Football’s First Defender

Relying on his strength, he won a big victory against Swansea in the away game, which originally made the Liverpool players quite happy.

But then, I saw a "dinner" match between rivals Manchester United and Leicester City at Old Trafford.

Manchester United, who had no desires and desires, was really at home. They lost to the Leicester City team with a strong belief in winning, which made Liverpool another victory in vain.

This game is a matter of beholders seeing benevolence and wise men seeing wisdom.

You can say that Manchester United has performed rubbish this season. Not only can they not win against an emerging team like Leicester City, it is even difficult to keep a draw at home.

You can also explain that this game is a so-called tacit goal. Manchester United is playing at home. In order to prevent Liverpool from having a chance to win three consecutive championships, it is to give three points to the current leader Leicester City and help Liverpool. The opponent is to support Liverpool's back legs.

For Liverpool, not only can they not lose any points now, but they have to expect Leicester City to make a mistake in the next two rounds of the league.

If Leicester City wins both Everton and Chelsea in the last two rounds, then Liverpool will continue their winning streak and will not be able to overtake the score.

Now for the Liverpool team, the biggest worry is that the opponents after Leicester City will continue to release water like Manchester United today, so that Leicester City has a chance to compete for the championship.

You know, Manchester United have lost at home, so it should be more reasonable for Leicester City's penultimate opponent, Liverpool's rival Everton, to lose the game away.

Manchester United are ashamed to lose at home, so for a team like Everton, there must be nothing wrong with losing.

It may be Leicester City's opponent Chelsea in the final game that may really block Leicester City.

It is hard to imagine that at the last moment of the league, the outcome of the game that may determine the outcome of the championship will be decided by Chelsea.

Liverpool played against Chelsea in a make-up match. The situation at this time could not allow Liverpool to lose any more points.

Chelsea is now the point that Liverpool relies on the most.

It is necessary to ensure that Chelsea can be defeated in the game, and that Chelsea can use all their strength in the final round of the game to cause trouble for Leicester City and remain unbeaten at home.

If you want to beat your opponent now, two weeks later, you have to beg your opponent not to give Leicester City a victory. Liverpool's request is full of "dominant" meaning.

For Chelsea, the so-called record requirements for this season's games have long since disappeared. Anyway, the team can't even make it to the top four this season, and has entered the preparation stage for the next season.

The players are on the field more to show their own strength and play their own offensive performance in the game, so as to maintain the fans' confidence in Chelsea and the players' personal confidence.

However, although there is no requirement on the record, Chelsea will let themselves go and not pursue the record too much when facing the middle and lower teams. However, when facing many rich teams, Chelsea still I will devote the most energy in the game to seize every opportunity in the game and show myself.

After all, the traffic of the strong duel is there. For a rich team, this kind of strong duel is destined to have more neutral fans watching the live broadcast of the game, a deep fan base, and a huge fan base , can provide a team with a large number of "reserve" fans, many diehard fans of the team, isn't this how they are slowly converted.

Moreover, the victory of the strong duel is also a proof of the strength of their own team for Chelsea.

So in this game, Liverpool has the points pressure to win in the standings, and for Chelsea, it is also necessary to try their best to perform better in the game and strive to play their own strength in the away game.

This red-blue duel is indeed more critical for Liverpool, but Chelsea and Liverpool don't have so many grievances and enmities. The two teams just play normally in the game and show their respective teams in the game normally. The state of the game will do.

Liverpool's 442 lineup remains unchanged for this game.

The team's starting lineup has not changed in any way from the previous game, it is a lineup with strong offensive strength.

It's just that, although Chelsea's lineup attaches great importance to this game, the player's injury factors can only force Chelsea's defense to barely send out a disabled team.

At least in the position of central defender, because there are no players left due to injuries, Mikel is even needed to play Cahill in this game to defend the team's penalty area.

Chelsea's defense today indeed left Liverpool with a great opportunity to attack.

It is not a conventional defense line. It is very likely that some defensive problems will occur due to the players' personal defensive ability or the team's cooperation problems, which will lead to being caught by Liverpool's offense.

However, compared to the many problems in the backcourt, Chelsea's midfielders at least maintain a very good staffing.

The double midfielder combination composed of Matic and Cesc Fabregas, one defensive and one offensive, are top offensive talents.

Hazard, William and Pedro, when attacking in the frontcourt, are also the two offensive points that Chelsea rely on most this season.

In the super trough at the beginning of the season, Chelsea was able to score some points in the league when the record was quite bad, instead of directly falling into the relegation zone, it was because of the outstanding personal qualities of these three players. Play and carry Chelsea's offensive end forward.

With the departure of Mourinho, many players have played their due strength, and the offensive ability of the midfielders can also be fully utilized. This is a huge help for Chelsea. .

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool, playing at home, indeed took the initiative on the field.

In the final stage of the Liverpool League game, the mandatory requirement is to take all three points in all games.

Therefore, this is very important for Liverpool's offensive test.

This also forced the Liverpool team to stay out of the game and try their best to maintain their offensive advantage and constantly attack their opponents with offense.

However, although the Chelsea team has recently been de-Mourinhoized, that defensive philosophy is almost indelible for Chelsea.

When Liverpool mainly organized offense in the frontcourt, Chelsea naturally gave priority to building the team's overall defense.

Although it is not possible to directly give up offense and counterattack and put up an iron barrel formation, for Chelsea, it is also well-structured on the defensive end and can have a fairly good defensive restriction effect.

Especially in the midfield, with Matic as a defensive guarantee, it is very effective for defensive help in the area.

Facing Chelsea, they have quite a defensive level, with a defensive method of rings and rings. For Liverpool, it is not so easy to launch and complete the attack in the game like facing ordinary opponents. easy.

Simply passing the ball through and passing the ball, when facing Chelsea's defense, cannot easily pass Chelsea's defense and become an offensive opportunity.

From the beginning of the game, Liverpool's biggest offensive threat was actually attacking from the position. Under the premise that it didn't have a good effect, they chose the long-range shooting method from the outside of the penalty area.

For example, in the 12th minute, Coutinho made a breakthrough attempt on the left side. When he tried to speed up the bottom and could not get a breakthrough space, Coutinho could only choose to stop and smash the ball and give up the bottom pass. Directly seek another horizontal breakthrough.

Although Chelsea's defensive ability is very fast and does not give Coutinho room to break through, Coutinho still relies on his own personal ability and uses the skills at his feet to forcefully complete a reverse breakthrough and pass the ball from the penalty area. When there is no space inside, run out with the ball backwards, pull it out of the penalty area, and finally get a larger space, you can pass the ball out to find the space before the arc of the big penalty area.

Coutinho made a cross pass and directly found the open position in front of the arc of the penalty area on the right.

And Lallana accurately grasped this offensive opportunity.

Although this time there is less space to hold the ball, and the opponent's defensive speed is also very fast, but Lallana himself is still within a small range, and he shoots directly with his foot, forcing a kick.

Before the Chelsea player's block came, the ball was kicked out.

Matic's supplementary defense was completely missed.

This time, Lallana's small-scale swing of the leg hit the goal, and the quality of the shot was very high.

However, although the angle of this kick is tricky, it is a flirting shot after all, and the force will not be too full, which makes the ball not run fast.

And standing in front of Chelsea's goal is Courtois, who is also a world-class goalkeeper.

Although the angle is tricky, it is difficult to directly control the ball.

But it is not that difficult for Courtois to block the ball and complete the save.

Courtois successfully blocked the ball, and with his hands, blocked the ball towards the edge of the penalty area.

But the high-altitude ball fell, and the ball's landing point returned to Coutinho's feet again.

Coutinho directly controlled the landing point of the ball. His excellent foot skills and ball feel allowed Coutinho to unload the ball without wasting any time.

Before the defensive player came close to the body, Coutinho still had room to take the ball horizontally, and then shot directly to the far corner.

Another excellent long-range shot, that is, Chelsea's goalkeeper, Courtois's second reaction speed is also not slow.

After successfully blocking Lallana's first long-range shot, he immediately stood up and adjusted his position choice instead of staying on the ground to "lazy".

Only after facing Coutinho's kick and aiming at the back corner to hit the goal, after taking two or three steps back to the side, he forced a jump and hit the ball on the goal line with a single palm.

This time, Courtois directly held the ball out of the baseline, only giving Liverpool a corner kick.

Liverpool players Lallana and Coutinho's two consecutive high-quality shots were successfully resolved by Courtois alone. This is an important supplement for a good goalkeeper to the team's defense.

However, Liverpool's offensive is not over yet.

During this corner kick, the set kick is Liverpool's great offensive advantage.

Especially in Chelsea, the central defender suffered a wave of serious injuries and Mikel was needed to play the central defender.

Chelsea's set-piece defense, which the team has always been good at before, has actually been greatly affected among today's high-point players.

Cahill still went to mark Yang Feng, but at this time, because Chelsea's players were limited everywhere in the process of fighting for points, it was difficult to provide him with personnel to help him form a double-team defense against Yang Feng.

In the 1v1 duel, Cahill's ability to compete is actually pretty good.

But compared with Yang Feng, there is still some gap.

Yang Feng's ability to compete is already recognized as No. 1 in today's European football.

Yang Feng started his career by relying on his header ability, and gained a foothold in the European arena.

Now, all teams know that many Liverpool teams have set-piece tactical arrangements based on Yang Feng's header ability.

To give full play to Yang Feng's ability to compete, or the threat of header ferry assists.

This time, when Liverpool placed a full six men in the penalty area, holding back the defensive attention of a large number of Chelsea players, once again, Yang Feng used his own running and a "pick-and-roll" from his teammate Firmino. "Cover", he directly got rid of the follow-up defense in an instant during the game, and successfully gained the advantage in body position.

And Coutinho's pass was accurately located above Yang Feng's head at this time.

Soar into the air, take off, control your body shape, shake your head and attack the goal.

Even though Cahill was chasing with all his strength, he also took off, trying to interfere, but it was too late.

Before Cahill jumped to the highest point and could form an interception, Yang Feng had already completed his head-shaking attack and pushed the ball to the left of the goal in the far corner.

Courtois flew to save again, but this time, the angle of Yang Feng's header was too tricky, and with the header so close to the goal, Courtois had no time to react. Also too short.

Although Courtois had already made a sideways save, he was flying in the air, and before his body was fully unfolded, Yang Feng's header had already flown past Courtois' vision and into the goal. middle.

"GOAL!!!"

"Yang Feng!"

"Scored the goal again in the game against his old club Chelsea!"

"A header that Yang Feng is best at opened the scoring for Liverpool in the game."

Whenever Yang Feng faces his old club, he will put on a wonderful personal performance, and this time is no exception...