Football’s First Defender

The reason why he chose to use Yang Feng as a defense point on the back line in the formation of troops, and gave up his special marking of Lukaku.

In the final analysis, Klopp is still worried that Skrtel is a bad thing as a central defender responsible for making up for loopholes. After all, Naismith's speed and Deulofeu's technical ability really broke through the wing and reached the goal. In the penalty area, Klopp is worried that Skrtel will be cheated into a penalty...

At the beginning of the game, most of the teams on both sides made tentative attacks, except for one striker who wanted to create a personal threat, but most of the passes were unable to form an effective attack due to too few offensive players in the frontcourt. Offensive threats, and pass down in the midfield.

In the Everton lineup, there is Lukaku who can act as a fulcrum, and he has a great chance of competing for the first spot.

However, for Liverpool, although Skrtel cannot completely limit the "little monster" in the matchup with Lukaku, it will not allow Lukaku to easily and directly control the football .

Under the opponent's defensive pressure, Lukaku was able to complete the competition on the first point, but he was only able to complete the header ferry.

However, Everton did not invest too much offensive force in the positional battle. When the second landing area was almost controlled by Liverpool players, Lukaku's header was more like a goal. It's just useless work.

In the tense Merseyside derby, the opening stage may be the calmest stage for both sides.

Both teams give priority to defending their own half of the court, waiting for the opponent to be unbearable and start trying to attack.

Generally speaking, for teams playing at home, the cheers of fans are not only their motivation, but also their pressure.

Under the shouts of the home fans, for the Everton players, it is natural that the fans need them to attack first and completely "detonate" the passion of this game.

For the Everton team, with Lukaku fighting for the top in front, they can play unscrupulously in terms of long passes to find Lukaku.

Barry dribbled the ball in the midfield, and it was a mindless long pass directly to find the ball into Liverpool's penalty area.

Lukaku faced Skrtel and Henderson's two-team defense, but still successfully completed the header back.

It's just that, under the huge consumption of defensive confrontation, Lukaku still didn't fully generate power for this ball. The distance the ball flew was not far away. Before Deulofeu got the ball, he was caught by Yang Feng. Rush out from the other side and get the second drop first.

Yang Feng kicked the ball and found Moreno on the left, and Moreno, under the turn of Deulofeu, pressed the ball without stopping the ball, and directly threw the ball to Coutinho in front.

Ku Niao caught the ball with his back, and immediately kicked the ball out to find Yang Feng again.

This time, without Deulofeu's pressing, Yang Feng had more room to pass the ball.

With a long pass, he accurately found Firmino who was responding near the center circle.

Due to Jordan Ibe's fast forward, it attracted the full back defense of Everton's defenders.

First he sprinted forward with a fake move, but suddenly retreated to Firmino near the center circle. At this time, there were no other Everton defensive players paying attention.

This time, after receiving a long pass from Yang Feng, Firmino had plenty of time to prepare and adjust.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced to the side and rear, and Firmino was not about to unload the ball and start attacking the two defensive players who were rushing towards him.

Jumped up, directly headed the ball back, changed the direction of a certain amount of football, and rubbed the ball deep into the left wing.

Coutinho is speeding towards where Firmino is heading.

The real threat is Coutinho.

After Coutinho passed the ball back to Yang Feng, he has been running forward on the wing.

Using his off-the-ball running, Coutinho has already got rid of his two defenders.

Then he passed the ball after taking off Firmino's header on the wing. Before Browning stepped forward to steal the ball, he continued to provoke the ball forward and played a one-man ball.

Browning wanted to stop Coutinho directly, but Coutinho himself cleverly bypassed Browning's defense from the side, re-entered the hinterland on the left, and received his own "pass" ".

After a half-high pass, Coutinho wanted to pass the ball to Jordan Ibe who responded in front of the goal, but Everton's central defender Murray caught the pass first and used his foot in front of the goal. The ball breaks out of bounds.

Stopped Liverpool's first threatening counterattack in the opening.

After Moreno sent a throw-in from the wing, it didn't have a very good effect. The ball passed to Coutinho's feet, but it also made Coutinho fall into the encirclement of the two.

All Everton players retracted to their own defense line, compressing the space extremely narrowly, which also caused problems for Liverpool's offensive development.

The ball finally failed to allow Coutinho to be picked from the wing, but was intercepted by Everton.

However, it is not so easy for Everton to fight back.

After losing possession of the ball, Liverpool's offense was over, but the on-the-spot counter-grab was carried out immediately.

In an instant, the team changed from offense to defense. Klopp's high position pressed the defense, so that the Everton players, who rarely had possession of the ball, could only pass forward with a big foot in a hurry, and then let Yang Feng easily judge the right point. Let Liverpool regain control of the ball.

After Yang Feng took control of the ball, he immediately took advantage of the opponent's counterattack to press forward, and when the defensive formation was messy, he quickly passed the ball out, allowing Liverpool to hit the opponent's counterattack on the spot.

Coutinho's left is still the team's main attack point.

After Coutinho received the ball, he accelerated straight forward, faced two defenders, swayed left and right, and passed the ball with his last kick, passed between the two and handed it to Firmino in the middle.

Firmino, on the other hand, made the pivot by himself, and after attracting the opponent's defensive premise, he immediately made a cross pass and found Lallana not far away.

Lallana did not waste this opportunity. Seeing a red figure rushing forward quickly, Lallana kicked a diagonal through ball, passed the ball through Everton's newly recovered defense line, and sent it directly into the Within the restricted area.

Going forward quickly, the one who wants to create a chance is the undead Milner.

This long-distance attack and quick advance, it was Milner who used his midfielder position as a cover and did not attract the opponent's counter-marking. He used a long-distance attack without the ball in the game to run out of this opportunity.

Flying into the penalty area, he received the through pass from Lallana. Just when Milner was about to hit the goal, Everton's American goalkeeper Howard made an attack, an interception, and even the ball. It fell directly into the penalty area.

"Wow..."

Milner fell in the penalty area, and the audience was in an uproar.

"Doo-doo-doo-"

The short whistle sounded, and the referee Atkinson immediately stopped the game. Everyone held their breath, waiting for the referee's penalty...