-sided attack, anyway, Manchester City's main attack direction in positional warfare is the left, and the right can also be handed over to Richards. Plugging in can also fully satisfy the team's containment ability on the right.

Manchester City must take the initiative to attack in the second half of the game. Even if they can't recover the score at the end, reducing the score gap to one goal will definitely be more beneficial to Manchester City, who return to their home court in the second round.

Milner has become the team's defensive midfielder, Yaya Toure is slightly ahead, and can give full play to his offensive talents, and Barry is also standing in the latest position in the midfield, on the field. , start back appropriately.

Mancini also needs to play Barry's defensive role, using Barry not only as the team's midfielder to receive the ball on the offensive end, but also to make him continue to make his own contributions on the defensive end, and become a defense in front of Milner Barrier, after all, Milner has already committed a foul, and Mancini needs Barry, who has no cards, to do some dirty work on the court.

With the change of positions of several players in the midfield, Manchester City's offensive direction in the second half is mainly to rely on the wing attack, as well as the organization of the two core players in the midfield, Silva and Yaya Toure.

"The second half of the game has begun!"

"City set up their attacking shape as soon as they kicked off."

Manchester City's lineup actually has room to play in offense.

Especially with the advance of Yaya Toure, Manchester City's offense actually has an effective midfield offensive point.

Yaya Toure's technical ability at his feet is good, and he has a strong body, so in the one-on-one situation, it is another huge test for Liverpool's midfield defensive players.

As a world-class midfielder, although Yaya Toure was unsatisfactory in Barcelona before, it was because of Barcelona's inherent tactical system. Yaya Toure could not fully integrate into Barcelona's tactical system, nor could he I got a tactical arrangement that suits me in the game, so Barcelona had an unsatisfactory life before and had conflicts with Guardiola.

But after coming to Manchester City, Yaya Toure has completely got the soil suitable for him to play.

Under normal circumstances, Yaya Toure completes the defensive tasks for the team in the backcourt, and because the back line is his brother, Yaya Toure is quite comfortable on the defensive end.

On the offensive end, Yaya Toure itself has the power to plug in the offense at will, and can freely display his offensive ability.

But that is a part-time job after all, and now with Yaya Toure fully promoted, Yaya Toure's own offensive ability can be fully utilized.

Liverpool's midfielders, except for Charlie Adam, have a certain physical confrontation ability. In fact, the others do not have very good physical confrontation, and they can form a confrontation with Yaya Toure.

But a Charlie Adam was still somewhat unable to defend against Yaya Toure's personal attack.

After all, Charlie Adam's personal skills are still not comparable to Yaya Toure's. Under personal defense, although Charlie Adam can have a certain physical confrontation with Yaya Toure, he will always be used by Yaya Toure. Little technique, complete get rid of.

Liverpool's defense, with Yaya Toure participating in the attack, has been under more defensive pressure.

"Yaya Toure, relying on his personal ability, forcibly threw off Charlie Adam's defense in the midfield, got a certain angle of attack, and completed a long shot!"

"Reina's reaction was very quick, and he didn't give Yaya Toure a chance to succeed in a long-range shot, and he steadily received the football from this long-range shot."

Dalglish also discovered that the offensive combination of Yaya Toure, Barry and Silva was obviously more threatening than the combination of Silva, Barry and Milner in Manchester City in the first half.

But Liverpool really lacks enough defensive players in the midfield, and Dalglish has no one to replace. He can only signal Suarez to retreat deeper, which can help the team's midfield and provide better defense.

Of course, Manchester City's offense, with the participation of Yaya Toure, is impressive, and Liverpool, which also wants to focus on offense, has an equally good offense.

After Tangning scored the goal, the state of the game was completely opened up. On the defensive end, Tang Ning could display more energy on the offensive end without having to bear the defensive pressure brought by the opponent's full-back.

Liverpool's left flank is still the main point of attack for their side. The wing duo of Downing and Jose Enrique can stably pass the ball to Carroll and Suarez who scored into Manchester City's penalty area.

"In this game, Tangning's personal offensive state is really excellent. In the 1v1 situation on the left side, she maintained a very high pass success rate."

"It's Tangning's individual performance again. She made a quick stop to smash the ball and made a pass, and then smashed the ball to the bottom. She completely manipulated Richards' defense."

"Tangning's low cross!"

"Carroll shot Xu Huang in the front, and the extremely fast pass of the ball was obviously too high, and flew to the back area."

"Suarez, take off and head the goal from the back point!"

"Joe Hart's reaction was also very quick. He flew forward and hit the ball out of the baseline with one palm, leaving no chance for Liverpool players to make up shots!"

At the beginning of the second half, the two sides fought against each other, and it depended on who could break the opponent's defense first.