Football’s First Defender

Rogers is very optimistic about the technical ability of Coutinho, a young man. After all, he was also a young genius who was famous in Brazil back then, but he was limited by the joining mechanism of youth training players (players under the age of 18 in Brazil can only be transferred to Grape. cannot go to other European leagues), after Inter Milan signed him that year, they had to play for his original club on loan.

In European football, for nearly two years, I don’t know how many young geniuses will emerge. When Coutinho reached the age limit, he came to Italy and Inter Milan, but found that Inter Milan has no prospects for him now. Not optimistic.

Rogers passed this deal, on the one hand, to strengthen the reserve of technical personnel in the midfield and prepare for possible injuries. On the other hand, he also wants to try. See if you can give yourself a bigger surprise.

After quickly completing the buying and selling operations of the winter window, even though the winter window is still more than half a month away from closing, Liverpool has entered the stage of army preparation early.

After 21 rounds of the league, Liverpool now has 36 points, ranking sixth in the Premier League.

The top team is Manchester United, Liverpool's rival team, with 52 points, leading the pack. After Manchester United was dramatically let Manchester City win the championship last season, it has demonstrated the absolute dominance of traditional giants in the league this season. Now it has a huge point gap of 16 points with Liverpool.

For Liverpool, it is already a bit unrealistic to compete for the Premier League title this season. The team's most realistic goal is to re-transform into competing for this season's Champions League qualification.

Now the defending champion Manchester City ranks second in the league with 45 points. It is not too much pressure on Manchester United, but to keep the second place, as long as they do not make big mistakes in the second half of the season, Manchester City should have no problem.

The fiercest competition is actually the same as last season, which is the third and fourth places, and it is not the usual six giants, where the four weaker teams compete for the third and fourth places. This time, it is seven teams competing for the third and fourth places. Champions League places.

Tottenham ranks third in the league with 39 points, Yang Feng's old club Chelsea's 38 points, Liverpool's rival Everton's 37 points are all ahead of Liverpool, while Arsenal's 34 points and West Bromwich Albion's 33 points , and they are not much different from Liverpool's points.

Among them, Everton and West Bromwich Albion, which have significantly worse personnel reserves, are very likely to fall behind.

After the Christmas schedule, the situation of the fourth season this season is still confusing. No matter which team relaxes a little, anyone may fall behind.

And every game requires serious preparation for Liverpool. After the team "closes the winter window" in advance, the first opponent in the league is the current top team Manchester United. , will start at Old Trafford.

For Liverpool, although Sturridge performed well in his first show, the opponents in the third round of the FA Cup are after all low-level league opponents. After thinking twice, Rogers still did not dare to let the team come to the team after only 10. Today's Sturridge started in a game like the Double Red Club.

However, although the team's frequent starting changes may cause tacit cooperation problems, it is better than completely exposing one's weaknesses to the opponent.

Therefore, the team lineup and game formation have changed again under the guidance of Rogers.

For Liverpool, the official position map is a 433 formation.

The four defenders and the goalkeeper have not changed. The three midfielders, Lucas, Joe Allen, and Gerrard are lined up from left to right on the position map. In the game, how to adjust the position, focus on offense and defense, and The specific situation when you see it.

As for the three forwards, Downing and Sterling were separated on the left and right, and Suarez was of course in the middle of the front.

Another change, last season's absolute main force Tang Ning began to appear more in Liverpool's lineup. In the previous half of the season, there was not enough playing time. Recently, thanks to Rogers' change, he began to have more time.

On both ends of the offense and defense, Rogers, who has been unable to find a balance point, began to further strengthen the defensive ability of the defense line by limiting the penetration range of the two full-backs. A pure assaulter makes a fuss, giving up a certain amount of attack power in the middle to complement the offensive firepower on the side.

Even at Old Trafford, Rodgers still hopes to use offense to gain suppression on the offensive end and play a spirited game.

Manchester United played at home, but Ferguson did not change the lineup like Rodgers did. He still played with the team's most familiar lineup.

It can be refined into a 4231 formation, and the central defender partner is Ferguson's most trusted duo Ferdinand and Vidic. Evra and Raphael are still the fixed left and right full-back options.

Goalkeeper De Gea is still guarding the gate of Manchester United. The strength of this defensive line may be the highest set of Manchester United today. They will use their own strength and experience to limit one of the most popular strikers in the Premier League this season. Suarez.

The reason why Suarez is only one of the most popular strikers, not the only one, is because Manchester United's starting striker is still the indomitable General Van Persie.

Due to injury factors, Rooney has not played many games this season, but Robin van Persie, who came from Arsenal this season, has made up for the lack of firepower that Rooney lacked.

Yang Feng and Skrtel will continue to limit Van Persie's performance on the offensive end as the top priority.

Carrick also has youth training player Cleverley, who is partnered with Manchester United's double midfielders in this game, while Shinji Kagawa, Welbeck, and Ashley Young are on the official positioning map, in front The field is lined up.

Considering that Welbeck may be better at finishing ability, so in this game, Manchester United can adjust back to 442, push Welbeck up, and act as a firepower point in the penalty area.

From the beginning of the game, the two teams fought in the midfield area.

Liverpool, who wanted to open the game with three tricks, and Manchester United, who also wanted to seize the lead, faced each other directly. Both sides tried various methods to break through the opponent's defense.

The running, interspersing, and passing of the offensive players move forward little by little.

However, the defensive side has set up a series of defensive lines, hindering, delaying, blocking space, and layers of defensive lines will gradually weaken the threat of the opponent's attack and ensure the safety of the team's defense line.

This is the case of a strong duel. The two sides may play very lively in the game, but they rarely have the means to create such an excellent goal that can kill with one blow.

In more cases, because the attacker has to take into account the problem of its own defense line, it wants to take the initiative, but it is difficult to completely break through all the defense lines without the investment of the strongest offensive firepower. To form an offensive, it is more likely to attack near the penalty area and get stuck.

Yang Feng and Skrtel performed very well today. When the ball possession rate, the number of shots, and the number of threatening attacks are not much different between the two sides, the offensive opportunities created by the two sides are also similar.

However, due to the maturity of Manchester United's defensive system and the better experience of defensive players, Liverpool's real threat opportunities are not as many as Manchester United.

Especially for Liverpool's right-sided defense. Although the teenager Wisdom is very active in the game, being active cannot make up for his lack of strength and defensive experience.

Most of Manchester United's offense is concentrated on Wisdom's side, which is to play hard this time to create a threat.

In the 17th minute of the game, after mutual testing in the opening stage, Manchester United's offensive was still progressively launched from the center to the left.

"Evra also stepped up and participated in the attack this time."

"However, Evra is only playing a containment role on the wing. Manchester United's attack this time should still be based on the center."

Indeed, Shinji Kagawa, Cleverley, Welbeck, Carrick and other good players are assembled in the middle, and the ball is also passed in the middle. For Liverpool's defense, of course, it is also necessary to gather heavy troops in the middle to deal with the opponent. possible offense.

"Shinji Kagawa's breakthrough led the ball. After encountering the Liverpool defender, he knocked the ball lightly and knocked the ball to the feet of Welbeck who came over."

"While Welbeck was leading the ball forward, he made a straight pass and passed the ball to Cleverly who had already inserted near the penalty area line."

"One kick without stopping the ball, facing the high-intensity defense that Liverpool's defensive players may complete the encirclement at any time, Cleverly, the first time is to choose a cross pass to mobilize space."

"Evra on the left receives the ball!"

"Wistom's forward blocking is a bit slow, and Evra has plenty of time to adjust and choose."

"A pass from the ground, bypassing Wisdom, who was defending, and swept the ball directly into the center of Liverpool's penalty area."

"Van Persie followed up and hit the goal!"

"Yang Feng!"

"Getting out of the oblique stab, the sliding tackle fell to the ground with one foot, and touched the football first, changing the course of the ball."

"Skrtel nearby made a clearance and stopped Manchester United's offensive round this time."

Wisdom, as an extremely young right back, can represent Liverpool on the court, and naturally has certain strength and future prospects, but the lack of defensive experience is also inevitable.

Active running is the basis for so many rounds of games that Wisdom can still be imprisoned in the team's starting lineup.

But it was this kind of enthusiasm that almost caused a big mistake in defense this time.

Facing Manchester United's heavy troops in the middle, Wisdom approached the middle very actively, wanting to help his teammates complete possible defenses.

In the process of approaching the middle, Cleverly knew that there was a big space on the left, so he could directly kick the ball out and pursue speed, so that Wisdom could not easily return to the defense position.

After that, Evra's pass was completely worthy of his starting position at Manchester United, with speed and precision. It's just a pity that Evra and Van Persie formed a tacit cooperation, but they didn't complete the final blow.

Yang Feng, who had been observing the situation on the field in the penalty area, naturally glanced at the space on Wisdom's side from the corner of his eyes, but it was too late to remind him.

On the court, many moments are changing rapidly. Yang Feng’s command has not yet been spoken. The connection between Cleverly and Evra, Evra’s attempt to pass the ball to Van Persie in the penalty area, has already been completed like a flash. .

Yang Feng can only rely on his grasp of the passing direction, rush out immediately, and use the defensive action of the sliding shovel to increase the distance forward of his feet, and strive to complete the ball before Van Persie completes the goal. Contact, destroying the opponent's chances of scoring in the penalty area.

Manchester United sat at home and launched their own threatening offensive opportunities well amidst the cheers of the fans.

Although in terms of statistics, Manchester United and Liverpool are almost the same, but when it comes to real threats, Manchester United, who sits at home, puts a great offensive threat on Liverpool, which is still not small.

In the 24th minute of the game, Manchester United took advantage of the end of Liverpool's frontcourt attack and directly counterattacked.

Welbeck and Robin van Persie, the two plunged into Liverpool's hinterland at full speed.

And Cleverly, who was in charge of driving the ball forward in the midfield, played his own passing characteristics in this counterattack.

"At the midfield line, Cleverley sent a precise through pass to Welbeck on the edge of the penalty area when he dribbled the ball and counterattacked."

Compared with Van Persie, who had more space on the right side, Cleverley made a very quick judgment and chose Welbeck, who could pose a greater threat after receiving the ball.

After all, although Van Persie has more space to catch the ball, the shooting angle is still a bit too small in the remote position on the right. Cleverly's choice this time should be right.

"Welbeck, excellent stop, after receiving a pass from Cleverly, he stopped and led, moved laterally, and volleyed directly with his left foot to hit the goal!"

It has to be said that Welbeck's own offensive strength is really good. In this counterattack, Welbeck's defender who entered the core area of ​​​​Liverpool was none other than Yang Feng.

Facing Yang Feng, Welbeck used more running to prepare to use his speed expertise at any time.

A horizontal knuckle movement, just in time to receive a through pass from a teammate, and then take advantage of the situation to lead the ball. After taking a step with his left foot, he volleyed directly with his left foot. It was an extremely smooth offensive round.

but……

"Yang Feng again, another precise remedial defense."

"Facing Welbeck's shot, Yang Feng, who was in charge of man-marking him, reacted quickly. When Welbeck half-turned and made a shooting action, he fell to the ground, increased his body size, and completed the work of blocking the ball."

"This kick successfully made Yang Feng the best player on the field again. On the defensive end, Liverpool's success is inseparable from Yang Feng's hard work in the defense..."