Football’s First Defender

The personal strength of Manchester United players can actually be threatening.

Especially the explosive impact of wide players can bring the team a tear on Liverpool's defense.

As the world's top full-back, Evra can also give full play to his offensive attributes when launching a full-scale attack on Manchester United.

Even though Liverpool's defense is already very tight, everyone's defense is effectively marked.

However, due to Evra and Ashley Young's left side attacking in turn, after Evra successfully rushed out of Liverpool's sideline defense, it directly caused a lot of trouble for Liverpool's central defense.

The so-called one move affects the whole body, and the loopholes in the wing defense make the entire Liverpool defense line have to make corresponding adjustments to deal with this variable of Evra.

This is an excellent opportunity for Manchester United's offense.

Evra's lateral movement, after attracting a certain amount of defensive attention, chose to hit the ball horizontally to Giggs who came over.

Giggs has the ability to shoot from a long distance. Liverpool's defense cannot allow Giggs to "fire" the goal without pressure in the dangerous area near the left side of the penalty area.

Jose Enrique in the penalty area went straight up and had an impact on Giggs.

This empty space was accurately seized by Giggs.

Changing his shooting posture to pass the ball, Giggs became older and more demonic, and accurately sent a through ball in front of the penalty area, which was a diagonal pass to the space in the penalty area left by Enrique's forward pounce.

Manchester United's attacker, Welbeck, is in the shadow forward position today, creating opportunities everywhere.

Using the speed to catch up with Giggs' second pass, he stopped the ball and hit the goal directly in the penalty area.

Skrtel could only choose to let go of his center of gravity and use a sliding shovel to block the angle of Welbeck's shot.

There is no way, although we know that if we hand over the center of gravity like this, Welbeck may pass cleanly, but only this kind of defense can make up for the position that Skrtel lost before, and complete the blocking of this kick.

None of the rich shooters is easy to deal with. Welbeck's kick, whether it's a fake move or a temporary change of posture after really wanting to hit the goal, anyway, a reverse spike leads the ball to his left foot. After dunking Skrtel's sliding shovel, there is indeed a larger shooting space, but Yang Feng's defense is even faster.

When Glenn Johnson consciously went to help Yang Feng and defended Van Persie nearby, he liberated Yang Feng and made Yang Feng more mobile.

As a defender's intuition, when Skrtel's position is at a disadvantage, for Welbeck's next offensive move in that offensive position, as an experienced central defender, he has long A series of actions of teammates and opponents can be expected.

After Welbeck's spike, he wanted to hit the goal with his left foot after taking the first step. The speed of the completed movement was definitely not slow, but Yang Feng's defense was faster.

The moment Welbeck made a movement to shake Skrtel away, Yang Feng had already made defense to this side.

Welbeck immediately hit the goal after adjustment, and the ball was blocked by Yang Feng's sliding tackle before it was fully out.

Yang Feng blocked the ball very well and cleanly. Although Welbeck fell directly into the penalty area, the referee did not think it would be a penalty.

The ball was finally cleared quickly by Skrtel, who stood up immediately.

Manchester United's offense is still unable to achieve results.

Skrtel made a hasty clearance and the ball was kicked out of the baseline, giving Manchester United a corner.

For the corner kick on the right, Ryan Giggs is responsible for serving.

The way Giggs chose the corner kick is still forward.

It's just that Van Persie is at an absolute disadvantage in the competition between Van Persie and Yang Feng in the front area.

Yang Feng was stronger than Van Persie in terms of physical confrontation and judgment of where to land. He cleared the penalty area with a header first, which can be regarded as completely resolving Manchester United's attack this time.

In such an anxious game, it is actually not so easy for Manchester United to form a continuous wave of attacks.

However, it was impossible to create continuous offensive pressure on Liverpool after being idle.

Especially Yang Feng's performance, as the absolute core of Liverpool's defense, Yang Feng not only restricted Van Persie to death, but also had spare energy to supplement the defense at critical moments.

Phil Jones was in the midfield area and wanted to make a long pass to find Liverpool's penalty area.

It's just that, when Liverpool's number of defensive players is more dominant, Phil Jones' pass was safely unloaded by Yang Feng in the penalty area.

Van Persie was stuck in the position by Lucas before, unable to go forward to fight for the first spot, but at this time, he was also released by Lucas, wanting to go forward to press Yang Feng and interfere with Yang Feng's next pass.

Yang Feng made a long pass, but the preparation time seemed a bit long.

"Have the opportunity".

Van Persie felt that he was running with all his strength and had a chance to block Yang Feng's pass. If he could grab it, he could directly face the opponent's goalkeeper Mignolet.

However, just when Van Persie was forward full of hope, sprinting to press, at the last moment when Van Persie stretched his legs, Yang Feng did not pass the ball long, but kicked the ball back with his right foot, and directly sent Van Persie from this side. Flying, while Yang Feng himself changed the line and pushed forward from the other side.

Being teased, as an offensive player known for his excellent technical ability, was teased by a central defender with a small skill at his feet. This really made Van Persie feel a little embarrassed.

And Yang Feng's bold "playing with fire" action made Liverpool fans a little nervous, but after he made it successfully, naturally the fans began to boo at Van Persie.

And this seemingly fancy action can indeed make Liverpool players more relaxed in an intense game.

On the other hand, Yang Feng's gaudy movements also made some Manchester United players more irritable and irrational.

Veteran Giggs, in the last few seasons of his career, has faded from the label of a wide player in the past, and can start to provide more threatening passes.

Under Liverpool's tight defense, Giggs suddenly chose to use the outside instep to send a stealthy through ball in the midfield area.

When Lucas was guarding Pesci outside the penalty area, he chose to fall to the ground to intercept, but he didn't calculate the arc of Giggs' pass from the outside of his foot.

Lucas didn't touch the ball, Van Persie chased the pass directly, and there was an open field in front of him.

However, Giggs' pass was still too powerful. When Van Persie chased the ball and wanted to lead the ball to the penalty area, Yang Feng's supplementary defense was already in place, compressing Van Persie to the right sideline of the penalty area.

In this position, any other Manchester United offensive player can pass the ball directly to create a threat as soon as he catches the ball.

But Van Persie, as a finisher, he is absolutely world-class.

But if it is just about passing ability, God puts his talent for passing the ball on shooting skills, so that when he catches the ball for the first time, it is already an excellent passing opportunity, but Van Persie is very concerned about himself. Zhaza's passing skills, lack of confidence, can only choose to stop the ball, trying to create scoring opportunities by himself.

However, when Yang Feng faced Van Persie taking the ball from the side, it was too simple to deal with. He didn't need to defend Van Persie's pass, he only needed to pay attention to Van Persie's own extraordinary moves.

Under Yang Feng's strict defense, Van Persie, who had no room to move, could only force a certain space to pass the ball before the other Liverpool defenders arrived.

As a result, Van Persie's pass was indeed a "battle for rectification" of his passing level. The pass to the front of the penalty area was accurately passed to Yang Feng's feet.

Looking at Yang Feng's smile after he stopped the ball, and thinking of Yang Feng's previous pull-up that attracted him to grab the ball, Van Persie was furious.

When Yang Feng was still "pretentiously" protecting the ball and "provoking" himself, Van Persie went up to grab it, and with a stepping action, Yang Feng passed the ball, and was directly trampled to the ground by himself.

Yellow card, at the last moment of the first half of the game, Van Persie paid the price of a yellow card for an action similar to stepping on the feet of Yang Feng in retaliation.