Football’s First Defender

In the penultimate round of the Premier League, the two teams competing for the top spot, Leicester City and Liverpool, both won the game in their respective league matches.

Liverpool defeated Watford, who did not have much desire to play, while Leicester City defeated Liverpool's two rival teams in succession, maintaining their lead at 2 points.

The championship competition of the league will depend entirely on the results of the last round of the league.

Liverpool can only complete the reversal if they win.

If they cannot win, they will directly hand over the championship to Leicester City.

For Leicester City, in the last round of the game, as long as they can win, they will directly win the final championship.

But if there is no result, they cannot win, and if Liverpool wins, then they will be directly reversed by Liverpool because of the disadvantage of goal difference.

Such a thrilling and complicated situation also makes the final round of the Premier League, when it is played at the same time, there will be great variables.

The difficulty of Liverpool's last few league games is not bad.

In the last round of the league, Liverpool challenged West Bromwich Albion away.

West Bromwich Albion has been relegated early in the Premier League this season, and the team has really entered the holiday state. In the case of successfully completing relegation, for West Bromwich Albion, they can enjoy the game during the game, and it doesn't matter what the result is.

West Bromwich Albion, which is now ranked 15th in the Premier League, does not seem to be so easy to cause trouble for Liverpool.

As for Leicester City, their opponents in the last round are much stronger in terms of strength.

That's Chelsea going all out.

Chelsea's performance this season, although not so good.

But after the coaching change, the team also took on a new look.

And performed well on both the offensive and defensive ends.

This is the final game of the league and Chelsea's last game at home. For Chelsea, winning a home game in the game will be the best gift for the home fans.

And Chelsea has nothing to do with Leicester City, nor does it have any deep hatred with Liverpool.

For example, Manchester United and Everton can be in the game, in order to disgust Liverpool, regardless of home or away, they are weak and lose to Leicester City, and even the fans are not happy about their home team losing.

For Chelsea fans, after a failed opportunity, they naturally hope that the team can end with a victory to prepare for the team's next season.

In the last round, for the two teams competing for the championship, Liverpool and Leicester City, both have to compete for victory in the game.

However, in terms of difficulty, Liverpool must have a greater chance of winning.

For Leicester City, whether they can capture Stamford Bridge in the away game will be a key battle for their success or failure this season.

After all, he went to the end as a big dark horse to create the "miracle" of the Premier League and win the final league championship.

Still fell short in the later moments, and was successfully overturned by Liverpool, allowing Liverpool to comeback and win the championship, and at the same time create three consecutive championships in the Premier League.

In the 38th round of the Premier League, which is the last round, all the game time is played at the same time, and the game with the most spectators is actually the match between Chelsea and Leicester City.

Many fans of Leicester City in the "30" year look forward to the team being able to maintain its dark horse qualities and win the final championship.

Chelsea fans want to see more about the team's performance level and whether they can use their own strength to determine the championship.

And for many fans of Manchester United and Everton, when their team's record has nothing to pursue, they naturally come to pay attention to this game. Take a look, Leicester City, in After accepting the "gift" from his own team, can he complete a real counterattack, rely on his own strength, and then cross the hurdle of Chelsea to win the final league championship.

Forget about the next-door match between Chelsea and Leicester City.

For the Liverpool players, what they need to do in the game is actually to continue to strive for victory in the game.

The prerequisite for a reversal is that Liverpool must win this game, and Leicester City will overturn in the away game. If Liverpool can't win their own game, then everything is for naught.

In the away game against West Bromwich Albion, Liverpool still played with all the main players.

West Bromwich Albion, after confirming that the team has completed the task of relegation, has recently completely let itself go in the game.

The performance of both offense and defense is completely arbitrary.

Whether they win or lose is not so important to the players. If there were no games, they might have been eating, drinking, having fun and enjoying life.

After worrying and fearing for most of the season, successfully completing relegation is already their biggest goal at this stage.

Even the team gave the players relegation bonuses, which can be regarded as an incentive for the players' performance.

Liverpool faced an opponent like West Bromwich Albion in an away game. Among the consensus before the game, it was believed that West Bromwich Albion would not have much resistance at home.

Even the Liverpool players are a little underestimating their opponents, or in other words, the Liverpool players are a little absent-minded. When they think that this victory is within their grasp, their minds are all flying to another match between Chelsea and Leicester. In the case of the city game, Liverpool did not perform very well in this away game.

The starting lineup sent by Liverpool today in the away game continues the team's recent 442 lineup.

With Sturridge back to health, his offensive ability on the front line can still be matched with Liverpool's current style of play, and he has an excellent personal performance.

The double striker combination of Sturridge and Firmino both have a strong sense of scoring in front of the goal and excellent ability to grab points. They can use their own performance to complete shots or passes in the game Full forward.

In particular, Firmino's passing ability can often pull sideways or retreat during the game to enhance Liverpool's strength on the passing end, allowing Liverpool to have a very good offensive effect in subsequent games.

In the configuration of the four midfielders, Liverpool continues to be the most trustworthy four-person team played by Klopp.

Coutinho and Lallana are separated on the left and right.

Among them, Coutinho has considerable autonomy, playing the position of left midfielder, but in Liverpool's offensive system, Coutinho's offensive direction can be chosen at will, and he has a considerable degree of offensive freedom.

And Lallana, in the daily training for more than half of the season, finally slowly adapted to the position on the right.

Sometimes, Lallana will also insert according to his teammates, especially Klein's insertion in advance. When opening up space on the right side, it is also possible to go to the center to show his breakthrough ability.

Henderson and Milner are two of Klopp's favorite midfielders.

Sometimes, this kind of jack-of-all-trades midfielder is the most missing part of Klopp's tactical philosophy.

Henderson and Milner always have sufficient physical fitness in the game and can make the most running distance of the team.

In the game, you can have a good space to play, and make great contributions to the team on the offensive and defensive ends.

In particular, the ability of two people to hit the goal with long-range shots from the outside is the biggest supplement to Liverpool's offensive position.

On the defensive line, Klein and Moreno are still the best cards Klopp can play at this time.

As for the central defender combination, it can be regarded as replacing Yang Feng's "queen partner" Skrtel with Lovren, forming an alternation of old and new in the team.

As for Lovren's performance in these games, under Yang Feng's command, he has performed fairly well, and he can effectively complete his defensive tasks in the game.

Because Yang Feng's personal defensive power is there, for Lovren, what he needs to do well is to take care of the one-acre three-point field in front of him, and not give the opponent a chance to open a gap from your side .

Yang Feng stands at the end of Liverpool's defense line, which is Liverpool's best defensive guarantee in positional warfare.

What's more, in front of Liverpool's goal line, there is a goalkeeper Mignolet who is extremely good at completing rescues on the goal line.

With such a configuration of Liverpool, if it hadn't been for the wrong path in the early stages of the league, then the background of the champions last season would definitely not have played so badly in the early stages of the league.

It can only be said that wanting to change, wanting to change is a good thing.

If Liverpool hadn't dug such a big hole for themselves in the early part of the season, Liverpool would not have struggled to catch up behind the league standings.

Fortunately, each strong team in the Premier League this year has its own problems, so there is no such thing as a super strong team in previous years.

As the top team, Leicester City's winning percentage is not too high, so that the points obtained in the standings are not too high to catch up, and it can be regarded as giving Liverpool a chance to make a late effort.

Of course, for Liverpool, everything is to win the last game first, and then see if there is a miracle.

But in the past few games, Liverpool, who were always able to quickly open up the situation, suffered a lot of trouble in this game.

West Bromwich Albion has indeed entered a "holiday" state.

But with such a high exposure rate, naturally the players still have some intentions to show themselves.

If Chelsea vs. Leicester City is the most watched match of this round, then the match between West Bromwich Albion and Liverpool must be the second most watched match.

Even as the game progresses, if Liverpool does not quickly take the lead, then the attention of this game will increase.

Such an opportunity to show their faces is still very rare for West Bromwich Albion players.

After all, many self-motivated players hope to show off their good performance to achieve a better performance, to gain more attention, and to rely on "job-hopping" or "salary increase" in the future .

If Liverpool can quickly defeat West Bromwich Albion, then West Bromwich Albion may give up early. After the last game, the players will pack up and enjoy the summer vacation.

However, if Liverpool does not take the lead in a short period of time, then West Bromwich Albion doesn't care about being a shit-stirring stick at home, using their own performance to hold back Liverpool's victory.

Even, relying on his own performance, he shattered Liverpool's dream of competing for the championship. In that way, this West Brom team may really become famous.

Today, Liverpool's offensive performance is indeed a little abnormal.

In today's game, Liverpool may have thought too simply.

I thought that the team could easily score goals with some coordination on the offensive end, but I didn't expect that some players from West Bromwich Albion, amidst the cheers of the home team fans, had a very good performance. Defensive performance and defensive play.

Especially in terms of the players' personal defensive performance, the players have a strong desire to perform, trying to limit the performance of this group of Liverpool stars.

With the blessing of home advantage, West Bromwich Albion did indeed do it at the beginning of the game.

While the defense of West Bromwich Albion players has performed exceptionally, Liverpool's offense is obviously not in the best state of the game.

In the usual games, Liverpool are extremely good at passing the ball in a small area, but today they did not play at all.

Under Liverpool's offense, most of them are actually long-range shots from the periphery relying on personal ability, or they are forced to choose the ball from the side to pass in a hurry.

As a result, Liverpool's offensive efficiency in the penalty area is not too high for a while, and it is not even too threatening to attack at all.

From the very beginning of the game, the Liverpool players could not wait for a long-range shot from the outside, directly and crudely piercing the West Bromwich Albion gate.

Coutinho's perimeter shots, Milner and Henderson's heavy bombardment in the game are usually Liverpool's sharp weapons to break the deadlock in the game.

But today, shots are shot, but the quality of the shot is not that high.

The ball is more often blocked by other defensive players. The latter is directly missed and the latter is high, which cannot form a continuous threat at all.

This also makes the players of West Bromwich Albion, after spending the first 20 minutes, relying on the team's excellent intensive defense and Liverpool's poor offensive cooperation, successfully found confidence on the defensive end, which can be regarded as a good match for the team. There is a certain confidence in this game.

After defending for 20 minutes, it seems that it is not difficult to defend the next first half.

For Liverpool, what needs to be done now is to adjust, to score goals quickly, and to find a way to win in the game