Football’s First Defender

For Yang Feng personally, this period of injury may be the best rest time for him.

Because of the injury, Yang Feng, who can only do upper body strength training every day, suddenly frees up a lot of time for personal relaxation every day.

And there is no need to watch the videos of the opponents the team has faced in the past few weeks. For Liverpool's video editors, there is also a good "holiday" time.

It's hard to imagine that the days after the injury may be easier for Yang Feng than the summer offseason.

Compared with Liverpool's defense line, which is in dire straits, Yang Feng feels a little guilty about his comfortable recuperation days.

Fortunately, the injury to the thigh muscle only needs a few weeks of recuperation. After a detailed inspection and confirmed that he has recovered, Yang Feng immediately put himself into training and was immediately ready to play to contribute to Liverpool.

Yang Feng's first comeback match will be in the Champions League. Liverpool will go away to challenge Olympiacos.

The strength of the Greek team is definitely not too strong, but its terrifying home atmosphere can always cause a lot of trouble to the visiting team.

Liverpool only needs a draw to qualify for the group stage, and with Yang Feng's comeback, Liverpool's defense has been stabilized. Coupled with the team's hard power lead, the goal of qualifying for the group stage should still be easy to achieve.

The away game was 2 to 1, and Liverpool's victory was fairly easy.

Even though the Greek team's enthusiastic home atmosphere and fiery way of playing brought considerable trouble to Liverpool at the beginning of the game, Yang Feng used a set kick to help the team open the scoring in the first game of his comeback, announcing his return. It also brought the momentum of the home team to the bottom.

One is not suitable for complex corner kick tactics, but Yang Feng used his body to clear the way. After all, the confrontation intensity of the Greek Super League cannot be compared with the Premier League.

Yang Feng's strength advantage was fully demonstrated in this set kick.

In the central area, he overwhelmed the opponent's defender's header and hit the goal. Yang Feng showed that he had recovered to his best form and scored Liverpool's first goal.

After the game, it was actually a bit boring. After taking the lead, Liverpool began to be very "slave-divided". Make a risky attack.

In a situation where a tie can qualify, Liverpool has controlled it very well.

In the second half, taking advantage of the obvious loopholes in the opponent's defense, Liverpool made a sudden effort and scored another goal, extending the lead to 2 goals, completely killing the suspense of the game.

The final score of 2 to 1 also allowed Liverpool to enter the Champions League knockout round as the second place in the group.

After the end of the Champions League, for Liverpool, it is time to devote all their energy to the most intense and difficult December schedule in the Premier League.

For Liverpool, the best news may be that in the December schedule, Liverpool's opponents are not too strong. Among the six giants, Liverpool's schedule is definitely the easiest. This is why many media think that Liverpool We should seize the opportunity to catch up with the opportunity of the opponent in front.

Rogers also wants to use a wave of consecutive victories during this period to catch up with his opponents before the standings.

To win, of course, the first thing to rely on is the team's offense.

After withdrawing from the Champions League, Liverpool beat West Ham United 4-2 away in the next league game.

The team's offensive performance is extremely good. Although there are still many flaws on the defensive end, they can be completely made up for by offense.

However, just when everyone was still very worried about Liverpool's defense, Liverpool's offensive end suddenly misfired.

After the away victory over West Ham United, for everyone's pre-match predictions, when Liverpool returns to the home court to face the mid-lower team Villa, it should be in hand.

However, in this game, Liverpool's offensive performance has undergone huge fluctuations compared to the previous game.

Pass errors began to increase, the forward line did not receive effective support, and Suarez's offensive threat began to decrease without the possession of the ball.

Especially for Suso, although his running performance is not bad, but many times, the passes passed by Liverpool teammates to Suso have suffered targeted defense from the opponent, and Suso's weak physical confrontation ability has made Suso In this game, Suo lost the living space in the opponent's penalty area.

The same problem also happened to Shaheen. As the season progressed, in response to Liverpool's offensive football, everyone changed from focusing on strong points such as Suarez and Sterling at the beginning to focusing on Suso and Shaheen. Xin.

Taking advantage of tough defensive players, they took the initiative to find physical confrontation, which put huge pressure on Suso and Shaheen.

Rodgers' style of passing and controlling football has tactical completion requirements for every player, but now it is not one point of error, but two points, which is a huge damage to Liverpool's offensive completion.

Losing 1-3 at home to Aston Villa, Liverpool's ups and downs in performance made all fans worry.

Before Christmas, facing Fulham, the "farmer" who visited Anfield, Liverpool won another 4-0, allowing Liverpool fans to have a very pleasant Christmas holiday, with a big win and zero seals. The decline in the last game was wiped out, and the outstanding performance on both ends of the offense and defense is gratifying.

It was just a Boxing Day game, but Liverpool's offensive line was germinating, and the offensive completion was not enough. The most intuitive performance is that the opponent can play a very threatening counterattack.

In the away game against Stoke City, the performances of Shaheen and Suso were terrible.

Especially Shaheen in the middle, his pass error allowed the opponent to take advantage of Liverpool's defense line and drive straight in, 3 for 2, and scored a goal to reverse the score.

When Liverpool advanced by one goal and took the lead, they conceded three goals in a row and suffered an away defeat.

This kind of day of winning a game and losing a game is definitely not good news for Liverpool. They are now close to 20 points away from Manchester United at the top of the list, and there is also a lot of points gap from the Champions League. The team blocks in front of them.

Now for Liverpool, after half a season, the team has returned to the problem at the beginning of last season, that is, when the offense is unfavorable, the mistakes caused have brought huge pressure to the defense.

This is completely different from the problem of midfield defense that Liverpool encountered before.

From the recent soaring number of goals conceded, it can be seen that when Shaheen and Suso were successfully targeted, Liverpool's offense got stuck and there were too many opportunities to be directly converted, which has seriously affected the stability of the team .

The most effective way, of course, is to substitute players and use more confrontational players to supplement them. As for tactics, judging from some victorious games, although Rogers' tactics still have some loopholes, his control in the game Still enough.

For the Premier League, there may be nothing wrong with taking the route of Arsenal and playing the pass-and-control route, but using that kind of purely technical players and players who have no confrontation foundation may still not be able to integrate with the Premier League style.

Dig in the Liverpool team, or simply go to the winter window transfer market to find a striker who can be a fulcrum and can also integrate into the pass and control style of play, and then find a midfielder with excellent technical ability and not afraid of confrontation.

Rogers wants Liverpool's performance to be more stable and better form the team's stable combat effectiveness. Perhaps he can only find players who are more suitable for the team and the rhythm of the Premier League.