Football’s First Defender

The ball went in!

A goal for Liverpool to break the deadlock.

In this way, Coutinho seized the opportunity to score directly.

Juventus actually did a good job defending this time. Coutinho’s previous side cuts and the subsequent response to Sterling’s possible right offensive, the Juventus players, and the rotation of the defensive end, have coped quite well. .

However, what the Juventus players did not expect was that Liverpool right back Flanagan would start a direct connection with left winger Coutinho.

A long pass from the right side diverted the ball, and Flanagan passed the ball very quickly, without giving Juventus too much reaction time.

Moreover, Flanagan's pass was a fast pass that accelerated the ball with the inner instep, so that Juventus' defense had no time to transfer.

After that, it was Coutinho's personal display that was pulled back to the left.

First, he stopped the ball lightly, and accurately unloaded Flanagan's fast transfer ball on his feet.

This one-stop handling fully demonstrated Coutinho's own technical ability at his feet.

After that, Coutinho was confused by Lichtsteiner's series of offensive fake moves, and finally accelerated to escape from the right, which is the embodiment of Coutinho's own strong breakthrough ability.

After breaking through the penalty area, Coutinho's choice was very fast and decisive, and the final shot was also the best.

A high-quality shot made it impossible for Buffon to save the football even though he had already made a save.

The goal was scored, and the cheers resounded through the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

Even though the fans on both sides of the stadium were almost equal, the crazy Liverpool people and the silent Italians formed a stark contrast, making the entire Berlin Olympic Stadium full of cheers belonging to Liverpool.

The backwardness of Juventus turned the entire stadium into a red ocean of celebration.

Of course, although Liverpool scored the first goal in the first half of the game, the current position of the game has only been played for less than 20 minutes. For Juventus, there is still plenty of time. , Create a threat to Liverpool.

Liverpool still struggles with marking Juventus offensive personnel, especially strikers.

Among the Juventus double strikers, Tevez must be the most threatening.

Under Juventus' tactical system, it has played an important offensive role in the frontcourt this season.

Tevez, who moved to Juventus after several poor seasons in the Premier League, quickly found his attacking value.

The stocky Tevez, compared to his partner Morata, is Juventus' absolute frontcourt offensive fulcrum at present, occupying a very large proportion of offense.

Compared with the "reckless" Tevez, who is almost so powerful and "reckless", although Morata is tall and looks like a center forward, in essence, he is a player who relies on his running ability to compete with the midfielder. The position masters the striker who makes the kill.

Its constant interspersed, and its offensive ability to occasionally pull to the side, is also a big defensive problem for the mobilization of Liverpool's defense.

In terms of pre-match defensive planning, for Rodgers, when solving the Juventus striker problem, it is a difficult problem to choose "which one of the two pieces of shit to eat".

In the past Premier League seasons, Yang Feng had a very good record of defending Tevez, and facing a space forward like Morata, Yang Feng has always been the type of defense he is best at.

Yang Feng has an advantage in any defensive matchup, but his Skrtel is not so easy.

Facing a player with Morata's style of play, Skrtel, who loves to grab and is a little rude, was originally on the defensive end, so he couldn't form an effective, high-quality defense.

And facing Carlos Tevez, Skrtel may not be able to grab it...

In this entanglement, in the end Rogers chose to let Yang Feng be responsible for defending Tevez.

No way, after all, Tevez occupies more of Juventus' offensive proportion.

As for Morata, after losing the "lord killing" buff against his former owner Real Madrid, Rogers believes that the team's overall defense can achieve results.

Liverpool's offense is still concentrated on the two wings, especially the side of Coutinho who is in excellent form today.

Coutinho's breakthrough ability naturally has a huge advantage in the face of Lichtsteiner's defense. Even in the face of Juventus players' two-man defense, he still has the opportunity to complete the handling of the ball and continue to keep Liverpool's offense going.

However, Coutinho, who is playing high on the offensive end, sometimes reveals the shortcomings of young people.

Regardless of his own fight, Coutinho, who was in a state of excitement after attracting two defenders from the wing, still chose to force a pass from the bottom this time.

However, when the ball was passed, due to the speeding up and getting rid of it, the body was unstable when passing the ball, resulting in insufficient passing power. The ball was directly in front, and Bonucci took the lead to get it, and passed it diagonally out of the penalty area. Juventus Tooth's counterattack came.

The short pass with two feet forward, the ball passed under the feet of Lichtsteiner and Vidal, all with one kick, the ball was quickly and accurately passed to the right side of the midfield line, and a counterattack has been launched At the foot of Morata.

When Morata received the ball, Skrtel kept following the defense, but was accelerated by Morata twice and got rid of it directly on the right.

The tall Morata, after accelerating, is like an orthodox winger. In terms of speed alone, he is much faster than Skrtel.

Just when Sktel was still hesitating, whether to use more physical confrontation, even if it was a foul, he had to stop Morata.

Morata's acceleration directly got rid of it on the wing. Skrtel, facing the ball with strides, Morata, who showed no signs of slowing down, didn't even have a chance of fouling...

Yang Feng wanted to come back to make up defense at this time, but he was not in a hurry, and he had to be limited to Tevez in the middle.

The two old opponents who had played against each other many times in the Premier League before faced each other again. What Tevez felt the most was that Yang Feng's physical confrontation ability has been strengthened again.

In the previous few matches in the Premier League, Yang Feng also used his height, running position, and anticipation ability to limit the defensive position. He was very good and defeated Tevez.

However, in the confrontation of Tevez's strength, he can still occupy a certain advantage.

But now, even if the state recovers this season, Tevez is really unable to match Yang Feng.

For Tevez, Chiellini, the undisputed No. 1 central defender in Serie A, did not give himself so much pressure in the matchup with himself in normal training.

Tevez can only admit that it is not without reason that this Chinese kid is considered by the media to be the best central defender in today's football.

Morata's breakthroughs on the wing continued, and Tevez was also pushing forward desperately, trying to find opportunities to grab points in the middle.

However, Yang Feng has always maintained a defensive state in front of him.

Any of Tevez's running routes and possible offensive options are under Yang Feng's defense.

Physical confrontation is not dominant, and he wants to run out of offensive opportunities, but Yang Feng always takes immediate countermeasures to block the attacking route.

In the fight, they all came to the Liverpool penalty area, and Tevez couldn't run out of the open space to catch the ball.

Accelerating at full speed, Morata, who kept the gap with Skrtel, looked up to observe the situation, and also found the helplessness of teammate Carlos Tevez.

Thinking of Allegri's offensive tactics before the game, trying to avoid Yang Feng's defensive range, Morata didn't look for Tevez, who was close to his position.

Instead, during the fast march, an inverted triangle pass, rather than losing his balance, barely passed the ball near the Liverpool penalty area line.

Vidal, who followed up, faced the ball and completed a push!

However, Morata's passing power is still too great, and it is not easy to control the angle of Vidal's push. This ball was shot directly.

A very threatening counterattack, but it ended hastily in the end...