Football’s First Defender

Newcastle set up a lineup of 4321 in the away game, pinning the team's offensive hopes on Demba Ba, Cisse and Ben Arfa. The remaining players used the iron-blooded defense constructed to stop Liverpool's offensive offensive.

Liverpool, playing at home, of course has an absolute advantage on the field.

With the same starting lineup and the same formation arrangement as the previous game, Rogers chose to continue to implement his own tactical arrangement to balance offense and defense, and then strive for victory.

Liverpool has had the advantage in possession since the start, but facing Newcastle's more physical defense, Liverpool's offense in this game has been constantly interrupted.

Although Liverpool is playing at home, the referee will not easily show yellow cards to Newcastle players in the face of fouls that are not too big. On the offensive end, Liverpool, who were continuously interrupted and unable to form effective cooperation, suffered a lot throughout the game. The game has not returned to the state of the whole game.

The score of 1 to 1 is somewhat in line with the performance of the two teams in this field.

Yang Feng and his teammates restricted most of Newcastle's offenses, but with the help of Ben Arfa's personal ability, Demba Ba and Ben Arfa successfully formed a connection, seized the few opportunities, and directly won goal.

Perhaps for Liverpool's current defense line, losing a goal in the game is not a big news. The root cause of the draw is that Liverpool's offensive threat in this game is too low.

Facing the opponent's tough midfielder, Liverpool players obviously feel that their space to play is limited and they cannot smoothly play the desired pass and control coordination.

Although Newcastle's strength is not that strong, but in this game, they played an excellent game state and restricted Liverpool's players very well.

In addition to Suarez's continued stable and outstanding performance, using his personal ability to talk about an opportunity that was not a chance, he turned it into a goal and took the lead for Liverpool at the time.

After that, even in the counterattack, Liverpool's counterattack routine was resolved by Newcastle's targeted defensive arrangement, and did not form enough continuous offensive threats.

After the draw with Newcastle, in 10 rounds, Liverpool only scored 16 points due to too many digging holes in the previous rounds, which opened up a gap of 8 points with the top Manchester United.

It is definitely not an easy task to complete the catch-up in a short time.

It has to be said that the room leak happened to be raining overnight. While the Premier League was not going well, Liverpool was also full of unsatisfactory performances in the midweek Champions League.

In the fourth group match against Schalke 04 in the away game, Liverpool, which wanted to make a difference, was defeated again amidst Schalke 04's fiery home cheer.

2 to 1, although Yang Feng once again contributed a header in the set kick, but Liverpool's ground attack was completely restricted by Schalke 04's more active running.

On the contrary, Schalke 04, who sits at home, has been avoiding the strong area that Yang Feng personally defends on the offensive end, and focuses on the area farther away from Yang Feng's defensive position to attack.

In the case that the midfield defense is not too good, and the back line is also targeted to be unable to contribute high-quality defense, it is understandable that the opponent creates more offensive opportunities and then converts them into goals.

However, with the loss of both rounds against Schalke 04, Liverpool's qualifying situation in the Champions League group stage is a bit confusing.

The initiative to qualify is in your own hands, and you must not lose in the next two group matches.

The schedule of double matches a week is indeed a test of the physical fitness of the team's starting players, but for the sake of the team's performance, Rogers did not dare to rotate.

Especially in the Premier League, an away game against Chelsea is such a strong matchup.

In the 11th round of the Premier League, the red-blue battle between Chelsea and Liverpool has a huge source of topic, that is, Yang Feng, who has achieved success in both teams.

Today's Chelsea is in a transition period. The team is gradually letting go of those meritorious veterans back then, so that more young people have room to play.

It’s just that when everyone thinks that Chelsea will fall into a period of reconstruction for a certain period of time, Chelsea’s huge investment in purchasing players has limited the weakening of Chelsea’s strength, and it is still one of the most competitive teams in British football. one.

This season, Chelsea has led the standings alone for a long time, but it is a pity that due to the decline in the team's offensive firepower recently, the winning rate has naturally begun to decrease, slowing down the threat to Manchester United.

Facing Chelsea, which is also not weak on paper, Rodgers took into account the poor game state of Liverpool players before this game and the loopholes in the team lineup. Before the big battle, Rodgers continued to complete the Liverpool lineup. transformation.

This time it was a three-back system, with Yang Feng sitting in the middle, Carragher on the left had a rare chance to start, and Skrtel was in charge of the defensive area on the right.

Jose Enrique had just returned from injury, so he put Rogers in the starting lineup and played the role of a winger. It can be seen that whether it was Martin Kelly or Wisdom before, they were a little immature and could not meet Rogers' ideals. required level.

Players in other positions have not changed much for Liverpool. Sterling did not start this game. Rodgers' plan for the wing is to make Jose Enrique and Glenn Johnson on the other side more effective in the game. Go forward with confidence and boldly to open up enough side space for the team's offense.

Compared with Liverpool, who are constantly changing, Chelsea has explored a set of highly combative tactics and personnel.

3 forwards Torres, Hazard, and Mata are at the forefront of Chelsea.

In terms of midfield, Mikel has now straightened up, and with the help of Ramirez's supplementary defense, Chelsea's midfield defense may still be the strongest in the Premier League.

As for the defense line, there is actually no fresh blood joining. They are all old comrades who have fought together with Yang Feng before, and they continue to make outstanding contributions to Chelsea's defense line.

In this red and blue battle, both teams actually expected to score three points and get enough points for their respective league goals.

The Stamford Bridge Stadium was still full of hustle and bustle. Before the game, all the Chelsea fans still welcomed Yang Feng "home" with warm applause.

However, as the game started, the Chelsea fans at the scene of course put everything they had into cheering for the home team.

The offensive and defensive transitions of both sides are not slow, but in the case of intentionally strengthening the midfield defense, the offensive threat of the two teams is not that great.

The final score of 1 to 1 is indeed not considered a high score. It can only be said that the offense of the two teams still has a lot to be strengthened.

And a draw, each scoring one point, for the two teams, did not achieve the expected results...

Especially for Liverpool, they have not won many games in a row, and they seem to have fallen into a state of confusion...