Football’s First Defender

Neither team will concede anything in the Merseyside derby.

If we say that in the Moyes era, in the Merseyside derby, he would prefer to use defense to limit Liverpool and turn around to fight Liverpool's counterattack.

So now in Martinez's era, efforts are being made to eliminate the influence of Moyes, and instead let the team keep up with the trend of the European continent, focusing on pass-and-control play.

Anyway, the foundation of the Everton team lies there.

The overall strength of the team's players has always been much better than that of ordinary teams, and a little worse than that of wealthy teams.

The result is also the kind of situation where you can relegation early in the early stage of the league, and then you can test the lineup without worry.

As for the competition for the Europa League qualification, how much is it worth to Everton, it is better to let the little monsters in the team practice early, and sell them as soon as they are trained, which is better than the Europa League bonus too much.

Over the years, Everton has always focused on the Premier League, and almost gave up on domestic cups and European competitions.

For example, in the UEFA Europa League, in the qualifying rounds before entering the group stage, Everton played a lot of tricks to get out directly.

Although this also makes Everton have no great team honors, it undoubtedly makes Everton the team with the best life in the Premier League.

There is no pressure on results, as long as you make sure to play well in the two games against Liverpool every season, it will be fine.

For the rest, ensure that your record is firmly in the middle of the Premier League, and you don't have to worry about relegation. Everton can start playing mode unscrupulously.

But against Liverpool, Everton will always use the most correct attitude. Even if they can't beat Liverpool, they will wear Liverpool down.

In this game, Liverpool took the lead first, but after being equalized by Everton immediately, the momentum was actually on Everton's side.

With the cheers of tens of thousands of fans at home, Everton directly brought the pass-and-control offensive style that had been honed for half a season to the extreme, and even began to press down on Liverpool's defense.

However, being beaten by Everton was also a deliberate move by Liverpool. After all, Everton is playing at home like a rainbow, and Liverpool does not want to let Everton seize a chance in the counterattack.

Everton's whole team plays pass control to strengthen the control of the ball, but Lukaku at the front has the tough strength of a traditional center forward, which also makes Everton's pass control play can be passed by himself at any time But it can also create a great threat.

For Liverpool's defense, the problem of switching between the two offensive modes must be taken into account, and they can only be dealt with carefully.

Moreover, Everton played happily in offense, but Liverpool's counterattack was not in vain.

Although Sturridge is on standby for this game, Liverpool's striker strength seems to be lost, but with Suarez charging forward, Coutinho and Henderson behind him can also get considerable offensive space.

Liverpool's counterattacks are still extremely efficient.

In the 27th minute of the game, Liverpool was in the frontcourt. During the counterattack, they were blocked by an Everton player foul in front of the penalty area and got a direct free kick.

Because this ball is close to the penalty area line, it is not suitable for a real free kick to hit the goal directly.

Free kick takers like Gerrard and Henderson did not choose to take the penalty, but handed it over to Suarez, who has superb shooting skills in the team.

Suarez, instead of hitting the left and right upper corners with a high ball, forcibly controlled the ball and hit a low-altitude ball with a strong arc.

The ball was only 20 centimeters from the ground, but it spun with a strong arc, bypassing the 5-man wall in the Everton penalty area from the right, and before flying out of the bottom line, relying on a strong arc, it completed the roundabout, from The outside of the right post rotated into the goal, and the Everton goalkeeper was caught off guard.

2 to 1, Liverpool took the lead again after being suppressed for nearly 20 minutes.

Everton, who fell behind in the game again, was not discouraged. In the Merseyside derby, the score behind is temporary for both teams. As long as the game is still not over, then the team has Chance to tie the score.

Everton began to use more violent attacks to try to equalize the score.

It is no longer like the previous 1-to-1, but also rely on pass control to find excellent opportunities. At this time, Everton began to occupy a greater proportion of offense on the offensive end and side pass.

Everton needs to increase the number of offenses, increase the number of shots, use frequent and effective offenses, accumulate quantitative changes to qualitative changes, and complete goals.

The frequent side attacks and the increased number of passes brought about also gave Lukaku in the penalty area a better space to play.

Everton's goal to tie the score again appeared just before the end of the first half.

Everton's continuous offensive suppression created several corner kick opportunities.

But this time, when the corner kick was sent to the empty position at the previous point, Skrtel started a step slower and directly allowed Lukaku to occupy a favorable position, so that Lukaku, who was fully started, bounced hard. The body has already made Sktel unable to shake from the side and rear.

With a shake of his head in front of the left post of the goal, "Little Monster" Lukaku scored Everton's second goal strongly, allowing the team to equalize the score before halftime.

After changing sides and fighting again, Lukaku still showed his strong center strength in the penalty area.

The reason why Yang Feng is not allowed to defend Lukaku is because although Yang Feng's own confrontation ability has reached the level of a European central defender, he is still a bit weaker if he wants to fight Lukaku.

At this time, Lukaku, when facing most defenders, can rely on his strong body to fight and complete the strong attack.

And the most important thing is that, like the "Warcraft" Drogba back then, Lukaku not only has a strong body, a taller height, but also has the same excellent golf quotient and technical ability.

Although Lukaku's foot skills are not as good as his feet, but in the game, Lukaku is definitely not as bulky as a traditional high center forward.

Occasionally in the game, according to the situation of the game, Lukaku also did a good job.

Therefore, Lukaku can only be handed over to Skrtel, who is more capable of confrontation, to defend. On the one hand, Yang Feng must limit the interspersed running of other Everton players, and on the other hand, he must try his best to deal with Lukaku during the game. Do a good job of supplementary defense on this side.

In fact, during the game, Yang Feng helped Skrtel destroy a lot of passes to Lukaku, but today Liverpool's side defense still has a lot of problems.

Although it would not be completely blown out by Everton, breaking through from the wing into the penalty area posed a threat, but it was not much better. Everton's ball from the wing did not suffer much defensive interference.

In the 67th minute of the second half, the first goal of the second half of the two sides finally appeared.

Thanks to Miralas' side pass, the ball was high and fast. Yang Feng's position and take-off could only fall to the top, but it was too late to get to the back position.

In the 1v1 competition between Lukaku at the back position and Skrtel, this time Skrtel was again dominated by Lukaku.

Pulling onions on the dry land, with a tough header, Lukaku did not make enough headers to attack the goal under Skrtel's defensive interference, but when he was so close to the goal, Lukaku only needed to use the ball It is good to be able to change the football movement line when you encounter the incoming ball.

3 to 2!

Lukaku scored twice!

Help Everton overtake the score at home!

In the much-anticipated Merseyside derby, Lukaku proved with his own strength that now, as a young man, he also has the opportunity to become the best center forward in European football!