Football’s First Defender

After being replaced by high center Benteke, Liverpool at the forefront of the offensive end, with a high center as the fulcrum of the team, indeed played a strong offensive suppression effect.

It's just that Liverpool's continuous offensive organization in the frontcourt, but scoring from the goal, always a little bit worse.

Just when Klopp wants to continue to strengthen the team's offense, by making the offensive player substitution adjustment again, to continue to increase the team's offensive threat in the midfield.

An accident happened on the court, which completely disrupted Klopp's already conceived substitution idea, and completely let this game, the home game, and Liverpool, who wanted to win, lose the initiative.

The 73rd minute of the game was when Liverpool continued to launch a repressive attack on the front court.

Continuous offense, but it is inevitable that sometimes offensive errors will occur.

Midfielder Henderson's threatening pass was directly interrupted, giving Atletico Madrid players a chance to counterattack.

At this time, Atletico Madrid's defense, relying on Godin's pre-judgment to grab, suddenly used force, after completing the steal, Atletico Madrid suddenly chose to play a very threatening counterattack after suffering from the recent great defensive pressure.

In the counterattack this time, there was not simply a big kick to the front. At Atletico Madrid, the counterattack this time was quite well-organized.

The ball was passed by the Atletico Madrid players in the backcourt, and it was passed continuously in a small range to avoid the on-the-spot counter-grab by the Liverpool players in the frontcourt.

Finally, after many consecutive passes between many people, the ball was transferred to the left side of Felipe, who had run out of the offensive space.

Through continuous short passes, when Felipe received the pass, he had already got rid of the defensive players around him, and there was a space to accelerate forward on the wing.

Felipe accelerated forward. After he came from the backcourt in a stride and passed the half-court area, the defensive players who attracted Liverpool had to come over to make up defenses to restrict Felipe from continuing to attack. Advance.

However, Felipe had no plans in his original plan, so he went straight to the hinterland of Liverpool's penalty area.

After all, as the core of the left side of Atletico Madrid, Felipe was also deeply involved in the offensive and defensive ends of the game. At this point in the game, his physical fitness was not enough for him to exert his full strength and he went straight from the backcourt Rushed to the core area of ​​Liverpool at full speed.

After successfully forcing Liverpool's defense line in accordance with the original plan and pulling out someone to defend himself, Felipe was already consciously slowing down, and then chose to send a through ball and pass the ball directly forward.

Simply speaking of the degree of tacit understanding between the team's players, the Atletico team still has to leave Liverpool a lot.

The tacit understanding of Atletico Madrid players allows Saul and Felipe, who are in the front field to move forward quickly, between the two without clear gestures or words that reveal the tactics.

Saul first made the illusion of penetrating into the middle on the counterattack, then suddenly stopped and changed direction while traveling, turned back to the left, and hit Emre Jan who was following him by guarding him by surprise.

At the same time that Saúl suddenly changed to go straight to the left, Felipe had already sent this through ball.

Although Saul has a huge physical stamina today, he took out all his strength at this time and chased after the football.

Saul runs extremely fast and should be able to catch up to the football before the ball goes out of the baseline. Even for Saul, he feels that after he unloads the ball, he even has room to break along the baseline, creating a greater threat of attack.

Instead of being close to the baseline on the left side, after stopping the ball, it simply completes the side pilling, allowing the two sides to compete within the penalty area.

After all, for Atletico Madrid's staffing, Atletico players are still quick and easy.

A simple pass from the side, facing a combination of high school defenders such as Yang Feng and Scotter in the Liverpool team, the header is not too cheap, and if the pass is on the ground, Liverpool will still occupy the penalty area on the defensive end. There are more players.

Moreover, passing the ball from a long distance gives the defensive players too much reaction time, and the defensive players respond, which is not good for the offense.

Saul's counter-attack to catch the ball this time is to prepare to catch the ball, stop and jump directly, and go to the bottom line to break through Liverpool's penalty area.

Emre Jen lost his defensive position a bit after being swayed by Saúl.

And Saul’s speed is faster than Emre Can. This also makes Emre Can look at Saul running on the left front, knowing that he wants to catch up with Saul’s speed. , It is not easy to complete the man-to-man defensive task he should have done.

"I can't catch up with Saul, I can only choose to let him pass the ball on the wing!"

"If he wants to take an inch and complete a lateral breakthrough with the ball, then he can just put a shovel to block his breakthrough route."

Emre Can quickly planned the defensive methods he could currently do.

He chose not to chase Saul as the goal and no longer consider how to defend Saul to receive the ball. Instead, he chose to keep his defensive position in the game. He must not allow Saul to catch the ball and continue. Complete a more threatening breakthrough towards the penalty area.

For Saul, when he ran to Felipe to pass the ball, his eyes did not reach Emre Can, who was defending behind him, and Saul was in the process of handling the ball this time. , More bold.

When Saul directly caught up with the football, he did not choose to stop the ball, but directly stopped the buckle with his left foot and buckled the ball to the bottom line to ensure that his running speed did not drop. During the running, he continued to drive the ball. Previously, it was to quickly change the running direction without slowing down, and go straight to the Liverpool penalty area.

"It's really an inch!"

Emre Can was very much approving of his defensive choice at this time. This time he chose to run a straight line to block the bottom line, which did not give Saul more offensive space.

Directly sliding out, Emre Jan's defense this time directly used his full strength.

Due to his own speed, although Emre Can already wanted to make his best to get to the position in the game, it was still too difficult to get to the position to block Saul's breakthrough route.

Emre Can can only guarantee his straight-line speed to rush forward, and he can use the sliding shovel to intercept Saul's breakthrough into the penalty area during the game.

There is only one way to allow Emre Can to complete the defense.

Otherwise, Saul really broke into the penalty area along the bottom line, then it may cause chaos in Liverpool's penalty area, don't Atletico Madrid seize the opportunity to complete the goal.

With the inertia of running at full speed, Emre Can directly threw himself out to complete the sliding shovel defense this time.

However, Emre Can still underestimated Saul’s breakthrough speed, or underestimated Saul’s ability to combine the ball so well, Emre Can’s sliding tackle came quickly, but Saul’s breakthrough The speed is not slow.

There was even more power to jump up slightly, avoiding Emre Can's sliding shovel.

Without turning back the bow, Emre Jan could barely jump up his right foot and stretch it back as far as possible.

The ball went out of bounds, but the Saul also fell.

"Dududu—"

The whistle sounded and the referee stopped the game.

Is this a good defense, just a corner kick, or a foul, is it a card?

Because there is still a short distance from the penalty area, this ball is definitely not a penalty. No matter how blind the referee is, it is impossible to extend the penalty area line by 2, 3 meters.

But if you call a foul, whether to give a card is the most important thing.

Emre Can had already carried a yellow card in the game before, and if he fouled this time, he would be sent off.

"Free kick! The referee whistled a foul on Emre Can!"

"Let's look at the referee's actions."

"I got the card!"

"The referee has taken out the card!"

"Yellow card!"

"The referee thought that Emre Jen's foul action this time was suspected of hurting others, and he directly showed a yellow card, and the two yellow cards changed to one red. The red card sent Emre Jen directly off the field."

"Liverpool, in the first round of the home game, was hit hard at the last minute. They will challenge 10 players."

"Atletico Madrid is a surprise. In the final stage of the game, playing one more Atletico Madrid is no longer a 0-0 draw. There is even a chance to beat Liverpool away and win the game! "

The players of Liverpool were defending around the referee when the referee showed the yellow card. They believed that the foul this time did not reach the level of playing cards, and even if one foul was worth two.

However, it is impossible for the referee to change his penalty. He is already urging Emre Can to get off the court and not delay the game.

The young Emre Can, with the recent blessing of good form, did not expect to be sent off in the Champions League knockout game.

"Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Premier League teams have lost their dominance in the Champions League in recent years."

"You know, from our broadcast of Liverpool's league, everyone has seen the fierce competition in the Premier League, as well as the hot game progress of the two sides in the game."

"In order to encourage fast-paced offense and defense, the Premier League referees will not whistle on small fouls."

"For the program effect of the game, for some large-scale fouls, whether a card is played or not is actually based on the ball and whether the offending player has the opportunity to exert pressure on the ball."

"Just now, Emre Can’s foul was actually a pressure on the ball, at least Emre Can hit the ball out of the baseline by himself."

Under such circumstances, in fact, in the Premier League, at most, Emre Jan is called for a foul, and even the foul may not be called. After all, there is not much difference between a corner kick and a free kick on the baseline. .

But in the UEFA Champions League, to adapt to the penalty criteria of other leagues, this ball is a yellow card action.

It can be said that in recent years, in the Champions League, the whistle has become tighter, which has great news for technical teams.

At least the Premier League team, in the familiar "cocky" style of the league, there is no good way to maintain their defensive strength in the Champions League.

When it comes to intensity, it is fouled, and some actions are directly called yellow cards without any discussion.

As a result, Premier League teams often have a great sense of tearing in the Champions League, which is very different from the way they play in the league.

After Emre Can was sent off, Liverpool also lost the capital to take the initiative to attack.

Klopp hastened to make substitution adjustments.

Lucas and Lovren played together, replacing Lallana and Firmino.

Klopp’s idea is very simple. It is to put up a five-back formation. With one less player, he must keep the tie of the game. Atletico Madrid must not get an away goal. Otherwise, Liverpool will go to Madrid, there may be really no capital to turn around.

Contrary to Liverpool’s rapid defensive arrangement, Simeone naturally hurriedly dispatched troops and sent offensive players to attack the main attack when he played one more man.

Of course, considering that Liverpool are on the field, there are still offensive players like Benteke and Coutinho, and Yang Feng also has the ability to transport the ball from a distance.

Simeone only made targeted substitutions of personnel, without replacing offensive players with defenders.

However, after completely liberating the offensive capabilities of the two full-backs, Atletico Madrid's offensive supplement will still be improved by at least one level.

Replaced the veteran Torres with Bietto, who had a good performance today, to continue to strengthen the offensive ability of the front line~www.readwn.com~ and replaced Sa, who made Emre Can’s second yellow card, with Correa. Ur.

Saul performed very well on both offensive and defensive ends today. However, in such a fast-paced running up and down, his physical fitness is also at its limit. At this time, Correa was replaced for the sake of the team's better The ground is on the side road to ensure the speed advantage.

Atletico Madrid is preparing to play a wave of offensive around Liverpool in the last ten minutes of regular time, striving to break Liverpool's iron bucket and score an away goal.

Liverpool was sent off, which is a godsend for Simeone.

If you can really seize this opportunity and successfully score a goal in the away game, then Atletico will have a great advantage back at home in the next round and have a great probability of qualifying for the next round. .

11 to 10 in the frontcourt, for Atletico Madrid, such a "wealthy battle" is really easy to play.

After replacing Correa, Atletico Madrid's offensive tone was set.

At the last moment, Simeone chose to continue to attack from the wing, using his wing advantage to continuously compress Liverpool's defense, and then pass to the middle, looking for a chance to score.

As for Liverpool's five-back system, of course, Yang Feng is the defensive core.

The five guards each have their own positions and are responsible for the area. For Yang Feng, after assigning four teammates to the defensive position according to tactics, Yang Feng's defensive ability was completely liberated.

With teammates guarding the last line of defense in the rear, Yang Feng can be used as a mobile force. In the game, wherever he needs to make up, he can give full play to his defensive ability to create trouble for Atletico Madrid's attack.