Football’s First Defender

An away victory over Manchester City is not only a victory in a strong matchup in the league, but also a huge help to the morale of the Liverpool team.

With the prestige of a big victory, Liverpool returned to the home court to face the visiting PSV Eindhoven in the middle of the week.

Although in the first round of the Champions League, Liverpool lost away to their opponents when Rodgers was out of class, but relying on their outstanding performance in the last three rounds of the group stage, Liverpool now has two wins, one draw and one loss, temporarily ranking first in the group with 7 points.

Eindhoven ranked second in the group with 6 points.

Wolfsburg's 6 points and CSKA Moscow's 4 points still have a chance to compete for the right to qualify.

However, Liverpool definitely has a very good qualifying advantage.

As long as they win this home game, Liverpool can get the right to qualify in advance, regardless of the disputes between the other three teams.

Since there is still competition for the Club World Cup, for Klopp, he actually doesn't mind being promoted to the knockout round as the first or second in the group. If this game can be won, then Klopp will definitely be in In the last round of the group stage, I chose to take turns to ensure the physical fitness of the players, so that they can stick to the Club World Cup and the Christmas schedule of the Premier League.

Eindhoven is still in charge of the youth army, there is no way, the current Eredivisie league is such an environment.

With various broadcasting technologies and the pervasiveness of the media, when a player shines in the first place, he may be poached by the major giants.

The Eredivisie League has now completely turned into a training place for little demons, and it is still the business model of selling semi-finished products after training.

Unless there is a player who was originally unknown and suddenly achieved a super explosion in one season, even the big giants in the Eredivisie, the selling price of the players, in fact, most of them reach the price of 30 million euros, which is already top-notch.

Generally speaking, players who have proved their strength in the Eredivisie will immediately leave the Eredivisie at a transfer price of less than 20 million, and go to the training teams in the five major leagues to further prove their strength and play their worth .

And the old giants teams like Eindhoven are actually slowly declining in their competitiveness in the Champions League.

In the home game against Eindhoven, Yang Feng actually has no impression of most of the little demon players in the team.

Yang Feng didn't even have an impression. It may be that Eindhoven may have rarely cultivated the kind of genius that is sold to the rich in the past few years.

For Eindhoven, which advocates an offensive style, Liverpool's tactical arrangement has not changed much from the previous game against Manchester City. The team is still based on the defense of high-position pressing in the frontcourt to target the opponent's offense and beat the opponent. The counterattack can also be regarded as a counterattack tactic of changing direction.

The difference in player strength between the two sides is very obvious.

Sitting at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool had to start the game and achieved a very good suppression effect.

In the first 2 minutes of the game, Liverpool's wing attack created a lot of opportunities.

Coutinho took advantage of his breakthrough ability, directly waded through the defense line of the visiting team players, and then went down to complete the cross pass.

Firmino, who followed up in the middle, headed directly in front of the goal, but the goalkeeper of the visiting team played well. A side throw blocked the attack and did not allow Liverpool to score a lightning goal.

Today's Liverpool, relying on the high pressure in the midfield, completely restricted Eindhoven's attack in the away game, and achieved complete suppression in the game.

After barely withstood Liverpool's many attacks, the defense line composed of young people in Eindhoven was declared defeated in the 21st minute.

After Eindhoven's rare counterattack was successfully intercepted by Yang Feng, Yang Feng quickly passed the ball to Lallana in front, and Liverpool went to the ground to advance the counterattack.

When Lallana dribbled the ball forward, he made a precise through ball, passing through the space between the two returning defenders of Eindhoven, and accurately found the foot of Iby, who was quickly advancing from the right.

With this ball, Ibi directly dribbled the ball forward quickly. When he entered the penalty area on the right, when he was attacked by the defense, he chose an inverted triangle pass and turned the ball to the center.

It was Firmino who followed up in the middle. With no defensive players watching, Firmino stopped the ball and immediately completed the goal.

A strafing shot hit the lower left corner of the goal. The goalkeeper of the visiting team couldn't react in time this time. Firmino successfully opened the scoring for the team.

After 7 minutes, Liverpool expanded the score.

Front corner chance. Coutinho accurately found the back position with a high ball. A world-class central defender like Yang Feng has an absolute advantage when facing young opponents.

Relying on the strong to bully the weak, he directly overwhelmed the opponent's central defender, scored a goal with a header from behind, and scored the second goal for the team.

Leading by two goals, the situation of the game is completely in the hands of Liverpool.

But two minutes later, Eindhoven's attack showed the talent and creativity of their young people.

During the frontcourt attack, Luke De Jong received a through ball from his teammate and succeeded in anti-offside. An emergency stop smash in the penalty area, after dunking Skatel's defense, he directly pulled the ball horizontally and completed a kick. A shot from the far corner.

Judging from the broadcast footage, the shot was shot from a good angle, but in the end, it didn't threaten the goal. Yang Feng defended from the other side, jumped up in the air, raised his leg high, and successfully blocked this shot. Pass the ball, let the opponent's chance to hit the goal this time is empty.

After a threatening attack from PSV Eindhoven, Liverpool's attack is making a comeback.

In Liverpool's formation, Firmino and Coutinho Lallana played continuous passing cooperation in the frontcourt.

Firmino, standing on the penalty area, completed the last pass and passed the ball back to Lallana who was following up. Lallana opened the angle and directly completed a long-range shot from the outside.

It's just that the long-range shot was blocked by the Eindhoven player and rushed forward to complete the defense.

It's just that the ball still rebounded to the foot of Coutinho who was following up on the left. Faced with this surprise, Coutinho did not adjust, followed up and completed a kick, hitting the ball into the goal from the near corner.

3 to 0, Liverpool sealed the victory in the first half.

Unlike Manchester City in the previous game, although the away game was decided, Eindhoven still maintained its own competitiveness in the second half. For the young players of the Eindhoven team, in this game, it is not to strive for There are no good results, but to show your personal strength and potential in front of the rich teams and many scouts who are watching the game. It doesn't matter how many goals you lose. You must seize the opportunity of the European war to express yourself. important.

In the second half of the game, Eindhoven took advantage of Liverpool's slack, and seized the opportunity. Several players in the frontcourt played exquisitely. Luke De Jong, with a long shot from the outside, scored a face-saving goal. a ball.

Fortunately, there were no surprises in the result of the game. Liverpool won the game 3-1 at home and successfully qualified for the group stage one round ahead of time...