Football’s First Defender

Arsenal's game against Liverpool was the focus of the tenth round.

Both teams are offensive-oriented teams, and both are full of talent on the offensive end.

For the defensive lines of both sides, this game is destined to play 12 points to face the strong impact of the opponent.

As the core of Liverpool's defense, Yang Feng has conducted a long-term research on Arsenal before this game, and deduced how to defend Arsenal's top pass and control offense in the Premier League.

During the preparations a few days before the start of the game, Yang Feng and the assistant coach in charge of defense conducted a detailed analysis and research on the offensive tactics adopted by Arsenal.

For Arsenal's tactical response to Giroud's single striker, Liverpool finally chose to let Skrtel mark Giroud.

A player like Giroud's nerve knife is not worth letting Yang Feng, the core of Liverpool's defense, be involved in all his energy in order to defend him.

During the game, what Yang Feng needs to be responsible for is to command all the defensive players to achieve the most reasonable cut limit in Liverpool's penalty area to deal with Arsenal's pass and cut cooperation.

And Yang Feng's excellent defensive ability will also be the last defensive guarantee for Liverpool's defense before Mignolet.

For Yang Feng himself, although in his memory, the final competition for the Premier League title this season is Liverpool and Manchester City, but Yang Feng does not know whether his "butterfly" will affect the entire historical process.

Although there is a certain point gap between Manchester City and Liverpool today, who knows if the current Arsenal team will be the team that stops Liverpool after the "plane correction".

After all, in Yang Feng's own impression, shouldn't Arsenal always make efforts in the later stages and strive for the top four?

Let Arsenal become the favorite team in the early stages of the league, this should not be in line with history...

Regardless of whether history has changed or not, for Yang Feng, this year is indeed the most promising year to help Liverpool win the first Premier League championship trophy in team history.

Manchester United does not have the demeanor of the former overlord, and has completely sunk, and its current ranking is about to fall below the top ten in the league.

Although Tottenham have maintained a certain combat effectiveness after Bell left, but no matter how you look at it, they have no foundation to compete for the championship.

At present, the remaining four giants in the Premier League all have hopes of competing for the championship, but Arsenal and Liverpool occupy a more favorable position.

As long as this game can be won, Liverpool will have a bigger lead, and will have more room for mistakes in the future to face possible unexpected factors.

Although he is a guest to challenge Arsenal, which has been in excellent form recently, and needs to face Arsenal's world-class midfield offensive firepower, but Yang Feng has already made up his mind that he must win this game and must help Liverpool. Big head start.

At the beginning of the game, among the cheers of tens of thousands of fans at the scene, Arsenal kicked off and launched an attack.

As the earliest team in the Premier League that focuses on pass control, after the kick-off, Arsenal will naturally not make a long pass to perfunctory, but patiently use the pass ball to find Liverpool's defense.

It's just that Arsenal's offense, facing Liverpool's defense line and playing positional warfare, naturally will not have too many effective offensive opportunities.

Under Yang Feng's organization, Liverpool's defense line and the midfield line are in an excellent distance control, needles can't get in, water can't get in, Arsenal's offensive conduction, facing such a defense line, naturally won't There are too many opportunities to attack.

After Sarnia stepped in, he made a cross from the right, but Yang Feng directly stopped in the landing area, and made a header to clear the siege, which successfully resolved Arsenal's first attack.

And Yang Feng's header clearance at the beginning of the game seemed to show that Liverpool's defense, under the leadership of Yang Feng, would definitely set a net for Arsenal's offensive players.

Although Liverpool really want to play their own team's style, Arsenal, which is at home, will naturally not give up possession of the ball to Liverpool under the cheers of tens of thousands of "Gunner" fans at the scene.

When two pass-and-control teams meet, whoever can take advantage of the ball will naturally take the initiative on the field and play the pass-and-control coordination they want.

In the fierce midfield fight for the ball between the two sides, the final winner was Arsenal at home.

It's not that Liverpool's midfielders are less motivated than Arsenal's players, but that the team as a whole, Liverpool's two starting full-backs in this game, Flanagan and Sissoko, compared to the opposite side. Defenders differ too much in terms of strength and experience.

This also makes the two of them only stick to their own defensive responsibility area, and there is no shortage of helping the team's midfield to complete a systematic offensive and defensive advance and retreat.

Arsenal, which received enough support from the backcourt, naturally occupied more possession of the ball in the end, and could have more offensive opportunities than Liverpool.

In the face of Liverpool's defense, Arsenal began to make certain tactical changes after several conventional offensives failed to achieve offensive results.

For Arsenal's offensive tactical system, since the team's five major midfielders are all midfielders with considerable technical level, in terms of collocation, the personal abilities they are good at, just the arrangement and combination of these players, Able to create a large number of offensive small-scale coordinated groups.

As Rosicky, Ozil, and Cazorla, the three more aggressive Zhonghua positions, began to change positions frequently and interspersed with their own personal offenses, they tore apart Liverpool's defensive formation bit by bit.

First of all, it is Flanagan's side that has defensive problems.

As a youth training player of Liverpool, the young Flanagan, who was ordered to replace Jose Enrique this time, is definitely a chance for himself to become famous.

As a member of the well-known Flanagan family in the UK, the so-called money is not that important to Flanagan.

He simply loves football and simply wants to achieve something in this field.

However, sometimes the love for football cannot be converted into a rapid improvement in strength.

Compared with the Premier League professional arena, Flanagan is still too young.

So young, as a left back, facing the impact of Arsenal's level of offensive players, he can't complete a better defensive task by himself.

Cazorla's personal breakthrough ability, facing the slightly taller Flanagan, has been given full play.

Accelerate, stop suddenly, change direction, accelerate.

Facing Flanagan's defense on the right flank, Cazorla played his best game.

This is Cazorla's talent as an offensive player. Although he does not have the fancy movements of South American players, under Cazorla's feet, the football is like sticking to his feet, and then Cazorla uses himself. The offensive rhythm can create offensive opportunities.

Flanagan, this kind of British full-back, is best at defending, which should be the opponent's direct attack, but like Cazorla's attack method that can't catch people like a loach, let Flanagan It is difficult for Lanagan to display his defensive strength.

"Focus! Hold on tight!"

After Cazorla passed Flanagan's defense again, got a certain space for passing the ball, and completed a pass, Yang Feng once again snatched the landing point and successfully cleared the siege.

Standing behind Flanagan, Yang Feng began to teach the little brother by precept and example.

"Don't be afraid! It's enough to hold your own defensive position. You don't have to think about defending your opponent by yourself. We are a team. We are still standing behind you. Just be yourself."

After receiving Yang Feng's encouragement, although Flanagan was not enlightened, he got a qualitative leap in strength.

But when he can stabilize his mind and devote himself to the game, then for Liverpool's wing defense, it is better to be able to complete some defensive tasks than not to be able to complete.

After Flanagan can gradually devote himself to the game, the weakness of Liverpool's defense is not as great as before.

However, Arsenal's strong offensive has just begun.

The reason why Flanagan's defense on this side can suddenly achieve a better defensive effect is not unrelated to the help of his midfield teammates.

Under such circumstances, although the side of the wing has made defensive progress, the corresponding lack of Liverpool's other defensive forces has shrunk.

And Arsenal's players are all top offensive players with rich game experience and sufficient defensive ability.

After Liverpool's defense was properly tilted to the side, several Arsenal midfielders began to intersperse frequently from the center, looking for the vacancy that Liverpool had in the center.

And when Liverpool's Flanagan side was attracted enough defensive power from Liverpool, Arsenal's offense began to consciously shift the direction of attack.

The first attack target, of course, is still Flanagan, but after seeing the help of Liverpool's defense, the ball holder will immediately transfer the ball, transfer the ball to the middle, or directly transfer the ball in a wide range To the empty area on the left side of the court.

Cazorla holds the ball alone, and Sagna is involved in the attack at the back. The threat formed by the two makes Liverpool have to strengthen this side even though they know that Arsenal will transfer the ball. defense.

This is Yangmou, everything originated from the mismatch between Liverpool's defensive strength and Arsenal's offensive firepower.

Cazorla tried to break through from the bottom, then stopped suddenly, stabilized his figure, and knocked the ball horizontally to the middle.

It was Arsenal's current midfield offensive commander Ozil who ran over to meet him in the middle.

As the absolute main force of Real Madrid during the Mourinho period, Ozil's assist ability has grown into a world-class one during the Real Madrid period.

It’s just limited by the reform of Real Madrid’s overall tactics. There is no need for Ozil to pass the ball, but there is no midfield passer with enough desire to attack. That’s why Arsenal will have the opportunity to buy Ozil at a high price. .

Facts have proved that Ozil's offensive supplement to Arsenal is huge. With Ozil acting as the glue for the midfield pass, Arsenal's offense is smoother than in the past few seasons.

Although Ozil's own defensive ability and lack of willingness to defend are the shackles that restrict him from becoming a better star, but in Wenger's view, Ozil's excellent offensive ability is enough to bring Arsenal's strength to a higher level .

Ozil received the pass from Cazorla. He had seen all directions and listened to all directions before. He didn't stop the ball and sent it to the left of Arsenal's attack.

In the case of sufficient physical fitness, Ozil is definitely one of the best passers in the world.

This pass passed directly across the two defensive players of Liverpool's defense line, and was accurately delivered to the deep space on the right side of Liverpool.

Rosicky had already used a sudden change of direction to get rid of the defender and ran into the space on this side first.

After receiving the ball, taking advantage of the unfinished attack of the Liverpool defensive players, Rosicky directly made preparations on the wing, passed the ball with one kick, and passed the ball back into the penalty area.

For the offensive players of the European first-tier teams, the state they can show is different in the game, when there is a defensive confrontation, and when there is no defensive confrontation.

Arsenal's series of passing ball cooperation created an opportunity for Rosicky to cross without defensive interference.

The so-called pointing where to hit is the current situation.

Before Rosicky passed the ball, he accurately observed the movement of his teammates in the penalty area, and then passed the ball directly to the top of the area where Giroud was standing.

"Rosicky makes a cross!"

"Giro!"

"Shove your head and attack the goal!"

"Yang Feng, arrived from the other side, and he and Giroud completed the challenge for the goal at the same time."

Giroud hit the ball first, but Yang Feng didn't come too slowly. The ball bounced back to the back point after Yang Feng's powerful header and then headed the ball.

"Ozil!"

"Shoot at the back and hit the goal!"

"Slide the door out!"

For Ozil, Ozu is passing the ball, but when he shoots, hehe...

Ozil's shooting skills are really bad. Sometimes there are many excellent opportunities in the penalty area, but when Ozil can pass the ball, he will choose to pass the ball.

There is really no crosshair for the shot. This time, in the absolutely empty area after the point, Ozil finally chose to hit the ground ball that swept to the far corner.

The angle was too small, and he slid out the door directly, stopping this attack abruptly.

Afterwards, Arsenal's offense still focused on two sides, with the side attack as the starting point, and the transfer of the ball from the side as the real killing intent, constantly hitting Liverpool's defense.

Under the impact of Arsenal's continuous offensive, for Liverpool, they can only retreat to their own half to defend. It is really that Arsenal's offensive three-axes are too threatening, and Liverpool's players can only choose Stay out of the limelight for now.

Of course, Liverpool is not really being pressed to the ground. For Suarez, Sturridge, Gerrard, and even Yang Feng, they are all waiting for the opportunity to give Arsenal a fatal counterattack.