Football’s First Defender

Liverpool's defense, because of the player's personal defensive ability, no matter how well it is tuned, it will definitely not be as stable as the top team's defense.

More depends on the players' personal performance on the defensive end, as well as Yang Feng's proper command and defense to ensure the team's defense line and stop Tottenham's offense.

After Liverpool's opening three strikes, the frontcourt relied on personal ability to attack, but did not have very good results. Tottenham, through the control of the ball, began to gradually increase the team's possession rate and occupy the game. active offensive situation.

"Although Tottenham came to Anfield as a guest in this game, but when Liverpool rotated the team lineup, Tottenham played very actively today."

"But for Tottenham, sometimes the initiative on the scene may not necessarily be able to truly threaten the opponent. The team's biggest offensive weapon, Bale, is now under Liverpool's tight defense line and cannot give full play."

What Bell needs is space, enough space for him to speed up, enough space for him to carry out 1v1, but in addition to the few offensive stages of Liverpool's opening organization, Tottenham left space for Bell when Tottenham seized the time to counterattack In addition, now, Liverpool has arranged the most important defense against Bell, which is to limit the space that Bell can gallop.

Bell, as the core offensive point of Tottenham this season, his passing ability on the wing, his shooting skills in the penalty area, and his ability to grab headers are all increasing day by day.

However, after all, he is a player who made his debut as a left back. In terms of basic offensive skills and the feeling of handling the ball, Bell still needs more time to practice hard.

Now when facing Bell on the defensive end, Liverpool's first line of defense players all choose to take a step back instead of daring to lean forward.

Taking a step back is to give myself more reaction time, as well as defensive space, to ensure that when my own speed suffers, I can use space to make up for it.

This is actually a change that Liverpool had to make defensively, because the Liverpool team lacked that kind of strong defensive midfielder, otherwise the best defensive method must be to let the players be close to each other and keep giving Bell physical confrontation. To limit Bell's starting speed in the first place.

But now, Bell's own physical confrontation still has an advantage in confrontation when he forcibly broke through the Liverpool midfielder before.

With the advantage of confrontation and absolute speed, the players on Liverpool's first line of defense, facing Bell, can only choose to retreat to gain defensive space and avoid being passed by Bell in one step.

However, retreating means that Bell has a certain amount of long-range space.

It's just a pity that today's Bell, the weapon of long-range shooting, has not yet been developed. The threat posed by Bell is really limited for long-range shooting a few meters outside the restricted area.

Lao Lei also focused on polishing Bell's long-range shooting ability in training before, but all this still takes time. According to Lao Lei's plan, this year is only a year for Bell to gradually get rid of his previous style of play, and it is a year for Bell to accumulate a lot of money.

Bell has to do a lot of offensive training this season to better improve himself, and next year's season will be when Bell can really train and show himself wantonly in the game.

As the offensive end point of the team's frontcourt, Bell can always get a lot of ball rights and transfer them to his feet during the game.

However, Bell, who has no way to give full play to his breakthrough ability, can only use the space given by Liverpool players to make some long shots most of the time.

Using his own starting speed, Bell can always complete the lateral dribbling, open up more space for hitting the goal, and form a long-range shot. It's just that Bell's hitting quality is not high, and he is not so good.

Secondly, sometimes Bell's long-range shots will always be blocked by Liverpool players.

When taking a long-range shot, the defenders who rush out at the first time limit the shooting angles that Bell can choose. Sometimes, when Bell is close to the dangerous long-range area of ​​​​the penalty area, he will be affected. With Yang Feng's rescue in the restricted area, when Bell chooses a long shot, Yang Feng can always make a reasonable judgment. Sometimes, he chooses to go up and save, and use his body to block some of Bell's shots.

Throughout the first half, Tottenham had the advantage of possession, but they lacked enough threatening offensive means.

Bell, the core of the frontcourt offense, fell into Liverpool's intensive defense and had no room to play at all.

On the basis of the existing personnel, except for a few times in the opening game, Liverpool was very self-aware to do a good job on the defensive end in the rest of the first half. When there was a chance to attack, there were only a few 3 or 4 players. The participation of players will definitely not give Tottenham a chance to fight back halfway.

Tottenham also lacks the ability to attack tough problems, and we must also pay attention to Liverpool's counterattack, the team's offense, and the responsibilities that other players can bear are very limited, making Tottenham unable to break through Liverpool's defense line despite their intentions.

The halftime game between the two sides was very dull, and the score was still 0-0 without any progress.

In the second half, the game continued to be dull for a while. At 60 minutes, Liverpool finally took the lead in making personnel adjustments.

Dalglish began to send the main players of the rotation to the field one by one to strengthen Liverpool's offensive ability in the frontcourt.

Players who are resting in rotation also need a certain amount of game intensity to ensure that their bodies will not "rust". Suarez, Downing, and Henderson all came off the bench. In the last half an hour of the game, Dalglish still Prepare to try on the offensive end and see if you can get something.

"After Liverpool replaced the main players, the situation on the field began to look better."

"When Liverpool began to increase their team's offense, although Tottenham no longer had the super high ball possession rate in the previous game, the threat of Tottenham's counterattack was obviously more threatening than the previous positional attack. big."

Liverpool's attack is a double-edged sword. Although the team's offensive end in this game will not be like when it is against the underdogs, all players will be dispatched, but 5 or 6 players will participate in the attack across the half. In the entire half of the field, it still seemed a little empty.

Especially when the opposing lineup has such a counterattack killer like Bale, Liverpool's defensive players dare not be careless.

"It's a long pass from the backcourt to find Bell again!"

"After Kyle Walker steals the ball in the backcourt, he makes a long pass directly to Bell at the front."

"Bell this time suddenly slanted forward from the center to the right to catch the ball!"

"The header controlled the landing point, facing Martin Kelly who was defending him behind him, Bell turned around and broke through the bottom directly."

Martin Kelly, as a youth player of Liverpool, was ordered to start this game. The young players' own physical confrontation ability and defensive experience are not so sufficient. This time, after Martin Kelly grabbed the spot with Bell, he took advantage of the situation to stick to the defense, but it was a bit too close.

Bell took advantage of the sudden turn around, followed by a strong physical confrontation, directly smashed into the space, and then Bell directly picked up speed on the right, and rushed forward. Martin Kelly reacted and returned to defense, but couldn't catch up at all. Bell's footsteps.

"Bale accelerates down the right and goes towards the Liverpool penalty area."

For Bell, who is left-footed, even if he completes a breakthrough on the right and wants to hit the goal, he has to adjust to his left foot.

In the process of running forward on the right, if you want to adjust to hit the goal with your left foot, it limits Bell's speed at full speed with the ball and limits Bell's choice of goal position.

Yang Feng's supplementary defense is equally fast on the defensive end, and he firmly stands in the penalty area, which is the most suitable area for Bell to hit the goal.

"Bell confronts Yang Feng!"

Bell also knows that Liverpool's last line of defense is the most popular central defender in the Premier League. As a stream-of-consciousness central defender, Yang Feng is known for his accurate judgment and decisive shots.

In fact, Lao Lei also reminded Bell to avoid Yang Feng's defense as much as possible.

After all, the stadium is so big that Yang Feng can't cover it all by himself. Football is for victory, and you can pick up soft persimmons to play, so you don't have to touch Yang Feng, a hard rock.

Before, Bell tried to avoid Yang Feng as much as possible, but this time, the situation forced Bell to give up such a good opportunity to enter the penalty area and hit the goal. Even if Yang Feng took a good position in front, Bell still wanted to Give it a try, use your personal ability to get rid of Yang Feng's defense and hit the goal.

"A direct confrontation between the core players of the two teams."

"Bell, who is left-footed, wants to have a better choice of goal, so he can only cut inwards horizontally!"

"If you are on the bottom, the angle will be smaller, and you can only hit the goal with your right foot, which is not good for Bale."

"Lateral incision after a sudden emergency stop!"

"Yang Feng saw the right moment and went directly to grab it."

With such an obvious and only choice, Yang Feng naturally would not allow Bell to easily move laterally and hit the goal from an angle.

Although Bell chose a horizontal inward cut position this time, near the penalty area line, and hadn't entered the penalty area yet, Yang Feng also went straight up to block it.

"Bell hit another spike to the right!"

After attracting Yang Feng, Bell chose to use the spike, and then turned to the right again, hoping to pass Yang Feng, and then try to complete the adjustment and hit the goal.

"Yang Feng! Shoot directly! Bell's change of direction is still in progress, but Yang Feng goes straight to the trajectory of the ball and steals it!"

Yang Feng is very confident in his choice, which is also a strong sense of self-confidence honed in many professional games. Yang Feng believes in his own judgment, and also believes that he can complete the steal this time. Even if he fails, Bell is a direct one-handed.

"Yang Feng kicked the ball! He pulled the ball away from Bell's feet, and Martin Kelly, who ran back from behind, made the clearance immediately. Yang Feng's excellent judgment made him face Bell's defense alone this time."

Bell did not expect that Yang Feng would pay enough defensive attention to his "weak foot". The door is inconvenient, but if he can create a one-handed opportunity, then Bell also believes that he can seize the last opportunity when facing the goalkeeper.

The direct dialogue between Bale and Yang Feng began to become more frequent as Liverpool's offensive unfolded.

However, Yang Feng has always kept his composure. Even though he faced Bell several times and won the final victory, Yang Feng did not rush to a more forward position to restrict Bell, but hid behind his teammates , continue to let his teammates consume Bell in the first round, and then find time by himself, take advantage of the replacement, and rush out to "pick up heads" when Bell has less room for adjustment because of a breakthrough!

Every time, when Bell faced Yang Feng who suddenly appeared and came to defend him, he was actually not in his best offensive state, and he always felt that he could not use his strength.

"This time Bell's rare acceleration on the sidewalk was extraordinary, but Yang Feng, who was quickly defended, made a sliding tackle and shoveled the ball kicked by Bell directly out of the sideline."

"Bell was limited by Liverpool's tight defense in the first half and had no room to attack. In the second half, Yang Feng, who was finally dragged behind by Liverpool, completed many successful defenses. In this 'contradictory battle', at present, Yang Feng occupies With an absolute advantage!"

Of course, every time Yang Feng successfully defends in the final stage, it is inseparable from the teammates in front of him. When Bell broke through, he added "shackles" to Bell one by one. Therefore, Yang Feng does not regard this as a personal defensive success. It depends on the entire Liverpool team.

Liverpool's attack in the final stage, due to the performance of Downing on the left, also began to become more impressive, and the combination of Carol and Suarez in the center also put a certain amount of pressure on Tottenham's defense.

Dalglish, after seeing Yang Feng's outstanding performance, dared to let the team continue to properly strengthen the investment in the offensive end. After all, if they can beat Tottenham at home, then this game will be perfect.

"Carroll scrambled for the next point and headed the ball back."

"Suarez, don't wait for the ball to hit the ground, just hit the goal with one foot!"

"It's a pity that he played too straight and was directly confiscated by the Tottenham goalkeeper."

"A direct counterattack, the Tottenham goalkeeper directly threw the ball quickly and accurately found Modric who was waiting in the middle."

"Modric, move the ball forward quickly, Bale is up front, but not too far from Modric."

"Bell has just participated in the team's defense, and his position at this time has just passed the midfield."

Several Liverpool players began to double-team from both sides, and they had to work together to limit the counterattack cooperation between the Magic Flute and Bale.

"Modric, with a precise through ball, passed the ball obliquely to Bell's running route in a short distance. The amount of advance was extremely accurate. Bell just didn't slow down and controlled the football."

Yang Feng half-turned to one side and retreated to run, staring at Bell's dribbling route all day long.

Just now Liverpool's main defensive force rushed forward to block Modric's pass this time, but Modric's pass footwork is really good. Not only did he avoid the path of many Liverpool players, but he also succeeded. Found Bell in front of him.

Now the only ones who can influence Bell are Yang Feng and left back Martin Kelly.

But Kelly was too far to the side. Even if he tried his best to go diagonally to the middle, there was still a distance to go. During this distance, Bell used his full speed to speed up and waded over ahead of time. Kelly's defense was no longer a threat.

"It's Yang Feng and Bell's 1v1 chance again."

"Bale, has been accelerating, still accelerating, rushed to the right side of Liverpool's penalty area..."

Yang Feng also had to use his full speed at this time, and he didn't dare to push the goal in the slightest. Whether he should hit the goal with his right foot without slowing down, or wait for an emergency stop to smash the ball, and then hit the goal with his left foot, Yang Feng didn't have time to go. Guess, the most important thing now is to form enough defensive interference for Bell.

"Bell entered the penalty area!"

"Forcibly rely on speed to pass Yang Feng by half a step!"

"Bell directly pushed the far corner with his right foot!"

"Yang Feng!"

"Flying out from behind Bell's side, he stretched out his legs to block this shot!"

"Yang Feng, when Reina defended the near corner and could only pay attention to this clever shot from the far corner, he caught up with Bell who hit the goal at the last step, and blocked the ball with a very beautiful flying interception. Come down!"

Bell couldn't believe that Yang Feng's speed was so fast, and his reaction was so fast. Bell felt that his speed had reached its peak, and he had thrown a certain distance away from Yang Feng before, but Yang Feng chose to come here with a flying shovel. , blocking his own shot this time.

Yang Feng was lying on the ground panting because he ran hard before, so he didn't get up in time.

It was rare for Yang Feng to gamble on the defense just now. Bell's speed was really too fast, which made Yang Feng unable to leave room to think about other things during the defense.

Fortunately, no matter how abnormal Bell is now, he can't complete the emergency stop and smash the ball under the condition of absolute acceleration.

In the following game, due to Tottenham's impressive counterattack, Liverpool still chose to retreat and defend, maintaining the score at 0-0.

Both sides scored one point each, which was considered to have completed the pre-match goal.

However, in this game, Yang Feng made Bell's defensive restrictions to the extreme, allowing Bell to not create too many threatening offensive opportunities in this game.

No matter how hard you are, you still can't escape Wuzhishan's suppression after all.

Yang Feng is a mountain in front of Bell, and Bell needs to find a chance to cross it in the future!