Football’s First Defender

"Penalty! Only one minute into the game, Liverpool won a penalty!"

"Bayern Munich gave a big gift at the beginning. Xavi Alonso's stop error gave Sterling the opportunity to press."

"In the face of Sterling's single shot, Neuer could not limit Suterling's speed. In the final attack, he did not touch the ball and could only rely on fouls to prevent Sterling from hitting the goal."

"It's a pity that we heard the boos in unison at Anfield clearly."

"The referee's penalty this time is only to give Neuer a yellow card, not a very likely red dot package penalty (the red dot package was canceled only after the 16/17 season changed the rules), which is for Bayern. , is the only good news."

Before the penalty spot, the standing kicker was Liverpool striker Sturridge.

When Gerrard, the first penalty shooter, did not play, the penalty kick was basically taken by Sturridge or Coutinho.

As the two with the best shot control, their performance in the previous penalty kicks was fairly stable.

"Neuer was doing all kinds of waving movements in front of the goal, trying to interfere with Sturridge."

"Sturridge, take a deep breath, run up, hit the goal!"

"Yes!"

"Sturridge!"

"Just two minutes into the game for Liverpool and a fantastic start."

"It was a shot to the bottom right corner of the goal."

"Although Neuer judged the right direction, Sturridge hit the goal from a tricky angle and the ball flew fast enough to successfully break the deadlock for Liverpool."

The entire Anfield stadium was boiling. Liverpool relied on Sterling's active fighting at the beginning of the game. The penalty opportunities created at the beginning of the game have already taken the lead in the score.

Even if Bayern's Allianz Arena is scary enough, if Liverpool can really win a large score advantage at home, they will still have a considerable initiative in facing Bayern away.

The accidental loss of the ball in the opening game seriously disrupted the rhythm of Bayern's game.

Even though Guardiola has been on the sidelines and signaled the players to remain calm, the Bayern players on the field still inevitably have some impatience when organizing the offense.

The Bayern players hope to use the offense to quickly get back the score, especially Alonso, who began to make some bold long pass attempts in the backcourt, trying to create an offensive threat and make up for the previous team's mistakes.

However, Liverpool is not an ordinary team that Bayern used to bully in the Bundesliga.

Liverpool is like Dortmund at its peak a few years ago. With its fierce and unsparing frontcourt fight, in Bayern's half, it put a lot of pressure on Bayern's ball holders and completely beat Bayern's offensive rhythm. chaos.

Indeed, Guardiola's pass and control system in Bayern was very successful, but this pass and control system is sometimes very difficult to play against some strong teams.

After all, Bayern is not Barcelona at its peak after all.

Under Guashuai's coaching, Barcelona not only has Messi and Ronaldinho, but the most important thing is that the midfield has Harvey, and Iniesta, a once-in-a-century midfield commander.

There are many ball-holding points and passing points, and his mastery of passing and control has reached the pinnacle.

But Bayern, the team's pass and control system is indeed excellent under the guidance of Guardiola, but the players are more of a surprise study in the past two years. In terms of tactical understanding, the Bayern players have done quite well.

In this case, under the strict pressure of the team of the same level, the Bayern players "show their true colors".

When the team played in the middle and lower reaches of the team, they could not play at all with the pass and control cooperation as they wished. However, relying on Ribery and Alaba's left attack, after suffering targeted defense from Liverpool's midfield, Bayern For a while, in the away game, they didn't find too good offensive opportunities.

If you want to kill a thief, you will be powerless.

Today's Bayern players are reckless, but there is no place for them to vent.

On the contrary, it was the Liverpool players on the other side. After a solid defense, the defensive counterattack was very impressive.

As long as Bayern makes a pass error, or is successfully defended by Liverpool's defense, Liverpool's counterattack will go straight into Bayern's defensive hinterland.

Liverpool's backcourt pass points, although only Yang Feng and Henderson are two, but Liverpool's counterattack does not need such a precise pass at all.

In the simplest way, you can play the most threatening offense.

Liverpool only needs to send the ball to the space left in the backcourt when Bayern attack, and then hand over the task of receiving the ball to the extremely fast Sterling.

Sterling has been growing at a high speed. Apart from the last kick, Sterling needs to continue to strengthen. His speed, explosive power, and not weak physical resistance are enough to make him always able to fight back. The middle acts as a sharp knife, accurately inserted into the opponent's heart.

Liverpool's defensive counterattack is constantly threatening Bayern's gate.

Even after several counterattacks threatened by Liverpool, the Bayern players began to regain their sense of normalcy and actively responded, regardless of the score behind for the time being.

But as long as Bayern organizes an offense, Liverpool will be able to catch up and find counterattack opportunities. The fast-paced game has made it smooth in the Bundesliga. Bayern, who is used to controlling the rhythm of the game by themselves, is very uncomfortable.

And when Bayern's attack in the away game stagnated, Liverpool's counterattack finally accumulated into a qualitative change.

At that time, after Liverpool successfully completed the defense, after Lucas successfully intercepted the ball, he immediately passed the ball to Yang Feng who was nearby.

And Yang Feng was in the backcourt, with a strong long pass, he directly found the space behind Alaba after he went forward.

Sterling moved forward quickly from the middle. Even though Lahm's speed is not slow, compared with Sterling, he still has to feel the passing of time.

Sterling unloaded Yang Feng's long pass first, and then continued to accelerate forward to make a breakthrough.

Lahm and Sterling were in a straight-line race, and in the end it was unquestionably Sterling who had the better acceleration.

Although Ram always wanted to keep following, he was still thrown away by Sterling with the ball.

And just when Ram was on the side and rear, he chose to put a shovel, even if it was a foul, he wanted to block Sterling's counterattack this time.

Sterling, with an emergency stop and spike, completely made Lahm's shovel empty, and Sterling himself dribbled the ball to the penalty area.

The tempering of the professional arena has made Sterling no longer the young man who relied solely on speed to make a living. Under the long-term private training of the small group with Coutinho and Yang Feng, Sterling observed the field while fast moving. In terms of the situation, the ability to combine the ball is also constantly improving.

This goal is a concentrated expression of Sterling's enhanced ability.

Sterling, who was heading towards the penalty area, had to attract Boateng's defense, and with a final pass, Sterling did not lose the chain, and accurately found Henderson who followed up in the middle.

Henderson's extremely angled push made Neuer's save come to nothing.

2 to 0!

Liverpool is at home and has achieved a two-goal lead!