Football’s First Defender

Before today's "Double Reds" game officially begins, Liverpool officials will still conduct a brief but significant pre-match ceremony.

The players of Liverpool and Manchester United, after guessing the sides, lined up in their respective half to pay tribute to a great English football star.

At this time, the fans at Anfield stood up and applauded. Together with the players on both sides of the bench, they also stood and applauded. This one-minute applause was dedicated to the heroic coach of Liverpool football history, Bill Shankly.

Today is the 100th birthday of Shankly. Shankly is a symbol of the spirit of the "Red Army". The famous saying "Football has nothing to do with life and death, but football is higher than life and death" is the best interpretation of the spirit of the "Red Army".

The TV broadcast footage was transferred to the famous KOP stand at Anfield Stadium in good time. The fans used the official red or white shirts on their seats to form a pattern of celebration of players with arms outstretched. After the player pattern, there are numbers. The composition of 100 patterns represents the 100th anniversary of Shankly’s birth.

Before Ferguson, England's most successful coach and a football philosopher, it was Shankly who created the Liverpool dynasty and made Liverpool the best team in England at the time, not one of them.

At today's commemoration ceremony, Liverpool officials also invited many of Shankly's children and descendants, who entered the stadium and cherished the memory of their ancestors with Liverpool fans.

This kind of football culture, the inheritance of football as an emotional bond, may be the reason why there are always enough people who love football in these sacred places of football in Europe.

Yang Feng stood on the field, watching the inheritance of this tens of hundreds of years of love for football, watching the nostalgia of Liverpool fans for history, and the expectations of the current team, and felt that the burden on his shoulders is even heavier. some.

Such lovely fans are worthy of a long-lost England top league champion to repay their persistence for decades.

With the whistle of the referee, the much-anticipated "Double Reds" match officially began. After the previous ceremony, the fans did not sit down immediately, but all remained standing and sang the most representative Liverpool song "You will never walk alone".

The Anfield stadium resounded through the neat singing of the Liverpool fans. Inspired by the singing of the fans, the Liverpool players performed very hard from the beginning.

After Manchester United kicked off, Liverpool directly pressed on to start the high pressure front court.

This kind of opening press affects Manchester United’s offensive organization in the midfield. They can only pass the ball back to the penalty area. The central defender Vidic takes the ball, finds the left back Evra, and avoids Liverpool’s midfield press defense. , Evra takes the ball directly forward.

Liverpool's press shifted quickly, but Evra's pass was faster, a short pass, and the ball was handed to Carrick who was not far away.

Carrick took the ball diagonally to Liverpool's weak defensive position and moved forward quickly.

Liverpool’s opening press was still too strong. Carrick found a gap between many Liverpool defenders and drove the ball forward. There were four Liverpool players around Carrick, but the first time, they all There is no way to stop him from advancing.

When Liverpool finally had a defensive player to catch up with Carrick, Carrick made a diagonal through shot and found Ashley Young who was on the left.

Taking advantage of Glen Johnson's defense not in place, Ashley Young went straight to the left without stopping the ball to complete the cross.

In the penalty area, Manchester United have Welbeck and Van Persie outflanking two people.

However, Yang Feng rushed out in the lead. After accurately judging that Welbeck at the previous point would definitely take the high ball, he defended Van Persie with all his strength and confronted with his normal body, which affected Van Persie’s take-off height. Yang Feng himself jumped high. Van Persie raised his head and headed the ball out of the penalty area.

Yang Feng's header cleared the place of the ball and headed for the left side of the team. However, Manchester United's veteran Giggs, who had a very positive opening performance, took a step ahead of Lucas to get the football.

After that, Giggs took two steps forward from his right position, and before Jose Enrique's defense was in place, he sent a half-high arc cross. It's just that, at this time, Van Persie, the contact point that Giggs was counting on, was firmly stuck in position by Yang Feng. This pass that swung to the small penalty area was received by Mignolet without pressure.

In the first 20 seconds of the game, Manchester United organized two consecutive attacks, which played a leading role. In this game, although Moyes lined up and was somewhat conservative, it seemed that the Manchester United players were in the Double Red Club. In the game, there is no plan to play defensive counterattacks at ease.

Although the Liverpool players want to quickly launch a threatening attack, tell Manchester United that this is Anfield.

But today Manchester United deployed a lot of defensive players in the midfield, making the two sides directly in the midfield and strangling.

You come and I go, the ball is changing between each other, no one can find a comfortable opportunity to move forward.

And the actions of the players on both sides are great. Whether it is Van Persie who wants to serve as a fulcrum to catch the ball, or Sturridge from Liverpool wants to catch the ball with his back, with the defender behind him, under the defensive way of pulling and pulling, There was no way to comfortably complete the technical movement of catching the ball with the back of the body. In the end, the defending team regained the ball.

It can be seen that today's referee is very knowledgeable and gave a very loose penalty scale in such a fierce competition as the Double Reds.

When breaking through from the center frontally, when there is no good chance, you must use the scheduling to try to open the situation on the side.

Manchester United’s defensive press today was mainly concentrated in its own half. Although all players returned to the half-time ~www.NovelMTL.com~, there were also 4 players, almost stepping on the midfield line, preparing to defend the middle of Liverpool's dribbling. Field players.

For Liverpool, the ball passed the backcourt and was transferred to Jose Enrique on the left.

When Enrique rushed into the line, Giggs was waiting in front. He didn't plan to compete with Giggs. Enrique chose to make a long pass in the midfield and pass directly to the arc of the penalty area. Hope Stu Rich can complete the dispute and tentatively complete an offense.

Only with Vidic and Evra’s double defensive defense, Sturridge was not easy to fight for, and Vidic was stuck in position, and Evra's header was given to Carrick in the penalty area. .

Carrick knew that there were Liverpool players coming up behind him, and he didn't dare to play with fire in this area. He kept the ball and passed it directly to Ashley Young who was not far away.

It’s just that Evra’s header made a clearance, and it was a rebound ball that landed in front of Carrick. In the rush, Carrick handled the ball in the right direction, but the speed of the ball was still slow. a little.

The very aggressive old Liverpool captain Gerrard, quickly moved forward, before Ashley Young, intercepted and grabbed the ball.

This is the game. The enthusiasm of the Liverpool players is very important for every fight for the ball.

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