Football’s First Defender

After the weekend's abuse of food, Liverpool further consolidated its fourth place in the league standings.

The mid-week make-up match is a good opportunity for them to further expand their four advantages in the standings.

However, Everton, who is also desperate, is destined not to let the home team Liverpool pass easily.

Perhaps in the early days of professional football in England, the match between Liverpool and Everton was called the "Friendship Derby". At that time, many families in Liverpool had both Liverpool fans and Everton fans.

However, with the progress of professional football, especially in the last ten years of League One, Liverpool and Everton competed for the League One championship, and the "Heysel tragedy" at that time caused the FA to ban British teams from participating in European competitions for five years. .

Everton, who won the league title at that time, missed the UEFA Champions League, making many Everton fans angry with Liverpool fans, further deepening the conflict between the two sides.

With the accumulation of hatred, the derby between Liverpool and Everton has become more and more gunpowder in the past 30 years of competition.

Since the establishment of the Premier League, the Merseyside Derby between Liverpool and Everton is the matchup with the most red cards in the game, with 19 red cards, 5 more than the second-ranked Double Reds. Zhang is the hottest and most tragic team matchup in the Premier League.

In order to prepare for this make-up match, both teams in the last round of the league, carried out a small number of rotations to ensure that the players can have the best game state to face the derby.

There is no retreat in Merseyside Derby.

Even at Anfield, Everton, coached by Moyes, is a regular 442 lineup, which is not at all shocking. He came up with a big confrontation with Liverpool.

On Liverpool's side, Dalglish is also a new force who can run and play hard.

Spearing, who performed well in recent games, once again won the trust of Dalglish. He started as a right midfielder, while the left midfielder was still Downing. Midfielder Henderson was delayed. The front was Gerrard who had just returned from injury. .

In the last game, Gerrard was on the bench, but to be on the safe side and to keep Gerrard’s strength, against Sunderland, Dalglish did not let Gerrard take the lead. De played.

In this game, Gerrard can play to his heart's content.

In other positions, Liverpool's regular main force has not changed, and both sides use their strongest formations to directly collide head-on.

"Merseyside is really hot!"

"Only 7 minutes into the game, Everton midfielder Pinar flew shoveled Gerrard and got his first yellow card in the game."

fierce! It is what Everton wants to do in this game and wants to show it. Only fierce and excessively large foul moves can suppress the momentum of the Liverpool players in the cheering of tens of thousands of Liverpool fans away.

In the Everton players, the foul action that set the tone of the game, the Liverpool players at home are even more not afraid of the same big foul action.

Everton's counterattack opportunity was directly blocked by Spilling, who came back to the defense with a tackle with the ball.

The referee thought for a while, and did not play a card, which directly caused the Everton players to "siege" the referee.

The Liverpool players on the side made a "righteous" shot and "protected" the referee from the visiting team players.

This led to a direct conflict between the players of the two teams.

In the popular Merseyside Derby, there was a direct conflict between the players of the two teams in just 12 minutes.

Of course, for the players of the two teams, fighting for their rights through quarrels and pushes is already familiar, and the players are just acting. There is no special situation and they will not really fight.

In this game, Yang Feng's back line mainly bears the threat of the opponent's continuous side pass.

Moyes is very simple to build Everton's tactical system, not to follow the trend to carry out too many complicated operations, for Everton, it is to do his best to explore the characteristics of his team.

Maybe Everton will try to make more complicated pass and catch coordination when facing some small and medium teams, and practice the ball control.

But in the face of a powerful team like Liverpool, Moyes’ strategy is very simple. Although the team will not completely retreat to defend, the team’s offense mainly relies on two crosses from the wing and uses simple offensive methods to come. Ensure that the team will not suffer too many counterattacks.

In addition to the players on the side of the cross, there are also some competing players, and the other Everton players can do the team's overall defensive task.

Although Everton specializes in the offensive style of crosses from the wing and disputes in the middle, the shot opportunities created by Everton are really scarce in the face of Liverpool's defense.

Scotter himself is a central defender who is good at defending high points and grabbing forwards. With Yang Feng, who is known for his judgment and reaction ability, Everton's striker cannot take any advantage.

It’s just that it’s not easy for Liverpool to counterattack. Everton has done an excellent job of protecting the backcourt under Moyes’ strict tactical requirements.

The Everton players used more running to achieve the purpose of quick return to defense, effectively limiting Liverpool's counterattack long pass threat.

Throughout the first half of the first half, although both sides used fouls to forcibly prevent their opponents from attacking, the pace of the game between the two sides was actually very fast during the rest of the time.

The players on both sides are you and me. Both have invested a lot of manpower on the offensive end, but they are unable to find the opponent's loopholes immediately and create real offensive opportunities.

However, in the away game, the Everton players who were suppressed by Liverpool are more physically exhausted.

This consumption, in the process of continuous running, deepened the team's running speed when returning to defense in the final stage of the first half~www.readwn.com~ In the 33rd minute of the game, Everton had an offensive opportunity. In, the ball on the right wing directly found Liverpool's penalty area.

But Yang Feng did his part and chose the right position in advance to complete the header clearance.

Since Yang Feng had enough time to prepare this time, he controlled the header very well and directly hit Henderson's feet.

Henderson, who has been cooperating with Yang Feng for training, focused on strengthening practice, such as the practice of unloading the ball immediately after receiving Yang Feng's header and making a long pass to the opponent's core area.

According to Henderson's eyes, Everton did a good job of protecting the two wings. The players returned to the defense very quickly, and there was not much time to pass the ball.

Instead, it was Everton's mid-lane defense line, with only one central guard guarding it, and the space was relatively large.

Henderson did not hesitate, he was in charge of passing the ball, he only needed to pass the ball to the open space in the middle, and naturally there would be his teammates running to catch the ball.

"Henderson, a long pass in the backcourt!"

"Liverpool's counterattack, unfold quickly!"

"Suarez and Gerrard, one on the left and the other on the right, will kill the pass."

"Henderson's long pass was very accurate. It happened to be in the middle area between the Everton defender and the goalkeeper. Both defenders were embarrassed and couldn't get the ball in the first place!"

"Suarez grabbed the second spot and handed the ball to Gerrard who was following."

"Gerald! He hit the goal directly with a lob!"

"Taking advantage of the opponent's goalkeeper's position, Gerrard made a lob shot over 30 meters!"

"GOAL!!!"

"Gerard! A wonderful lob shot!"

"The ball drew a wonderful arc in the air and flew directly into the goal with a parabola!"

"Liverpool leads 1-0!"