Football’s First Defender

Leicester City's oppressive frontcourt defense is indeed excellent.

Especially amidst the cheers of the home fans at home, the Leicester City players ran tirelessly throughout the stadium as if they had been pumped.

The Liverpool players who are also under the command of Clay Lopp, who focus on high-position pressing and defense, are a little tired from running.

I knew before the game that this away game would be difficult, but I never thought that the game would be so difficult.

The performance of the home team players was at least one level higher than Klopp expected. Looking at the entire first half, Liverpool was actually the disadvantaged side.

Although he doesn't want to admit it, Klopp feels that the team is already at a considerable disadvantage in this game.

Klopp had to make his own changes as the form of the game changed when he was overwhelmed by Leicester City at halftime and the counterattack the team wanted was not played out.

If the idea of ​​striving to win before the game cannot be realized, then try to get out of the game as much as possible.

Guaranteed a three-point gap, at least to be able to catch up better later.

As soon as the second half started, Klopp made substitution adjustments.

Jordan Ibe, who didn't have many opportunities to perform in the first half, was replaced directly, and midfielder Emre Can was replaced to continue to strengthen the team's defensive ability in the midfield to increase the protection of the defensive end.

This away game can retreat unscathed, which is also a better option for Liverpool.

After Liverpool's substitutions in the second half, the defensive ability of the midfield was further enhanced.

The midfield defense line composed of Henderson, Milner, and Emre Can can turn the midfield into an iron barrel on the defensive end.

On the offensive end, Klopp requires players to dare to display their personal abilities to complete a better offense, find opportunities, and complete a one-hit kill.

Although Liverpool's substitution adjustments are more inclined to defense, Klopp also emphasized defensive tactics.

However, the abilities of Liverpool players are there. Even though the three midfielders are very good at defending, their offensive ability is not bad.

Even if Liverpool pay more attention to defense, they will not give up some offensive opportunities.

The background of the rich team prevents Liverpool from completely choosing to hide and defend like other teams.

Not long after the start of the second half, in the 47th minute of the game, Liverpool created a good opportunity on the defensive counterattack.

Yang Feng's excellent defensive ability in the backcourt directly broke the football at the foot of Vardy's insufficient protection, and Liverpool directly launched a counterattack.

This time Liverpool invested a lot of people on the counter-attack end, and the Liverpool players still wanted to seize the opportunity of the opening three strikes and hit their opponents directly.

Liverpool's three midfielders are all plugged in to strengthen the offense this time.

Emre Can went directly to the left, and after receiving Coutinho's ball, he made a pass from the bottom, but after shaking the defensive player's center of gravity, he made a smash and adjusted to his right foot. Then passed the ball in an inverted triangle to the front of the penalty area quite easily.

Milner received the ball at the penalty area line, stopped the ball lightly, and had space for a long shot, attracting Leicester City players, who rushed out to block Milner's goal, but Milner did not Hit the door directly.

Instead, he sent the ball forward gently, completed a through ball, and passed it directly to Henderson in the penalty area.

Henderson leaned against the defender with his back and received the ball with his back in the small penalty area. Instead of stopping the ball, he did it sideways.

It was Emre Can, who had previously sent an inverted triangle pass from the left, to receive the pass. After completing the pass, Emre Can immediately inserted into the penalty area.

This is a continuous small-scale pass cooperation between Liverpool's three midfielders.

In the end, Emre Can, who had just played in the second half, completed the kick.

With a non-stop kick, Emre Can aimed directly at the near corner of the goal.

The ball was powerful, fast, and well adjusted in direction and height, but Schmeichel in front of the goal once again made a superb attack.

After falling to the ground quickly, Schmeichel Jr. stretched his legs to increase the defensive area and directly completed the save this time.

Emre Can's wonderful kick didn't score, and there was some regret after seeing it saved.

"Junior Schmeichel is really the biggest defensive guarantee for Leicester City."

"This season, there have been many games where Schmeichel Jr. made a great effort to keep the team from losing the goal."

"Leicester City have achieved such a good result this year, and Schmeichel Jr. has definitely contributed a considerable defensive effect..."

For the corner kick opportunity, Coutinho chose to send the ball to the middle, still looking for Yang Feng, but the defensive players of Leicester City, under the training of Ranieri, were able to complete a very good defensive task.

Today, he did a good job of defending Yang Feng in the set ball.

This time, Morgan took the lead to complete the clearance and defuse this attack.

At the beginning of the second half, although Liverpool's offense played a threat, it did not achieve results.

Leicester City, as always, maintained the offensive rhythm of the first half of the game and began to gradually gain an advantage on the scene.

However, Liverpool, in addition to doing a good job in the team's defense, also began to use small-scale fast passes, focusing on the personal abilities of the players, and launched targeted counterattacks.

Large-scale offenses only happen occasionally, rather than directly confronting Leicester City.

In terms of the game situation, Leicester City naturally has a certain advantage.

It's just that while Liverpool prioritized defense, they didn't give the home team too much room to attack, and they could easily play a threatening offense during the game.

The two sides played quite anxiously in the second half of the game.

The high position press of the two teams has greatly restricted each other's offensive players.

But today, the goddess of luck is on the side of the home team Leicester City.

The 59th minute of the game.

Liverpool launched a counterattack directly after completing the defense, but in the frontcourt offense, before the ball was passed into the dangerous area, it was intercepted by the opponent instead.

Kanter's press was once again met with a relatively good defensive effect, and then directly dribbled the ball and continued to hit Liverpool's counterattack.

Kanter sent a long pass directly to the right.

Due to the position close to the side, Yang Feng didn't have a good chance for this ball. He directly caught up with the ball to complete the clearance, but it was convenient for Vardy to quickly go forward and score.

For Yang Feng, in this case, all he needs to do is to stand in the defensive position and wait for Vardy to attack the penalty area.

Even to be on the safe side, when Yang Feng has already rushed to the defensive position, he can find an opportunity directly outside the penalty area when Vardy makes a breakthrough, and fouls to block this counterattack.

It's just that Yang Feng's idea is indeed the most common sense, but what is required is that Vardy attack the penalty area.

But Vardy took a different approach.

The ball bounced off the ground first, and Vardy, who was the first to run to the landing point, did not stop the ball, but faced the football and kicked it directly on the right.

A long-range shot from the side hit the goal directly.

"Wow! World wave! A world wave!"

"Valdy!"

"Unexpected offensive method, kicked a long shot directly from the right, and hit a world wave!"