Football’s First Defender

In the Merseyside derby, neither team will have any concessions.

If it was said that in the Moyes era, in the Merseyside derby, he would prefer to use defense to limit Liverpool and turn around to fight Liverpool's counterattack.

So now in Martinez's era, we are trying to eliminate Moyes' influence, and instead let the team also keep up with the trend of the European continent, focusing on pass control.

Anyway, the foundation of the Everton team lies there.

The overall strength of the team's players has always been much better than that of ordinary teams, and a bit worse than that of rich teams.

The result is also the kind of situation where you can relegation early in the league and you can test the lineup without worry.

As for qualifying for the Europa League, it’s worth a lot of money for Everton. It’s better to let the little monsters in the team exercise early and sell them as soon as you practice. It’s better than the Europa League bonus. too much.

Everton has been the main focus of the Premier League over the years. For domestic cups and European games, they have almost given up.

For example, in the UEFA Europa League, in the qualifying rounds before entering the group stage, Everton played the trick of straight out.

Although this also makes Everton not a good team honor, but there is no doubt that it makes Everton the best team in the Premier League.

There is no pressure to score, as long as the two games against Liverpool are played well every season, that's it.

For the rest, to ensure that his record is firmly in the middle of the Premier League, without worrying about the issue of relegation, Everton can open the play mode unscrupulously.

But against Liverpool, Everton always used the most upright attitude. Even if he could not beat Liverpool, he would have to wear out a layer of skin.

In this game, Liverpool took the lead first, but after being immediately equalized by Everton, the momentum was actually on Everton's side.

With the cheering of tens of thousands of fans at home, Everton directly honed his pass-and-control offensive play for half a season to the extreme, and even began to press against Liverpool's defense.

However, being pressed and beaten by Everton was also intentional by Liverpool. After all, Everton played at home like a rainbow, and Liverpool did not want to let Everton seize the opportunity in a confrontation.

Everton played pass control as a whole team to strengthen control of the ball, but Lukaku at the front has the strong strength of a traditional center. This also makes Everton's pass control play can be passed by himself at any time. In the end, but it can also create a great threat.

For Liverpool's defense, to take into account the problem of switching between the two offensive modes, it can only be handled carefully.

Moreover, Everton's offense was happily played, but Liverpool's counterattack was not in vain.

Although Sturridge is on standby in this game, Liverpool's striker strength seems to have been lost, but with Suarez charging forward, Coutinho and Henderson behind him can also get considerable attacking space.

Liverpool's counterattack is still extremely efficient.

In the 27th minute of the game, Liverpool was in the front court. During the counterattack, Everton players fouled in front of the penalty area and got a direct free kick.

This ball is not suitable for real free kicks because it is close to the penalty area line.

Free kick shooters like Gerrard and Henderson did not choose to take the penalty, but handed it to Suarez, who has excellent shooting skills in the team.

Suarez didn't take the high ball and hit the left and right upper corners, but forcibly controlled the ball and hit a low-altitude ball with a strong arc.

The ball is no more than 20 cm above the ground, but it spins with a strong arc, bypassing the 5-person wall in the Everton penalty area from the right, and leaning on the strong arc to complete the maneuver before flying out of the baseline. The right post was rotated outside the goal, and the Everton goalkeeper was caught off guard.

2 to 1, Liverpool actually took the lead after being suppressed for nearly 20 minutes.

Everton, who fell behind in the game again, was not discouraged. In the Merseyside derby, the score lag was temporary for both teams. As long as the game is not over, the team will have Opportunity to tie the score.

Everton began to use a more fierce attack to try to tie the score.

No longer like the previous 1-1, relying on passing and controlling to find the perfect opportunity, at this time Everton, began to take up a larger offensive ratio in the offensive end, wing passes.

Everton wants to increase the number of attacks, increase the number of goals, and use frequent and effective attacks, and the amount will change to a qualitative change to complete the goal.

The frequent wing attacks and the increased number of crosses brought about by Lukaku also gave Lukaku within the penalty zone a better space to play.

Everton's goal to equalize again appeared before the end of the first half.

Everton's continuous offensive suppression has created several corner kick opportunities.

And this time, when the corner kick was sent to the open position before the point, Skrtel took a step slower to start, directly allowing Lukaku to occupy a favorable position, making Lukaku who started at full speed, after the jump, tough The body has made it impossible for Scott at the side to move.

With a head shake in front of the left post of the goal, "Little Monster" Lukaku strongly scored Everton's second goal, allowing the team to equalize before halftime.

After changing sides to fight again, Lukaku still showed his strong center strength in the penalty area.

The reason why Yang Feng is not allowed to defend Lukaku is because although Yang Feng has already reached the level of European central defenders, he still wants to fight against Lukaku.

At this time, Lukaku, when facing most defenders, can rely on a strong body to fight and complete the strong attack.

And the most important thing is that, like the "Warcraft" Drogba of the year, Lukaku not only has a strong body, a higher height, but also has the same excellent player and technical ability.

Although Lukaku's skills at the feet are not enough to produce flowers under his feet~www.NovelMTL.com~, Lukaku is definitely not as cumbersome as a traditional high center in the game.

Occasionally in the game, Lukaku also did a good job pulling sides according to the situation of the game.

Therefore, Lukaku can only be handed over to Scotter, who is more capable of confrontation, to defend. On the one hand, Yang Feng has to restrict the interspersed running of other Everton players. Make up for this side.

In fact, during the game, Yang Feng helped Scotter destroy a lot of passes to Lukaku, but today, Liverpool's side defense still has a lot of problems.

Although it will not be completely blown by Everton, breaking from the wing into the penalty area poses a threat, but it is not much better. Everton's wing ball has not received much defensive interference.

In the 67th minute of the second half, the first goal of both sides finally appeared.

Thanks to Miralas's pull-out pass, the ball is high and the ball is extremely fast, Yang Feng's position, the take-off can only rise, but it is too late to get to the back point.

In the 1v1 competition between Lukaku and Scotter at the back point, this time Scotter was again dominated by Lukaku.

Pulling the green on the dry land and making a tough header, Lukaku did not fully make a header attack under the interference of Skrtel's defense. But when he is so close to the goal, Lukaku only needs to use the ball. Just touch the ball and change the course of football.

3 to 2!

Lukaku scored twice!

Helped Everton overtake the score at home!

In the much-anticipated Merseyside derby, Lukaku proved with his strength that now, as a young man, he also has the opportunity to become the best center player in European football!