Football’s First Defender

With a score of 1 to 2, although Arsenal is still one goal behind, the suspense of the game has returned. The 60,000 Gunners fans in the Emirates Stadium suddenly regained their vitality, and the cheers and cheers began to become louder.

An accidental loss of the ball, Walcott suddenly inserted into the penalty area, and in an unobtrusive, seemingly insignificant position, he shot a wonderful shot.

This is a football field. Accidents happen all the time. Just like before, Henderson spared no effort to counterattack and created a very exciting goal, which was also very unexpected for Arsenal.

This time Walcott gave it all back. Instead of waiting for an opportunity on the wing, he inserted into Liverpool's penalty area and hit the goal from a seemingly unreasonable small angle, but it achieved miraculous results.

There are still more than 20 minutes in the game. For Arsenal, who are playing at home, they have every chance to continue to fight for the next goal.

In response to the tremendous pressure on Wisdom's side in this game, after losing the ball, Rogers took the lead in making his own substitution adjustments.

Replaced Wisdom with veteran Carragher and made a major adjustment to the position of the entire defense.

Glenn Johnson went to the left to play the left back to stabilize the defense on the left, Skrtel went to play the right back, and the center was handed over to Yang Feng and Carragher.

Then in midfield, replacing Downing with Sterling, Rodgers will use Sterling's absolute speed to pose a huge counterattack threat to Arsenal, making Arsenal have to worry about their own defense even if they attack.

Moreover, Rogers used Carragher to further clarify the team's tactical thinking.

The formation has changed to a 4321 formation. Among them, Henderson, Lucas, and Gerrard form a three-back midfielder system. With a solid defense in the middle, they wait for an opportunity to help the wing block the area.

Both Sturridge and Sterling have to retreat in a wide range at this time to ensure that they can form a helpful first line of defense in front of the full-backs.

Suarez also needs to take advantage of his running position. He must always be ready to counterattack, break into the enemy's back, and complete the fatal blow, and also find a way to interfere with the opponent's conduction in the midfield area, making it impossible for Arsenal. region for scheduling.

Facing Liverpool's more dynamic defense and facing Liverpool's more united defense, the last moment of this strong showdown directly evolved into a contest of offense and defense.

The game has progressed to such a point that it is a test of the ability of the two teams to execute at the last moment of the game.

"Just after Arsenal pulled back a goal, their morale was high and they wanted to go all out to tie the score directly."

"But for the visiting team Liverpool, after coach Rodgers adjusted the layout in time, the team now has a unified thinking, that is, all members give priority to the final defensive task."

"Can Arsenal's strong attack score another goal?"

Wenger is on the sidelines, and now he is mainly considering whether he should also make substitutions and adjustments.

Physical energy consumption is relative. Although Liverpool players consume more energy, Arsenal players also consume a lot of energy.

But for whom?

Wenger looked at his players who were warming up, and he was also a little worried.

Years of sales of key players to achieve revenue has almost emptied the foundation of Arsenal's entire team, although the team's youth training, as well as the "semi-finished" players, and the joining of veterans have all been carried out for the team. Supplements to the lineup, but Arsenal's current intuitive combat power is definitely the least among the Premier League giants, but it is also an indisputable fact.

Over the years, how many strikers have been sold, and now, Wenger certainly wants to increase the frontline strikers when he needs to attack, but there are no more strikers on the bench!

Arsenal's Zhengyin striker this season is Giroud alone, barely plus Podolski, who started this game, and no one else...

On the bench, the midfielders who can strengthen the attack are the midfielders, the old injured Diaby, and the recently injured Rosicky. It is not known whether it will be effective to send two people on the field in such a fierce competition without the guarantee of the game.

The rest of the players, the defenders and the goalkeeper, are not really aggressive.

In the end, Wenger chose to continue to endure, unless the players on the field were really exhausted and unable to persist, otherwise, instead of sending substitute players to take risks, it would be better to let the players on the field continue to attack.

"Ramsey's forward drive, breakthrough, posed a threat, was decisively fouled by Henderson, directly brought down, and gave Arsenal a free kick on the right side of the frontcourt!"

I would rather foul than give the opponent a chance to easily break through to the penalty area and pose a threat.

As far as set-piece defense is concerned, Henderson, who believes in his own "three central defenders", must have an advantage in fighting for landing points, and this foul position is not an area suitable for direct free kicks.

This time the foul was not yet shown a yellow card by the referee, and Henderson felt that he had earned it.

"Wilshere! Pass to the post!"

When it reaches the arc of flying to the back point, the speed of the ball is not too fast, but the ball is an arc of external rotation, falling slowly from the top, but it also makes it almost impossible for players to touch it before reaching the landing point.

As many as three Arsenal players went straight to the back point after the kick-off, and the goal was to rush to this landing point.

But the height of Mertesacker and Giroud can be used, but facing Liverpool's three central defenders who are good at headers, they don't have much room to play, and they are greatly restricted in their positions. .

But Wilshere's pass was really great, and the landing point was just close to the position of Giroud who came in between Yang Feng and Skrtel.

But Yang Feng's height, jumping, and aerial confrontation ability were perfectly displayed this time, and after accurately judging the landing point, he jumped back and forced a header. He touched the football one step earlier than Giroud who rushed.

"Giroux's summit push!"

"Without hitting the ball, Yang Feng made the clearance to the limit first, and made the clearance with the iconic backward header. Yang Feng will always use the most reasonable and difficult movements to complete the clearance at the most appropriate time."

Arsenal's attack was not only to tear apart Liverpool's defensive lines in the backcourt, but also to find a way to cross the strongest last line of defense in Liverpool, which was guarded by Yang Feng himself.

However, with Liverpool having more personnel involved in the defense, Yang Feng adjusted his mobility to the maximum after assigning a series of defensive tasks to the players.

Although he also has to undertake certain tasks of man marking and defending the area, Yang Feng can have a considerable initiative at the end of the defense line to attack from all sides to make up for the mistakes of other teammates on the defense line.

Once, twice, three times...

Arsenal's offense has encountered iron walls time and time again, and it has been unable to score further goals for a long time. The time of the game has also begun to become Arsenal's enemy, constantly reminding the Arsenal players that there are not many opportunities!

At this time, for the Arsenal players, what is needed is luck, and what is needed is an unexpected opportunity to break through Liverpool's gate.

"Liverpool made a mistake. When they launched a counterattack, Lucas slipped on the sole of his foot when he made a long pass. The ball was not kicked far and was caught by Arsenal players near the midfield!"

"Arsenal turned into a counter-attacking side."

"Wilshere dribbles the ball forward!"

"Seeing two Liverpool defenders lock the area in front of the penalty area and cross to Ramsey on the left."

"Ramsey didn't stop the ball and passed it straight to find Olivier Giroud in the penalty area."

"Giroux leaned on Yang Feng and gave full play to his advantage as a high center forward to take the lead. However, under the defense behind Yang Feng, there was no room for him to turn around and hit the goal."

"A light flick! After Giroud received the ball, he didn't hesitate to give Yang Feng a chance to grab it, and directly flicked the ball to Podolski who was thrusting to the left."

"Podolski! Hit from a tight angle?"

"No! It's a cross pass!"

"Follow up Giroud, push and shoot!"

"Yang Feng! Block it!"

"When Giroud took the lead to complete the shot with his left foot, Yang Feng reacted quickly and fell to the ground quickly to block the angle of the shot with his body."

It was too late for Giroud to make any moves. Goalkeeper Reina cleverly grabbed the football blocked by Yang Feng into his arms...

Looking at Yang Feng who was lying on the ground, panting heavily, Giroud finally felt the plight of every Arsenal striker facing Yang Feng in the past few seasons, it was really difficult...

It was only on the video before that I saw Yang Feng use his defense again and again to block every seemingly excellent scoring opportunity of the offensive players, but in this game, I personally experienced this sense of powerlessness, which is indeed disappointing!

Several good opportunities, especially this time just now, when Giroud thought he was bound to score this shot, it was true that Yang Feng who was beside him blocked the shot in such a late-serve first-come way. It is to let all your efforts go to waste.

Luck did appear on Arsenal's side, and on 87 minutes of the game

At that time, Arsenal also had a chance to tie the score, but Yang Feng made everything illusory.

The score of 1 to 2 has not changed despite Yang Feng's repeated efforts to turn the tide.

"3 minutes extra time!"

With a gap of one goal, Arsenal is still on the offensive, but after experiencing Giroud's excellent opportunity before and was still blocked, it may also be due to the decline in physical fitness, and Arsenal's offensive has somewhat failed.

"Following Yang Feng's big kick, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Liverpool played away and defeated the strong enemy Arsenal 2-1, gaining precious 3 points on the way to qualify for the Champions League!"

"Liverpool, in the last 20 minutes, defended the victory of this game with their worst defense. In the final stage, Arsenal's many attacks were all resolved by Yang Feng and the Liverpool defense led by him. .”

In this game, Liverpool's defensive changes really caught everyone's eyes. The weak point of defensive instability that has been criticized the most throughout the season is improving little by little as the midfielders' control ability and defensive ability are strengthened. This is Liverpool's biggest gain in this game.