Football’s First Defender

After losing 1 to 3 to Manchester City in the away game, it still had a great impact on the morale of Liverpool's team. On the way back to Merseyside by the Liverpool team, everyone was a little listless in the car.

In fact, this season, Liverpool's record in the first half of the season is not that good. Everyone has gradually become accustomed to losses and draws at that time. .

However, with Yang Feng's return from injury, Liverpool's recent five-game winning streak using offensive football has indeed made everyone regain the feeling of winning, and winning is addictive.

Liverpool's five-game winning streak has directly brought the point gap between themselves and the championship group back to within ten points. With the league still halfway through, some Liverpool players are actually still concerned about achieving a counterattack on the standings and completing a reversal to win the championship. Ready to move.

In the history of the Premier League, there has never been no shortage of legends about reversing and winning the championship. Liverpool also wants to try to create a miracle.

It's just that the reality is very cruel. Liverpool was completely crushed by strength in this game and lost to the direct opponent Manchester City in the championship. Situation is even more tragic.

"This kick is really useless!"

This is the voice of many Liverpool players after the game. Losing is nothing. No matter how strong the team is, losing is inevitable in a long season.

But the scene of the game against Manchester City was unacceptable to many players.

The game was played too passively, and everyone had a feeling that they couldn't show their strength. Except for the moment when they scored a goal, Liverpool's offense played a little smoother. At other times, the rhythm of the game was completely controlled by Manchester City. among.

Everyone is a top-level professional player who has worked hard to get to this point. Naturally, a competitive spirit is also indispensable, so everyone is very concerned about the loss of this game.

In the final analysis, the biggest problem for the team today is still the problem of the team system.

Today's football is no longer the era when you can rely on simple tactics and rely on individual players to play beautiful football. The tactical system is really important to a team, and a strong team needs to have a more sophisticated system. Ground tactical arrangements, using more detailed tactical coordination, to bring out the full strength of each player.

However, the old-school Dalglish is obviously unable to keep up with the trend of the times in the field of tactics. This point is tacitly understood by the players. After all, the historical status of "King" Dalglish in Liverpool is there. The team invited him When he came back to coach, he was only fighting the fire at the beginning, and took advantage of the trend to see if he could complete the reshaping of the team in terms of the team's spiritual quality.

Dalglish, who was sitting at the front of the bus, was also deep in thought. He was thinking about his own tactics for this game, thinking about the direction of the team, and thinking about facing some strong teams in the future. Where will Liverpool go from here.

But the loss of this game also completely made Dalglish firm up his determination to leave the team after the end of this season.

Self-knowledge is the most important thing in a person. Dalglish found that he could not be the coach who saved Liverpool, so it was time to abdicate.

Of course, although this season may not be able to lead Liverpool to fulfill the long-cherished wish of winning the Premier League, but the champions of other domestic cups still have to strive for it, and the qualification for the Champions League must also be won.

Dalgliesh didn't want to leave in despair with nothing left!

"Guys, don't think about this game anymore, take a good day off tomorrow, and our next goal is to win the League Cup and the FA Cup!"

"Manchester City still has the home court after all. Let's go back to our home court in a week's time and play against them again!"

All the negative emotions were cleverly transferred by Dalglish to the Manchester City team that just defeated him. Although the tactical arrangement may be flawed, as a leader and coach, Dalglish has the ability to mobilize players. Leish is no worse than anyone else.

And although he just suffered a defeat, now with Gerrard's return from injury, Liverpool's central axis, which has always been hoped by the outside world, can finally play with all its members.

Dalglish also wants to see whether the complete Liverpool lineup can play better on the court when they face Manchester City again.

In fact, this defeat still has merit, that is, during the game, Gerrard played at that point in time, so that everyone can see that Liverpool can still do a lot on the offensive end.

Although the team's overall offensive tactics have not been able to be integrated, but with Gerrard as the core of the midfield, it can make Liverpool's small-scale offense stronger.

This is also Dalglish's courage to threaten revenge on Manchester City.

For Yang Feng, he only needs to care about his three-point acre on the defensive end, and doing his job well is the best contribution to the team.

With the list of starting midfielders and backcourts almost confirmed, Yang Feng has been looking for a tacit cooperation with other partners.

Although Liverpool's first team had no training the next day, Yang Feng, Skrtel, and Henderson came to the training ground, and with the cooperation of specially invited assistant coaches, they carried out a special defense between the three. train.

As long as it is facing some opponents' counter-attacking long balls, Yang Feng should stand with Skrtel and Henderson to form a unified and largest defensive coverage area.

And this kind of defensive training between the three is mainly to enhance the defensive tacit understanding between the three through continuous practice, so that the three can always maintain the greatest defensive coverage in the sports defense.

After all, in the game, sometimes players will fall into a state of selflessness when they devote themselves to the game. Yang Feng's shouting in the backcourt may not necessarily have an effect.

Moreover, the game itself is changing rapidly. At the critical moment, the players must first respond by themselves. Yang Feng only needs to assist and give pointers on the specific direction of the landing. I want to rely on Yang Feng alone to control the movement of all the defensive players. If the guidance is clear, then the time players spend communicating with each other may not be able to catch up with the time wasted in this process.

Other players have to cooperate with Yang Feng to make the team's defense more compact, especially in the range of control on the wing. This is an extremely test of the tacit understanding between Skrtel and Yang Feng.

Generally, the flanks are full of opponents' speed players. Yang Feng and Skrtel can't hesitate to attack. It's okay for Yang Feng, who can rely on his own judgment ability to quickly choose the optimal solution, but Scott There is a certain risk in my robbing.

Therefore, with more training, Yang Feng will also tolerate some reckless behavior of Skrtel. After all, not every ball can guarantee a high success rate, but Yang Feng's sudden command will affect Skrtel's own. Defensive rhythm.

Yang Feng would only call out to Skrtel to retreat when it was obvious that he would fail, or he could defend his position better. At that time, Skrtel, as Yang Feng's old teammate, Otherwise, he would unreservedly choose to trust Yang Feng and follow his instructions.

Although the tacit understanding between players cannot be quickly cultivated in a few days of training, for Liverpool's defense now, every improvement is a guarantee to go further in the second half of the league and cup games.

Henderson is actually the player who benefited the most from the extra training. As a young midfielder, Yang Feng gave him a lot of guidance on the defensive end, and also taught him many personal defensive training skills.

Don't say that the positions of the two are different. After all, Yang Feng's teammates who played the midfielder position at Chelsea before were all defensive players. He revealed their training methods and additional training content to Henderson a little bit. That's enough for him to digest.

Everything is for Liverpool's team to be better, and Yang Feng is also very optimistic about Henderson, a little brother. After all, he is also a capable player who can play in the future. Now that he has his own team, he should be able to perform better. right……