Football’s First Defender

The focus of the battle on Saturday can be seen from the starting list announced by the FA in advance.

Mourinho's rotation is quite thorough.

The core of the team's offense this season, Hazard, Oscar and others, all stand on the sidelines.

Even the goalkeeper Cech, Captain Terry and others on the defense line have been given the chance to rest in this game.

However, even if it is a rotation, Chelsea has sufficient staff reserves and most of the substitute players sent to the field are still familiar to many fans.

Especially the midfielders sent by Mourinho, although they are not the main players of the season, but Mikel, Matic, such defensive midfielders are on the field, and Chelsea looks like a defensive counterattack. The tactics most in line with Mourinho's coaching style.

It's just that Mourinho is reluctant to be his main player, wasting his energy. In this irrelevant Premier League game, there is no player on the front line or a main player, which may affect the quality of Chelsea's own counterattack.

The striker combination of Dembaba, Salah, and Hurle not only has to find a way to create a threat in the counterattack, but also bear a huge defense responsibility.

Regarding Mourinho's defensive attitude, even the well-known Xuerle has no way to make conditions, let alone the lesser-known Salah and Dembaba.

The entire Chelsea striker, after the start of the game, consumed a lot of physical energy in the frontcourt and the backcourt.

Although Chelsea has no chance of attacking, it has to be admitted that such an all-round iron barrel formation is placed in front of Liverpool. In a short time, Liverpool has nothing to do.

Taking into account the possible iron barrel formation of Chelsea, plus Sturridge has not recovered to the best condition, Rogers continued to place Coutinho on the left.

Rogers still relies heavily on Coutinho's personal offensive with the ball, hoping to use Coutinho's personal ability to tear apart Chelsea's defense from point to point, and then bring a breakthrough to Liverpool's overall attack.

In the midfield, Henderson has not recovered in a week. Rogers can only send a midfield combination of Joe Allen, Lucas and Gerrard.

Compared to Henderson, Joe Allen is better at dispatching passes, but he lacks Henderson's running ability. For the team's defense in the midfield, he does not have the defensive effect of Henderson.

Yang Feng and Scotter only need to do what they usually do.

Defend the gap left by the team after attacking, and then use the height advantage when positioning the ball to form a powerful supplement to the team's offensive system.

After the start of the game, Liverpool continued their offensive play as always.

At Anfield, no team can say that they can withstand Liverpool’s attack when Liverpool is doing their best. Even Mourinho, who is good at defensive training, has no way to target Liverpool at this time. Defense.

There is one point that Mourinho is really right. For this league, Mourinho does not value that much. All the energy of the entire Chelsea coaching staff is focused on the study of Atletico and Liverpool. For the game, Mourinho only determined the starting list, and then let the players play and play by themselves.

Is Mourinho just giving these players who usually don't have much playing time, poured a wave of chicken soup, so that Chelsea players burned a strong fighting spirit, hoping to give Liverpool the first defeat of the season in the away game to prove himself.

For these Chelsea fringe players who urgently need to show themselves in front of the head coach and other teams, what can be more fulfilling and better way to prove than defeating the incredible Liverpool?

Chelsea’s starting players in this game all have a considerable willingness to perform. Even if their personal strength and team understanding are not the top level in the world, they have a certain degree with Liverpool players and their own team’s starters. The gap may be different, but when Chelsea use the defense of the whole team to shrink back and show the determination to defend, they can reduce this strength disadvantage as much as possible.

The situation of the game was indeed the same. From the beginning, Liverpool had absolute possession of the ball and launched a comprehensive siege on Chelsea.

This absolute lead in possession of the ball allowed Liverpool to tentatively launch an offensive in the center and front court, and they have not many opportunities.

However, Chelsea's solid defense in the middle makes it impossible for Liverpool to achieve the penetrating play that Liverpool wants.

The ball is divided into two sides, and the attack will not be blocked too much. Chelsea's restrictions on Liverpool's side pilling are not that big.

However, when Liverpool want to penetrate the ball into the center, they will find that it is extremely difficult.

Chelsea's defense line, with layers of defense, does not allow Liverpool to pass the ball to the hinterland of the center.

Coutinho took the ball by himself and tried to pass the ball directly to Suarez. However, Chelsea did a good job of limiting the space in the center.

Mikel and Matic’s defensive coverage is already very good, coupled with Lampard's rich experience.

Throughout the center, Chelsea's defensive trio did not leave Liverpool any attacking space at all.

The penetrating passes to the center were all intercepted by three people. Liverpool’s most commonly used Suarez retreat catching tactics, Ivanovic, who played central defender in this field, followed Suarez, and Chelsea midfielder. Under the excellent defense, there is no way to play.

The bite incident between Suarez and Ivan last season was still one of the gimmicks of the game before the game. The referee paid more attention to the two people, fearing that the two would cause themselves something to do on the field.

Fortunately, Yang Feng has a good relationship with Suarez, and he also had an affair with Ivanovic, so in consideration of Yang Feng's face, the two are just normal card position confrontations, and even trash talk is rarely confronted.

Who says that foreigners don’t understand the world, but sometimes they can’t be slick to anyone. When it’s time to give face, foreigners will also know what to do.

Suarez was severely restricted by Chelsea's defensive tactics. Under such circumstances, Liverpool's attack was driven by Chelsea's defensive pressure to the wing ~www.readwn.com~.

It's just that there is indeed room for passing on the wing, which can make Liverpool's offense smoother. However, in the case of Chelsea, with a large accumulation of defensive players in the center, Liverpool's wing does not have enough midfielder response points.

Coutinho, Sterling, even Joe Allen, Gerrard can insert into the penalty area at any time and act as a point of contact, but in the face of tall people, they can also control Chelsea in all the areas where they fall. Players, Liverpool's wide pass can be passed, but it is impossible for the attacking players who do not have too strong physical confrontation ability to create a chance to shoot.

Occasionally, Suarez can barely get one or two header opportunities, but it is also impossible to complete a high-quality header under sufficient defensive interference from the opponent.

Most of the time in the first half passed, Liverpool did not cause even one threat to attack, the cross was not very useful, and the outside long shot, in the case of Chelsea's tight defense in the middle, there were not many opportunities in itself, and it was hard to hit. Long shots were almost completely blocked by Chelsea players, and they did not give Liverpool players a chance to threaten the goalkeeper.

In this game, Chelsea's defense was quite tenacious.

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