Football’s First Defender

Sitting at the Anfield Stadium, he defeated the "Blue Moon" Manchester City 3-0 at home, which also allowed Liverpool to win 3 consecutive victories in the league, and continued to maintain the point pressure on the dark horse "Fox City" Leicester City of the top team .

On the other hand, Manchester City's defeat has also completely deprived him of the cost of competing for the Premier League title this season. Even the recent consecutive losses in the league have made it difficult for Manchester City to win the top four and qualify for the Champions League next season. Unknown option now.

You know, the current Bayern coach Guardiola has made it clear before that he will join Manchester City in the summer.

But if at the end of this season, Manchester City fails to win the Champions League, then it will be a big joke.

You know, the reason why Manchester City would rather kick out a veteran like Pellegrini and choose to hire Guardiola to replace Pellegrini who has been working hard for the past few years.

It is because of seeing Guardiola's previous Champions League qualifications, seeing that Guardiola has trained an excellent Barcelona team, and in recent years, although Guardiola has not won the Champions League with Bayern, Bayern has won the Champions League every year. In the Champions League games, they are actually quite stable and eye-catching results.

Manchester City's management needs Manchester City's breakthrough in the Champions League.

They invest so much money every season to frantically buy players in the transfer market, not for a few domestic cup championships in England, nor for the occasional Premier League championship trophy.

Mansour hopes to get the Big Ears Cup back and put it in Manchester City's honor book to further enhance the value of the team.

As for Liverpool, after defeating Manchester City, they continue to maintain the possibility of a two-line championship in the Premier League and the Champions League this season.

You know, for all the staff of Liverpool, whether it is becoming the first team to defend the Champions League after the restructuring of the Champions League in 1992, or winning three consecutive Premier League titles and rebuilding the Liverpool dynasty, for Liverpool, this team is full. considerable allure.

Whether the UEFA Champions League can pass the level of Atletico Madrid is another matter. For the league, in order to achieve the three consecutive Premier League titles, Liverpool must guarantee to use all their strength in every round of the league to compete for it. Every game won, scored every 3 points.

In the 29th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged the London team Crystal Palace away.

Regardless of the Crystal Palace team, they only ranked 15th in the league this season, and they still need to bear the risk of relegation in previous years.

But this year's Premier League, when it reached the last ten rounds, the relegation situation was not as criss-crossed as in previous years, but rather obvious.

Not surprisingly, this year's relegation zone consists of three teams competing for a landing spot.

Aston Villa, the deputy squad leader of the league, has only scored 16 points so far, leaving only a theoretical possibility of relegation, but it is almost considered to be the first team to be relegated.

The 24 points of Newcastle and Norwich, as well as the 25 points of Sunderland, are ranked second to last, third, and fourth. Any of the three teams may go ashore and complete the great cause of relegation.

The other teams have already opened up nearly 10 points behind the relegation zone, which also makes Crystal Palace not have much relegation pressure at all.

According to the average record of the three teams in the relegation zone, they can't score 1 point in each round. Crystal Palace, with 33 points, has a 9-point advantage over Norwich, which is third from the bottom. The probability of completing the relegation.

If the teams in the relegation zone don't perform too well in the second half of the league, if they are purely bad, then the final relegation line of the Premier League this year may be around 30 points.

However, as far as Crystal Palace is concerned, it is possible to enter the holiday mode early in other games, perform abnormally, and do not care about the results of the game.

But when facing Liverpool, or playing at home, the players were quite motivated.

No way, who made Liverpool such a big name in the past two years.

For this game against Liverpool, the live broadcast of the game will definitely not lack the attention of fans, and such a "big traffic" game, a direct match with a giant team, is the best performance for these players in Crystal Palace own stage.

If they can perform wonderfully against a champion like Liverpool, it will play a huge role in improving the value of players like Crystal Palace.

In the existing football environment of European football, which capable player does not want to go further to the giants?

And if you want to go to the giants, you need to play a brilliant performance in such a high-profile match with the giants to prove your strength and be able to compete at the giants level.

For these Crystal Palace players, playing at home can cause trouble for Liverpool, which is the best display of their own strength.

In this game, the two sides used the 442 lineup to face each other in terms of ranking.

Liverpool continued the lineup of the last league game against Manchester City. Although Coutinho returned from injury and entered the squad, he was still sitting on the bench for this game.

Klopp wants to give Coutinho more rest time to ensure that he is back to his best condition and to retain his physical fitness to deal with the upcoming quarter-finals of the Champions League. Two rounds.

As for Crystal Palace, there was no backing down in this game.

There are famous veterans like Adebayor on the front line, plus Zaha and Cabaye in the midfield, which can ensure the team's offensive vitality in the game.

For Crystal Palace, in this game, for their own team, the outcome is not so important, the main thing is to show themselves.

Therefore, Crystal Palace has no sense of putting on a defensive posture when facing Liverpool.

Instead, they want to take advantage of their own home court, which is completely a tough posture with Liverpool.

Only in this way can the offensive ability of these Crystal Palace players be displayed to the greatest extent.

The high morale of the Crystal Palace players made the management very gratified.

After all, on the basis of successful relegation, for a team like Crystal Palace, the goal for the rest of the season is how to sell some of the team's existing players and earn more transfer fees.

Of course, for Liverpool, it is not Liverpool's turn to control what the opponent is thinking.

Liverpool have only one goal, and that is to win the game.

The game begins.

As a wealthy team, Liverpool still has the ability to control the rhythm of the game even in away games. This can be seen from the ball possession rate after the start of the game.

In away games, Liverpool has always had an advantage in ball possession. From the real-time statistics of the game, it has always been above 60%, which shows Liverpool's excellent offensive suppression.

However, although Liverpool does not have as many ball possession rates, the game style of the Crystal Palace team is not ball possession, so the competition for the ball is not so fierce.

Attack quickly and counterattack quickly. On the offensive end, Crystal Palace does not actually pursue delicate cooperation.

Crystal Palace's offensive cooperation in the frontcourt relies entirely on a reckless effort, straight to the opponent's defensive hinterland, and then uses the players' personal abilities and small-scale cooperation to directly tear apart the opponent's defense. The opponent's defense creates chances to hit the goal.

In terms of scoring, Crystal Palace is not as cautious as the giants. Anyone who has the opportunity will come and admit it.

The team mainly focuses on the breakthrough from the side, and then cooperates with the side and the middle, using the traditional British offensive impact to ensure the offensive effect.

Although not necessarily, the offensive effect can be played in every game, but as long as it is turned on in the game, in fact, no matter who the opponent is, it is not easy to beat Crystal Palace.

In terms of the final tactical choice, in fact, Crystal Palace does not have so much tactical support. In the team's game, I do whatever I want.

And today's home game, Crystal Palace's game state is obviously very good.

Especially on the defensive end, although Liverpool have enough possession of the ball, Crystal Palace did a pretty good job of defending in front of the penalty area today.

When facing opponents at Liverpool's level, Crystal Palace players have the willingness to play, so they are naturally willing to give up their physical strength and use running to limit Liverpool's offense.

Liverpool's offensive end has been unable to pose a real offensive threat for a long time, but it has given the home team Crystal Palace more opportunities to counterattack.

Adhering to the simple and direct counterattack style, Crystal Palace's counterattack passes always directly hit the depths of Liverpool's defense.

Although Yang Feng's excellent defensive performance destroyed most of Crystal Palace's counterattack passes, but this kind of counterattack method with a relatively low cost, as long as it is played once, it is profitable for Crystal Palace.

In the 28th minute of the game, Crystal Palace finally had Cabaye in the backcourt and sent a wonderful counter-attack long pass.

The long pass landed directly in the deep position of the wing, allowing Adebayor to show his speed, and after receiving the ball in the frontcourt, he directly launched a strong attack.

This time, Yang Feng's choice of defensive position just couldn't control the blind spot on this side, so he had to quickly return to the penalty area and do a good job of defending in front of the goal.

Adebayor broke through the bottom line from the wing, and then directly completed the inverted triangle pass.

Zaha, who went forward quickly, wanted to follow up and complete a push shot, but Yang Feng's defense was to complete the grab directly.

Neither of them gave way, but Yang Feng still had the upper hand in this confrontation. Although his feet were sore, he still kicked the ball first.

Three minutes later, Crystal Palace's counterattack made a comeback. After Zaha made continuous breakthroughs on the wing, he directly completed a kick and hit the goal.

Fortunately, Mignolet's quick reaction blocked the shot to the near corner, so that Zaha could not break the deadlock with his personal ability.

In the first half of the game, the two sides battled to 0-0.

As far as the game data is concerned, Liverpool has an advantage in ball possession rate, number of attacks, and number of shots, but the degree of threat it poses cannot be compared with Crystal Palace.

Although Crystal Palace's counterattack was simple and rough, this fast-paced and reckless counterattack caused Liverpool a lot of trouble.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Liverpool suffered a heavy blow.

In the 48th minute of the game, Liverpool's midfield pass was cut off, and Crystal Palace immediately launched a counterattack.

This time the counterattack on the ground, under the control of Cabaye, played quite well.

Cabaye kicked the ball in front of the penalty area and stuffed the ball straight into the right side of Liverpool's penalty area.

This time Crystal Palace cooperated very well on the counter-attack end. Adebayor first swayed to the left, forcing Yang Feng to follow and defend Adebayor. Then Cabaye's through ball was directed to avoid Yang Feng's position. To Zaha on the other side.

Relying on his own speed, Zaha caught the ball and hit the goal with a burst shot in the penalty area, successfully opening the scoring for Crystal Palace.

The young Zaha has actually attracted the attention of many wealthy teams. Although his characteristics are single, his offensive ability on the counter-attack end is definitely world-class.

1 to 0, it turned out that Crystal Palace took the lead.

For Liverpool, in this case, it is natural to launch a full-scale attack.

Coutinho was immediately replaced on the field as an emergency, to strengthen the team's breakthrough ability and long-range shooting ability in positional battles.

After replacing Coutinho, not only the lineup has become 433, but Coutinho, who is more familiar with the rhythm of the frontcourt, can make Liverpool's defense in the midfield better and more tacit.

Hard work pays off.

The siege of Liverpool's frontcourt and the siege immediately after losing the ball brought a lot of offensive opportunities for the team.

In the 68th minute of the game, all this finally came to fruition.

Originally, Liverpool's offensive was over, but under Firmino's active fight, the Crystal Palace goalkeeper was under pressure to play the ball, and he kicked with a big kick, directly mentioning Coutinho's feet in front of the penalty area.

Facing the "assist" of the opponent's goalkeeper, Coutinho bowed his bow and took an arrow, and directly shot a wonderful long-range shot, accepting the gift with a smile.

1 to 1!

Coutinho, who came off the bench and scored a goal, helped the team equalize the score.

In the following games, the two sides fought more in the midfield area.

And Klopp also replaced Benteke and Jordan Ibe one after another to continue to strengthen the team's offense.

However, in the 83rd minute of the game, Liverpool suffered another heavy blow.

On the defensive end, Milner failed to shovel the ball with a sliding tackle, and was directly whistled for a foul. He received the second yellow card of the game, two yellow cards turned into one red, and was sent off.

Liverpool encountered another 10-on-11 dilemma.

Just when the fans thought that Liverpool's game was going to be a bad one, Yang Feng stepped forward.

Although the Liverpool team lacked one player, they did not shrink back against the Crystal Palace, but still insisted on investing in numbers and launching an attack.

It's just that the team has more choices, or directly kicks the ball from the wing, allowing Benteke in the penalty area to find opportunities.

In the first minute of 5-minute stoppage time, Liverpool's pass created a corner kick for the opponent.

When Benteke was also on the field, Liverpool's three high points actually all had a strong ability to compete for headers.

And Yang Feng, this time, using the Crystal Palace players who also consumed a lot of physical energy, repeatedly fake moves in the penalty area, and suddenly chose to rush to the back point before the kick-off.

Leaping high, overwhelming the defending teammates, he shook his head and hit the goal, pushing the ball into the goal.

2 to 1!

Yang Feng completed the away goal.

And Liverpool also won 4 consecutive victories and continued to chase Leicester City in the league.