Football’s First Defender

Liverpool, who are the defending champions, unexpectedly kicked out a two-game losing streak after defeating Tottenham in an away game.

In the opening stage, Liverpool had 2 wins and 3 losses, which can be described as a start of the sky.

Especially in the face of two "civilian teams", Liverpool did not play their own offensive suppression at all. The team's offensive stagnation and sense of powerlessness reminded many people of Manchester United under the coach of Moyes last season.

Could it be that every defending champion will be targeted by the entire Premier League team, and will be directly laid down in the next season?

Fortunately, although Liverpool's start to the new season was extremely poor, it is definitely not a Liverpool giant.

Although Liverpool has only won 2 wins so far, but with 6 points, after five rounds, they beat their rival Manchester United with only 5 points in the standings.

Under coach Louis van Gaal's Manchester United, the Dutch football's full attack and full defense style of play did not quickly make the Manchester United team show competitiveness.

Manchester United's scoring efforts at the beginning of the league are comparable to last season's results under Moyes' coaching. The key is that Moyes didn't spend 200 million euros at the beginning.

Tottenham's 7 points, Manchester City's 8 points, and Arsenal's 9 points.

After the end of the five rounds, a group of giants collectively stretched their hips, but they made it possible for the Chelsea team, which is now the top of the list.

Chelsea has 4 wins and 1 tie, accumulating 13 points. At the beginning of the league, they have established at least one advantage for themselves.

In the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in midweek, Liverpool sat at Anfield and defeated the Bulgarian champion Ludogorets 2-0. It was finally a temporary end to the team's current decline, but how to win in the Premier League? The score has become the biggest problem that plagues Rogers.

In the sixth round of the league, the house leak happened to rain overnight.

The Merseyside derby, this difficulty is in the Liverpool season, definitely belongs to the top three city derby, and will be played at Anfield Stadium.

Everton's record this season is not very good.

The team's tactical reform is still in progress, but so far, there has not been much progress.

Everton is still more than enough than the top, and there is still not much pressure on Everton to relegation. The most important games this season may be the two Merseyside derbys.

Liverpool's poor recent situation, for Everton, is a good opportunity to attack Liverpool.

As a rival in the same city, Everton will not let go of the opportunity to sprinkle salt on Liverpool's wounds.

Liverpool, who are not doing well recently and are looking forward to a rebound, and the Everton players who are united and want to overthrow Anfield, are already full of gunpowder before the start of the battle between the two sides.

Since Sturridge suffered a hip injury in the Champions League, it is absolutely bad news for Liverpool's poor offensive line.

Sturridge was unable to play, and Rogers could only try to let Markovic start the game, trying to make changes on the offensive end to enhance the team's breakthrough ability in positional warfare.

This is Markovic's first start this season. He will serve as a right winger, with Coutinho on the left winger and Sterling in the middle of the Libero, forming Liverpool's younger offensive cluster.

Behind them, Henderson and Gerrard partnered as a double midfielder, responsible for mobilization and defense.

In front of them, there is Balotelli's lone striker, tearing up a certain amount of offensive space for them.

The Merseyside Derby has entered a fever pitch from the very beginning of the game.

The two sides use very active running and pressing on the field to limit the opponent's offensive advancement.

The biggest problem with Everton's technical reform is that some players are too rough.

They don't have as much money as the rich teams. In every position, they can spend high-priced signings to enhance the technical ability of the players.

There are also many cheap and high-quality "rough guys" that affect the overall technical transformation of the team.

However, in this kind of city derby, the characteristics of these "rough guys" can be fully utilized.

Everton's players, in the away game today, worked very hard in running.

The team uses active running to offset the lack of technical ability of the players.

Use running to block Liverpool's passing route, and use constant physical confrontation to slow down the offensive advancement of Liverpool players.

One of the most troublesome problems for Rogers is that Liverpool's offensive combination in the frontcourt is too "weak".

Balotelli's confrontation ability is not bad, but compared with these tall central defenders in the Premier League, it is still a little bit worse.

And these little brothers behind Bashen are even more "weak chickens" than each other.

Sterling and Coutinho, after the baptism of last season, are no longer afraid of the level of physical confrontation in the Premier League.

But Markovic, who just transferred from the Portuguese Super League, came to the Premier League and discovered how "elegant" the Portuguese Super League is.

Today on the right side, when Markovic was marked by the opponent, he had no choice but to be confronted by Everton's left back, relying entirely on his rough body, which limited most of Markovic's space to play .

Although Sterling and Coutinho are not afraid of physical confrontation, this does not mean that they will not suffer from confrontation.

Moreover, the penalty scale of the Merseyside Derby is naturally much larger than that of ordinary games, which also makes Liverpool players suffer a lot from physical confrontation.

Under the impact of Liverpool's Everton players, Rodgers wanted to send out technical players, but his plan to control the ball fell through. The absolute disadvantage in physical confrontation made Everton rely on the players' reckless grabbing action to compete with Liverpool. On the scene, it was directly 50-50.

All of a sudden, both sides were caught in the middle of strangling in the midfield. Under the fast-paced offensive and defensive transitions, neither had many opportunities to pose enough threats to the opponent's defense.

Everton's side is limited by Yang Feng's excellent defensive performance.

Everton can press the ball down but there simply isn't enough counter-attacking

The power invested in Liverpool's half can break through the defense led by Yang Feng, and more can only rely on long-range shots from the outside to create some threats to Liverpool.

On the Liverpool side, Everton's collective press stopped the attack on Everton's dangerous area.

It is impossible to find Balotelli at the top, and other offensive players, under the confrontation with their opponents, can only choose to dodge more. When they are active on the periphery, they also choose the most long-range shots from the periphery.

Throughout the game, apart from long-range shots, the two sides also forcibly passed the ball from the side without any threat, but they did not receive very good results.

In the second half, Rodgers wanted to mobilize troops and strengthen the offensive, but when Everton directly sent five defenders, even at the end of the game, Liverpool did not give Liverpool a good chance to attack.

Yang Feng, who was once used as a center forward, also encountered another young Everton central defender's full defense.

Stones used his excellent defensive skills, combined with strength confrontation, to keep Yang Feng firmly outside the core area, allowing Yang Feng to complete only one header in this game, but was still blocked by the Everton goalkeeper. Directly save and resolve.

0 to 0!

This Merseyside derby did not score as high as before, but it was just a dull first game.

But for Everton, drawing with Liverpool at Anfield is already a successful completion of the task.

As for Liverpool, they have not won three consecutive league rounds, and after losing two games in a row, they have not yet won this city derby. The team is under great pressure.

At Anfield, some fans have already started shouting that Rodgers "leave get out of class"...