Football’s First Defender

Yang Feng took the ball and attacked directly, and Liverpool's counterattack began.

Herrera stepped forward directly, wanting to form a pressing pressure on Yang Feng together with Martial behind him.

But Yang Feng was not the kind of reckless guy who only knew how to keep his head down and charge forward on the court.

While Yang Feng was rushing forward with the ball, he was also constantly observing the surrounding situation.

In fact, Yang Feng's dribbling speed is not fast. After all, he is a central defender, not a winger.

So after realizing Manchester United's press and observing the running situation of his frontcourt teammates, Yang Feng didn't waste too much time and sent a long pass directly to the front.

"I believe that Yang Feng will be able to pass the pass. What I have to do is to find the space in the opponent's defense."

After Yang Feng successfully completed the steal, Liverpool's frontcourt players went straight to Manchester United's defensive hinterland to find possible offensive space.

Coutinho runs the fastest, faster than several forward players, almost pressing down on the level of Smalling, the last defender of Manchester United except De Gea, and is ready to respond to Yang Feng from the rear at any time the pass.

This kind of long-distance pass has been practiced many times in Liverpool's private training. For several offensive players in Liverpool, what they need to do is to use their running positions to directly create offensive space. When the opportunity arises, Yang Feng from behind will naturally find a way to pass the ball.

And Coutinho, who was at the front, almost pressed Smalling's defense at this time, and rushed directly to Manchester United's penalty area.

Yang Feng saw Coutinho running at the front, competing with Smalling for speed.

With a long pass, Yang Feng used a lot of kicking power to ensure that the ball can reach the position.

Without making too much of an arc, Yang Feng kicked the ball out of a high parabola with a pass similar to a pick pass and flew into Manchester United's penalty area.

"Beautifully delivered."

While Coutinho was running, he had to pay attention to Smalling's position to prevent offside, and at the same time, he needed to glance behind to see if Yang Feng had completed the pass.

After seeing the high-altitude ball flying rapidly from behind, Coutinho can also explode his speed to the extreme and rush directly into Manchester United's penalty area.

Yang Feng's passing skills have done an excellent job in controlling the advance of the long pass this time.

The landing point is in front of Coutinho's run, a little bit in front of Manchester United's penalty area line.

"Coutinho, under the defense of Smalling, accelerated towards the point where the ball fell."

"And Manchester United goalkeeper De Gea, this time also abandoned the goal."

"But Yang Feng's pass fell right between Coutinho and the attacking De Gea."

Who will win? Who can be the first to come into contact with football?

Coutinho directly maintained a fast forward speed, and then before entering the penalty area, he maintained his speed and took off directly. Even if he is a small player, it is not a problem to complete a dive to the top.

At this moment, looking at Coutinho's actions, there are some shadows of Van Persie's astonishing dive to the top in the World Cup.

However, although Manchester United is also a Spanish national team, De Gea is not comparable to Cassie, whose competitive state has declined during the World Cup.

Taller, longer wingspan, faster reflexes, and a more decisive attitude when attacking.

De Gea also came before the landing point at the moment Coutinho took the lead to complete the summit.

Leaping high while maintaining the forward state, he spread his arms to the limit in the air to ensure the largest defensive area. De Gea really blocked this wonderful attack with his right hand .

"De Gea! Excellent block, blocked Coutinho's dive to the top."

"However, there is more!"

Although De Gea blocked the ball, in the blink of an eye, De Gea was only able to barely block the ball, and was unable to make any remedial actions in the first place.

It was almost blocked in front of Coutinho.

After Coutinho landed, he immediately scrambled to get up, and immediately, under the defense of Smalling, he controlled the football.

When he was about to fall into the siege and had no room to hit the goal, Coutinho quickly poked the ball back and gave it to Firmino who followed up from the side.

Firmino met the incoming ball, directly completed the hit, and pushed hard to the goal with one foot.

De Gea is still a penalty kick forward, and there is nothing he can do to leak this empty goal.

In front of the door, there is only Damian who has just returned to the defense, and the resistance he can do is extremely limited.

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"Firmino, followed up with a long shot from the outside, kicked into the empty goal, and opened the scoring for Liverpool!"

The Liverpool players were celebrating with Coutinho and Firmino as the core, while De Gea's angry roar was in his ears.

For De Gea, this attack by himself has solved the first threat of Liverpool's counterattack, but Manchester United's defensive players, with a huge advantage of 4 defenses and 2, let Coutinho grab the first place. The second point also allowed Firmino to complete a kick outside the penalty area. This is the "crime" of the entire defense against himself

Seeing the Liverpool players celebrating passionately not far away, and hearing the cheers and singing from the whole stadium, was a big blow to De Gea.

"Perhaps it would have been a good choice to forcefully leave Manchester United and go to Real Madrid?"

(Actually, De Gea was wrong about this point. Going to Real Madrid, as a goalkeeper will definitely be more tiring. He will find that there will not even be a defender by his side.)

Leading 1 to 0, for Liverpool, it is to grasp the initiative on the field, which also forced Manchester United to pay more attention to offense and try to get back the score in the away game.

The lag in the score made Van Gaal on the sidelines also very irritable.

This lineup, let’s attack, is actually not that big of a threat. The team can provide a limited number of offensive players and limited offensive talents. The offense will not be threatening enough, but it still has to bear the threat of Liverpool’s counterattack.

Instead of attacking, when the team is behind, they still adopt a defensive posture, so they kill their own time, which will have a great impact on the morale of the team.

And most importantly, the substitution must wait until at least the beginning of the second half. At this time, there are still more than 20 minutes before the end of the first half, and Van Gaal does not want to waste it like this.

Van Gaal, who could only strengthen his strength on the offensive end, finally chose to add a defensive player appropriately. After limiting the forward penetration of other players in the midfield, he transferred Fellaini to the forward line to act as a defensive player. High center.

Such an option is actually very common in the final stage of Manchester United's game, but at such an early time, this kind of brainless side pass tactic is used, which can also be seen, the lack of Manchester United's offensive tactics.