Football’s First Defender

In the opening stage of Bayern, there is actually not much difference in attack from the first round at Anfield.

In the early stage of the game, Bayern was again easily suppressed by Liverpool with a more collective defense.

In the tentative offensive rounds of Bayern, Yang Feng still maintained a very high defensive efficiency in the previous game when facing Lewandowski.

Seeing Yang Feng on the field, restricting Lewandowski to death again, made Rogers very happy on the sidelines.

For a shooter of Lewandowski's level, if he can be restricted, Bayern's offense will be greatly affected, and it may even drop a notch directly.

With a player with outstanding defensive strength like Yang Feng, the contribution to Liverpool's defense is really too great.

Seeing Bayern's stagnation at the beginning of the game, which has not yet caused an attack in the penalty area that threatened to hit the goal, Rogers is full of expectations for the result of this away game.

For Bayern, after trying to follow the original tactics and finding Lewandowski to no avail, they began to slowly and quietly change their tactics.

Yang Feng is still guarding Lewand, but today Lewand is really "active".

In the last game, Lewandowski, who used the entire penalty area as his activity range, kept retreating today, not to stretch the space and retreat outside the penalty area, but almost all of them withdrew from the 30-meter core area of ​​​​Liverpool. .

Lewandowski's retreat and long-distance catch also made it impossible for Yang Feng to keep following.

This tactic is also commonly used by some strong teams when facing Liverpool's focus on man-to-man defense.

It is to let the striker be pulled to the periphery to avoid being completely restricted by Yang Feng's defense from his own firepower.

In this case, Liverpool cannot completely call out the central defender to follow up the defense, and can only let the midfielder lead the defense. Only when the offensive player enters a dangerous position again, Yang Feng will switch to defend again.

Facing Henderson's follow-up defense, Lewandowski is in the middle, which is relaxing and enjoyable.

There is no need to show any skills at the feet. After all, there is a difference in height and physical flexibility between the two. No matter how good the skills at the feet of Lewandowski, Henderson may find a chance to steal the ball.

Lewandowski is to give full play to his height and weight advantages, and rely on headers in non-threatening areas to act as a fulcrum for Bayern in the frontcourt.

Responding to Bayern's long pass from the backcourt.

"Some are overqualified!"

Yang Feng watched Lewandowski doing all the "dirty work" in his own half, and felt a little "not worth it" for Lewandowski.

This kind of option outside the penalty area, as a fulcrum striker, purely for the purpose of transitioning the ball, without much offensive threat, should not be handed over to an excellent attacker like Lewandowski.

However, after thinking about it, his excellent defense made Lewand "dare not" to look for opportunities in the penalty area, and Yang Feng also felt that he had realized his defensive value.

However, the situation after the field did not allow it. Yang Feng continued to complain for Lewandowski in such a "leisure".

Bayern's offensive continues to accelerate.

Moreover, Lewandowski is only used as a turning point for long passes from the backcourt, and the real offensive threat has begun to focus more on wing attacks, instead of passing the ball to the penalty area in the middle.

For Bayern, the main offensive method is to forcibly break through from the wing, and mainly respond to players in the front or back.

Lewandowski's side in the middle, after the initial tentative attack was fruitless, completely became a cover for Bayern's attack.

Drag Liverpool's most effective defensive point, Yang Feng, to the middle, creating opportunities for other teammates who plug in.

And not only the pass after the side breakthrough, Bayern began to use more side breakthroughs, interspersed with the ribs, and used together.

Use the wing to inject Ribery's breakthrough ability to equip this side with enough offensive players to penetrate from the ribs and create threats.

When the player who comes in from the ribs runs to the position and receives the pass, whether it goes further into the hinterland of the penalty area or hits the goal near the line of the penalty area, it can also create a certain threat.

Bayern's offense, after getting familiar with the new offensive tactics, began to play vigorously.

Franck Ribery on the left, in the absence of Robben on the right, is definitely the most reliable offensive starting point in Bayern's offense.

His excellent personal breakthrough ability can form a point-to-point offensive breakthrough in many cases, helping Bayern to break the deadlock.

In this game, Guardiola handed over the heavy responsibility of breaking the game to Ribery.

For Ribery, although his age is constantly increasing, his state has remained quite good in recent years.

The world's best left-wing offensive player, Ribery can definitely be ranked No. 1.

In the first round at Anfield Stadium, Ribery's performance was not outstanding. There were reasons for his own state, and there were also reasons why Liverpool's defense on this side was quite dense.

But today, after Guardiola determined the tactical strategy of playing the main wing, he also piled up heavy troops on the wing.

Bayern's two wings constantly have full-backs advancing forward or midfielders diagonally inserting to constantly pull open Liverpool's defense and create space for the wings to attack.

Coupled with the cheering sound of the fans in the Allianz Arena and Ribery's own familiarity with the stadium, Ribery was finally able to exert his full strength in the attack on the left today, constantly breaking through and launching attacks on the wing.

"Franck Ribéry was extremely active at the beginning of the game."

"This is the third time that Ribery has made another breakthrough on the left side relying on his outstanding personal ability."

"Although Flanagan, this time the judgment was accurate, he stretched his legs to block Ribery's passing route and broke the ball out of bounds."

"However, the previous two times, Ribery made a direct pass from the bottom to the goal, and once passed the ball in an inverted triangle near the penalty area line. Thiago completed a long-range shot and hit the goal. Both of them are threatening."

"With Bayern mainly playing on the left, can Liverpool's defense, especially the personal performance of the teenager Flanagan, complete the defensive task well?"

For Liverpool, in the first half of the game, it was all about pressing the gourd and starting the scoop.

When Liverpool's midfield defensive force began to lean towards Ribery's side, Bayern's various large-scale transfers of the ball began to look for opportunities on the right.

As a team with excellent offensive background, Bayern at home today played a very different offensive performance from the first round.

The player's offensive performance has become better, the pass is extremely accurate, and in the game, the ball can be sent to the most threatening place with the fastest speed.

Bayern's attack, attacking everywhere, constantly creates threats from the wing, while Liverpool's defense, although the wind in front of the goal is jittery, but the 0-0 score is maintained. For Liverpool, it is the advantage in score.

It's just that the defense that Rogers relies on, in the end, today, there is still no way to complete the away game with zero seals.

Bayern, who continued to attack, finally broke the deadlock on the field in the 29th minute of the game.

Bayern's offensive organization this time is quite patient.

Even though Liverpool wanted to press in the midfield area in the opening stage, as the game progressed, Bayern's offensive was oppressive and carried out very decisively.

The entire central defense line was tentatively moved to Liverpool's half, and Liverpool's aggressive pressing, as long as it was not intercepted immediately, it was very likely that Bayern would use sharp passes to find Liverpool's defensive space.

On the one hand, Bayern's offensive threat after passing the ball is great. On the other hand, I also want the players to save a certain amount of physical energy to deal with the consumption of the whole game.

Rodgers did not force the players who fought continuously to spend more physical energy in the middle to press down. Instead, when Bayern launched a strong attack, they retreated further to defend, organized a defense line in the 30-meter area, waited for the opponent's impact, and waited for an opportunity to try Grab the opportunity and find Sterling or Sturridge to complete the counterattack.

However, Sturridge's one-man sweep in the frontcourt can actually cause quite limited defensive threats.

Under Bayern's fairly skilled pass and control system, it is actually quite easy for Bayern to play the ball in the midfield.

For Guardiola, in this game, it is very wise to put the more cumbersome Dante on the bench. After Budstuber came on the field, at least it made Bayern's defense more flexible and able to play. Passing the ball in the backcourt more quickly can also allow Boateng to step forward with confidence and boldness, and come to serve as Bayern's last point of departure in the game.

It was Boateng, the two-person pass with Budstuber, that resolved Sturridge's forward press.

Then Boateng took the ball a few steps forward. Before other Liverpool defenders stepped forward to press, Boateng advanced and handed the ball directly to Ram on the right.

In today's game, Lahm is no longer fixed in the midfielder's position on the field. With Bayern occupying an absolute offensive advantage, Lahm freely switches his position between the center and the right.

On the right back, sometimes the overall defense has to be taken into account. When the penetration is not large, Lahm will pull himself to the right, freeing Thomas Muller from the wing, and let him go to the center to grab points and create a bigger attack. offensive threat.

Boateng's pass this time is a direct oblique through ball to find Ram who is on the right at this time.

After Lahm got the ball on the right, he directly launched a bottom breakthrough.

Moreno's defense followed closely and did not dare to give Lahm room to pass the ball.

After all, Lahm's passing level is world-class in itself, otherwise he would not be transformed into a midfielder by Guardiola, and he is still flourishing in the midfielder position.

Even while Moreno was defending against Lahm, the midfielder defender Henderson also tried to come over to complete the assist defense and limit Lahm's attack this time.

But Lahm, who has a strong ability to observe the overall situation, will not be easily double-teamed by the opponent in this way.

Henderson's seemingly hidden help defense still couldn't escape the peripheral vision of Lahm's eyes while dribbling the ball.

Before Henderson completely blocked the angle, Lahm made an emergency stop while moving, and after moving away from Moreno who was in charge of defense in front of him, he passed the ball directly and quickly between Moreno and Henderson. Passed the past and passed the ball back to Alonso who responded accurately.

When Ramla went to the right, causing Liverpool's defense to think about leaning to one side.

Ram picked the ball out. After receiving the ball, Alonso immediately chose to pass the ball to the left to hit Liverpool's weak defensive side.

Alonso made an accurate long pass and diverted the ball to Ribery on the left.

Although Ribery's stop this time was a bit rough, but when he tricked Flanagan out to try to intercept, Ribery stopped the ball and dunked, directly forcibly accelerated and went in the opposite direction, and instantly got rid of Flanagan Defensively on the side, into the restricted area.

Of course, at this time, the effect of Liverpool's shrinking defense appeared. After Ribery passed the hurdle of Flanagan's defense, Lucas's defense was immediately in place. Except for Lucas, Sri Lanka Tring is also about to run to the defensive position to complete the two-team defense.

However, this time, Ribery did not choose to hit by himself. After all, the shooting angle is really limited, and there is a high probability that he will not be able to fly past Mignolet's ten fingers. Ribery did not waste the offensive opportunity to try to hit the goal.

Instead, he chose to turn back suddenly and pass the ball directly to the left back Alaba who followed up from the side.

Alaba kept adjusting the ball, facing Ribery's pass and passing it directly into Liverpool's penalty area.

The Liverpool players who defended Franck Ribery have not yet returned to their defensive positions, and the double ghosts of Lewandowski and Thomas Muller in the middle made Liverpool's double central defenders Yang Feng and Skrtel devote themselves to defending the two. in human defense.

And Alaba's pass between Ribery and the players in the middle, close to the left post, is definitely the weakest point of Liverpool's defense at this time.

Two "thin" figures are vying for this spot.

The figures of these two people may be the two thinnest players on the field, but this time they will jump in the air and decide the trend of the game.

During the game, Thiago has been cruising around the perimeter of the penalty area, doing pass support, and looking for opportunities.

When he saw Liverpool's defenders rushing towards Ribery, Thiago realized the existence of the opportunity.

Sprinting into the penalty area with all your strength, what you are looking for is a small space between Ribery and the dense offensive and defensive areas on the middle road.

Alaba's eyes are sharp enough, he saw the space, and he also saw Thiago who went forward.

What Alaba can do has been done, a precise pass is sent, and Thiago, sprinting with all his strength, completed the take-off against his defender Lallana.

In the subsequent confrontation in the air, Thiago was born as a midfielder after all, and his strength training was not too bad. This time in the air, he resisted Lallana hard and took a strong position.

After that, Thiago nodded and hammered the goal. Mignolet reacted divinely this time, but the position of the ball was too close to the goal line, so Mignolet hadn't finished the save and the ball had already flown. into the net.

Bayern was at home and finally pulled back a goal.