Football’s First Defender

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In the last few seasons of the Double Red Club games, Liverpool actually have a certain advantage.

After Ferguson retired, neither Moyes nor Van Gaal would be able to quickly integrate the team and restore the team to its former glory.

In recent years, Liverpool, under the guidance of the right tactics and the right players, has instantly grown into a top European team.

But today, Liverpool has dedicated its worst performance at Old Trafford in recent seasons.

Rogers, who was full of expectations for many new aids, was once again "played" by the players who were sent to the field. A large number of new aids flooded the team. If facing an ordinary team, Liverpool can still rely on the players' strong individuals Strength has been suppressed.

But facing a team of the same level as Manchester United, Liverpool players obviously cannot show the effect they want to play when they are unable to exert their full strength in the game.

Of course, the eldest brother does not talk about the second brother.

Liverpool performed badly, and Manchester United’s problems are also big.

Although Liverpool did not play well enough, for Manchester United at home, they could not create too good offensive opportunities in the game.

Throughout the first half, the two teams seemed to have a fast pace, but their weak offensive ability could not pose too much threat to the opponent.

After accumulating enough defensive players in the midfield and restricting the passing of the midfield, the two teams also lacked offensive changes. Most of the time, they could only choose a big kick from the side and expect to pass to the goal to create some miracle.

Liverpool’s Benteke and Manchester United’s Fellaini are all players who are good at headers, but in the case of one-to-two or even three-to-one, they almost always face the team with a 45-degree diagonal long pass. Insufficient ball speed, long passing distances and not threatening passes cannot be converted into shooting opportunities.

Occasionally, he could finish the top contest in the penalty area several times, but the second place was almost grabbed by his opponent.

When both sides have the problem of weak offensive force, the two teams invariably choose to give priority to their own defense, and must not allow their opponents to score first.

Both teams were weak offensively throughout the first half, and they didn't get even one chance to shoot. Of course, it was Liverpool that performed the worst.

In the case of Manchester United's team lineup has been quite tangled, Liverpool made more mistakes on the field.

Although Liverpool and Manchester United have a 1 to 3 shooting ratio and none of them shot on target, Liverpool actually had an excellent opportunity to break the deadlock.

When Manchester United pressed ahead in 28 minutes and wanted to try to play a wave of offensive, Yang Feng completed the steal by making a sudden ground pass in front of the penalty area.

Although he lost Stirling's speed threat in the frontcourt, Yang Feng became more precise in the long pass and guided the long pass for the first time, and found Firmino who had run out of space in front of him.

Brazilians have no choice in small skills.

A wonderful stop-the-ball action, without any delay, will remove the ball from the foot and immediately start the attack.

Firmino combined the ball to run extremely fast, advancing quickly from the middle, and everything happened too suddenly, Liverpool instantly formed a 2 to 2 chance.

And Smalling alone, has some fears about defending Firmino.

Phil Jones, who was dragged in the end, has been paying attention to the side of Fermino to prepare for defense.

However, the width of the court is huge. When the two Manchester United players gathered near the center and prepared to defend the fast-moving Firmino, there was a lot of open space in front of Benteke, who was inserted from the left to the center.

Of course, Benteke has strong physical resistance, but his height and weight limit his running speed.

Although Firmino wanted to pass the ball, he did not dare to pass too deep, because Phil Jones and even De Gea, who were slightly behind, could completely rely on the speed advantage to catch up with the ball to complete the clearance.

And if you pass the ball directly to Benteke's feet, at Benteke's speed, with close to ten meters away from the penalty area, you may be able to get rid of Phil Jones' defense and bring the ball to the goal. position.

Benteke, as a forward, has been reaching forward to signal his teammates to pass the ball.

And Firmino is not a greedy person, but also ready to pass.

But the lack of tacit understanding makes the two people's ideas on the court impossible to synchronize.

Firmino is waiting for the pass and wants to send the most threatening pass.

Benteke is a position I have finished running. If my teammates can't pass the ball, it's not my idea.

Benteke is still accelerating at full speed, but did not notice that the two Manchester United players chose to grab Firmino together at this time.

When Phil Jones and Smalling were on the left and the other right, and at the same time, Firmino finally did not wait. He took the ball and found Benteke diagonally.

Benteke caught the ball solo, then...offside.

Benteke, who did not slow down at all, rushed to the offside area at full speed when the two Manchester United defensive players directly went up and grabbed.

The tacit understanding between the two offensive players was not enough, and an excellent counterattack opportunity was wasted. Rogers on the sideline was so angry that Rogers threw the water bottle in his hand...

In the first half of the game, both sides were all set off by mistakes made by their peers.

Liverpool obviously "better" in terms of turnover due to six new players.

The various passes are not tacit, and the positions overlap, interspersed with Liverpool's positional attack.

Can you imagine that on a top team, there will be a mistake in which the ball passes to the empty position, and then the wing player does not react and gives the ball directly to the sideline?

Then Liverpool played twice.

Mistakes continue to occur, and serious coordination problems still exist in the frontcourt, making Liverpool fight on their own.

The constant coordination errors between the new players also conveyed the tension caused by such errors to the old players.

The most threatening thing for Liverpool in the first half was the last offside counterattack. For Manchester United, the two most threatening attacks were all given by Liverpool.

In the opening stage, Liverpool goalkeeper Minholet dropped the ball~www.NovelMTL.com~ and gave the entire empty goal to Fellaini, but didn't make it.

And before the end of the first half, it was Mignolet and his teammates who made a coordination error and almost gave Manchester United an own gift.

When Liverpool passed the ball in the backcourt, Manchester United suddenly completed a wave of grabs, exerting tremendous pressure on Liverpool's midfield.

Based on the principle of safety first, Yang Feng chose to pass the ball back to Mignole.

Mignolet obviously had a "playing" mindset, tempting Manchester United player Depay to grab the ball before giving it to Emre Can, who was on the right.

As a result, the ball was too slow, making Emre Can be forced by Depay and Fellaini in both directions.

Emre Can neither wants to clear the ball out of bounds directly, nor does he want to make a big mistake in such a dangerous area.

Facing the Knife Mountain ball passed by Mignolet, it was directly passed back with a strong kick, and how to pass it back.

Depay faced this kick and passed the ball back. Indeed, according to Emre Can’s expectation, he did not react immediately. The ball passed directly past Depay and passed back to the goal.

But after Mignolet passed the knife mountain to his teammates, he didn't expect Emre Can to pass the ball back and he was also ill-prepared.

He stopped the ball and made a mistake, and the ball bounced, and it was about to jump into the goal.

Fortunately, Mignole's reaction was fast enough, he turned around quickly, chased back, and then almost hit the goal line with a flying kick to clear the ball.

Outside the penalty area, watching Mignole's performance in the first half of the "show over the audience" made Yang Feng frown.

"Sure enough, the trajectory of history will not change too much, Mi Shen still becomes a low ratio..."