Football’s First Defender

During the intermission, the Liverpool players began to realize the shortcomings of the first half under the scolding of the head coach Klopp.

Klopp on the sidelines can more clearly find the problems exposed by the players in the game off the court.

Especially in the offense, the team's slightly rough handling did not want to achieve a threatening offense without more cooperation.

After all, the players in the midfield still didn't regard Norwich as a strong opponent. If they wanted to use a simple pass in the game, they would kill the opponent with a stick.

As a result, Norwich did a pretty good job on the defensive end today.

Liverpool's slightly rough offense made it impossible to get an excellent scoring opportunity in the game.

On the contrary, Norwich has a strong ability to seize opportunities on the counter-attack end, and the players also dare to make various unconventional actions to strive for better scoring opportunities.

The score of 2 to 1 and the reversal of the half-time game were all made by Norwich players on the field.

The outstanding performance on both ends of the offense and defense made Norwich the better side in the first half and on the field.

During the intermission, Klopp emphasized the team's offensive discipline, and due to Sturridge's poor offensive performance, at the beginning of the second half, Sturridge was replaced by Jordan Ibe , To enhance the team's ability to accelerate breakthroughs on the right side.

Liverpool re-formed into a 433 lineup to use a fast-paced offense to inflict heavy damage on the opponent.

However, on Liverpool's side, they still need to regain their offensive rhythm, but today's home team, Norwich City, is somewhat unstoppable.

In the second half, Norwich did not choose to immediately put up an iron bucket formation to defend, but in the opening stage of the game, they even took the initiative to compete with Liverpool for the ball and took the initiative to attack.

Liverpool, who had reorganized their offensive tactics in the midfield, hadn't played out their own tactics yet. Instead, Norwich's home team, Norwich, opened the second half with three tricks, which directly caused heavy damage to Liverpool. .

In the 51st minute of the game, Norwich continued to play its home court advantage in the opening stage.

On the offensive end, Norwich's bold investment in the opening directly reaped huge results.

Few underdogs will attack Liverpool in the game without falling behind, and Norwich did it.

Norwich invested a lot of offensive players when attacking, and they all dared to launch their own creativity on the offensive end.

In the positional battle, Norwich passed the ball decently in the midfield. Even though the Liverpool team was already in the game, they tried their best to run and press to interfere with Norwich's passing and receiving. On the one hand, very active running to create opportunities, but the effect is limited.

After receiving a cross pass from his teammate on the right side of the center, Graham sent a sudden through ball directly to the hinterland of Liverpool's penalty area before Henderson's defense was in place.

It was Naismith's sudden forward again, diagonally forward from the right side, came into the penalty area, and received the pass before the ball went out of the baseline, and immediately completed the adjustment to dribble the ball to the area in front of the goal.

Moreno, who was blocked by Naismith, could only forcibly create a physical confrontation to exert a defensive influence on Naismith so that his teammates could complete the defense in time.

However, Moreno's confrontation behind him was a little too strong, causing Naismith to lose his balance directly and was knocked to the ground by Moreno in the penalty area.

"beep--"

The referee blew his whistle and pointed directly to the penalty spot.

"Penalty! Liverpool was sentenced to death just after the start of the second half."

"Moreno's foul in the penalty area this time seemed too reckless, and he even directly gave the opponent a penalty kick."

Yang Feng wanted to cry at this moment, his supplementary defense was almost in place, and Naismith was able to drive along the sideline to the goal, so didn't he have to pass the ball in the end?

Yang Feng believes that he can create huge pressure on Naismith, and limit his small-angle shots or passing routes in the first place.

But Moreno's performance this time can be said to be blindly positive. When he lost his defensive position, he did something bad with good intentions.

If the referee doesn't blow it, it can indeed have a great impact on Naismith, but if the referee blows a foul, it is a penalty kick, which is not worth the loss for Liverpool.

Although he had some complaints about Moreno in his heart, Yang Feng immediately went to the referee for a theory and asked the referee about the penalty scale.

Even if the penalty this time will not be changed at all, it is still Yang Feng who needs to put pressure on the referee on the field. This is also the experience of so many years of competition. The main purpose is to ensure that his side can be treated fairly in the future. In a similar offensive scenario, the referee no longer gave Liverpool a penalty.

After all, in the subsequent offense, if this penalty kick is scored, then when Liverpool is two goals behind, it will inevitably need to launch a crazy offense in the final stage.

Norwich midfielder Hulahan chose a half-high ball in the middle. When Mignolet made a blind guess and threw it to the left side, he hit the penalty kick in the middle and easily scored. Norwich also temporarily took a 2-goal lead 3-1.

Just when everyone thought that Liverpool had encountered a big crisis in this game and might be defeated by the home team Norwich, Klopp was angrily preparing to make substitutions and adjustments to strengthen the team's offense.

Vice-captain Henderson stepped up.

Just two minutes after Norwich's goal, Liverpool's offensive began.

Norwich, who had been so imposing before, was not so tight in the backcourt after their defense in the midfield was overwhelmed by Liverpool's offense.

Jordan Ibe, who played in the second half, directly demonstrated his strong personal breakthrough ability in the game.

After receiving a continuous multi-legged pass, Jordan Ibe directly exploded his speed on the right side of the pass sent by Klein who stepped up to attack. During the bottoming process, he found the opportunity that the opponent could not follow up in time. Immediately complete a cross.

Firmino in the front point, when Jordan Ibe broke through, went crazy in the front point and ran into the small penalty area, drawing the attention of Norwich's defensive players to himself.

After all, Firmino's game state is really good, which makes Norwich's defensive players dare not be careless.

The result was that Norwich's defense in the front area all followed Firmino who advanced forward, and Jordan Ibe did not complete a thorough bottom, but sent a cross pass during the march.

A low ball, the ball passed through the empty area before Norwich, and rolled directly into the area near the penalty point.

Henderson, who was attacking forward, just arrived near the penalty spot, and shot directly at the incoming ball.

With a powerful goal and an excellent angle, Henderson used his iconic attack to hit the goal and scored another goal for Liverpool.

2 to 3, Liverpool immediately recovered a goal, giving Norwich a two-goal lead, which did not last long.

Even though a goal was pulled back by Liverpool in a flash, for the Norwich players who played the game, encouraged by the cheers of the audience, they still did not shrink their formation defense.

Instead, continue to invest in the midfield and attack.

For Norwich players, since they can score Liverpool 3 goals in 50 minutes, it is not impossible to continue scoring goals afterwards.

It's just that, in such an offensive battle, gradually regained the game state, adapted to Liverpool, who were pressing in the frontcourt of Norwich, and began to show their crushing strength.

In the 62nd minute of the game, Norwich made an offensive pass in the frontcourt and sent another through ball, trying to find Naismith, who is in hot form today.

But this time Yang Feng paid great attention to the supplementary defense in the direction of Naismith, and he directly supplemented the defense in place, formed an interception, and intercepted the ball.

After that, Liverpool switched from defense to offense. Yang Feng seized the opportunity and sent a precise long pass directly in the backcourt.

After Coutinho on the left received the ball, before Norwich's defense arrived, he immediately picked up the ball and passed the ball forward to the uninhabited area on the left. It was Milner who was still rushing in to catch up with the pass.

Milner moved forward quickly and caught up with Coutinho's cross.

When the ball landed and bounced forward, and the opponent's defense was about to be in place, Milner made adjustments as he marched, and the ball was directly on the side with his left foot and into the penalty area.

In the penalty area, it was Firmino who outflanked and responded in the middle.

Firmino has an absolute advantage in the speed competition with the Norwich defender, and he rushed over to outflank.

Seeing that Milner's pass flew in quickly, but the ball was neither high nor low, and it just landed on the waist. It was definitely not easy to handle it easily.

Firmino immediately gave up the option to stop the ball and then deal with it. He was only half a body ahead. Like now, he was still under the pull of his opponent and could not accelerate at full speed.

If the ball is stopped, then Norwich's central defender will inevitably rush to him to complete the defense immediately, so it is not certain whether he will get a chance to hit the goal.

If you head the ball directly, the pass height is not enough, you can only choose to bend over to head the ball, or dive to the top, but there is no room for Firmino to make adjustments in terms of distance.

While traveling at high speed, Firmino simply gave up and chose to hit the goal directly and informally.

Take the last step to take off, then in the air, stretch out your right foot to meet the incoming ball, turn sideways to meet the incoming ball with the back of your foot, and make a light stroke.

Without much effort, Firmino's shooting action just changed the course of the ball.

The handling of this ball is a test of Firmino's judgment on the placement and speed of the pass, as well as Firmino's own goal handling to the extreme.

And Firmino did it.

This is the quality of a top striker. When he is in good shape, he can hit the goal no matter what.

The ball passed through Firmino's light shot and flew directly to the upper left corner of the goal.

The Norwich goalkeeper originally attacked and rushed towards Firmino, but he missed it. When he wanted to intercept the goal, his own jumping height was obviously not enough.

The ball flew directly and slowly into the goal, 3 to 3, Liverpool used their outstanding performance to instantly smooth the point difference.

For Norwich, in the case of a two-goal lead, the opponent scored two consecutive goals within 10 minutes and directly equalized.

It made the Norwich players very uncomfortable.

At this time, the mentality of the players of the home team is like gamblers who win first and then lose at the gambling table. Even though the current 3-3 draw is acceptable before the game, but in the game, there have been The advantage of leading by two goals, when there was hope of victory, being equalized at this time makes the players feel extremely uncomfortable.

In terms of psychological attitude, the players of the home team automatically regard the two-goal lead as their "principal", but now, they have "lost" too much, which makes the players very irritable.

We want to win, we want to take back the advantage.

Liverpool's continuous scoring, not only did not force Norwich to do a good job of defense, but instead stimulated the players of the home team to invest more in the offensive end.

And this crazy attack on the offensive end naturally gave Liverpool a greater chance to counterattack.

Liverpool, in the game, stabilize their defense and patiently seize the opponent's counterattack opportunities.

And when the two sides were fighting fiercely on the field, constantly creating opportunities, hoping to break through the opponent's gate, Norwich took the lead in making a big mistake in the game.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Norwich's offensive organization was blocked by Liverpool's high midfielder and defense.

Under Milner's pressure, the home team's full-back, who received the ball from the left back, chose to pass the ball back to the long-distance goalkeeper, but in a hurry, the return pass was kicked, and the speed of the ball did not kick up. .

Milner swiftly accelerated to chase the football, and received a "pass" from the opponent directly in front of the penalty area. At this time, the defense in the middle of Norwich was empty. Milner dribbled the ball easily into the penalty area, single-handedly Facing the goalkeeper.

Since there are no defensive players around him to interfere, Milner can even slow down and enter the penalty area. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, he directly smashes the ball to shake the angle, and then easily pushes and succeeds.

The big gift from Norwich at the critical moment directly helped Liverpool reverse the lead 4-3.

This game was really magnificent. After you sing, I will appear on the stage. Both teams have their own time periods and their own outstanding performances.

However, just when Liverpool fans thought the game was stable, the home team showed their resilience and offensive ability at the last moment of the game.

The first minute of 5 minutes of stoppage time.

The Norwich goalkeeper drove a set kick into the frontcourt from the midfield area. Even though the penalty area was densely packed with defenders from both sides, the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by Milner.

But Liverpool had another problem with their defense at the second point.

Bassong in the middle followed up the volley and completed a long shot to hit the goal.

The ball hit a deciduous ball, the football flew high, passed the players in the penalty area, but then fell quickly.

Mignolet thought that the ball was "flying" directly, but he never expected that it would land in the goal.

4 to 4, Norwich equalized the score at home, and the two sides returned to the same starting line.

Liverpool fans are a little confused and puzzled. Is it really impossible to win the final victory today?

And for some fans, is this how the once-in-a-century team will tie other scores?