Football’s First Defender

After successfully defending Liverpool's offensive, Atletico Madrid immediately launched their own offensive.

Gabi directly sent a long pass over the top in the midfield, trying to cross Liverpool's defense and hit Liverpool's penalty area directly.

However, Yang Feng still played with his stable defense, chose his position, and successfully blocked the ball.

Yang Feng's defensive position selection still maintains a high success rate when facing such a long pass, and Yang Feng can even control the clearance of the ball to the area he wants.

Head the ball directly and return the ball to the teammate in the midfield area, Coutinho's feet.

However, after Yang Feng returned the header, he still found that he was a little overwhelmed.

It is not so easy to consciously change the playing habits developed in the usual league when facing opponents in different leagues and styles.

According to the usual rhythm of the game, in order to pursue the team's counterattack efficiency, Yang Feng gave the ball to the midfielder Coutinho.

After Coutinho receives the ball, he can directly launch a counterattack.

But today, Liverpool are facing Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid's defensive ability to grab is very good, even stronger than Liverpool's grab.

After all, Liverpool relies on the running ability of the players and Klopp's tactical arrangement.

However, in Atletico Madrid's attack, the bandit coach Simeone also injected a kind of iron-blooded spirit, which is a defensive attitude that engraves defense in his bones.

When Yang Feng topped the ball, Atletico Madrid's defensive players had already quickly applied defensive pressure to the landing position.

As soon as Coutinho unloaded the ball, he was immediately surrounded by Atletico Madrid players.

Saul went up this time and didn't even give Coutinho any room for adjustment. As soon as the ball was unloaded from the ground, even before it reached the ground, Saul had already leaned on his body and poked the ball directly. out.

Atletico Madrid's frontcourt siege can always grab the ball, and it is extremely efficient and fast. This is even more powerful than Liverpool's on-the-spot counterattack in the frontcourt.

Although Liverpool has gradually regained its status now, it still has the strength of the first-tier European teams.

However, when the two teams have similar playing styles, it is obvious that Atletico Madrid is more defensive, while Liverpool is more offensive.

After Saul poked the ball out again, he must not have forced himself to take the ball forward, because that way, under the pursuit of Coutinho and the supplementary defense of other Liverpool players, he might lose the ball.

Instead, he used retreat as an advance, directly dunked the ball backwards, and found Gabi who was not far behind to meet forward.

Gabi did not stop the ball to delay any time, and directly passed the ball diagonally to the right, finding Griezmann.

Griezmann made a stop motion, and then dribbled the ball diagonally to the left front, but only after attracting the attention of the Liverpool defenders, he took the ball for two steps, and immediately passed the ball short distance with his left foot. Avoid dribbling the ball yourself, being directly flanked by Liverpool players to defend, work hard on the ball, and intercept the ball.

Vietto in the middle, after receiving Griezmann's pass, immediately understood.

Atletico Madrid's offense has always relied on three aspects to score goals.

Among the set-piece tactics, Mahjong has always been a strong point, and it is an excellent opportunity for Atletico Madrid to score goals.

Another aspect is the team's counterattack ability.

In the case of the opponent's main attack or lead, whether it is an on-the-spot counter-grab, the offensive opportunities obtained when the high position is pressed, or the opportunities found by the team based on the loopholes in the opponent's defense after the team has done a good job in the backcourt. They all allow Atletico Madrid to score a large number of goals in the game.

And the last aspect is the team's excellent ability to cooperate in a small area in the frontcourt when they are on the offensive end.

Today's Atletico Madrid midfielder, after losing the original striker Diego Costa, was immediately transformed by Simeone into a small and fast attacking combination.

In order to maximize the offensive ability of the players, Simeone gave the frontcourt players more authority in the offensive position, so that they can give full play to their personal abilities, especially their speed advantage, to achieve offensive effects.

For Vietto's ball, he leaned against the defensive player with his back, kept the ball, and flicked the ball to the right.

Return the ball to the front of Griezmann's path.

Griezmann, in the process of advancing obliquely, completed the pass, but still kept accelerating on the line of travel.

And Liverpool's defensive players, after Griezmann completed this pass, relaxed a little bit about his defense, which directly caused Griezmann to throw away when Vietto completed the pass. Without Henderson's defense, after receiving the ball, he can directly insert into Liverpool's penalty area.

Fortunately, Yang Feng reacted quickly. This time, Yang Feng was in the last position of the defense line. He quickly defended from the penalty area and made a direct sliding tackle. When Griezmann just received the ball, he was directly caught. Completed the steal and lost possession of the ball.

Yang Feng shoveled the ball to the right side, and Klein took the ball forward after receiving the ball and launched an attack.

It's just that Clay's attack on the right side didn't receive too much pressure before passing the midfield, but after passing the midfield area, he suffered from Atletico Madrid, and the organization was quite strict defense.

Not only did some players exert defensive pressure on Klein who dribbled the ball, but even the passing routes that Klein might find were blocked by Atletico Madrid players in advance.

In this quick counterattack, Klein is also pursuing a quick attack.

Without the idea of ​​reorganizing the offense, seeing Firmino running ahead, Klein directly sent a long-distance through ball from the wing.

It was an excellent opportunity to pass the ball, but a defensive veteran like Godin would not make such a big mistake.

Choose the position in advance and block Firmino's forward line to catch the ball. Godin's purpose is very simple, that is, to keep a close eye on Firmino. As for the clearance of the incoming ball, there are naturally other Teammates to complete defensive tasks.

Felipe successfully intercepted Klein's pass, and immediately passed the ball to the midfield position, and Atletico Madrid launched a counterattack again.

However, when Atletico Madrid passed the ball to Liverpool's hinterland, they were also strictly defended by Liverpool. There was no easy chance to complete an effective attack in the game.

The two teams have truly achieved that on the defensive end, they can both make excellent defensive performances, and make most of the opponent's offense invisible.

Midfield grappling?

It exists, and it seems that it does not exist.

The reason for this is that most of the time football is indeed within the midfield range, and the two sides exchange the ball back and forth.

The reason for its non-existence is that, after all, neither side has really played a large-scale fight in the middle.

The switching time of the two sides of the ball is almost always carried out when they have ideas and want to start an attack.

In this time period of 15 to 30 minutes, both Liverpool and Atletico Madrid have achieved the ultimate in their defense.

Adding up the two sides, during these 15 minutes, they dedicated a wonderful defensive battle to all the audience on the scene, as well as the audience in front of the TV.

The defensive players of the two teams are very good at guarding the 30-meter area of ​​their respective teams. As long as the offensive player of which team is "killing", the corresponding defensive player will use excellent defensive skills to eliminate the threat invisible.

During this time, Yang Feng continued his outstanding performance in this game.

Indeed, Griezmann has speed and skill, but facing Yang Feng's supplementary defense, Griezmann is doomed to have no good way today, and can easily find offensive opportunities.

Yang Feng's supplementary defense choices are always just right to directly destroy Griezmann's offense. Today, Yang Feng once again showed what is called an insurmountable defense.

Of course, Yang Feng showed great power on this side, and Atletico Madrid on the other side also responded by relying on the overall defense.

Atletico Madrid's offense is not hard enough in the lineup, and it is normal to be restricted.

However, Liverpool's frontcourt offensive combination is definitely stronger than Atletico Madrid in terms of the overall offensive strength of the players and the degree of tactical rehearsal. However, there is no good way to play in front of Atletico Madrid's defense.

The rhythm of the game suddenly fell into a slow state, but the game is 90 minutes, the charm of football is that you don't know at which second, there will be a huge change on the field.

When the rhythm has slowed down, Liverpool is sitting at home after all, and the team still has a certain advantage in possession rate, which also allows Liverpool to have the initiative to attack.

Such a boring game situation is definitely not what the players want to see. They need to start a fast-paced attack to score goals and win at home.

For the Liverpool players, the previous boring game between the two sides was more like a wave of physical storage during the game, and then released with all their strength.

After 30 minutes, Liverpool's players took the lead in speeding up the pace of the game.

Liverpool continued to maintain the previous slow offensive state, but suddenly Yang Feng, who broke through to the midfield position with the ball, directly sent a long pass to the left.

After the ball hit the ground, it accurately found the foot of Coutinho who was fast forward, and Coutinho directly put the ball into the penalty area.

Liverpool's sudden wave of force did catch Atletico Madrid's defense a little by surprise. After Coutinho completed the pass, it was Firmino who followed up in the middle.

Firmino just threw himself out, and wanted to finish this time in front of the goal.

Firmino did hit the goal, but he was facing Oblak.

Without any fancy moves, it is a very solid save action.

Oblak reacted brilliantly, facing Firmino's close-range shot, he still blocked the shot with his outstretched right hand...

After the ball was blocked by Atletico Madrid's goalkeeper Oblak, it rebounded to Godin's feet. Godin directly sent a long-distance direct pass to find his teammates who had already started to counterattack.

Cork received a pass from Godin from behind in the midfield position, and then saw Griezmann running further forward.

After the ball was in place, Cork didn't have any other thoughts. The first thing he did was to pass the ball.

In response to the lack of time for the Liverpool players to return to the defense, Cork directly sent a long-distance ground through ball to find the defense line after Liverpool's attack this time.

Cork's pass was extremely penetrating, directly penetrating Liverpool's defense.

Yang Feng wanted to intercept, but faced with the fast through ball from the ground, he had no choice.

The ball is gone, and what about the people? Also leaked!

It's not that the omission this time is due to a problem with Liverpool's defensive choices.

It's Griezmann's fast enough striker, who specifically presses your offside line to play his own anti-offside tactics.

This time, it is still the case.

However, this time, Liverpool's defense, which was busy for most of the first half of the game, was quickly broken by Griezmann.

This time Griezmann's own speed has been brought to the extreme.

It just happened to catch up with Cork's wonderful through pass this time. After Griezmann succeeded in anti-offside, he could directly get a single-handed opportunity.

"Single chance, Griezmann."

"Adjust two steps. After reaching the inside line of the penalty area, you will immediately make a gesture to hit the goal!"

At this time, Griezmann is trying his best to adjust himself to finish the goal during the game.

However, the moment Griezmann hit the goal, he felt that he was kicking on the "iron board".

Griezmann hit the goal fast enough this time, and when the opportunity came out, he didn't make too many adjustments.

But Yang Feng still tried his best to return to the defense, catching up to Griezmann's shooting operation in the penalty area this time.

"Yang Feng!"

"Sliding shovel came directly and blocked Griezmann's shot..."

Yang Feng still continued to show his super ability on the defensive end.

However, not only Liverpool is seeking to speed up the pace of the game, but for Atletico Madrid players, they also want to speed up a certain pace and play better offensive effects.

Atletico Madrid players, on the other hand, invested more in the pressing of the frontcourt.

For example, Yang Feng's sliding shovel blocked the goal this time, and the second point of the ball was finally caught by the players of Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid's players, on the other hand, pressed forward immediately, seeking to continue to attack in the frontcourt.

After 30 minutes of the game, Liverpool's offensive investment has increased, and Atletico Madrid is also preparing to fully exert their strength at this time to see if they can score first in the game.

And the second landing point was precisely controlled by Saul.

He didn't directly choose to take it out to the wing and then make a cross.

Instead, he protected the ball by himself, and then passed the ball to Felipe who was plugging in.

Felipe has participated in Atletico Madrid's on-the-spot counterattack in the frontcourt, which indeed makes Liverpool's defense a bit like an enemy.

Fortunately, Saul, who finally led this attack, suddenly chose to cut across the middle, faced Liverpool's defense, and shot a long shot in a hurry, which did not pose too much threat.