Football’s First Defender

After being tied by Bayern in a fierce Champions League game, they suffered another defeat in the league. This is definitely not good news for Liverpool, which has finally gained momentum in the league recently.

In the 28th round of the Premier League in the same round, Tottenham, who sit at White Hart Lane at home, defeated the visiting Arsenal team 2-1 by virtue of St. After this north London derby victory, Tottenham continued to consolidate their third position in the league with 54 points.

And Chelsea, which fell to fifth because of a sharp decline in status, also defeated West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at the Stamford Stadium earlier this round. With 52 points, they overtook Liverpool, which still had 51 points, and re-squeezed into the Champions League.

For Liverpool, the remaining 10 rounds of Premier League games are still a long way to go.

In these ten rounds, although most of the teams Liverpool faced were underdogs in the middle and lower reaches.

But there are still three destined to be tough games. Not to mention direct competitors in the Champions League such as Chelsea and Tottenham, these two games are definitely a "six-point match" for the three teams to compete for the Champions League qualification. No one can afford to lose, and it is destined to be a very fierce game . In the final closing stage of the league, the Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton, regardless of the league points situation at the time, this game will definitely be as hot as usual.

Fortunately for Liverpool, these three key tough battles are all played at their home court Anfield. The home court advantage is in a strong duel. If they are used well, Liverpool can definitely be in an unbeaten situation.

And in the 29th round of the league, Liverpool ushered in a key test in the league, facing Tottenham Hotspur, which is in hot form this season, at home.

Under the leadership of the team's core Bell, Tottenham have shown a good competitive state this season, and Bell's omnipotent performance on the court has also become a well-deserved "third man" in the world. Considered by countless media as an emerging superstar who can impact the status of Messi and Ronaldo in football.

In the recent league matches, Tottenham have maintained excellent offensive firepower. The league has won 4 consecutive victories and has been unbeaten in 12 league rounds. It is precisely because of such outstanding performance that Tottenham can become the most favorable competition for Champions League qualification. By.

Although Tottenham's main winger Lennon, striker Adebayor, and the midfielder, "Captain America" ​​Dempsey are all absent due to injuries, but with the support of Bell's hot state, before the game All media believe that this game is still a close contest.

Tottenham's lineup for this game is 4411 in the away game.

The team's top forward is Defoe, a veteran who has performed well this season.

Although Defoe does not have Adebayor's strong body, his faster speed, better running position, and seasoned experience can also open up more offensive space for Bella.

And behind him, serving as a free man in the frontcourt is naturally Tottenham's well-deserved absolute core of offense Gareth Bale!

Under the training of Lao Lei, Bell has grown rapidly. From a left back, in just two years, he has grown into an offensive player who has a huge threat on the left, and even in the entire midfield.

His ever-increasing ability to control the ball, as well as his growing shooting skills, coupled with Bell's outstanding speed, has become a nightmare for all defenses in the entire Premier League.

If nothing else, just based on his performance so far, Bell is definitely the best player in the Premier League this season, leaving all the Premier League stars behind.

As for the midfield, it is of course the "Icelandic sniper" Sigurdsson who can provide Bell with more offensive connections.

Dembele is more responsible for the corresponding defensive tasks behind the scenes, while Parker and Livermore are separated into two lanes, acting as the team's wing attack and advancing, and opening up space for Bell.

In terms of defense, Tottenham's goalkeeper is the Frenchman Hugo Lloris. This season, he has also dedicated himself in many games and has become Tottenham's well-deserved main goalkeeper.

Vertonghen in the central defender is also growing rapidly. His defense is stable and he has the style of a general. He has become a sweet pastry that many wealthy families want to snap up, but his partner may still be a little bit better in ability, Michael Dawson With the strength, there will always be some loopholes on the field, and you need your partner and goalkeeper Lori to make up defenses.

This also limits the stability of Tottenham's defense.

The right back Kyle Walker is already good defensively, he also has extremely fast speed, and a pretty good ability to play the ball. It can be said to be another treasure discovered by Tottenham.

The left-back Hector is also a full-back with good speed attributes. Although he is short in stature, he is not weak in speed and confrontation ability. Like Walker on the right, he can use it to plug in and inject vitality into the team's side attack .

The entire Tottenham offensive system is based on running at high speed.

Use the speed and the sideways assaults of the players in turn to create opportunities and make up for the embarrassment of himself and the lack of midfield organizers.

This lineup creates more offensive rounds by attacking extremely quickly on the field, and can also provide Bell with more opportunities to end the offense. Relying on the number of offenses, he can suppress and try to break through the opponent's gate.

Liverpool, who are playing at home, Rogers made another bold attempt in terms of personnel deployment in this game.

Henderson did not play in this game because of the accumulated yellow cards in the league, but Rodgers did not use his former direct descendant Joe Allen or Shelvey, who has come off the bench many times this season, but sent in Winter. The Brazilian Coutinho, who had just transferred from the window, came to play the position of offensive midfielder.

Even the team's formation, in order to deal with Tottenham's usual formation, also changed to 4411.

Sturridge, who is protruding forward, and Suarez, who is ambushing behind him, as Liverpool's two most powerful end points, naturally play together.

In the midfield, Tang Ning, who had improved his form, was still the starter on the right side this time, playing the right midfielder position.

In the middle of this season, after the arrival of Sturridge, Downing and Sterling competed for the position of the right midfielder. Although it was a little uncomfortable to move from the left to the right at first, but recently Downing has gradually improved, because his better Physical confrontation ability, can receive greater favor from Rogers.

After Wang Haicheng's left winger Sturridge was moved forward to the center forward position, Rogers handed over the left midfielder position to Coutinho.

Although Coutinho is not a winger in the pure sense, his absolute speed is not that fast.

However, during this period of training in Liverpool, Rogers has a very good impression of Coutinho's personal offense.

Excellent ability to hold the ball, with a delicate foot feel unique to South American players, good passing skills, able to send very threatening ground balls, and long-range shooting ability, even more mature than his age, excellent ball control good.

Allowing him to be on the left is not because Rogers intends to make a breakthrough on the left, but to use Coutinho's dribbling, passing, and long-range shots to try to create loopholes in Tottenham's formation and create a gap for the penalty area. Two big ends inside, gaining space and creating more passes.

Lucas and Gerrard, as the team's stable starters, naturally continue to be responsible for their respective tasks.

The defense and the goalkeeper should have been a few older brothers.

There are not many strong substitutes in Liverpool's defense. However, Skrtel suffered a slight strain in the previous training and needed to rest for two to three weeks. However, in this game, Rodgers can only send Agger and Yang Feng to partner. .

After all, Carragher, the deputy of the old team, is old. Although the priority of substitute appearances in the team is higher than that of Agger, Rogers is still worried about his physical fitness, so he can only send Agger, who is not valued seriously, to start the game. Look for opportunities and then in the second half, depending on the situation, whether to replace Carragher.

The other personnel are the regular main force unchanged, Liverpool's overall tactics, the center and the right have not changed much, just keep the original performance.

As for the left, it is completely handed over to the young Coutinho, let him try to create his own space on the left by himself.

For Yang Feng in this game, the primary defensive goal is to restrain Bell on the opposite side, so as not to let him fly in the clouds at Anfield and make trouble in the sky.

However, the change of partner also made Yang Feng think about how to get in better with Agel.

Without enough tacit understanding, Yang Feng worried that many of his temporary decisions would cause the two players to lose their positions or interact with each other in defense, dragging down the team's overall defense.

Before the game, Yang Feng had been communicating with Agel again. It was impossible to achieve a tacit cooperation in a short period of time. However, Yang Feng emphasized that "I" should be the main thing, and Agel must follow his instructions firmly. It must not be discounted, except for any problems, Yang Feng himself will take responsibility.

And if Yang Feng doesn't have a defensive order, let Agger make his own judgment, and Yang Feng will cooperate with him according to the situation on the court.

And this kind of combination of central defenders without enough tacit understanding can stop the attack of the fiery Tottenham?

At least at the beginning of the game, Liverpool's defense was pretty good.

Liverpool, who sit at home, took the absolute initiative in the opening stage.

Liverpool focused on offense, compressing Tottenham's defense very flat.

Especially Coutinho, who started this game, did not have the youthful feeling of a young man at all. Perhaps it is the nature of the Brazilian. He is very daring to make moves to show himself on the court, and his small skills are interspersed with emergency stops. After accelerating with the ball, Coutinho posed a great threat to Tottenham's defense on the left.

Further, as Rogers thought, the connection between the Liverpool midfielder and striker Sturridge and Suarez was revitalized.

"A cloud-piercing arrow! Thousands of troops will meet you!"

In the 17th minute of the game, Coutinho's stunning long-range shot went straight to the dead corner of the goal. Lloris failed to make a save, allowing Coutinho to successfully open the scoring for the team.

In his first start, he contributed a wonderful goal, which once again proved Rodgers' excellent eye-catching vision.

After taking the lead, Liverpool did not hand over the initiative of possession of the ball, but continued to dominate the offensive situation on the field by themselves.

Tottenham's offensive opportunities are actually pitiful.

However, although the scene was not going well, but Tottenham's offensive efficiency is high.

After Liverpool, after many unsuccessful attacks and unable to further expand the score, Tottenham counterattacked and began to fight tentatively.

The most threatening one is of course Bell.

Although Liverpool's left-back players were taken care of by Bell in a more vigorous defense, it was completely unreasonable for Tottenham to pass the ball to a far-reaching route, allowing Bell and the defensive players to compete in a straight line.

One pass was wrong, the second pass was intercepted, and the third pass Bell went out of bounds when he failed to catch up, but he couldn't stand Tottenham, he kept passing, and kept passing.

The ball kept passing to Bell. Even with Yang Feng's focus on this side, Liverpool's backcourt area is so large that several players simply cannot control all the landing points.

Once again Sigurdsson opted to drive deep into the space deep on the right after intercepting a Liverpool cross.

It was Bell again, alone, running directly to the landing point.

Although Yang Feng was in a better position, he was definitely able to catch up to the landing point earlier, but Bell was completely unreasonable and directly overtook the outside line, and did not give Yang Feng any chance to confront.

Seeing that Bell will be the first to get the ball, Yang Feng can only retreat further and quickly around the penalty area, with the main task of defending Bell's next attack.

After unloading the ball, he continued to accelerate forward. Under Yang Feng's obstruction, Bell was not so afraid of confrontation.

Maintaining high-intensity physical confrontation training, the reason why he can become the third player in today's football is because he can rely on stronger physical confrontation ability while having an absolute speed advantage, so that other players cannot complete 1v1 at all. Limit yourself to defensive tasks.

Yang Feng's defense may be difficult, but for Bell, it is definitely not impossible to complete the offense.

Bell, who dribbled the ball from the outside line and rushed into the penalty area, under Yang Feng's rapid follow-up defense, made an emergency stop and smashed the ball, and turned to cut inward.

Yang Feng has been guarding against Bell's emergency stop and change of direction at this time. After all, Bell, who is left-footed, can only choose to pass the ball. Only when the spike returns to his right foot, Bell can have a chance to hit the goal.

It's just that it has been prevented, but it may not be able to defend.

Bell's coherent movements are really too fast, and the distance of this step of dribbling the ball is also large enough, directly throwing off Yang Feng's defense and gaining a certain amount of space to hit the goal.

A powerful left-footed volley directly pierced the gate guarded by Reina and equalized the score for Tottenham.

While Yang Feng was struggling to support, Agel was blocking a fixed defensive area and did not come to complete the defense this time. Perhaps he was too confident in Yang Feng's defense. During the instruction, Agel was really watching from the sidelines, and it had nothing to do with me. Yang Feng can only say that tacit understanding of this kind of thing is better with Skrtel...