Football’s First Defender

In the early part of the season, no one thought that Liverpool, which has fallen out of the Champions League and even more than 10 points away from the top Chelsea, would successfully complete a big counterattack in the middle of the league and rush back to the top of the standings.

Liverpool used a wave of 13 games, 12 wins and 1 tie, and scored 37 points explosively. In one fell swoop, in more than two months, they completed a super counterattack. Since the beginning of the season, Liverpool has been ranked first. Chelsea has become the leader of the Premier League.

Chelsea will be at a disadvantaged position in the remaining 15 rounds of the Premier League and will compete with Liverpool for the league title.

As for Manchester City, they are already 4 points away from the two. Coupled with the recent record drag, they have fallen behind. However, Liverpool and Chelsea are now not only competing in the league.

This season, both teams are attacking on multiple lines and both have ambitions to win multiple championships.

In the Champions League, the two teams are temporarily unable to meet, but in the domestic English League Cup, the two teams will face each other head-on. Liverpool and Chelsea in the English League Cup this season, the substitute players played, and reached the top 4.

With only 3 games left to win the championship, both teams began to pay attention to the cup championship trophy.

When Chelsea and Liverpool met, for Chelsea fans, the team still had a sufficient lead. Many people regarded Liverpool as a team weaker than Chelsea.

However, now, the opponents of the semi-finals have changed positions. Liverpool is gaining momentum and is in an excellent period of ascent.

Now Liverpool has just drove Chelsea from the top of the standings in the league, and the two teams will have two rounds of the English League Cup semi-finals. For the Blues, it can be said that Chelsea has a chance to directly prove themselves. The two teams' two rounds of the British League Cup semi-finals are known as the preview of the season's British League Cup finals.

Because in the other semi-final, neither Tottenham nor Southampton entered the final, it was not enough to pose a big enough threat to Chelsea and Liverpool.

In the first leg, Liverpool played at Anfield Stadium to face visiting Chelsea.

This is not only the fight for the first championship honor, but also the morale problem of the league confrontation between the two teams.

Neither team can't afford to lose such a game. Taking advantage of the fact that the Champions League knockout has not yet started, the Premier League, the two teams also have the advantage of a bye at the same time, the two teams are to play a life and death in the semi-finals, both for the final champion of the League Cup. , Also in order to be able to become the one with momentum in the competition for the league championship.

For Liverpool, sitting at home is of course taking the initiative.

Liverpool opened the game and tried to fight for the initiative.

It's just that today's Chelsea came prepared.

Mourinho's defensive arrangement for the midfield can be described as the ultimate. With the heavy presence of troops, it has effectively restricted Liverpool's offensive penetration in the midfield.

Matic is more and more adapted to his position, and in Mourinho's defensive system, taking on more and more defensive responsibilities.

There are already many people who call Matic the best defensive midfielder in the world. Facing Liverpool’s offense today, Matic is Chelsea’s defensive line, the most NB defender, constantly forcing Liverpool players to The ball is transferred to the wing.

Then in the case of Chelsea's excellent defense in the penalty area, Liverpool's wing cross did not have much to do.

On the defensive end, Chelsea has Matic, and Liverpool has Yang Feng.

Under Liverpool's frontcourt press, Fabregas' passing was greatly affected.

Chelsea has performed quite well this season, "Facco Connection", in this game, almost never seen.

On the one hand, the ball is limited by Xiaofa, and he can't pass the ball accurately.

On the other hand, it was also Yang Feng's excellent defense, which effectively restricted Diego Costa's catch.

Yang Feng was on the defensive end today and was responsible for single-handedly shooting Costa. In the event that Hazard was injured and did not play the game, Chelsea’s other defensive threats can be handed over to Liverpool’s midfielder and Scott Defensively.

Only the biggest threat left, Costa, let Yang Feng come to the 1v1 restriction.

Playing in the European arena for many years, Costa was in La Liga before, and now in the Premier League, when he attacked, he has also encountered many outstanding defenders.

However, no one has ever caused himself a headache like Yang Feng.

Generally speaking, a well-known defender in football is always irritated by his various small actions in the game, which will affect his judgment and be taken by Costa.

But Yang Feng, when defending himself, calmly acted like a machine.

Even if the referee is not paying attention, he will make some small moves to provoke his opponent, and even turn his back occasionally to greet Yang Feng with swear words and anger Yang Feng.

However, Yang Feng ignored it at all, did not verbally respond, and did not immediately retaliate.

Yang Feng, who looks like a good baby, but when he is really confronting and defending, he starts a reasonable collision to limit his offensive space.

Although Costa has outstanding strength, he is really unmovable in the face of Yang Feng.

Speed ​​and flexibility are not what Costa is best at.

Coupled with Yang Feng's own judgment, Costa fell into Yang Feng's defensive quagmire, and there was no way to make an offensive that was too threatening.

Without Hazard, Chelsea lost the absolute weapon for rapid advancement in the counterattack, and also lost a breakthrough expert who can break the opponent's defensive blockade in the battle of position.

Costa’s limitations, William and Oscar were held tightly by other players in the opponent’s midfield, making Chelsea’s entire offensive system unable to play a large enough threat ~www.readwn.com~ However, Mourinho is very content .

This is the opponent's home court. Even if one cannot score a goal, Liverpool, which broke the deadlock for a while, cannot win.

For Mourinho, it is not impossible to retreat away from home, return to home and try to win by using the home court advantage.

Chelsea can accept a draw, but Liverpool don't want to let their opponents leave.

In the whole game, Liverpool are the teams that have a greater offensive advantage.

However, when Yang Feng was taken over by Cahill and Ivan at any time, Liverpool lost the set kick, the most threatening point.

Others have no advantage over Chelsea players when competing for the placement of the set ball.

There is no way to score with a set ball. Facing Mourinho's tailor-made iron barrel formation for Chelsea, Liverpool can only choose the simplest long-range shot and try to work a miracle.

It's just that Henderson, Coutinho, Emre Can, and the outstanding team coming off the bench.

Liverpool’s midfielders, who were confident of long-range shots, took turns blasting the goal, but did not create enough threats.

Either hit the fly directly, or was blocked by the active Chelsea players, and finally there were a few **** that could fly to the goal, but the new Chelsea goalkeeper Courtois, who stood in front of the goal, all made the save with his own strength. Don't give Liverpool any chance to rewrite the score.

0 to 0! In the first round of the most watched British League Cup match, the two sides handed in a goalless draw. In the second round, they will move to Stamford Bridge, which will be even more unfavorable for Liverpool.

However, for Liverpool, Yang Feng's personal defensive data is still extremely good, especially when Costa is restricted to 0 shots in the game. It can be said that Yang Feng used his excellent defensive performance to teach Costa to be a man.