Football’s First Defender

Liverpool's offensive suppression at the beginning of the game allowed the team to get enough attacks and opportunities to try to hit the goal. On the game scene, from the very beginning, it seemed extremely beneficial to Liverpool.

It's just that Leicester City, who are playing away, obviously won't be caught without a fight.

They are looking for all opportunities, and want to launch a targeted counterattack immediately after successfully completing the defense to attack Liverpool's defense.

However, the visiting team's counterattack in the first 20 minutes was almost imaginary and could not pose a substantial threat at all.

Liverpool's crazy frontcourt attack compressed the entire visiting team's defense into its own half, making Leicester City's players in a half-court defensive state, unable to draw out even counter-attacking forces.

In the face of the big-foot pass of their own backcourt players, Vardy and Mahrez will not try to chase the ball in the opponent's half with the attitude of trying it out like in previous games.

Because everyone knows that when facing Yang Feng's defense, pass the high ball, so never take chances.

When Yang Feng defended this kind of long-distance high-altitude pass, his advantage was too great.

Yang Feng's defensive range and his defense against high-altitude shots made Leicester City's best brainless counterattack hit the back. Today, certain changes must be made.

For Leicester City, which is extremely good at defensive counterattacks this season, if they want to defend well, they must endure the sense of crisis of being pressed by the opponent.

Liverpool attacked wildly for 20 minutes in the opening game and achieved comprehensive suppression, but no matter how strong the team is, it is impossible for the players to maintain a high-intensity exercise state throughout the game.

After Liverpool attacked for 20 minutes, they obviously began to consciously reduce the pace of the game. After a period of time, when the Liverpool players seized the time to catch their breath and rest, it was Leicester City who regained a certain amount of possession and launched an attack. crucial moment.

Although Leicester City organized two attacks in the past few minutes, neither of them caused even a chance to threaten the goal.

But Leicester City used such a short-term offensive impact in the game to show their own attitude, that is, their team is not the kind of fish that has no resistance.

After 25 minutes in the first half, the game really entered the fierce competition.

On the one hand, the Liverpool players, although after a short respite, relieved their previous fatigue. But after all, a lot of physical energy has been consumed. Later in the game, when Liverpool starts to attack again, the physical energy of the players will be limited, and there will be offensive mistakes, and the counterattack will not be timely after the offensive.

On the other hand, when Liverpool's offense is completed, the visiting team will have a greater probability of completing a counterattack to create a more threatening counterattack. The stability of the barrel array also changed direction to give Liverpool more room to attack.

The strength gap between the two sides will be further narrowed in the absence of sufficient physical fitness. Everyone has a chance, and everyone may be the first to make a breakthrough on the offensive end.

In the 27th minute of the game, Liverpool once again created an excellent offensive opportunity in the frontcourt.

During the counterattack process after the successful defense, the visiting team had to counterattack on the ground in order to prevent the high-altitude ball from being intercepted by Yang Feng.

But during the ground advance, Kanter's long-distance direct pass was intercepted by Henderson, who shot out from a diagonal stab in the midfield area.

Henderson didn't stop the ball, and directly followed the incoming ball in the midfield, and kicked the ball to the right side of the visiting team's penalty area.

In the horizontal position close to the penalty area line, Henderson's passing skills for this ball controlled the ball's landing point very well, so that Schmeichel Jr. had no chance at all to attack from such a long distance to complete the clearance.

Lallana, who was still pressing and defending on the spot in the frontcourt before, directly charged into the opponent's penalty area with all his strength.

Although Lallana is not good at absolute speed, but when facing the central defender Huth who is chasing back from Leicester City, Lallana's speed is very fast.

Lallana took the lead and rushed into the penalty area. After unloading the ball directly, he continued to move forward without slowing down, and did not give Huth, who was desperately chasing back, a chance to defend.

After completing self-adjustment in a quick pass, Lallana directly completed a burst shot on the right.

"This ball! Hit it!"

"Little Schmeichel! Another meritorious service!"

"Looking at the slow motion, Lallana's explosive shot has been controlled very well this time. The ball is extremely fast and the angle is extremely tricky. It hits the position of the near post."

"But Schmeichel, it was a subconscious save action. He opened his body as far as possible after taking off to increase his defensive area. This time his thigh blocked Lallana's wonderful kick and scored Liverpool again. The goal must be turned away."

Schmeichel Jr. made another wonderful save in the first half of the game. He blocked the goal of the basket and blocked the goal, which fully demonstrated the strength of the "first thigh" of Leicester City's defense.

Three minutes later, Liverpool's offensive came back. Lallana's continuous breakthrough in the right position of the center attracted a large number of defensive players from the visiting team to tilt to this side. Then Lallana suddenly crossed to the center and followed up. It was Henderson, who took advantage of the temporary vacancy in the opponent's middle, and before the visiting team's defense arrived, Henderson didn't stop the ball and directly completed a long shot from a long distance.

It was another long-range shot aimed at the goal, the ball was extremely fast, and there was a trajectory of whereabouts during the flight, but Schmeichel fell to the ground and hit the ball with a single punch at the end. Once again, Liverpool's excellent long-range shot was rejected, and Liverpool continued to defend so that Liverpool could not score even a goal.

Schmeichel Jr. became the brightest star at Anfield in the first half of the game. With his excellent goal line defense ability, he defeated a team alone.

At least in the first half, Schmeichel Jr. did it.

Throughout the first half of the game, facing Liverpool's extremely oppressive offensive performance, Liverpool, who blasted 10 shots in the first half and completed 7 shots on goal, completely made Schmeichel Jr.

He blocked in front of the goal, like a hang-up, and he completed all the saves and blocked all Liverpool's shots on target.

Especially before the end of the first half, when Liverpool used corner kick tactics, Yang Feng completed two headers in the penalty area in a series of corner kicks, but they were all blocked one after another by Schmeichel Jr. , Let Yang Feng think that the chance to score a goal has disappeared.

A person is a line of defense, and Schmeichel Jr. confirmed this sentence in the first half...