Football’s First Defender

In the 34th round of the Premier League, the whole world will focus on the focused battle between Liverpool and Manchester City.

Manchester City, with one game less, is 4 points behind Liverpool and temporarily ranks second in the Premier League.

As far as the schedule is concerned, Liverpool still has a strong matchup with Chelsea to play after that, while Manchester City counts the 5 games of the make-up match, but they are all against underdogs.

Under the current circumstances, whoever can win this game can firmly hold the initiative to win the championship in their own hands.

And if Liverpool sits at home and only gets a draw, although they still have the lead, when playing against Chelsea, there is no room for mistakes.

The final result of this direct confrontation between the top and second places will most likely determine the final title of the Premier League champion.

The focus of this game is Liverpool, who are playing at home, still sticking to the team's current starting lineup.

Although the lack of a defensive midfielder like Lucas is a weakening of Liverpool's midfield defense, Rogers believes in his team's offensive strength and also believes that Yang Feng can lead Liverpool's defense and block most of Manchester City's attacks.

Unlike Liverpool, which is playing at home, insisting on its own offensive football, the successive disastrous defeats between Tottenham and Manchester United have made Manchester City not too much pursuing its own offense for this away game.

Manchester City doesn't want to play against Liverpool, it just allows Liverpool to use their offensive advantages more wantonly.

In this game, Manchester City mainly played defensive counterattack tactics, and Aguero, who had some minor injuries, was directly placed on the bench.

Dzeko started the game, playing a single striker.

Compared with the first round against Liverpool, Manchester City's 451 formation replaced Kororav and Lescott, who had performed poorly at the beginning.

Navas and Nasri are still separated in two ways, with Silva in the middle, Yaya Toure and Fernandinho's midfield combination.

On the back line, Kompany partnered with Demichelis, while the full backs were Zabaleta and Clichy.

It is precisely because of sufficient personnel reserves that Manchester City can achieve an even more impressive record than Liverpool in the second half of the league.

And Manchester City, which started on the defensive at the beginning, also knows that it is not easy to be a guest, so just try to be able to retreat completely.

However, in the face of Liverpool's strong offensive, Manchester City, a team that is already good at offense, still overestimated its own defensive ability.

Just 5 minutes into the game, Liverpool scored another lightning goal.

Coutinho crossed the ball in the middle, and Suarez continued to confront Demichelis and Clichy, who came to defend from the defense, and still controlled the football under his feet.

After that, a straight kick was passed directly to the position of Manchester City's penalty area line.

Sterling came to the middle, went straight forward, received a pass from his teammate, and took a horizontal lead almost single-handedly facing Joe Hart.

Although Kompany made up defense, compared to Sterling's speed, Kompany's supplementary defense couldn't keep up completely, and couldn't block all angles.

Facing Joe Hart, who was in a half-attack state, and Kompany, who was trying to defend.

Sterling was not in a hurry to hit the goal directly, but made an emergency stop, chose to dial the ball to the left, and made a gesture to hit the far corner on the left.

Kompany made a sudden stop and changed direction, and Joe Hart also leaned to his right-hand side.

Sterling then dunked the ball back to the right, and immediately kicked the goal.

Both Kompany and Joe Hart had been fooled by Sterling's previous fake move to the left.

When Sterling dunked to the right to hit the goal, Kompany and Joe Hart were unable to make further defensive moves.

Sterling, in such a critical game, made such a calm fake action choice, and also scored the team's first goal.

In front of the KOP stands, scoring such a wonderful goal, the teenager Sterling enjoyed huge cheers from the Liverpool fans.

Liverpool, which has taken the lead, still does not appear to be weakening its offensive.

Playing at home, Liverpool fully demonstrated the team's current strong offensive capabilities.

Since Manchester City wants to stabilize first and wait for a counterattack, Liverpool must use a strong offense to completely penetrate their defense.

Strong duel, pay attention to the suddenness of the attack, in an instant, the ability of the offensive player to seize the opportunity.

Under such circumstances, most of the time, the offensive team may not have too many dangerous attacks.

But as long as a certain loophole in the defense is caught, it is possible to create a very good offensive opportunity and only pose the greatest threat to the opponent's goal.

In the 11th minute of the game, Yang Feng in the backcourt sent a long pass.

The ball landed on the right side, and after rebounding, it went directly over the heads of Clichy and Nasri, and continued to move forward.

Sterling started at full speed on the right, threw off the defensive player directly, and completed a breakthrough on the right.

After Sterling received the ball, he directly developed his speed and launched an impact on the opponent's hinterland.

Facing Fei Bird who was defending, Sterling sent a half-high pass from the right.

The young man Sterling's hard training in private has been continuously fed back into the game, showing his rapid growth in technical ability.

The arc of this pass just passed the two central defenders of Manchester City, and Joe Hart could not get it. After that, the ball arced back and Sturridge just had a space to hit the goal. .

A kick on the move.

In order to avoid Joe Hart's defensive range in front of the goal, Sturridge chose to shoot from the far corner with his left foot.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart was powerless in the face of this kick, but it was a pity that Sturridge's kick during the fast march did not hit the goal.

The general direction of the ball is correct, but the control accuracy is still a bit poor. The ball slid out of the goal, and the fans at Anfield wailed.

But Liverpool's attack continued.

Constantly attacking and impacting, not only got many opportunities to hit the goal in sports battles, but also created many opportunities for set kicks.

In the 21st minute of the game, Liverpool took a corner kick from the right. In the penalty area, Yang Feng and Skrtel put too much pressure on Manchester City's air defense, and there were markings on other Liverpool players.

It is rare for Gerrard to enter the penalty area and participate in the header during the game.

This time, he did it suddenly and intentionally, and it has achieved quite good results.

Gerrard used his running position and the pull of his teammates to get an unmarked space in the middle.

And Coutinho's pass is the perfect requirement for this special tactic. It hits Gerrard directly, and Gerrard takes off and shakes his head to attack the goal.

However, Joe Hart's technique on the goal line is absolutely world-class. He jumped sideways and held the football with one palm. He just gave Liverpool another corner kick.

The corner kick on the left was taken by Gerrard.

A corner kick without too many complicated tactics is to go directly to the high point player in the Liverpool penalty area.

Yang Feng!

Taking advantage of his advantage of being good at the front penalty kick, while running, he slanted into the front point, facing Gerrard's pass, and headed to the near corner position.

Facing the header flying to the dead corner, Joe Hart couldn't make a save, 2-0, Liverpool continued to expand the score...