Football’s First Defender

After the away draw with Everton, Liverpool's lead in the standings has been further expanded.

In the competition among the six giants of the Premier League, no one can guarantee that they can beat their opponents.

Arsenal, ranked second in the league, fell at Old Trafford this round.

In the Premier League, Wenger, who is old and skilled, finally hit the first shot of "defending Moyes", allowing Manchester United to win a victory against a wealthy team at home, allowing the Red Devils fans to enjoy a rare high-quality game victory.

But for Liverpool players, new problems are still bothering them.

That is the player's physical fitness and injury factors.

One of the two main full-backs was seriously injured and the other was slightly injured, and both needed to rest for a period of time.

On the back line, Skrtel has also suffered some slight strains due to the intensive schedule recently.

In midfield, Gerrard had some old injuries, and Lucas also had some minor problems.

The best health of Liverpool as a whole may be the strikers. All of them are in a healthy state, and they even maintain a very good game state.

In the game against Marseille, Rodgers made substitutions and adjustments for every position except the striker.

Although the overall strength of Liverpool's midfield has declined somewhat, Marseille still does not have a good chance to get the first point in the Champions League at Anfield with the striker showing off.

2 to 0!

Marseille's five-game losing streak in the group stage!

Although in this game, Marseille created a lot of offensive opportunities, but limited by the personal strength of the players of the enemy and us, Marseille's offensive players have weak attacking ability. Facing a world-class defender like Yang Feng, even if his partner is from a familiar Skrtel was replaced by Kolo Toure, but he can also use his excellent defensive performance to effectively predict and interfere with Marseille's offense.

Marseille's offense did not pose a real threat, while Liverpool, although they are also in the rotation, their midfield organization and offensive ability have declined.

However, it is still easy to deal with Marseille's "slag defense line".

In this game, Joe Allen and Moses each scored a goal, without using Liverpool's precious "killer knife", they easily won the victory and saved a wave of energy for the weekend.

However, when they traveled to Wales at the weekend to face Hull City, the Liverpool players did not show their best game form when facing the "Tiger City" at home.

A mid-lower team like Hull City relies on their home record to score points. The home record of 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss is definitely a better existence among the Premier League teams.

Liverpool is at the home court of Hull City, and encountered a tenacious resistance from their opponents.

As always, the weak team's standard iron barrel formation, the defensive arrangement of five defenders and three midfielders, showed Hull City's determination to defend the home court.

As for the frontcourt duo, Hull City is equipped with two small and fast offensive players.

There is not too much counterattack tactical arrangement, that is, after completing the defense, rely on the player's personal speed to launch a surprise attack on Liverpool's defense.

Of course, when the team is defending, these two offensive players also have to retreat to the half court and join Hull City's overall defensive system.

Facing the iron barrel formation, Liverpool's ability to break defenses this season is still good.

However, today, when the two full-backs are not so strong and the midfielder still lacks Gerrard as a big threat from the outside, Liverpool's three-dimensional attack is somewhat difficult to develop.

And the team relies more on the personal performance of the forward players.

But without the effective containment of other peripheral players, for Suarez and the others, facing Hull City's layers of defense, it is difficult for Suarez and the others to create an offensive threat every time.

There are offensive threats, but it is impossible to get an excellent goal every time.

And several chances to hit the goal were finally created, but they were rejected by the goalkeeper of Hull City.

The goalkeeper of the weak team, the "goal god" was met by Liverpool today.

After halftime, Liverpool had a lot of advantages, but the score was still maintained at 0-0.

In the second half of the game, the Liverpool players who were obviously impatient to attack were hit by Hull City's quick counterattack.

Without any technical content, it was just a long pass without any brains after a successful defense. Hull City made such a long pass many times in the first half, but this time, unlike before, it finally succeeded.

The opponent's striker took full advantage of his speed, directly dodged Yang Feng's defense, and forced a breakthrough from Kolo Toure's defense zone on the other side by relying on his speed advantage.

1 to 0, with a low shot into the goal, Liverpool fell behind in the away game.

Hull City fans were celebrating as if their team had won the Premier League.

For these lovely fans, being able to take the lead against this season's Premier League leaders in the game is enough to make them excited.

And their excitement has continued and continued.

The Liverpool team's offense, even after falling behind, Rogers further adjusted his formation and tended to be on the offensive end, but he still had no chance in the face of Hull City, which played aggressively.

It's just that the victory that Hull City fans were looking forward to did not come in the end.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Liverpool took a corner kick. Yang Feng was in the penalty area, facing the defender, and forced a header to score, helping Liverpool equalize the score.

This is the key man of Liverpool, who can always step forward to save the team in times of crisis.

Sturridge is like this, Suarez is like this, and it is Yang Feng's turn today.

The 1-1 tie score was maintained until the end of the final game.

In two consecutive away games in the Premier League, Liverpool only got a draw, which also aroused some doubts from the outside world.

Lost four points in the two games, and it was not against a giant team. This also made the outside world question whether this Liverpool team can really complete the "salted fish turnaround" this season and win the first Premier League championship in team history.

And this kind of doubt became more widespread after the end of the subsequent game against Norwich.

If it is said that the draw with Everton in the away Merseyside derby is excusable and acceptable.

The draw by Hull City in the away game can also emphasize that the opponent's home game is strong.

The home game against Norwich, a middle and lower team, is still a team that has been defeated by Liverpool by a large score all year round. Liverpool only played a 1-1 draw. It can be said that most people have to start to doubt this Liverpool team. real strength.

It is true that Liverpool's strikers have performed well, and the midfield and backcourt are not bad. However, the core problem of Liverpool is the replacement of players, and many of them cannot form a connection with the main players.

The substitute players are indeed capable, but they are slightly incompatible with Liverpool's current tactical system.

This is also the root cause of certain problems in Liverpool's offense and defense in these few games.

In the long season, it is obvious that the main players cannot guarantee full health. If Liverpool's substitute players cannot show a certain strength, then Liverpool, who performed well at the beginning of the season, may really have another busy season for nothing...