Football’s First Defender

Yang Feng's outstanding performance today is a big mountain in front of Aguero. Aguero wants to play on the offensive end, but Yang Feng uses various defensive skills to resolve it.

It was another excellent chance to hit the goal, but it was blocked by Yang Feng. Aguero was also very disappointed and failed to win a goal for the team.

In the following Manchester City corner kick tactics, Yang Feng used his excellent anticipation ability to get in behind Milner, and when he wanted to head the ball, he took the first step to complete the forward jump and hit the pass in the air ahead of time. , clear the ball.

Yang Feng, who played extremely well, became the most reliable defensive player in Liverpool's defense.

Although both sides were able to attack vigorously and created opportunities again and again, in the subsequent games, neither of them had good offensive opportunities that could change the score on the field.

The game fell into dullness again.

As a lagging side, Manchester City took the lead in making substitution adjustments.

Mancini replaced Richards with Zabaleta and continued to keep the team's attacking vitality on the right.

After all, in the absence of an orthodox right midfielder, Manchester City's right back runs back and forth, which requires too much physical fitness.

As soon as the full-bodied Zabaleta came on the field, he created a right-sided crossing opportunity for Manchester City through his own forced personal attack on the right.

It's just a pity that Liverpool's defense did not make a mistake. This time, when Yang Feng helped Sktel block Dzeko, Skrtel steadily cleared the pass header.

As the game progressed, Liverpool's defense became higher and tighter due to the more tacit cooperation, it became more and more difficult for Manchester City to create opportunities in the penalty area.

On the one hand, Manchester City's offensive players are under a lot of pressure to get back the score, and their performance in the away game has been affected.

On the other hand, it is also when Liverpool has not conceded a goal for a long time, the defensive confidence of the Liverpool players has improved.

The Liverpool players who are more daring to make moves on the defensive end have maintained their team's defense line very well, and behind them, there is Yang Feng who can check for omissions and fill vacancies at any time.

It is not so easy for Manchester City to play the team they want to cooperate with the offense. They can only find ways to use the personal abilities of the players to see if they can achieve results on the offensive end.

After getting Mancini's "right to fire freely", Silva began to appear on the court, seeking to use his personal ability to try some long-range shooting opportunities.

Previously, Manchester City's long-range shots were basically completed by midfielders like Yaya Toure and Barry who advanced in the middle to receive the pass.

And Silva, in fact, still assumes more of the role of the team organizer, and has not fully utilized his personal offensive ability.

But when no one else can open Manchester City's offensive stalemate, Silva is naturally needed to carry out a personal offense.

"Silva, this time the position to catch the ball is closer to the middle."

Yaya Toure's direct pass is very powerful, ensuring that the ball can quickly pass through the defense zone of Liverpool's defenders, and Silva, with Charlie Adam's defense behind him, can still do it in the face of this pass Excellent stop and immediately transitions into attacking form.

"Silva stopped the ball very lightly, stopped and knocked the ball directly, and used a turn around on the spot to escape Charlie Adam's grab and break forward diagonally."

Charlie Adam dared to grab Silva recklessly, because on the other side of Silva, Liverpool's midfielder Henderson had already reached a defensive position, so even if Silva wanted to continue to dribble forward, he would suffer from Henry. Desen also has his own front and rear double teams.

However, Silva also knows that when he faces such a tight defense line of Liverpool, it is not easy for him to pass the defense of Henderson and Charlie Adam, and the defensive players in Liverpool's penalty area may rush out and complete the block again.

So it is unrealistic to forcefully enter the penalty area at this time. If it was the previous game, Silva might choose to knock the ball back to let the team reorganize the offense, but because Mancini specifically told himself to attack more, Silva I also want to see if my feet are going smoothly today.

"Silva, after half a step past Charlie Adam, he chose to directly hit the goal with a long shot."

"Swinging the calf in a small range, I completed the effort to form a goal, and hit a ground ball outside the penalty area!"

Reina fell sideways to the ground and blocked the ball, but because the kick was too concealed and the angle of the kick was extremely tricky, it went straight to the lower left corner of the goal, so although Reina stretched out his hand to block the football, but But still faced a crisis.

"Let's go!"

"Reina let go at a critical moment!"

"Dzeko!"

"Dzeko reacted quickly at close range. He took a step ahead of Skrtel and rushed directly to the football, making a supplementary shot!"

Skrtel's on-the-spot reaction was still too much of a disadvantage. Being in such a dangerous area by Dzeko, he got the second spot and completed a supplementary shot. Reina fell to the ground. Although he barely raised his arm, he did not what effect.

"Yang Feng! Made a clearance on the goal line!"

"A key supplementary defense, played back in slow motion, Yang Feng returned to the goal from the other side when Silva hit the goal. When Dzeko made a supplementary shot, Yang Feng had already rushed to the goal and played his own With his experience, he predicted the direction of Dzeko's small-angle supplementary shot, and blocked the supplementary shot with his body on the goal line."

"Dzeko's follow-up shot was only focused on completing the shot and passing the fallen Reina, but he didn't expect that there would still be players standing on the goal line instead of a real empty goal. The goal was too pursuit of precision. , the strength is a bit weak, and it gave Yang Feng the time to judge and move laterally."

Liverpool's defense sometimes gives the opponent some hope, but in the end it always kills hope.

The Manchester City players, seeing that they can score goals, are always short of the last step. When the players are attacking, they obviously feel more impatient.

"Yaya Toure made a bad pass and was directly blocked by Henderson!"

"Henderson's long pass from the backcourt goes directly to Carroll in the frontcourt!"

Liverpool's counterattack was very quick. After Henderson cut off the opponent's pass in front of the penalty area, after adjusting, he immediately made a long pass to find the team's fulcrum in the frontcourt.

"Kolo Toure and Milner are fighting for points with Carol!"

"The ball leaked over, and Carroll was one against two, and he still rubbed after finishing the ball."

"Suarez, cleverly coming out of the diagonal stab, grabbed the second point, dribbled laterally, and avoided Kompany's tackle."

As Suarez dribbled a few steps horizontally, after avoiding Kompany's press, he directly accelerated and dribbled forward, while Kompany could only struggle to follow him.

However, Clichy on the other side also returned to the defense in time. Suarez took the ball a few more steps, and Clichy should be able to rush to the defensive position and intercept.

"Suarez crossed the ball diagonally and played a through ball."

At the critical moment, Suarez chose the most reasonable way to pass a through pass to avoid being double-teamed by the opponent.

"Gerald!"

"Going forward from left to right, he shot out from the rear side of Kompany with you, rushed ahead of Kompany, and got the ball!"

"The door is open!"

"On the right side of the top of the arc in the penalty area, Gerrard volleyed and hit the goal, aiming at the upper left corner of the goal!"

"GOAL!!!"

"Gerrard! Goal! He scored the third goal of the game for Liverpool!"

"Liverpool! Leading 3-0 at home!"

"A classic counter-attack tactic, Carroll's point of contention, Suarez's selfless pass, and Gerrard's follow-up shot, flowed smoothly, without any delay!"

"Liverpool sealed the victory of this game with a score of 3 to 0, and may even end the suspense of the two rounds."

The score of 3 to 0 was devastating for Manchester City, and the mentality of the players completely collapsed.

For Liverpool, it is because of the huge physical consumption of the midfielders that the players have no physical support to expand the results.

After the two sides played piecemeal on the offensive end, there was no chance to change the score again.

In the end, Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-0 at home, and most of their bodies have entered the final of the English League Cup!