Football’s First Defender

The first half of the game ended shortly after Van Persie received a yellow card.

With Sturridge's goals in three consecutive games, Liverpool temporarily lead 1-0.

Before, Sturridge was scoring goals, and later, Yang Feng was leading the defense, eliminating Manchester United's offensive threats time and time again.

Liverpool's excellent performance on both ends of the offense and defense gave the team a victory at halftime.

Moyes, who is under the pressure of becoming a giant, certainly doesn't want to lose to Liverpool just like that in an away game.

Although Phil Jones' long passing ability on the right is not bad, but after all, Phil Jones is not a speed full-back. Pass to the reception point in the restricted area.

In order to make Manchester United's offense more oppressive and allow the team to make quite good progress from both sides, Moyes sent Valencia on the field at the beginning of the second half to play the position of right back.

Valencia, who was born as a winger, has his speed and independent offensive ability, which is definitely a huge improvement for Manchester United's right wing.

As soon as the second half started, Manchester United began to play two sides.

Ashley Young is on the left. Although he can't get rid of Glenn Johnson's defense, he can still get a certain amount of ball space from the side by using the adjustment of rhythm. Satisfactory, there is no way to pose too much threat to Liverpool, which is heavily assembled in the penalty area.

Although after Liverpool's clearance, Carrick, the midfielder who was pressed forward by Manchester United, got it and immediately distributed it to Valencia on the right.

Valencia had a great curling pass to the front and back of the goal, but it was still too difficult for Ashley Young to compete with Glenn Johnson for the spot.

Glenn Johnson stuck in position and headed directly over the baseline to give Manchester United a corner kick.

Professor Yang's subsequent corner kick was so powerful that it landed directly in the uninhabited area behind the penalty area and flew out of the baseline without causing any threat.

Since coming to Manchester United, Ashley Young has scored only 1 goal and 2 assists in 26 games, which is quite inferior to that at Villa.

Compared with Ashley Young's limited performance in this game, Valencia, who just played in the second half, was extremely active.

Its position on the right, using its abundant physical fitness, is like a right winger on the offensive end and penetrates into Liverpool's core defensive area.

With Valencia's forward penetration, compared with Phil Jones in the first half, there was one more offensive player on the right, which posed a considerable offensive threat to Liverpool's defense.

Although Valencia's offensive characteristics are mainly based on the impact of the wing, the inward cut according to the situation can sometimes pose a good offensive threat.

Valencia broke into Liverpool's core defensive area alone on the right. Although facing the defense of Jose Enrique and Coutinho, Valencia remained calm and dared to make moves.

Even though the attempted inward cut was blocked by Enrique, Valencia immediately turned into an active counter-attack. When Enrique wanted to clear the siege, he successfully blocked Enrique's passing route and blocked the ball. Large forbidden arc area.

Van Persie received the unexpected ball from outside the penalty area and volleyed directly. Fortunately, Yang Feng kept his attention. He rushed forward and blocked the long-range shot with his leg to hit the goal. The unexpected factor did not change the field. the results above.

Compared with Valencia on the right, Ashley Young's state in the second half was really bad.

It was another powerful corner kick to the back. Fortunately, Carrick's reaction was fast enough this time, and he retreated back and managed to catch the football when the ball went out of the baseline.

Facing Enrique's onslaught, Carrick kicked the ball directly on Enrique's body, rebounded out of bounds, and won a corner kick for Manchester United on the right.

The corner kick on Giggs' side is obviously more threatening.

A curved ball went directly to the corner of the small penalty area. Yang Feng and Ferdinand competed for this landing point at the same time. The ball was driven by their headers. It was Yang Feng who jumped higher and judged more accurately. Head the ball first.

However, with Ferdinand's header, the final landing point of the ball was still within the penalty area under the efforts of the two.

Facing the second landing point, Skrtel shook his head and pushed the ball out of the penalty area at the first time.

It's just that the header did not exert any power in a hurry, and a half-high ball flew to the top of the arc in the penalty area.

Valencia, who has been in this open area, faced the incoming ball and volleyed directly to hit the goal, and the quality was quite high.

Mignolet directly fell to the ground and jumped sideways, but the football was not missed. The second reaction was also not slow. Yang Feng first used his body to block the outside shot of the foot again, leaving Mignolet without the ball to defend. ...

The ball did not go out of bounds. Under Liverpool's control, Liverpool also used the possession of the ball for a period of time to slow down the pace of the game.

Valencia's playing not only revitalized Manchester United's right-sided offense, but may even drive the entire Manchester United offensive system.

This is not good news for Rogers, and we must find a way to curb the opening of the opponent's side.

Valencia's attack seemed unstoppable.

When the offense of Professor Yang on the left side of Manchester United did not improve, by passing back to the backcourt, Carrick, who was in charge of sorting the ball on the Manchester United side, returned the ball back to the wing duo on the right.

After Valencia dribbled the ball and met the defense, he directly handed the ball to Giggs, who responded from the wing, and ran forward without the ball.

Giggs accurately sent a through ball, which passed between Liverpool's two defenses, and the ball passed first. Valencia, who also followed the ball's route, broke through between Liverpool's two defenses at full speed.

The speed of Enrique and Gerrard was overwhelmed by Valencia.

Although in the end, because Giggs' through ball was too powerful, when Valencia chased the ball, it had already entered Liverpool's penalty area, close to the bottom line.

This gave Yang Feng enough time to react and make up defenses in place.

During the high-speed running, Valencia tried his best to reach the football and wanted to complete a pass, but in order to avoid Kai Yang Feng's block, this difficult pass still failed and was kicked by Valencia himself. Out of line.

Although Manchester United's offense did not turn into a shooting threat this time, Manchester United's right-sided offense has become unstoppable.

Valencia alone completely tore apart Liverpool's left defense.

Rogers has no way to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai. He needs to change to bring the team's wing defense back to a stable situation.