Football’s First Defender

In the second half of the second half of the away game against Bournemouth and achieved 3 consecutive victories, the Liverpool team actually had to relax on the court.

Because when the victory is locked, Liverpool needs to retain the physical fitness of the main players during the game to prepare for the subsequent league make-up.

Just in the middle of the week after the victory over Bournemouth, Liverpool finally ushered in the first make-up match in the two-round game.

In the 27th round of the Supplementary League, Liverpool faced Everton at home in the Merseyside derby.

In this make-up match, facing rivals in the same city is also a huge test for Liverpool.

This is why everyone is not optimistic that Liverpool can counterattack and win the championship in the end.

10 points behind in two rounds, and 4 points short of a complete victory in the make-up match, even this make-up match may not be able to win.

You must know that Liverpool's opponents for the two games in the make-up match, one is Liverpool's rival Everton in the same city, and the other is Chelsea, which has recovered a certain strength.

Although these two make-up games are for Liverpool to sit at home, but it is still very difficult to win the two make-up games.

Liverpool's opponent in this game is Everton, the arch rival in the same city. For Everton, at least the strength of the team every season can guarantee that the final record will be safe from relegation, and they are determined to compete for the top four Champions League rankings. Powerless, as for the Europa League places, even if Everton gets a place every time, they usually force themselves to blow themselves up in the qualifying rounds. They just don't want to play such a game that simply consumes the players' physical energy and doesn't get much return.

So when the league entered the last few rounds of the game, basically, the Everton team, which had no desires, were all played in the so-called "early vacation" state.

The performance of the game depends entirely on the individual performance of the players, and it depends entirely on how much participation the players want to contribute in the game.

This is equivalent to the fact that the Everton team has no big goals. Those who intend to leave in the transfer window should quickly express themselves and increase their exposure, and the Everton team is also happy with these players who are about to leave , "Swipe out" better offensive data, because of this, Everton can also make a lot of money by selling players.

And if players want to prove their abilities, how can they be more convincing than their outstanding performance in the Merseyside Derby.

In the face of the top European teams in the past two years, Liverpool, the champion of the Champions League and the Premier League champion, can play a wonderful individual performance, so it can also prove the strength of the team, how outstanding it is.

For the Merseyside derby in this make-up match, Everton has recently devoted itself to studying Liverpool's tactics.

Even in terms of tactical preparations, for Everton, they may have been training repeatedly for nearly a month, targeting Liverpool's tactics, while putting other opponents aside.

Anyway, for Everton, the league results are currently impossible to relegation, and it doesn't matter how they fall later.

So as long as it can successfully stop Liverpool at this time, it is enough for Everton, and it is very acceptable, that is, the team has won a great victory.

For Everton, blocking Liverpool's catching up momentum in the standings is their biggest goal at this time.

For Liverpool, Klopp continued to use the best 442 formation in the game recently.

Sturridge has won the trust of Klopp with his offensive ability while maintaining his health recently.

It's just that the "veteran" Stuart gained the trust of Klopp and returned to the starting lineup, but on the other hand, Skrtel on the defensive line was placed on the bench in both games.

The decline in Skrtel's competitive state made Klopp finally unable to bear it and made substitution adjustments on the back line.

Lovren, at least in these two games, played quite well in place of Skrtel.

In daily training, Klopp actually found many minor problems of Lovren, but with the defensive effect provided by Yang Feng on the field, as long as Lovren can listen to Yang Feng's command, then Lovren is actually fighting with Yang Feng. When they were partners, Yang Feng blocked their weaknesses, and they could try their best to play their defensive advantages in the game.

Sitting at home today, Liverpool at Anfield Stadium showed a strong offensive suppression from the very beginning of the game.

Liverpool will definitely strive to win in all subsequent league games. If they want to win, they naturally need to constantly choose offense.

Therefore, the use of the 442 formation is actually for the team's overall offensive performance.

In the home game, Liverpool will naturally focus on offense and exert pressure.

Although Everton is playing away, this is a Merseyside derby.

Losing is not losing, although everyone knows that Everton's strength may still have a big gap with Liverpool.

But on the stage of the Merseyside Derby, Everton, at least on the scene, will never admit defeat.

They will show their best game attitude to cause trouble for Liverpool.

Liverpool can play a suppressive performance on the offensive end, but Everton will not be oblivious to defense.

Instead, they will also find opportunities to counterattack, to play a threatening counterattack in the game, to cause trouble for Liverpool.

Although the two sides are not fighting each other, the pace of the game is also very fast, which speeds up the pace of the game, so that during the game, all have the opportunity to hit the goal and score a goal.

In the 12th minute of the game in the first half, Liverpool got an excellent opportunity.

When Liverpool took advantage of the offense, the team invested a lot of players in the frontcourt to maintain the pressure.

And once the ball was converted by the Everton players, Everton's counterattack was quite resolute.

As many people as there are, invest as many people into the counterattack.

Almost all members participate, come in the counterattack, quickly move forward from the wing, and there are enough follow-up numbers in the middle, so that the team can complete a very good offensive performance.

However, Everton's more investment in the counter-attack end can make Everton's own counter-attack effect very effective.

However, if at this stage, Liverpool will complete the defense and quickly complete the transfer of possession.

So for Liverpool, playing Everton's counterattack is also a good opportunity to change the score on the field.

The counterattack this time is that Everton originally played Liverpool's counterattack, with all the players on top, and Liverpool's defense was under attack.

In the end, according to the established counterattack tactics, a cross from the wing was played.

The ball was passed to the middle, but it was cleared by Lovren with a header.

Yang Feng followed up and lowered the second landing point, kicked the ball directly to the midfield position with a big kick.

This ball, Yang Feng's clearance was high and floating.

Lallana was the first to rush forward, heading straight for the first landing point.

As far as Everton defender Stones is concerned, it should be no problem to keep this point by himself.

Lallana kept going forward, even though there was a big height gap with Stones, he still had to put enough pressure on Stones.

At this time, Stones faced Yang Feng's clearance ball, but he was a little cautious.

"Instead of heading the ball back to the vicinity and slowly building up the attack again. It's better to kick the ball back into the penalty area with your feet in the game."

After all, at this time, most of Everton's players were concentrated in Liverpool's half-court area and launched an attack.

If the ball can be kicked back to the vicinity of Liverpool's penalty area quickly, it will be very effective for Everton to launch an attack on the field.

Just do what you want.

On the one hand, Stones found the correct landing position, on the other hand, he completed the card position, only driving Lallana, and did not give Lallana a chance to interfere with himself.

Then waited for the ball to fall, where it fell, Stones wanted to take a kick, and volleyed the ball directly into Liverpool's penalty area, giving his teammates another chance to rush forward again.

But defensive players, sometimes confident in their own footwork, will cause many unexpected factors in the handling of the ball.

Stones intended to kick the ball directly into Liverpool's penalty area.

But when it came to the real kick, it was under the interference of Lallana that the shape of the foot changed to a certain extent.

Stones' force for this ball is still sufficient, but this ball is not far away.

A big foot went straight into the sky, but the landing point was still in the midfield area, but, from the right side of the middle road, the landing point changed to the left side of the middle road.

In that area, it just so happens that there aren't too many Everton players.

"not good".

Only then did Stones feel that he had made a big mistake.

It's no longer realistic to fight for the landing point, but quickly retreat to defend Lallana and hold his own defense area.

Although the ball flies high, it also falls fast.

Coutinho just rushed to the spot where Stones' ball fell, without any adjustments, directly in the game, or volleyed the ball to the front.

Coutinho's ability to handle the ball is the display of a technical player.

The ball was accurately blocked by Coutinho and directly blocked to the front.

Lallana, on the other hand, has been moving diagonally. When opening the distance with Stones, he has been paying attention not to let himself be in an offside position.

Unloading the ball, waving the ball, the movements are smooth and smooth, without any delay.

In this way, Lallana directly dribbled the ball forward quickly. In the first second of acceleration, he was in a horizontal position and got rid of Stones' defense.

After that, it was Lallana's 1v1 single-handed time. Facing the goalkeeper who came out from Everton, Lallana pushed the ball quite calmly, and directly passed the ball through the Everton goalkeeper's wicket and scored. into the goal.

1 to 0!

Lallana seized this excellent counterattack opportunity and scored the ball into the goal.

Gained the lead in the score.

Although Liverpool has achieved a one-goal lead, in the Merseyside derby, they still try to be as threatening and oppressive as possible on the offensive end.

And Liverpool continued to launch an offensive during the game.

Not reconciled to falling behind in the away game, the Everton team continued to seize every opportunity to launch a counterattack.

However, Liverpool's defense, under Yang Feng's excellent performance and command, had a very good defensive performance in the face of Everton's counterattack.

Everton's counterattack, even if it invests a lot of offensive power, it can't play a really threatening counterattack effect at all.

Like Miralas in a counterattack in the 25th minute of the game.

After receiving a pass from his teammate on the left, facing a defensive player from Liverpool, Klein defended himself.

Miralas accelerated directly on the left side, forcibly displaying his personal abilities to try to achieve an offensive effect.

He chose to pass from the bottom many times before, but outflanked the players in the middle and couldn't get rid of Yang Feng or other Liverpool defenders. This time, Miralas chose to complete the attack alone in the game.

Suddenly, after entering the 30-meter area, he completed an emergency stop and changed direction. Instead of going down the side road and breaking through, he cut directly to the middle road.

With a long shot, the ball went out of a big corner and aimed directly at the right post of the goal at the back.

Emergency stop, cross-cut This is very effective for Miralas.

However, in terms of handling the final shot, it can only be said that Miralas's own personal control needs to be further strengthened.

After all, it can only be regarded as an excellent offensive player, but there is still a long way to go from the top star, Miralas.

For example, in this position, if it is Coutinho, he must be better at handling the ball at the end, and the goal will be more threatening.

However, although Miralas did not score this goal, the opportunity was created. This is a great wake-up call for Liverpool's defense.

For Liverpool, while attacking in the frontcourt, they must also pay more attention to their defense in the backcourt.

When the team was attacking, Yang Feng was also shouting loudly at the teammates in the defense, to cheer them on, to cheer them up, and to boost their morale so that they could concentrate.

As the absolute core of Liverpool's defense, in the last few rounds of the team's league finals, after encountering Southampton's reversal, Yang Feng has become a bit "talkative" in recent games Get up, become more willing to talk, to shout.

It is to keep the teammates under good defensive attention all the time, so as to prevent the defensive players from being caught by the opponent because of lack of concentration when the teammates are attacking...

The team had a very good lead before, and the feeling of being reversed, Yang Feng didn't want to try again.

Especially in the case of facing rivals like Everton in the same city, although Everton's record is not obvious, it is because of Everton's various "water releases" and various waves in the league. , The team's offensive ability is definitely ranked at the second-tier top level of the Premier League, Liverpool must not be careless.