Football’s First Defender

After the home draw with Tottenham, Liverpool's next opponent will be even stronger. The third double red meeting this season will be staged at Old Trafford after a lapse of two weeks.

Manchester United's performance at Anfield before was pretty good throughout the game, but at the last moment of bringing the FA Cup play-off back to Old Trafford, they were assisted by a long pass from Yang Feng and came off the bench It is definitely not reconciled for Ferguson to complete the lore with Kevin Dirk.

In this league collision, it is also a critical moment for Manchester United and Manchester City to compete for the championship. Liverpool is naturally willing to pull Manchester United off the horse to prevent Manchester United from dominating the Premier League again. Manchester United also wants to complete the revenge of the previous double red club. The home team scored a crucial three points on the way to the championship.

Fortunately, in this game, Manchester United's right back Raphael came back from the line of fire, allowing Ferguson to play Rafael, who is more flexible, instead of using Smalling, who had previously played the right back, to effectively improve the mobility on the right. Good defensive task.

In other positions, Manchester United has not changed much compared to the double red game two weeks ago.

On the Liverpool side, they put their stance very low in the away game. Dalglish chose to put high center forward Carroll on the bench. Suarez is alone in charge of the team's counterattack.

In the midfield, Downing and Didier, who contributed to the lore before, acted on the two wings, while Spilling, Gerrard, and Henderson sat in the middle, responsible for offense and defense.

The back line and goalkeeper are still a few old faces, Yang Feng once again has to face the combined impact of Rooney and Welbeck.

Since Liverpool's stance in this game is very low, the first thing the team has to do is defend.

When Manchester United was attacking, Suarez, who was at the forefront of Liverpool, returned to the defense and participated in the team's half-court defense. Except for the lack of athletic ability of the veteran Dirk Dirk, players such as Spilling and Henderson Such young people have enough physical fitness to ensure that they can use more running on the field to better limit Manchester United's offense.

Throughout the first half of the game, although the Red Devils fans showed their sense of presence at Old Trafford, booing, cheering, and shouting, it had a great impact on Liverpool players, but on the field From the point of view of the situation, although Liverpool has a disadvantage in ball possession rate, they have not been shot many times. Manchester United only got 4 chances to hit the goal in 45 minutes, which is not much different from Liverpool's 3 shots. The defensive line, after a long run-in, finally showed a tacit understanding of team defense.

In the first half, Rooney once again lost himself in Yang Feng's defensive restrictions. Several opportunities to receive passes from his teammates in the penalty area were completely destroyed by Yang Feng.

Rooney himself is good at grabbing points, so when facing Yang Feng, he doesn't have much room to play.

During the half-time break, Ferguson thought and thought, and finally changed his tactical thinking, so that he suffered injuries this season, which led to the appearance of Berbatov, who was not in good condition, and the team changed to a three-forward tactic.

In other words, Berbatov and Welbeck partnered with two forwards, putting some pressure on Liverpool's defense in the penalty area, changing Rooney from a striker position active in the penalty area to a more backward midfield position, at least It can free Rooney from Yang Feng's defense.

Dalglish and the Liverpool players on the field obviously didn't expect that Manchester United's changes would be carried out so quickly, and they couldn't react in time at the beginning of the second half.

Yang Feng was entangled in the penalty area by Berbatov, who is also good at running and has an elegant style of play. Facing Rooney who retreated outside the penalty area, although he felt that Rooney's threat was still greater, he could only fight against Rooney. The defensive position, hand it over to your teammates, and concentrate on restricting Berbatov, a striker who is also well-known in European football.

"Wayne Rooney received a cross from Valencia outside the penalty area, and Liverpool closed very quickly."

Since Scholes was replaced by Berbatov, Manchester United's current formation is between 433 and 442. Rooney's position can be regarded as an offensive end in the frontcourt, but the position of the station is The position of the midfielder in the middle.

Regarding Rooney's defense, Henderson naturally did not dare to be careless.

"Rooney passed the ball back to Carrick behind him."

"Carrick didn't stop the ball and passed it straight to find Rooney who crossed from right to left after returning the ball."

"Rooney took advantage of the situation and took the lead. Before Henderson chased him again, he hit the goal directly at the top of the arc of the penalty area!"

Yang Feng discovered Rooney's intention to shoot long shots, and he also abandoned Berbatov, wanting to rush out and stretch his legs to block it, but Rooney's kick was too fast and the angle was really tricky, and it hit the upper left corner of the goal directly.

"GOAL!!!"

"Rooney! In Manchester United's first threatening attack in the second half, it opened the scoring for Manchester United!"

"Ferguson's change has had a miraculous effect. Rooney retreated to the midfield position. After getting rid of the defense of Liverpool's defensive thigh Yang Feng, he was in the midfield position and got more opportunities."

"And using the continuous pass with Carrick this time, under the nose of Henderson, he got a chance to hit the goal, and played his precise shooting skills, giving Manchester United the lead."

The broadcast camera also found Sir Alex Ferguson on the sidelines in due course.

For a coach, there is nothing more fulfilling than changing his on-the-spot tactics and immediately receiving the desired effect. Ferguson's smiling eyes on the sidelines almost narrowed, and he lost the ball at the beginning of the game. , Dalglish with a bad face formed a stark contrast.

However, Liverpool's nightmare is not over yet.

Conceding the goal at the beginning obviously caught the Liverpool players a little off guard.

Everyone has not yet come out of the shadow of conceding the ball before, and Rooney sprinkled a handful of salt on the wounds of the Liverpool players.

After Liverpool lost the ball, they could only launch a counterattack immediately, but the players rushed to attack before they entered the offensive state. The result would only be that the attack was fruitless and the opponent seized the opportunity.

As Gerrard gave Suarez a through ball, which was cut off by Ferdinand, Manchester United's counterattack followed.

"Carrick made a long pass from the back to find Valencia on the right!"

Liverpool's pressure on the left offensive line naturally created a emptiness in their own defense, and Yang Feng had to immediately defend and came to the side at the first time to limit Valencia's breakthrough.

"Valencia, before Yang Feng stepped forward to complete the defense, he took the ball to the center."

With the establishment of Yang Feng's prestige in the Premier League, he is also considered to be the most effective central defender in defending the opponent's counterattack among many teams in the Premier League.

However, the stadium is so big, so it’s good to avoid Yang Feng’s side. In the counterattack tactics formulated by Ferguson for this field, it is also necessary to avoid direct collision with Yang Feng during the counterattack. On one side, try to pass the ball to your teammates so as not to be successfully defended by Yang Feng.

It is because Yang Feng's success rate when he chooses to grab the tackle is too high. In the shadow of a famous tree, Yang Feng has now become the defensive champion that many offensive players do not want to encounter.

This time, Valencia chose to force the ball to the center during the running process. After losing his balance, he was hit by Yang Feng, and both of them fell to the ground.

"Rooney, received the ball in the middle, faced Henderson's defense in front of him, and directly forcibly used his body to clear the way. In the confrontation with Henderson, he forcibly squeezed. After getting out of a certain space, choose a diagonal shot near the penalty area line!"

"Goal! Wayne Rooney, scored twice in 3 minutes, giving Manchester United a two-goal lead."

"There was a huge shout at Old Trafford, and we could clearly hear the crowd chanting 'Rooney' in unison!"

Rooney, relying on his own personal power, almost laid the victory for Manchester United in this game.

Within 3 minutes, Manchester United scored two goals. Liverpool, who played away, was indeed a bit helpless.

Especially when Manchester United also began to deploy more defensive forces on the defensive end, Liverpool really didn't have much to do.

Dalglish sent Carroll and Charlie Adam successively, hoping to use the high ball to open up the situation, but Ferguson sent Phil Jones in a tricky way, and directly set up a lineup of three central defenders, effectively limiting Liverpool's opponents. The impact of the high-altitude ball in the penalty area.

With the end of Welbeck and Giggs, Manchester United further used substitutions to enhance the team's defense in the midfield, making Liverpool's offense even more difficult.

Although in the 86th minute of the game, Suarez used a long shot to pull back a goal for Liverpool, but after that, Manchester United defended more tenaciously in the final period and kept the 2-1 lead.

"Two weeks later, in the double red meeting, Manchester United successfully took revenge at Old Trafford in the league. With the same score of 2 to 1, it gave Liverpool another defeat in the league."

"After the victory, Manchester United also reversed their city rivals Manchester City in the first game, and regained their position at the top of the Premier League.

"Tonight belongs to the Red Devils Manchester United..."