Football’s First Defender

Liverpool drew with Manchester City 1-1 away, ending Manchester City's unbeaten record at home in the league this season.

Manchester City, who played at home, failed to take advantage of the home court advantage to win the game and recover a certain point gap. Manchester City players are undoubtedly very disappointed.

However, Liverpool, which was fully suppressed in the second half, was also weak in scoring. It is a pity that they got a draw, which also made the Liverpool players feel uncomfortable.

In this draw, it seemed that there was no winner. The two teams were not satisfied with the result, but on the Internet, the fans of the two teams had been interacting with each other about "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong".

"Today, Sturridge's absence has affected Liverpool's offensive finishing ability. If Sturridge could play without injury, Manchester City's defense would have been overwhelmed by Liverpool in the second half."

"What's the nonsense upstairs, Aguero from Manchester City is not here yet? With Aguero, Manchester City's offensive advancement and finishing ability will not be so bad. Dzeko and Negredo are too bulky. "

"Aguero is just like that. He's just putting on airs. Liverpool is strong enough. No matter who he faces, Yang Feng can restrict him to death."

"I'm QNMLGB! Yang Feng is strong enough, and I, Aguero, am not a vegetarian either..."

A draw, each with one point, is dissatisfied with both Manchester City and Liverpool, who are aiming to compete for the championship. However, Liverpool has no time to worry about the game. What they need to do most is to hurry up and get back. After going to Liverpool to recuperate, three days later, they will go to London to challenge Chelsea as a guest, which is also a tough battle.

The consumption on the defensive line is relatively good, but the consumption of the team's midfielders can be great.

In the battle against Manchester City, many of Liverpool's midfielders ran a lot of distance in the second half to form an extremely tight defense line, which made it impossible for Manchester City's offense to attack.

Liverpool's physiotherapists, after the game, performed special physical therapy on these exhausted people. After returning to Liverpool, they will still use scientific methods to help Liverpool players recover.

However, it is also true that recovery is not necessarily optimal.

Fortunately, fatigue exists for both parties.

Everyone rests at the same time, which is the second game after Christmas.

The schedule at the end of December every year is a carnival feast during the year-end holiday for fans, but it is an absolute torment for players.

However, compared to the shortage of personnel on Liverpool's side, Mourinho has enough players to rotate the lineup, making the team more impactful.

Affected by the injury, Rogers, who has no cards to play in his hand, can only bite the bullet and continue to use the same players and team tactics against Manchester City before.

Mourinho, on the other hand, can use substitute players who also have super strength to ensure the vitality of the team.

After Chelsea's player introduction and outflow in the past few years, there are not many old acquaintances of Yang Feng left.

However, with the return of Mourinho, many old defenders have returned to their positions, especially Yang Feng's former teammates. Although there are not many in number, they almost all occupy the main position of the team.

The starting defense, except for Azpilicueta, are all old teammates of Yang Feng.

Ivanovic on the right, central defender Cahill and old captain Terry are all old teammates of Yang Feng.

But in terms of midfielders, only Lampard still occupies the starting position in the team. Essien, Mikel and others that Yang Feng is familiar with can only stand by on the bench.

Chelsea's current midfield is also dominated by young people. Hazard, Willian, and Oscar have formed a very impactful midfield attack combination.

It's just that in the choice of striker, Mourinho also abandoned Torres and chose to cooperate with the veteran Eto'o who had worked with Inter Milan before.

He wants to use Eto'o's experience to bring these young people in the Chelsea team.

Stamford Bridge Stadium, in this season's Premier League games, also maintained an unbeaten gold medal, and a record of 8 wins and 1 tie, which is not far behind Manchester City, which Liverpool faced in the last round.

First the away game against Manchester City, and then the away game against Chelsea, two such difficult games were still played within three days. It can be seen how unfavorable the outside world is for Liverpool's record in these two games.

Facing Manchester City and achieving a draw, and under the condition of excessive consumption, facing Chelsea, the outside world is generally optimistic that Chelsea can win and end Liverpool's unbeaten golden stature this season.

However, before Chelsea's home offensive started, it was directly knocked down by Liverpool's opening three axes.

In the first 2 minutes of the game, Liverpool won a free kick on the left side of the front field.

Coutinho takes the free kick.

Due to the distance from the goal, this kick has no possibility of shooting.

However, Coutinho showed his strong control over the ball and took a free kick with a large arc and a fast ball speed.

The ball slid from the outside, accelerated and fell directly into the front point area in front of Chelsea.

Before the kick-off, players from both sides lined up and stood on the horizontal line of the penalty spot. After the ball was kicked out, Suarez rushed to the front point.

Cahill, who was in charge of defending him, also grabbed Suarez's jersey tightly, affecting his running and jumping.

But Azpilicueta, who was in charge of defending the front point, faced Coutinho's precise pass, and had a top fall and missed the ball, while Suarez just ran to the position.

Seeing that his teammate missed the top, the ball flew over and fell in front of Suarez. Cahill could only make greater defensive moves to prevent Suarez from rushing forward.

In the entanglement between the two sides, Suarez had just touched the football, and was knocked to the ground by Cahill in the wrestling between the two, and Cahill also lost his balance and fell to the ground immediately.

The referee wanted to blow the whistle in an instant, but maybe it was Chelsea's home court advantage, or Suarez's "diving" behavior in the game before, which made the referees terrified. In the end, the referee still didn't blow that breath.

The ball passed through Suarez's first block and fell straight into the small penalty area, but Liverpool's threat did not end.

Behind Suarez was Yang Feng, who also wanted to fight for the front point. When Suarez and Cahill both fell to the ground, Yang Feng was directly on the march and became the player closest to the ball.

Before Cech's save was in place, Yang Feng didn't have time to adjust, so he took advantage of the situation with his left foot and directly completed the pad shot at close range.

The ball flew into the left side of the goal.

1 to 0! As soon as the game started, Yang Feng, who returned to Stamford Bridge, gave his old club a "big gift".

There was no sound at the scene. After Yang Feng scored the goal, he did not celebrate, which can be regarded as giving the greatest respect to his old club.

As for the Blues fans at the scene, there was also no booing for the goal of the away team's players. They also could not forget the joy and peace of mind that Yang Feng brought to them at that time.

A silent goal...