Football’s First Defender

Now that he saw that this young man was "going astray", Yang Feng also had to give some advice from the perspective of a senior.

"Sterling! As the team's offensive player, since you have such a fast speed advantage, you have to consider whether you can complete the task of scoring goals when you fight back!"

"But shouldn't you focus on practicing how to run from a good position before practicing shooting?"

Sterling's answer also made Yang Feng somewhat at a loss as to how to explain it.

That's right, shooting can be practiced continuously. No matter how good a shooter is, if he doesn't have a chance, it's useless.

There is no need to take the forward players in the five major leagues as examples, but the goalkeepers and defenders of many teams actually have good shooting skills at their feet.

You don’t need to look at the various promotional highlights of the team, but you don’t need to look at how these players hit the goal. You can see that they set the goal as a crossbar or a post, and they also have an extremely impressive hit rate when kicking from long distances.

However, this is of course just normal. When there is no physical confrontation, when entering the real game state, you need to run and deal with physical confrontation, which is crucial for a forward player.

Therefore, the so-called shooting technique focuses on the test of shooting ability in the state of having the ball, running, and confrontation.

For professional forward players, how to run to an open position where they can catch the ball and get a chance to play is of course an extremely important thing amidst the opponent's tight defense.

Of course, the running position is indeed an offensive player. It is necessary to thoroughly understand the tactics, strengthen the personal offensive strength, and achieve the offensive goal.

But all of this is based on the situation of being able to score goals! Otherwise, no matter how good the running position is, no matter how threatening offensive opportunities are created, if you can't score a goal, it's all in vain!

Perhaps Sterling belonged to the kind of offensive bug that no one could stop in the youth team's game, and it was as simple as scoring a goal.

So even Sterling has not paid much attention to shooting, but only on how to create better opportunities and get more space.

Perhaps in Sterling's mind, when the shooting opportunity is in front of him, he can completely swing his legs and shoot like he did in the youth team before, and he can score with a high probability.

But Yang Feng knows the future development trajectory of Sterling. As the best winger in the Premier League, Sterling will get many opportunities in the game whether he is in Liverpool or Manchester City.

Moreover, in the wide-open Premier League, when your team takes the lead, there are not too many opportunities for defensive counterattacks, but for Sterling, he seems to have a single-handed phobia. With a single chance, the shot is just not satisfactory.

So much so that for several consecutive seasons, Sterling has been a qualified winger breakthrough player, but he has not been able to fully grow into the top scorer in the impression of fans.

Perhaps for Manchester City's Guardiola, Sterling is also the most special offensive player who can't score goals he has ever encountered.

A Manchester City fan once said, "I don't need to score the must-have goals that Sterling missed. My grandma can score about half of them."

Although it was a joke, it can also be seen how many chances Sterling missed to make fans feel that they should score goals.

Of course, more than half of the goals that this kind of grandma can score are forcibly created by Sterling by relying on his personal ability. Perhaps it is impossible for any other player to create such opportunities.

For Yang Feng at this time, he can only try to persuade the current Sterling, so that the young Sterling can understand the true meaning of scoring by himself.

The training of the group of four was still carried out under Yang Feng's suggestion.

And in this extra training mode, Yang Feng's proposal to have an event with the audience won the support of the other three.

As a long passer, Yang Feng passed the ball at the other end of the half, while Skrtel, as a central defender, had to take turns to conduct 1v1 counterattack training with two attackers.

As a passer, Yang Feng, of course, consciously finds space on the side when passing the ball to Sterling, so that Sterling can give full play to his advantages on the side.

Yang Feng's long pass is always just right, so that Sterling is always in a position where he can comfortably receive the ball, thus forming an extremely effective offensive opportunity for Skrtel.

Because it is extra training, there is no goalkeeper to make saves, so before the game, everyone specifically restricted the goal area. No matter what angle, they must try to aim at the four corners of the goal to hit the goal.

Although Skrtel was unable to restrict Sterling in the first place, but using his strong body and excellent running ability, Skrtel could complete the final defensive task in the penalty area.

In the case of defensive interference from the opponent's central defender, although Sterling can use his speed and flexibility to make escape moves, the effect is not satisfactory.

How to put it, he was able to swing the angle to complete an excellent shot, but the degree of completion of the shot was still affected by Skrtel's defense.

It was agreed before that the goal should be hit in the four corners, but Sterling let alone hit the designated range. For the first time, he didn't even hit the door. An anti-aircraft gun shot out of the door frame.

Sterling also did not expect that in front of the three big brothers, his hitting was so poor.

Sterling, who was a little embarrassed, stepped back and watched Suarez shoot the goal with one kick after getting rid of it in almost the same position. The ball stuck to the position of the far post and flew directly into the goal. Sterling It is a close-range witness to the wonderful shooting skills of the best shooter in the team.

Sterling, who re-entered the field, secretly cheered for himself, this time he must complete an excellent kick.

Yang Feng's long pass training was not delayed in the summer. A pass to the deep side of the wing directly made Skrtel give up the desire to go to the side to grab the first goal.

Skrtel guards the penalty area, waiting for Sterling to cut inside.

Sterling, who took the ball, still dribbled the ball at full speed this time, heading straight for Skrtel's defense.

Skrtel wanted to step forward to exert a physical confrontation, but when Sterling cut inside, he also completed the protection of the ball excellently, using a longer dribbling distance to get rid of Skrtel at a faster speed defense.

Of course, in order to simulate the game situation, such a large dribbling distance at this time will inevitably attract the opponent's defense, so Sterling did not make too many adjustments. After catching up with the ball, he volleyed and hit the goal.

Sterling was full of expectations, hoping that his volley could fly to the upper left corner of the goal, proving his ability to hit the goal, but it didn't work out, it was another anti-aircraft gun, but it was closer to the goal than the one just now .

Embarrassment, capitalized embarrassment appeared on Sterling's face.

After that, Suarez hit the goal with a flat ball under the defense of Skrtel. Although he missed it, it was because Suarez was too pursuing the angle and hit the post directly, which was much better than Sterling's flying goal. many.

This kind of extra training has been going on for half an hour, and the threat posed by Sterling's shot is really too low.

Sterling, who had killed all directions in the youth team before, didn't know why he had such a big situation under Skrtel's defense.

"Am I going to improve my shot against the ball in open play?"

After many comparisons with Suarez, Sterling found that his shooting ability was really poor.

Under Yang Feng's conscious guidance, Sterling seemed to have discovered his own weakness, and wondered whether he was doing the right thing before...