Football’s First Defender

Manchester United's offensive performance in the second half put a lot of pressure on Liverpool.

When Liverpool performed so well at Manchester United, they were also awakened by Manchester United's offense.

All Liverpool members maintain extremely high defensive vigilance to ensure that they have better defensive performance and performance.

As Liverpool passed through Manchester United's offensive in the opening period of the second half, in the following games, they gradually recovered their game state.

Liverpool's defensive players began to consciously increase the defensive pressure on Mata. Uncle Mata must not be allowed to easily send threatening passes in the midfield.

Concentrate on encircling and suppressing Mata, and then Yang Feng further expands his defensive range, so as to be able to use his defensive ability to extend his defensive threat outside the penalty area.

With the further improvement of Liverpool's overall defense, Manchester United's offense was not so easy to start.

With Liverpool's excellent performance on the defensive end, on the one hand, it contained Manchester United's offensive at the beginning of the second half, and at the same time, it also allowed Liverpool's own counterattack to start to have a voice.

Manchester United played their own offense, while Liverpool focused on defense and counterattack.

The 64th minute of the game.

With Manchester United under Liverpool's midfield pressure, Herrera took the risk of sending a long pass, trying to find Rooney directly, but was blocked by Yang Feng, who directly formed an interception.

Liverpool's counterattack followed immediately.

Yang Feng's pass directly found Milner in the middle, and Milner took the ball forward.

Manchester United's defense is still fast, but this time Sturridge Coutinho's counterattack speed is also fast.

Milner's powerful direct pass directly found Sturridge at the forefront.

Sturridge took the ball and wanted to go straight into the penalty area, but under Smalling's forced defense, he didn't have a good chance to hit the goal directly.

Under defensive pressure, Sturridge could only choose to immediately distribute the ball to Coutinho who was nearby.

Due to Moreno's lap on the left side, he put a lot of defensive pressure on Manchester United's wing for a while.

However, Coutinho did not choose to pass the ball short to Moreno on the left, but suddenly kicked the ball out, made a small short pass horizontally, and kicked it back into the Manchester United penalty area.

The ball passed through the area behind Sturridge, which happened to be a defensive gap in the Manchester United penalty area.

The receiver is Henderson who is fully plugged in from outside the penalty area.

This time Henderson fully explained the value of the B2B midfielder.

After keeping a close eye on Mata on the defensive end, when counterattacking, he went forward with all his strength and participated in the team's offense.

Henderson also did a pretty good job of leading the ball during fast travel.

Although the opponent Fellaini's follow-up defense is very tight, he dare not complete too many defensive actions in the penalty area.

Henderson forced the ball to the left side of the penalty area.

Then relying on speed, he barely left Fellaini half a body away, and there was a time to hit the goal.

Immediately seized the opportunity, hit the goal from a small angle during the march, and hit the bottom right corner of the goal.

This time, De Gea's quick "split" did not intercept Henderson's quick kick.

The ball slid directly and quickly past De Gea's defense zone, and then rolled into the goal.

"GOAL!!!"

"Henderson! Excellent finishing ability on the counter-attack!"

"Shooting the goal from a small angle in the middle of a kick directly helped Liverpool score a goal."

"Liverpool, relying on their super counterattack ability, achieved a two-goal lead."

nothing at all.

For the Manchester United players, their suppression in the second half seemed meaningless. Not to mention the fact that they did not score a goal, they were easily counterattacked by their opponents to expand the score.

This is a huge test for the enthusiasm of Manchester United players. After Liverpool scored this goal, Klopp also made personnel adjustments.

Sturridge went off and replaced Emre Can to further strengthen the running ability of the midfielder.

At this time, Van Gaal could only desperately replace with offensive players, and Depay came off the bench to continue to strengthen the team's strength on the front line.

Manchester United can only rely on offense to forcefully get back two goals in the away game.

Moreover, as the game progressed, Van Gaal transferred Fellaini to the frontcourt again in the second half of the game to strengthen the team's frontcourt offense.

At this time, due to Fellaini's approach, Manchester United had a high point in the penalty area. Unlike the first half of the game, the combination of Fellaini and Rooney seemed to be alone.

Behind them, at this time, there is Depay, Martial and Mata, who contain the defense and provide passes for them.

Manchester United completely gave up the defense behind them, and also rewritten the score on the offensive end.

And Manchester United's siege of Liverpool finally reaped results in the 78th minute of the game.

Manchester United's chance from a corner kick.

Instead of directly choosing to pass the ball into the penalty area, he played a tactical corner kick.

The time difference this time caused Liverpool's defense to loosen slightly.

Mata received the ball on the left, and in the two seconds of waiting, Liverpool's defensive formation, some expanded outwards, some retracted, instantly differentiated, while Manchester United players' movement activities in the penalty area were not. be too affected.

Mata made a curve ball and directly found the space in the middle area.

And Fellaini's running position is just within this gap.

Yang Feng followed closely, but this time, he was powerless.

After all, Fellaini started it first, which also made Yang Feng completely resisted by Fellaini behind him, and he had no way to go around and come to the landing point to make a first-step clearance.

Fellaini jumped high in front of the goal, shaking his head and attacking the goal directly.

Yang Feng, on the other hand, can only do his best, forming defensive interference in the rear, trying to prevent Fellaini's header as much as possible.

"The ball actually hit the crossbar!"

Fellaini's shot hit the crossbar, but Yang Feng's defensive interference still had an effect.

"But! There is more!"

"The ball went in!"

"Rooney!"

"A volley on the right and it goes straight into the goal!"

"Manchester United, get a goal back!"

In this attack, the two former Everton players formed an excellent "connection" and both showed a very good offensive state.

Rooney's supplementary shot in the game not only helped Manchester United score a goal, but also Rooney's 176th goal for Manchester United. With this goal, he also surpassed Henry and became the most single player in the history of the Premier League. The team, the player who scored the most goals in the Premier League.

It can only be said that Rooney's running position in front of the goal this time was too alert, causing the ball to hit the crossbar. After rebounding, it landed directly near Rooney, allowing Rooney to complete this supplementary shot.

2 to 1, the suspense of the game was brought back...