Football’s First Defender

This is the second confrontation between Dortmund and Liverpool this season, but compared to the first game, Dortmund's team strength today is still subject to certain restrictions.

That's because Dortmund's absolute core offensive player, "Little Rocket" Royce, was injured again.

Royce, who is fearless against any line of defense on the court, is always unable to overcome sudden injuries.

Royce, who became famous early and has even rapidly grown into the ranks of first-line stars, coupled with his handsome appearance, could have become the top traffic player in European football, but because of frequent and repeated injuries, Royce almost There is no way to guarantee sufficient appearance efficiency during the season, which limits the performance of personal data.

In this game, Royce was determined to be unable to play due to injury before the game. It is definitely not good news for the fans who are looking forward to this game, but it is definitely good news for Liverpool's defense.

Although Yang Feng, who longed for a master duel, was a little disappointed that he could not face the impact of Royce again, but the interests of the team were above all else, and Yang Feng was also very happy that the team could gain such a big advantage before the game.

For Dortmund, which mainly plays the youth storm, even though the team's main lineup when they won the Bundesliga championship was a bit miserable, the team has been replenished with new blood, making the team's combat power still good.

However, the team's offensive style has kept the big outline unchanged, still focusing on fast-paced offense, maintaining a strong breakthrough ability on the wing, and a very good pass success rate.

The most important thing is that in today's Dortmund team, there is still a very good forward player, who is the absolute fulcrum of the frontcourt attack.

Not only can he play for his teammates, but also fully demonstrate his finishing ability, and can also attack the team for the team, that is the Polish striker Lewandowski.

This player who became famous in Dortmund has rapidly grown into the hottest striker in European football in the past few seasons.

Excellent heading ability, shooting skills at the feet, and a tall but not bulky body make Lewandowski an ideal center for a variety of offensive concepts in the new era.

But with such an outstanding center forward, Dortmund did not renew his contract in the early days of his fame, but let Lewand's contract expire this season, and have not carried out many "restrictive means" such as suspension within the team to force him. Lewandowski surrendered.

It can be said that Dortmund's management can be called "brain-dead" in dealing with Lewandowski. Now that Lewandowski has not renewed his contract for a long time, he can still get a stable playing time and play normally.

As long as this situation lasts until the New Year, Lewandowski can legally contact other teams in the last half of the contract period, and leave on a free transfer next season.

But behind such a "brain-dead" operation, is it true that Dortmund lost the tens of millions of transfer fees in vain?

Anyway, in these two seasons, especially this summer, the purchases of many other European giants did not impress Dortmund, nor Lewandowski. Dortmund was determined to use Lewandowski for the last season, and Lewandowski seemed to After finding a new home, I waited for the contract to expire and leave.

In Yang Feng's memory, Lewandowski will join Bayern freely next summer. Pushing forward from the final result, it may be at this time that Lewandowski has freely joined Bayern, and a consensus has been reached among the three parties.

This kind of operation without money may make up for it from other aspects. After all, both the German League and UEFA require the financial health of the team at this time. As the leader of the Bundesliga, Bayern needs good players to improve the team's strength, but it also costs too much, which affects the Financial Fair Play Act.

So regarding Lewandowski's free transfer, it is a matter of the beholder's opinion.

At least at this time, Lewandowski, who has not made progress in contract renewal, has not been affected at all, and can become Dortmund's starting striker to provide better firepower support for the team's offensive end.

As for Lewandowski's defense, it is naturally handed over to Yang Feng, the most stable defensive line in the Liverpool team.

The direct confrontation between Yang Feng and Lewandowski is also an absolute highlight of this game between offense and defense.

Facing Lewandowski, a player who combines speed, technology, dexterity, strength, jumping and all the qualities required by a forward, and can be called a template for a modern striker, after the game against Arsenal, Yang Feng watched it again and again. Lewandowski's recent offensive clips.

In the last match at Anfield, at Liverpool's home court, Lewandowski's performance could not be said to be too good. Yang Feng completed his own defensive task very well.

But playing at home is a huge blessing for a player and a team.

It is absolutely not allowed to use the defensive thinking of the previous game to judge the opponent in this game. Considering that the Dortmund team as a whole may have an excellent performance today, Yang Feng is still well prepared for defense.

However, in today's game, when the top three in the group stage have the same points and compete for the qualifying places, Liverpool is under pressure, but the pressure on Dortmund at home is not small.

And Dortmund, who wanted to take the offensive initiative, couldn't wait to start the attack at the beginning, but Liverpool, who played away, had a lot of counterattack opportunities in the game, which could threaten Dortmund's penalty area.

In the 26th minute of the game, Dortmund's offense hadn't blossomed yet. Instead, Coutinho scored a goal in Liverpool's counterattack.

After Suarez received a long pass from Yang Feng's backcourt, he used his personal ability to completely disrupt Dortmund's defense.

The running route of Sturridge and Suarez, one left and one right, directly tore Dortmund's defense apart.

When Dortmund's defensive players focused their attention on the "double s", Suarez did not hit the goal or pass the ball to Sturridge in the end, but knocked back to the side and rear, and handed the ball For Coutinho, who also inserted quickly, Coutinho led the ball by himself, took two steps diagonally, created more space for shooting, and then directly completed a kick that went straight to the dead corner.

"Taillight" failed to save enough, allowing Liverpool to gain an away lead early.

After gaining the lead on the field, Liverpool began to increase the team's defense to limit Dortmund's counterattack.

In this game, Liverpool is away, facing a team like Dortmund who likes to dominate the offense, naturally it is a targeted defensive counterattack tactic.

Now not only does the defense have a certain effect, but also relies on the counterattack to gain the lead, so for Liverpool, the enthusiasm for defense is even higher.

Dortmund's offense is mainly to try to open the situation first on the two sides.

But today Glenn Johnson himself performed well, and Flanagan was on the left, and his starting condition was also excellent.

When the wing can form an effective block, it will provide considerable help to Liverpool's defense.

The wing was not pierced by Dortmund, which allowed Liverpool to invest more defensive power in the center.

Yang Feng faced Lewand alone or had some difficulty defending, but when there were enough players to help defend, Lewand had no room to play so well.

Throughout the first half, Dortmund made a lot of passes from the wing, but after the ball was passed into the penalty area, it was more like a mud bull into the sea. Lewandowski couldn't get a chance to score under the focus of Liverpool's defensive attention.

Liverpool took a 1-goal lead at halftime and had a pretty good defensive effect on the court.