Football’s First Defender

This is Fellaini's first goal at Manchester United, and the result happened in such a crucial "double red meeting".

Rodgers has been emphasizing the defense against Fellaini in the set kick. However, Fellaini is still in the game, with the cover of other Manchester United players, and Fellaini himself starts from the outside. There is no reason to enter the threat zone in the first place.

Liverpool's defenders, in this corner kick, did not make a defensive arrangement against Fellaini.

It was this time that the vacancy exposed on the defense was accurately captured by Fellaini.

Giggs' pass, an arc from the outside to the inside, the landing position is excellent for the forward Fellaini, directly in front of Fellaini's head, Fellaini only needs to maintain the forward speed, After finishing the jump, let the head hammer hit the area of ​​the goal. You don't need to pursue too much control over the angle of the header, and you don't need to exert too much force to complete the goal easily.

Fellaini, who scored the goal, was very excited. After all, as a direct player of Moyes, Fellaini almost always started the game. In the case of Manchester United's poor record, it can easily become an excuse for fans to attack.

But now, a goal in the "Double Red Club" is enough for Fellaini to gain a firm foothold in Manchester United.

Returning to the game is not so anxious for Liverpool, who are playing away.

After all, the game has just started, and there is still plenty of time for Liverpool to launch an offensive formation, and even if this game is lost, for Liverpool, it is only a loss of the British team that they planned to give up. It's just a League Cup game.

In fact, if it weren't for this third-round knockout match, it would be against Manchester United, such a deadly enemy team.

In the plan at the beginning of the season, Liverpool did not plan to use the main lineup until the semi-finals of the League Cup.

Rogers originally planned to use the bench to match some youth team players, so he just finished playing in this year's League Cup.

Even after the FA Cup, at the beginning of the season, when the team had a good momentum, Rogers had already made plans and planned to give up.

Liverpool's primary goal this season is the first Premier League championship trophy in team history. If there is a high probability of hitting the league championship after the New Year, Liverpool can actually even give up the Champions League.

It's just that the FA's draw for the League Cup is too bloody. With so many low-level teams, it happened that the two Premier League teams, the most gimmick, collided with Manchester United and Liverpool.

This also made Rogers have to use his full strength to deal with such a game.

In the double red game, the attitude of the Liverpool players was absolutely correct, but the Liverpool players were not as eager to win the result of the game compared to the Manchester United players.

This also allows Liverpool to stabilize their minds and slowly and patiently organize their own offense when they have plenty of time, even if the team is already behind.

Instead of taking the risk of starting a full-scale attack, Manchester United have an easy chance to counterattack.

For Liverpool, the team's offensive tactics in this game, because of Suarez's comeback, can play more games in a small area of ​​the frontcourt.

Let Sturridge return to his most comfortable position on the left. Sturridge only needs to make two choices of hitting the goal and breaking through the bottom.

With Suarez as the support point of the team's frontcourt, Gerrard and Henderson pass the ball to Suarez first, and Suarez can choose to attack personally, or distribute the ball to the two wings.

It is enriched with full-backs inserting assists, or midfielders Henderson and Gerrard hit the goal with long-range shots, forming a systematic offensive mode.

In the face of Liverpool's steady advancement, Manchester United's defense is currently able to deal with it with ease.

The team's double defensive midfielder Carrick and Fellaini, one conscious and the other physical, can protect the midfield very well.

On the wing, Nani, Ryan Giggs and the players on the front line, although they don't have very good defensive ability, it is not difficult to hold their own three-point area and form effective interference in their own half.

However, for fans who are familiar with the situation of the Manchester United team this season, Manchester United's defense in the second half is the most worrying.

In the last league game, Manchester United drew 1-1 with Manchester City at halftime, but the defense collapsed in the second half, and they lost 4-1 away to their rivals in the same city.

This is because, in the early stage of the game, Manchester United can still build an excellent defensive overall by relying on the running of the players, but when the game enters the second half, as the physical fitness of the players declines, the hardness of the midfield defense will also decline. The combination of Ferdinand and Vidic, who are already aged central defenders, is also not good enough in physical fitness as the game progresses. Manchester United's defense will become very fragile at that time.

Liverpool was not in a hurry, and the team's offense did not appear to be in such a hurry. Suarez tried to attack from the center, handed the ball to Sterling from the right to break through, or simply let Gerrard hit the goal directly with a long shot.

Liverpool players are constantly mobilizing Manchester United's defense. Although they have not formed any too threatening offense, they can mobilize the entire Manchester United defense, allowing Manchester United players to continue to consume physical energy on the defensive end.

And what price did Liverpool pay for this after appropriately strengthening their offense?

It was just a few counterattacks by Manchester United that did not pose much threat.

Moyes really wanted to win this "double red meeting" duel, so after the team took the lead with Fellaini's header, Moyes directly released the ball and chose to let all Manchester United retreat, just to prepare Played a defensive counterattack.

Perhaps what Moyes thought was that Liverpool would launch an offensive counterattack, and he used the big space left by Liverpool's offense as a fuss. However, Liverpool's unhurried offensive style hung Manchester United's defense there.

Manchester United has no worries about defense, but when they get a chance to counterattack, because Liverpool's defense and two of the three midfielders are all shrunk back, Manchester United's counterattack cannot pose too much threat.

Not to mention, there are two defensive masters, Yang Feng and Mignolet, in charge. Manchester United counterattacked a lot, but they really couldn't threaten Liverpool's core area.

Due to Manchester United's initiative to "give way", Liverpool's possession rate in the first half began to gradually improve, and there were some attempts to hit the goal. Although Tongan could also make Liverpool unable to threaten the core area of ​​​​Manchester United, Liverpool's mentality of not being in a hurry, Instead, it made the Manchester United players a little anxious.

You know, on the football field, 1-0 is the most unstable lead.

What the Manchester United players want is to rely on counterattacks to further expand their lead. However, Liverpool's unhurried attack has always made the score 1 to 0, which means that before the end of the game, Liverpool will always have a chance to rewrite the score ...