Football’s First Defender

Yang Feng's excellent performance has almost reduced Arsenal's offensive efficiency.

Arsenal's offensive is dominant, but they can't be converted into a large number of opportunities.

And Yang Feng and other Liverpool players in the midfield and backfield completed the defense again and again, blocked Arsenal’s attack, and forcibly found several counterattack opportunities, which also gave Liverpool’s frontcourt players a chance to get familiar with Arsenal’s defensive layout and players. Our defensive habits.

Suarez, who constantly tried to attack, looked for opportunities to counterattack, and created enough threats for Arsenal.

Liverpool’s counterattack threats are still focused on Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling.

Use the "3s" impact to pursue a quick and accurate attack on Arsenal's line of defense.

These three offensive players will not retreat further back when defending Liverpool.

Rogers is not planning to let Liverpool come to the Emirates Stadium to defend a draw.

Liverpool is a wealthy team, not like those mid-lower teams, in the game, in order to score points and put out an iron bucket.

In the absence of an away game to gain possession of the ball, Liverpool chose to retract the defense, just to avoid losing their team under the opponent's strength.

But Liverpool's strong defense line is full of nails.

The "3s" in the frontcourt are the hardest nails on the defensive line. On the defensive end, they will only return to their own half to perform some appropriate defensive tasks. They will not really be like a bus and withdraw to the ball. The team’s 30-meter line.

In the tactical arrangement set by Rogers, when Arsenal completes the offensive suppression in the away field, the "3s" must not cause trouble to the defense of the midfield. As long as the three of them can complete simple defensive tasks on the periphery, block one. Just block people.

The main responsibility of the three people is to always be ready to receive the pass from teammates when they complete the transition of the ball, and then use their own speed advantage. The three use their cooperation to form a counterattack team to create threats. .

As for Liverpool's goal in the midfield, the only ones who can really communicate directly with the strikers are actually Henderson, Gerrard and Yang Feng.

Others' ability to pass the ball in the game did not provide sufficient assistance to the frontcourt players outstandingly and steadily.

And Liverpool's most threatening counterattack in the first half was Yang Feng's long pass from the backcourt.

Arsenal’s attack, this time before it reached Liverpool’s penalty area, was intercepted by Lucas. When the Arsenal players retreated and rushed to snatch, Lucas chose to return the ball directly back. Pass to find Yang Feng.

Yang Feng was in the penalty area and got enough time to pass the ball. With a precise long pass, he went straight to the right, and Sterling accelerated and ran forward.

A long pass against Arsenal's backcourt.

Arsenal’s defensive players retreated very quickly, but Yang Feng’s pass was too advanced to control the position of this landing point, in front of Sterling and Koscielny, competing for the landing point. It has become a short sprint race, so naturally Sterling has a considerable advantage.

Koscielny sensed that the situation was not right, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​limiting Sterling on the wing. Instead, he determined his defensive goal as limiting Sterling's subsequent breakthrough or threat of passing the ball.

Koscielny can run to the desired defensive position at full speed, but for Sterling, he has to consider how to unload the ball.

Even professional players may make more or less mistakes in unloading and stopping the ball at full speed.

Especially for this kind of high-altitude ball from the rear, it is necessary to judge the ball's landing area during the running process, but also pay attention to the opponent's defensive action, and temporarily decide how to stop the ball.

Therefore, except for a few top technical players, they can often perform miracles of stopping the ball directly on their feet during the game. Most players will have some deviations in the ball control when stopping the ball and cannot directly control the ball. Take control.

This will actually delay some offensive time to allow offensive players to readjust.

Sterling also jumped tens of centimeters forward when he stopped the ball, making Sterling had to continue to accelerate and control the ball before making adjustments. (Basic stopping action. For some amateur players, who often play football and do not take football as their job, there are also many people who can do the unloading action very easily. At this point, some national teams The player who has a stopping distance of several meters at every turn, I really don’t know how he practiced his basic skills?)

Kos Chelsea went directly back to the penalty zone line to take charge of the defense in the middle. Sterling wasted time on stopping the ball, which gave Cazorla, who followed him, a chance to return to the defensive position.

Although for Sterling, there is still a chance to make a pass directly, but at this time Sterling is the most forward player in Liverpool's counter-attack line, and then accelerates the bottom, Sterling is worried that even if the cross is completed, Teammates did not have enough time to keep up and complete the outflank.

Not to mention, Arsenal’s two centre-backs, Koscielny and Mertesacker, both occupy excellent defensive positions in the middle. Unknown.

Sterling made a decision in an instant. Even though he has a better space to exert his personal abilities, Sterling still chose an emergency stop, then slant the ball to the back and pass it to Suarez who has been not far away. .

Suarez received the pass from Sterling and led the ball forward without stopping. Sometimes, South American players have to admire the delicate skill of their feet.

In the face of Sterling's sudden pass, Suarez's lead was very beautiful, he controlled the ball directly on his feet, and immediately formed an absolute control of the ball.

Stirling on the right dribbled the ball to the bottom, and Suarez, who moved back to the center, led the ball. This offensive threat is not the same.

Arsenal's defense line immediately became loose from the previous tight state, and Suarez must not be able to move forward and enter the more threatening area.

Not enough, just when Arsenal's defensive players started to pounce to stop Suarez, Suarez made a cross pass with his right foot while dribbling the ball and passed the ball to the top of the arc in the penalty area.

Sturridge accelerated from the left to the middle, just from back to front, and received the cross pass from Suarez that was transferred from the encirclement.

Facing Mertesacker and Sturridge in front of him, he made a biking action directly in the process of marching. Before he completely got rid of Mertesacker, Sturridge was on the penalty zone line, swaying from a certain angle. Later, he completed a diagonal volley to hit the goal.

"GOAL!!!"

"Sturridge!"

"Goal again!"

"Liverpool scored a goal with the first kick in the away game!"