Football’s First Defender

In the new season, the Premier League has 1 win, 2 losses and 3 points. The Community Shield Cup and the European Super Cup, two games that can win the championship honor at the beginning of the season, all fell to the ground. In less than a month, Liverpool completely changed from top to bottom. The triple crown of the season fell to the altar.

For Rogers, the two-week national team match day is his last chance to make adjustments for a long time.

He talked with some players who did not have the task of playing for the national team, and made a new tactical plan with his coaching team in detail, seeking to stimulate the team's combat effectiveness to the greatest extent.

Even, for his preferred starting lineup, he and the management directly fell out, and decided to limit the playing time of the two new aids, Benteke and Firmino, to directly make changes and strive for victory.

For Rogers, who is still young enough in the coaching world, sometimes he dares to change, dares to make some bold and unscrupulous attempts.

This is like a gamble. If the bet is successful, Liverpool may get out of the predicament and set sail again; if the bet is lost, then Liverpool and Rodgers may be completely lost, losing nothing.

Rodgers had the audacity to put team symbol Steven Gerrard on the bench last season after Liverpool's start was similarly poor, and it turned out that his gamble paid off.

Gerrard not only played a greater role on the bench, but also made Liverpool's starting lineup complete the same transformation with his own vitality, and Liverpool instantly became the top team in Europe.

But this time, Rodgers still wanted to continue to gamble. He directly fell out with the Liverpool management because of this, and directly believed that the two new players had limited effects on the team because they were not used to the team's tactics. Squad, to prove that their tactics can still win.

However, reality played a big joke on Rogers.

After the national team match day, the morale of the Liverpool team itself was poor, and the impact of the FIFA virus made Liverpool return to the league, continuing their recent very poor performance.

Even though Rogers was under the pressure from the management, in the game, he sent the original team of last season, and began to make the team feel like the team that won the championship in the past.

All veterans.

Sturridge was injured, so Balotelli was used to start the game as a center forward.

Sterling transferred and left, and Lallana was used to replace him.

Coutinho is still the left winger last season.

And the three midfielders also sent a combination of Henderson, Emre Can and Lucas with great defensive power.

The back line is still the main line of defense last season.

Everything is the familiar taste of last season, but Rodgers did not realize that the spirit of last season that the whole team lost long ago, the desire for victory and honor, can never be found again.

This team lineup that also appeared on the court last season did not give Liverpool and Rogers the familiar feeling of victory that they wanted last season.

In the fourth round of the league, Liverpool sits at Anfield Stadium. Rogers, after "putting things right", hopes to win a hearty game at home.

Facing the visiting mid-range team at home, the "Hammers" West Ham United, Liverpool, which has returned to the "ceremony" lineup that won the multi-line competition last season, wants to play the team momentum of last season at home and win the final victory .

It has to be said that with the improvement of tacit understanding, in the game, at least in the tight defense of the frontcourt, Liverpool did do much better than in the previous games.

The fluency has indeed improved after changing the starting player, but compared with last season, those who are familiar with Liverpool know that it is not the same as last season.

The reason may be that players in certain positions are not as good as the main players of last season.

If you let Lallana be an offensive midfielder, complete a series organization, or a personal attack, he may do a very good job, but if you want him to completely replace Sterling, it is still not satisfactory.

You know, last season, Sterling was not just a simple right winger. Rodgers, who trained Sterling according to Tottenham's Bale, gave Sterling enough freedom in the frontcourt.

And Sterling also used himself to run all over the court, creating a lot of scoring opportunities everywhere to give Rogers in return.

And obviously, Lallana is not Sterling, he does not have the mobility and explosive power of Sterling.

And Coutinho has also been given the offensive core position of the free man in the frontcourt this season, but in this "free" position, Coutinho's performance at least so far is no different from his past performance.

This has greatly reduced the offensive power of Liverpool's entire frontcourt. In the combination of pass and control, it is necessary to rely on the absolute personal strength of the players. When the breakthrough is opened, no one can complete the task under the opponent's key marking.

Liverpool still had a certain advantage in the opening stage, but the visiting team West Ham United played openly after seeing the essence of Liverpool's strong outsiders and middling talents.

West Ham United has gradually changed from an iron barrel formation to an even match with Liverpool on both offense and defense.

While the Liverpool strikers were unable to further create threatening opportunities, the West Ham United players fully grasped the opportunity.

As the absolute offensive core of West Ham United, the Frenchman Payet paid great attention to avoiding Yang Feng's defense zone when guiding West Ham United's counterattack.

All the planned offensives focused on Skrtel's side.

In order to avoid Yang Feng's defensive ability, Payet took the initiative to find Yang Feng's defense with the ball.

But in terms of the "speed" of dribbling and passing, it is very precise.

Paye used himself as a bait to actively seek Yang Feng's defense.

Payet, who is the most offensive threat in the opponent's lineup and has the strongest ability to create opportunities, personally dribbles the ball to find him and launch an attack, Yang Feng has to defend.

Then Paye always passes the ball at the last moment when Yang Feng can complete the attack, creating offensive opportunities for other teammates.

It is this extreme offensive method that makes Yang Feng's defensive ability completely contained by Payet, while the teammates on the other side cannot limit the attack of Lanzini and others.

In fact, this kind of play that actively lures Yang Feng forward to defend is not that no team has tried it in the past, but at the beginning, Liverpool's midfield defense was able to rely on active running to complete the task of chasing and defending ahead of Yang Feng, allowing Yang Feng It is not easy to be pinned down by the opponent.

But now, looking at the distracted looks of his teammates, Yang Feng suddenly felt that this team, even though they were all familiar players, was so unfamiliar.

Even though I sometimes complete the "command", I still feel that the execution ability of my teammates is much worse than before.

"This is not the Liverpool I am familiar with..."

In the end, the score on the field was fixed at 0 to 3, with the home team at the front and the visiting team at the back.

The national team returned from the match day, and Liverpool continued to stride towards the "abyss" with a humiliating defeat.

Liverpool, who played well in the opening stage, completely lost their former suppression in the following games.

In the 20th minute, Lancini received a precise pass from Payet, first succeeded in anti-offside, got rid of Skrtel, scored a single goal, and broke the deadlock.

And Coutinho, who received a yellow card in the first half, took a retaliatory action after being intercepted by his opponent at the beginning of the second half. Two yellows turned into one red, and he was sent off early, which made Liverpool even worse.

In the second half, Lancini scored twice, and Payet also used a long-range shot from the outside during a counterattack to score a goal, sealing the victory for West Ham United.

Liverpool's complete defeat at home to opponents in the middle of the league rankings also completely declared the "ceremonial lineup" that Rogers was looking forward to, and could not reverse the team's poor game state.