Football’s First Defender

Barcelona's offense is still constantly creating threats.

Especially as the physical fitness of Liverpool players declines, Barcelona players have more room to display their personal abilities.

Neymar suddenly had a personal explosion in front of the Liverpool penalty area.

Neymar dribbled the ball in the middle, flashed and moved, and within a small area, he dribbled and passed 3 people in a row to complete the breakthrough. He was almost able to reach the Liverpool penalty area by himself to create a shooting opportunity. .

Fortunately, Yang Feng, who was defending against Suarez on the other side, took advantage of Neymar's "rise of killing" to complete the defense in time, accurately smashed the ball from the diagonal stab and intercepted the ball, which prevented Neymar's wonderful personal breakthrough this time . Avoid Liverpool's carefully arranged defense line and be broken by Neymar alone.

Afterwards, Yang Feng, who had completed the steal, made a big long pass, hoping to find his teammates in the frontcourt.

Sterling is the biggest threat to Liverpool's counterattack on the field, and once again acts as a frontcourt free man in the frontcourt.

This time, Yang Feng chose to pass the ball to the deep space on the left, while Sterling accelerated and rushed to the landing area, hoping to create an offensive threat for Liverpool.

However, Sterling is fast enough, but Alves, who is in charge of defending this side, is not slow.

As one of the best right backs in the world today, although Alves is good at attacking, it doesn't mean he doesn't have excellent defensive ability.

It's just that the offensive characteristics of the Brazilians prevent them from paying too much attention to their defensive performance in most games.

But in this kind of strong duel, Alves still put in his best on the defensive end.

Especially in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, which has attracted much attention, Alves will not relax himself. He must prepare for the game with all his strength and make the best offensive and defensive performances.

Sterling speeded up and broke through from the left, but because the ball was exposed, the experienced Alves looked at the time, stretched out his foot and hooked, and poked the ball out, letting the ball out of Sterling control.

After that, Alves dribbled the ball directly to launch Barcelona's counterattack.

Liverpool's on-the-spot counterattack was very quick, especially this time Moreno, who was in charge of supporting Sterling, immediately launched a press on Alves.

Alves, not entangled by Moreno's defense, immediately passed the ball diagonally to Barcelona midfielder Busquets.

Busquets kicked the ball out and passed the ball to Messi not far in front of him before Sterling pressed him laterally.

Messi dribbled the ball forward quickly, and Henderson wanted to foul to block, but Messi was still moving at a high speed and chose to redistribute the ball to the right.

A diagonal through ball, in the speed competition, Alves is slightly better than Moreno.

Although due to some flaws in stopping the ball, he could not continue to develop a speed breakthrough, but Alves smashed the ball, but still shook Moreno, who was accelerating back to the defense.

With a certain space, Alves can better observe the situation on the field, and then a horizontal pass is passed to an empty space where there is no one.

Messi just sped up to get rid of Henderson a second later and completed the forward move.

After receiving the ball, Messi directly dribbled the ball forward quickly.

Liverpool's defense is like an enemy.

Lovren and Emre Can, one left and one right, stepped forward directly, trying to double-team Messi.

But Messi first made a horizontal smash to avoid Lovren's defensive range, and then before Emre Can stepped forward to complete the steal, he sent a precise oblique pass with his left foot and passed the ball to After Liverpool's formation was advanced when they followed up and counterattacked just now, there was a huge gap behind them.

Yang Feng defended Suarez, and this side had no chance.

Therefore, Messi chose to find another offensive threat point during the march, which is faster and more suitable for Neymar, who is Barcelona's counterattack arrow.

Neymar's diagonal advance, relying on his own speed, directly succeeded in anti-offside, and got rid of Skrtel's follow-up defense.

In the case of Liverpool's offside trap failing, Neymar only needs the next pick pass, and it will definitely be a single-handed chance.

It's just that at the critical moment, Neymar didn't reach the perfect level of unloading the ball in the face of Messi's pick pass.

The ball came to a slightly forward stop.

At the critical moment, Mignolet, who hardly attacked in the previous games, also attacked directly and quickly this time, and seized the opportunity of Neymar's stop error, a sliding tackle, and immediately cleared the ball. Liverpool once again completed a wonderful defense.

This quasi-single-handed opportunity, because of his own stop error, did not grasp it, and the impact on Neymar was huge.

In the short period of time that followed, Barcelona's several offensive opportunities ended at Neymar's feet.

A long-range shot from 30 meters outside, and a time when Barcelona finally penetrated into Liverpool's penalty area, Neymar's direct shot failed, all showed Neymar's impatience at this time.

Although Neymar also had an excellent feint when facing Liverpool's two defenses, pulling the ball backwards and turning the ball forward, playing with Emre Can, and completing the magical performance of a frontal breakthrough.

But on the whole, Neymar began to immerse himself in his own personal offense. With the ball at his feet, he almost did it by himself, which would naturally cause the tearing of Barcelona's overall offense.

Unlike Liverpool, whose 0-0 score is already satisfied, the more defensive they become, the more aggressive they become. During the game, Barcelona, ​​which has been in control of the ball and has absolute offensive initiative, cannot tolerate it. At the Nou Camp at home, just Being tied with a zero seal by Liverpool in this way.

Enrique began to make substitution adjustments, just to see if the team can reap the effect of offense.

It's just that the defense on Liverpool's side has also undergone a rotation of personnel.

Enrique and Glenn Johnson, the two main full-backs last season, came off the bench.

After all, Barcelona's penetration of Liverpool's wing is too much. Rogers hopes that the defensive players on the two sides can ensure enough physical fitness to deal with Barcelona's wing attack.

The appearance of Gerrard is to continue to strengthen Liverpool's defense in the middle, and Rogers also needs a veteran like Gerrard, who can let the players hold on to their last breath during the game.

Now that the 0-0 score has been maintained for 70 minutes, at the last moment, Liverpool is holding on to the idea of ​​​​holding a tie in the away game to bring the promotion advantage back to Anfield.

After the three substitutions and adjustments are completed, Liverpool's real counterattack threat point actually only becomes Sterling in the frontcourt. The 541 defensive formation is Liverpool's defensive determination.

As for Barcelona, ​​at the last moment, they need to concentrate on attacking.

It's just that Neymar, who is a little impatient, always helps Liverpool a lot, so that Liverpool's defense has a clear defensive point to target...