Football’s First Defender

Although the major giants in the Premier League have made reinforcements in the summer transfer window, this season is definitely the year that Liverpool has the best chance.

Not only is Yang Feng familiar with the development of history, but also the absolute strength of Liverpool this year is really strong.

Perhaps many of Liverpool's young players, such as Coutinho and Sterling, have not yet grown to their peak stage, but correspondingly, Gerrard has not yet retired, and Suarez is still in the team. Frequent in today's football, Liverpool's current overall team strength is definitely already very impressive.

Yang Feng now hopes that he can take on the responsibility of the team's defense very well, not to mention how many rounds he can let Liverpool win the championship in advance, but as long as he can get a few more points than in history, don't let the Jie team appear again. Falling" is the best contribution to Liverpool.

In the second round of the league, Liverpool was a guest challenge and just defeated Arsenal's Aston Villa away in the first round of the league.

Although Aston Villa does not have any big-name stars this season, the team pursues a strategy of holding high and playing high, using the abundant physical fitness of British players to play the roughest football, but it also adopts the rhythm of the ball-handling style of the technical genre, To completely disrupt.

In the first round, Arsenal was given to Villa, who ran to death. In the second round, they faced Liverpool. Using the players to run tirelessly, they also suppressed Liverpool on the scene.

Liverpool's midfield and backcourt are all under tremendous pressure, and they have to bear the very rough grabbing moves of the Villa players. With the blessing of the home whistle, the Liverpool players can only bear these slightly foul tendencies. Defensive action.

In this game, the ball possession rate of the two teams was 50-50. This is already a failure in a certain sense for Liverpool, which promotes pass control and holds the ball.

Then in terms of the number of shots, Villa turned out to be 17 to 8 in the game, more than double that of Liverpool.

But although Liverpool's statistics are not good, Yang Feng used his excellent personal defense to successfully limit Villa's most threatening offensive point. Benteke's performance did not allow Benteke to get too many headers in this game. chance to score.

In the first half when Sturridge opened the scoring with a long-range shot for the team, Liverpool, who were terribly suppressed by Aston Villa at home, relied on the excellent performance of the defense led by Yang Feng, and defended. Victory in this game.

Sturridge, who scored two goals in two games, became the most reliable scoring point for Liverpool during Suarez's absence, while Yang Feng was the best anchor for Liverpool's defense.

Yang Feng, who is famous for defending the opponent's counterattack, has become a fairly comprehensive central defender after many seasons of training. Now he can also be regarded as one of the best defensive players in defensive battles. This is very important for Liverpool. As far as it is concerned, it is a huge defensive guarantee.

The two 1-0 victories, perhaps in the eyes of the fans, are a bit scary, without Liverpool's vigorous offense in the past two seasons, it is pleasing to the eye.

But in the eyes of professional football people, these two 1-0 games can be regarded as the progress of the Liverpool team.

In a competitive league, teams that are hungry for championships should have more 1-0 scores.

No matter how many goals you can win, the points for the final victory must be only 3 points in the league, and a victory like 1-0 may seem dangerous, but it is definitely the "lowest consumption" way to win.

And such a victory, on the one hand, can show the stability of the team on the defensive end, which means that the team will not make too many mistakes on the defensive end throughout the long season.

On the other hand, it can also be Zheng Ming, the team has an excellent ability to break the deadlock.

For many strong teams known for their offense, during the season, they can achieve a big victory with more than 3 goals, but they may still miss the championship in the end.

It is because in some games, when they fail to score first, or forget to defend when they are excited, they will not be able to win the game and lose points.

A game that cannot be won in this way is a direct loss of points. No matter how many goals are won in a single game in the future, it will not be able to make up for the loss of points.

This has been the case for Liverpool in the past few seasons. Occasionally, the offense could not be opened in a few games, resulting in the inability to win the final victory, so they lost a lot of points and dug a big hole for themselves in the league standings.

Liverpool, who have won two consecutive victories, took turns to rest the main players in the second round of the League Cup in the middle of the week. In the case of taking the initiative to "give up", the substitutes and youth team players still drew 2-2 with the League One team Notts County. With a penalty shootout victory, advance to the next round.

For Rodgers this season, the primary goal is to win the league's first Premier League title in team history, and the second goal is the Champions League and domestic cups.

In the third round of the league, Liverpool ushered in the most important game in the opening stage, playing at home against Manchester United without Ferguson.

This is the first "double red meeting" of this season!

During Suarez's suspension period, he encountered his arch-enemy Manchester United, which was the biggest criticism of Liverpool fans for the FA schedule.

However, the Red Devils fans also have deep resentment towards the FA.

Manchester United lost the "asylum" of Ferguson, and they will face the three giants in the first five rounds of the season, which can be called a devil's schedule.

In the second round of the league before, when they faced Mourinho's Chelsea at home, the Red Devils fans felt the defensive despair brought by Mourinho.

Manchester United fought hard for 90 minutes, but was defended by Mourinho with a 0-0 score, and they retreated from Old Trafford and took 1 point away.

In the third round, they will go away to face Liverpool. In the fifth round, they will have a derby against the mighty Manchester City. Such a devilish schedule will definitely put a lot of pressure on the Manchester United players.

The third round of the double red meeting is of course the focus of this round of the Premier League.

For Liverpool, the starting lineup of the previous two rounds continued without any changes.

Sterling now plays more as a substitute, while Henderson's hard training in the summer has paid off, with abundant physical fitness, excellent defense, and excellent crossing ability on the offensive end, Earned himself a starting spot.

As for Manchester United, although Moyes was a sworn enemy with Liverpool when he coached Everton before, he is very familiar with Liverpool.

But at this time, he had just entered Manchester United, and Moyes himself was still in the game. He chose to seek stability and sent more veterans, hoping to stabilize the situation at the beginning of the game.

Veteran Ryan Giggs started this game, and Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, such Manchester United meritorious players, all started.

The 4231 formation, the double defensive midfielder, and the configuration of a single striker all show that Moyes is cautious about this game.

Having just coached Manchester United, Moyes needs an unbeaten record in the "Double Red Club" game to gain the recognition of the fans and have more control over the team.