Football’s First Defender

Before the double red meeting, Liverpool will also go to France for the team's first Champions League game of the season.

In the new season's UEFA Champions League group draw, Liverpool definitely drew a good lottery.

Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, Montpellier in Ligue 1, and Olympiacos in the Greek team in the same group are not considered traditional European powerhouses. Many people are still very optimistic about Liverpool's prospects for advancing to the knockout rounds.

Although in the new season of the Premier League, Liverpool encountered a nightmarish unfavorable start, but in the Champions League, facing last season's Ligue 1 champion Montpellier who "bleeded" seriously, Liverpool finally has someone to vent their anger on up.

Although Liverpool's own pass and control style of play is still not as smooth as imagined, but in the face of Montpellier, which is not strong enough, Liverpool players can still use their excellent personal abilities to make up for the lack of tactical coordination.

The team firmly occupies the advantage on the field, and finally can play the advantage of passing and controlling football that Rogers wants to see in the official game.

The super high ball possession rate, more than 2 times the number of passes, and the same multiples of the number of shots, the number of shots on target, this game definitely made Rogers, who has been in the dark for a long time, see the dawn.

In the end, the score of 2 to 0, although not a big victory, was indeed Liverpool's first victory of the season, the first zero seal. It can be said that this victory gave everyone greater expectations and made Liverpool players also I got my confidence back.

Flying back to Liverpool in England the next day, the task of the next few days is for the players to quickly recover and prepare for the weekend league and the new season's Double Red Club, which is also a game where Rodgers needs to prove his coaching level.

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Not a lot of trash talk.

For Rodgers, the pre-match press conference has always been suave.

There was no mockery of the opponent, nor too arrogant a pre-match declaration. For Rogers, the press conference has always been a brief introduction to the preparations, and never had too much intersection with others.

Unlike last season, when Dalglish and Ferguson were tense and intense as if sparks hit the earth in the pre-match press conference, this season's double red meeting did not show enough gunpowder at the beginning. .

But as the game is about to start, the calm before the game will eventually be broken. This is the third home game played at Anfield this season. The previous home game was captured by Manchester City and tied by Arsenal. Many kops hope that the team can beat the rival Manchester United to get their first home win, as well as the league. First win.

Anfield must be full of seats in such a big scene as the Double Red Club.

Tens of thousands of fans cheered for the home team Liverpool, and the singing of "You will never walk alone" naturally filled the entire Anfield stadium.

Regardless of the team's previous game status, in the fierce game of the Double Red Club, at their own home court, Liverpool players must do their best to win.

Rodgers selected the players he believed to be in the best shape and sent an 11-man starting lineup.

The front line and the back line are still unchanged. Even though Borini has no obvious effect, in order to build a tactical system, Rogers still let him start in this game.

The change in the midfield is what Liverpool fans have been looking forward to. They hope to see a more mature and stable midfielder.

In the final selection of midfielders, Rogers was a little surprised by his boldness.

Needless to say, Joe Allen and Gerrard are the unshakable main players. In the other two positions, Rodgers sent the very young Sterling to start, and the same young midfielder Shelvey.

Rodgers wants to add Sterling as the team's explosive point on the wing in addition to pass control, so that he can better create offensive opportunities.

Manchester United, where the visiting team visited, changed to 451 in this game because of Rooney's injury.

Van Persie, who moved to Manchester United this season, played the position of the front lone striker.

Last season, Van Persie, who was restricted by Yang Feng at Arsenal, had already stated in a high-profile interview before this game that he wanted to defeat Yang Feng's defense in this double red meeting and win for Manchester United. Goals, wins.

"Last season, my teammates didn't give me enough support, which made me unable to give full play to my offensive strength when facing Yang Feng. But this season, my teammates around me can provide me with more help, even in the In the away game of the Double Red Club, I also have the confidence to score a goal!"

Van Persie's wild words before the game made Skrtel a little angry, but Yang Feng just laughed at it.

Psychological warfare does not interfere much with Yang Feng, and in this game, Skrtel is defending against Van Persie, and Yang Feng has a more important task in this game.

Since the team lacks an orthodox defensive midfielder, Yang Feng can only use more ground grabs in the game to take on a small part of the midfielder's responsibilities in addition to the central defender's responsibilities, contributing more to the team's defense. much power.

There is no need to try too much in the game of the Double Red Club. From the very beginning of the game, it is open and closed.

The previous victory in the Champions League obviously made the Liverpool players more confident, and they were more relaxed when they played pass-and-control football on the field.

Liverpool, who were playing at home, played very smoothly in the opening three games, creating 2 good offensive opportunities and threatening Manchester United's defense.

It's just that Ferdinand is old and strong, and he has proved with his excellent defensive performance that he still has to continue to compete with the opposite Yang Feng for the title of the Premier League's number one central defender.

It's just a pity that Liverpool's offensive posture did not last for a long time.

Compared with the drastic reforms of the young Rogers, there is also a change in tactics.

Ferguson has a mature and successful tactical system established over the years as a support, and he only needs to continue to fill in the best football talents according to the needs of the team.

With the general environment of the team unchanged, even if some fresh blood joins, with the support of the old players, they will quickly adapt to the team's tactics and form a certain tacit understanding.

Shinji Kagawa in the midfield and Van Persie in the front line are all new players, but they adapted to Manchester United's tactics very quickly in the new season, and there was no problem with their performance in this game.

The more stable Manchester United took advantage of Liverpool's pass-and-control style of play, and when there was a problem, in the middle of the first half, they began to use defensive counterattacks and opportunities to catch the opponent's mistakes, and successfully reversed the game format to Manchester United's side. .

However, the score remained unchanged at 0 to 0. Yang Feng also performed well in defense, contributing several wonderful interceptions and tackles, which echoed Ferdinand's successful defense on the opposite side.

It's just that the seemingly peaceful situation was suddenly broken at the end of the first half.

The appearance of a red card directly disrupted Liverpool's arrangement and seriously tilted the balance of victory.