Football’s First Defender

After the end of the New Year's schedule, considering that the players' physical fitness has reached the limit, and Liverpool will still have the Carabao Cup and the Champions League in the future.

For the FA Cup match that just started the third round, Liverpool directly chose to give up.

The lineup of the full reserve team made Liverpool finally uncompetitive. They lost to Derby County in the away game, and there was one less competition for the competition as they wished.

And Liverpool's first team, after a full ten days of repairs, played an away game against the "Black Cat" Sunderland in the restarted Premier League.

Sunderland is naturally not very competitive against Liverpool, especially when Liverpool's combat power soars due to the return of the main wounded.

Even amidst the cheers of tens of thousands of home fans, Sunderland's iron barrel formation was extremely strong, successfully defending Liverpool's wave after wave of offense, and kept the 0-0 score to the center. field break.

However, with the second half of the game, Liverpool made adjustments through substitutions, replacing the more impactful Sturridge and team captain Steven Gerrard. Liverpool's more offensive lineup provided a greater offensive threat. .

And the old captain Gerrard, after coming off the bench, has sufficient physical support and also played a very brilliant performance.

There are two ways to break the dense defense, one is the opportunity to set the ball, and the other is to score the goal with a long shot.

With a heavy bombardment from 25 meters away, Gerrard came off the bench and made a contribution, successfully knocking on the opponent's door for Liverpool in the 62nd minute.

When the iron barrel formation was broken and Sunderland had to attack to try to equalize the score, the huge gap in strength between the two sides was fully revealed.

On this side, the attack of the home team Sunderland has not been able to effectively break through the defense led by Yang Feng.

The Liverpool midfielder on the other side told the opponent why the flowers are so red.

Sturridge, as well as Coutinho's counter-attack goal, had already extended the score to 3-0 in less than 80 minutes of the game.

In the end, Liverpool relied on their excellent offensive performance in the second half of the game to win another away game with zero seals.

Liverpool's winning streak in the league continues. In the standings, it has caught up with the championship group and returned to the championship.

In the previous five consecutive victories, after being blocked by Manchester United in a draw, they scored one point each to end the winning streak.

Liverpool's adjustment in the league is really too fast. In the case that the thickness of the lineup is obviously not as good as that of Manchester City and Chelsea, Liverpool was able to win all of them in the tight New Year's schedule, and achieved an amazing record of 5 consecutive league victories. It can be said that it surprised many people.

With nearly 11 rounds, Liverpool scored 31 points with a horrible scoring efficiency, which evened out the huge disadvantage in the early stage of the league. In the standings, it is already on an equal footing with Manchester City.

For the leader Chelsea, Liverpool, who currently have 47 points, is only 2 points away.

The Premier League, a month or two ago, was still a two-person situation. In the difficult schedule of December, when all the giants were complaining, it turned out to be Liverpool, making Liverpool rely on the winning streak to counterattack and directly become the Three Kingdoms. situation.

The defending champion Liverpool shattered all doubts about his strength with his super strong performance.

Of course, some people say that the recovery in Liverpool's performance is due to the arrangement on the schedule.

After all, there have been few strong opponents in Liverpool's recent games.

In the three games a week after Christmas, there were actually two teams in the relegation zone who were giving away points. The lack of intensity of the game gave Liverpool a chance to win easily.

However, the current schedule is easy, which means that in the final stage of the second half of the league, Liverpool will face strong teams one after another. It is very likely that Liverpool will lose the chain directly like the beginning of the season.

However, for the doubts of some outside media, Liverpool just laughed it off.

Points are the most important thing. As for the schedule, no matter what his future schedule is, what Liverpool have to do now is to score as many points as possible, and even take advantage of the recent schedule to directly reverse Chelsea and become the leader of the league. .

A week later, Liverpool went on to challenge Aston Villa away.

Another team close to the relegation zone.

The league schedule has just passed halfway, and the relegation teams have no way to directly enter the stage of killing red eyes like in the last few rounds of previous years.

Liverpool played away from home with ease.

Villa is not a team that is good at defense, and the iron bucket formation is not tight, which directly disperses Liverpool's offense.

In the first half, Liverpool relied on their excellent offense, as well as the frontcourt pressing and the offensive opportunities they grabbed, and achieved a 2-goal lead. In the second half of the game, Liverpool could easily develop pass and control tactics.

In the end, the restrained Liverpool only achieved a 2-0 victory. Liverpool easily defeated Villa and won 6 consecutive victories.

In the same round, Manchester City sat at the Etihad Stadium, but was tied 1-1 by the visiting Hull City, which was quite an upset.

This also made Liverpool finally overtake Manchester City in terms of points and pounds, and came to the second place in the league, still 2 points behind Chelsea.

In the standings, Liverpool frantically chased Chelsea, making themselves the closest team to Chelsea.

Liverpool, who had two consecutive away games, then returned to the home court to face West Ham United.

West Ham United, ranked 8th in the league, is a rare tough bone for Liverpool to encounter in the recent league schedule.

It's just that at Anfield, no matter how tough West Ham United is, they don't have much capital to overthrow Liverpool at Anfield.

Now it has become Liverpool's iconic full-court press, which has completely exposed the slightly rough weaknesses of West Ham players in terms of technical ability.

Amidst the shouts of tens of thousands of fans at Anfield, the West Ham players, who had a certain psychological disadvantage, were then pressed fiercely by the Liverpool players from the beginning. Among the absolute disadvantages.

This time, it was Yang Feng who helped Liverpool break the deadlock first.

Yang Feng, who didn't perform much in the last two games, just started today with a strong header in the penalty area, proving that he is also the most important member of Liverpool's offensive "strike".

Yang Feng, who is getting used to the Premier League more and more, has also started to score more goals this season, and has become the biggest killer of Liverpool's set-pieces.

And with the increasing physical confrontation ability, Yang Feng still has a certain ability to handle the ball even in the face of the opponent's double-team, which can be called Liverpool's big killer when setting the ball.

After breaking the deadlock, although West Ham United's defense was not directly collapsed, Liverpool, while controlling the initiative, did not give the visiting team too many opportunities to counterattack.

With the suspense of the game maintained, it gave West Ham United a chance to "decisive" in the last 20 minutes, but Yang Feng was destined to eat dumplings today.

Not only on the defensive end, he performed very well. He cleared the visiting team's crosses into the penalty area many times. In the 79th minute, it was Yang Feng who once again made a direct connection with Coutinho in a set kick. Scored twice to help Liverpool further expand the score, completely dispelling the arrogance of West Ham United's counterattack.

2 to 0!

Liverpool has won 7 consecutive victories, and with the focus of this round, Chelsea's score against Manchester City is fixed at 1 to 1!

Liverpool also tied Chelsea's points, and relying on more advantages in goal difference, they overtook Chelsea. For the first time this season, they became the leaders of the Premier League...