Football’s First Defender

Multi-line combat is actually a huge impact and test on Liverpool's physical fitness.

Fortunately, the team's record during this period has been maintained fairly well.

After Klopp's new coach took office, it was a sweet schedule and won consecutive victories in various competitions. Liverpool and Klopp also ushered in the first big test after the coaching change.

The first Merseyside derby of the new season.

Everton sits at Goodison Park in the eighth round of the Premier League against visiting Liverpool.

As the leader of the most stable second-tier teams in the Premier League, except for the six giants, Everton has gone through years of reforms and changed coaches, but they can still maintain the same stability in terms of performance as before.

The high is not the low, but the players and the team are always in a very relaxed position and can play comfortably.

Every year, in the first half of the league, it is the best period for Everton's entire team.

For the Everton players, in fact, every season is very happy. They don’t have to pursue too many honors in the season every year. The game is actually a paid vacation for the players.

Everton's greatest enthusiasm in the entire league game is of course devoted to the two Merseyside derbies per season.

You only need to play two games a year, which is not just for fun.

It's just that the recovery and rise of Liverpool in recent years has made Everton's record in the derby not very good.

Having not won for many years, for Everton, there is still a little pressure to win this game.

However, in this game, the pressure on Liverpool itself is also great.

After all, the gold content of the team's previous winning streak is not too high, even if there is a Champions League group match, but the strength of the Wolfsburg team may be inferior to ordinary Premier League teams in terms of player value allocation. Lopp needs a tough battle to prove himself.

However, the Liverpool team has just experienced another Champions League game, and has recently maintained a high intensity of double matches a week. This game will challenge Everton at Goodison Park, and the physical pressure on the players is still extremely high. big.

In the case of double matches a week, Klopp still can only choose to play with all the main players. There is no suitable rotation player, so Klopp can only "ruthlessly" the main players.

On Everton's side, over the years, the personnel have been going around, sold, bought, and the player mobility is extremely high. They haven't seen each other for a season, and there is only one left in the midfield that fans are familiar with. Warcraft" Lukaku.

This is also the status quo of many teams in the Premier League today. Player mobility, in this era, can no longer be stopped by seeking stability.

Some giants would rather spend a high price to buy a player who is worthy of his worth and put him on the bench than let the competition succeed.

Good players don’t have to worry about selling them, but players trained by giants, or some "defective products" that have been remade, after these teams complete "deep processing", may regain their status and be sold at a high price .

Champions are always exclusive to the teams at the top of the food chain. For the rest of the teams, ensuring they stay in the Premier League, ensuring the game is enjoyable, and earning more income is the goal of each season cycle.

Although Everton has always been at a disadvantage in the Merseyside derby in recent years, but in their own home, amidst the cheers and cheers of the fans at Goodison Park Stadium, Everton was still able to break out. A certain "small universe", played against Liverpool.

Everton has had a lot of momentum in the league recently and performed extremely well.

Although Everton's players have changed a lot, Yang Feng knows that these sudden emergence of players are not too easy to mess with.

Compared with the Champions League opponent Wolfsburg, the strength and potential of this Everton team in the midfield are much stronger. This is definitely a fierce battle.

Liverpool's starting list has not changed from the previous few games, while Everton's side is their usual 4231 formation.

American goalkeeper Howard, guarding the gate.

On the defensive line, the two central defenders are Jagielka and Murray, while Galloway and Browning (that is, Jiang Guangtai) are separated on the left and right.

In the midfield, McCarthy and Barry, two experienced midfielders, form Everton's double midfielder, full-time defense and a long shot forward.

And Everton, who has been in a hot offensive state recently, has continued to configure his frontcourt 4-man team in the midfield.

Barkley is in the position of the midfielder and is responsible for driving Everton's offense in the frontcourt.

On the left is also the fierce player Naismith, and on the right is Deulofeu.

An English-style winger paired with a La Masia player with outstanding technical ability, this different style of winger collocation has achieved quite good wing attack effects in these rounds of games.

At the forward position, it is naturally the "little monster" Lukaku who is in good condition.

In fact, after these two years of growth, the "little monster" back then is no longer small. His comprehensive skills and super finishing ability in front of the goal have attracted the attention of many wealthy families.

In fact, in Liverpool's summer transfer window, in the position of center forward, Lukaku is the most wanted to introduce. After all, while Lukaku is physically strong, he also has better skills at his feet. Benteke is stronger.

It's just that Liverpool's offer is not enough, and Everton will not easily sell players to their rivals in the same city.

The bids from many giants failed to impress Everton. Everton is not short of those small money. They would rather keep Lukaku for another year, but also knock a big sum in the transfer market.

This season, Lukaku has scored 5 league goals so far, which can be said to be in a very hot state.

And Everton's overall offensive ability is also extremely developed. In the last home game, Everton just defeated the visiting Chelsea 3-1. The whole game, and even the offensive end, formed a suppression of Chelsea.

For Everton, in this game, they definitely want to take advantage of the momentum to pursue. With the addition of home strength, they will try to defeat Liverpool, their city rival, and end the embarrassing record of consecutive unbeaten games between the two sides.

This is a game that is destined to test Liverpool's defense in terms of pre-match tactical predictions.

The assist ability of Everton's two full-backs may not be that strong, but the four-man frontcourt is the most powerful and difficult to deal with.

Barkley's strong body and excellent athletic ability make him run in the midfield and fight like a tank, which is very dominant.

And Naismith and Deulofeu, both of them have unique offensive styles, but both can pose a huge threat to Liverpool's wing defense.

Although in the matchup, Klein and Naismith played in the style of British players, while Moreno and the Spanish fellow Deulofeu competed in technical ability.

However, in Klopp's own prediction, Liverpool's defense of these two matchups does not have an advantage, but has a considerable disadvantage.

Especially on Moreno's side, players like Deulofeu are afraid of fierce physical confrontation and technical ability. Deulofeu produced by La Masia has strong ability at his feet. With the advantage of height and long legs, Moreno can't take advantage of it at all.

It is precisely because of the threat of Everton on the wing that Klopp has been struggling with the defensive arrangement of this game.

Whether to use Yang Feng to see Lukaku, who has been in a state of extreme state recently, or to liberate Yang Feng to defend the area, and let Yang Feng complete the supplementary defense or "micro-manipulation" defense on the side by the way.

After struggling for a while, Klopp handed over the task of marking Lukaku to Skrtel, allowing Yang Feng to have more energy to complete the overall defensive command and dispatch...