Football’s First Defender

Sturridge's excellent scoring form this season has continued.

Unlike some forwards who are good at abuse, Sturridge can guarantee his excellent offensive efficiency no matter who his opponent is, no matter what kind of second-generation defense he faces, and how good a goalkeeper he faces. This is the most important thing.

Facing Manchester United, Sturridge can score goals. Facing Arsenal today, Sturridge even completed his task of averaging one goal in the first half.

In terms of Sturridge's personal statistics, the average number of goals per game against rich teams is even higher than the average number of goals per game against many mid-lower teams.

This is the big scene killer.

This time the counterattack was initiated by Yang Feng's direct long pass from the backcourt, Sterling threatened with the ball from the side, and the cooperation between Seagull and Suarez made it possible that when Sturridge finally received the ball, there was only one in front of him. Mertesacker defends alone.

In the 1v1 situation, Sturridge has ample room to display his personal abilities.

Using his flexibility compared to Mertesacker, Sturridge can fully make moves to get rid of the offense.

Once there is space, just finish hitting the goal without any hesitation. Sturridge's shooting skills also helped him to hit the goal in the end, surpassing Szczesny's ten fingers, and made the final progress ball.

As a guest at the Emirates Stadium, Liverpool scored the first goal after being suppressed by Arsenal's offense for a long time. It really surprised the tens of thousands of "Gunner" fans at the scene.

Afterwards, there were naturally endless boos, boos to Sturridge who was celebrating.

This kind of booing from the away fans, Sturridge has heard many times in the game since he moved to Liverpool, the noise in the ear is not enough to interfere with Sturridge's celebration, for Sturridge For Turic, these sounds are more like the accompaniment for his own mechanical dance.

Arsenal fell behind 0 to 1, which also allowed Liverpool to stick to their previous tactics.

You can even invest more defensive power on the defensive end and try to hold the lead.

Although Liverpool have not been known for their defense in the past few seasons, but this season, with Yang Feng, who has performed as well as ever, and Mignolet, who can contribute a lot on the goal line, Liverpool will definitely have a few years. Stronger defensive strength than usual, and the increase in the number of zero seals this season is an ironclad proof of Liverpool's defensive strength.

When Arsenal re-kicked off and prepared to look for offensive opportunities again, they found that Liverpool was organizing a tighter line of defense to deal with Arsenal's upcoming "indiscriminate bombing".

For the Arsenal players, so far in the game, they have occupied a lot of possession, created many offensive opportunities, and also had a few good shots, but they were just at home and were shot by Liverpool just like that. Right, scored a goal.

Arsenal's offensive players are all unwilling. This is the top game, and it is the first season for Arsenal to become the leader of the Premier League and launch an impact on the Premier League champion after many years.

As long as they beat Liverpool, as long as they beat Liverpool, then Arsenal will be the best team in the Premier League after a quarter of the league schedule.

There is no need for Professor Wenger off the field to waste too much words. The Arsenal players, after falling behind in the score, are already a little crazy.

Among the several players in the midfield, they began to use faster pass rates to try to better tear through Liverpool's defense.

Although the acceleration of the pass rhythm will cause the success rate of the pass to begin to decline, but for Arsenal players, when they are behind at this time, they don’t have to play as steadily as before. What Arsenal need now is to make progress. The ball needs to break through Liverpool's gate.

And if there is a mistake in the pass, or if it is interrupted, it is just that Liverpool have a better chance to counterattack. For the current Arsenal offensive players, they can only choose to trust the teammates behind them who are responsible for defense, and they, It is to score a goal first before Liverpool fights back again, to equalize or even overtake the score for the team.

In the second half of the first half of the game, it was true that Liverpool created two more considerable counterattack threats, but behind Liverpool's counterattack threats, it was Liverpool's defense line, which has been enduring Arsenal's more threatening offensive methods than before.

Arsenal's offense has always been aimed at Liverpool's defense, hitting the ribs between the center back and the full back.

Taking advantage of this game, both of Liverpool's full-backs have insufficient defensive experience and poor strength. Arsenal's good offensive players continue to use off-the-ball running that tests defensive players and defensive awareness to constantly attack. Run through behind them.

Instead of a fixed penetration of one or two players, Arsenal's players would also perform some cross-runs in the middle to confuse them, and then suddenly advance forward to create a final offensive-threatening run.

Especially players like Rosicky and Cazorla, when Giroud attracts some defensive attention for them in front, constantly interspersed with the gaps on both sides of Giroud, as long as they can receive passes from midfield teammates, Immediately can create certain offensive opportunities.

As for the Arsenal midfielder, the best passer is of course Ozil.

For Ozil, unlike many modern midfielders, in addition to organizing offenses, he has good breakthrough ability or goal-striking ability. The long-range shooting ability that most midfielders possess has not been practiced.

Ozil's worth of more than 50 million euros is all based on his own greatest advantage, which is passing.

Whether it is the ball in a quick counterattack or in a positional battle, Ozil's last kick can pass the ball to the teammate who has entered the opponent's core area, making this very threatening Running can really be transformed into a very threatening attack, even a very threatening shot.

During the lateral movement, Ozil received a pass from Ramsey, turned around halfway, and pushed the ball straight to the deep right side of the penalty area.

And Rosicky, formally from the side, suddenly crossed diagonally.

Ozil's pass passed through the defense zone of many Liverpool defensive players, even Yang Feng, who was powerless to the pass passing by, reacted and wanted to make a move, but he couldn't touch the ball.

Rosicky went forward and received the pass directly, and volleyed from a small angle close to the bottom line on the right without stopping the ball.

It has to be said that Rosicky's kick was extremely threatening. Although the angle was not large, Rosicky exerted sufficient force and had excellent angle control, and went straight to the back post.

At the critical moment, none of Liverpool's defenders can block the path of Shenmen, and it still depends on Mignolet.

He quickly fell to the ground and threw his fists sideways. Although the ball was fast, Mignolet still hit the football with both fists and tried to block the ball.

Even though the ball's inertia allowed it to fly to the rear point due to the power of the shot, the ball eventually slid out of the goal and did not fly into the net under Mignolet's block.

A dangerous attack by Arsenal was blocked by Liverpool in the end.

Throughout the first half, Arsenal had been creating opportunities, but in the end it was difficult to convert them into goals.

Countless people were looking forward to the confrontation battle. After Liverpool scored the first goal, Arsenal did not score a goal to start. This made this confrontation battle that countless people were looking forward to, there is a high probability that there will be a small goal.

The first half was 0 to 1, and Liverpool, who was a guest, took a half-time lead.

Although Liverpool has not lost in the Premier League so far this season, considering Arsenal's strong offensive strength and the youthfulness of Liverpool's two full-backs in this game, it can be seen from the real-time "data" Most people are still optimistic about Arsenal to win in the second half.

Although fans who like Liverpool don't want to admit it, the actual situation of this game is that Arsenal seized the defensive weaknesses of Liverpool's two wings and gained an absolute advantage on the scene.

How Liverpool can completely solve the defensive weaknesses of the two wingers is something Rogers needs to continue to consider during the intermission.

It's just that no one is available is the most embarrassing thing for Liverpool at present, and Rogers did not expect that the team's two full-backs would be unable to play at the same time.

It is up to Rodgers to decide whether to use the defensive players to defend, or continue to use the current lineup and fight the opponent's counterattack.

From the second half of the first half to the halftime break, after some consideration, Rogers finally chose to retain the team's offensive firepower.

The main reason is Arsenal's offensive firepower, which also maintains a high scoring rate this season, and generally speaking, teams with this pass-and-control style are best at using continuous running and interspersing to create tiny offensive spaces. You can get an excellent goal threat.

With the degree of wind leakage in Liverpool's game on the two sides, it is not easy for Liverpool to really achieve an impregnable wall.

It is true that Liverpool held the score in the first half, but that was when the players were physically fit, and both Yang Feng and Mignolet performed extremely well. With the decline in defensive stamina, the Arsenal players would create in the second half. More, better opportunities.

At that time, it is really impossible for Yang Feng and Mignolet to block every ball.

Therefore, instead of abolishing martial arts and focusing on defense, Rogers is more willing to retain his team's offensive firepower and use the players' strong counterattack ability to ensure the threat to Arsenal's defense, so that Arsenal players will still have scruples even when attacking. , use offense instead of defense, and rely on counterattack threats to help the defense do better.

As far as Professor Wenger is concerned, in the second half of the game, there are not so many tactical options.

Since the team was unable to score in the first half, it was just a matter of luck, so just continue to stick to the offensive style of play you have formulated.

Wenger believes that things like luck are conserved, and it doesn't make sense to sit on his own home court. Arsenal will point back and really can't break through Liverpool's gate.

For Arsenal's tactical summary of the second half, it is "attack! attack! keep attacking!"

Use a faster-paced offense to completely exhaust the Liverpool players on the defensive end as soon as possible, so that Arsenal can occupy a greater field advantage as soon as possible.

As soon as the second half of the game started, the conservation of luck that Wenger was looking forward to appeared.

Many dangerous offensive opportunities in the first half were blocked by Yang Feng or Mignolet, or they missed the goal.

In the second half, Arsenal's second wave of offense made up for the regret of not scoring in the first half.

Arsenal's first wave of offense ended with Sagna's side kick, which was directly destroyed by Yang Feng.

Immediately afterwards was Liverpool's quick counterattack, but this time Gerrard and Lucas pushed the counterattack on the ground, but they made a mistake when passing the ball to Suarez in front of them.

Ramsey's excellent defensive position selection directly cut off the pass.

Afterwards, Ramsey himself dribbled the ball directly from the backcourt and pushed forward quickly, but instead hit Liverpool with a counterattack.

Ramsey dribbled the ball directly across the half court and continued forward. Before Lucas stepped forward to intercept it in place, Ramsey kicked the through ball diagonally to the right, looking for Sagna in front of him.

Sania, who hadn't returned to his defensive position after the last assist, rushed to the front in this counterattack.

Accelerated to get the ball from the outside, completely throwing off Flanagan's Sagna, who was in a position on the side, directly in the accelerated state, kicked the pass, and passed the ball into the penalty area.

A slightly rearward arc.

Yang Feng and Skrtel, who had already retreated to the small restricted area at full speed, could only quickly stabilize their inertia and walk out to chase the landing point.

Giroud reacted faster and retreated faster, but he couldn't reach the landing point.

The landing point was too close to the penalty area line, and Sania passed the ball very quickly, which did not leave much time for Yang Feng and the others.

But this ball may not be looking for Giroud's high point.

In this empty area in Liverpool's penalty area, in this counterattack, there were no players from both sides standing.

However, outside the restricted area, some people still ran quickly to the landing position.

Unlike Yang Feng and the others who rushed over their heads, had to adjust their center of gravity, and retreated in reverse, people outside the penalty area could always charge forward with an accelerated state.

"Third brother Cazorla!"

During the full-speed forward rush of Cazorla, he jumped forward and headed straight for the goal!

The ball flew flat to the goal, but the ball was extremely fast, but it did not threaten Mignolet.

Yang Feng had already adjusted his body shape, and in the process of rushing to the landing area, he happened to block the line of Cazorla's header.

It's just that Cazorla exerted enough force, and with the strength of Sagna's pass, the ball was extremely fast. Yang Feng just reacted subconsciously and blocked the football.

Yang Feng couldn't control where the ball landed at that moment.

The ball bounced back to the other side.

Yang Feng's second reaction immediately wanted to clear the siege, but his body was more flexible, and Cazorla, who had an equally excellent second reaction, moved first.

After landing, move laterally in three steps and two steps, take off directly, and volley with your right foot in the air to complete the goal.

"GOAL!!!"

"Cazorla!"

"Scored the equalizer for Arsenal."