Football’s First Defender

After winning the league victory against Aston Villa at home, although the process was a bit difficult for Liverpool, the result was good. The 3 points played a huge role in Liverpool's catching up in the standings.

After the coaching change, Liverpool's performance instantly returned to the right track. They won two consecutive league victories and advanced to the Carabao Cup. Now on the three fronts, they still need to continue to work hard to win in the Champions League.

In the Champions League in midweek, Liverpool's second Champions League group match, the home game against Wolfsburg, the absolute dark horse of the Bundesliga last season.

Wolfsburg played a fantastic season in the Bundesliga under the leadership of "Black Gold" last season.

Although they did not reproduce the sudden emergence of the 08/09 season and finally completed the glory of winning the championship, a long-lost ticket to the Champions League still allows them to return to the Champions League in this new season. In terms of team financial income, there will be a Considerable income generation.

However, in the summer, Wolfsburg still lost the absolute core of the frontcourt "Tintin" De Bruyne. After De Bruyne transferred to Manchester City, for Wolfsburg, now can rely on , that is, the team's team ability.

Without a top passer and organization player like De Bruyne, Wolfsburg's offensive hard power has been greatly reduced.

This also allows Liverpool, which is also obviously damaged in strength, to still occupy a very good advantage in this home game against Wolfsburg.

Liverpool played at home, in order to grasp the initiative in the Champions League, they directly played with all the main players.

For Klopp, there is no big problem with the current starting lineup. He is not going to make changes. Every position is available. He does not have enough cards in his hand to guarantee a substitution. Afterwards, the team's tactics can be executed as they are today.

Especially the direct connection between the two offensive points of Firmino and Coutinho is now Liverpool's frontcourt offensive line, the most powerful combination in terms of creating opportunities, and the most indispensable offensive combination.

In this game, Liverpool's defensive arrangement before the game was actually quite easy.

Because De Bruyne's transfer left in the summer and went to Manchester City, Wolfsburg, which had an excellent offensive performance in the Bundesliga last season, completely lost its previous offensive power.

Even "Black Gold" introduced a lot of powerful players to supplement them in the summer.

But a "big king" must have a much stronger role on the field than that 5689 single card. Countless teams that have lost their core players, even the top teams, feel the same way, and the same is true for Liverpool.

Without De Bruyne, this Wolfsburg team has already lost the soul on the offensive end of last season. Now Wolfsburg is simply a normal Bundesliga team.

There is no longer a special hot spot player, at best, the player's personal ability is stronger.

As far as Liverpool's defense is concerned, without De Bruyne's delivery of the ball in the midfield, it is actually quite simple to defend such a "mediocre" team.

The offensive player that Wolfsburg was focusing on before the game was Xu Erle.

Although Schurrle became famous earlier, in terms of offensive and destructive power, he is just an ordinary star. He is definitely not at the level of a superstar. It is so easy to break through Liverpool's defense with his own strength. .

Moreover, Anfield's home field advantage, the passionate shouts of tens of thousands of fans, and the high-pitched singing "You will never walk alone" also caused a lot of damage to the Wolfsburg players who came to the Devil's home court at Anfield for the first time. psychological pressure.

In the away game, Wolfsburg is very aware of the need to put a low profile. The team's main tactics are still based on the defense first, and then rely on the defensive counterattack to deal with Liverpool.

After all, when it comes to defense, it may be that Wolfsburg has changed the least compared to last season.

Even in the summer transfer window, there are also many wealthy teams wanting to purchase the team's defensive core R Rodriguez, but in a situation where De Bruyne has already sold at a super high price, in order to ensure the ball The team's record can not be too deep, and the new season will hit the Champions League again. Wolfsburg will forcibly resist the urge to "open a supermarket" and suspend the transfer of other players to preserve the strength of the team. .

This also allowed Wolfsburg's defense to hardly suffer any major losses in the summer, retaining enough defensive strength, it can be said that the strength of the team is guaranteed, and it will not decline too much.

Ronaldo, Dante, Gustavo, these players are still well-known in European football. Under the training of "Black Gold", relying on the tacit cooperation with each other, they have maintained Wolfsburg quite well. overall defensive strength.

After defeating CSKA Moscow in the first Champions League game, for Wolfsburg's management and fans, they still hope that the team can still achieve good results in the Champions League after dropping a level on the offensive line. The reliance that has been broken through.

If they strive to enter the knockout round of the top 16 after the new year, then Wolfsburg has overfulfilled the task.

In the first round of the group stage, after Wolfsburg easily defeated CSKA Moscow at home and scored 3 points, for them, the main opponents who want to qualify for the group are PSV Eindhoven and the Russian Super League team. It's best to score points on your body, and it doesn't matter if you can't score them, as long as you can play a direct dialogue with the other two teams.

However, Liverpool's attitude towards this Champions League group match is quite serious.

Lost in the first game, in order to grasp the initiative of the promotion, and even to get the first place in the final group, for Liverpool, this home game cannot be lost. This will be their most solid step towards the Champions League.

As soon as the game started, Liverpool began to use their offense to control the initiative of the game.

The full-back's attacking, the flexible running of the midfielders, and the speed or technology are constantly interspersed in Wolfsburg's defense, creating a threat.

Liverpool's offensive impact in the frontcourt has begun to take shape, and slowly began to return to Liverpool's peak game state last season.

The team's offense is getting smoother, and the players' recognition of the team is getting deeper and deeper, and it is becoming more and more like a mature team.

After Coutinho was still given absolute freedom to attack, Klopp even gave him enough freedom in his position, so that other players' offensive moves were all based on Coutinho thing.

Coutinho, who can choose whether to attack personally or pass the ball as he likes in the game, and the offensive rhythm is completely in his own hands, can finally give full play to his offensive talents this time.

In the face of Wolfsburg's defense, Coutinho was under Gustavo's defense. In fact, the defensive pressure on personal offense was still large enough. However, Wolfsburg's defense still gave Couti Neo has more room to play.

Dante's weakness has been fully exposed in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2014. It was his obvious weakness that was abandoned by Bayern and came to Wolfsburg.

Naturally, Coutinho would not give up such an obvious weakness, but grabbed this defensive loophole and hit hard.

With a through ball and an over-the-top pass, Coutinho was on the move, on the one hand, to attract Wolfsburg's defensive attention to the greatest extent, on the other hand, after mobilizing all Wolfsburg's defensive players, Coutinho was about to attack the opponent's defense. When it's done, finish the shot and find the space behind Dante.

Firmino, naturally the excellent attacker, can create enough threats to Dante's side.

Firmino got a lot of opportunities today, and he continued to put pressure on Wolfsburg's defense.

And the first goal was indeed created by Firmino.

It is still Coutinho who has been very close to him recently who sent him the assist.

Since Firmino also joined Yang Feng's "extra training camp", Coutinho and Firmino have been trying to cooperate in various ways in the extra training to break through Yang Feng's defense.

Now, with the excellent tacit understanding between the two sides, Yang Feng's defensive success rate is constantly declining, let alone Dante's defense.

Coutinho suddenly moved laterally without the ball, drawing the attention of Wolfsburg's defense, and after receiving a pass from Henderson in the middle, Coutinho immediately sent a through ball with strong penetrating power diagonally to the left.

Firmino's running is extremely confusing. First he pretends to run forward and retreat, but in fact he suddenly inserts into the depths of the penalty area.

Dante's turning speed was already slow, but this time he was completely fooled by Firmino's fake action, and there was no way to chase back.

Firmino ran brilliantly into position, stopped the ball perfectly, and faced the goalkeeper directly.

A low shot hit the goal and successfully helped Liverpool open the scoring in the first half.

After taking the lead, Liverpool naturally received a strong counterattack from Wolfsburg, but there are not many star offensive players that the visiting team can rely on now.

Schurrle's breakthrough may still be able to perform well in the Bundesliga and kill the Quartet, but under the defensive style of the Premier League team that relies more on physical confrontation, Schurrle's performance is actually greatly restricted.

The breakthrough was no longer sharp, and the pass to the penalty area was blocked by Yang Feng and Skrtel in turn, and it could not pose a threat.

And attacking on the ground is also not a big problem for Liverpool's defense.

Wolfsburg does not have any penetrating offensive passes. It is not too much of a threat to Liverpool's high-position pressing tactics. When the defensive pressure is not too great, supplementary defense can still be done quite well.

Wolfsburg, who played in the away game, was suppressed in terms of momentum and limited in strength. Coupled with Liverpool's strong defensive strength, today's offense at Anfield was quite bad for Wolfsburg.

Instead, Liverpool counterattacked with excellent defense, constantly causing trouble for the visiting team.

At the end of the first half, Liverpool succeeded in the tactic of leading the snake out of the hole, and seized the huge space left behind after Wolfsburg attacked.

After Skrtel completed the defensive interception, he handed the ball to Yang Feng who ran forward at the first time. Yang Feng ran out of the open space, and after receiving the ball in the backcourt, he took advantage of the opponent's on-the-spot counter grab and sent a ball directly. Foot long pass.

Jordan Ibe on the right showed his greatest value on the court-speed.

Sprinting with all his strength, after receiving Yang Feng's precise kick, he directly dribbled the ball into the penalty area.

Ronaldo's defensive completion rate is pretty good, but under Jordan Ibe's quick impact, it still seems a bit difficult.

Barely guaranteeing his defensive position, he can cause some interference to Jordan Iby, but he can't directly intercept Jordan Iby's impact.

When he quickly stepped into the penalty area, Ronaldo dared not make any foul moves.

With Ronaldo's defense hanging on the side, he broke into the penalty area, and the Wolfsburg goalkeeper in front of him was attacking with all his strength, but nothing could change Jordan Ibe's desire to score.

"I want to score! I want to score! I want to prove my worth! I want to keep my starting game!"

Jordan Ibe, since he has already taken the position as a young man, he certainly does not want to return to the bench and wait for opportunities.

He has to keep scoring goals, follow the trajectory of Sterling, and gradually transform into the best offensive player.

As the opponent's goalkeeper approached, Jordan Ibe pushed and shot, which accurately hit the visiting goalkeeper's wicket.

Through a wicket and into the gate, Jordan Ibe's counterattack goal easily helped Liverpool gain a 2-0 lead.

Entering the intermission with a 2-0 advantage in the first half, it is still not safe for Liverpool.

In the weekend league, they were almost overturned by Aston Villa, so that Liverpool still maintain enough tension when they are leading by two goals.

Especially for Liverpool's two full-backs, when the team was already leading by two goals, Klopp asked them to limit their forward penetration and give priority to the team's defense.

The last time in the league, there was a dangerous situation, and Klopp didn't want to happen a second time.

Fortunately, after the Wolfsburg players fell behind by two goals in the away game today, they no longer have the spirit to fight on, but rather have a mediocre mentality to "cope" with the final half of the game.

In the 64th minute of the game, Yang Feng overpowered Dante in a set-piece tactic, connected directly with Coutinho, scored his first goal in the UEFA Champions League this season, and helped Liverpool score 3 The ball leads.

Klopp, who basically sealed the victory with 3 goals, quickly replaced Firmino and Coutinho.

Let a player like Benteke maintain his game state on the court and use his residual heat.

The 3-0 score was also maintained until the end. Liverpool finally won 3 goals at home and won the first Champions League victory this season.

After the coaching change, they have won 4 consecutive victories in all competitions. For Liverpool fans, the team's coaching change this time has truly achieved a coaching change like a knife change, which has brought Liverpool back to life.