Football’s First Defender

The Liverpool players began to become a little impatient.

If it is said that this is Chelsea's main lineup, it may be a half-time draw, or even a full-time draw, which is acceptable to Liverpool today. After all, the 4-point advantage is in hand, and it is acceptable to remain undefeated against a rich team.

but?

This is just a Chelsea with a "garbage" lineup that is almost full of substitute players. Chelsea has given up this league so much. If Liverpool can't take advantage of the situation to win the game, will it appear that they are too incompetent?

Not only to win the game, but to take the lead early, or even a big victory, may be the most in line with the wishes of Liverpool players.

During the winning streak, Liverpool's blitz has helped the team take the lead many times and established an advantage in the early stages of the game.

But now, the chances of victory that the Liverpool players expected have not yet appeared. For the development of the game so far, Liverpool has not even created too many threatening offensive opportunities.

The players began to become impatient and eager for quick success.

In the face of Chelsea's tight defense, individual heroism began to rise.

Liverpool's attacking strikers all hope that they can become the heroes of Anfield today and help the team break the deadlock first.

Some people even expect that Chelsea's defensive strength will decline sooner or later. Maybe when they attack, Chelsea's old and young players will have physical problems or defensive experience problems.

However, all the things Liverpool players expected did not happen. Chelsea players showed the defensive background of the Chelsea team.

Chelsea's defense, not only did not have a tendency to decline in quality during the game, but after the team's running-in on the field, the quality of defense improved a lot as the players entered the game and the tacit understanding improved.

As the game time passed, the pressure that Liverpool players had not felt for a long time began to hit.

"We're going to win, we're going to win!"

Every Liverpool offensive player wants to score goals. Only when the team scores the first goal can it further ensure the victory of the yoghurt champion.

In the last moments of the first half, Chelsea's defense was still strong, but Liverpool's offense, with the efforts of many players, finally showed its explosive power.

Since there is no way to penetrate Chelsea's defense in the middle, Liverpool can only speed up the small-scale passing in the wing area, taking advantage of the lack of defensive experience of Chelsea's young players and the lack of physical fitness of the veterans, directly speeding up the pace of the game. The method of offensive stability is to seek to obtain a more threatening offensive method.

Liverpool tried their best to play a small range of passing cooperation on the wing. After breaking through Chelsea's wing defense, they also tried to kill into the penalty area as much as possible, creating chaos in Chelsea's defense.

Even if the ball is picked up and passed from the side, it is no longer directly looking for the center where there is not much space. Instead, it chooses to pass the ball vigorously and finds a direct connection between the two sides.

Liverpool is looking forward to using a different offensive method from before to achieve a better offensive effect.

There was Coutinho alone on the left, and Liverpool also had Sterling and Flanagan on the right to put pressure together. For a while, Chelsea's wing defense suffered a greater test than before. .

Especially the two young men, Sterling and Flanagan, interspersed and ran sideways, which made Chelsea's not-so-excellent sideline defense force, which was a bit scattered by the joint efforts of the two.

In the 37th minute of the game, after Sterling passed the ball to Flanagan, he immediately accelerated to the bottom without stopping. Before Sterling passed the ball and then went to the bottom, Flanagan directly sent a through ball to let Sterling After receiving the ball, he accelerated into the penalty area and created a shot.

This time, Ashley Cole did not dare to be careless, and desperately wanted to catch up with Sterling's pace. Even though there was an obvious gap with Sterling's speed, Ashley Cole also knew that he It is impossible to catch up with Sterling, but his purpose is to control his defensive position.

It is possible to let Sterling receive the ball, but must hold the defensive position before Sterling breaks into the penalty area.

It’s not good to be old. Ashley Cole was a fast horse at the full-back position back then, but now facing such a young Sterling, Cole’s eyes are all about his own back.

"Maybe when I ran back then, it was just like this to let the opponent appreciate my back..."

However, when Ashley Cole was still lamenting his youth, the ball did not pass to Sterling who had already run out of position in front of him.

In the end, Flanagan chose to kick the ball from the right side, and he exerted great force. He didn't pursue the control of the angle too much, but just sped up the ball speed so that the ball could quickly fly to the back point. .

Chelsea's defense is concentrated in the front and middle positions, and the defensive strength at the back may be the weakest.

When the young substitute central defender Callas wanted to defend, the ball was passed by Flanagan so fast that the ball landed in the rear area before Callas was in place.

Coutinho cut in from the left into the penalty area, facing the position where the ball fell, and took off directly with a kick.

The quality of this kick was extremely high. Karas stretched his legs in defense and did not touch the football, and the ball flew straight to the goal.

However, Chelsea's substitute goalkeeper Schwarzer showed his strength and did not bury himself on the bench.

Once, he took off from the spot and made a side attack that shocked everyone. He touched the football with his palm to the limit and blocked the ball.

Coutinho made a dangerous shot that could almost rewrite the score, but it still failed to break the deadlock on the field.

In the first half of the game, there is not much time left, and Liverpool is seizing the time to launch the final onslaught.

On the defensive line, Yang Feng's position on the court made his old partner Skrtel a little puzzled.

"Yang's position is too far back, isn't it?"

"This is not conducive to the expansion of our own interception area!"

"Is it still unable to break through the impasse, which made Yang nervous?"

Before Skrtel reminded Yang Feng that his position was too far back, something unexpected happened on the field.

"really!"

Yang Feng also smiled wryly in his heart.

"Is the inertia of history so great?"

Joe Allen's return pass to Gerrard reorganized the attack as Liverpool regained possession in midfield.

And without the interference of any defensive players, Gerrard slipped when he was facing the ball forward, and this step was a bit staggering.

Chelsea rushed to Demba Ba in front, rushed directly in front of Gerrard, and then directly grabbed control of the ball.

Although Gerrard got up immediately after falling to the ground, and shoveled directly, trying to stop Demba Ba at the cost of a card, but Demba Ba's speed really left no room for Gerrard's foul actions.

The game time is 42 minutes.

The inertia of history still exists. The slip this time may be due to Gerrard's anxious state of mind, the lack of physical fitness before halftime, or the combination of various factors.

However, history has also changed. Whether it is the location and time of the slip this time, there is a slight deviation from history, and the main deviation is that due to Yang Feng's "wrong" position, he should have slipped. Pulling sideways with Skrtel and giving up the central position to Gerrard's Liverpool position distribution, it is true that Yang Feng's position is more central and further back, so that Liverpool's backcourt has not been completely emptied.

Yang Feng! Be sure to be the "butterfly" that changes history.