Football’s First Defender

In the UEFA Champions League group stage, the player who performed the best against Naples was naturally the right-wing fast Masterlin who contributed two assists.

It is precisely because he penetrated the Naples side defense twice that he created the final passing opportunity for other players to easily hit the goal.

In this game, Sterling successfully completed 5 breakthroughs on the wing and sent threatening passes many times, almost forming a hat-trick of assists.

Not only the brilliant performance in statistics, but also Sterling relied on his excellent offensive performance to further compress Naples' defense system when Suarez and Sturridge both encountered key markings in the game. , allowing Sturridge and Suarez to get more offensive space in the late game.

This kind of explosion on the right is welcome to Rodgers. Compared with the offensive firepower of Suarez and Sturridge before, the somewhat lame right is the least threatening point on Liverpool's striker.

However, in this game, Sterling has proved that he has absolute potential, creating the same offensive threat as his two forward teammates on the wing.

Can "double s" evolve into "triple s"? It depends on whether Sterling can maintain such a continuous, stable high-level performance like Suarez and Sturridge.

All Liverpool fans have great expectations for Sterling, their own child, and hope that he can grow into a Premier League superstar.

There are rumors that Gerrard will retire soon. After all, both Carragher and Gerrard have reached the end of their careers. Liverpool fans still hope to find a pure "Liverpool man" from the youth training. After retiring, he was able to pick up the banner of his predecessors.

Although Sterling is also in the Liverpool youth training team, what he got from other teams is not the orthodox Red Army youth training. But being able to have the experience of the Red Army's youth training is actually more in line with the personality of "Liverpool people" than players like Yang Feng, Suarez, and Sturridge who have already gained fame before the transfer.

Although everyone loves them very much, some Liverpool fans still struggle with the "Liverpool people" complex.

It's like a lol game, obviously it's a club game, but in the end some trolls will say on the keyboard that there are 2 Koreans, "Winning the championship won't win our approval." None of the 5 Koreans won the championship, which proves that there are still 3 Chinese NBs.

For the fans in the city of Liverpool, Sterling may be a kind of consolation for their regional psychology. Everyone has the most expectations for this young player.

Back to the Premier League.

The match against Naples did not consume so much energy for the Liverpool players, so in the Premier League weekend, Rodgers does not need to rotate players, allowing the team to maintain a full-strength posture and face the challenge of Crystal Palace .

Crystal Palace is also a weak team this season. They only scored three points in the league, which is a bit stronger than Sunderland, ranking second to last in the Premier League.

This strong vs. weak duel will still be held at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium. Naturally, there is not much suspense about the result.

3 to 1, Liverpool at home, established a huge 3 to 0 lead in the first half.

In the second half, considering the upcoming schedule and preventing players from getting injured, the Liverpool players have obviously been in a state of "holding back and kicking". The focus is to strengthen the control of the ball and kill the game time.

So after Liverpool rotated three players, although Crystal Palace scored a goal, it did not affect the result of the game. A victory, taking advantage of the leading Chelsea losing the chain again, allowed Liverpool to return to the top of the league.

In this game, what made Liverpool fans happy was not just this victory, but the team's terrifying offensive strength that scored three goals in a row in the first half.

Originally in the Champions League, the state of Sturridge and Suarez scoring consecutive goals seemed to have come to an abrupt end.

Most of the media still take a wait-and-see attitude towards whether the "double s" did not score a goal in a game, whether it is because they are not in good form and have fallen into the mortal world.

It turned out that fortunately these media did not immediately stand up to comment on Liverpool's "double s", and in the following Premier League game, the "double s" immediately regained their scoring status.

Sturridge's 15-minute goal opened the scoring for the team, and Suarez scored his second goal in the 21st minute.

After that, Liverpool's third goal came from Gerrard, the old captain who was recovering. The iconic long-range shot can be regarded as completely defeating the Crystal Palace's defense line at halftime.

In this game, although Liverpool no longer scored in the second half, the "double s" scored one goal per person, which is already an extremely high scoring efficiency in the entire Premier League.

Maintaining such a scoring rate, Sturridge and Suarez have every chance to take the top two goalscorers in the Premier League, and even have the opportunity to try to hit the Premier League's single-season scorer record of 34 goals.

And one of the behind-the-scenes heroes behind the "double s" goal in this game is another "s" Sterling that fans are looking forward to.

Sterling, who has recently found his game status, has begun to feel like a fish in water on the right side. Since the last Champions League group match against Naples, he played confidently on the side. In this scene against Crystal Palace, Sterling again Once demonstrated his strong personal ability on the wing.

He used his speed, explosive power, and excellent ability to stop and change directions in the game on the right side. In the game, he completely beat Crystal Palace's left back Dean.

Sturridge's first scoring goal was Sterling's cross to the back point after accelerating down the right wing, giving Sturridge a header to kill at the back point.

And Gerrard's goal, although the assist was credited to Henderson who hit the ball horizontally, but the ball that Henderson received was also an inverted triangle pass by Sterling after breaking through from the wing. Henderson was found, which made Henderson choose to give Gerrard when he attracted other players from the opponent to defend.

"One and a half assists! Involved in two goals!"

This is a summary of Sterling's real performance after paying attention to the whole game.

Today, the highlights of the Liverpool players are not a single game, but a continuous outstanding performance, which proves how strong the player's upper limit is.

Sterling, a young man, had already made his mark in Liverpool last season.

But everyone's impression of him is mostly his excellent speed, the huge threat he brings in the counterattack process, and his shooting ability that still needs to be refined.

But what I didn't expect was that after a summer of training, Sterling would further strengthen his advantages, and then improve his passing ability.

In the two games, Sterling did a very good job in the combination of breakthrough and passing, and the control of passing power, passing angle, and the selection of passing teammates were all the best.

Always able to find the weak point of the opponent's defense line during high-speed running and send the ball there accurately.

what does that mean?

If Sterling can maintain this state, then Liverpool's fiery "double s" scorer will form more and better echoes with Sterling on the right, and they can be a trio. With three people on the front line, enough killing intent can be created.