Football’s First Defender

After the double red meeting a few rounds ago, Liverpool will have another Merseyside derby this round!

However, compared with the poor state before the Double Red Club, Liverpool, which has won consecutive victories in the league, is now in its own rising period.

Rodgers, who attaches great importance to this Merseyside derby, chose an appropriate rotation lineup for the midweek Champions League match, so that everyone can get more rest time and gather enough energy to deal with Egypt. Furton's challenge.

At home at Anfield, facing the visiting Schalke 04, the home team Liverpool lost 1 to 3 neatly, but the fans were very tolerant of Rodgers at this time.

A loss in the Champions League group stage is nothing. Losing to Schalke 04, the group leader, will hardly affect Liverpool's qualifying situation. As long as you can teach the damn Everton people a good lesson in a few days, this is the voice of most Liverpool fans.

The first round of the Merseyside Derby this season was held at Goodison Park. Through continuous attempts in training, Rodgers continued to make slight adjustments to the team. The players on the field still continued the previous starters. The change is just to adjust the position to further improve the team's combat power.

Suso retreated slightly, changing the 442 formation in the previous game to 4231.

Of course, the lone forward is Suarez, who has been fully fired recently, while Suso has played the characteristics of being a winger. Going to the left, he can not only pull the side, but also rush into the penalty area, acting as a supplementary firepower for the team's forward line.

Sterling was pulled to the right, a position more suitable for his accelerated performance characteristics, which can better kick the ball from the wing and provide assist firepower for the striker.

Shaheen is at the front of the center, doing his best pass work, while Joe Allen's position is slightly behind compared to the previous games, in order to better help Gerrard complete the defensive work.

After many consecutive games where he was unable to complete zero seals, Rogers still needs to better solve his weakness in the midfielder position and lack of defensive strength.

Gerrard's delayed position remains unchanged. Since Gerrard has begun to adapt to the changes brought about by his position, coupled with the addition of Joe Allen's return, Rogers is actually looking forward to the team's defensive performance in this game. of.

However, as the game progressed, the latest lineup carefully arranged by Rogers did not complete according to the expected scene.

For this game, Everton is also playing with all the main players. Moyes' 442 lineup, or 4411 formation, has accumulated enough players in the midfield from the beginning to take the lead in defensive work.

Jelavic, who is at the forefront, is the counterattack weapon that Moyes most expects, and on the two sides, Moyes also sent the two fastest players to counterattack and advance.

Although they are playing at home, Everton is still in a defensive counterattack posture to deal with Liverpool's main offensive tactics.

The pragmatic Moyes, the offensive Rodgers, the two coaches, led teams with obviously different styles, and launched the first Merseyside derby of the new season at Goodison Park.

Although Everton did not compete strongly for possession of the ball in terms of lineup arrangement, in such a hot derby match, Moyes also carried out the maximum pressing defense while focusing on defensive counterattacks, interfering with Liverpool's halftime offense. pass success rate.

However, Liverpool's offensive state in this game is extremely good. Although the pass was interfered by the defense of Everton players, luck has always been on Liverpool's side.

Using his speed, Sterling regarded Everton's wing defense as nothing, and established a wing corridor on the right, achieving very good offensive results.

In the 17th minute of the game, Sterling forcibly waded through the defender from the right and swept the horizontal ball into the middle of the penalty area. Careful self-imposed own goal made Liverpool take the lead early.

And 3 minutes later, Liverpool made a comeback. Taking advantage of the time when the Everton players rushed to attack, Suarez caught the opportunity to counterattack and successfully shot in the penalty area, extending the score to 2-0.

As for the starting point of Liverpool's counterattack this time, it was Yang Feng who was at the back of the defense line!

Yang Feng really wanted to show that he hadn't played out the positioning ball header he had practiced recently, but Yang Feng's own long pass technique helped the team once again to make a contribution.

This time Everton tried to use a through ball to hit Liverpool's defense directly, but firstly, the accuracy of the pass was not controlled enough, and secondly, Yang Feng's reaction was fast enough to complete the interception directly and easily.

Afterwards, it was time to show the tacit understanding in daily training. Even though the distance between the courts was extremely far, Yang Feng still used a precise long pass to accurately find Sterling, who was already open like Everton.

The great lead allowed Sterling to always take advantage of his speed. After that, Sterling and Suarez cooperated with each other more and more tacitly. Suarez shot to end this counterattack.

With a 2-0 advantage in 20 minutes, Liverpool's easy victory seemed to have been kicked into their arms.

But the Everton players who played at home did not make the rival Liverpool happy for too long.

The strengthening of the team's defense that Rogers carried out in this field did not show its due effect in actual operation.

Under the crazily offensive impact of the Everton players, the weakness of Liverpool's midfield defense was fully exposed.

Gerrard has tried his best to do his duties as a defensive midfielder, but Joe Allen, who retreated and entered the defensive end, made a big mistake first.

With the personal defensive area limited, Joe Allen was placed in his own defensive area and was crushed by Everton midfielder Osman. There is no way to do it quickly.

Osman did not waste this opportunity. He hit the goal with a powerful long-range shot and hit the target directly. The Australian Jones, who started Liverpool's second goal in this game, could not react in time and directly pulled back a goal for Everton. .

In just a few minutes, Everton responded powerfully, proving that the game was far from over.

The strengthening of the defense in the middle that Rogers imagined, but it is precisely this strengthening that has brought greater damage to the defense.

The house leak happened to be raining overnight, and Liverpool's lead did not last until the end of halftime, and Everton caught the opportunity on the right. Naismith got rid of the defense of Liverpool teenager Wisdom on the wing, and cut inside. In front of the big penalty area, he directly completed a burst shot.

Goalkeeper Jones made a save again. After the ball was blocked, it still flew into the goal along the inertia due to Naismith's great power.

2 to 2 tie, the lead came quickly and was lost quickly. In this Merseyside derby, the situation on the field changed too fast, which made people caught off guard.

However, in the subsequent games, neither team performed too well. Liverpool took Everton's counterattack into consideration, while Everton invested more power in defense to hinder Liverpool's offensive penetration.

The halftime game ended and the second half game started, but the rhythm of both sides began to slow down. If it weren't for the 4 goals scored, judging from the rhythm of the scene, this is indeed very similar to a 0-0 rhythm. Contest.

In the 80 minutes of the game, the two teams were almost evenly matched in terms of various statistics, and there was not much difference. The number of shots was 13 and 12, and the number of shots on target was 4 to 3, but they both played efficiently. Scored 2 goals.

And the stalemate in sports warfare, in the end, it may be that a set ball is needed to help break it.

Liverpool, which has a certain amount of initiative to attack, has more opportunities for set-pieces. With Everton starting to defend intensively with peace of mind, Liverpool's sports offense has been a bit powerless.

Gerrard's long-range shot hit the defender and went out of the baseline, giving Liverpool a corner kick.

However, Yang Feng, Skrtel, and Carol, who came off the bench, entered the opponent's penalty area with three high points, creating a threat to the opponent.

Although Carroll played, the tactic with Yang Feng as the core of the set-piece attack did not change. Instead, the Everton defenders had to defend Carroll more carefully and weakened the marking of Yang Feng.

"Joe Allen takes the corner!"

"Yang Feng!"

"From the front point, suddenly turn back to the middle!"

"Header!"

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"Yang Feng contributed another lore goal!"

"In the 86th minute of the game, Yang Feng scored a header and gave Liverpool a 3-2 lead!"