Football’s First Defender

"Rodgers loses his mojo and Liverpool are beaten back!" - The Mirror

"Liverpool's transformation has failed, and the future is slim!" - Daily Mail

"Yang Feng, who was pitted miserably! Liverpool's continuous mistakes made the Premier League's top central defender powerless!" - Sky Sports

'Infighting rumored? Escalation between Liverpool players and manager' - The Sun

"The two giants of Real Madrid and Barcelona are interested in poaching Yang Feng, who is not happy in Liverpool in the winter window!" - World Sports News

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Bad news came one after another, and when the team lost, all the negative factors exploded together.

In the Liverpool team, of course, Rogers, who is under the greatest pressure, is coaching the giants for the first time.

Although Rogers has never given up his pass and control style of play, Liverpool's record seems to prove that Rogers' stubbornness may ruin the team.

The new Premier League season has started 4 rounds. Liverpool has not won a game, 2 draws and 2 losses. Liverpool with 2 points has already entered the relegation zone in the standings!

Although the opening schedule was indeed very unfriendly to Liverpool, they encountered the defending champion Manchester City and the traditional giants Arsenal in the second and third rounds respectively.

But in two consecutive home games, in this kind of strong matchup, Liverpool 1-2 in one game and 2-2 in one game, both of which made the opponents retreat unscathed, which really made the Liverpool fans watching the game very angry.

The smooth offense that the team wanted to play was not only not played, but the team's defensive level was obviously regressed from last season.

But no one blamed Yang Feng, Skrtel, or the overall defensive players including Reina. Everyone understands that this kind of frequent conceding the ball is definitely not the responsibility of the defenders, but the players in front of them have too many problems.

Even Yang Feng and Skrtel's defensive performance is actually better than last season with the increase in tacit understanding, but the two of them are now facing more and more difficult defensive problems to deal with. Some can't do anything.

In the one-month new season, the pass and control tactics brought by Rodgers are still somewhat unacceptable in Liverpool. The team's offensive threat on the field has not played a suppressive effect.

However, the number of mistakes that were directly counterattacked was still the same.

When facing strong teams like Manchester City and Arsenal twice, although Rogers made on-the-spot tactical adjustments, the team was no longer eager to attack and reduced a lot of mistakes.

But the reduction does not mean no. For the offensive players of the two giants, in the face of mistakes made by their opponents, their ability to seize opportunities is still a level higher than that of players from weaker teams.

So even though Rogers chose a slightly conservative tactic in the two games, the occasional mistakes still caused a lot of goals conceded.

Nowadays, there are many doubts about Rogers' formation.

The first is the problem on the front line. Although Suarez is subject to the problem of insufficient support from his teammates, he scored 2 goals in 4 games, and his performance is not bad.

But Borini, as a new aid for Liverpool this season, directly occupies the main forward position, the key is that he has no corresponding performance at all.

Different from the original historical trajectory, due to the joining of Yang Feng, Carroll also became the beneficiary of Liverpool's daring to defend and attack last season. Carroll, who is still decent in statistics, has not been loaned out this season as he did in the original history. Leave, but still in Liverpool's lineup for the new season.

Although his performance on the field does not correspond to his worth of 35 million pounds, he is definitely not the pure parallel player in history who has no effect on Liverpool.

At least, many players on the Liverpool field, as well as the fans off the field, are also used to the team having an air fighter who can control the first point.

But now, it is for the pass and control tactics promoted by Rogers himself, abandoning

Losing Carroll, who is still effective, and playing Borini, who is not very effective, but will hinder Suarez, everyone has a lot of resentment about this.

In midfield, Rodgers' selection of personnel has also been widely criticized.

No matter how well Joe Allen played, he firmly occupied a Liverpool midfield position, but his weak defensive ability has now been caught by many teams, which in turn caused a fatal blow to Liverpool.

Gerrard is of course the starter without any suspense, but for the other two midfield options, Rodgers has already made a variety of cooperation attempts in the new season.

Counting the midfielders who sometimes came off the bench during the game, in just four rounds, Rodgers almost used the talent pool reserved for the midfielder.

Downing, Lucas, Henderson, Shelvey, Shaheen, Charlie Adam and teenager Sterling.

Rogers has tried all the players who can play in the midfield position, but it is obvious that Rogers' tactical arrangement is dead, but living players cannot complete it.

The reason why the offense cannot be achieved and the defense cannot be achieved is because Liverpool's midfield is unbalanced and there has been no way to solve the problem.

How can even a midfielder whose members are unstable can achieve more precise passing and control of football than the traditional style of play. Mistakes are, of course, inevitable.

Only the backcourt players are still slightly stable, but it may also be due to the lack of personnel replenishment. Many players believe that there is no obvious personnel supplementation in the backcourt, which makes Rogers have no "direct descendants" to install, and Liverpool has a "pure land".

The defense led by Yang Feng performed pretty well in the new season. Although they conceded a lot of goals, they successfully defended a lot. This is the only comfort for the fans.

For Rogers, the best problem to solve is actually the forward problem. Just replace Borini and other forwards on the field, and it is possible to achieve results.

For example, the loudest voice, Carol, who has been sitting on the bench.

But this is once again a matter of principle for Rogers himself. Although the team's early record was not good, Rogers did not want to change his tactical play easily. He believed that the poor record was only the reason for the team's lack of running-in.

If at this time, Carroll is sent on the field for a more concise offense, then although the temporary offensive and defensive effects may be better, but his entire pass and control system may be devastating due to the lack of one player blow.

After all, until now, there has not been a team known for pass control that can play the delicate pass control it wants after adding a clumsy high center forward.

Back then, he was as strong as Barcelona. After the introduction of Ibrahimovic, the pass-and-control football he was good at was obviously not as smooth.

You know, although Ibrahimovic is tall, his flexibility and skills at his feet are absolutely not bad. Carroll is more than one level stronger, but Ibrahimovic can't adapt to the pass-and-control style of play. A rougher Carlo If Paul plays, it means that the pass-and-control football that Rogers wants to play is destined to be shattered early.

Rogers is now considering whether he can use the younger Spanish striker Suso to become Suarez's partner, or simply use 5 midfielders to further strengthen the team's midfield strength.

The problem on the front line is only a small problem compared to Liverpool's current midfield lineup. Rogers still needs to find a more stable midfield combination that can hold the ball and make no mistakes.

It can only be said that the team still has too little time to prepare before the season, and the midfielders are not adapting to it now, and they have no tacit understanding, and they have not met the on-court performance required by Rogers.

For Rogers, he can only use different personnel rotations to let the team find a transitional lineup that can cope with the game at present, and after that, give the players he likes enough time to train and run in, and then pursue results in the second half of the league. good.

For Rogers, the good news is that the Liverpool management still promised to give Rogers enough time to adjust the lineup.

I don't know if I believe in Rogers' strength, or if the Liverpool management doesn't want to fire the head coach after four rounds of the league, it is also slapping itself.

Rodgers, whose coaching position is still relatively stable, can only bite the bullet and lead the windy and windy Liverpool to face the double red meeting on the weekend.