Football’s First Defender

Real Madrid's second goal came from the efficient cooperation between Vazquez and Morata.

These two are actually not Zidane's first choice for offense. In this game, they both got the chance to start because of other injury factors and status problems.

However, so far, both of them are performing very well.

And Vazquez also relied on his excellent breakthrough ability to get the opportunity to pillion.

Morata, in front of the goal, is also pursuing all these possibilities, showing his offensive ability.

This ball was in front of the goal, and Morata performed very well.

As a striker, the most important thing is the ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal. As long as he can continue to score goals, for the young and vigorous Morata, he can have the opportunity to compete for the starting position in the game .

During the time when he left Real Madrid and went to Juventus, Morata had an excellent offensive performance and became Juventus' regular main force. In this way, Morata returned to Real Madrid this time to prove himself and compete with Benzema The idea of ​​the starting center position.

At the beginning of the second half, Real Madrid took the lead again on the offensive end, which is crucial for Real Madrid.

With the leading advantage, Real Madrid can play their most mature defensive counterattack system.

The defensive counterattack philosophy of the Mourinho era has always been inherited and carried forward by Real Madrid.

Even if the head coach changes one wave after another.

But for the team, what they are best at is the defensive counterattack after taking the lead. The sharpest weapon to attack the opponent is still the offensive performance in the continuous counterattack.

In today's European football, on the counterattack end, the fastest and most threatening one is Real Madrid's counterattack.

It is because there are the best players in each position, and they all have the offensive attributes to fight back. Therefore, in the game, as long as the Real Madrid team finds an opportunity, then Real Madrid will directly play its strongest offensive state and give the opponent a fatal blow. hit.

And Real Madrid's offensive is not over yet, or in the state of defensive counterattack, every successful defense of Real Madrid may bring the team to create threats on the counterattack end.

When Sevilla started to attack again, it was a long pass directly to Real Madrid's penalty area.

The results are obvious.

The sudden long pass attempt this time does not make much sense in essence.

In the game, Yang Feng chose a very good defensive position.

In the previous games, Sevilla's offense has been consciously avoiding Yang Feng's defense zone, and has not hit Yang Feng's side.

This time, he tried to complete a long pass in the game to see if he could catch Yang Feng by surprise.

But Yang Feng's defensive strength is excellent, and he has always maintained a high degree of concentration in the game.

On the offensive end, it is not easy to use blitzkrieg to break through Yang Feng's defense by surprise.

Instead, it was Yang Feng, who was fully prepared for the ball, and directly headed it to Kovacic in front of him.

Kovacic dribbled the ball forward directly, and Real Madrid's counterattack came again.

Kovacic's speed is actually not fast. As an offensive and defensive midfielder, Kovacic is tall and not the kind of offensive player who relies on speed to make breakthroughs.

But Yang Feng chose to head towards Kovacic because there were no Sevilla players around Kovacic to defend.

This allows Kovacic to have a long acceleration distance and to push forward quickly with a considerable gap.

No interference from other Sevilla players.

Kovacic has a lot of room for acceleration and can complete the fast forward in the game.

When Kovacic completed the acceleration without any defense, it was a tank accelerating to the fastest speed, which was so unstoppable.

It is true that Kovacic's size makes it not so easy for him to make direction-changing breakthroughs like those dexterous players when he is accelerating.

However, it is also not so easy when there are no players in front to defend, and players coming from the side want to complete the defense.

While walking, Kovacic completely threw away his arms, relying on his physique, and swung away all the opponents who wanted to step forward with his arms.

Normal body collision, no problem.

In the case of Kovacic's meteoric breakthrough, for the opponent, naturally, they can only send people to interfere with Kovacic in the game. Even if this will create gaps in the defense, they have to do so .

After all, Kovacic's long-range shooting ability and his ability to create opportunities in front of the penalty area have been demonstrated in the Inter Milan era.

When Vitolo stepped forward to defend Kovacic, Kovacic also knew that he could not complete a relatively large change of direction at high speed.

Either directly dribble the ball and rush over to see the result of the right foot.

Either control the ball and send the pass on the go.

Kovacic chose to pass the ball.

When Vitolo had to rush up to form defensive pressure on himself, Sevilla's last line of defense was naturally completely exposed due to the lack of a defensive player.

For Kovacic, such an opportunity naturally needs to be seized.

In the game, Kovacic fully utilized his passing ability on the move.

A through ball in a high-speed forward state directly hit the right side of Sevilla's penalty area.

It happened that after Vitolo stepped forward to defend, he passed the ball in the gap left in the middle.

A wonderful through ball, even at high speed, after making such a stable passing action in an instant, due to the forward inertia of the body, there was a contradiction with his own strength and stable body shape to send the ball, which led to Kova After Chichi completed the pass, he lost his balance and fell to the ground directly.

But a wonderful through ball sent out can create a huge threat to the team's offense.

The football rolled directly from the center and obliquely to the right side of the penalty area.

On the right side, it was Vazquez who quickly inserted the cover.

Vazquez was extremely active in the second half. This goal, and he was in the game again, formed an efficient forward drive to help the team complete a better offense.

In such an offensive state, Vazquez's offense used his own speed to overtake from the outside and directly received a pass from Kovacic.

The classic inverted triangle pass.

Vazquez, who finished catching the ball near the baseline, kicked the ball directly and passed the ball backwards back to the goal.

It was Morata who followed up.

Morata doesn't look tall, but his own speed and feet are very good.

This time the follow-up and the chosen location were very correct.

Just in time to respond to Vazquez's pass, Morata made a quick oblique thrust. While running, he used his arm to support the opponent's defensive player, while his right foot was stretched out, and he directly forcibly completed a kick. shoot.

It's just a pity that although Morata's shot was within the range of the goal frame, Sevilla's goalkeeper Rico was very focused during the game, and the moment Morata hit the goal , went down on completion and had a very good save play.

With a side throw, the ball was thrown out.

Real Madrid's counterattack did not work immediately...