Football’s First Defender

Chelsea's world-class defense made today's Liverpool's offense suffer from impregnable treatment. The delayed attack failed, but Chelsea's counterattack continued to threaten Liverpool's rear defense.

Defensive counterattack tactics are the foundation of Mourinho's coaching.

Back then, he was able to lead a "low-level" team like Porto to win the Champions League, relying on iron-blooded defense and an excellent counterattack success rate.

Now, although Chelsea's central midfield is unable to achieve the total attack and defense in Mourinho's mind, because Liverpool's own offensive threat is limited, Chelsea is more inclined to an offensive midfielder, but can have a greater advantage. play.

Liverpool's offense could not go in, and Chelsea's counterattack followed immediately.

Although Eto'o has scored a goal before, it is also a fact that the age is there.

Experience and technology cannot make up for the decline in motor function caused by aging.

Chelsea's counterattack lacks the speed burst at the front and the support point that can respond to the pass from the backcourt.

Coupled with Yang Feng's defensive characteristics, Chelsea has the deepest experience.

It is better to walk on the ground, delay a little more time, and "waste" the advancing time, and cannot return the ball to Liverpool in vain.

Oscar, Hazard, and William all have pretty good ground-speed advancing abilities, and even David Luiz can occasionally display his Brazilian offensive nature, striding forward with the ball in a counterattack.

Chelsea's counterattack threat is the main force in the contribution of threat offensive data in the second half.

Liverpool has been gaining momentum in the second half, but it is not even easy to create shooting opportunities.

Chelsea, on the other hand, does not have much possession of the ball, but has been threatening Liverpool's defense with counterattacks.

Fortunately, even if Chelsea are counterattacking on the ground, they cannot allow Yang Feng to give full play to his defensive characteristics.

But Yang Feng, who has entered the middle stage of his career, is no longer the distinctive central defender at the beginning, but has grown into an extremely comprehensive defender.

Chelsea's ground counterattack threat, interspersed by several small fast-spirited players, is extremely threatening, but Yang Feng patiently directs his teammates, and the continuous compression of the defense line tries to limit Chelsea's counterattack threat to the minimum every time.

Both Hazard and William once relied on their outstanding personal abilities to break through Liverpool's defense in counterattacks, wanting to further threaten the goal.

But Yang Feng, who has been standing at the end, will always come to the defense at critical moments, or directly complete the attack and take on the defensive task, or when the opponent shoots, Yang Feng will directly step forward to block and complete a certain amount of play. Door angle limit.

Active, active, running without hesitation, making dangerous rescues several times.

In the second half, Yang Feng almost single-handedly solved Chelsea's many dangerous counterattack opportunities, so that Chelsea's lead was always maintained at one goal, and it was impossible to further expand and seal the victory.

For countless Chelsea fans, the opponent who is now wearing a red shirt on the field is also wearing a blue shirt a few years ago, fighting bloody battles for Chelsea on the field.

When the two figures overlap, the fans still miss the years when they won the Premier League trophy and the Champions League together...

Yang Feng's excellent performance, almost relying on his own strength, completed Liverpool's defense against Chelsea's counterattack in the second half.

It's just that, despite the desperate efforts of the defensive players, the score is still tenaciously maintained at a one-goal gap, but what about Liverpool's offense?

In the final stage of the game, Rogers had limited offensive adjustments in his hands, so he could only send Aspers and Moses to further strengthen the offense and make a final desperate fight.

Both Sterling and Lucas were replaced, and Liverpool began to gradually abandon defense and invest more power in the offensive end.

However, after 80 minutes of the game, there are not many offensive tactics to speak of. Liverpool still relies more on the personal performance of the players to complete the offensive.

Long-range shots or crosses from the wing have become Liverpool's main offensive weapon, but facing Chelsea's David Luiz's three-back system after the retreat, Liverpool did not get any sweetness on the offensive end.

In the 87th minute of the game, Moses made a personal breakthrough on the wing, creating a personal foul by Azpilicueta.

Moses, who is really energetic, took over Sterling's position and continued to use the constant wing attacks to completely exhaust Azpilicueta's physical energy.

Giving Liverpool a free kick for a foul is always less of a threat than letting Moses enter the penalty area after completing the breakthrough.

Free kick for Liverpool.

In terms of height comparison, Liverpool is quite at a disadvantage.

Chelsea have three central defenders, plus a central defender Ivanovic, it is conceivable how big Liverpool's disadvantage is.

On Liverpool's side, Yang Feng and Skrtel's two high points, as well as an all-around shooter like Suarez, are naturally the key targets of Chelsea.

Although Chelsea's header advantage is more obvious, for Liverpool, at the last moment of the game, the opportunity to set the ball may also be their only remaining chance to score.

Players like Yang Feng who can always score with headers at critical moments are naturally closely guarded by Chelsea players.

Cahill, who is strong and strong, and David Luiz, who has strong mobility, double-teamed Yang Feng to ensure that Yang Feng could not get a chance to take off and complete the header.

Several players in the penalty area were strictly defended by Chelsea, so for Coutinho who made a free throw, who would he choose to send his pass?

Run-up...horizontal dial!

Coutinho did a good run-up, but in the end he chose to turn his ankle and quickly move the ball horizontally to the middle.

Henderson!

Receive the ball from near the penalty area line and have a chance to hit the goal directly.

Chelsea shifted its defensive attention to the players in the penalty area to compete for the top, but ignored the defense outside the penalty area.

Just as Henderson was making a long shot, the Chelsea players in the penalty area frantically came to block it.

As for Henderson, he didn't take a long shot, and made a pass, which once again surprised everyone.

The direction of the pass is within the small restricted area from right to left.

There, there is Yang Feng!

David Luiz's defensive selection went awry.

When Coutinho completed the pass, David Luiz thought that Yang Feng's threat was gone, and he stepped forward quickly, trying to block Henderson's goal.

But he didn't take into account that when Yang Feng and Cahill were 1v1, Cahill was not dominant.

Henderson's pick pass came, Yang Feng and Cahill have been fighting for a better position.

But in the end it was Yang Feng who had the upper hand.

It is better to judge the position of the landing point and better seize the advantage of body position. Even when Yang Feng took off, Cahill's small movements were not small, which lowered Yang Feng's take-off height.

However, Yang Feng is already familiar with this Premier League-level confrontation intensity, and his adjustment ability is extremely strong.

Taking off slightly backwards, Yang Feng did not choose to shake his head directly to attack the goal. Instead, when he was a little out of balance being dragged by Cahill, Yang Feng chose to exert force from his neck, and the header stretched forward, pushing out a parabola.

The ball went from the left to the upper right corner of the goal.

The advantage of the parabola is that even though Cech has already jumped and flew above the line of the ball, at the height of the ball, Cech's raised palm cannot touch the ball.

The ball goes over Cech and goes down.

All eyes are on the falling football.

In the end, the ball hit the junction of the crossbar and the post directly, and then bounced into the net.

2 to 2! At the last moment of the game, Yang Feng stood up and saved Liverpool on the edge of the cliff.

At Stamford Bridge, Yang Feng is still the "Dad Yang Feng" who can reassure the team's defense on the defensive end. The difference is that he has grown into an offensive "surprise soldier" who can always stand up when the team is in crisis.

Even though the jersey has changed from blue to red, Yang Feng is still the "true king" at Stamford Bridge tonight.