Football’s First Defender

Liverpool does not have a complete defensive system like Chelsea, does not have ample defensive midfielder reserves like Chelsea, and even Liverpool does not have a defensive midfielder.

The team's previous defense, to put it nicely, relied on the overall running of all team members to complete the defense. To put it in a bad way, it means that there is no rules at all, and it is completely resigned, and it is what to guard against.

Especially when Liverpool was preparing to attack on a large scale, whether the defense can complete the defense against the opponent's counterattack depends entirely on whether the goalkeeper or the central defenders can perform supernormally and resist the opponent's attack.

However, now with Yang Feng's return, Liverpool's defense is finally looking decent.

Although there are still hidden dangers in the position of the midfielder, Liverpool's defense line will always be directly impacted by many opponents' offensive players, but under the guarantee of Yang Feng's defensive judgment and defensive experience, Liverpool's defensive ability is not good. It will definitely be more stable than before, and have a better defensive success rate.

With Yang Feng back in Liverpool, although there are still obvious tactical weaknesses on both ends of the offense and defense, and the competitive state of many players also has obvious problems, but through the first contest with Queens Park Rangers, it also proves that The correctness of Dalglish's thinking.

That is Liverpool. Now that they have the capital to play offensive tactics, all the problems on the defensive line are directly packaged and handed over to Yang Feng to solve them. The team only needs to invest more energy to strive for earlier and more goals. Go all out to strive for the leading advantage, and then turn it into victory.

It doesn't matter that Yang Feng can really help the team complete zero seals in every game, it only needs that Yang Feng can help the team withstand the defensive pressure in the first half of the game, so that the team can probably take the lead in scoring the first goal.

After Yang Feng returned from injury a year later, he won the position of Liverpool's starting central defender. With his wonderful performance, he won huge cheers from the Liverpool fans at the scene.

This made all the domestic fans who saw the reports from the front line also feel very happy. Yang Feng is the only one who has studied abroad in the five major leagues. In the days without Yang Feng, many people have no passion for watching football!

During the year when Yang Feng was injured, there were actually many media and football professionals who held a negative attitude, thinking that serious injuries such as a torn cruciate ligament would cause great harm to Chinese players who were not physically dominant. career hazards.

If it doesn't work out, this rising overseas superstar will soon return to the Chinese Super League to retire early.

Simply, Yang Feng's performance in the first game of his comeback, slapped those who looked down on him, and proved himself, even if he suffered a major injury, after a year of recovery, Yang Feng was still the same Yang Feng as before.

Since there is no drag from the European war this season, even in December, Liverpool's schedule actually does not seem so tight.

After a week of rest, Liverpool headed to an away game against Aston Villa.

The Villa team, which sold two core offensive players in the midfield and frontcourt in Xia Chuang, is still in place in terms of new aid. Although it is not like the previous two seasons, it can rush to the top six positions, but it is still possible. Guaranteed to stay in the middle of the league, and now ranked tenth, it can be regarded as worry-free relegation.

But in this game, at Villa Park, the home team, Aston Villa, was stunned by Liverpool's unreasonable attack.

For Premier League teams, they generally pretend to be cowardly in away games, and do a good job of the team's defense first. After returning to the home court, in order to please the fans present, no matter how strong or weak, the home team will invest more power in the offensive end, hoping to achieve better results.

Although Liverpool has the name of a traditional giant, everyone has seen the problems on both ends of the offense and defense in the games before this season. Liverpool's overall combat effectiveness is definitely not as strong as the strength of the lineup on paper.

In the last round, Queens Park Rangers counterattacked defensively and was solved by Yang Feng alone. In this game, Villa's coach learned the lesson of QPR and did not intend to defend at the beginning of the game. Playing against each other, using enough offensive numbers and offensive rounds to suppress Liverpool's offense and break Yang Feng's advantage in the defensive counterattack.

After all, no matter how strong you Yang Feng are in defending the opponent's counterattack, and no matter how good you are at commanding, you can't be that strong in defending positional battles!

However, once on the field of play, the situation on the field changes, which is completely different from the pre-match tactical drill of Villa coach.

At home, Villa really wanted to attack and play against Liverpool, but under the unreasonable attack of the visiting team Liverpool, Villa's offense was completely pushed back before it started much.

In the last game, Dalglish, who had tasted Yang Feng's defense in the back line and his defensive strength was obviously improved, chose more aggressive tactics in this game.

Regardless of your opponent's formation, whether you choose to defend or want to play offense, Liverpool is all out, and on the offensive end, the maximum investment of personnel has been completed from the beginning of the game.

Villa's offensive tactics still have rules, and they still have to barely stand on the line of defense first. The two full-backs only advance forward appropriately, and then cooperate with the midfielder's return to defense. After all, the game has just started, and it's not the final stage of being behind. Even if you attack, you have to pay attention to the rules.

If you leave too few people in the back line, isn't that giving the opponent a chance to counterattack?

But Liverpool doesn't care about you. The full-backs rush forward like wingers, and the two full-backs stand in the opponent's half like full-backs. All the defense in the backcourt depends on Yang Feng and Scott at the end. Er, and the two in front of them, will also advance from time to time with double midfielders who shoot long shots or pass the ball.

The counterattack that Villa wanted to play had not yet been played, but because of Liverpool's fierce and reckless offensive, it was directly held back to halftime.

"madman"!

This is the Villa coach. For Dalglish's evaluation, there is no way to fight to the death at the beginning, exposing the huge gap in the back line to Villa, and attacking aggressively at the beginning.

You must know that Liverpool is not a pass-and-control style of play. They will control a large number of ball possessions.

You are a side attacking team, put so many offensive players in the opponent's frontcourt, although you can better create offensive opportunities, but it also means that the number of passes increases, and Villa's chances of grabbing the ball are also lower. Bigger, even if Liverpool's frontcourt forms a press, as long as a big foot is passed to Liverpool's half, it will definitely give the Villa players a good chance to counterattack.

Although the anticipation of the attack did not come true, Villa's double forwards did not blindly shrink back to defend. Keep more counter-attacking players in the frontcourt. This is the Villa coach's advice to the players when they are defending.

With Yang Feng's comeback, a lone striker, plus a supportive wide player, may no longer be enough to penetrate Liverpool's defense, so adding one more man, although the team's defensive pressure will become greater, but it can also be used. To pose a greater threat to Liverpool, a double-edged sword, to see who gets injured first.

But in reality of the game, it is true that Liverpool still rely on a deadly attack and occupy an absolute advantage on the scene.

And because Villa's double forwards have been waiting for an opportunity near the midfield, Charlie Adam and Henderson will not both step forward and participate in the offense regardless.

Even if they sometimes get hotheaded and want to step forward to give Villa a fatal blow, Yang Feng behind him will yell, telling them to leave at least one person and guard their defensive area.

Thanks to his excellent performance in the first game, Dalglish directly handed over the defensive command of the entire midfield to Yang Feng in this game. Yang Feng can more easily let Henderson and Charlie Adam follow Make your own arrangements to do a good job of defending and protecting your front.

The number of counterattacks by Villa is obviously much more than that of QPR in the previous game, but in terms of threat, it is indeed comparable to that of QPR in the previous game.

Dalglish also knows that he has invested too many offensive players on the offensive end. In order to help the defense maintain the defense as much as possible, Dalglish simply let the players lose the ball in the frontcourt or the pass is intercepted. , Directly complete the local press, delay the opponent's counterattack opportunity, interfere with their passing quality, and buy time for other players to return to the defense with all their strength.

Although doing so will consume a lot of physical energy of Liverpool players, as long as the battle can be resolved before 70 minutes and a sufficient lead can be established, this is not a problem.

And even if the opponent reluctantly chooses to pass the ball quickly at this time, it is difficult to guarantee the quality of the pass under the interference of Liverpool players' pressing defense in the frontcourt.

Without being able to accurately find the pass of the offensive player, it is difficult to really form the final threat under the wide coverage of Yang Feng's defense.

The double defensive midfielders in the midfield cover a certain range, and Yang Feng and Skrtel cover a certain range behind.

The restricted area is completely handed over to Reina.

In the entire middle area, the long pass to the opponent, under the command of Yang Feng, can guarantee a very high defensive clearance rate.

When the opponent gets the ball and counterattacks from the side, the defense is generally completed under Yang Feng's defensive command. Yang Feng instructs his teammates to pay attention to defending the opponent's other players to attack, and he goes forward to deal with it alone; or when there are enough defenders, he instructs his teammates to go up and find an opportunity to block the opponent's breakthrough position; The situation forms a circle.

Villa's passive defensive counterattack simply couldn't pose enough threats in the game.

Yang Feng's excellent defensive performance in two consecutive games proved that his comeback first game was definitely not a flash in the pan, but that he had really recovered to his original defensive strength.

Especially one time when he was chasing the opponent's wide player on the wing, Yang Feng relied on his own accurate judgment, when the opponent had already dribbled the ball up to speed, he shoveled from the side during a running process, and directly and accurately shoveled the opponent The ball at the foot of the ball for a successful and clean clearance.

The speed and explosive power that Yang Feng showed in the following stage of this ball were obviously not affected too much, and his movements were very self-sufficient.

Yang Feng was alive and well on the court, and he solved most of Villa's counterattack opportunities before they were placed in the 30-meter danger zone.

Vera really had two chances to hit the goal in the dangerous area, and once was hit by Yang Feng's forcible kick, which changed the route of the goal and directly reflected the bottom line.

Another shot, although the shot was within the range of the goal frame, but after Yang Feng helped Reina lock a certain angle, Reina, who only needed to take care of most of the goal, played normally and directly completed the save.

The number of Villa's counterattacks is terrible, which means that Liverpool's threatening offensives are actually more.

With the accumulation of absolute offensive numbers, Liverpool's offensive players took the lead in knocking on Villa's door.

In the 24th minute of the first half, Enrique's 45-degree pass from the left was snatched by Carroll in the penalty area. With a flick of the ball, the ball was pointed near the penalty spot.

Suarez moved smartly and appeared at the second point. He volleyed directly and opened the scoring for Liverpool.

Villa, who was behind, wanted to launch a counterattack, but was pushed back by the unreasonable Liverpool with a more crazy attack.

Just looking at the form of desperate offense on the field, it seems that Liverpool is behind.

The Villa coach is still thinking about giving up his life in the second half. At that time, 9 to 9 in the midfield will be 9 to 9. Everyone is afraid of the other, just don't defend and fight each other with bayonets.

But before the half-time break, Liverpool made another victory.

Liverpool, who are aggressively attacking, naturally have a lot of set-piece opportunities. In a corner kick, Skrtel directly overwhelmed the opponent's central defender Thomas, and then inserted a head shake to attack the goal. He directly hit a dead corner. Way, Liverpool extended the score advantage to 2-0.

1 to 0 is the most dangerous lead, so 2 to 0 is almost a safe lead range.

Liverpool's offensive can finally slow down.

Within 10 minutes, Liverpool, who scored 2 goals in a row, could enter the intermission with laughter and laughter.

In the second half, the home team's onslaught came, and Dalglish directly and utilitarianly replaced Carroll with a midfielder to strengthen the defense, using more defensive numbers to ensure the quality of the defense.

In addition, even if Suarez is alone in the frontcourt, he can pose a big enough counterattack threat, so other Liverpool players can defend with peace of mind. After grabbing the ball, just look for Suarez with a big foot.

Villa's offense, after losing two hot spots on the wing in the new season, is obviously more than enough. Even facing Liverpool's defense, there is no good way. On the contrary, Liverpool's counterattack is more threatening.

In the end, Suarez scored twice at the end of the game, extending the score to 3-0.

Two consecutive 3-0 victories also brought Liverpool one step closer to the Champions League.

And many media even considered Yang Feng's comeback as the key to activating striker Suarez.

Suarez scored twice in two consecutive games and became the biggest beneficiary of the team's increased investment in the offensive end.

As for many other Liverpool players who have been criticized before, Tang Ning broke the "0" breakthrough and scored in the first game of Yang Feng's comeback; Carroll also got an assist in this game; The end also started to become more stable.

The whole of Liverpool, with Yang Feng's comeback, and with the arrival of victory, everything seems to be changing for the better.

Now they just need to continue to persevere and win more victories.