Football’s First Defender

Liverpool, which has been constantly winning on all fronts, may have the most important and difficult game in the tight schedule in December. It may be an away game to Old Trafford and a double red match with Manchester United.

Liverpool relied on the explosive performance of the league in the past two months and came to third in the Premier League with 31 points. Chelsea, who took the lead in this round and won, is only 8 points away.

On the other hand, ranked fourth, closely following Liverpool is Manchester United, which has also won 5 consecutive victories recently.

After Van Gaal introduced a lot of strong support in the summer, he suffered from injuries and did not adapt to the Premier League game. In the end, he still relied on the team's youth training system... The same poor record at the beginning of the season made Van Gaal. It has been questioned, but now, with Van Gaal's training, Manchester United's five-game winning streak has also occupied a place in the semi-finals.

In this game, the "Double Red Club" of the two teams that have recently recovered at the same time has attracted the attention of many fans.

Everyone wants to see who can stop the opponent's recent excellent momentum, continue the recent excellent record, and continue to attack Manchester City and Chelsea in front. In an away game against Manchester United, Rogers sent all the main players who have performed well recently.

The team continues to carry forward the defensive system with an increasingly tacit degree of frontcourt pressing to create pressure on Manchester United players’ goals, and hopes to catch the chance of Manchester United’s mistakes and strive for a complete victory at Old Trafford. Retreat.

For Manchester United, Van Gaal constantly adjusted the lineup. This game sent a 3412 formation and placed Carrick in the position of the third central defender...

Rooney continues to be used by Van Gaal as a midfielder, while Van Persie matches Manchester United's youth teenager Wilson on the front line.

The front midfielder is the Spaniard Mata coordinating the attack. In the entire midfield, Mata and Rooney are all players who tend to be offensive. The one who is really responsible for midfield defense may be Fellaini, the midfielder.

However, the formation is dead, and people are alive.

This set of Manchester United's lineup has considerable autonomy in the game, and in previous games, the exchange of various positions of the players made many teams difficult to defend.

Rooney's insertion, Mata's transfer of the ball, the play of the two wingbacks Ashley Young and Valencia, and even the advancement of Carrick's backcourt have all made a lot for Manchester United in the past few games. Scoring opportunities.

There is no fixed offensive situation, but Manchester United can always rely on the players' personal performance to create dangerous offensive opportunities.

However, this game, as soon as the start of the game, Liverpool's offensive, made Manchester United pay a defensive price.

In the sleet weather, the court was a little slippery, which gave the defensive players a greater challenge.

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool played exquisite cooperation on the left.

Stirling, who had changed positions, received a through ball from Flanagan on the left and accelerated forward.

Manchester United’s defense was immediately under tremendous defensive pressure.

Fellaini, who made up his defense, slid and tried to intercept the ball, but Sterling's speed was too fast. He kicked the ball forward, making Fellaini’s shovel not touch the football, but just Shovel Sterling to the ground.

The referee Atkinson stopped the game directly with a hasty whistle, and without using too much pressure from the Liverpool players, he directly took out the yellow card and showed it to Fellaini.

Fellaini, the only defensive midfielder of Manchester United in name, received a yellow card just 3 minutes into the game. This is definitely not good news for Manchester United's defense.

Fellaini, whose actions on the defensive end were restricted, certainly did not dare to exert full physical confrontation in the subsequent games. This also gave technical players such as Sterling and Coutinho to play more in the midfield. Interspersed opportunities.

Especially Sterling, he was very active in this game.

Sterling gave full play to his role as a free agent in the frontcourt. In the game, he continued from the left and right sides, interspersed in the middle, seized Manchester United's defensive space, and continued to attack.

Sterling's recent increasing ability to pass the ball in a small range has also begun to be fully demonstrated in the game.

Once accelerated with the ball on the left, before and after moving to the large penalty area, Sterling sent a diagonal through ball before Manchester United's defense came up.

Sturridge understood, he suddenly accelerated on the penalty area line, succeeded against offside, and got the opportunity to hit the door from a small angle in the penalty area.

Sturridge's adjustment time is very short, just hit the door with one left foot.

It's just De Gea, still the father of Manchester United's defense.

Facing Sturridge's close-range shot, De Gea reacted and fell directly to the ground, blocking the ball with a single palm.

A highly threatening attack by Liverpool failed.

While Manchester United sits at home, naturally they will not give the initiative to Liverpool.

Manchester United's offense is also well developed.

Ashley Young from the wing and Valencia were very active in this game.

Especially Valencia, even though they are now playing the right wingback position, but on the offensive end, they often dare to use the technical movements of the right midfielder and even the right winger to make a forcible breakthrough on the wing.

Facing Flanagan and Henderson, Valencia did not choose to pass the ball, but instead of passing the ball, Valencia played a one-man goal.

The football kicked forward through Flanagan’s wicket, while Valencia himself drilled through the "door gap" between Henderson and Flanagan’s "closed" ~www.readwn.com~ come out.

And directly play his own speed advantage, lead the football, directly from the right to the penalty area of ​​Liverpool.

Yang Feng had to make up his defense and must limit the angle of Valencia's direct attack.

Before the arrival of Yang Feng's defense, Valencia, who did not have a large shooting angle, still did not choose to be too "alone". Instead, he passed the ball horizontally and passed it into the unmanned area near the penalty point.

From outside the penalty area, Rooney, who followed up, ran to the position first and shot the goal with an angry kick!

Rooney, a world-class attacker with a wealth of shooting experience, while ensuring the speed of his goal, he also consciously chooses a shooting angle where no defender can interfere.

This ball, Mignolet, had found it bad, fell to the ground with all his strength, but the ball did not leak.

Yang Feng's defensive choice this time can also be called a divine reaction.

In the process of rushing to limit Valencia's shooting angle, Valencia chose to pass the ball at the same time, Yang Feng had already stopped abruptly, turned in place, and rushed to the empty area of ​​the penalty spot.

After taking two steps, he directly jumped sideways and intercepted.

Before Rooney hit the goal, he chose an angle with no defensive personnel, but after finishing the goal, Yang Feng had already taken off from the other side and stretched out his leg. The right leg that he stretched out just happened to appear on Rooney’s goal line, forming a direct result. Blocked.

The ball hit Yang Feng's leg, and the second point was Emre Can, who was rushed back to defend, to complete the encirclement.

You Manchester United have Papa De Gea guarding the gate, and I also have Papa Yang Feng guarding the penalty area in Liverpool.

At the beginning of this double red club, the defensive cores of the two teams both contributed very wonderful defensive performance...