Football’s First Defender

For Manchester City fans, no one thought that Kompany, the team's most reassuring defensive player throughout the season, would make such a huge mistake at a critical moment.

With a score of 3 to 1, the difference between the two goals, the game time is estimated to be only about 10 minutes even if stoppage time is counted, can Manchester City recover?

Coutinho's goal not only hit the morale of Manchester City players, but also activated the fighting spirit of Liverpool teammates.

The gap of one goal before may have caused the Liverpool players to be timid, but now, under the crazy cheers of the fans, the Liverpool players forgot about their fatigue and pressure, and began to play better on both ends of the offense and defense, finding Get back to your own rhythm.

This ebb and flow, Manchester City's offensive threat has become lower, and Liverpool has expanded the defense line directly to the midfield line, better preventing the defense line from being compressed by the opponent as before.

In the end, 10 minutes after the game, without any major surprises, Liverpool sat at the Anfield Stadium and won the direct dialogue with Manchester City with a score of 3 to 1.

10 consecutive victories!

With a wave of ten consecutive league victories, Liverpool has almost confirmed the Premier League champion this season.

There are still four rounds of the Liverpool league. Except for Chelsea, a strong team, which is still at Anfield's terrifying home court, the remaining three teams are all mid-lower teams.

With this victory against Manchester City, Liverpool has extended its lead to 7 points.

Even if Manchester City can win the mid-week make-up match, the points gap is still 4 points, which is more than a game gap.

For Manchester City, not to mention a five-game winning streak in the subsequent schedule, Liverpool, which has won ten consecutive victories, must overturn at least two of the four games. The two extreme conditions are not so easy to complete.

After the game, the media focused their attention on this strong matchup.

Everyone praised Liverpool on the winning side.

First, he praised Liverpool's dominant offensive performance in the first half.

Afterwards, he also spoke highly of Liverpool's defense in the second half, especially Yang Feng's personal defense.

The strength of Manchester City's offensive line is also extremely good, otherwise it will not be able to help Manchester City, and it can bite the tail of Liverpool, which has won ten consecutive victories.

However, Yang Feng's excellent defensive performance, especially the clearance to the goal line, helped Liverpool firmly hold the lead.

Laid a good foundation for Coutinho's last-minute goal.

In the make-up match in the middle of the week, Manchester City adjusted their mentality and easily defeated West Ham United, without completely losing the suspense of the Premier League championship.

With a score difference of 4 points in 4 rounds, Liverpool still needs to face the next game carefully.

In the 35th round of the game, Liverpool challenged Norwich away.

"Canary" Norwich, life is not easy this season.

Entering the late stage of the league, he still has not ensured his relegation.

In the last few rounds of the Premier League this season, there are multiple focus battles in each round, which can attract the attention of fans.

In the championship competition, even if Manchester City lost the direct dialogue with Liverpool, it was only 4 points, and the suspense of the game depended on it.

And after the relegation zone, it was even more tragic of a "fairy fight".

Sunderland, which ranks first from the bottom, has 29 points, while Norwich, which is fourth from the bottom, only has 32 points. It's just a matter of one game.

Five teams are struggling near the relegation zone this season, and even one more point may keep the team in the Premier League.

For Norwich, at home, even if they face Liverpool in good form, they have to find a way to win the game.

Norwich cannot bear the loss of relegation.

Although Sturridge's leg muscles were uncomfortable before the game, the 3s combination could not appear at the same time.

And Henderson also had some minor injuries after the last game against Manchester City and was unable to play.

But for Rodgers, this does not stop him from strengthening the team's offense.

In this game, Liverpool's 451 formation.

Suarez is the single striker, while Coutinho and Sterling are the left and right wingers.

In the midfield, Lucas, Team Jay, and Joe Allen started.

The backcourt has continued the recent starting combination, Flanagan has grown rapidly, and now has firmly established a starting position.

And with the increase in self-confidence, Flanagan has shown great potential in both the left and right full-back positions.

Guessing which wing Glenn Johnson and Flanagan play in every game has also become a bad joke for some Liverpool fans...

Norwich, who is in desperate need of points, did not set up a bus on their home court, but still wanted to play a certain offensive threat with three tricks in the opening game.

It's just that the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny.

Norwich's offensive line is obviously British-style. It is not so easy to pass Liverpool's defense. Yang Feng is not a vegetarian. Facing Norwich's tall but clumsy forward, Yang Feng has his own way Defensive experience.

Norwich's offensive did not work, but Liverpool's offensive achieved results.

Aiming at the disadvantages of the home team's central and backcourt players and their tall stature, Liverpool's central and frontcourt players use more transpositions and more off-the-ball runs to continuously demonstrate their technical abilities and have a huge advantage in speed and flexibility.

In the 4th minute of the game, Sterling changed positions and came to the middle. After receiving a return pass from Coutinho after a failed breakthrough from the left, Sterling in the middle took a small step in place, suddenly picked up speed, and dunked the back of the home team. Waist player.

After that, Sterling dribbled the ball horizontally and opened the shooting angle. Norwich's central defender had already run out to complete the block, but Sterling hit the goal faster.

A volley from outside the penalty area hit a contra-angle and flew straight to the upper left corner of the goal. The Norwich goalkeeper's flying save was helpless.

1 to 0, Sterling opened the scoring for the team.

The player that Liverpool focused on training, used his rapid growth to repay the unconditional trust of the head coach.

And this is not the end, after 6 minutes, Norwich's attack did not achieve results.

Yang Feng in the backcourt made a long pass and found the huge space left behind after Norwich's right back put in the assist.

Sterling accelerates to the left.

Although Norwich's central defender had already rushed to the defensive position when he entered the horizontal position of the penalty area line, plus the two other home team players who quickly returned to defense, Liverpool did not have an advantage in terms of numbers.

However, Sterling, on the left side of the aura, used the outer instep of his right foot to make a rather imaginative pass while he was moving fast.

The tacit understanding developed in the usual private training, after Sterling passed the ball, Suarez directly changed to a diagonal and stopped the ball in the penalty area in one go.

After getting rid of the defensive player, facing the goalkeeper who is halfway through the attack, he calmly pushes with his right foot.

The football passes through the goalkeeper's "wicket" and flies directly into the gate behind the goalkeeper.

2 to 0! Only 10 minutes into the game, Sterling made a pass and shot, helping Liverpool expand the score to two goals.

The game after that was a bit boring.

Liverpool, which took the lead, began to show its absolute control over the ball. The home team Norwich wanted to hurry up and recover the conceded goal, which was taken advantage of by Liverpool.

Liverpool, who played a very targeted counterattack, relied on the speed of Sterling's counterattack before the half-time ended, and went straight to Huanglong, extending the score to 3-0.

Although Norwich took advantage of Liverpool's defensive negligence in the midfield to score a goal in the second half, it was harmless for Liverpool. The team won another 11 consecutive victories easily, and they were only short of the last three rounds of the championship.