Football’s First Defender

The second half of the game has just started. In such a fierce game, the head coaches of the two teams must leave enough backs, and naturally they will not take the risk of making substitutions and adjustments during the intermission.

For Liverpool, Rodgers only emphasized the team's offensive tactics in the second half, and strive to dominate the offense at the beginning of the game.

Liverpool, who are playing in the away game, hope to use more running and more physical consumption to gain an advantage on the field, so that the team can occupy a certain ball possession advantage in the early stage of the second half of the game and create more. Dangerous offensive chances to take the lead on goals.

In the away game, Liverpool, who want to win, if they can't seize the opportunity in the early stage of the second half, then as the game progresses and their physical energy is consumed, Liverpool will have less and less opportunities to play.

And even without Sturridge, Liverpool's strikers in this game can all play an excellent offensive state under the leadership of Suarez.

Suarez's offensive state has always been at its best. Liverpool's several threatening offensive opportunities in the first half came from Suarez's wonderful handling of the ball.

Only 3 minutes after the start of the second half, Yang Feng sent a long-distance pass from the backcourt directly behind Manchester City's defense line. The tacit understanding between Suarez and Yang Feng came out first at this moment. Suarez and Saba made the first move Leta has an advantage in the competition for his position.

Yang Feng's pass was given ample amount of time in advance. After hitting the ground and rebounding and continuing to move forward, it was received by Suarez, who was occupying his position, before he crossed the baseline.

After that, Suarez's delicate footwork directly controlled the ball. Facing Zabaleta's close defense, Suarez shook his shoulders back and forth.

A slight shoulder sinking movement on the left shoulder tricked Zabaleta into focusing on the defensive line.

But Suarez suddenly accelerated to the right and turned directly to the bottom line.

After all, Zabaleta has rich experience in the game. Even if he made a mistake in his previous judgment, he will not give up all his focus. Facing Suarez's sudden attack, Zabaleta still has enough reaction time and space to respond .

Suarez walks along the bottom line, then Zabaleta will directly watch the ball slide out, and can use his sliding body to completely block the ground pass route.

It's just that Suarez made another smashing action in the face of Zabaleta's defense after making continuous fake moves to open up the bottom space, which directly made Zabaleta's sliding shovel defense not too big significance.

After completely getting rid of Zabaleta's defense, Suarez stepped onto the line and further widened the angle from which he could complete the shot.

Although Fernandinho's defensive speed is fast enough, it is not as fast as Suarez's shooting speed.

Before Fei Bird's supplementary defense was in place, Suarez moved up the line and created a larger shooting angle. On the left side of the penalty area, he directly kicked the goal vigorously.

He kicked the door vigorously and went straight to Joe Hart's central defense zone.

Faced with Suarez's threatening kick, Joe Hart can only quickly complete the reaction to block. It is not an easy task to control the landing point of the ball.

Joe Hart's hard-fought pounce finally prevented him from becoming the background board for Suarez's long-range shot, but after completing the save, the ball remained in the penalty area.

After Suarez pulled the side, Coutinho, who came to the middle to respond, just grabbed the second chance.

Under Kompany's interference, Coutinho, facing the point where the ball landed, barely completed a shot, but it was a pity that it was a little higher and did not score for Liverpool.

In this game, Coutinho was in the penalty area, and there were many opportunities to hit the goal. More than half of Liverpool's threatening attacks were finally handed over to Coutinho to end.

After all, Suarez has been under tremendous defensive pressure from Manchester City, and he can only do a good job as the "green leaf" of other players. If he wants to play, he doesn't have a good chance at all.

This is the disadvantage of losing Sturridge. For the combination of Sturridge and Suarez, the two can pull apart the opponent's defense for each other.

Two powerful offensive end points, and both have a good ability to play the ball, which can make the opponent's defense line take care of one and lose the other.

As for Coutinho, although his personal offensive strength is extremely strong, he is limited by his age, court experience, and too little game experience, and he is not a true finishing striker.

So although Coutinho can use his excellent breakthrough ability and personal offensive skills to make Liverpool's offense more varied.

However, there is also a chance for the opponent to realize the key care for Suarez, so that others do not have a good chance to complete the final goal.

One minute later, Liverpool's offensive came back. Coutinho received a pass from his teammate in Manchester City's half-court area. When the defensive players did not dare to step forward to defend, Coutinho saw the situation on the field and suddenly A very imaginative pick pass came in the midfield.

This kick pass is not only rich in imagination, but also extremely well controlled. The point of the ball's pick pass is just behind Manchester City's defense line, on the line of Manchester City's small penalty area.

There wasn't a Liverpool player there, but Henderson in the middle has been accelerating forward. When Coutinho didn't pass the ball, Henderson was working hard there.

After Coutinho completed the pass, he became more convinced of Henderson's inner decision.

Under Lescott's interference, Henderson still took off forcefully at the last step, using the inertia of his body to move forward, stretching out his right foot, and making a pad shot.

After Henderson took off, Lescott did not dare to make too many moves, fearing that he would be called for a foul and give Liverpool a penalty. However, Lescott's interference was relatively small, while Joe Hart's interference was more is larger.

Joe Hart opened his arms and flew out, and Henderson did take the lead in stretching his feet to complete the shot.

But Joe Hart also rushed to the position. Henderson's pad shot hit the goal, and before it flew 10 centimeters, it was blocked by Joe Hart with his chest.

Between the lightning and the flint, the ball was blocked by Joe Hart and fell directly at the feet of Lescott who was defending Henderson.

Lescott was also a little confused at the first time. He didn't clear the ball and cleared it directly. Instead, he was a little procrastinated and subconsciously wanted to lead the football.

As a result, Suarez, who was rushed from behind, went straight to the ground and completed a steal.

After that, Suarez hit the goal directly from a small angle, pushed it to the lower left corner of Manchester City's goal.

However, Joe Hart's reaction was to make another contribution. Facing Suarez's kick, he fell sideways and hit the goal with his single palm, changing the course of the ball.

When the ball slowly slid out of the baseline from the side of the post, the Manchester City players were all relieved.