Football’s First Defender

On this side, Rooney is still thinking hard about how to get rid of Yang Feng's marking in the penalty area, while another Manchester United striker, Welbeck, has already contributed 2 excellent shots in succession.

Although Welbeck is only 21 years old this year, he has played in the Manchester United first team and has played in the previous seasons and has been training. Therefore, this season, taking advantage of the wave of injuries on Manchester United's front line, Welbeck himself took advantage of the trend and got enough opportunities to play.

Even his shooting skills, the ability to seize opportunities in the penalty area, and the decisiveness when handling the ball still need to be further improved.

When Yang Feng put his main energy into defending against Rooney, for Welbeck, Skrtel could only defend alone.

Liverpool already has a somewhat weak defense line, and it is already a difficult task to restrict Rooney through the defense. It is a bit difficult for Manchester United to completely lock down Manchester United's double forwards.

And Welbeck, using his agility and excellent physical fitness, can always receive a pass from his teammates on the wing or in the penalty area, and forcefully create a chance to hit the goal.

It's just that sometimes offensive opportunities are created, but Welbeck's behavior of forcing the goal regardless of whether it is reasonable or not actually made Ferguson on the sidelines a little angry.

Sometimes, teammates will have a better chance to attack if they pass back to Giggs or Scholes who is plugging in behind him, but Welbeck gets the ball by himself and plays by himself, completely ignoring the situation on the field .

Throughout the first half, when Liverpool focused on strangling Rooney's offense and let go of Welbeck's defense, Welbeck got a full 5 kicks to hit the goal, but except for a long shot that hit the goal frame, The other two long-range shots, as well as two shots in the penalty area, were all directly missed or simply hit the plane.

It's okay to hit the goal in the penalty area. After all, it is a bit unreasonable for a forward to take the ball in the penalty area and not hit the goal.

But the three-footed long-range shot about one step outside the penalty area made Ferguson's face a little livid.

The teammates may just want Welbeck, who is retreating back, to be a turning point for the pass, but Welbeck himself, after getting the ball under his feet, doesn't care, and when Skrtel has come out to defend, he just makes two lateral passes. One step, even if there is a little space to hit the door, he immediately raises his leg and hits the door, that is, he has done it to the end.

Basically, the ball passed to Welbeck's feet is never returned.

However, relying on the two wingers, Giggs and Valencia's attacks in turn, Manchester United's offensive is still good in terms of momentum.

The ball can be passed out. On the scene, Manchester United also has the advantage, but they are still short of the final goal.

For Liverpool's counterattack, it is very simple to find Carroll in the frontcourt as a fulcrum. After the point of contention, Suarez is the core of the counterattack, grabbing Evans' side and hitting hard.

Although there were not many opportunities to counterattack, Evans was also very embarrassed by several counterattack attempts.

The two sides played back and forth with each other on the court, but there was some distance from the goal.

In the half game, except for Yang Feng's header, the players on both sides had no other achievements. The score was maintained until the end of 1-0, and Liverpool held the lead.

In the ensuing second half of the game, as Welbeck still fell into his personal offensive mode, he wasted two offensive opportunities.

Ferguson saw that the midfielder's warning to Welbeck was taken as a deaf ear, and he directly replaced Welbeck angrily, and replaced him with Park Ji-sung, who has been plagued by injuries this season, to let the tireless Korean continue to attack Against Liverpool's defense.

Manchester United changed to a 451 formation. Although there is no double forward to act as a fulcrum in the frontcourt, the midfielder's ability to control the ball has become stronger, and there is an easier pass possibility.

Rooney, as Manchester United's top striker, did not just stand at the forefront at this time, waiting for an opportunity.

Rooney knew that Yang Feng and Skrtel formed a defensive line. When he was attacking in the position, he wanted to easily get the passing support of his teammates, which was a dream.

So Rooney didn't enter the penalty area at all, but also retreated to the vicinity of the penalty area line. Manchester United's position on the field for a while was quite a bit without a striker.

Before Rooney moved to Manchester United, he had been in Everton's youth training system.

As a member of Liverpool's rival team in the same city, Rooney's football philosophy he has accepted since he was a child is to hate Liverpool!

Hate Liverpool players! Hate Liverpool fans! Hate this Liverpool team! Even hate Liverpool's mascot!

Hate everything about Liverpool!

After moving to Manchester United, Rooney's hatred for Liverpool naturally became the catalyst for his integration into the Manchester United system due to the fierce and popular Double Red Club.

Today, Liverpool is in the leading position in the game. Rooney feels that these Liverpool players must be secretly happy in their hearts, laughing at themselves for not scoring a goal.

"Fuck him!"

During the game, the more he thought about it, the more Rooney felt that he wanted to prove himself. He moved from stillness to movement again and again. Outside the penalty area, he suddenly chose to advance in all directions in the penalty area, in order to use the sudden start to gain a little attack space. .

"Gerrard's sliding tackle after being out of position brought Scholes down directly!"

"The referee decisively showed a yellow card, Manchester United's free kick in the frontcourt!"

"Quick free kick! Scholes passed the ball directly to Evra who was plugging in from the left!"

In this game, although Manchester United's offensive was fierce, Ferguson was still cautious about the forward use of the two full-backs because of Liverpool's counterattack.

However, the game has entered the second half, since there are still cards in hand, it is natural to play them all.

The left side where Evra is located is naturally the more important point of attack, while Smalling on the right side is just properly opening up space on the right side.

Evra's forward thrust received the ball without any pause, and he directly increased his speed on the left wing.

Although Suarez returned to the wing, he had nothing to do with Evra.

As a full-back, Glenn Johnson could only step forward to defend.

"Evra knocked back and gave the ball to Giggs."

"Giggs, make a cross!"

Gerrard's replacement was very timely, but he was too active but was directly deceived by Giggs.

"Fake action, after Giggs swayed away from Gerrard, he directly smashed the ball and changed direction, heading towards Liverpool's penalty area."

"Skrtel defends from inside the penalty area!"

"Giggs! Pass the ball!"

"The catcher at the back point is - Rooney!"

"Header!"

"GOAL!!!"

"Rooney! Scored the equalizer for Manchester United!"

"In the 64th minute of the game, Rooney silenced Anfield with a goal!"

In a game so important for the Double Reds, is there anything more rewarding than a goal that silences Anfield?

For Wayne Rooney, who regarded Liverpool as his enemy since he was a child, after a goal, he looked around and enjoyed the momentary silence of the stadium, and then received deafening boos.

Seeing Rooney's domineering appearance on the court after scoring a goal, Yang Feng was also itchy with anger!

In this attack, Rooney was originally under his own defensive range.

But because the offensive threat created by Giggs is too great, Skrtel has to step forward and make up the defense, which is absolutely no problem.

But at the critical moment, "Park Sanfei", who couldn't run to death, inserted diagonally into the space left by Skrtel from outside the penalty area while Skrtel came out to defend.

Given the position Giggs was in at the beginning, he could have played a through ball and found Park Ji-sung who was going forward.

At this time, Yang Feng defended and restricted Park Zhixing's catch, and there was no mistake.

Even while running, Yang Feng pointed at Rooney and called out Jose Enrique, who was retracted, to make up defense.

But in place does not mean that effective defense can be completed.

Giggs still chose to find Rooney, and Rooney also successfully overwhelmed Jose Enrique to complete the header this time!

Liverpool's slightly immature defense was still broken by Manchester United!