Football’s First Defender

Liverpool and Manchester United, mortal rivals, eventually drew in the first double red match of the season at Old Trafford.

In the game, both sides had a chance to win the game, but in the end they were not able to grasp it, and worked together to contribute a wonderful game with ups and downs.

The recent winning streak of the two teams has been terminated. Several other giants have become vested interests. Chelsea and Manchester City have opened the points gap, while Arsenal and Tottenham behind them have narrowed the point difference with the Champions League.

This is a game that has many meanings for both teams. For Liverpool, the team lost a good game when leading away.

The team's side defense, when there are physical problems in the second half, the weaknesses are undoubtedly revealed, which is the next issue that Liverpool needs to focus on.

But in the game after Liverpool, after falling behind, the tenacity demonstrated was also impressive. Especially for the goal that equalized the score, Liverpool used a seemingly unreasonable combination of Gerrard and Yang Feng to penetrate the goal guarded by Manchester United De Gea.

Whether this unconventional weapon will become the norm in the future, and whether Yang Feng, who has already achieved the ultimate on the defensive end, can use his remaining energy to develop his own role in the attack is also everyone's new expectation for Liverpool.

After a tie with Manchester United, Liverpool continued to advance in the English League Cup.

The mix and match lineup of the main players and the substitutes still ensured that Liverpool easily defeated the English championship team Bournemouth in the away game 3 to 1 and advanced to the semi-finals of the English League Cup.

This year's first championship goal, Liverpool set a small goal in the English League Cup. After the victory over Bournemouth, Liverpool returned to the home court. In the subsequent Premier League matches, they ushered in another offensive, well-known football "Arsenal" Arsenal.

The most intensive December schedule in the Premier League, the physical consumption of both players

All are huge.

The two teams have experienced personnel irregularities, but the loss of Liverpool is the team's most lacking full-back.

Flanagan and Glen Johnson were injured, and Jose Enrique was in poor condition, and Moreno was also in training with minor injuries.

Considering the weak defense of the two wings and the possible offensive lineup Arsenal may send, Rogers simply carried out a rather bold tactical reform in this game.

343 system, re-emergence.

Different from the popular three-backs of other teams, only the full-backs become full-backs ahead of schedule. Liverpool's 343 lineup has no pure wing defenders at all.

Lovren, Scotter, and Yang Feng played in midfield, and Yang Feng was naturally the absolute commander standing in the middle.

In the midfield position, Lallana, Henderson, Lucas, and Emre Can lined up in a row to become the defensive guarantee before the back line.

The three forwards are Balotelli, Sterling, and Coutinho.

Sturridge was injured again, which made Rodgers only have a low scoring efficiency and bad luck Bashen made his debut.

And Arsenal continued their 433 lineup, only affected by injuries. Now Sanchez is probably the most threatening player on the field.

Liverpool, at home, did not show any mercy against Arsenal, who also played poorly this season.

He attacked aggressively as soon as he came up, occupying the absolute initiative on the court.

Just looking at the data on the field, no one would think that this is a strong matchup, but just like an ordinary league, the six giants, the crushing of the ordinary teams.

After Arsenal finished defending, they wanted to launch a counterattack, but Liverpool used a crazy full-court press to complete the press, and they did not give them a chance to launch a counterattack.

But the waves of Liverpool's offensives are extremely threatening, and they are only a little short of the goal.

Although the 343's lineup is somewhat unusual, it lacks the ability to support the side.

But Arsenal has been a not-so-good midfield defense this season, and there is no good way to face Liverpool's strong midfield attack.

Coutinho was the best Liverpool player in the first half.

In the Arsenal midfielder, only Flamini is a defensive midfielder, and Mertesacker is also a heavy central defender in the defensive line. Coutinho fully demonstrated his flexibility and technique in this game. ability.

Continuously use running and interspersed to forcibly create 1v1 opportunities, then suddenly accelerate to throw off the defender and receive a pass from a teammate to create a threat.

In the first half of the game, half of the threatening attacks came from Coutinho.

Only 2 minutes into the game, Coutinho’s personal breakthrough was just in front of the penalty area and suffered a foul. After that, Coutinho took a free kick and directly attacked the goal. In the end, he flew out of the baseline against the crossbar and almost scored in a blitzkrieg. Rewrite the score.

After 5 minutes, Lallana pulled the side and suddenly sent a straight pass while dribbling.

Coutinho's fast diagonal penetration, in the process of full speed, the right Marseille maneuver and stop the ball combined, directly led the ball well, got rid of Flamini's defense, and entered the penalty area. .

It's just a pity that after the Marseille maneuvers, Coutinho took a left-footed volley after leading a step in the penalty area, but Szczesny was turned away.

Although the shot did not score, what I have to say is that the series of actions before Coutinho's shot were so wonderful that the broadcast director couldn't help replaying it twice during the live broadcast.

In addition to his personal offense, Coutinho also sent very threatening passes many times in the game.

Lallana tried to assist with a pass in the middle.

After receiving the ball, Lallana threw off the defender and went into the penalty area, but it was a pity that he hit the goal from a small angle and failed to pass through Szczesny's wicket.

In the 30th minute or so of the game, he seized the opportunity of Arsenal to send a group of people to fight back~www.readwn.com~After Liverpool stole the ball, Coutinho received a long pass from Yang Feng and directly pushed forward.

After entering his long-range area and attracting the attention of Arsenal defenders, Coutinho chose to pass the ball for the first time.

An oblique pass to the left area, Balotelli withdrew to the vicinity of the penalty area line and directly hit the ball against the ball.

It's just that there was a slight deviation in the angle control, and a beautiful arc flew to the dead corner of the goal, but in the end it rubbed the outside of the post and popped the bottom line...

Before the end of the first half, Liverpool had completed as many as 10 shot attempts but failed to score.

And just as everyone thought that Liverpool might not be able to score at halftime, an accident still allowed Liverpool to enter the halftime with a harvest.

In the 44th minute of the game, Arsenal had already cut off the ball and wanted to fight back.

However, in the case of the Liverpool players, the high-intensity counter-robbing situation on the spot, Welbeck's picking made a mistake and was directly cut off by Lallana.

Lallana immediately passed a pass and found Coutinho in front of the penalty area.

Before Arsenal wanted to launch a counterattack, many players maintained a forward state, and there was no way to return to defense for a time, making Coutinho only need to face Mertesacker in front of him.

Coutinho made a breakthrough to the left and directly shook the center of gravity of Mertesacker. After that, Coutinho made a simple smash and went to the right to directly create a huge open goal. Aiming at the opposite corner of the bottom left corner of the goal to hit the goal, there is no way for Szczesny, who is standing up front.

The ball finally rubbed the post accurately and bounced back into the goal. With the opportunity of the frontcourt, Liverpool finally took the lead in the game.