Football’s First Defender

Barcelona's overall offense has taken a qualitative leap after the arrival of Suarez this season.

In the previous Barcelona, ​​although Messi was a well-deserved superstar of the team, his debut was the pinnacle, but the real team's offensive core, the brain, was the midfielder Xavi and Iniesta.

What Barcelona really relies on on the offensive end is the passing of the most creative midfielder in the world. In the game, the passing of the ball is used to tear the opponent's defense and create opportunities.

With Harvey leaving on a free transfer and Inesta gradually showing his old age, Barcelona, ​​besides Messi, also needs to have more strong points to join in order to bring the team back to its peak state, instead of being like Messi. It was the appearance of being beaten by Bayern in the Champions League knockout rounds two years ago.

Messi's flexible dribbling ability in the midfield, Neymar's bursting ability on the wing, and the comprehensive offensive ability of the newly transferred Suarez, when the MSN combination was established, it makes today's Although Barcelona is still a pass-and-control team, the real killer move is completely different from the previous offensive style.

Together, the three of MSN can smash the defense of any opponent in front of them, no matter who the opponent is or what kind of iron barrel formation the opponent puts up.

Barcelona will still have a lot of ball possession, but the real killer move is no longer a continuous pass of the elusive, but a striker, showing excellent personal ability.

Instead of leading the pass, the striker only needs to run and wait for the ball to be released. Instead, he passes the ball to a certain area, and relies on the strong personal strength of the players to gain possession of the ball and create an offensive threat.

In the face of Barcelona's strong attack at home, for Liverpool's defense, the most reliable thing in the game must be the player's confrontation ability.

Although Liverpool relies on their own team's technical ability and pass control tactics in the usual Premier League games.

But when facing the world-class Barcelona, ​​which maintains a pass-and-control football tactical system all the year round, Liverpool is obviously at a disadvantage in the technical field.

Today's Liverpool, when arranging defenses, can only use their advantages in physical confrontation to make up for their lack of agility, just like those opponents in the middle and lower reaches of the league.

"Everyone pay attention to my position, don't cross my horizontal line, our defense line, there can't be any incongruity."

From the beginning of the game, Yang Feng has been constantly emphasizing the problem of the overall coordination of the team. In the case of an away game, Liverpool cannot have any flaws in their defense.

Especially in this case where the defense line moves forward as a whole, there must be no problems. If the offside fails, it is entirely possible that Barcelona will catch the opportunity.

You must know that although Barcelona does not have the top passer like it did in its peak period, Barcelona, ​​which is not short of money, has not much difference in the passing ability of the players in the team. Any opportunity, as long as Liverpool dare to expose it, may let Barcelona gave Liverpool a fatal blow.

And Barcelona has maintained this fast-paced offensive and defensive rhythm since the beginning of the game, which could have caused great defensive pressure on Liverpool.

After all, this is the Nou Camp Stadium, facing Barcelona, ​​which has maintained its top level in Europe in recent years and is famous for its offense.

In the constant frontcourt pressing and attacking, Liverpool's five-back defense will inevitably still have some uncoordinated phenomena.

Yang Feng should have been Liverpool's defensive marker, but other defensive players will inevitably focus too much on marking their own defenders and ignore Yang Feng's position. This kind of short-term problem of inconsistent positioning may cause Spotted by Barcelona's top passer.

Rakitic accurately grasped such an opportunity when he played the ball in the midfield.

Neymar and Messi, the two superstars on the left and the right, involved a lot of energy from Liverpool's defensive players, when Rakitic suddenly picked the ball forward, taking advantage of Liverpool's defense line, Lovren's position With a slightly later opportunity, Suarez succeeded in anti-offside and went straight into Liverpool's penalty area.

At first, Yang Feng thought that the ball would be a successful offside trap, but immediately, without hearing the whistle, Yang Feng knew something was wrong.

Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, Yang Feng immediately chased after him, but he knew how hard Suarez's shot was, and he must not be allowed to have enough room to adjust his shot.

Because Rakitic's pass position is too deep, Suarez needs to run two more steps to catch the ball, which gives Yang Feng room to chase back.

When the ball landed first and bounced forward, Suarez chased forward, ready to adjust his pace, and when he finished the volley directly, Yang Feng, who came from the side and rear, made a body collision and knocked Suarez to the ground.

"Suarez! Fell in the box, penalty?"

"Rizzoli shook his head and didn't say anything. Yang Feng caught up with the football and cleared the ball out of the sideline!"

For this ball, the referee Rizzoli did not blow his whistle. Even though Suarez fell to the ground exaggeratedly, Rizzoli did not recognize that this was an illegal collision.

The slow motion also shows that Yang Feng's impact may have been powerful, but it was just a normal block, the impact, the arm did not have any pushing movements, and the body did not lean forward obviously, which did not constitute an invasion of the attacker.

Suarez fell to the ground, on the one hand, due to the large difference in physical confrontation ability with Yang Feng, on the other hand, it may also have its own acting elements.

After all, Suarez can "diving" and has deceived many referees, so that the referees who enforce Suarez's games now are cautious about penalty kicks made by Suarez.

Sitting on the ground, Suarez, who had been reaching out to the referee to complain to no avail, was finally pulled up by his opponent, Yang Feng, who knocked him to the ground.

They are opponents on the field and friends off the field.

Yang Feng and Suarez, the two players who came to Liverpool at the same time, were not only the two core players of Liverpool's great revival last season, but also very good personal friends.

Even though the media wanted to provoke each other before the game, Suarez still didn't have any bad words about Liverpool and Yang Feng. Everyone focused on the game itself, not any gimmicks outside the game.

This also makes, although outside the arena, among fans, and in the media, swords are tense.

However, in the game, Suarez did not have any friction with the Liverpool team.

Although, on the stage of the semi-finals of the Champions League, the two sides would not greet each other with smiles in order to advance, but they definitely did not turn against each other.

The shot of Yang Feng lifting Suarez was also taken in a huge close-up by the live camera.

Perhaps, this is a short era for Liverpool, the two best strikers and defenses, a rare group photo as opponents...