Football’s First Defender

De Gea's magic attack has become the key point for Manchester United's continuous defensive success.

As the last link of Manchester United's defense, since De Gea was confirmed as the starting goalkeeper at Manchester United, every few games, he will dedicate a miracle of saving, all kinds of difficult balls, to ensure his own A clean sheet.

Let the opponent's striker's countless offensive threats finally come to naught.

In the first half of today's game, Liverpool's offensive was not enough to threaten De Gea to show his best field of attack, but Liverpool's continuous attack in the second half successfully allowed De Gea's continuous saves to reproduce Old Trafford Germany.

It is the same as the jokes of Liverpool fans at the beginning, Liverpool has the double insurance of Yang Feng and Mignolet after taking the lead to ensure that the team can win the game by defense.

The same is true for Manchester United fans this season. The lack of strength in the defense can only make the fans pin their defensive expectations on De Gea, who will always dedicate himself to the attack.

Liverpool's corner kick went to the front point, which was Yang Feng's sweet spot, but Ferdinand's follow-up defense was excellent this time, and Yang Feng took off at the same time to compete for the top. The two had a confrontation in the air. In the end, Ferdinand took the lead and took the lead. The header clears the ball out of the penalty area.

However, Henderson stood in the arc of the penalty area and took the lead in controlling the second point.

Pass the ball diagonally and return the ball to Gerrard who has sent a corner kick from the right.

Gerrard faced the ball directly from the right, kicked and passed the ball non-stop, but the footwork he chose was similar to a kick pass.

The ball was in the air, drew a very short parabola, flew to the front point of the small penalty area, and had a fast falling process.

After Ferdinand and Yang Feng competed for the top, Manchester United's defense moved forward as a whole, creating an offside trap. Players on both sides of the offense and defense have withdrawn from the dangerous area in the small penalty area.

However, Henderson and Gerrard's two consecutive quick kicks left Manchester United's defensive players still in a state of hesitation.

But Liverpool's offensive players were the first to react.

Suarez seized this opportunity wisely. Before Gerrard passed the ball, Suarez had already stepped on Manchester United's offside line to look for opportunities.

Suarez is eager to score. For possible scoring opportunities, Suarez will not care about the extra steps.

This ball Suarez is from the position after the original corner kick. After retreating slightly to avoid offside position, he has been moving laterally, looking for possible gaps in Manchester United's defense.

After Gerrard finished the ball, Suarez accelerated immediately, avoiding the blocking of the defensive players, and rushed to the landing area.

Suarez moved forward suddenly after the lateral movement, and Suarez used himself to move continuously to create an offensive opportunity to get rid of the defensive player.

In this defense, Vidic had a defensive loophole. In the temporary formation of Manchester United's defense after the set ball, he patronized to defend his own defensive area, but missed Suarez, who was the most threatening Liverpool.

Facing Gerrard's parabolically falling ball, Suarez himself directly lowered his body and headed the goal while rushing forward.

Ferdinand on the other side wanted to block it, but it was too late.

Such a close-range header, without the effective interference of defensive players, Suarez played absolutely high-quality.

In the face-to-face contest with De Gea, Suarez did not pursue the angle too much, but directly exerted force on the waist and neck to increase the power of the header.

Simply speaking, Suarez's header angle is actually very positive, just flying past De Gea's position.

But the reaction time left for De Gea is too short. When the distance between the two sides was less than two meters, when Suarez headed out, De Gea just reacted, and the arm had not yet waved. Has flown into the net from De Gea's head.

1 to 1!

After Suarez lifted the ban and came back, the third goal in two games!

The media who were still questioning Suarez's game status before the game were all slapped in the face. The Champions League scored twice, and then in the "Double Red Club", he scored a key equalizer goal. Suarez not only his own The personal status is excellent, and it is also a perfect seamless connection with the Liverpool team.

Moyes' plan for a defensive counterattack fell through. The team's defense line, under the constant impact of Liverpool, declared a loss in the 57th minute, and the two sides returned to the same starting line.

Of course, Moyes on the sidelines is not willing to fail, and immediately made the first substitution adjustment of the game.

Ashley Young replaced Nani, and Moyes must continue to maintain the team's offensive suppression on the wing to form an effective threat and attack.

With the score equalized, under the pressure of the record, Moyes could only choose to attack again, trying to regain the offensive initiative.

It's just that Liverpool at this time has already played an offensive state and has become an invincible iron-blooded "Red Army".

Faced with Manchester United's offensive that wanted to reorganize, Liverpool faced the enemy head-on at Old Trafford without fear, and became "tough" with Manchester United.

Both sides invested more offensive power on the offensive end for a while, playing back and forth, and the game suddenly became better.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although Manchester United has not performed so well under the coaching of Moyes this season, the personal strength of the players lies there. In the quick and chaotic battle, Manchester United players can occasionally create good offensive opportunities among each other.

Both sides are deliberately strengthening the team's offensive speed and denying the opponent's defense a chance to organize.

Under this fast-paced offensive and defensive transition, the offensive opportunities suddenly increased.

After Fellaini intercepted Jose Enrique's long ball to Suarez, Fellaini himself made a short pass to Carrick nearby.

Carrick directly sent a long-distance through ball, looking for the position behind Enrique, who was near the midfield at this time.

Giggs, who was old and strong, went forward quickly on the right wing, chasing the through ball behind Carrick.

In an instant, at Old Trafford, many old fans watching the game seemed to see that fledgling kid, that chasing boy on the wing 20 years ago.

Even though he is no longer young, Giggs's investment in the game is still consistent. Although he has not had the acceleration of the past, he can directly accelerate to overtake, completely get rid of the defenders, and enter the penalty area, but Giggs is on the side. After running 20 meters with the ball, it is still possible to create an effective passing space.

Enrique guarded the defensive position where Giggs wanted to break through inside, but he had no energy left to grab and block Giggs' pass.

A powerful cross pass in the process of accelerating with one kick, a low and flat ball, passed to the goal.

In the middle are Van Persie and Rooney, the two ace strikers of Manchester United.

Giggs' pass is not inaccurate. Van Persie and Rooney's cross running position did win the opportunity to hit the goal. However, just when Van Persie had already run to the position, he finally stopped and wanted to complete the goal. When pushing forward.

Yang Feng, who defended Van Persie, gave up marking Van Persie this time, and directly shifted all his attention to passing the ball.

Van Persie made a push to hit the goal, but the kick missed.

In the process of following Van Persie, Yang Feng had already remained on the right side of Van Persie. At the moment when Van Persie chose to stop to hit the goal, Yang Feng did not catch up to Van Persie, but fell directly to the ground and shoveled out. The direction is the right part of Van Persie.

Just in time to intercept the pass, Yang Feng was the first to meet Ryan Giggs' excellent pass, which made Van Persie's kick empty.

Although Giggs' passing was sufficient for this ball, and it was not easy for Yang Feng to touch the ball in the flash, it was unrealistic to control his barely stretched out foot.

So the ball almost touched the goal post and slipped out of the baseline. Yang Feng almost gave his opponent an own goal.

But at this critical moment, Yang Feng dared to stand up and take responsibility, and he couldn't give Van Persie a chance to shoot such a close-range shot in front of the goal.