Football’s First Defender

With Yang Feng's return from injury, Dalglish can finally make drastic changes on the offensive end.

The gap in the standings has no room for Liverpool to continue to lose points.

Although Yang Feng has only participated in the team's joint training a few times recently, and also played 2 games for the reserve team, he has not experienced a game of this level in the Premier League for a whole year.

But Dalglish still resisted all opinions and chose to believe that Yang Feng could immediately enter the game state, and let Yang Feng start the game instead of being the team's substitute and adapting to the rhythm of the game first.

In this home game, Liverpool will send 442 and 433, who are more offensive and threatening, to switch freely, relying on the two full-backs to advance more bravely, causing greater defensive pressure on the opponent.

As for the defensive task of the back defense, when the waist is not strong, it is completely handed over to the central defender combination of Yang Feng and Skrtel.

For the young Henderson, it is purely in the Liverpool lineup, and there is no other midfielder available, so even if Henderson's performance is very unstable, Dalglish still can only choose to send him to play.

Henderson and Charlie Adam serve as the team's double midfielders, but both of them are offensive midfielders, and their defensive attributes are not that strong.

The left side is still "Tang Ling" who is affectionately called by Chinese fans, and the right side is the veteran Dirk Dirk.

The double forwards are Carroll and Suarez.

The goalkeeper position is still Reina.

On the defense line, left back Jose Enrique and right back Glenn Johnson both have good forward assist ability, and the central back is Yang Feng, and his previous partner Skrtel in Zenit.

Originally, Agger's central defender's playing order in Dalglish's eyes was higher, but considering Yang Feng as the core of the team's defense, after all, Skrtel and Yang Feng had cooperated in the Russian Super League before, so this For the first part of the game, Skrtel was still allowed to play with Yang Feng as his partner.

In this lineup, Dirk Dirk can completely insert into the penalty area during the attack, leave the space on the right wing to Glenn Johnson who inserts, and enter the penalty area by himself to form a striker trident. Further enhance the team's ability to grab points.

In this game, Dalglish let go of the two full-backs to attack. In the absence of organizers in the middle, Liverpool can only rely on the accumulation of personnel on the side to ensure the efficiency of the attack.

As for the Queens Park Rangers as a guest, it is like the choice of many mid- and lower-level teams against Liverpool. 451 has a standard anti-reverse lineup. Put a striker in front to prepare for a counterattack, and then the defense in the middle is a central midfielder or attacking midfielder. Responsible for defending Liverpool's Charlie Adam, or Henderson may step forward and take a long-range shot.

Then the main defense is arranged on the two sides, not only the full-backs but also the full-backs to deal with the defense, and even the defensive midfielder, when necessary, can also come to the side to limit Liverpool's side attack the goal of.

But today, Liverpool's offensive is faster and stronger than ever.

From the first second of the game, Liverpool directly pressed their soldiers, and a large number of players "stayed" in the visiting team's half, directly pressing the visiting team to play offensive football.

Liverpool's two wings not only have the first wave of offensives coordinated by the full-backs and forwards, but also the second and third waves of offensives composed of full-backs and midfielders behind them. One after another, the opening three tricks will directly kill the visiting team Rhythm.

However, although Liverpool's cross from the wing can pass the ball, but

After the ball passed into the penalty area, it did not pose enough threats.

After Carroll suffered a knee injury in the second half of last season, he returned this season. He obviously felt that his take-off height and air time have slightly regressed. Played the performance of killing the Quartet before.

Liverpool's opening attack was still to look for Carroll first with a high ball, but it was difficult for Carroll to complete an effective fight for the top under the defense of the opponent's powerful central defender. The two reluctant headers were not too big. threat.

On the contrary, the visiting team seized the opportunity to counterattack and hit Liverpool directly behind.

Liverpool, which does not have enough defensive hardness in the midfield, is always directly exposed to the eyes of the visiting team's offensive players.

Jay, as the single arrow of QPR, got a wonderful long pass from the backcourt in the 7th minute of the game. Jay was in Liverpool's half, near the center circle, directly ahead of Henderson's defense. , unloaded the football and directly hit Liverpool's defense.

This is the first time Yang Feng has faced a counterattack from an opponent player in the Premier League since his return from injury.

"Skrtel! Go to the left, defend the opponent player who comes in from that side, and I will defend the one who has the ball!"

After a brief instruction, Yang Feng ran directly to Jay's dribbling route and stepped forward to block it.

Although Jay's speed is good, his height is more than 1.8 meters after all. As an England center forward, he is not a dexterous forward with foot skills like other countries, so Yang Feng dared to go forward to block this time.

And behind Jay, there is Henderson who has been chasing back. Yang Feng is sure that he can successfully complete his first defense in Liverpool.

With Yang Feng approaching, Jay suddenly chose to change direction and pass the ball diagonally, wanting to use his own speed to forcibly pass Yang Feng head-on.

But Yang Feng had already used his experience to understand Jay's choice. It was because of Jay's height that he made such a sudden change of direction, which was too much foreplay.

"Well done!"

At the moment when Jay changed direction to his left and wanted to speed up, Yang Feng directly used his left foot as the pivot foot, decelerated with the last step before, completed a half-turn, turned his back to Jay sideways, and then Stretch your right foot straight out into the distance, just right to block Jay's dribbling path.

When Yang Feng tackled the ball first, Jay fell to the ground because of a physical confrontation, but the referee didn't blow the whistle. This was a wonderful defense by Yang Feng.

Liverpool fans cheered for Yang Feng's defensive performance immediately, and Yang Feng's successful defense also aroused the offensive will of Liverpool's frontcourt players.

When the defense no longer restricted the performance of some players on the offensive end, Liverpool finally broke out its original offensive strength.

In the 29th minute of the first half, Liverpool played an exquisite cooperation in the frontcourt.

Liverpool, who had always played crosses from the side, suddenly changed their offensive tactics. Tang Ning, who took the ball from the side, suddenly chose to cut inside when the left defender Enrique went straight down and took away a defender from the visiting team. Ability to get rid of his defender in the first place.

When the visiting team's defense was in chaos and someone came to defend, Tang Ning first hit Suarez horizontally, but Suarez kept the ball and gave the ball to Henderson who dared to attack from behind. Hender Sen made a through kick and accurately passed the ball into the center of the visiting team's penalty area. After passing the ball, Tang Ning directly inserted it and hit the goal with a burst shot from the left side of the small penalty area.

The goalkeeper of the visiting team couldn't react in time, and Tang Ning hit the short corner and opened the scoring for Liverpool.

The curse of "Tang Ling" was broken in Yang Feng's first match back. Tangning, who was celebrating wildly in the arena, could be regarded as releasing the pressure from the past few months.

Liverpool, which took the lead, did not immediately retract its defense.

Dalglish understands that due to the lack of a full-time defensive midfielder, Liverpool's positional defense system is bound to have loopholes, so it is better to continue to strengthen the team's offense by taking advantage of the home court and strive to expand the lead in the score.

Moreover, in this way, Yang Feng's value can be better utilized, instead of in a positional battle, when Yang Feng can only defend one player, Liverpool will be scored by other attackers of the visiting team.

Liverpool's offense is still going on, and the visiting team's counterattack always breaks into Liverpool's hinterland from time to time.

But with Yang Feng's Liverpool, it is obvious that the defense has a very good defensive brain. Yang Feng stopped Skrtel, who was about to go up, several times in the opponent's counterattack, but used his better judgment of the form to build a solid barrier with Skrtel in the penalty area.

Skrtel, who believed in Yang Feng's strength even more, obeyed Yang Feng's words during the opponent's counterattack, and was absolutely unambiguous when it was time to grab.

Yang Feng and Skrtel only gave the visiting team a chance to hit the goal with a long shot in the first half, and the other rare counterattack opportunities of the opponent were all destroyed by the two.

In the second half, as Suarez had just started, he made a blitz and used a long shot to score a goal to expand the score. Liverpool's offensive pressure was not so great.

Liverpool, leading by two goals, began to control the football smoothly and grasp the situation of the game, while Yang Feng commanded the entire defense line and cooperated with the midfield defense line to build a solid defensive barrier for Liverpool.

The visiting team's counterattack did not make much progress. Instead, Suarez once again took advantage of the counterattack opportunity and scored a wonderful anti-offside goal, turning the score into 3-0 and completely sealing the victory.

The final score was locked at 3 to 0. Liverpool relied on the offensive suppression in the first half, scored 23 goals and scored 3 goals, while the visiting team only scored 5 goals, and only one long-range shot was within the range of the goal frame. within.

In the first game of Yang Feng's return, he scored Liverpool's third clean sheet in the league, and it was the game with the most goal difference for Liverpool this season.

Liverpool's offensive and defensive ends, with the return of Yang Feng, seem to be opened up.

The fans at the scene also know the ball, knowing that it is because of Yang Feng's comeback that Liverpool has the capital to invest more power in the offense. After the game, all the fans chanted the name of Yang Feng, the defensive hero who did not make a single mistake in this game.

Liverpool, at least the performance of this game, let the fans see hope.

And Yang Feng, in the eyes of many people, is the savior of Liverpool's defense line!