Football’s First Defender

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In the video room, all Liverpool players sat together. The team building activity was to watch the live broadcast of the rival Leicester City game together after enjoying a victory in a game.

Since this game and my own match happened to be a live broadcast of the postponed game, it would not waste too much time for the players.

In the current situation of the league standings, they need to see Leicester City make mistakes in at least two games in the last four rounds and fail to win.

Then Liverpool themselves can only win a complete victory before they can achieve a go-ahead in points.

Whether they can win a complete victory or not needs to be grasped by Liverpool themselves, and the condition for recovering points is that Leicester City cannot win at least two victories.

Although Leicester City's opponents are very strong, the last four games were all teams in the top half of the standings.

But the Liverpool players also know that Manchester United and Everton, the two opponents of Leicester City, may deliberately release water at home in order to prevent Liverpool from competing for the championship.

After all, the two teams have nothing to ask for this season, and there are legitimate reasons for releasing water and training troops at this time.

So what Liverpool can look forward to, so far, only this round of West Ham United and the final round of neutral team Chelsea.

Because of the goal difference, Liverpool led Leicester City by as many as ten goals in the past, so Liverpool, as long as they recover this 4 points, they will be the league champions.

In the penultimate round of the league, Leicester City finally made a mistake on the road.

A draw narrowed the gap between the two sides to 5 points, and Liverpool still had one less game.

In this way, for Liverpool, in the following games, it is natural that they still need to complete the record of victory in the game, while Leicester City only needs to have another game without a win, and Liverpool can complete the overtake .

In the Premier League this season, the final stage of the game is absolutely beautiful.

With Leicester City making a mistake, the suspense of the championship has returned with a high probability.

Liverpool will compete with Leicester City for the title.

The competition for Champions League qualification is equally fierce.

Both Manchester City and Arsenal now share 64 points, ranking 4th and 5th in the league. The competition between the two teams for a Champions League seat in the last three rounds is equally fierce.

The relegation arena is also three teams, competing for a place to stay in the Premier League.

Throughout the Premier League, the intensity of the game in the final stage and the intensity of watching reached its climax.

The key point worthy of the players' attention, of course, is the championship battle at the forefront.

In the 36th round of the league, Liverpool challenged Swansea away.

Swansea's team record has declined significantly this season, but the team has now scored 40 points, reaching the relegation line early, and it can be regarded as completing the team's minimum goal.

Swansea, who are playing at home, may still perform well for the home fans in the game.

Liverpool, who are playing away games, is for the highest honor of the Premier League. Also in this season, they must do their best to win the game.

During the prime time on the first day of the May 1st golden holiday, Chinese fans can watch the key match of Liverpool's championship with Yang Feng on time at 7:00 pm.

Liverpool continues to have a lineup of 442 without any changes.

However, a veteran like Milner still has some injuries, and Klopp used Emre Can to replace Milner in this game.

Although the loss of Milner had a great impact on the team's offense and defense, as a young player, Emre Can's outstanding performance in the second half of the season also won Klopp's trust.

And Lucas and Joe Allen are in the team at this time, they really just come off the bench, or play when they need to rotate.

The players themselves are also seeking to leave the team with fewer opportunities to play, and they may leave this summer.

Swansea, who have been in the Premier League for the past few years, can be regarded as a mid-range team. The ball-handling style of play reformed in the first two seasons made Swansea's football very good.

It's just that with the joining and leaving of players, as the style of play is familiar to other Premier League teams, and with the frequent changes of head coaches, today's Swansea team no longer has the excellent feeling of playing in previous seasons .

The team's current star players who can play may be the Icelandic sniper Sigurdsson, and Andre Ayew, who is not very stable on the forward line.

The other player configurations seem a little different.

The main reason is that these players who are good at pass and control are worth a little more than ordinary players.

The relatively cheap local British players have a rough style, and there are not many players who pursue fine style of play.

There are many players in South America and Spain with delicate skills at their feet, but they may not be able to adapt to the intensity of confrontation in the game.

This is also an embarrassment for Swansea.

In the Premier League, the team wanted to pursue a pass-and-control offensive style of play, but did not have enough financial support for signings, so they could only forcefully buy some players to fill up, but found it difficult to reach the level of the Premier League.

Swansea, which was ranked in the middle and upper reaches last season, fell directly to 15th this season. Next season, if the team has not changed, it is possible that Swansea will be relegated directly.

Speaking of returning to this game.

Although Swansea is playing at home, the team's pass and control lineup is already in a very weak position when it encounters Liverpool's frontcourt pressing defense.

Liverpool's high-pressure defense in the frontcourt is most suitable for defending those teams that are willing to control the ball and pass the ball.

As long as you pass the ball under Liverpool's oppressive defense and make a mistake, then Liverpool can directly hit your defense and use counterattacks to resolve the battle.

Swansea's pass and possession, in the game against Liverpool, it was too difficult to spread out easily.

Both Firmino and Sturridge were aggressive in pressing high-intensity in the Swansea half-time.

With the personal abilities of Swansea's defenders, it is too difficult for them to complete the accurate delivery of the ball under high-intensity pressing.

After the double striker, Coutinho, Lallana, Emre Can and Henderson.

These four people paired with two full-backs also completed the defensive coverage from the midfield to their own half, which is to show a very tough pressing mode in the game to completely disrupt Swansea's offensive rhythm.

Originally, in this game, Swansea was at home, and some people thought that Swansea could take advantage of the advantage of the home court to play against Liverpool and play a wonderful game, but judging from the actual situation after the start of the game, But Liverpool completely relied on their own high position to press the defense, which completely restricted the offensive effect that Swansea wanted to play.

In the past, Swansea could barely play the pass and control cooperation when facing other opponents, but when facing Liverpool, there was no way to play it easily.

Liverpool, in the away game, relied on their excellent high-position pressing and defensive ability, and relied on pressing to directly gain an advantage on the pitch.