Football’s First Defender

On the weekend after the national team match day, Liverpool's opponent in the league is another giant team. In recent years, Manchester City has been very competitive with Liverpool in the championship.

Relying on the outstanding record since the change of coaching, Liverpool has been in the league in recent times. It has changed from the decline of 1 win and 4 losses at the beginning of the season. Now, relying on a wave of undefeated league games, Liverpool has reached 6 wins and 2 draws. With 4 losses and 20 points, he has ranked 8th in the league, only 8 points away from Leicester City at the top of the list.

Regarding the Premier League’s championship situation this season, the current media believe that Leicester City, whose goal is to be relegated, is only temporarily occupying the top position. After all, behind him, the Manchester City duo and Arsenal are both in 2 Within the gap of points, it is said that a civilian team like Leicester City can win the final league championship. Maybe no one would believe it except the old man who bought his home team at 500 times the odds this season.

However, Yang Feng knows that the historical trajectory is like this. When the six Premier League giants were all in a crisis of internal and external troubles, Leicester City suddenly emerged, relying on the defensive counterattack tactics and relying on the team to live a career. The top players successfully created the "Blue Fox Miracle."

This is also the reason why Yang Feng believes that even if Liverpool have encountered great difficulties at the beginning of the season, they may immediately turn over. That is that this year's championship points will not be too high, and the wealthy teams generally do not perform well. It is actually very beneficial for Liverpool to catch up from the end of the league.

　　 Now for Liverpool, with a gap of 8 points from the top of the table, everything is possible with the league only going to the 13th round.

　　Although most of the Liverpool players have participated in the national team competition, compared with the opponents in this game, the physical fitness of Liverpool players can actually be considered to occupy a certain advantage.

Nowadays, most of the players in the Liverpool team are young people, and their ability to recover is fast. Moreover, they are not the absolute main players in the national team. As far as the physical energy consumption of the national team is concerned, they are actually not as wealthy The absolute main player in Manchester City.

And players such as Yang Feng and Milner either have certain national team "privileges", or have withdrawn from the national team and did not participate in the national team competition, so they are considered to have retained enough physical fitness to deal with this strong matchup. .

　　 An off at the Etihad Stadium to challenge the "Blue Moon" Manchester City. This is Klopp, who wants to press a game where he can continue to prove his coaching ability.

　　 The national team game day is a huge loss for Manchester City. It is definitely a major injury player in the FIFA virus.

　　 For Pellegrini, the lineup adjustments he can make are really limited despite the huge injuries.

　　 Defensive line, Mangala and veteran Demi Kellis started as a central defender combination with haircuts.

　　 The two full-backs, Sanya and Korolaf are also old players, which makes Manchester City's entire defense, except for Joe Hart in the goalkeeper position, the defense of others has certain problems.

　　Especially Demichelis and Mangala in the centre-back combination, with two "colanders" starting at the same time, Manchester City's defense is definitely digging for themselves.

　　 But Manchester City's midfielder is still quite impressive.

　　 451 lineup configuration, Fernando, Yaya Toure, and De Bruyne defend and attack in the midfield.

　　 Navas and Sterling are separated on the two wings to complete the team's wing breakthrough, and in the forward position, the team has always been the starting striker, Aguero.

　　 Even though there may be sinkholes in the backcourt, Manchester City's strong midfield lineup, coupled with home games, still makes many people think that in this game, Manchester City actually still occupies a certain advantage.

　　 As for Liverpool's lineup, Henderson entered the injury list, which still affected the team's midfielder.

　　 However, fortunately, Liverpool's midfielder reserves are better.

　　Milner, Emre Can and Lallana are the team's three midfielders, each completing their division of labor.

　　 As for the configuration of the three forwards, Firmino is still in the middle, while Coutinho and Jordan Iby are separated.

　　 Defensive line is no different from the past starters. As long as there is no injury, Liverpool’s back line is as stable as ever.

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool had been away from the away game. It was not that Manchester City would give up the initiative. From the very beginning of the game, Liverpool played a high position in the midfield to suppress the defense to restrict Manchester City from the midfield. Out the ball.

　　 The main reason is that Manchester City's backcourt players are not strong enough to play the ball. The defensive line, the goalkeeper, the central defender, and the midfielder Fernando's ability to play the ball are not excellent.

　　 Klopp based on the opponent's injury list before the game, after estimating the possible Manchester City starter, he discovered the problem of Manchester City's ability to play the ball in the backcourt. In the game, he chose to strengthen Liverpool's high-pressure defense in the frontcourt.

　　 Klopp's tactics are very simple. Isn't your Manchester City midfielder strong offensive? Then I will stop the possibility of your easy attack from the source.

　　 to limit your backcourt passes, you can effectively prevent Manchester City players from receiving the ball in the center and frontcourt and organizing the number of attacks.

　　 And Liverpool's high-post press, achieved miraculous effects in the 7th minute of the first half.

　　 Before Coutinho hit the goal with a long shot, after the anti-aircraft gun, he gave Manchester City a goal kick.

　　 And when Joe Hart was ready to pass, Liverpool's frontcourt pressing position was already in place.

　　 Maybe Joe Hart wants to show off his footwork in the game, to pass the rumored next coach, and prove that he will have a life on his feet.

　　 This goal kick did not go out directly with a big foot, but a half high ball, which passed the ball directly to Sarnia on the right.

　　Sania’s stoppage this time was pretty good, no surprises.

　　 However, Coutinho rushed over from the back, speeding up to complete the press.

　　 Before, Coutinho was still facing Mangala face to face, and when Joe Hart finished the pass, he speeded up and rushed over to **** Sarnia.

　　 Sanya is indeed a bit old. The processing speed of this ball is obviously a bit slow, or it may be that Coutinho has not noticed the acceleration of the side rear.

　　 wanted to lean on his body and block Coutinho's upper back from the side.

　　 It turned out that Coutinho used the momentum of his acceleration to directly bump Sanya into a stagger and grab the football.

　　 And when Sanya was slightly out of balance, he slipped on the soles of his feet and fell directly on his knees~www.NovelMTL.com~ The referee did not think this was a foul.

　　 Coutinho dribbled the ball forward and struck the penalty area diagonally.

　　 Demichelis hurriedly came over to make up the defense, but when facing Coutinho, he obviously didn't dare to make any moves to prevent Coutinho from directly completing the defense.

　　 And Coutinho, with Demichelis defending his position, did not attack, but slid forward lightly.

　　 Firmino directly rushed into the middle and diagonally forward, after finishing receiving the ball, he continued to the bottom, and then went straight to the front of the goal.

　　It was Coutinho who sent a straight pass to Firmino who responded in front of the goal. After Coutinho passed the ball, he immediately crossed into the middle and completed the response.

　　 Whether Demichelis chased Firmino or turned around to chase Coutinho, there was some slowness, so that Mangala could only defend against two in front of the door.

　　 And Firmino's limited shooting angle also allows Mangala to focus on defending Coutinho.

　　 However, Mangala's tall figure makes his reaction ability not so fast.

　　 Firmino quickly reversed the triangle and passed the ball to the center, while Mangala made a clearance first, but because of his slow speed, he did not make enough clearance action and instead just blocked the ball.

　　 Firmino swept the ball hard to the center. After the block of Mangala, he flew directly in the direction of the goal. Joe Hart was caught off guard and the ball rolled directly into the net.

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