Football’s First Defender

After the victory over Burnley, Liverpool set up for a day and flew to Portugal to prepare for a second fight with Porto.

Due to the big score in the first round, Liverpool even had spare capacity to exchange personnel in the front and middle of the game.

Because Rogers not only prepares for the Champions League quarter-finals, but also for the players in the league to maintain their physical fitness and prepare for the following games.

As for the strikers, Balotelli played with Sterling to counterattack. The midfielder is a midfield combination of Lucas, Joe Allen and Lallana.

As for the defense, the five-back combination, the two full-backs were rotated, Jose Enrique, and Glen Johnson, who has recently declined in state and could not get the main position guarantee, started the game.

The three central defenders are Yang Feng, Scotter, and Lovren. With such a shabby lineup, Liverpool made it clear that they wanted to be on the road, defend their first leg lead, and succeed in qualifying.

Unlike Liverpool’s "shrinking", Porto, who has almost lost the suspense of promotion, played quite openly in this game.

The team deploys a large number of offensive players on the offensive end, just as if they are disregarding the defense and fighting for honor at home.

However, although Liverpool is not a defensive team, but under the leadership of Yang Feng, combined with Liverpool's already close defensive lineup today, the defense of Porto is fairly good.

Porto's oppressive attack in the half-time, in the end, only scored a goal. In the big score, he recovered a goal and faced a huge gap of 4 goals in the first round, which was still slightly insufficient.

Although at the beginning of the second half, Porto played Liverpool with an unsteady foothold. The team's flash goal, further narrowing the score, made Liverpool feel a little nervous.

However, just as Rogers was preparing to change and adjust and continue to strengthen the team's defense, Balotelli finally stood up in the game.

Balotelli, who wasted two excellent counterattacks in the first half, finally played in the second half.

After receiving a long backcourt pass from Yang Feng, Balotelli got rid of the defender outside the penalty area. When the other defenders of Porto were not in place, he shot the goal outside the penalty area.

The ball hits the upper right corner of the goal, hits the junction of the post and the crossbar, and bounces into the goal.

This ball is very similar to the world wave in the European Cup semi-finals that year. Ba Shenmeng returned to its peak.

And the Porto Dragon Stadium, which had been in force before, was also silent for an instant.

Due to the away goal, Porto wants to score a goal, and can only net 4 goals in the remaining time. This is an impossible task for Porto.

After all, Liverpool is not Barcelona.

It won't really leave so many opportunities to the opponent.

In the end, Rodgers was completely settled by the goal of Bashen, and although Porto scored again before the end, the score was fixed at 3-1 and won at home.

But that didn't affect Liverpool. With a huge advantage in the total score of the two rounds, they advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

The two lines played triumphantly, the final schedule of this season, countless kops, are full of hope for the team.

Last year was the year of Liverpool's revival. This year, Liverpool fans hope that the team will successfully return to its true peak, be able to complete the title of defending the league and stand on the top of Europe.

To accomplish this goal, Liverpool still has a long way to go.

The game is played one after another.

In the UEFA Champions League, Liverpool, who had completed their rotation, continued to advance in the league.

The guest scene was against Swansea.

Today Swansea is definitely the representative of the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League team and technical genre.

Its outstanding record even surpassed the veteran second-tier strong team Everton, ranking 8th in the league.

The team's technical reforms, as always, have now paid off.

Moreover, this Welsh team has a very clever vision in the transfer market and spends a small amount of money to do big things. Mi Chu, who came from "Taobao", is very well mixed in the team, and has achieved himself and the team.

On the guest scene against such a giant killer this season, Liverpool dare not care.

At his home court, Swansea has only 3 losses in 14 games this season.

And when facing the giant team, the last home game, just beat Manchester United 2-1, driving Manchester United out of the Champions League.

In the first half of the season, they also defeated Arsenal and drew Manchester City.

It can be said that the impressive record is in sight, allowing Liverpool to fully prepare for this game.

In the course of the game, Liverpool also felt the pressure from the opponent.

Swansea did not fight against Liverpool. The priority is still the team's own defense. However, after the defense is successful, Swansea can have the capital to control the ball for a certain period of time and play a pass control strategy. To deal with Liverpool's frontcourt press, further consuming the physical energy of Liverpool players.

Quite strong tactical execution ability, reasonable staffing, and the cheers of tens of thousands of kuma mills on the scene, so that Swansea, although there are not too many threats offensive, but relying on possession of the ball, it can be the game The rhythm of Liverpool is not completely in the hands of Liverpool.

Occasionally interrupting Liverpool's offensive rhythm also allowed Swansea to use a different method to limit Liverpool's offense.

The two teams drew a goalless draw in the half.

In the second half of the game, Swansea continued to stick to his own pass-and-control play. As long as there is a chance, it is the infinite pass of the backcourt, allowing Liverpool players to consume more physical energy in this kind of press~www.readwn.com ~ And Liverpool's inability to play a coherent offensive also affected the players' offensive state, and some of the games fell into a deadlock.

The rhythm of Liverpool's game began to stagnate, and on the other hand, Swansea, who played at home, showed an extraordinary performance with the cheer of the audience.

Swansea players run harder and Liverpool's offense is even harder to develop.

If the situation of the game continues like this, Liverpool may really not be able to successfully win the game away.

At the critical moment, Yang Feng still played the role of Dinghai Shenzhen.

For pass-control teams, in order to make the team pass the ball more smoothly, the height of the players is generally not too high, so naturally they do not have any advantage when defending the set ball.

And Yang Feng is to seize the weakness of Swansea's lack of average height.

In this game, Liverpool used a lot of positioning tactics to find Yang Feng, but they were all resolved by the home team's defensive players.

However, Yang Feng himself did not lose confidence. Instead, according to the layout of his defense on the field, he constantly tried to adjust his position to find the best offensive position.

In the 76th minute of the game, the effort paid off. Yang Feng finally received a corner pass from Coutinho, interspersed in the middle area of ​​the two defenders, took off forcibly, occupied the high point, and both left and right were under the defensive force exerted by the opponent. .

Then, barely stabilized his figure in the air, and then shook his head to attack the door. When Liverpool was in a rare offensive deadlock, Yang Feng stood up again and relied on his header to help the team break the deadlock!

The final score was 1-0 to the end. In the last 15 minutes, Liverpool withstood the attack of the home team and relied on the most cost-effective score to win.