Football’s First Defender

After 30 minutes of the game, both teams suddenly began to exert their strength, each creating an offensive.

It may be that the calm game in the previous ten minutes has allowed both sides to accumulate a lot of physical energy. In the last ten minutes of the first half, both teams began to actively speed up the pace of the game. The scene of the game changed instantly. It has to look good.

Saul’s previous long shot was not threatening, but it hit the defensive player before it still rushed straight to the sky. Therefore, it was still a corner kick for Atletico Madrid. opportunity.

When the corner kick is taken, look for a point forward.

Milner took the lead in the first point to top the ball, but under the scramble, the ball went to the center of the penalty spot.

The ball fell into a parabola. Fortunately, Yang Feng did not give his opponent a chance to fight for a spot in the penalty area. He directly rushed forward after judging the spot of the ball in the game. After grabbing the landing point, he directly pushed the ball out.

Yang Feng moved forward quickly, using his inertia, leaping high and pushing the ball far away.

Moreover, Yang Feng controlled the strength and direction very well, directly pushing the ball to the vicinity of the midfield area.

After the ball landed and rebounded, it fell to the feet of Firmino, who was running the strongest side of Liverpool.

Firmino withdrew to catch the ball. Under the interference of the opponent's defense, he did not choose to stop the ball to start the attack. Instead, he took the ball quickly and passed the ball to a nearby who also rushed at full speed. Coutinho's feet.

After Coutinho took over, after attracting the defense of the defensive players, without two steps, he re-handed the ball to the feet of Firmino, who had gone to the right and opened space.

Firmino did not choose to play on the right side. After all, although he had already pulled down the wing quickly in this counterattack, he was left unattended when the opponent's defensive strength was insufficient.

But there are also defensive players not far away. As long as Firmino wants to make a deep attack on the wing, he must suffer the pressure of the opponent's defense forward.

At this time, for Firmino, instead of taking the ball forward by himself, he has to bear more defensive pressure, it is better to complete the ball quickly and find a teammate with a better counterattack position.

Firmino sent a wide-range pass on the right, trying to transfer the ball directly to the left.

Lallana launched a sprint on the left in this fast down.

After receiving Firmino's 45 degrees diagonally, he moved the ball to a large area on the left. Lallana's offensive position has already reached the core area on the left.

Lallana did unload the pass, but it was also unsatisfactory that Lallana was also defended by Atletico defensive players and was unable to further attack.

Lallana finally got rid of his strength on the left, almost half of his body, and then sent a pass with his left foot and swept directly to the goal.

It's just that Coutinho and Henderson, who ran over in front of the goal, did not receive this pass.

Atletico Madrid's defensive core player Godin and Liverpool's Yang Feng, both of them have super defensive abilities.

In the penalty area, with two Liverpool players fighting over the situation, Godin did not panic at all during the game. He focused on the passing route, directly from the source, and suppressed Liverpool's counterattack this time.

It was directly during the game that Lallana's pass was passed in advance, and the ball was intercepted by falling to the ground and stretching his legs to block the ball.

After Godin intercepted the ball, he immediately stabbed Juan Fran at close range.

Juan Fran made a straight pass from the side to find Vietto, who had just returned from the midfield area.

For Vietto, this is an excellent opportunity to show off his personal offensive ability on the wing.

As long as he unloaded the ball and turned around to break through Moreno's defense, the halftime facing Liverpool would be almost a smooth journey.

Young strikers like Bietto still want to play better, to fully demonstrate their strength in such a situation and help the team achieve a good result.

However, Bietto still overestimated his personal ability.

In other words, Vietto did not expect that Liverpool would "deploy a division of troops" to capture himself.

When Vietto unloaded the ball successfully, intending to retreat to the space of two steps, adjust the rhythm of the game, and then launch a strong attack against Moreno.

But Bietto didn't expect that this short period of time of his own preparation has changed the format of the game a lot.

After Liverpool's previous offense did not achieve an offensive effect, all players were immediately involved in the frontcourt.

This time, after unloading the ball on the right wing, Vietto did not pass the ball for the first time. He even took two steps back in the game to adjust the space and prepare to attack Moreno's defense.

But counting the previous stops and unloading actions, as well as this adjustment, it was a slightly complicated offensive operation, and it took more time to make Liverpool’s previous players who participated in the offensive also come back in place.

Vieto was still on the right wing, and suddenly he was surrounded by three Liverpool players, which put a lot of pressure on Vieto, who had the ball.

There is no passing route and no room for breakthrough. Under the pressure of Liverpool players, Bietto has been under great pressure.

At this moment, Vietto was hit hard by Lallana from behind. The referee did not make a penalty. Lallana took the ball directly and swiftly, and it was Liverpool's frontcourt counterattack opportunity.

Lallana made a half-high pass and passed the ball directly to the foot of Firmino who was at the top of the arc in the penalty area.

After receiving the ball, Firmino faced the only two remaining central defenders of Atletico Madrid, first suddenly smashed the ball and smashed Savage, who was defending himself closely.

It's just that Savage is now in a "blow" state to win time for Godin behind him.

Firmino originally wanted to deduct Savage this defensive player in the game, and immediately shoot long shots to avoid Atletico Madrid's best defensive defensive line from Godin to cover the defense.

It's just that Firmino has more ideas to hit the door.

Under such circumstances, Godin performed quite well, successfully using Savage's dedication to accurately determine the direction of Firmino's attack from the rear, and in the end, quickly completed the grab.

In Firmino's long-range shot, there is still time to complete the action in the future.

Godin has already cleared the ball from the danger zone again.

The ball's location is on the right side of the midfield area, just in the defense zone where Klein is.

Klein successfully stopped the ball and drove the ball directly across the half-court line, wanting to contribute the offensive power to the team on the right in the game.

The rhythm of the game between the two teams suddenly continued to accelerate after 30 minutes.

After Fox nearly had an own goal this time, Liverpool had a corner kick in the front court.

Coutinho's corner kick went directly to the middle goal. Yang Feng and Morgan competed for the top. Yang Feng reached the top of football, but Morgan also formed an effective interference.

Under the joint efforts of the two, the football just bounced high and flew to the front of the goal, allowing the goalkeeper Schmeichel to easily receive the ball.

Schmeichel, who was anxious to fight back, ran quickly to the vicinity of the penalty area line, and a big foot went directly to Vardy in the frontcourt.

However, in the case of being too anxious, the bigfoot pass did not maintain accuracy. The flight path of the ball was indeed looking for Vardy on the right, but it was kicked out by Schmeichel too strongly. Beyond the sideline.

Moreno made a sideline kick, and the entire Leicester City had 4 defensive players in the frontcourt. They were constantly following the Liverpool players to put pressure on Liverpool's organizational attack.

After the receivers at close range were all stared at by Leicester City players, Moreno had no choice but to vigorously throw the ball to his teammates farther away.

However, Moreno suddenly slipped his hand when he threw the ball from the sideline.

"Missed! Moreno, this time the ball from the sideline was sent. The hand was obviously slippery. The ball flew out irregularly and was directly stopped by Vardy."

Vardy had forced Yang Feng to receive the ball in midfield, but this time Liverpool’s sideline kick was passed directly to himself.

Vardy reacted quickly. Since his opponent gave a big gift, he naturally accepted it.

After unloading the ball in the chest, he directly dribbled the ball diagonally into Liverpool's penalty area.

Fortunately, Yang Feng reacted quickly. After seeing Moreno's pass error, he was immediately ready to defend, and went directly to the rush to confront Vardy physically and exert defensive pressure.

Vardy is holding Yang Feng's defense, wanting to move diagonally to find opportunities.

It's just that Yang Feng's defensive position selection is quite good, and he doesn't give Vardy a chance to accelerate.

There is no real threat to the breakthrough. Seeing other Liverpool defenders rushing to double-defensively, Vardy suddenly knocked the ball from his heel and knocked the ball to the rear right.

At this time, Yang Feng is also helpless with Vardy's pass. He has done all of his defense, limiting Vardy's biggest threat.

Vardy knocked the ball to the position before his breakthrough, and that position has become empty.

And Mahrez followed up and immediately completed a long shot facing the ball.

With full force, the body was fully stretched out, and he shot a very beautiful peripheral shot.

Judging from the ball's flight trajectory, the goal will be taken directly from the left.

but!

After Yang Feng restricted Vardy's offense and won the defensive reaction time, Mignolet showed his strong defensive ability on the goal line.

A flying side pounce with a limit of take-off height directly blocked the ball with a single palm.

"Concentrate! Defense! Defense!"

After successfully completing this save, Mignolet roared loudly in front of the goal to get the team's defense up.

And Yang Feng also loudly warned the players next to him that there should be no relaxation of vigilance in this game.

This time, Mahrez's shots and Mignole's saves were world-class.

A powerful kick from the outside to hit the goal, hitting the speed of the ball, but also has a large arc from left to right, and the characteristics of a falling leaf ball.

Judging from the trajectory of the ball, if it were not for Mignole's save, the ball would fall directly into the upper left corner of the goal, making Mahrez the creator of the best goal in the Premier League this round.

But Minholet's save, this moment showed his excellent goal line ability.

The excellent ability to judge the incoming ball, the speed of his own feet, and the height of the jump, all helped Mignole complete this extreme save.

If you want to hit the goal with this kick, you need the most suitable take-off height and the most suitable time to save. Mignolet did it. At this time, Mignolet played a world-class position on the goal line. Strength.

After Leicester City’s corner kick opportunity, due to within the penalty area, Leicester City only had two high points, Morgan and Hut, under the guard of Liverpool, they could not create too good opportunities.

Leicester City simply issued a tactical corner kick and Mahrez held the ball on the left.

Use his ball-handling ability to move around on the sidelines, trying to create a breakthrough opportunity.

It's just that Liverpool's defense is quite targeted. When the defender is in place, the two teams directly force Mahrez.

Mahrez wanted to show his breakthrough ability, but he also lost his breakthrough space in the face of Liverpool's double defense.

In a hurry, Mahrez could only choose to distribute the ball to Fox, who had just given the corner kick.

Fox obviously didn't expect Mahrez to pass the ball~www.NovelMTL.com~ He was not ready to receive the ball, and the ball leaked directly from his feet.

The ball rolls directly out of bounds, a touch ball.

However, as the Leicester City players, also in the game, began to completely re-mobilize the state of the game, it is not easy for the Liverpool players to send the ball to the half court without opening their big feet. .

Leicester City's frontcourt press is very active and effective.

And Kanter alone, at this time, is really an existence that can't run away.

If Shinji Okazaki relies on a simple "iron lung" to support his running, Kan looks particularly thin, but he has speed, strength, and physical fitness. His pressing is not just one shot, but he will never drop the ball. Relaxation put a lot of pressure on Liverpool players.

It’s hard to imagine that Kanter could chase the ball and press for three times in a row. From the penalty area, he grabbed the vicinity of the midfield, put pressure on Liverpool’s ball holder three times in a row, and finally was near the midfield with his teammates. In the encirclement, the ball at the feet of Firmino was snatched.

In the last few minutes of the first half, the home team regained the advantage and used the frontcourt pressure to completely restrict Liverpool to its own half.

Leicester City played again for a few minutes to suppress the game.

It’s just that, although Liverpool’s offense is somewhat suppressed and unable to play, Leicester City has only gained possession of the ball in the frontcourt, but it has not been able to cause substantial impact when facing Liverpool’s defense. Offensive threat.

Yang Feng guarded in the penalty area and commanded his teammates everywhere. Not only did he maintain a tight line of defense, he did not give the home team any chance to easily launch an attack.

0 to 0, neither side has a good chance at halftime, and can only wait for the side to fight again.