Football’s First Defender

In the 22 minutes of the game, Liverpool took a 2-0 lead on the pitch. During this time, in the Champions League, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid have demonstrated outstanding defensive ability, most of them watched this Premier League. The fans of the league and the live game all thought that Liverpool had won this game.

After all, against opponents of this level at Atletico Madrid, Liverpool can withstand the offensive pressure of Atletico Madrid. There is no reason to give Southampton a chance to comeback after two goals have been in the lead.

Excellent defensive ability and extremely impactful counterattacks have made even more people think that Liverpool can fully use Southampton to attack in the game, launch an extremely effective defensive counterattack, and get directly on the away field. Big score, slaughter Southampton.

However, in the football field, the final result of a game is definitely not simply a matter of looking at the score on the field, but also the strength of the team and past team performance can be inferred.

The interweaving of various realistic factors and unexpected factors will have a great impact on the game.

This kind of influence will bring many changes to the course of the game and many incredible results.

Southampton, two goals behind, is indeed anxious to launch an offense, but although Southampton's offensive is gradually unfolding and began to invest in the offensive end, there is not much sign of confusion.

After all, for the Southampton team, in this game, the players did not have much pressure at all, and the players' game mentality was still good.

Southampton's league ranking is now ninth, in a position where low is not high.

Upward, Southampton is far from the European theater, and there is still a great distance to the points. In the later period, even if they play well, they may not be able to catch up with a giant team like Manchester United.

And the qualifications of the Europa League are not so important for Southampton, and they really look down on them.

There are even some Premier League teams that deliberately lose and get eliminated in the qualifying games, so as not to consume too much physical energy in the Europa League. Those few small dollars, these non-rich teams in the Premier League, also look at Not on.

Ordinary teams in the Premier League only need to pay attention to the Premier League. Every season they are successfully relegated, they are divided into a huge amount of broadcast fees, and then they will sell outstanding players for a large price. Isn't he popular?

Therefore, the victory of this game is not what the Southampton players are concerned about. Their idea is simple. They use outstanding performance to prove their strength and give back to the fans who watched the game and cheered.

In this regard, the Southampton fans at the scene are also quite Buddhist as to whether they can win this game.

For them, although the game is behind, but they do not insist that the team can really reverse and defeat the defending champion Liverpool at home. For them, what they want most is the momentum of the team's game, and more. Good performance, let them enjoy the happiness brought by football.

If you lose, you don't lose.

Even though Southampton is two goals behind on the scene, the team players do not have much psychological fluctuations. Instead, they continue to play in the game and play as they should. Instead, they can show the offensive style of their team. .

Southampton's offense, in the game, still behaves quite well-organized, and is constantly creating pressure on Liverpool's sideline defense.

Southampton's offense focused on the breakthrough from the wing and then made a pass into the penalty area.

After all, the team's two starting forwards, Pellet and Sean Lang, both have a good ability to compete in front of the goal. They mainly play wing passes and create cross threats. These are all offensive methods that Southampton is good at.

Liverpool's wing defense does have certain problems.

Especially on the Klein side on the right. After all, Klein has been playing full-time in the game recently and has considerable physical energy consumption. Therefore, it is inevitable that on the defensive end, there are some continuous breakthroughs that cannot keep up with the opponent. As a breakthrough for Liverpool's defense, he was hit in a row on this side.

However, for Liverpool's overall defense, there are no major problems. Although the wing could not block Southampton's attack for a while, the ball can pass, but in front of the goal, Liverpool's defense line , But it does not leave too many opportunities for the opponent.

Pellet should have been the core offensive player of Southampton's lineup. As an Italian international, Pellet is very good at attacking this kind of high-altitude ball as well as the tactical role of the team's fulcrum.

It's just that his fulcrum function may be able to have a good offensive effect when facing the defense of other central defenders, but under Yang Feng's mark, Pellet has no effective means.

Yang Feng's defensive advantages are all-round. Not only is he taller and stronger than Pellet, Yang Feng's ability to judge where Pellet is good at is stronger than Pellet.

Facing Yang Feng's marking, Pellet has no room to play in the restricted area today.

On the contrary, on the side of Sean Lang, after Pellet contained Yang Feng's defense, he could barely get a chance to attack when facing Scotter.

Using his own moves and forwards, Sean Lang can still achieve good results in the face of Scotter's defense.

Of course, Southampton's continuous offensive, although it can barely create a few shots, but correspondingly, Liverpool's counterattack is more threatening.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Southampton's offense was only achieved by Sean Lang in the frontcourt with a header without much threat.

After receiving the ball, Mignolet directly dropped the ball to find Yang Feng. Yang Feng completed a long pass in the backcourt and quickly hit the ball into the opponent's backcourt.

Yang Feng's long pass found Origi on the left.

Although Origi was young, he dared to play and rush in the game. After receiving a pass from Yang Feng from the side, he lowered his head to start a strong jump.

Although there is no offensive cooperation, no passing considerations, but the young Origi, is one person to get through the entire left.

After breaking through and getting rid of the defensive player, Origi quickly cut in, forcing Van Dyke to come over to make up the defense.

At this point, Origi had plenty of space to observe the situation on the court and completed an inverted triangle pass.

It was Joe Allen who quickly followed up in the middle.

Joe Allen followed up and hit the goal, trying to push the far corner, but he kicked a little. Although he was very powerful and still controlled the ball within the range of the goal frame, it was just a good shot. That's so straightforward.

The Southampton goalkeeper, in the case of a close forward pounce, did not block the ball, but completed the block with his face.

The ball bounced to the right, Sturridge faced the opportunity of the empty goal and directly chose to hit the ball with a kick, but the defensive player followed Sturridge very much.

This kick was directly blocked by the defender and Liverpool missed the opportunity to extend the lead to 3 goals.

And Liverpool's threatening attack, there is, but it is bad luck.

This time Sturridge's supplementary shot was blocked and Liverpool won a corner kick in the front court.

Coutinho took aim at the pass at the top of the arc, allowing Joe Allen to make up for it.

Complete a wonderful volley long shot directly from the periphery.

Joe Allen controlled the ball very well, completely suppressing the football, and the ball was dissatisfied with speed, passed through the crowd, and flew directly into the lower left corner of the goal.

However, just as Joe Allen was about to celebrate, he was extinguished by the referee's whistle.

The linesman signaled that the ball was offside just now!

"This ball is offside?"

In the Premier League broadcast, the replay of the corner kick just now was played in due course. Let alone, this time Liverpool's attack was really offside. The side referee's penalty this time can be said to be a wise one.

It's just that it's not Joe Allen who catches the ball from the perimeter and completes an excellent shot for offside.

It was Scott at the door.

Originally, Scotter, who was fighting for the top in front of the goal, retreated somewhat slowly, and was in an offside position when Joe Allen hit the goal.

If he doesn't have any extra moves, just standing there, there is no problem if the ball does not touch Skrtel.

The result was that, facing Joe Allen's long-range shot, Scotter, who was standing near the trajectory of the ball, raised his leg directly, trying to complete a relay in front of the goal and change the direction of the ball again.

As a result, Skrtel kicked himself empty, but he still interfered with the Southampton goalkeeper.

This ball whistled Skrtel in the offside position, interfered with the goalkeeper, and whistled offside directly without any problems.

Liverpool's luck can only be said to be a bit of a back.

Successive excellent chances to score goals are not grasped, which may also mean that this game is doomed to go wrong.

In the second half of the game, Southampton obviously continued to strengthen the team's offense.

When Mane was directly at halftime, he came off the bench and replaced Sean Lang to continue to strengthen the agility of Southampton's frontcourt.

Not to mention, as soon as Mane played, he showed enough vitality on the offensive end.

In the 49th minute of the game, when Pellet had been moving without the ball and restrained Yang Feng's defense, Mane made an oblique crossing and got rid of Skrtel at the side and rear with speed.

Skrtel struggled to chase, but he couldn't catch up with Mane's speed.

Romeu's penetrating through ball passed directly into the Liverpool penalty area.

When Mane chased the football and wanted to finish the goal, Skrtel slid directly behind the side and wanted to tackle the ball.

As a result, it was Mane who took the first step out of the football, which frustrated Scotter's desire to tackle the ball.

A sliding shovel only hit Ma Nei's ankle and brought Ma Nei directly down.

McDean, of course, imposed a capital punishment on Liverpool unselfishly and whistled a penalty kick.

A penalty kick was won at the beginning of the game, and the game seemed to have some unpleasant implications.

The penalty that Mane created himself, of course, chose to take the penalty by himself.

Take a deep breath and run up.

One kick is a tricky penalty kick.

But Mignole's luck came.

After all, in the previous Champions League match, Mignolet was completed by Atletico Madrid for 8 consecutive games, and Atletico did not miss a goal.

Now, the so-called conservation of luck has finally paid off.

For this ball, Mignole first guessed the direction, and there was still a lot of space to take off. He directly ran Mane's foot towards the left post of the goal and hit both with one palm.

Mignolet successfully completed the save, and Yang Feng reacted very quickly at the first time, quickly came into the penalty area and completed a quick clearance.

A penalty kick failed to get back the score, and Southampton's luck seemed not too good.

However, Southampton’s offense continued.

Still looking for opportunities to complete the offensive on the field.

And just when Liverpool, already in the game, began to relax, ready to take the game easily.

The Southampton players still did not give up.

Especially Mane, who came off the bench, is constantly using his own runs to make his own contributions on both offensive and defensive ends in the game.

Kung fu paid off, and Ma Nei's tireless running still allowed him to find an excellent attacking opportunity in the game.

In the 64th minute of the game, Liverpool's counterattack lost the ball, but it gave Southampton the chance to fight back.

Pellet’s high point in the frontcourt was very limited by Yang Feng~www.readwn.com~ But Antich’s sudden advance in the field served as the fulcrum of Southampton’s frontcourt.

A header ferryed, just in time to find Mane on the left side quickly.

Before Mane, he was still defending on his own half-court side during the game. At this moment, he accelerated with all his strength and rushed to Liverpool's half-court hinterland.

After stopping to lead, Mane dribbled the ball directly and continued to advance quickly.

He quickly accelerated forward and rushed between the two players, Scotter and Klein.

With the ball directly into the penalty area, on the left, facing the attacking goalkeeper Mignolet, this time Mane did not choose too many tricks.

It's just a burst shot while traveling and hit the goal straight.

The save action made by Mignolet, but at close range, had already reacted slowly.

"The ball is scored!"

"The ball is scored!"

"Mane!"

"After creating a penalty before but kicking it away, I made up for it at this time and took advantage of a counterattack opportunity to hit the goal with a burst shot and scored a goal for Southampton."

"The score was 1 to 2. For Southampton, this goal gave them the hope of continuing to regain the score at home."

The Southampton fans at the scene were celebrating the goal. For them, even if the total score is still behind, they saw the team’s excellent offense and the spirit of never giving up. For them , It is already content.

What they like is the attitude of the team.

Victory, when facing the defending champion Liverpool, they did not pursue too much, but a goal has already made them happy for a long time.

Sometimes, being a pure fan is as simple as that, even if it is so easy to satisfy...