Football’s First Defender

Liverpool's defensive formation, in terms of overall performance, although it has certain minor flaws, it can still be regarded as having a good performance.

In the face of Barcelona's offensive impact, although Liverpool's wing defense is tight, but in terms of defensive construction in the middle, it is absolutely impenetrable.

Neymar and Messi's excellent personal offensive ability, how to solve it on the defensive end is a world-class problem.

It is a fact that the wing was exploded, and it would be a last resort to limit these two superstars with two or even three.

However, ensuring stability in the middle is Liverpool's defensive bottom line.

Neymar and Messi's breakthrough will suffer Liverpool's fastest defensive double-team when cutting inside. As for directly forcing the sidewalk, Liverpool's defensive players are a laissez-faire attitude.

It is good to be able to keep the defense following, and make some pass interference appropriately.

Liverpool's main defensive energy is all on the defense of the players in the middle, and the interspersed movement of other Barcelona players in the frontcourt.

Except for Yang Feng's 1v1 single defense against Suarez, the rest of the Liverpool players are all zone defenses to control their own defense zone, and Barcelona must not be allowed to find a chance.

When they were both in Liverpool, Yang Feng and Suarez did a lot of offensive and defensive training when they were training privately.

Yang Feng is familiar with Suarez's offensive skills, but similarly, Suarez also knows how to avoid Yang Feng's defense.

At the beginning of the game, Suarez tried to attack with the ball twice, but Yang Feng finished defending both of them.

Suarez retreated more to open up the offensive space, and the forced Yang Feng could only take the risk of defending this time.

Of course, Yang Feng's furthest distance is to rush out of the defense line, near the penalty area line, waiting for Suarez's offensive impact, and it is not like a real midfielder, rushing out and maintaining the full court against Suarez Follow up.

After Suarez opened up enough retreating space to attack, he used his comprehensive offensive ability to launch an attack anywhere on the court without a set pattern, and Barcelona is also familiar with this sudden offensive rhythm.

However, Liverpool's united defense still had a very good defensive effect in the early stages of the game.

In the case of an intensive attack at the beginning, but with no effect, Barcelona also began to seek to use the pass between players in the backcourt to recover some physical strength.

When this kind of opponent is out of strength, it is the best opportunity for Liverpool to counterattack before the game.

Liverpool's frontcourt has used a fairly proficient frontcourt press this season, and immediately started to try to steal the ball and complete the counterattack on the spot during the game.

However, when Liverpool dispatched to press the frontcourt, the advance of Liverpool's overall lineup also gave Barcelona more room to attack.

Barcelona's pass in the backcourt may not have been done to lure the snake out of the hole while recovering its physical strength.

Liverpool's frontcourt pressing is neither positive nor intense.

However, what they are facing may be the team with the strongest ability to control the ball in the entire football world, or even none of them.

Barcelona's deep-rooted pass and control system makes them always pass the ball with ease to find someone to easily break Liverpool's frontcourt siege.

For pass control, Barcelona is professional.

Everyone can play the ball, and everyone can be a pass point. The little lion king Ter Stegen is also perfectly integrated into Barcelona's pass control system in the position of goalkeeper, and can send precise passes.

Let Barcelona's trick of "leading the snake out of the hole" has a very good effect.

Liverpool's quick press in the frontcourt forced the Barcelona players to pass the ball backwards continuously, and the ball was finally passed to Ter Stegen's feet.

And Sterling used his speed advantage to directly attack the "Little Lion King", in order to force the goalkeeper to make mistakes.

It's just that Ter Stegen is not afraid of danger. Under normal circumstances, the goalkeeper may directly choose to clear the ball to avoid mistakes.

Ter Stegen, on the other hand, still had time to observe accurately. Before Sterling got in place, he completed the run-up and sent a long pass.

The ball was passed near the midfield, near the right line.

There are only Messi and Liverpool defender Moreno in the landing area.

Due to Ter Stegen's full strength, the ball passed very quickly.

Moreno, who was still a certain distance away from Messi, could not rush to the landing point at all, and Wacheng interfered with Messi.

The ball landed on Messi's head accurately, Messi took off, headed the ball directly, and rubbed the ball diagonally forward.

At this time, due to Liverpool's tight siege in the frontcourt.

The entire defense line moves forward as a whole.

No one thought that Ter Stegen's pass would be so fast and precise, and instead of directly hitting Liverpool's back half, he passed the ball to Messi in the midfield.

The completion of Messi's header ferry surprised many people.

However, after more than half of the season's running-in, Suarez has accelerated forward with a tacit understanding, first chasing Messi's header, and launching Barcelona's attack.

A very basic stop.

In the process of running fast, he stopped the ball almost without slowing down, and continued to dribble forward at high speed. This single stop action alone can make many national players with high salaries feel ashamed.

After that, Suarez broke out at his fastest speed and accelerated forward with the ball.

The only person who followed him closely was Yang Feng who was not far away.

In such an empty backcourt situation, what Liverpool needed to do at the time was for everyone to hold their defensive position, rather than let Yang Feng stare at Suarez and perform meaningless runs in this situation of defending the opponent's counterattack. move.

But when Suarez in Lovren's defense area quickly advanced, Lovren's reaction speed was too slow to form an effective block at all.

Fortunately, Yang Feng was focused, and when he saw Suarez's running route without the ball, he was ready.

When Messi's header ferry was completed, Yang Feng had already started and rushed back to defend.

But first, the starting positions of the two were different, and Yang Feng couldn't interfere with Suarez in the first place.

Secondly, although Suarez's speed is not top-notch, it is definitely much stronger than a tall central defender like Yang Feng.

Compared with sprint speed, Yang Feng definitely doesn't have it.

Although Yang Feng used his experience and excellent game reading ability to integrate Suarez's possible offensive routes, he planned the shortest route.

However, Yang Feng had a premonition that it would not be easy to completely stop Suarez's attack, so he had to do his best.

Facts have proved that Suarez's game is in excellent condition, and he did not waste too much of his will to play in La Liga's less competitive games.

When Yang Feng chased into the penalty area from another direction and could cause interference, Suarez obviously dribbled the ball one step faster than Yang Feng's defense was in place, and he was already able to hit the goal one-on-one.

Although Yang Feng could not cause substantial interference, due to Yang Feng's full sprint from the side and rear, Suarez still gave Suarez a certain amount of offensive pressure.

Yang Feng forced Suarez to the point where he didn't dare to make too many adjustments in the penalty area after entering the penalty area. Instead, he shot Mignolet near the penalty spot.

Yang Feng's sliding shovel didn't even have time to block the angle of the shot, but the psychological pressure Yang Feng gave Suarez was effective.

The angle of Suarez's push may be tricky enough, but the power of the shot is not strong, and the speed of the ball is not fast, allowing Mignolet to have enough time to fall to the ground. The split right leg barely expanded the defensive area and completed the block.

"Suarez's single goal!"

"It was blocked!"

"Yang Feng immediately made a big-footed clearance!"

"Mignolet, become a Liverpool hero!"

Liverpool players are thankful, thankful that Suarez did not seize the opportunity, and thankful that they have such an outstanding goalkeeper.

After Yang Feng cleared the siege, he stood in the penalty area and gasped heavily.

After all, with such a body shape, from near the midfield line, sprinting at full speed into the penalty area, running such a short distance will consume a huge amount of physical energy.

While bending over and panting to recover his physical fitness, Yang Feng also gave Mignolet a thumbs up, as the core of the defense, expressing his appreciation for his goalkeeper...

Survive a catastrophe, but there is no future blessing.

Perhaps the biggest blessing is that Liverpool's defense was also quite strong afterwards, and it did not allow Barcelona to break through easily.

In this strong duel, Barcelona sits at the Nou Camp Stadium, occupying the right time, place and people, and an absolute advantage.

Did not give Liverpool too many opportunities, not to mention the offensive position of Liverpool, even the chances of defensive counterattack are very few.

Barcelona's control over the ball is absolutely fine. Even if they sometimes give up some threatening passes, they must ensure that the ball is firmly under their control.

Liverpool can't pose a threat to Barcelona at all, and Barcelona is constantly trying different ways of attacking routines to increase the total number of attacks.

Accumulating a certain number of attacks may cause qualitative changes and score goals.

Barcelona's offensive attempts wave after wave, and if they can't get it right, they can break the deadlock.

Especially Neymar.

If Messi's breakthrough does not need to be based on the situation on the field and the space left by the opponent, then Neymar's offense may need the ball at his feet.

Neymar, who is famous for his fancy moves, quickly accepted the baptism of European football philosophy after coming to Barcelona. While retaining some fancy moves with the same practical ability, he added a large number of practical offensive methods in line with European offensive philosophy.

Especially in some routine breakthrough actions, some fancy skills can be inserted to achieve good defensive effects.

I really can't prevent it.

An English-style full-back like Flanagan, facing Neymar, just couldn't use his strength.

Neymar is really too flexible, with his ability to change direction and accelerate, sometimes, he uses Flanagan as a training stake, and he can bully Flanagan at will.

Flanagan wanted to find a physical confrontation and complete the defense, but Neymar's ability to dribble and evade was too strong, so he didn't make too much physical contact with Flanagan.

Flanagan's most effective defensive method may be to directly adopt foul tactics. For this reason, Flanagan also received a yellow card when Neymar was fouled and fell to the ground on the wing.

Flanagan also wanted to cry without tears. He obviously opened up a certain area on the side, but Neymar kept trying to break through into the penalty area and try to dribble the ball to the middle.

Constantly provoking Flanagan's defense, but Flanagan has nothing to do.

Even with the supplementary defense of Liverpool's other defensive players, Neymar was still unable to be restricted.

Even sometimes, Neymar still has no fear when facing more than two defensive players, and can forcefully bring the ball out of the double-team and continue to pose a threat.

This is the explosive player that Barcelona relies on most. One person can defeat the opponent's entire side defense.

It can only be said that Liverpool's defense, while sending out a large number of free kicks and corner kick opportunities, effectively restricted several threatening players from Barcelona's scrambling for landing spots.

This made Barcelona's set-piece conversion rate extremely low and did not pose enough threats in the first half.

Liverpool can enter the intermission with a 0-0 score.

A 0-0 score is acceptable for Liverpool, but Barcelona, ​​which is playing at home, is definitely unacceptable.

During the halftime break, Barcelona coach Enrique used the limited time to not only carry out the offensive arrangement for the second half of the game, but also mobilize the big-name players in the midfield.

There is only one goal for Barcelona, ​​which is to win at home and expand the score advantage as much as possible to lay a good foundation for the second round of away games.

For the goal of winning at home, but also to create a greater offensive threat to Liverpool's midfield.

Enrique's change is very impactful, that is, it gives Alba and Alves more offensive space on the left and right sides, and there is still time to stay.

This allows the two to effectively supplement Barcelona's offensive firepower, and fill Neymar and Messi's wing attack strength after moving closer to the center.

And Neymar and Messi, after taking off the side attack and the pressure of pulling space, also began to advance towards Liverpool's defensive hinterland, instantly causing Liverpool's defense to be overwhelmed.

There is no way, although Liverpool has the advantage in the number of defensive players, but the personal abilities of Messi and Neymar are too strong, especially their ability to combine ball breakthroughs.

In addition, the feed of several passers in Barcelona's midfield created a huge threat to Liverpool's central defense at the beginning of the second half.

Among them, the cross movement between the MSN combination, and Alves' bottom attack on the right, almost allowed Barcelona to break the deadlock in the 55th minute of the game.

Alves took the lead in breaking through the bottom and attracted Moreno's defense. Although the bottom pass was blocked, he switched positions with Messi and came to Suarez on the right side, quickly grabbed the second point and went directly to the goal. Liverpool restricted area.

With Lovren defending up, Suarez forcibly changed to the bottom, and then completed a cross pass before losing his balance under acceleration.

The ball was passed directly to Liverpool's goal, and Yang Feng flew to intercept it, but Neymar, who was ambushing in the middle, was one step faster and completed a kick before Yang Feng.

Fortunately, Mignolet did not lose his position. Neymar did not control the angle of the shot in order to get ahead of Yang Feng, so that the ball hit Mignolet directly and did not result in a goal...