Football’s First Defender

While defeating Tottenham in the league, they continued to compete with Chelsea for the league title this season.

Also this season, the "greedy" Liverpool, which was listed as the target of the Champions League, also started as scheduled.

Although the team only qualified second in the group, but thanks to the luck accumulated over the years, Liverpool played at critical moments.

In the round of 16 matchup, Liverpool was full of luck and won the "big gift bag" in the recognized group No. 1 - the Portuguese Super League "black shop" Porto.

Porto has always pursued the practice of cultivating young monsters and semi-finished players, and then relying on the statistics of the players in the league, or the impressive performance of the players in the Champions League, to sell players and take them back. Monetary return.

As for the pursuit of performance, Porto's performance in the Champions League is not so much for honor, as it is for the team to achieve better results and have more bonus shares.

Due to the early strategic abandonment in the FA Cup, Liverpool got a week of rest after a big battle with Tottenham to recover their physical fitness and prepare for the home game against Porto.

Facts have proved that in the group stage, Porto relied on the hard power of the players in the team and the correct game attitude, and they were still able to kill the Quartet and qualify for the promotion.

But in the knockout stage, when they directly encountered European giants, Porto's mercenary-like nature limited their room for further development.

The team does not have a stable lineup all year round. Relying on the combat power formed by the accumulation of talents, it is still capable of fighting against the Portuguese Super League or the Champions League group stage.

But when it comes to tough battles, especially in away games, Porto's strength will become extremely limited.

Just like this game against Liverpool, which has been in good form recently.

Porto, which is playing away, has no power to fight at all.

Liverpool have fully demonstrated their recent excellent offensive firepower at Anfield.

In particular, Sturridge, who had just returned from injury, quickly entered the game state and seamlessly connected with this Liverpool midfielder. At the beginning of the game, relying on his outstanding personal strength, he scored an extremely strong goal. Ball, announced his return.

Sturridge was on the right side of the penalty area. After receiving a pass from Coutinho, he unloaded the ball and immediately volleyed a kick before the defender got in place. He blasted a wonderful kick in front of the kop stand. Terrific shot.

The Porto goalkeeper was caught off guard, and just like that, Sturridge blasted the goal in less than 5 minutes after the start of the game.

The subsequent game was more like a display of Liverpool's offensive ability.

Porto, who came to Anfield as a guest, wanted to organize a certain counterattack, but, in the case of Liverpool's frontcourt pressing and pressing, there was no good offensive opportunity at all.

It's a rare organized offense. Porto's forwards who rely on the underdogs in the league to score goals, directly exposed their essence when facing Yang Feng's defense.

For these well-known strikers who are not in the five major leagues, Yang Feng is very easy to defend. To deal with such purely tall strikers who have not yet developed enough flexibility, Yang Feng's experience in the Premier League is very effective.

The worry-free rear allows Liverpool to devote more energy to the offense.

The tight schedule makes Liverpool have no idea of ​​​​seeking stability after leading. Liverpool's goal is very simple, to strive for a complete victory in the first round at Anfield Stadium, and reserve strength for the tight schedule afterwards.

You must know that although they defeated Tottenham before, the "civil war" between the six giants of the Premier League has never been so easy to win.

As for Liverpool's subsequent schedule, they will not only face Tottenham in the Carabao Cup final to compete for the championship trophy, but also face their old rival Manchester City in the following league.

For Liverpool, who are eager for honor, these games cannot be missed, so if the suspense of this round of series with Porto can be resolved in one round, then it will be extremely beneficial to Liverpool's physical distribution and multi-line combat in the future of.

Therefore, Liverpool's strong attack is still continuing, and Porto, in the case of unsuccessful offensive attempts, wants to rely on defense to bring the suspense of the game back to its Dragon Stadium.

It's just that Liverpool's offensive has been wave after wave, especially for Liverpool. The level of confrontation in the Premier League makes it very uncomfortable for Porto players who are used to the relaxed rhythm of the Portuguese Super League.

And the continuous impact, especially the continuous sprint attack mode of Sterling and Flanagan on the right side, finally directly overwhelmed Porto's already poor defense.

Sterling and Flanagan's wing 2v2, when Sterling had already sprinted, when Flanagan stepped in again, the opponent's follow-up speed was significantly slower.

Sterling's through ball was accurately passed to Flanagan's front, allowing Flanagan to sprint at full speed, and when he got the ball, he already had a physical advantage.

After that, Flanagan passed the ball accurately into Porto's small penalty area when he made a pass from the wing.

Sturridge attracted the opponent's defensive attention at the front point, while Henderson's quick advance, took off directly, followed up in the middle, and overwhelmed the defensive player to shake his head and attack the goal.

Helping Liverpool expand the score in the 27th minute of the game.

And Liverpool, who played more and more relaxed, continued to invest a lot of power on the offensive end and launched a siege of Porto.

Although the Porto goalkeeper, in the following game, made a high block to help Porto barely maintain the 0-2 score until the intermission.

But as soon as the second half of the game started, Liverpool's offense reaped huge results.

Liverpool's first corner of the second half.

Yang Feng used his teammates to attract the opponent's attention after the first start, and then made a decisive attack. In 1v1, he forcibly got rid of the Porto defender who was marking him, and got a chance to take off and attack the goal in the penalty area.

Coutinho's pass was very precise, and Yang Feng's own head-shaking attack also controlled the angle of the goal very well.

3 to 0!

With Yang Feng's header, Liverpool continued to expand the score.

The outcome of this game has lost suspense, and even the two rounds of the game seem to have lost suspense.

However, when other players think that the three-goal lead is stable enough, Yang Feng, who has seen all kinds of shocking reversals in the Champions League in later generations, dare not be careless.

Only 3 goals, still not enough insurance.

Although Liverpool's other offensive players have begun to relax, Yang Feng himself is still extremely tense.

Today, Liverpool's huge pressure in the frontcourt provided Yang Feng with many opportunities to move forward and participate in the attack.

In the 78th minute of the game, it was another free kick opportunity for Liverpool in the frontcourt. Yang Feng, who stepped forward to participate in the attack, took the lead on the outside after Gerrard sent the ball, and tacitly took the lead in chasing the back point of Gerrard's pass. .

Then a marching header hit the goal and the ball was headed into the near post position.

4 to 0!

Yang Feng actually scored twice with a header in the knockout round of the Champions League.

Yang Feng, who "doesn't do business properly" played well on the offensive end, finally led Liverpool to a 4-0 home victory over visiting Porto. It can be said that he was only one foot away from entering the quarter-finals of the Champions League...