Football’s First Defender

Yang Feng's outstanding performance almost halved Arsenal's offensive efficiency.

Arsenal have an offensive advantage, but they cannot convert a large number of scoring opportunities.

And Yang Feng and other Liverpool players in the middle and backcourt completed the defense time and time again, blocked Arsenal's attack, and forcibly found several counterattack opportunities, which also gave Liverpool's frontcourt players the opportunity to familiarize themselves with Arsenal's defensive arrangement and the players. their defensive habits.

Suarez and the others kept trying to attack, looking for opportunities to counterattack, and creating enough threats to Arsenal.

Liverpool's counterattack threat mainly focuses on Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling.

Use the impact of "3s" to pursue quick and accurate strikes against Arsenal's defense.

These three offensive players, when Liverpool defended, would not retreat further back.

Rogers didn't intend to let Liverpool come to the Emirates Stadium to defend a draw.

Liverpool is a wealthy team, and they will not put up iron barrels in order to score points in the game like those mid-lower teams.

When the away game was unable to gain possession of the ball through scrambling, Liverpool chose to retract the defense, just to prevent their team from suffering from the opponent's strength.

But Liverpool's strong defensive line is full of nails.

The "3s" in the frontcourt are the hardest nails on the defense line. They are on the defensive end, and they will only return to their own half to perform some appropriate defensive tasks, and will not really retreat to the ball like a bus. The team's 30-meter line.

Among the tactical arrangements set by Rodgers, when the away game is suppressed by Arsenal's offense, the "3s" must not cause trouble to the defensive line in the midfield. As long as the three of them can complete the simple defensive tasks on the periphery, block one Just block people.

The main responsibility of the three is to be ready at any time during the game to receive the pass from the teammates when the possession of the ball is changed, and then give play to their own speed advantage. The three use each other's cooperation to form a counterattack team to create a threat .

As for Liverpool's delivery points in the midfield, only Henderson, Gerrard and Yang Feng can really complete direct contact with the forward players.

The long passing ability of others in the game did not provide enough help for the frontcourt players outstandingly and stably.

And Liverpool's most threatening counterattack in the first half was Yang Feng's long pass from the backcourt.

Arsenal's offense, this time before advancing into Liverpool's penalty area, was intercepted by Lucas. When the Arsenal players retreated and rushed forward, Lucas chose to return the ball directly. Pass to find Yang Feng.

Yang Feng was inside the penalty area and had enough time to prepare for the pass. He made a precise long pass and went directly to the right. Sterling accelerated and ran forward.

A long pass against Arsenal's space in the back.

Arsenal's defensive players retreated very quickly, but Yang Feng's pass was so well grasped in advance that the position of this landing point was in front of Sterling and Koscielny, competing for the landing point. Turned into a short-distance sprint game, then naturally Sterling has a considerable advantage.

Koscielny realized that the situation was wrong, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​restricting Sterling on the wing, but determined his defensive goal to restrict Sterling's next breakthrough or pass threats.

Koscielny can run at full speed to the expected defensive position, but for Sterling, he has to consider how to unload the ball.

Even professional players may make more or less mistakes when unloading and stopping the ball while running at full speed.

Especially for this kind of high-altitude ball coming from behind, it is necessary to judge the area where the ball will fall during the running process, pay attention to the opponent's defensive actions, and temporarily decide how to stop the technical action of the ball.

Therefore, except for a few top technical players, who can often perform the miracle of stopping the ball directly on their feet during the game, most players will have some deviations in the control of the ball when stopping the ball, and cannot directly stop the ball. Get it under control.

This will actually delay some offensive time to allow offensive players to readjust.

Sterling also jumped tens of centimeters forward when he stopped the ball, so Sterling had to continue to accelerate forward, control the ball, and then make adjustments. (Basic ball-stopping action, for some amateur players, those who often play football, and fans who do not take football as their livelihood, there are also many people who can easily unload the ball. In this regard, some national teams players, the distance to stop the ball is several meters, I really don’t know, how did he practice his basic skills?)

Kos Chelsea directly returned to the penalty area line to take charge of the defense in the middle. The time wasted on Sterling's stop gave Cazorla, who followed closely behind him, the opportunity to return to the defensive position.

Although for Sterling, there is still a chance to pass directly from the bottom, but at this time Sterling is the most advanced player in Liverpool's counterattack striker. If he accelerates to the bottom, Sterling is worried that even if he completes the cross, Teammates did not have enough time to catch up and complete the outflank.

Not to mention, Arsenal's two central defenders Koscielny and Mertesacker both occupy excellent defensive positions in the middle. It is still unknown whether the cross from the wing can be passed to the dangerous area without being intercepted.

Sterling made a decision in an instant. Even though he had better space to display his personal abilities, Sterling still chose to make an emergency stop, tilt the ball to the back side, and pass the ball to Suarez who has been not far from him. .

Suarez received a pass from Sterling and directly led the ball forward without stopping. Sometimes the delicate footwork of South American players has to be admired.

Facing Sterling's sudden pass, Suarez's lead was quite beautiful. He directly controlled the ball on his own feet and formed absolute control of the ball right away.

Sterling dribbled the ball from the right to the bottom, and then moved back to Suarez who was close to the center to lead the ball forward. This kind of offensive threat is not the same.

Arsenal's defensive line immediately loosened a bit from the previous tight state, and Suarez must not be able to move forward and enter a more threatening goal area.

Not enough, just when Arsenal's defensive players began to jump forward to stop Suarez, Suarez made another cross pass with his right foot while dribbling the ball, and passed the ball to the top of the penalty area.

Sturridge accelerated from the left and rushed to the middle, just from the back to the front, and received Suarez's cross pass from the encirclement.

Facing Mertesacker in front of him, Sturridge stepped on a bicycle directly during the march, and before he could completely get rid of Mertesacker, Sturridge was on the penalty area line, swaying at a certain angle After that, he completed a diagonal volley and hit the goal.

"GOAL!!!"

"Sturridge!"

"Goal again!"

"Liverpool scored with their first shot on goal away!"