Football’s First Defender

The pass and control attack is extremely fancy for the use of space.

However, Arsenal's technical style of play over the past decade is also slightly different from the pass-and-control style of other European powerhouses.

Professor Wenger pays more attention to the practicality of the lineup and the ability to adapt to the Premier League. Although the pass and control style of play attaches great importance to the technical ability of offensive players, and even the more technical players, the stronger the overall fluency of pass and control.

However, Wenger's adjustment to the lineup is extremely unique. For a long time, there are many technical players in the Arsenal team, but there are also many traditional British players. Wenger's pursuit of pass control is more about Play pass and control in an area, use pass and control to open up space, create certain opportunities, and then match the impact of traditional British players on the side and the ability of offensive players in the middle to form a multi-level offensive threat .

But today, in the face of Liverpool players who are more actively pressing and recovering the defense more actively, when the entire center is filled with a large number of players, if they want to rely on pass control, they can transmit offensive opportunities, which is also true for Arsenal. Not too easily done.

After the half-time game, Arsenal only formed 5 shots, and almost all of them were long-range shots without much threat. It can be said that Liverpool's defense is indeed excellent.

The active running of the midfielders, the improved defensive ability, and the more stable defense, Yang Feng and Skrtel's partner, are the foundation of Liverpool's rock-solid defense in the half.

It's just that Arsenal's fast-paced offense brought about an increase in the running distance of the players of the two teams, which paved the way for the second half.

In the 90-minute game, what Rogers needs to consider now is how to maintain the physical fitness of the players in the second half, maintain such a defensive intensity, and defend the victory of this game away.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Yang Feng obviously felt that the offensive pressure he was under from the opponent began to increase.

Amidst the cheers of the Gunners fans at home, the Arsenal players launched a full-scale siege on Liverpool's side.

Unlike the first half of the game, when both sides restrained the opponent's counterattack and were unable to devote all their offensive power, Arsenal in the second half of the game entered a desperate state from the very beginning, no longer worrying about the rear defense, The expectation is to rely on continuous attack, score the first goal and recover the score.

"Sarnia and Walcott, two players on the right, were the main thrust of Arsenal's wing attack from the beginning of the second half."

Both of them have outstanding speed ability and good physical confrontation ability, which pose a huge threat to Liverpool's left flank.

Although Henderson is guarding this direction, two punches are no match for four hands. For Henderson, facing the speed impact of the two in turn, his physical fitness declined extremely quickly.

Moreover, Arsenal's offense, even if it focuses on the right, is not simply handing the ball to Walcott or Sagna for a direct impact.

Cazorla, Ramsey and Wilshere in the midfield are the priority of the team's transition players, and then they will distribute the ball and use through balls or long passes to guide the wide players. The offensive direction allows them to give full play to their speed advantage in the offensive, instead of holding the ball to break through the offense in a decelerated state.

Not only simply passing the ball, but the passing and controlling of football advocated by Wenger, after incorporating the simple and rude factors of English football, sometimes it will also play a chemical change.

"Sagna dribbled the ball forward, facing Henderson and Sturridge combined to block in the front area, and passed the ball decisively to Wilshere."

"Wilshere crossed to Ramsey and let Ramsey drive the ball forward!"

"After attracting the attention of Liverpool's midfield defense, Ramsey handed the ball back to Wilshere."

"Wilshere kicks the ball straight and finds Cazorla who moves forward to meet him."

"Cazorla's excellent personal foot skills, facing Lucas's defense alone, is obviously more than capable..."

"A diagonal through ball!" Cazorla has been observing the situation on the field. When he saw Walcott on the right, he suddenly chose to go forward. Cazorla's delivery of the ball can also be very fast, guaranteed Walcott definitely did not form offside.

"Walcott went forward quickly, turned offside successfully, received Cazorla's pass, and Wisdom was already behind at the start."

After all, it is a young player, game experience, and his own ability to cope with such a high-level game. It is a struggle for Wisdom. It is the same when playing Manchester United, and it is the same when playing Arsenal.

Regardless of whether Wisdom is in the position of left back or right back, he will become the opponent's offensive end, and will continue to try to attack weaknesses, and always look for opportunities to form a threatening attack on this side.

"Theo Walcott made the bottom pass very easily and the angle of the pass was well controlled."

"Giroux following up in the middle!"

"Shove your head and attack the goal!"

"However, in terms of scrambling for landing points, Yang Feng's replacement was very timely this time, and he hit the ball almost at the same time as Giroud."

"Goalkeeper Reina took the ball easily and controlled it."

For Giroud's ball, he thought that he suddenly got rid of the running position laterally, and had already thrown off Skrtel who was defending him. He had enough space to deal with this header.

Sufficient take-off height, sufficient neck force, Walcott's pass, also played a tacit understanding between the two in training, everything was perfect in Giroud's feeling, until he was about to complete When he shook his head and made the last step towards the goal, Yang Feng who rushed from the other side appeared in his sight.

Go faster and jump higher.

Moreover, Yang Feng's supplementary defense this time is already too big in terms of position, so the first goal is definitely not to completely hit the ball to complete the clearance, but simply to interfere with Giroud's attack this time.

Giroud felt that he was the first to hit the football. The ball should have flown to the right side of the goal by feeling.

However, as far as the eye can see, the football has formed a changing line in the air.

Yang Feng still met it.

The supplementary defense formed a defensive effect. Giroud's top shot was still hit by Yang Feng's jump and hit the bottom of the ball. There was a deceleration and a high rise, which gave Reina more time to react. Make a save. Reina's performance did not have any problems, and he took the ball off smoothly.

"Don't be afraid! Wisdom!"

"Just like this time, give priority to defending your position on the inside line, and don't let the opponent break through. There are us behind you who can complete the defense."

"Trust us, and trust yourself..."

Although the loopholes on Wisdom's side have always been great, it is also a reality that Liverpool lacks full-backs. Who would have thought that Jose Enrique, who had just recovered from injury, would be injured again. It is useless to fight at this time Instead of complaining, it's better to encourage Wisdom, let him let go of the tension in his heart, and better complete the defensive work.

Wisdom, who was encouraged by Yang Feng, didn't like to talk very much and responded verbally, but on the field, he also swept away the sense of frustration of being constantly looked for opportunities to attack before, and regained a certain amount of confidence.

Afterwards, Arsenal attacked again in this direction. Wisdom saw the opportunity and directly grabbed it, completed the blocking of the passing line in advance with a sliding tackle, and shoveled the ball out of the sideline.

Yang Feng behind him showed a gratified smile. During the game, teammates can complete their growth and become even better. This is definitely a good thing for the team.

Wisdom no longer retreats blindly, but really dares to make moves, which will be of great benefit to his career...