Football’s First Defender

Three goals behind in the away game, with a big score of 4 to 3 in two rounds. Bayern, who played at home, completed the reversal. Liverpool is one step closer to the cliff of being eliminated.

Although it is said that this conceded goal is not fatal to Liverpool, because Liverpool had to ask to score a goal before.

In the case of Bayern scoring this goal, it only allowed Liverpool to regain the promotion advantage from the previous goal. After Liverpool scored, the two teams will face extra time because of the big score and the same away goal. That's all.

However, Bayern's third goal was the biggest blow to Liverpool's morale.

Liverpool's momentum is sluggish, while Bayern's momentum is like a rainbow.

The ups and downs, whether Liverpool can break through the gate of Bayern Munich in such adversity is the most critical.

And the imposing Bayern has much more experience in dealing with this kind of Champions League knockout than Liverpool.

As a team that can guarantee the performance of the Champions League all the year round, although Bayern is under less pressure in the league, they have quite profound experience in the Champions League in the face of such strong duels.

After the team takes a further lead, for Bayern, it only needs to follow the defensive tactics formulated during the halftime break, do a good job of the team's defense, and wait for an opportunity to prepare for a counterattack.

As long as they can score another goal by counterattack, Bayern will completely seal the victory.

Liverpool coach Rodgers on the sidelines was very anxious at this time.

Being led 3-0 by Bayern and on the verge of being eliminated is definitely not what Rodgers expected to see.

As the game time entered 60 minutes, Rogers began to make substitution adjustments.

When this kind of team needs to work hard and launch the final attack, Rogers sent Gerrard, the most trusted team captain at this time.

With the Jie team replacing Lucas, Rogers will send more offensive players to further attack.

The Jie team's playing is one aspect. Balotelli, Lambert, and even Joe Allen are all warming up at this time. Liverpool's limited offensive players on the bench must be prepared. If Liverpool still cannot When scoring goals, Rodgers will play all the attacking cards in his hand.

As for Bayern on the field, they just need to be patient and do their own defense well.

As Bayern all retreated to their own half, it was not easy for Liverpool to play the ball in the frontcourt.

The pass-and-control team is actually the best at defending pass and control.

After all, everyone plays in the same way, and there is no difference in the way of passing the ball.

In terms of overall offensive tactics, Liverpool encountered Bayern's rather targeted defensive arrangement. In the case of being unable to play easily, in the end, Liverpool's offense still needs to rely on the individual performance of the players.

This kind of performance is concentrated on Sterling.

As the most improved player in the Liverpool lineup this season, Sterling perfectly replaced Suarez's participation rate in Liverpool's offense in the season Suarez left.

Although Sterling cannot achieve the offensive role of Suarez, he also uses his own way to attack on the side, the center, and any position.

Liverpool's own personal ability, from point to point, acts as a hot spot to drive Liverpool's overall offense.

With Liverpool's offense slightly stagnant, Sterling's personal breakthrough is still needed to create a certain offensive space for Liverpool.

Sterling's breakthrough alone, sometimes even facing Bayern's two defensive players is not afraid.

Extremely fast, excellent explosive power, good flexibility, and the degree of physical confrontation trained in the Premier League.

Although Sterling is not tall enough, when he really starts to speed up, defensive players may not be able to limit him.

Especially Sterling, as Liverpool's frontcourt free man, although most of the time he mainly attacks on the right, but occasionally switches to the left to start a breakthrough, but it can create a lot of "surprises" for Bayern's defense. .

Sterling and Coutinho attacked on the left, and then matched with Moreno who was ready to respond at any time.

Liverpool's offensive combination, suddenly exerting force on the left, also caught Bayern's defense by surprise.

Facing Bernat who was defending him, Sterling directly made a breakthrough on the wing.

Bernat's speed is not slow, but he is used to defending technical offensive players like Coutinho, and suddenly faced with a "reckless man" like Sterling who relies on speed for food, he didn't adapt for a while, and was caught by Sterling. After Lin speeded up to grab half of his position, because Sterling had already stepped into the penalty area with one foot, Bernat, who was on the side and rear, no longer dared to shovel.

Sterling stuck Bernat into the penalty area. Facing the half-attacked Neuer, Sterling, who did not have a big shot angle, decisively chose to pass the ball to find his teammates.

Sturridge, who followed up in the middle, used his running position to attract the two Bayern players into the small penalty area.

However, Sterling's pass did not find Sturridge, who could only be seen in a narrow field of vision because of the blocking of Bayern players.

Instead, pass the ball directly to the blind spot of your vision, and pass the ball further back.

"Trust your teammates!"

This was Sterling's resolute choice when he made the final pass.

And this teammate is not Liverpool's striker Sturridge, but one of the players who have been training with him the longest, Henderson!

Even though Sterling can't see the situation on the field, knowing that Sturridge has attracted a heavy defense, there must be a larger space behind him.

Henderson, who followed up, went directly to the counterattack position he was most familiar with, waiting for the leak to hit the goal directly.

But before the man ran, the ball had already been passed by Sterling.

This time, Henderson managed to take an extra step, forcibly reached the football, and hit the goal without any extra adjustments.

Rogers on the sidelines was ready to cheer when he saw Henderson's wonderful kick.

However, Neuer's divine reaction made Rogers turn around angrily and vent his dissatisfaction.

At the critical moment, Neuer quickly fell to the ground and held the ball out with a single palm. He just gave Liverpool a corner kick and resolved Liverpool's most dangerous attack in this game.

The game time is close to 70 minutes. At this time, for Liverpool, it is almost a desperate situation.

Rogers hesitated and played his second substitution card.

The striker, veteran Lambert, replaced Lallana, using this traditional British center forward, just to smash in front of Bayern's goal.

Using the opportunity of the dead ball to complete the substitution can maximize the use of this corner kick opportunity.

When Lambert appeared in Bayern's penalty area, for many of Bayern's defensive players, a very real question was who would defend the newly replaced high center forward.

Originally, Yang Feng and Skrtel had been restraining a lot of Bayern's air defense forces.

At this time, there is suddenly an extra Lambert. In order to defend Lambert's header, Bayern can only relax their defensive protection against the opponent's double central defender.

Facts have proved that Rogers' second adjustment, the selection of personnel is extremely correct, and the timing of the substitution is also quite essence.

Lambert's appearance, before the kick-off, was in the Bayern penalty area, rushing left and right, constantly creating physical confrontations with the defenders, attracting the attention of Bayern defenders.

But when Gerrard's corner kick was taken, Yang Feng got a certain amount of running space in a slightly relaxed environment.

With Badstuber alone defending him, Yang Feng didn't miss the opportunity this time.

Gerrard's pass, landing point, and speed control are quite precise, and the ball is passed completely according to the tactics expressed by tactical gestures.

As for Yang Feng, he made a gesture to run to the right and back, and after two steps, he stopped suddenly and turned to the left to find the middle.

Back and forth, because Budstuber followed Yang Feng's footsteps and reacted a little slower, Yang Feng won more space for himself.

After that, he took off directly and jumped high.

The man jumps up and the ball arrives.

Budstuber, who was following him, jumped up forcefully to interfere with Yang Feng, but Yang Feng was in the air, carrying Budstuber's confrontation forcefully, using his waist to keep him in the air, and his neck to directly hammer the ball To the upper left corner of the goal.

Such a close-range header was still completed between lightning and flint.

Although Neuer also wanted to make a forced save this time, he was still in the air, halfway through the flight, and the ball had already flown into the goal.

3 to 1!

The score of the two rounds was 4 to 4!

Yang Feng's header made a contribution and tied the score for Liverpool, and the game resumed a huge suspense.

The Allianz Arena fell silent for a moment.

No one thought that a corner kick would allow Liverpool to seize the opportunity and score such a goal, which is not too threatening.

Goals are the most important thing.

Yang Feng was frantically celebrating with his teammates, especially Gerrard who assisted him, while Rogers on the sidelines was also using exaggerated physical movements to vent his inner tension and oppression.

Liverpool's depression in the previous 70 minutes was vented by Yang Feng's goal.

And now the two sides have a big score of 4 to 4 to a tie.

Definitely on the same starting line.

Bayern has a certain home court advantage, and the personnel reserve is better.

Liverpool, on the other hand, has a more threatening away goal advantage.

The total score of the two sides is now tied, and the away goals are the same.

If Liverpool score another goal, then Liverpool will have a real advantage on away goals.

At that time, there will be no possibility of entering extra time. If Liverpool scores another goal, Bayern can only score two more goals to directly win the game, otherwise Liverpool will advance.

Of course, the premise is that Liverpool score another goal.

There were still about 20 minutes of regular game time, and the total score came to 4 to 4.

For Bayern, Guardiola also began to make some substitution adjustments to achieve the purpose of alleviating the physical fitness of the players on the field.

In the real decisive stage, Bayern's main focus will still be offense.

Guardiola chose to believe in his players.

After Rodgers completed two substitution adjustments, he knew that it was not suitable for difficult defense at this time, and the team had to rely on offense to find the initiative.

And there is an away goal as a lure, Liverpool's tactics are also based on offense.

At the last moment of the game, the two teams finally started to fight each other.

The choice of offensive tactics and the physical consumption of the players' continuous running made the two sides really open up and attack. It was found that the defensive teams of the two teams were not too capable of stopping the opponent's attack.

Due to the decline in physical fitness and the reduction of interception power in the midfield, both teams are starting to play in the game, and it is easy to get some pretty good offensive opportunities.

This kind of opportunity, although it will not directly lead to an easy shot in the penalty area, but allowing the opponent to pass the ball smoothly in one's own half, and finally hit the goal with a kick outside the penalty area, it is the goal of both sides. The face of the defensive line was shattered.

When there is a physical problem, no matter how good the defender is, facing the opponent's offensive player, they are at an absolute disadvantage.

This disadvantage will even become bigger and bigger as the game progresses. When opportunities are created, it depends on whether the offensive players can grasp them.

And Bayern, who sits at home, is indeed the more dominant side.

Although Yang Feng's physical reserves are still very good, facing the impact of Bayern's large number of offensive players, Yang Feng and the defense line led by him cannot take care of everything at all.

Bayern's offense, in the final moments of the game, showed a very good ability to create threats.

After a flat game, Alaba suddenly took over Ribery's offensive banner.

Taking advantage of Ribery's entire game, the breakthrough on the wing has already exhausted the physical fitness and energy of Liverpool defender Flanagan.

Alaba also launched an offense on this side, in order to maximize the use of Flanagan, Liverpool's "weakness".

"So tired!"

That's what Flanagan feels most about on the defensive end.

Throughout the game, after facing the impact of Ribery, there was really no energy left at this time, so I had to limit Alaba.

Alaba forcibly hit the bottom, and then a high-quality cross, almost assisted Muller to score with a header.

After that, Liverpool's offense did not improve, and Alaba himself once again launched a strong attack on the left.

Although Flanagan was not passed in one step, under the impact of Alaba, he did not have a good chance to complete the limit.

After being used as Bayern's offensive target twice, and after being successfully broken through by the opponent quite easily, Rogers made temporary adjustments to his third substitution.

Glenn Johnson, who has recently recovered, is used to replace Flanagan, who is already physically exhausted.

When Glenn Johnson barely blocked the sidewalk, the game time entered 80 minutes. In the final stage, the two sides will show the greatest enthusiasm and devote themselves to the most critical moment of the game.

And the result will determine the fate of the two teams...