Football No. 10: God's Perspective

As a veteran English team and one of the most prestigious clubs in Europe, Liverpool has won numerous honors in history.

19 English League titles, 7 English FA Cup titles, and 6 Champions League titles, these are all real hard honors.

The reversal in 2007 to win the Champions League is the top honor won in these years.

Although it once again entered the Champions League final in 2009, it was successfully avenged by AC Milan, the runner-up of the 2007 Champions League and also a veteran European team, and finished second.

Since then, the team has embarked on a downward slope of selling out star players.

Xabi Alonso, Torres, Suarez and other top players have been sold one after another.

In the 13-14 Premier League season, the "Red Army" Liverpool led by Rogers was only one step away from the desired league championship, but unfortunately it still failed to win and finished second.

Liverpool club signed German Liverpool as the team's head coach, which became the magic touch for the team's rise. The sale of core Coutinho gave the club the capital to shop wantonly in the transfer market. A number of strong players were purchased one after another to enhance the team's combat effectiveness. In conjunction with the pursuit of speed, the high-pressure tactics made the team quite competitive, and the team successfully entered the Champions League final this season.

Liverpool's head coach Klopp, I believe that Dortmund fans will not be unfamiliar with this German coach, who has also led the Hornets to achieve excellent results.

Through video analysis, this season, Klopp's Liverpool team usually adopts a 433 formation, with Mane, Salah on the side, Firmino in the middle, Henderson, Fabinho and Wijnaldum in the midfield, Arnold and Robertson on the back line, and Van Dijk and Matip as central defenders.

When the team is attacking, Firmino, who is in the center position, usually retreats to the position of shadow striker or front midfielder, using his vision and ball-handling ability to organize the attack, while creating space for Mane and Salah, who have stronger finishing ability, to cut inside, allowing them to get closer to the goal.

Not only that, when the team is defending, although Firmino is an offensive player, his defensive enthusiasm is very high. He can build the first line of defense for Liverpool through his own scrambling and running.

The Brazilian may not be so impressive in terms of data, but he is definitely an indispensable tactical chess piece in Liverpool's frontcourt.

Of course, just relying on the center to retreat and the wingers to cut inside cannot guarantee that Liverpool can reach the stage of the Champions League final. No team can be invincible with these three guns on the offensive line. It needs the support of the midfield and the help of the backcourt.

The full-backs' forward run is also one of the offensive tactics of the "Red Army" under Klopp. The three midfielders, Henderson, Fabinho and Wijnaldum, usually shrink in the middle when attacking, which can ensure the interception of the opponent when switching from offense to defense. In addition, Van Dijk's personal defensive ability on the back line is extremely strong, which ensures the hardness of the front defense. At the same time, the two full-backs Arnold and Robertson can press the attack of the upper team unscrupulously on the side to increase firepower.

Of course, if your impression is still that the full-backs press to the front court just to cover the side and cross the bottom, then you are wrong.

In front of this Liverpool team, the two full-backs also have to participate in the operation of the midfield offense, mainly inserting from the side, while conducting offensive support, and even taking some offensive organization responsibilities, and of course, rushing in to compete for the first point when the ball is high.

Of course, as the two top full-backs in the Premier League today, Arnold and Robertson also have the ability to insert and finish in a quick counterattack.

The front, middle and back three lines are all capable of providing firepower for the striker. Such Liverpool is destined to set off an offensive frenzy in the final.

In terms of defense, Liverpool likes to press high and counter-grab on the spot. The first echelon is led by Firmino. A center forward has extremely high defensive attribute enthusiasm, which is rare in the world. The three midfielders are also very good at strangling and exchanging.

In the upcoming Champions League final, I believe these three people will also focus on Dortmund's core No. 11 player Wang Po.

In the back line, Van Dijk is almost the strongest central defender in the world, without a doubt.

Frontal interception, high-altitude defense, speed chasing back, the tall and strong Dutchman is not clumsy or slow at all.

In the position of central defender, it is almost an unsolvable state. The strength of the back line led by him is completely raised to a higher level.

In this Champions League, many well-known strikers in the world have lost in the head-on confrontation with Van Dijk. The Dutchman has made great contributions to Liverpool's advancement to the final decisive battle.

This confrontation with the energetic Liverpool is a huge challenge for Dortmund.

After analyzing Liverpool, Dortmund also formulated corresponding tactics to crack it.

In this game, Wang Pei will not appear in the midfield, nor will he head to the front line, let alone appear in the backcourt.

Tuchel arranged Dortmund No. 11 on the right, playing the position of a right winger, without having to participate in defense.

The center position is no longer the conventional Gabonese Lightning, Aubameyang, but the 190-cm pillar center Kuhn who has always been a substitute.

Confrontation and high-altitude balls are the advantages of this substitute center, but the action is relatively slow, and it can only be used as a fulcrum under special tactics, and the function is relatively single.

However, Tuchel used this single point in this game.

Aubameyang will appear behind Kuhn as a speed attack point in this game, playing as a shadow striker, and Ousmane Dembele is already on the left.

The entire offensive front line is such a combination.

Compared with the Liverpool team's full-backs' offensive linkage, Tuchel requires that Wang Pei's right-back is not allowed to participate in the frontcourt attack. Not only that, because Wang Pei has no defense, Brighton in the midfield should lean towards this side to help the right-back defend.

As for Ousmane Dembele on the left, it is more of an offensive plan B. The real attack point is still here on the right.

Wang Pei, who has the ability to organize, attack, blast, and finish, is regarded by Tuchel as the key to breaking through Liverpool's defense line in this game.

The reason why the Germans deliberately put Wang Pei in a seldom-appearing wing position is entirely to allow Wang Pei to avoid the stranglehold of Liverpool's Henderson, Fabinho, and Wijnaldum. Not only to bypass the three people's defensive area, but also to suppress the Red Army's attack on one wing through the wing attack.

As a result, Liverpool's offensive system was half paralyzed, and its power was greatly reduced.

Suppression and counter-suppression, this is Tuchel's tactical concept. Of course, the real effect still needs to be proven in practice on the field.