Football’s First Defender

This season is a year for Coutinho to break out.

After having the unlimited fire power given by Klopp, Coutinho's offensive ability in the game has been completely exploded.

When facing many teams, when Liverpool need to score a goal, Coutinho's long-range shot is a weapon for Liverpool to break the deadlock, and this game is no exception.

Tottenham defended for a long time, but in the end they were still shot by Coutinho from the outside, breaking the golden body of defense.

This also makes Tottenham team, in order to equalize the score in the next game, must start to attack outwards in the game, and strive to score goals.

And when a team like Tottenham, which is best at playing defensive counterattacks, has to invest a huge amount of power on the offensive end of the position, it starts to attack.

At this time, it is to leave a greater offensive opportunity for Liverpool.

During the game, Liverpool began to shrink their defense, and then waited intently for Tottenham to attack before hitting Tottenham's counterattack.

However, Tottenham's ability to create opportunities in positional warfare is still extremely limited.

After all, after the Liverpool players return to their own half, they can build their own half into an impregnable wall during the game, effectively locking the space in their own half, reducing the chance of Tottenham passing the ball and making threatening passes.

In particular, Tottenham's wing breakthrough has also been affected to a certain extent.

After all, no matter how strong your Sun Xingmin and Ali's breakthrough ability is, if you pass one, it is difficult to directly continue to pass the second in the professional game.

And Liverpool's defensive staff is quite sufficient.

Tottenham's offense, if it simply wants to rely on 4 or 5 people in the midfield to open the situation, it is absolutely nonsense.

In the end, after several offensive attempts without any effect, Tottenham coach Pochettino could only be on the sidelines, reminding the players to change an offensive tactic.

To change it, it is purely a tactic of letting the sidewalk be the main starting point of the attack, and forcibly find an opportunity to attack from the sidewalk.

The offensive tactics based on the wing are not alone Sun Xingmin or Ali, who made a breakthrough on the wing.

But in the game, Tottenham's two full-backs, and even the defensive midfielder, Dembele and Dell, will find various opportunities to advance to strengthen the team's offensive strength in the frontcourt.

And Tottenham began to follow Pochettino's command on the sidelines, so when investing in the offense, in fact, for Liverpool, it is a situation where risks and opportunities coexist.

Tottenham began to invest fully in the offense, which means that Tottenham's offensive players may invest a lot in the midfield.

Then Liverpool's advantage in the number of players on the defensive end will be further narrowed by the opponent.

At this time, Liverpool's defense is actually under the pressure of being scored.

The pressure on Liverpool's defense at this time is high enough, but the opportunities are relatively greater.

You know, in the game, risks and opportunities always coexist.

When Tottenham are attacking in an all-round way, they can create an offensive in the game, but after Liverpool successfully converts the ball, it is an excellent opportunity for Liverpool to counterattack.

In the 24th minute of the game, when Tottenham's offense failed, it was Liverpool's quick counterattack. Once again in the game, they played a very threatening quick counterattack.

Yang Feng played the ball in the backcourt, and Sturridge's running position in front was extremely tricky, but Sturridge still didn't have enough tacit understanding with his teammates in the choice of passing the ball, maybe it was Sturridge The passing footwork was not good, and the ball was blocked by the Tottenham central defender first, and kicked to the side.

But this time the counterattack threat did not end immediately.

Tottenham's clearance ball was cleared to the left wing.

And it was Moreno who received the clearance ball.

Liverpool left back Moreno may not have had time to participate in the first wave of counterattack this time, but in the second wave of counterattack that followed, he found a chance.

Moreno made the right move this time, directly after receiving the opponent's clearance ball from the wing.

Moreno quickly took two steps forward, and before Tottenham's defensive player got in place, he swept the pass and passed the ball directly to the goal.

The players who can grab points in the middle are Sturridge in front of the goal, Coutinho and Milner who are slightly behind.

Moreno's first pass was aimed at Sturridge in front of the goal.

Although there are a lot of defensive players looking after Sturridge, Moreno still chooses to sweep the ball to the goal, wanting to rely on the speed of the pass to pass the defensive players at close points, as long as Sturridge has a chance in front of the goal , Complete a one-foot shot to hit the goal, slightly change the flight trajectory of the ball, and this ball has a chance to score a goal.

However, the ball was eventually blocked by Vertonghen, who was defending at the front point, and stretched out his foot first to block the ball.

Moreno's passing power is very strong. At the first time, when Vertonghen cleared the ball, there was not much way to control the direction of the clearing.

The ball was blocked by Vertonghen again and returned to Moreno's feet.

After Moreno received the football, he made no adjustments and quickly completed the second cross.

Moreno's sweep pass to the goal this time mainly found the two adjacent support points of Coutinho and Milner.

However, Tottenham's defense is quite active.

Sun Xingmin, who chased into the penalty area from behind, saw Moreno's pass, and ran back to the penalty area to complete the defensive inertia by rushing forward. Renault's pass was blocked with his feet.

Although Sun Xingmin's sliding shovel blocked this time, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a shovel shot.

He even shoveled the ball to the lower left corner of the goal.

If it weren't for Lori's quick reaction, he immediately fell to the side and successfully blocked the ball, Sun Xingmin might really have shown his true qualities as a shooter, and shoveled the ball directly into the goal.

Although this goal gave Liverpool a corner kick in the end, on the whole, it still ended Liverpool's extremely threatening counterattack.

In the 35th minute of the game, Liverpool once again created a counterattack threat after completing the defense.

Yang Feng's direct pass from the backcourt went directly to Henderson near the midfield.

Henderson kicked the ball again and found Coutinho in the front.

Coutinho accelerated in the middle, got rid of two Tottenham defenders, and only Vertonghen was left in front of him.

Facing Vertonghen in 1v1, Coutinho has two Tottenham players chasing behind him, so naturally he will not choose too complicated breakthrough moves in the game to delay his speed .

Taking advantage of the long distance to the penalty area at this time, Coutinho scored the ball alone, intending to give full play to his speed advantage, get past Vertonghen's defense, and get a single-handed opportunity.

But Vertonghen, on the one hand chasing the ball, on the other hand blocked Coutinho's position.

Coutinho bumped into Vertonghen directly in the process of Vertonghen's blocking, and then fell to the ground.

The referee blew his whistle immediately.

If Vertonghen was whistled for a foul on this ball, it would be enough.

But the referee went to Coutinho, a yellow card, and at Liverpool's home court, Coutinho was whistled for diving.

And Tottenham's offensive started. Although there were not many opportunities in the away game, they still created a very threatening goal before the end of the first half.

Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris made a big kick. Skrtel, who was fighting for the top in the midfield, made a mistake. He wanted to point the ball to his teammate, but he made a mistake.

The ball was directly controlled by Eriksson to the second point.

And before Skrtel tried to grab again, he kicked the ball and found Harry Kane on the right.

Kane himself dribbles the ball forward quickly.

It's not just the threat of Harry Kane.

In the middle, Sun Xingmin and Ali are also moving forward quickly. The rapid advancement of these two people has made Liverpool's own defensive options somewhat stretched.

When Skrtel lost his position due to a mistake, Yang Feng and Klein defended 2 and 3 in defense this time.

Yang Feng can only choose to take the middle position, while taking care of Ali's side, while trying to give Harry Kane a defensive influence.

With this ball, Harry Kane can attack and hit the goal by himself, or he can choose to pass the ball to find his teammates.

Harry Kane, on the other hand, chose to cut inside the penalty area at 45 degrees. After entering the penalty area, he completed a volley and hit the goal.

Fortunately, Yang Feng's judgment was very accurate. The moment Harry Kane hit the goal, Yang Feng suddenly jumped up to interfere with Harry Kane's goal.

For this ball, Yang Feng's defensive attack interfered with Harry Kane's choice of hitting route.

Although Harry Kane made adjustments, the kick was not intercepted by Yang Feng, but the ball also slid out of the goal, rubbing against the post in the far left corner and flying out of the baseline without scoring a goal.

Tottenham missed their best attacking chance of the entire first half.

Liverpool entered the halftime of the game with a 1-0 lead.

In the second half of the game, Liverpool's defensive counterattack was still sharp.

When Tottenham still need to constantly look for opportunities on the offensive end, Liverpool's counterattack efficiency has been improved first, expanding the lead in the score.

In the 53rd minute of the game, Tottenham made a mistake passing the ball in the frontcourt and was successfully intercepted by Liverpool.

Milner played the ball from the backcourt and directly found Coutinho who was responding in the midfield.

Coutinho took the ball forward, this time facing the defender, a deep-fried ball passed through and opened up the attacking space laterally.

After that, he suddenly sent a through ball and found it directly in the penalty area of ​​Tottenham.

The tacit understanding between Coutinho and Sturridge still exists. Sturridge suddenly turned and crossed, just in time to receive Coutinho's through pass, without stopping the ball, directly left foot Complete a kick.

This time, the shot to the near corner, due to Sturridge's full force, the angle was also adjusted to be tricky.

Although Lori flew to save him, he was still a little short.

2 to 0!

Sturridge extended the score for Liverpool in the second half.

Liverpool, leading by 2 goals, really has full control of the game.

Of course, the experience and lessons of leading Southampton by two goals at halftime in the last game, but in the end the opponent scored 3 goals in the second half to reverse the score are still vivid, so the Liverpool players at this time, with a two-goal lead, I won't be too relaxed, but I will try my best to maintain my state and not leave any chance for Tottenham.

The 66th minute of the game.

Liverpool got another chance up front.

Although after stealing the ball in midfield, Liverpool's quick counterattack did not directly succeed, and fell into a positional battle.

But Coutinho changed his previous style of breakthrough from the wing, and suddenly chose to pass the high ball, which really caught the Tottenham defenders by surprise.

With such a high ball, Sturridge in the penalty area naturally became the main offensive point that Tottenham's defense needs to take into account.

However, for this ball, Coutinho did the opposite and found the ball to Lallana in the penalty area.

Lallana headed the ball sideways to his feet.

Due to less defensive interference, the ball was actually successfully stopped by Lallana in the penalty area.

Then Lallana turned sideways, and after half turning, he volleyed and hit the goal directly.

Lori's reaction was fast enough.

The ball was thrown sideways quickly and made a save action.

However, Lallana's shot was too close, and this time he hit the goal with full force.

Although Lori barely reached the football, under Lallana's vigorous volley, the trajectory of the ball did not change much. It still broke through the restraint of Lori's palm and flew into the goal.

3 to 0!

Liverpool did not stop early this time with a two-goal lead, but continued to expand their lead.

This is the terrible thing about Liverpool. In this strong duel with Tottenham, Liverpool, who is completely focused on the game, can show all its strength in the game and score a 3-0. Tottenham's offensive threat has been limited very little.

With a 3-goal lead, it can almost be said that with more than 20 minutes left in the game, Liverpool has secured the victory.

However, Liverpool will not relax at this time in front of the home fans.

After all, in the following games, Liverpool will still play more once a week, so the team's physical problems will no longer be such a big problem.

So in this game, there is no intention of staying strong.

Throughout the game, Liverpool maintained excellent defensive capabilities, limiting Tottenham's offense miserably.

Tottenham didn't have too many opportunities. Long shots became Tottenham's most commonly used offensive method in the second half, but they didn't have any effect.

In the end, in this strong duel, Liverpool showed strong control on both offensive and defensive ends at home. They defeated Tottenham 3-0 at home, which can be regarded as an announcement to the outside world. They lost to Southampton before. , it was just an accident...

For Liverpool, this is definitely a very crucial game victory. With this victory, Liverpool can continue to maintain the point pressure on Leicester City and compete for the championship this season.