Football’s First Defender

Suarez's goal gave Liverpool the lead.

Tottenham, who was the first to score a goal by Liverpool, also had to attack and try to hit Liverpool's defense.

However, Tottenham's player status today may also be affected by the Europa League two days ago, and they are not at their best.

In the face of Liverpool's iron wall, Tottenham relied more on the offensive mode of individual singles, and there was no way to create enough threatening offensive opportunities.

Especially Soldado on the front line.

The Spanish striker is not the kind of player with a strong personal offensive power. His offensive performance still requires a lot of offensive assistance from his teammates.

This is also the reason why Soldado performed very well in La Liga, but lost himself in Tottenham.

La Liga's offensive environment and offensive style are completely different from those of the Premier League. In the Tottenham team, the current staffing cannot inspire Soldado's full offensive strength.

And today I met Yang Feng, who is good at defending the opponent's running forwards. Most of the time, Soldado can't receive the pass from his teammates. After a pass, Yang Feng will show his defensive ability. Most of the passes to Soldado will be destroyed. Even if Soldado really controls the football, facing Yang Feng's man-to-man defense, the personal offensive threat he can cause is extremely limited.

Today's Tottenham's offense is the lack of explosive points, the lack of offensive players who can rely on personal hard power to change the situation of the game.

Last season, the team still had an outstanding superstar like Bell who could rely on one person to complete the offense. However, after Bell left this season, the supporting players of the year and the newly introduced players, compared to Bell's "mediocre strength" ", Tottenham fans who watched the game quite comfortably last season, have deep resentment this season.

The same is true in this game. Facing Liverpool's defense, although Tottenham immediately played a wave of slightly strong offense after conceding the ball, they did not last long. Under the excellent defense of Liverpool's defense led by Yang Feng, Tottenham The attack was gradually contained, and even slowly, Liverpool took the initiative again.

Looking at his home team, returning to the "salted fish" appearance, showing no aggressiveness at home, there were boos at White Hart Lane. Although the boos were not too loud, it can also reflect a part of Tottenham Fans are dissatisfied with the status quo of the team.

Perhaps because of the boos, Tottenham, who was suppressed by Liverpool again, launched a strong counterattack before the end of the first half.

But that was an offense without a holistic approach. In the end, not only could it not threaten Liverpool's defense, but it would make Tottenham's defense not so good and encounter a greater threat of Liverpool's counterattack.

Tottenham midfielder Sandro's pass was directly seen through by Yang Feng. While Soldado was waiting for the ball, Yang Feng finished and grabbed the ball.

Because the Tottenham players' tackles were very fast, Yang Feng could only quickly complete a short pass.

Yang Feng's long pass threat in Liverpool's counterattack has been valued by many teams. This kind of direct connection between the backcourt and the striker, Villas-Boas gave instructions before the game, and must be limited by effective pressing. .

Flanagan received a short pass from Yang Feng on the right and directly dribbled the ball forward.

There was no defender in front of Flanagan, it was an open field, but Flanagan didn't keep taking the ball forward.

Flanagan, who dribbles the ball forward from the backcourt, if he goes empty and advances all the way to Tottenham's danger zone, the long distance will make most of Tottenham's defensive players run back to their defensive positions.

Looking up at his teammates, he was almost running to the penalty area line. When Flanagan advanced to the midfield, he made a long pass on the right and passed the ball to Suarez in front of the left. s.

With this wide-ranging transfer pass, the ball draws a rather elegant arc in the air, and directly finds Suarez near the corner of the penalty area on the left.

Suarez turned to observe where the ball fell during the fast travel process.

Flanagan passed the ball extremely fast. After Suarez judged the landing point, he immediately stopped and waited for the ball. However, Tottenham's central defender Yang Sen was obviously slow in his reaction, or Yang Sen just wanted to run back to the penalty area first. Inside, gaining the advantage of position, you can turn around and face Suarez head-on.

And Suarez, facing this large-scale transfer of the ball, sensed the situation on the court, and did not choose to stop the ball to create an attack.

Instead, he slid the ball sideways with his feet, tilted the ball slightly forward, and passed it to Henderson who also quickly inserted in the middle.

The pad pass was passed directly between the two Tottenham defenders, and Henderson accelerated and led the ball directly into the penalty area.

Adjust one step, before the opponent's central defender makes a defensive move, directly complete a volley and hit the goal.

Lowry, with a one-handed side throw in the middle of the attack, directly blocked the ball.

The ball was blocked, but bounced back to the front of the penalty area.

Suarez's top shooter will always appear in the area where opportunities are most likely to appear in the penalty area.

Before the ball hit the ground, Suarez directly faced the ball and made a follow-up shot, also hitting a high-quality volley.

However, Lloris was in good form today, and he took off again on the spot, raised his right hand high, and miraculously blocked Suarez's volley with his palm.

However, again and again, Lori, who tried his best to block Suarez's volley, was unable to control the football that fell nearby for the first time, and was picked up by Henderson not far in front of him.

Immediately push and shoot, although Lori's reaction speed has reached the fastest, and he also made a side attack, but at close range and Henderson deliberately pursued a certain angle, the ball finally flew in. In the goal.

2 to 0!

Liverpool have a two-goal advantage away from home.

Lori, who was scored, faced the football in the goal, got up and shot "angrily", venting his dissatisfaction.

In a short period of time, Liverpool completed three consecutive shots, and Lori miraculously saved two shots, but his teammates did nothing during the whole process, watching Henderson and Suarez S took turns hitting the goal without making any successful defensive relief.

Let Lloris's two sudden attacks be meaningless in the end. This is a portrayal of Tottenham's tacit understanding problem, and it is also the point where Boas's level is currently being questioned the most.

As a whole, Tottenham not only lacked a tacit understanding in offense, but also had a considerable problem of tacit understanding in defense. The entire team did not have any "chemical reaction".

As for Liverpool's counterattack, Suarez and Henderson's excellent running position and reaction ability are definitely crucial, but Flanagan's performance is also impressive.

In the process of dribbling the ball at full speed, he can observe the situation on the field excellently, and he can really adjust his body and the football under his feet immediately, and he can transfer the ball accurately and in a wide range throughout the half court. It can be seen that this young man Human passing skills.

From this pass, Flanagan can see that he has gradually adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League.

A few minutes after the first half, it didn't make much sense. Liverpool led the first half 2-0.

At the White Hart Lane Stadium, the opponent scored two goals, and the most important thing was their own team. They couldn't even play a threatening effect in the attack, and they were completely crushed by the opponent.

Tottenham fans, one can imagine how depressed they were during the halftime break.

And the boos on the court were louder than before.

This kind of booing is not aimed at the players and the team, but at the head coach, at Tottenham's management.

This is also a common phenomenon among fans of Premier League teams. They like the team and the players, but for the head coach and management, when the record is good, it is an indispensable cornerstone of the team, but when the record is bad, it must be the head coach. Take the biggest blame with the management.

During the intermission, Boas also began to emphasize the team's offensive tactics in the second half.

But there is a saying that the army is defeated like a mountain.

For the Tottenham players, it is not this game that failed, but may fail the entire season.

Players' contract renewals, new players' salaries and playing time, the head coach's tactical problems, management problems, and many other problems have combined to make Tottenham a bit of a mess, and for the head coach Villas-Boas As far as he is concerned, it is no longer possible to strictly restrain the players when his own coaching position is not guaranteed.

During the halftime break, Boas arranged a rather complicated second-half offensive tactic, but that was the beginning of Tottenham, but still did not play any offensive effect.

One is that under the leadership of Yang Feng, Liverpool's defense has adapted very quickly to Tottenham's new offensive tactics, and the other is that the offensive completion of Tottenham players is too low.

Sometimes there is no threatening opportunity created at all, and the offense has come to an abrupt end.

Tottenham's offense actually didn't improve much in the second half, while Liverpool deployed heavy troops on the defensive end and used their control of the ball to keep the rhythm of the game firmly in their own hands.

Even if Tottenham want to organize a counterattack, Liverpool's possession rate has never dropped below 60%. You can know how bad Tottenham's offensive ability at home is today.

In addition to solid defense, Liverpool naturally invested a lot of energy on the counterattack end, striving to continue to expand their score advantage.

Although in the first half of the second half, Liverpool's counterattack has not been effective, but after 70 minutes, when the physical fitness of the players on both sides further declined, the Liverpool players in the away game were much better than the obviously confused Tottenham players in terms of enthusiasm. many.

Liverpool's counterattacks are always quite simple and rude, with a long pass directly from the backcourt to find the huge space in Tottenham's half.

Both Tottenham's central defenders have the problem of slow turning speed and accelerated return to defense. Although Tottenham's two full-backs were originally intended to complement the central defender, they chose players with speed.

However, when Tottenham fell behind and all the full-backs stepped forward to participate in the attack, Tottenham's full-backs did not have much enthusiasm to return to the defense quickly from the frontcourt.

Liverpool used the space of the full-backs to let Suarez and others take turns sprinting with the Tottenham central defenders.

This time, Henderson quickly plugged in.

Yang Feng's big pass, this time chose an extremely deep route, making it impossible for the Tottenham central defender to intercept at the point of impact. This also made it possible for Henderson and Yang Sen to bounce forward when the ball hit the ground. Performed a 100-meter sprint of tens of meters.

Before the ball went out of the bottom line, Henderson was still faster and took the first step to control the football.

When Henderson was making an action, Yang Sen fell to the ground to block, forcing Henderson to pull the ball to the outside.

After Yang Sen fell sideways and stretched his legs to intercept, he immediately stood up with one hand on the ground and continued to defend Henderson.

In the few seconds that Henderson waited, he had already waited for his own players.

Henderson was directly at the bottom line, forcing the ball to pass, the ball was not fast, and he was pursuing the arc of the pass.

The ball was passed to the back of the center.

At the same time, Suarez and Coutinho, one at the front and the other at the back, quickly penetrated into the small penalty area and attracted all the rare defensive players of Tottenham. There are a lot of gaps.

But this time, Henderson did not pass the ball in the direction of Suarez and Coutinho. The ball landed close to the penalty spot, and it was Flanagan who appeared in that position.

During Liverpool's quick counterattack, seeing Henderson at the front pull to the right, Flanagan did not stay on the right without knowing how to adapt, but came to the middle from the right to look for opportunities.

But this time, Flanagan's bold advance really made him wait for an offensive opportunity without any defensive interference.

Facing the falling football, although Tottenham's defensive players have already reacted and made up defenses to this side, there is not much time left for Flanagan to handle the ball.

The young Flanagan, this time, did not make a wedding dress for others. He directly faced the falling football and hit the goal with a volley. The ball was extremely fast and directly hit the dead corner in the upper right corner, leaving Lori helpless.

3 to 0, Flanagan's first goal of the season was born in this field.

As Paulinho's two yellows turned into one red in the 76th minute, Tottenham played even uglier on the scene.

And Liverpool's scoring feast continued.

Tottenham, who played one less player, was even more unable to defend Liverpool's offense.

After Liverpool successfully intercepted the ball in midfield, Joe Allen sent Suarez a through ball from the left.

Suarez succeeded in anti-offside, and directly faced the goalkeeper single-handedly after receiving the ball.

Although Lori's defensive judgment is extremely fast, when Suarez was just on the penalty area line and received the ball to make adjustments, Lori's attack was already in place.

But in the face of the flexible Suarez, Lori had nothing to do. During the fast march, Suarez rubbed the instep of his right foot in an arc, directly passed the attacking Lori, and flew into the empty goal, 4-0.

In the 88th minute, Coutinho, after continuous dribbling, made a wonderful through ball to the right and directly assisted Sterling to score, allowing Liverpool to lock the score to 5-0.

Rogers on the sidelines was smiling, and the reason for his joy was not only that in the civil war among the six giants, he achieved a big victory to prove the strength of his team.

There is also the joy of Flanagan's growth.

The data of one goal and one indirect assist, and the outstanding performance of both offense and defense in this game, let Rogers finally be able to take the position of full-back, rest assured...