Football’s First Defender

Relying on the instant scoring explosiveness, Liverpool gained a 2-0 lead, and it also allowed Liverpool to seal the victory as soon as possible, and the idea of ​​staying strong in the second half was more than half completed.

After leading by two goals, Liverpool did not slow down the pace, but continued to maintain or even speed up their offensive and defensive rhythms, in order to strive to score more goals before halftime and continue to expand their lead.

Since they will face Chelsea next weekend, Liverpool need to leave enough rest time for the players on the basis of ensuring a smooth victory in this game.

If you want the players to have enough room to relax on the field, when facing a team that is good at attacking like Swansea, it is natural for them to score more goals and establish a big enough lead in the game .

Otherwise, if a team that is good at offense really plays crazy at halftime, there is room for miracles.

Therefore, Liverpool's offensive did not actually slow down, but continued to seek more goals in the game, seize all the time in the first half, and strive to seal the victory.

The offensive organized by Liverpool itself, and the counterattack played in the transitional phase of offense and defense at the end of Swansea's offense, are extremely threatening.

Even if he has successfully scored two goals in the opponent's gate, the huge offensive threat seems to indicate that the third goal will come soon.

Of course, the Swansea players who are playing at home don't care so much about the idea of ​​Liverpool players saving their energy and staying in the key battle with Chelsea in the middle of the week.

For the Swansea players, their purpose at this stage in the game is simple.

With two goals behind, the outcome of this game is not that important to them.

The most important thing is that they have to play wonderful offensive coordination, so that the fans watching the game have a point of emotional release and a reason to cheer and celebrate.

Of course, it is one aspect to comfort the fans at the scene. For the Swansea players, being able to perform well in the face of Liverpool is also a recognition of their own strength.

Swansea is still launching an offensive. Not only the midfielders, but even the full-backs are also pushing in with all their strength. They want to suppress Liverpool and play a wave of suppressive offensive against the defending champion. .

It's just that the overall strength of Swansea's team lies there. Their ideas are good and they are willing to invest in offensive numbers.

But in terms of offensive strength, it is not that good.

Liverpool's defensive composition at this time restricted many of Swansea's offensive directions very easily.

The offensive effect of Swansea is not so significant.

On the other hand, Liverpool's own counterattack is still quite threatening.

In the face of Liverpool's quick counterattack, Swansea's defense did not have too many rules, and it was completely an attitude of doing everything possible.

If you can defend it, try to defend it as much as possible.

It is really unstoppable, and there is no way to be scored the third goal by Liverpool.

In the 41st minute of the game, Liverpool counterattacked again, and finally completely pierced Swansea's defense.

Swansea made a mistake in the attacking pass in the midfield.

In the process of transferring the ball, Henderson suddenly completed the grab, which directly formed a steal.

And just after this steal, Liverpool's frontcourt players immediately launched a counterattack.

Since Swansea's full-backs have already stepped in to seek assists from the side, if they want to return to the defense at this time, they need to run farther. In the first place, the defenders in Swansea's backcourt faced Liverpool's A quick counterattack does not even have the so-called defensive numerical advantage.

When the team counterattacked and had a considerable initiative, Henderson directly sent a through ball on the ground, hit the middle, and looked for Coutinho in front.

After receiving the ball, Coutinho dribbled the ball forward.

On the other hand, Sturridge and Firmino moved forward quickly, almost attacking against Swansea's defense line, as long as they are controlled and not offside, both of them try to maintain the same position as the Swansea central defender. position level.

Coutinho's breakthrough ability with the ball is very good. When Coutinho is dribbling the ball, the defensive players don't even dare to grab it rashly, fearing that Coutinho will catch the opportunity and complete the dribble directly.

In the 3v3 offensive and defensive process, Swansea's defense at this time cannot tolerate any defensive problems.

Appeared, let Liverpool players get an open single-handed opportunity near the penalty area, so it is no different from sending a goal.

However, although Coutinho himself has the opportunity to attack, after all Coutinho's super personal offensive ability, in the case of 1v1, Coutinho can also launch a strong attack, and can also create a certain Chance.

However, Coutinho himself is still trying to find teammates who have the best chances in the game.

In the meantime, Coutinho made a gesture in front of the penalty area, waving the ball directly, pulling the angle, as if he was about to hit the goal.

Swansea's defensive players are going forward with all their strength to prevent Coutinho from hitting the goal.

However, the fake action of hitting the goal with a long shot is a cover.

Coutinho used the horizontal pass to open a certain angle, but not to hit the goal, but to pass the ball.

I saw that Coutinho suddenly picked up the ball, a half-high ball, just over the head of the defender who rushed to defend Coutinho's long-range shot, and the ball was accurately picked to the front of the small penalty area.

Firmino plugged in at full speed, and he had a tacit understanding with Coutinho.

Firmino's running route is first a fake move, running towards the back point, but it is a sudden change of direction during the march, running to the forward point, and instantly gains a certain body position advantage.

Coutinho's pick pass just happened to land next to Firmino. Although the ball fell on the waist and eye position, it was a bit difficult to handle, but it was not difficult for Firmino.

The agility of South American players is best at using various unconventional offensive moves on the offensive end to complete the goal or pass.

During the high-speed progress, Firmino completely jumped up and twisted his body, and completed a volley shot sideways, and completed this shot with an unconventional way of hitting the goal.

Although it is an unconventional way to hit the goal, it does not affect Firmino's high-quality shot, and the ball hits the goal frame from close range.

A shot near the penalty area was on target, but it didn't bring Firmino a goal.

It can only be said that the luck of the Swansea goalkeeper is really good.

Forcibly jumping on the spot, stretching his arms and legs to the limit to increase his defensive area, he was really jumping in the air by himself, and the outstretched right foot gave the ball down.

It's just that it's just blocking the ball.

You must know that Liverpool are running ahead, but they are double forwards.

Firmino and Coutinho completed the connection and took the lead in hitting the goal, but there was still Sturridge looking for opportunities in front of the goal.

The Swansea goalkeeper was only able to block the ball, but then he was powerless.

Sturridge's reaction speed was very fast. Facing the blocked football, he stepped forward and easily shot the empty goal with one kick, giving Liverpool a 3-goal lead.

Before the half-time game was over, Liverpool led by three goals, which can be regarded as almost a seal of victory.

Leading by 3 goals at halftime, such an advantage is big enough for Liverpool to allow the team to get a lot of rest time in the second half.

However, in the last few minutes of the first half, the Liverpool players were still under pressure.

There is a beginning to an end in doing things. Relaxing in the second half is a matter for the second half. In the last few minutes of the first half, the Liverpool players did not lack that little physical strength to ensure their excellent game state.

Facts have proved that after Swansea scored 3 goals by Liverpool, even if they don't pay attention to winning or losing the game, there are obviously some problems in the mentality of the players.

Among the Swansea players, their mentality was obviously out of balance, but they still maintained a strong willingness to attack at the end of the half.

But he continued to let his team's defense completely open to Liverpool.

At this point in the game, for Liverpool, Swansea's backcourt defense is as wide as the sea, full of defensive loopholes.

In the 44th minute of the game, when Swansea thought it was their last positional attack in the half, they were intercepted by Liverpool players in the process of organizing a pass.

Liverpool players, at the last minute, suddenly chose to collectively exert their strength, and directly fought fiercely in the midfield. Lallana successfully intercepted the ball on the right side of the midfield.

And it was this successful steal that allowed Liverpool to play a very threatening frontcourt attack again.

After Lallana steals the ball, he immediately passes the ball accurately and finds Henderson who is going forward.

After receiving the ball, Henderson took advantage of the situation and led forward, directly threatening Swansea's final defense.

Before the Swansea player completed the grab, Henderson did not rush to attack, but accurately saw the gesture made by Firmino who was running at the front.

With a through ball, he directly passed the defender and found the position behind the defender, while Firmino accelerated with all his strength, using his own speed, took the lead and received the pass.

Even though Swansea's central defender reacted at this time and wanted to use his body to fight to create defensive pressure on Firmino, but before the opponent bumped into him and affected his body balance, Firmino had already made a move. Finished with a kick.

With a low shot, this time, Firmino hit an excellent angle, and the Swansea goalkeeper could no longer make a superb attack.

4 to 0!

It took Liverpool less than 20 minutes to score 4 goals in a row, completely killing the game at halftime.

Indeed, Swansea's offense has a certain power. This is also at Swansea's home court, and Liverpool will also make some adjustments in the second half.

However, it is not an easy task to complete a four-goal reversal against Liverpool at home.

In the second half, Klopp went straight to the half-time stage and even changed two people to give Henderson and Coutinho a certain amount of rest time.

And keep a substitution in your hand to prevent players from being injured.

In the second half, although Swansea was at home, they barely played the offense vigorously under the less active fighting of Liverpool players.

But facing Liverpool's three central defenders and Yang Feng's excellent defensive ability, there is no good way to get too many threatening offenses.

In the end, the score between the two teams was 1-4. Swansea, who played at home, relied on Ayew's goal to score a face-saving goal in the 71st minute of the game.

At other times, Yang Feng was completely incarnated as the hardest shield in Liverpool's defense line, destroying Swansea's many attacks.

It's just a pity that although Liverpool's winning streak continues, in the following games, the Liverpool team was not happy on the bus back to Merseyside.

Everyone was disgusted by the performance of arch-enemy Manchester United.

Perhaps this game is the game that Liverpool, as a rival team, most hopes Manchester United can win.

But Manchester United forcibly disgusted Liverpool at their own Old Trafford stadium.

This season, Manchester United continued their poor league performance in the post-Ferguson era.

So far, not only is there no hope for the championship, but even the points with the Champions League have reached close to double digits, which has caused considerable dissatisfaction among the Red Devils fans.

Seeing such a poor and depressing performance of the arch-enemy naturally makes Liverpool players and fans quite comfortable.

However, in the penultimate round of the league, Liverpool still hopes that the rival team will give it a try and stop Leicester City at home.

There is no need for Manchester United to win at home, as long as they don't lose to Leicester City, and Fox City don't allow all three points, then the initiative to win the championship will return to Liverpool's own at the end of the league after a whole season. hands.

In the recent rounds of the schedule, Liverpool played first, and then Leicester City's game followed closely, which also caused the ratings of the Premier League games to rise steadily in the atmosphere of the championship.

It's just that Manchester United is at home today. Although they are playing with all the main players, the team's performance is extremely bad.

It's hard to imagine that Manchester United, which sits at Old Trafford, was defended by Leicester City in the game, so they had no chance to attack.

Not to mention that the offense is not too much of a threat, on the defensive end, Manchester United's performance is also hip.

In the game, Manchester United took the initiative to attack and did not get a good offensive opportunity. Instead, they were constantly counterattacked by Leicester City.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Leicester City counterattacked and easily penetrated Manchester United's defense.

Phil Jones was too late to chase Vardy, and even watched Vardy complete a one-handed goal in the penalty area.

1 to 0, Leicester City lead away.

Eight minutes later, Mahrez expanded his advantage on the counterattack.

Facing Mahrez's breakthrough, several Manchester United defensive players stood on the field like wooden stakes, allowing Mahrez to break through wantonly.

And directly completed a wonderful kick and scored the second goal.

Two goals behind, the result of this game, there is no big surprise.

After that, the two teams seemed to be killing the game time on the court. The two teams didn't want to waste energy on the offensive end, so they kept the score of 0 to 2 until the end of the game.

Leicester City likes to raise three points on Manchester United, and the gap between the two teams remains at 5 points.