Football’s First Defender

During the intermission, for Manchester United, coach Van Gaal emphasized that the team must keep up with Liverpool's rhythm in the second half and run more actively, so that Liverpool can no longer occupy the initiative on the pitch like this.

Manchester United must regain the advantage of the game, and in the second half, prepare to use the physical gap of Liverpool players to launch a counterattack.

Van Gaal absolutely does not allow Manchester United under his command to lose to Liverpool at Old Trafford, just like Moyes back then.

In the second half of the game, Liverpool hadn't played the opening three tricks, and Manchester United pushed back with a more violent attack.

Manchester United's two flanks broke out completely. Professor Yang and Valencia began to advance more significantly on the left and right flanks, and the space behind him chose to trust his teammates.

Liverpool's frontcourt was pressing, and Manchester United's players used their strong personal abilities to directly complete a single-point breakthrough and pass through halftime, forcing Liverpool to stay further back in the game and give priority to defense.

Manchester United's fast-paced offense in the second half further increased the physical consumption of Liverpool players.

In the second half, Manchester United took the offensive initiative and gradually began to pass the ball into Liverpool's penalty area to create enough threats.

However, Yang Feng has excellent defensive experience against his old opponent Van Persie.

A brat like Wilson would be handed over to Skrtel and the defensive midfielder to watch. Yang Feng defended Van Persie 1v1 and had an absolute advantage.

Let Van Persie have no room to hit the goal at all.

In the match between "General Fan" and Yang Feng, Yang Feng has always been completely restrained, and he has no chance to show his true qualities as a shooter.

Manchester United's pass to Liverpool's center is basically under the control of Liverpool's defensive players. Even if Manchester United players are barely in the penalty area and scramble for the landing point, there is almost no good chance to get it in the game.

Chance to hit the door.

For Van Persie, being suppressed by Yang Feng's defense was really unacceptable.

Privately, Van Persie also studied Yang Feng's defense, and wanted to find a way to defend against Yang Feng in the game, but apart from retreating or pulling the side, which he was not good at, in the penalty area, Van Persie found that Yang Feng could be seen everywhere , almost never make any mistakes.

It is even more difficult to attack the goal by yourself in the penalty area.

His own shot is limited, and Van Persie can only choose another way, and strive to better cooperate with his teammates in the game to create a greater threat on the offensive end.

When Liverpool players are physically fit, they can also use running on the defensive end to effectively stop Manchester United's offensive advancement.

But as the game time increases, the physical fitness of Liverpool players will of course decline to a certain extent. At this time, it is Manchester United's opportunity.

Especially for the Liverpool midfielders, due to the decline in physical fitness, the running range has decreased.

This also makes Manchester United's flank offensive come faster and more threatening.

In the 64th minute of the game, Manchester United's continuous wing attacks finally achieved results.

Ashley Young, facing Liverpool's right back Glenn Johnson on the left side of the defense alone, without the help of others, Professor Yang gave full play to his agility.

The continuous feints successfully shook Glenn Johnson's center of gravity.

After that, Ashley Young directly pulled the ball laterally to the outside, and directly passed the ball at a 45-degree angle.

This time I found the front point area.

The ball fluttered a little, and Van Persie wanted to get rid of Yang Feng in the penalty area and rushed to the landing point.

Yang Feng kept following Van Persie all the time, because Van Persie started when Professor Yang didn't pass the ball.

Therefore, for Yang Feng, it is impossible to occupy a favorable defensive position. Under such circumstances, when Ashley Young's pass is predicted to land, Yang Feng can only try his best to chase Van Persie and prepare to hit him when he heads the ball. Takeoff creates enough disturbance.

After comprehensively judging the landing point of the ball and the running position of himself and Van Persie, Yang Feng still has confidence in defending Van Persie's header.

Van Persie can touch the ball first, but if he chooses to head the ball, he can take off in time and interfere with him.

However, Van Persie glanced at Yang Feng at the side and rear from the corner of his eyes, and found that Yang Feng was too close. He took off and headed the goal, which might be interfered by Yang Feng, and he was heartbroken. Van Persie did not choose to head the ball. hit the door.

Without shaking his head to attack the goal, Van Persie adjusted his body shape and take-off height. In order not to cause interference to Yang Feng from the side and rear, Van Persie directly took off one step ahead of Yang Feng, although the take-off height was not enough for him to complete the head-shaking attack.

But Van Persie was able to forcibly head the ball, and before Yang Fengwei arrived, he slid the ball to the back point.

Both Skrtel and Emre Can were distracted by Wilson in the penalty area and Rooney forward, ignoring Mata, who has always been a transparent man on the offensive end.

Mata appeared in the back position, and there was no Liverpool player around him to defend.

Mata headed straight to the goal, but Mignolet couldn't make a save.

1 to 1, Manchester United's wing attack finally took effect and equalized the score in the second half.

Liverpool's defense fell in the middle of the second half, which also made Rogers a little helpless.

He was just about to make substitution adjustments to further strengthen the team's defense when he suffered such a blow.

Rogers can only put Jose Enrique back on the bench, let Gerrard come off the bench first, replace Lucas, further strengthen the team's midfield attack, and provide some midfield support appropriately. Defensive vitality.

It's just that when Rogers still wanted to go further and score another goal at Old Trafford, he was not reconciled to a draw.

The home team Manchester United, also unwilling to be reconciled to the draw, created another murderous opportunity on the wing in a short period of time.

This time it was Valencia on the right.

Facing Flanagan's defense, Valencia was on the right side, completely eating Flanagan raw, forcibly relying on speed and excellent confrontation ability, wading past Flanagan's defense.

Afterwards, a cross pass was passed into the Liverpool penalty area.

Liverpool's defense in the penalty area is still quite good, and there has been no leakage.

Mata, who responded earlier, was stuck tightly by Emre Can, and there was no room for a shot at all.

However, Mata grabbed the pass and did not stop the ball to control it and give Emre Can a chance to grab it. Instead, he slammed his heel in the face of the pass and changed the route of the pass.

This heel kick is definitely a stroke of genius. Van Persie retreated to open up space with Yang Feng. Yang Feng rushed to block the pass in front of the goal or defend the goal line. This time he did not care about Van Persie.

And Van Persie, just appeared in Mata's heel "pass" above the position.

Calmly pushing the shot without a defender, Van Persie directly hit the goal with a kick towards the dead corner of the lower left corner.

2 to 1!

Within 5 minutes, Manchester United scored 2 goals in a row and quickly overtook the score.

The Old Trafford stadium instantly turned into a sea of ​​red joy. Manchester United fans were celebrating crazily. The team won this game against their arch-enemy Liverpool...