Football’s First Defender

After the end of the New Year's schedule, considering that the players' physical fitness has reached the limit, Liverpool will still have the English League Cup in the future, and the Champions League matches will be held.

For the FA Cup that just started the third lap, Liverpool directly chose to give up.

The lineup of the full reserve team finally made Liverpool no longer competitive. They lost to Derby County in the away game, and one less competition was expected.

And Liverpool's first team, after a full ten days of trimming, in the restarted Premier League, away to challenge the "black cat" Sunderland. Sunderland naturally does not have too strong competitiveness against Liverpool, especially when Liverpool's combat power is soaring due to the return of the main wounded.

Even with the cheering of the tens of thousands of home fans, Sunderland’s iron barrel formation was extremely strong, successfully defending Liverpool’s waves of offenses and maintaining the 0-0 score. Field rest.

However, with the second half of the game, Liverpool adjusted through substitutions, replaced by a more impactful Sturridge, and team captain Gerrard, Liverpool's more offensive lineup provided a greater offensive threat. . The old captain Gerrard, after coming off the bench, has sufficient physical support and also played a very brilliant performance.

There are two major ways to break dense defense, one is to set the ball, and the other is to score a goal from a long distance.

With a heavy bombardment of 25 meters away, Gerrard made a contribution from the bench and successfully knocked on the opponent's door for Liverpool in the 62nd minute.

When the barrel formation was broken and Sunderland had to attack and try to equalize the score, the huge power gap between the two sides was completely revealed.

On this side, the home team Sunderland’s offense could not effectively break the defense led by Yang Feng. The Liverpool midfielder on the other side told his opponent why the flowers are so red.

Sturridge, as well as Coutinho's counterattack goal, had already expanded the score to 3-0 in less than 80 minutes of the game.

In the end, Liverpool relied on the excellent offensive performance in the second half of the game, and it was another zero-season away victory.

Liverpool's winning streak in the league continues. In the standings, it has caught up with the championship group and returned to the championship.

In the previous five consecutive victories, after being blocked by a draw by Manchester United, each scored one point to stop the winning streak.

Liverpool's adjustment in the league is really fast. With the thickness of the lineup obviously not as good as that of Manchester City and Chelsea, Liverpool was able to win all in the tight schedule of the New Year's schedule, and achieved an amazing record of 5 consecutive victories in the league. It can be said that it surprised many people.

Liverpool leaned on nearly 11 rounds and scored 31 points in a terrifying scoring efficiency, which even wiped out the huge disadvantage in the early period of the league. In the standings, it has been on par with Manchester City.

For the leader Chelsea, Liverpool's current 47 points is only a difference of 2 points.

In the Premier League, it was still a two-man game one or two months ago. In the difficult schedule in December, when all the giants complained, it turned out to be Liverpool, which made Liverpool rely on winning streaks to counterattack and directly become a trio of nations. Situation.

Defending champion Liverpool used his super strong performance to crush all doubts about his strength.

Of course, some people say that Liverpool's rebound in performance is due to the schedule.

After all, there are few strong opponents in Liverpool's recent games.

In the three-day game after Christmas, there were two teams in the relegation zone to give away points. The lack of intensity of the game created an easy chance for Liverpool to win.

However, the ease of the schedule now means that in the final stage of the second half of the league, Liverpool will face strong teams one after another. It is very likely that Liverpool will lose the chain like the beginning of the season.

However, for some of the outside media's doubts, Liverpool laughed.

Points are the most real. As for the schedule, regardless of his future schedule, what Liverpool have to do now is to get as many points as possible, and even take advantage of the recent schedule to directly reverse Chelsea and become the leader of the league. .

A week later, Liverpool continued to go to the away game to challenge Aston Villa.

Another team close to the relegation zone.

Just over half of the league schedule, the relegation team has not been able to directly enter the red-eye stage like the last few rounds of previous years.

Liverpool was on the road, and it was easy to play.

Villa is not a team that is good at defensively, and the iron barrels are not tightly arranged, which directly disperses Liverpool's offense.

In the first half, Liverpool relied on an excellent offense, as well as a frontcourt press, and the opportunity to grab the offensive, and obtained a two-goal lead, making the second half of the game, Liverpool can be quite easy to launch the pass and control tactics.

In the end, the restrained Liverpool only achieved a 2-0 victory. Liverpool easily defeated Villa and won 6 consecutive victories.

In the same round of the game, Manchester City was sitting at the Etihad Stadium, but they were drawn 1-1 by the visiting Hull City, which broke a lot of upsets.

This also makes Liverpool finally rely on the recent horrible victory performance, in the points pound, the first step to overtake Manchester City, to the second place in the league, still 2 points behind Chelsea.

In the standings, Liverpool chased Chelsea wildly, making it the closest team to Chelsea.

After two consecutive away from Liverpool, they returned to the home scene against West Ham United.

West Ham United, which ranks 8th in the league, is a rare tough bone that Liverpool has encountered in the recent league schedule.

However, at Anfield, no matter how tough West Ham United is, there is not much capital to overthrow Liverpool at Anfield.

Now it has become Liverpool's iconic full-court press, making West Ham United players, technically, slightly rough and weak, completely exposed.

In the cry of tens of thousands of fans at Anfield ~www.readwn.com~ West Ham United players who have a certain psychological disadvantage, were then pressed by Liverpool players from the beginning. West Ham United started the game. At the beginning, he fell into an absolute disadvantage.

This time, it was Yang Feng who helped Liverpool to open the deadlock first.

In the last two games, Yang Feng, who didn't have much performance, just started today with a strong header from the penalty area, proving that he is also the most important member of Liverpool's offensive "strike".

Yang Feng, who has become more and more adaptable to the Premier League, has gradually increased the number of goals this season and has become the biggest killer in Liverpool's set-piece.

And with the increasing physical confrontation ability, now Yang Feng, even in the face of the opponent's double double team, still has a certain ability to handle the ball, which can be called a big killer for Liverpool in positioning the ball.

After breaking the deadlock, although it would not allow West Ham United's defense to collapse directly, Liverpool did not give the visiting team too many opportunities to counterattack under the control of the initiative.

With the suspense of the game maintained, West Ham United was given a chance to "determine" in the last 20 minutes, but today Yang Feng was doomed to eat dumplings.

Not only on the defensive end, he performed quite well. He repeatedly cleared the pass from the visiting team to the penalty area. In the 79th minute, it was Yang Feng that once again set the ball and directly connected with Coutinho. The score twice helped Liverpool further expand the score and completely dispelled the arrogance of West Ham United counterattacks.

2 to 0! Liverpool won 7 consecutive victories, and with the focus of this round, Chelsea's score against Manchester City is fixed at 1-1!

Liverpool also tied Chelsea's points, and relied on more goals by goal difference to overtake Chelsea. For the first time this season, they became the leader of the Premier League...