Football’s First Defender

When Liverpool quickly scored an equalizer goal, everyone thought that it should not be too difficult for the imposing Liverpool to overtake the score.

However, the development process after the game is that after the score of 2 to 2, the two teams fell into an anxious situation.

Newcastle's players, at the time of 2-0, were a little too relaxed. After being chased by Liverpool, they were nervous again.

But after being pulled back to a 2-2 draw, many players regained the feeling of being unafraid of everything at the beginning of the first half of the game.

After no longer paying attention to the outcome of such a game, Newcastle's players once again showed excellent overall defensive strength.

For Liverpool's players on the field, after the team scored two goals in a row, it should have been the moment for Liverpool to take advantage of the victory to pursue the lead and win the game.

However, for some players who have just experienced two FIFA games and continuous tiring flight journeys, it is still difficult for them to maintain a good competitive state throughout the game.

In the case of recovering two goals in a row, it is true that the Liverpool players are full of momentum, but as the game time lengthens, the continuous running on the offensive end also makes the players' physical state not at the best stage.

The huge consumption of physical energy, in turn, affects the players' winning psychology.

Before the team fell behind, for the Liverpool players, it was a kind of "provocation" by the opponent to the strong, and the Liverpool players had to prove themselves.

And now, although it is only a 2-2 draw, Liverpool has not yet won, but compared to the previous two goals behind, now they have pulled back the score. For some players, they can already give themselves a reason for consolation.

After all, in the long league, there is no team that can guarantee victory in every game. Accidental misses are always inevitable. What's more, under the infestation of the FIFA virus, the team's record fluctuates. normal phenomenon.

So, for some Liverpool players, why make themselves so uncomfortable when they grit their teeth and may not really win the game?

In their subconscious mind, this 2-2 draw was already acceptable, which in turn affected their determination to fight hard.

After the 2-2 draw, the situation on the field became Newcastle, whose form had recovered, against Liverpool, whose desire to score had declined.

The two sides began to play back and forth in the game.

Although Liverpool is still the one that takes the initiative to attack and has the initiative, the offensive threat on the field has begun to decrease significantly.

Of course, it's not that Liverpool players are unmotivated and don't want to win.

As a professional player, the pursuit of victory is the basic quality of a player, but this league cannot mobilize the potential of all players.

For example, if this is a Champions League final, or a key battle to win the Premier League title as long as they win, then the potential that Liverpool players have mobilized now will definitely make their performance better than at this time.

But this is just an ordinary league game. Everyone wants to win, but the reason why potential is potential is because it cannot be called out at will.

Rogers actually made very quick adjustments in substitutions.

Although Sterling, Suarez and Glenn Johnson are all the main players of the team, when they were unable to maintain a high level of competition due to physical problems, Rogers decisively made substitutions and adjustments.

Although this kind of substitution adjustment, in the eyes of some fans, Rogers made a foolish move, replacing Suarez, the absolute core of the striker, and Sterling, who performed very well in this field, it was Rogers' "not aggressive" to keep the tie. "Performance, but on the contrary, professional football is an extremely cruel and extremely high-level event.

When Sterling was unable to break through sharply on the wing, when Suarez was unable to pass the ball, and was unable to run out of the offensive position, all the names were false, and all the good performances before were false. .

What Rogers needs is the third goal, a goal that can allow the team to overtake the score, instead of recalling these players here, the beautiful moments of making goals before.

Moses, Aspas, and Sissoko came off the bench. Rodgers wants to mobilize the enthusiasm of these players on the bench so that they can do their best in the limited playing time of about 20 minutes The performance of strength broke the deadlock for the team.

In terms of personal ability, these three rotation players, that is, Moses, may barely be able to compete with Sterling.

However, if compared with their opponent players, even Liverpool's rotation players, compared to Newcastle's main players, must be mostly on the same level.

With the two sides fighting for 70 minutes, at this time, for these replacement Liverpool's new players, they must still have a better room to play when they have a certain physical advantage.

However, this decline in the upper limit of offensive talent must have a great impact on Liverpool's offense.

Although the enthusiasm of the players on the field is good, it is just that they do not have such good offensive impact and explosive power. It is not so easy to break Newcastle's iron barrel formation under the blessing of the home momentum.

Liverpool's continuous wing attacks, especially on Moses' side, although Moses' personal ability can be used to create opportunities for crosses from the wing, they just fell into Sterling's old path in the early days.

Liverpool's central support point, facing Newcastle's tight defense line, and not weak grabbing players, there is no good way to directly convert the pass into a dangerous scoring opportunity.

However, Moses' own breakthrough on the wing is very easy to fall into personal struggles, and he cannot clearly distinguish the timing of passing the ball. This is the biggest problem that restricts him from getting closer.

Liverpool's offensive data has grown well, but this data growth has not been translated into dangerous shots.

In the cross, the header failed.

After breaking through, Moses was surrounded by three people and lost the ball.

Gerrard's long shot from outside the penalty area was also resolved by the Newcastle goalkeeper...

75 minutes!

80 minutes!

85 minutes!

The game time is passing by little by little, but the score on the field is still 2 to 2 unchanged.

Rogers wants to win a game and establish the team's leading advantage in the standings. Although many people, looking at the little time left, feel that 1 point is acceptable, there are still some people who have the same idea as Rogers of.

1 point is not as enjoyable as 3 points.

victory! There is still time in the game, enough to fight for a victory.

Yang Feng walked into the opponent's penalty area with the determination to win. Before Liverpool continued to attack from the side, Moses finally made a one-and-a-half high pass, which hit the defender and created a corner kick at the last moment. .

In this game, Liverpool has a clear offensive advantage, and there are actually many opportunities for set-pieces. However, Liverpool's set-piece tactics today have received considerable defensive attention from Newcastle players.

In fact, it is difficult for many wealthy teams to gain an advantage in set kicks when facing traditional "British and rough" teams like Newcastle.

Unlike the rich teams who are more inclined to the flexibility of the defense, the reason why this kind of "rough" team can repeatedly create some lore goals at the last moment is because their central defenders and even midfielders , all have good height and confrontation as a basis. In the last-minute storm, a number of "high forward" players can be added in disguise, and they can beat the master to death with brute force at the end.

On the defensive end, this kind of staffing and defense on set kicks also has a considerable advantage.

In this game, for most of the time, Liverpool did not have a good tactical effect on set kicks.

But this time before taking the corner kick, Yang Feng signaled to Gerrard in the corner flag area.

"Pass me!"

At the last moment of the game, Yang Feng wanted to take the initiative by himself.

In fact, Liverpool's corner kick tactics are quite complicated, because there are actually many players in the Liverpool team who can grab points. The combination of central defenders like Yang Feng and Skrtel is the highest point in the Liverpool team.

And like Suarez and Sturridge also have a good ability to grab points.

Of Liverpool's set-pieces before, only two were actually directed at Yang Feng.

Once, under the interference of the opponent's central defender, Yang Feng couldn't fully take off and miss.

The other time it was simply that Gerrard, who took the corner kick, had some problems with the ball, and the ball did not find the area where Yang Feng was.

But this time, facing Naismith, who was defending him, Yang Feng still wanted to meet this opponent for a while.

The traditional British central defender is tall and strong, and he is very strong in confrontation. But for Yang Feng, who is also not weak today, the defensive pressure given by Naismith is not so unacceptable.

Gerrard saw Yang Feng's signal, and the gesture he made meant to pass directly to the area in front of the goal.

Indeed, at this stage of the game, it is already a little unrealistic to want to run out of the forward or backward tactics and complete the header in the penalty area with an extremely large number of people.

Pass directly to the goal in the middle, and compete for the ability of the players on both sides to compete, but it is an option with more chances.

Gerrard's kick-off this time showed his strength as a veteran.

Although physical fitness may not be very abundant, Gerrard's passing control of the ball is still in excellent condition.

The ball quickly flew into the small penalty area in the middle. The goalkeeper of Newcastle, facing the fast ball and the outward pass, did not choose to attack.

And Yang Feng, after seeing the trajectory of the ball, has already accurately judged the landing point of the ball.

"good chance!"

The landing point was near the area where Yang Feng was located. Yang Feng only needed to move appropriately and adjust his body position.

The physical confrontation imposed by Naismith restricted Yang Feng's movement to a certain extent, but Yang Feng had been "pretending to be cowardly" before, and was "bullyed" by Naismith, and retreated step by step. At this moment, Yang Feng suddenly burst out with all his strength.

After years of hard training, what he has trained is definitely a figure that belongs to the peak level of yellow race strength. After the huge energy he possesses is suddenly released, Naismith is caught off guard.

Yang Feng directly took advantage of his position.

Before Naismith could figure out why Yang Feng had such great strength, when he realized that the ball was coming towards his own area, Naismith re-launched his defense against Yang Feng, but he was already in a backward position.

Yang Feng took the best position first, and then the two took off almost at the same time.

Yang Feng, who is more prepared, has an advantageous position, a better take-off height, and more accurate calculation of the trajectory of the ball's landing point, so he is naturally in an absolute advantage.

After Naismith barely took off the ball, the interference caused was extremely limited.

Yang Feng stretched his body in the air and fully exerted his strength.

The head is tilted back, the neck is straightened to complete the force, and the strength of the waist and abdomen is matched with the explosion. When the ball falls to the right position, the head is directly forward and the header is hit!

The angle is not perfect, but the strength of this header is enough, and the ball flies to the goal quickly.

The Newcastle goalkeeper's reaction is not unreasonable, but the speed of his body movement is still too slow compared to the speed of the ball under such a close-range header.

"GOAL!!!"

"Yang Feng!"

"The lore goal!"

"When Liverpool's striker was unable to score a go-ahead goal for a long time, when Liverpool seemed to be getting a draw in the away game, Liverpool centre-back Yang Feng stood up!"

"The absolute core player of Liverpool in the past few seasons has been completely overshadowed by Liverpool's offensive combination this season. In this game, he scored such a crucial goal at the last moment, which proves that Yang Feng is still Yang Feng. He is still Liverpool's most critical core player on both offensive and defensive ends..."

3 to 2!

Yang Feng's corner kick at the last moment of the game completely broke the defense of the Newcastle players.

Newcastle, who defended most of the time, was defeated by Liverpool at the last moment. This feeling is absolutely bitter.

Although several players, including Ben Arfa, have not completely lost their fighting spirit and wanted to create miracles at the last moment of the game, Liverpool's defense, led by goal hero Yang Feng, did not give them a chance.

The score was kept until the end, and Liverpool won the game with difficulty in the away game.

And Yang Feng's lore at the last moment also became the team's goal to seal the victory.

A mature team, a team with the goal of competing for the championship, their striker strength is the continuous guarantee to push the team forward.

But in the long season, it is impossible to win every game, and it is completely dependent on the performance of the forward players to win.

The occasional flashes of some "role players" on the offensive end are the secret to the team's long-term victory.

Relying on Yang Feng today, it may be Skrtel tomorrow, and it may be Gerrard or Henderson the day after tomorrow.

The offensive firepower of double s or even triple s is indeed strong, but they cannot be demanded to solve the battle for the team every game. Others share the offensive firepower for them, especially if someone can stand up for them at critical moments. For this team, it is possible to get all the victories that can be won.