Football’s First Defender

No one thought that after getting a week's rest, Liverpool, who seemed to be in high spirits and high spirits, would be stubbornly blocked by Newcastle, a team in the relegation zone, in this away game.

Klopp's formation has actually paid great attention to the protection of the team's defense, and he has tried his best to protect the defense while limiting the opponent's offensive advancement. However, he still did not expect that the home team Newcastle is using Such a method without "technical content", constantly hitting Liverpool's defense with long passes, and then actually created a threat of "a blind cat hit a dead mouse" and scored a goal.

"Calm down! There is still time for the game, and we still have a chance, just be patient and come back!"

At this time, Yang Feng, as the captain of the team, tried his best to communicate with his teammates and do the work of cheering them up before kick-off.

The momentum of the team must not be lost. Liverpool still has a lot of time to tie or even overtake the score.

Now, for Liverpool, the priority is to do a good job in the team's offensive organization, as well as the competition for possession of the ball. The game cannot be played according to the rhythm of Newcastle.

Aiming at Newcastle, there was no tricky long pass. Liverpool's frontcourt pressing began to stop investing so many players, but to further deploy defensive forces to ensure the number of defenders in the backcourt and the defensive coverage area.

Afterwards, after making the defense more stable and regaining possession of the ball, Liverpool will patiently advance, then organize the offense in the midfield, and try to create better scoring opportunities in the offensive position.

It's just that the home team, Newcastle, played chicken blood today.

Amidst the cheers of the home fans, the Newcastle players fought bravely and played very aggressively in the game.

When facing Liverpool's offense, it is no longer obediently putting up a bucket formation to wait for Liverpool's offense.

On the contrary, in the game, they directly imitated Liverpool's previous style of play and carried out a fierce siege in the midfield. On the contrary, it had a considerable impact on Liverpool's own advancement.

Perhaps the Newcastle players, in terms of speed, flexibility, and teamwork, cannot be like Liverpool players. In the game, they raised the siege of the midfield to a strategic height, creating considerable restrictions on the opponent .

However, Newcastle players have better physical confrontation ability. In the frontcourt press, they can use their confrontation ability more to carry out collisions. Although sometimes the referee may call it a foul, but it is also Completely disrupted the offensive rhythm of Liverpool players.

One of the possible advantages of playing at home is that Newcastle players, as long as the foul is not too big, the referee will not draw out a yellow card, or even give a verbal warning. The foul is blown out, and the ball is returned to Liverpool. Fair enough.

Under the "indulgence" of the referee, Newcastle's style of frontcourt pressing tactics did cause considerable interference to Liverpool's offense, and brought Liverpool's planned counterattack to an abrupt end.

Liverpool's offense can only be based on passing and controlling, and make more use of the players' personal abilities to advance and end on the offensive end.

Such an offensive attempt under an unconventional rhythm made Liverpool players not able to play as smoothly as before.

Liverpool did not have many threatening offensive opportunities in the frontcourt. The most threatening attack in the first half was a corner kick opportunity.

Yang Feng once again played the role of an all-round central defender in the game and gave the team considerable help on the offensive end.

This time Coutinho looked for a pass to Yang Feng. Yang Feng still forcibly finished the car and took off despite the double-teaming defense of the two, overwhelming the two to complete the header competition.

It's just that, after all, it's two people defending one after the other. No matter how strong Yang Feng is, he can't fight against two and hit the goal with high quality.

Although the ball was indeed hit on the spot, under the interference of the defensive players, the football Yang Feng pushed out was actually slightly blocked by the defensive player's head at the first moment, and the route changed slightly, and the speed and strength of the ball were unloaded. Most of the time, the goalkeeper of the home team was on the goal line, and with a side attack, he easily caught the ball.

Just when Liverpool failed to attack for a long time, it was Newcastle's counterattack and began to play vigorously.

Before the end of the first half, Newcastle almost rewritten the score.

Lallana's breakthrough with the ball in the middle, after suffering a savage collision from the Newcastle players on the side, the referee did not call a foul.

This allowed the Newcastle players to drive the ball forward and counterattack directly after successfully completing the defense.

This time Newcastle made a sudden counterattack, instead of making a direct long pass to find the teammate in front, they made continuous pass advances on the ground.

We all know that Yang Feng is good at defending long passes. Although Newcastle usually counterattacks, they don't have a good chance to go on the ground, so they have no choice but to choose to simply pass long passes.

But at the last moment of the first half, it was obvious that the interception ability of the Liverpool midfielders had declined. The Newcastle players' attack on the ground this time achieved quite good results.

The three people in front of the midfield line shot the ball in a row, and instantly pushed the ball from the front of the penalty area line to the midfield area, and then Shelvey sent a long-distance through ball directly in the midfield, directly finding the right road.

Yang Feng competed with Xisai for speed, but was overtaken by Xisai directly from the outside.

There is no way, this is a pure speed advantage, Cisse does not give Yang Feng a chance to fight physically.

After getting Shelvey's penetrating pass directly from the outside, Cisse accelerated to pass the ball into the Liverpool penalty area.

Yang Feng saw that there was no way to stop Cisse from the outside, so he could only use all his strength to accelerate straight back into the penalty area.

Yang Feng achieved his fastest speed and rushed back to the penalty area. Although he was still a step behind Cisse, he still achieved the ultimate that he could do.

He won't give up.

After Cisse caught up with the through ball, he dribbled the ball diagonally and directly entered Liverpool's penalty area from the wing.

Facing Mignolet's attack, Cisse, who was already in a single-handed state, was obviously not sure of finishing the goal while advancing at high speed.

Instead, choose to slow down, make adjustments, and avoid the ball being damaged by Mignolet who is attacking.

"good chance!"

Yang Feng watched Cisse's slowing down and adjusted his offensive rhythm, knowing that his full speed back to defense was not in vain.

"Cisse! Hit the door!"

"But... Yang Feng's appearance is really timely."

"A sliding tackle from the rear, precisely in front of Cisse's goal, and kicked the ball out."

"After being tackled by Yang Feng, Cisse fell to the ground and asked the referee for a penalty, but he was ignored."

"Yang Feng, with an excellent chase, completed the defense this time, and did not allow Newcastle to expand the score again."