Football’s First Defender

After defeating Swansea at home, Liverpool finally got rid of the influence of the recent week of double matches, and it is a rare mid-week that they can win a period of rest.

This kind of rest time is crucial for the tired Liverpool players. After all, although the players are excellent players, they are not iron men.

Players also need to rest and adjust their game state.

It's not a FIFA game after all, you can't have every player consistently at their best.

Players also need to constantly use the rest time to relax their bodies and minds, so as to adjust their best state to the best state on the match day.

For the next devil's schedule, this time, after the game against Swansea, Klopp deliberately gave the team two days off to allow the players to adjust themselves, which can be said to be the authority and tolerance of himself as the head coach On the one hand, it was fully demonstrated to the players.

After a week of rest, the Liverpool players are full of energy and have better physical fitness, so they can devote themselves to the next game.

Liverpool's next league opponent is Newcastle.

Newcastle this season, in the standings, has fallen into the relegation zone.

The season has only scored 10 points so far, and Newcastle has only won 1 win in the 7 home games that have been played.

With 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses, Newcastle's current record is quite dangerous to relegation.

However, Newcastle's home firepower is still guaranteed. They scored 13 goals in 7 home games. The ranking is so low simply because the home defense is equally bad and conceded 15 goals.

Generally, in the perception of professionals, if a weak team wants to be upset against a rich team, you only have excellent defense, which may not be enough.

Because if you defend for a long time, you will lose. If a weak team wants to rely on iron barrels, the probability of a big cold is really too low.

The teams that are really prone to upsets are those teams with considerable offensive capabilities.

Because, if this kind of team is playing crazy, relying on the team's offense, it might not be able to survive in the confrontation, kill the rich team, and make a big upset.

In this away game, for Liverpool, it is in the game that they must give priority to ensuring their own defense and cannot play their own offense for Newcastle.

After doing a good job on the defensive end, Liverpool can try their best to develop their own offensive methods.

It's just that Klopp did a great job planning before the game, but when it comes to the game, it's a different scene.

Sometimes, the relegation team is the most difficult team in the Premier League. Although it is not yet the New Year, and it has not yet entered March, the invincible period of the relegation team, but in order to stay in the Premier League, Newcastle is facing six giants today When Liverpool was one of them, they showed their own quite strong offensive firepower.

Among them, there is naturally the pressure that the team needs to escape the relegation zone, and there are also many home games, encouraged by the cheers of the home team fans, but it is also inseparable from the brilliant performance of Newcastle midfielder Shelvey in the game.

The old Liverpool player, when facing his old club, fully stimulated his potential and performed quite brilliantly.

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool, who played at home, was suppressed by the attack of the home team Newcastle.

Today's Newcastle, relying on their own home advantage, played quite proactively in the game.

And unlike some strong teams, they need to seek more cooperation, maintain the overall threat, pass the ball through the half court, and cross Liverpool's high press. In order to deal with Liverpool's frontcourt press, the home team Newcastle's offensive tactics are quite easy to understand.

It means that the team mainly focuses on wing attacks, and if they can rush and pass, they will pass.

If the situation is not right and Liverpool's pressing defense is tight, then they should immediately kick their feet and look for the teammate at the front.

Regardless of whether the teammates can receive it, it will not give Liverpool the opportunity to counterattack on the spot after completing the counterattack in the midfield.

Newcastle's lucky attack style, although it seems to have no rules, but in the game, it has played a very good offensive effect.

Especially Newcastle itself has many African players and French black players, and the players are very strong physically. Under this simple and rough offensive tactic, they can maximize their advantages.

Yang Feng and Skrtel's regular defense actually performed quite well in the face of this kind of wild way. The reason why the wild way can't be carried forward is naturally because the efficiency of this kind of attack is too low, and it is too dependent on the sky.

Otherwise, many giants would not bother to use such a good recipe for breaking the frontcourt.

But Newcastle didn't care about it. For them, quantity can be accumulated into quality.

As long as there are more attempts, it might be possible to create opportunities.

Yang Feng and Skrtel's defensive coverage is large, and they easily completed many long passes and clearances from Newcastle.

However, after Newcastle's many attempts, luck is really on the side of the home team today.

In the 25th minute of the first half, when the midfielders of the two teams were still very anxious, and both sides relied on running in the midfield to fight for the ball, Shelvey, who was in control of Newcastle, made another "irresponsible" long kick. Passed the ball directly into Liverpool's penalty area.

But this time, under the siege, the "clearance" long pass in a hurry really reached the greatest degree of luck.

The point of the pass is on the left side of Liverpool's penalty area.

This landing position, this ball speed, is just in the very small area where Liverpool's back line and goalkeeper cannot rush to the position at the first time, and control the ball.

And Newcastle's black striker, Cisse, would not spare his physical fitness, and rushed towards this landing point from the wing with his legs free.

Yang Feng knew that he would definitely not be able to rush to this landing point, so he could only try to chase back and prepare to complete the follow-up blockade.

And the hope of the whole Liverpool village is Klein, only he can barely keep up with Cisse's speed.

It's just that Cisse did not waste Shelvey's wonderful pass this time. Perhaps in normal training, Cisse did not miss such a "wonderful" pass from Shelvey.

While traveling at high speed, there was still a physical confrontation with Klein for position, but Cisse still stretched out his long legs and successfully unloaded the ball smoothly, without any chance of unloading for Liverpool players to defend.

After unloading the ball, the right foot lands on the ground as a supporting foot, and the left foot follows directly to complete a volley.

Although Yang Feng tried his best to chase back, but Cisse formed a goal so quickly that he still couldn't complete the block.

"GOAL!!!"

"Cisse! A perfect connection with Shelvey."

"This ball, Shelvey's pass was full of risk, but Cisse chased this pass, and in the penalty area, leaning on Klein, completed a wonderful volley and hit the goal. The ball went straight to the right of the goal. Down corner, leaving Mignolet unresponsive."

"Newcastle! At home, they lead the mighty Liverpool 1-0..."

"Could it be that Newcastle's relegation career starts with a home victory over Liverpool?"