Football’s First Defender

The rhythm of the game is firmly in the hands of Liverpool. After leading by two goals, Liverpool has completely taken advantage of morale.

Taking advantage of Bayern's two goals in a row, Liverpool began to re-launch the frontcourt press and regained the initiative on the court.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, for Liverpool, the two rounds of the game, the first round at home, have a chance to gain a bigger lead, so they must not be soft.

Liverpool have to go to the Allianz Arena for the second leg, leaving a big enough advantage.

The Liverpool players are still very restrained and have professional qualities. Knowing that it is far from the time to celebrate, they still concentrate on the game.

But the fans at the scene don't need to be so cautious.

Liverpool's outstanding performance on both ends of the offense and defense is enough for tens of thousands of Liverpool fans to express their support for the team with their most enthusiastic cheers, as well as "taunting" Bayern in the away game.

The entire first half was a torment for the Bayern players. The team suffered a rather poor start because of an unexpected penalty kick.

And when the team wanted to get back the disadvantage on the offensive end, they found that Liverpool's frontcourt pressing disrupted their defensive rhythm, and Liverpool's defense in key areas after retreating also successfully limited their own strength on the field. advantage point of attack.

Under such circumstances, the entire Bayern team played quite entangled and quite helpless.

A feeling of powerlessness, and a sense of panic about losing.

For Liverpool, now is the absolute opportunity to take advantage of the momentum and score points.

Liverpool expects to continue to make gains on the offensive end in the final stage of the first half.

However, even though Bayern's hearts are fluctuating, the team's defensive construction is still quite good. With Guardiola's on-the-spot command, Bayern gave up the offense in the final stage of the first half and began to focus on defense. They have to control the number of goals conceded and make adjustments at halftime.

Liverpool began to take the initiative to attack, wave after wave of offensive frenzy, trying to attack Bayern's hinterland.

However, when Bayern really devotes themselves to defense, although Liverpool's offense can also create a certain threat, it is not so easy to easily create a goal.

In the final stage of the first half, the two sides were in a state of offensive and defensive balance. The score of 2-0 was also maintained until the intermission.

For Guardiola, the intermission time is mainly to integrate the team's thinking.

Bayern is not weak, but in the away game, they were stunned by Liverpool's opening three axes.

For Guardiola, in an away game and the opponent's momentum has risen, Bayern's priority is to defend the team and ensure that they try to score an away goal when there is a chance.

As for the victory or defeat, the two-round match, the victory or defeat in the away game, is not that important.

Moreover, as a pass control coach, Guardiola is very good at using the team's overall pass control to consume the physical energy of opponent players.

Coupled with the Liverpool team's overall frontcourt pressing, it will definitely consume more energy. Guardiola knows that in the second half, at least 60 minutes later, Bayern will have an opportunity.

Bayern must be patient and wait for an opportunity that is conducive to their own performance.

Gua Shuai made quite detailed arrangements for the tactical goals of the second half, and comforted the players not to care about winning or losing such a game. Bayern can afford to lose. They have a home game a week later, which can reverse the situation.

In the second half of the game, at the beginning of the game, Liverpool took the initiative and launched an attack.

Unlike Guardiola's stability in the midfield, Rogers' tactical arrangement in the midfield is quite aggressive.

Even though the team had a two-goal lead, Rogers still asked the team to continue to maintain offensive fire suppression in the second half.

Rogers hopes to use the momentum at home to overwhelm Bayern in one fell swoop and completely establish the victory in the first round.

A lead of two goals has a precedent of being reversed in the Champions League knockout rounds, but a lead of three goals or more can basically guarantee that the team will enter the top four.

So it seems that there is a gap between whether you can win one more goal, but it will have a great impact on the morale of the players on both sides and the ranking of the second round.

It's just that Liverpool's investment in the offensive end has been huge, but they still haven't reaped results.

For Bayern's defense, apart from Dante's lack of flexibility, everyone else has enough mobility on the defensive end to keep up with Liverpool's offensive players.

Especially after Guardiola emphasized, except for Lewandowski who was at the forefront, everyone else returned to the half to defend. Bayern put on a rather low stance, but also received excellent defensive effects .

As for Liverpool's offense, as they did not gain much in the early stage, they could only start to control the ball and adjust their rhythm.

The ignorant offense also caused Liverpool to consume a lot of physical energy, and the Red Army players also had to take a breath to deal with the decisive battle at the last moment.

As for Bayern, taking advantage of the timing of Liverpool's adjustment, following Guardiola's command from the sidelines, they began to launch their own counterattack like a tiger descending the mountain.

"Franck Ribery made a breakthrough from the side, made an emergency stop and changed direction, and kicked off the ball directly!"

"Thomas Muller on follow-up!"

"A header went to the top, and the top went wide!"

After the game entered the 65th minute, Bayern suddenly began to speed up their offensive rhythm.

Taking advantage of Liverpool's decline in players' physical fitness, Bayern in the away game began to fully demonstrate their offensive capabilities.

Even though Rogers quickly made substitution adjustments and replaced Gerrard to enhance the defensive strength of the midfield, Bayern's offense was still like a gust of wind blowing leaves, putting tremendous pressure on Liverpool's defense.

Especially Ribery on the wing, after being dormant for nearly an entire game, on the offensive end, he exploded with extremely strong energy.

Continuous breakthroughs have created opportunities for Bayern. If it weren't for Bayern's lack of ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal, Bayern might have pulled back at least one goal long ago.

Yang Feng's only duty in this game is to mark Lewandowski.

The best defenders go head-to-head with the best strikers.

Since Lewandowski's own ability to attack with the ball is not that strong, so on the defensive end, Yang Feng can focus on defending Lewandowski's receiving the ball and Lewandowski's running position.

For Lewandowski, there has never been a central defender who has given him such a lot of defensive pressure in the game.

For a long time, as a prolific striker, Lewandowski knows that his most threatening is comprehensiveness.

This kind of comprehensiveness is different from Real Madrid's Benzema. Benzema can really do everything. His shooting skills, headers, flexible running, overlapping attacks, and even his ability to hit the ball with one kick are also very good. .

As for Lewandowski, his comprehensiveness is reflected in his super comprehensive finishing ability.

Don't look at Lewand's height and burly, but his feet are not bad.

For Lewandowski, those who can resist him do not have his excellent flexibility and running ability, but there are no space-type defenders who can keep up with his own speed and judge the direction of his attack. Such a strong physique.

Either play skillfully or play horizontally, as long as his teammates give him enough support, Lewandowski can always gain an advantage in at least one aspect of the game and defeat the opponent's defense.

However, facing Yang Feng, today's Lewandowski is restricted in every way.

Yang Feng uses his excellent defensive awareness, judgment ability, and years of hard training to develop the confrontation ability, and maintains confrontation against Lewandowski in any aspect.

Lewandowski tried various offensive moves many times, but in the end, when his teammates passed the ball to find him, Yang Feng would clear the ball first if he was sure.

Either when it is determined that you do not have a positional advantage, go all out to fight and interfere with Lewandowski's receiving or hitting the goal.

Lewandowski was completely stared at today. Bayern's biggest killer in the penalty area in the past has no way to get a chance to threaten the goal.

Yang Feng used his own defense to freeze Lewandowski, and also let Bayern's offense lose the biggest threat.