Football’s First Defender

During the game, Liverpool began to focus on the layout of the defensive position with all their strength.

But this huge investment on the defensive end does not mean that Liverpool will lose its threat.

Tang Ning appeared in the last 20 minutes of the game, and Rogers also assigned him a very important responsibility.

On the defensive end, it must first limit Bayern's offensive from the wing, and also undertake a very important task of advancing or advancing when Liverpool have the opportunity to counterattack defensively.

Rodgers wanted to use Downing's abundant physical strength to take over the right flank, and Sterling's offensive banner when he was exhausted and obviously lost a certain amount of impact, so as to keep Liverpool always able to play from a wide flank.

And Rodgers knows that although the team has the advantage now, but in the two rounds of the game, they only won one goal at home, and then went to Germany to challenge Bayern at the Allianz Arena. Liverpool must still be at a disadvantage.

Rogers, who dares to bet, has chosen to defend since he is physically weak and forced by the situation, but in the counterattack, he still chooses to invest a large number of players and participate in the counterattack process at the first time, trying to continue to expand the lead .

Liverpool's fast-paced counterattack actually posed a certain threat to Bayern's weaker line of defense after the substitution.

However, purely in terms of the situation of the scene, Bayern is still gradually gaining an advantage and is gradually expanding its advantage.

Sometimes Liverpool's successful defensive counterattacks cannot pose enough threats, and they are chased by Bayern to counterattack, but Bayern may pose a greater offensive threat.

In positional warfare, Bayern may have a decent attack, but it is still too difficult to smash through Liverpool's defense line with a hammer, and it will take more time.

But taking advantage of Liverpool's counterattack, the defense was not in place, and Bayern's chasing counterattack came over, but it could create a greater threat in the mobile game.

The 68th minute of the game.

Liverpool's counterattack directly oppressed Bayern's big penalty area.

Henderson gave a direct pass from the left with a kick from the center, but Muller, who came back to defend, blocked it with a kick and kicked the ball directly to the center.

Javi Martinez headed the ball a little, and the ball was placed on the right side of his side.

Bayern took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack.

In the process of advancing from the wing, Ram did not stop the ball, but directly padded the ball to Mandzukic who was further ahead.

Under the defense of Lucas, Mandzukic directly stopped the ball with his back in the midfield position. Seeing that Gerrard also covered him, he chose to kick back to Ram.

Ram faced the ball with a long-distance through pass, and accurately found Cross, who was moving laterally from the middle to the right.

"Three on three in the frontcourt!"

"Kroos faced Carragher's defense!"

"Dribble forward by myself, stop suddenly, and kick the ball straight to the middle!"

Franck Ribery's fast advance on the left side completely attracted Skrtel away, while Crossga Robben was formed on the right side of the center, facing Liverpool's Yang Feng and Carragher's 2v2 confrontation.

Toni Kroos was very calm and did not go further with the ball to break through, giving Carragher, who had just played, the opportunity to use fouls to stop himself.

Instead, he directly kicked a through ball diagonally, looking for Robben who advanced in the middle.

"Roben catches the ball! Go to the penalty area!"

"Offside!"

"Yang Feng made a pretty good offside trap."

Ben was Yang Feng who was at the end. Seeing that Cross had a pause in the counterattack, he expected Cross to pass the ball.

Robben's forward speed is very fast, but he has been paying attention to maintaining his position with Yang Feng to prevent offside.

Yang Feng also knew that if he couldn't find a physical confrontation with Robben, he must be at a disadvantage if he wanted to fight for speed with Robben in the future.

So finding a way to create an offside, for Yang Feng, is definitely the best way to defend during Bayern's counterattack.

The judgment was accurate, the upper position was fast enough, one before the other, at the moment Cross passed the ball, Robben and Yang Feng rushed forward in completely opposite directions, directly rushing to the offside position.

The linesman did not play abnormally this time, and accurately judged that it was an offside. Yang Feng created an offside trap and completed a fairly successful defense.

Robben was very angry on the court, waving and complaining all the time, venting his dissatisfaction.

On the one hand, Robben was angry at Yang Feng's cunning, and actually created an offside trap to complete the defense at the end.

On the other hand, he was also complaining to Kroos that the ball could be passed earlier. Robben is confident in his speed and thinks that Kroos can pass the ball earlier and give him an advance amount. It is possible to avoid the offside ball made by Yang Feng.

When Liverpool have possession of the ball, they try their best to maintain control of the ball and use passing to consume time.

However, at this time, Bayern, who has an absolute advantage in physical fitness, can strive to quickly complete the conversion of the ball by pressing the frontcourt.

As the game time progressed, not only Gerrard's physical fitness had reached its limit, but many Liverpool players also began to respond to insufficient physical fitness.

The most direct manifestation is that in terms of the standardization of the players' defensive actions and in terms of speed, when the Bayern players have the advantage, the Liverpool players have to start using fouls to prevent Bayern from advancing the attack.

Fifth yellow card, sixth yellow card.

The number of cards received by Liverpool players is constantly increasing. Among them, Lucas is determined to miss the next second round of the game due to the accumulation of yellow cards.

Liverpool's continuous fouling has indeed effectively prevented the smoothness of Bayern's attack. In view of the fact that the three midfielders are all physically weak, Rodgers chose to let Gerrard stay on the field and replace him with Shelvey. , Henderson, who was already cramp.

Strengthen a certain amount of vitality in the midfield to withstand Bayern's attack in the final stage.

In the positional battle, Bayern's main focus is of course the offensive ability of the "Robery" combination on the two wings.

Created certain opportunities on the wing again and again, but Liverpool's three central defenders had a very good interception effect and did not give Bayern too many opportunities to grab some players in the middle.

However, with a ignorant suppression, with the accumulation of the number of attacks, it is still possible to create certain opportunities by luck.

In the 76th minute of the game, when Kroos was organizing the ball in the midfield, he suddenly chose a wide-range cross and directly looked for the far-reaching space on the right. Robben had an absolute advantage in the speed competition with Enrique.

While running, Enrique has been paying attention to blocking Robben's iconic emergency stop and turning inward to hit the goal, but this time Robben directly accelerated to the bottom, made a low-altitude pass from the side, and swept the ball directly to the middle area.

Mandzukic and Muller hit the goal in the penalty area. Mandzukic, who was in the middle, had a physical confrontation with Yang Feng in the process of grabbing the spot, which directly delayed Yang Feng's running speed.

And Muller, who went straight to the front point, took advantage of his own speed and long legs. Under the defense of Carragher, he still took the lead in grabbing the landing point and shot a very beautiful kick in front of the goal!

The ball went straight to the bottom right corner of the goal.

That is to say, Reina played really bravely today. At the critical moment, he fell to the ground and split legs, and completed the interception with his feet! Keep Liverpool's goal clean.

Defense! Hold on to victory! Not only Yang Feng's efforts are needed, but also the united defensive performance of all Liverpool players.