Football’s First Defender

Liverpool needs to find new offensive solutions, but Bayern can continue their offensive as always.

Liverpool is on the defensive end at this time, and there is a sense of helplessness that they want to kill the thief and are unable to recover.

Knowing Bayern's offensive direction, but for Liverpool players, there is really no good solution to completely defend. They can only try their best to complete the block under this situation.

It may not be realistic to rely on existing players to improve the strength of the defensive lineup and limit Bayern's offense.

At this time, for Bayern's offensive restrictions, we can only rely on the players' personal performance.

"Lahm's long pass, Muller was on the right side, did not unload the ball, but chose to head the ball forward and accelerate directly forward."

Jose Enrique's defense on this side focused on Muller's steal after unloading the ball. Although he was close to Muller before, the preparations he made were all Muller's steal after unloading the ball. Work.

Muller suddenly headed forward, and his decision to chase the ball caught Enrique by surprise.

Enrique kept following, but when Muller started to speed up first, and with long legs, Enrique couldn't catch up with Muller to make further moves, so he could only keep following.

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Feng's supplementary defense was very fast. The first time before Muller's header, Yang Feng had already made a predictive defense, directly interfering with Muller from the side, and with En Rick forms a front and rear flank.

Even if Muller discovered Yang Feng's defensive intentions, he wanted to pass the ball to his teammates in the middle.

But as soon as Yang Feng rushed over, he had already adopted the method of sliding shovel and went straight to the football at Muller's feet.

In the state of dribbling, Muller was unable to make further adjustments in a short period of time, and was directly blocked by Yang Feng with the ball.

Even though Müller signaled to the referee that this was a foul, the referee thought that Yang Feng's action was reasonable, so he just gave a sideline ball and let Bayern serve again.

Bayern, who reorganized the offense, the offensive players, after continuously attacking Liverpool, also need a certain amount of rest and recovery time. Bayern began to conduct the ball in the midfield and the backcourt. While controlling the ball, they need to breathe. adjustment.

Under Liverpool's proper frontcourt pressing, the ball was transferred to the feet of goalkeeper Neuer. With a long pass, Neuer began to play the role of organizer. This time it was a direct long pass to find Manchester United in the frontcourt. Zhukic.

I have to say that to be able to get Guardiola's favorite goalkeeper in the future, there are definitely two brushes in his feet.

Not only can he act as the team's penalty shooter, but also in penalty shootouts in the first few picks, Neuer's pass skills are also not bad.

A precise pass to Mandzukic's running direction, but the ball's landing point is extremely tricky. It first landed in the uninhabited area of ​​Liverpool's half, and then a rebound ball flew directly to Liverpool's penalty area.

The height of the rebound was very high, and everyone could only run to the second landing area of ​​the ball. Mandzukic ran to the second landing point with all his strength.

The constant small-scale changes of direction made Skrtel's defense extremely uncomfortable, and he was unable to withstand Mandzukic's advance.

But it was Yang Feng's quick defense. When the other Bayern players were not directly threatened, Yang Feng came to assist Skrtel, directly closing the door and completely locking Mandzukic's forward route.

Afterwards, with Yang Feng resisting Mandzukic, Skrtel completed a pressure-free upside-down clearance and directly kicked the ball back to Bayern's half.

The physical factor has become the biggest obstacle that restricts the two sides from continuing to play their previous high-level competitive state.

As the first half of the game is coming to an end, the players seem to have almost used up the last bit of their half-time physical fitness.

For Bayern, Schweinsteiger made a long pass in the backcourt and wanted to transfer the ball to the right, but the direct deviation was too large, and it flew directly out of the sideline. You can see how the physical fitness has declined.

As for Liverpool, at the end of the half, taking advantage of the Bayern players' inability to press in the frontcourt, they finally had a comfortable environment for passing and controlling.

However, for Yang Feng and Lahm, the defensive backbones of the two teams, it is even more important to highlight their presence at this time and keep their teammates' defensive attention.

This kind of stamina gap does interfere with the cooperation of offensive players, but it will also affect the enthusiasm of defensive players in running positions. It is very likely that a certain offensive player will use it personally to complete a single-point blast.

Caution is the boat.

On the field, it is true that Bayern did not organize an effective attack within a few minutes. However, during this period, some people were accumulating strength, preparing to try to deal a fatal blow to Liverpool at the end of the half.

On the Liverpool side, after a normal offensive attempt failed, Bayern, who regained control of the ball, launched a quick counterattack under the leadership of Toni Kroos.

Toni Kroos was alone, striding forward with the ball. Liverpool's defensive players along the way wanted to block it, but Toni Kroos changed to dribbling the ball diagonally, and did not give the defensive players a chance to get close.

At the moment when he was about to be chased, Kroos completed the ball, directly near the center circle, and transferred the ball to the right to the feet of Thomas Muller who quickly inserted.

Muller dribbled the ball and advanced diagonally to the middle, and encountered Gerrard's defense, while Jose Enrique was still guarding the wide position, and the man-mark also advanced forward. This time, Lahm participated in the counterattack. .

Thomas Muller, in the process of rushing forward to Gerrard, chose to make a pass, which attracted Gerrard to stretch his legs to block, but it was a spike, trying to break through from the middle.

It just so happened that Henderson, who was quickly returning to the defense, blocked a certain dribbling line. Henderson and the recovered Gerrard directly formed a double-team of Muller.

It's just that this time Muller's feet were blooming, and under the two people's outstretched feet to steal, he danced "ballet" on the spot, and miraculously selected the ball from the double-teaming of the two.

Although Muller stumbled and rushed out of balance under the pressure of the two, it is also true that he got rid of the two.

Seeing that Muller was about to attack the penalty area, Enrique, who was not far from the wing, could only defend against him.

Muller also knew that he could not pass another person in a staggered state, so he decisively passed the ball with his left foot to Ram on the right while leaning forward.

Enrique only took two steps up to make up the defense. Seeing the ball pass to Lahm, he immediately turned around and jumped back to the original defensive position.

It's just that Lahm is experienced, and he didn't pass the ball immediately. Instead, when Enrique returned with all his strength, he smashed the ball, easily shook Enrique away, and went straight to Liverpool's penalty area.

Lucas made up for it, but it was obviously too late, and Lahm passed the ball back directly to the penalty spot.

A position very similar to Kroos' first goal.

Bayern's half-high balls from the wing today all landed in the penalty area, slightly outside.

Franck Ribery moved laterally into the penalty area from the left, and was ready to respond near the penalty spot.

Make a volley and hit the goal!

Once again Liverpool's defense was left open.

Yang Feng has been reminding this area before, although Henderson, Lucas, and Gerrard, as midfielders, have forgotten the defense of this area in the previous defensive positions, but Yang Feng himself has not forgotten .

Ribery's volley, the ball was kicked, and the shot was also hit, but it directly hit Yang Feng who flew out.

Yang Feng! This time, by moving quickly, he finally completed the defense of this empty area.

Although it was painful to block Ribery's shot, it also successfully resolved Bayern's dangerous attack this time.

Pain in my body, happy in my heart.

At the last moment of the first half, Yang Feng found his excellent defensive state, successfully contributed to Liverpool's effective defense, and completely wiped out Bayern's offensive in the final stage of the half.

The score was 2 to 2 at halftime, and the two sides were still at the same starting line.