Football’s First Defender

Since the beginning of the game, Arsenal has had a considerable offensive advantage in the game situation, but this kind of offensive advantage is always short of the final decision.

Among them is the problem of Arsenal's own players' lack of ability to seize opportunities, such as Ozil's previous undefended goal in the penalty area.

There was also the result of the active efforts of Liverpool's defensive players. Yang Feng attacked everywhere to make up for the loopholes in the team's defensive line in sports warfare, effectively limiting part of Arsenal's passing and cutting cooperation.

So the score was still 0-0 at halftime in the first half. Arsenal had a big enough advantage in offensive statistics, but they were unable to rewrite the score for a long time.

Although Liverpool has been under pressure by Arsenal for more than 20 minutes, correspondingly, in such a fast-paced game, Liverpool also organized several counterattacks.

However, limited by the lack of ability of the two full-backs to plug in, if Liverpool's first wave of counterattacks fails to achieve results, basically this attack will come to an abrupt end.

Fighting back against this kind of thing is all about luck and fate.

Objectively speaking, the strength of players will be a favorable factor in determining the probability of luck.

For example, in the Liverpool lineup, there are such strong offensive players as 3s. Even if Liverpool is now passive on the field, Arsenal's defense does not dare to have any slack in defense.

An open space caught by Liverpool's attacking players could cost Arsenal dearly.

This is another reason why Arsenal have been unable to achieve offensive effects for a long time. Although Arsenal have an advantage due to the lack of strength of Liverpool's two full-backs, Arsenal still have enough defensive strength on the defensive line to guard against Liverpool. Counterattacked.

Sufficient defensive strength means that Arsenal has not yet exerted its full strength on the offensive end. After that, there is still room for further adjustments to the offense.

During Arsenal's continuous attack during this period, all Arsenal players could see a tall figure in white (Liverpool's away uniform is white) in front of them. He appeared in front of him like a ghost. Anywhere in Liverpool's core defensive area, defense after defense is completed.

"Damn it! Where did it come from?"

Ozil passed the ball with a very tricky outside instep and rubbed the ball to Rosicky who was inserted into the Liverpool penalty area on the right.

Originally, during this Arsenal's frontcourt change, Flanagan's position had already deviated from the confusion of the Arsenal players' early running positions, giving Rosicky a space to advance diagonally.

As long as Rosicky is in the penalty area and receives Ozil's instep pass, Rosicky can immediately try to score in the dangerous area.

It's just that, during Arsenal's continuous passing of the ball, Ozil's non-stop ball after receiving the ball, and the extremely concealed outside instep pass, was still seen through by the players on Liverpool's defense.

Yang Feng's handling of the ball fully demonstrated his own defensive value. When other Liverpool defenders were marking the ball or man, what Yang Feng was looking for was the loophole in Liverpool's defensive space.

Accurately found Flanagan's lack of experience and lost his own defense in the opponent's frequent personnel changes, which brought about a big hole in Liverpool's defense.

Yang Feng saw this loophole, and immediately believed that the opponents would definitely take advantage of this loophole, so when other defensive areas were still able to hold up, Yang Feng started to attack this loophole before the Arsenal players passed the ball. The side moved.

Opportunities on the field are fleeting. Ozil deserves to be a top passer. He has a strong ability to seize opportunities. After receiving the pass from his teammate at the first time, Ozil completed handling the ball and stuffed it into this corner. side space.

However, when the pass was completed, Ozil regretted it.

Because he suddenly discovered that there was not only his teammate Rosicky who slanted from right to left in this open space.

And Yang Feng, who defended from left to right!

And Yang Feng is closer to the passing route!

Ozil's heart skipped a beat, and then he saw the wonderful pass he sent, which was cleared by Yang Feng and kicked out of the sideline.

For this ball, because Yang Feng and Rosicky were almost facing each other head-on, so although Yang Feng had a certain positional advantage, Yang Feng still didn't dare to directly control the ball, fearing that Rosicky's speeding press would cause any accidents, but Choose the safest way and complete the rescue directly.

As a central defender, the first thing to do well is to complete the defense, and all other things are carried out on the premise of completing the defense.

Many central defenders make mistakes because they think too much when handling the ball and forget that their most important duty is to defend, which instead gives the opponent a chance to create surprises.

For Yang Feng personally, although he is constantly strengthening his personal offensive ability and his long-pass ability, when Yang Feng chooses to pass the ball, he must only do it when no one is interfering and he has absolute control of the ball. of.

This is to put defense as the top priority. Yang Feng will never provide the possibility for accidents to happen, and the top priority of everything is defense and stability.

For Ozil, he made his debut in the Bundesliga and became famous in La Liga. Ozil has seen the rigorous defensive style of German defenders and Spanish defenders. He is full of flexibility and has a certain ability to read the game. Defensive style , After coming to the Premier League, the Premier League defenders gave Ozil more of a feeling that he was rough, clumsy, and focused on physical confrontation, but he did not have the corresponding flexibility.

In these games in the Premier League this season, Ozil has always felt that he has been in an extreme environment.

If the referee's whistle is a little tighter, then Ozil can use his flexibility to pass and cooperate with his teammates frantically, seize the weakness of the opponent's defender's slow turn, beat the opponent, and win the game easily.

And if the referee's whistle is a little loose, then the game will fall into anxiety, because players such as Ozil will not be able to exert their full technical ability in the continuous physical confrontation given by the opponent.

But today, facing Liverpool, this is Ozil's first time in the Premier League, no, it should be the first time in his entire career, he has encountered such an all-around central defender.

In terms of physical strength, height, jumping, defensive awareness, and defensive enthusiasm, Yang Feng's quality is the strongest defender Ozil has seen so far.

Arsenal's offense is all about running, passing and cutting to put enough pressure on the opponent, tear apart the opponent's defense, and create opportunities to hit the goal in the penalty area.

But now, Giroud is being marked by Skrtel alone, allowing Yang Feng to appear "unscrupulously" in any position he can appear. This also makes a small half of Arsenal's offenses all in the defense of Yang Feng alone. Within the scope of supplementary defense, Arsenal had to return to the expected attack several times, but they could only return in vain.

How to avoid Yang Feng's defensive area and increase the team's offensive conversion rate is something that the Arsenal players and Wenger off the field urgently need to solve.