Football’s First Defender

Ramsey's long-range shot made the fans of both sides who were paying attention to the focus of this field feel the feeling of ice and fire.

For many kops, the team's temporary lead in the first half of this strong matchup not only made them deeply think that Liverpool can not only retreat from the away game today, but may even win directly, establishing themselves in the league. A further lead in the standings.

As for the "Gunners" fans, the fact that the team won in the first half and failed to score, or even lagged behind, really made them worry that Arsenal could not break Liverpool's iron barrel formation. Now the league has a great prospect, if it is really defeated by Liverpool Winning at the Emirates Stadium in this way will definitely cast a shadow over Arsenal's championship this season.

But now, with Ramsey's long-range shot in the 61st minute, Arsenal have scored consecutively in the short ten minutes of the second half despite their hard work in the first half. The goal, overtaking the score, made Arsenal the leader of the current game so far.

The Liverpool fans were disappointed, while the Arsenal fans fell into a frenzy of cheering and celebrating.

Rogers on the sidelines was a little disappointed with the team's defense, and also regretted his previous tactical arrangements.

Rodgers thought that Arsenal's offensive in the first half did not cause any substantial trouble to Liverpool's defense. For Rodgers, it seemed that Liverpool could rely on defense to limit most of Arsenal's attacks.

So since you can rely on defense to retreat from the whole body, why bother to fight Arsenal when you have the lead?

Rogers' original plan was to use the containment power of 3s to ensure the team's counterattack threat, and then rely on the threat of counterattack to contain some of Arsenal's players in defense.

But the reality is that Arsenal has the absolute upper hand in this mutual injury mode where Arsenal is the main attack and Liverpool is the main counterattack.

Liverpool had a lot of counterattacks in the second half and formed excellent counterattack opportunities, but Liverpool's frontcourt players did not find opportunities to help the team further expand the score.

On the contrary, it was Arsenal. The players in the second half were extremely capable of seizing opportunities.

Cazorla's supplementary shot and Ramsey's long-range shot allowed Arsenal to complete the overtake in the second half in about 15 minutes with half an hour left in the game .

Now, the offensive pressure is on Liverpool's side, and Liverpool, which is behind, has no way to retreat.

First of all, for Liverpool, the problem of possession of the ball has to be solved.

In today's game, the defensive pressure of the two full-backs affected the performance of their own midfielders.

In order to be able to match the strength of Arsenal's five midfielders in possession of the ball, Rogers made drastic substitutions and adjustments.

The first is to replace Sissoko with Kolo Toure and put on a tactical system of three central defenders.

Then Coutinho replaced Sterling. The team made some substitution adjustments and changed the formation directly to 352.

The three central defenders guard the penalty area in the middle, Flanagan is used on the left, and Henderson is used on the right.

In the middle area, Lucas is in charge of defense, Gerrard is in charge of scheduling, and Coutinho, who has returned from injury, is a free agent in the midfield. ball.

Sturridge's partner Suarez is still on the front line.

After Liverpool completed such a formation change, the most prominent thing is to start to actively compete with Arsenal for the possession of the ball and the dominance of the offense in the game. Now Liverpool also use offense to justify themselves.

When Rogers' substitution adjustment is completed, although the original intention is still to increase Liverpool's ability to control the ball, so that Liverpool can focus on offense.

But in terms of overall offensive strength, due to the suboptimal configuration of wing players and the team's tactical proficiency is not very good, so the team's offensive system under the 352 formation, especially the use of two wings, Probably not that skilled.

However, when the team fell behind, what Rogers mainly wanted to do was to use Coutinho and the small-scale cooperation between Sturridge and Suarez to launch an attack based on the strong personal abilities of several people.

The other players try their best to cooperate with the attack of the three.

What stands out is the small-scale offensive coordination, rather than the team's overall offensive tactics.

Liverpool's change of formation immediately changed the team's competitiveness in the midfield area, allowing the team to immediately compete with Arsenal for possession of the midfield.

Arsenal, who have always had the advantage of possession, immediately experienced greater midfield pressure after Liverpool's transformation was completed.

In terms of the strength of the midfield between the two sides, from the beginning Arsenal dominated, and began to change to Liverpool becoming the dominant side.

This has its own advantage in the number of players invested by Liverpool, and it also has a greater enthusiasm for the players when Liverpool is behind.

With the possession of the ball as a support, Liverpool also began to try to grasp the offensive initiative in the final stage of the game when they were suppressed for most of the game.

On the other hand, after seeing that the team was no longer able to take advantage of the midfield fight, Professor Wenger began to let the players shrink the defense and do a good job of the team's defense.

Now that Arsenal has the lead, Wenger also intends to adjust through substitutions, do a good job of the team's defense, and hold the lead of this goal.

It is precisely because they are both teams that are good at attacking that Wenger knows very well how terrifying Liverpool's scoring explosive power will be.

There is still nearly half an hour before the end of the game. At this time, continuing to attack Liverpool, or fighting in the midfield, is to give Liverpool a looser offensive opportunity. For Liverpool, it will definitely take advantage of the fast The rhythmic offense and defense create a large number of offensive opportunities.

In case Liverpool, like Arsenal, show explosive scoring ability in a short period of time, then Arsenal's lead is really not easy to see.

Taking advantage of the fact that Liverpool's two full-backs are not starting players today, they are destined to be affected on both offensive and defensive ends. Wenger directly asked the players to recover the defensive line and guard the penalty area and the center.

Due to the lack of assisting ability of the full-backs and Liverpool's ability to attack tough battles, this game will definitely not be so good.

In this way, Arsenal will have a higher success rate in defending the game.

Now, it's Liverpool's turn to face the opponent's "bus defense". Although Coutinho has just returned from injury, as a player known for his breakthrough ability, Coutinho's ability to get rid of the ball is very important. extremely strong.

It's different from Sterling rushing on the wing with speed and posing a pass threat.

Coutinho's offensive starting points are almost always in front of Arsenal's penalty area. No matter how many defensive players are marking, Coutinho's technical ability and rhythm changing ability can allow him to have an excellent offensive performance. This makes it possible for Coutinho to create a greater offensive threat directly in the middle area than the replaced Sterling.