Football’s First Defender

Liverpool's super offensive ability, even in the face of the second-ranked Manchester City, also played a very good offensive effect.

Manchester City took the initiative to show weakness and put up a defensive formation, but they did not expect that the desired defensive effect was not achieved, and Liverpool scored two goals in a row.

Manchester City, who scored two goals, was pushed to a desperate situation just over 20 minutes into the game.

At this time, defense is no longer of much use. Manchester City needs to attack and attack Liverpool's defense to try to recover the score.

Otherwise, if Liverpool really wins the direct dialogue, although Manchester City has one round less, but Liverpool leads by 7 points, it will not be so easy for Manchester City to recover the gap in points in the last few rounds .

With the change of Manchester City's tactics, although Manchester City's defense has to bear greater defensive pressure, at this time, Manchester City cannot be allowed to be more conservative, and even if they are more conservative, they may not necessarily be able to limit Liverpool's offense.

Not to mention that the overall defense line has moved forward, and even among the midfielders, Fernandinho, who should have focused on the team's central defense, has begun to effectively participate in the team's offensive system.

In terms of Manchester City, except for the central defender who can only play the role of receiving the ball in the offensive position, everyone else has begun to show the offensive suppression power belonging to Manchester City.

The side players should cover the edges, and the center players should intersperse.

Manchester City players performed their duties and began to show their equally strong offensive ability.

Facing Manchester City's offense, Liverpool did not focus too much on strengthening their defense.

With the advantage of two goals, Liverpool can play more freely.

Sometimes, on the field of play, whoever plays more easily can play more relaxed and perform better.

Liverpool performed extremely well in the first half today. Even facing Manchester City's offense in the last 20 minutes, Liverpool went straight up without hesitation.

The two sides played against each other, and both created quite good offensive opportunities. In this situation of pulling apart from each other, the offensive players of the two teams got the opportunity to fully demonstrate their offensive talents.

In comparison, Liverpool still has some advantages.

Although Kompany is also a very good central defender, as far as the central defender combination is concerned, Yang Feng's partner Skrtel on Liverpool's side must be much better than Kompany's partner Demichelis on Manchester City's side.

Under the excellent performance of the defense led by Yang Feng, Manchester City's offense, even if it has diversity, can also cause a certain pass threat, but in the final goal stage, it is always taken care of by Liverpool. Threatening shots are not easy.

Skrtel mainly defended Dzeko, and Yang Feng had the space to move freely to limit the impact of other Manchester City players on Liverpool's penalty area.

During the game, David Silva repeatedly wanted to send a through ball to Liverpool's penalty area, looking for Nasri or Navas, who has a fairly strong speed and explosive power, to create a direct threat in the penalty area.

However, Silva's passing motives are always figured out by Yang Feng.

Yang Feng has been watching the empty space in the penalty area. Whenever Silva is about to pass the ball, Yang Feng will start to move "with a heart" to solve the empty space, or directly intercept the pass, or defend In place, restricting Manchester City's receivers from direct attack in this area.

Yang Feng's excellent defense has helped Liverpool close its defense time and time again, and can play Liverpool's quick counterattack, further threatening Manchester City's goal.

With the 3s combination and Coutinho, Liverpool's counterattack speed and counterattack quality rank first in the Premier League and even in Europe.

Throughout the second half of the first half, Liverpool created at least 3 counterattack threats.

It's just that Demichelis used a yellow card to resolve it once, and Joe Hart bravely saved a shot by Sturridge, and Sterling's own shooting skills were not good. At that time, I didn't grasp it that time.

In the half game, Liverpool had more than 60% of the possession rate, the shooting ratio reached 8 to 2, and the shooting ratio was 4 to 1. Liverpool scored two goals and achieved a 2 to 0 lead.

Such a strong duel involves the competition for the Premier League championship. Even if Liverpool is at home, but can play such a suppressive game, it can be seen how strong Liverpool is this season.

During the intermission, Manchester City made the final mobilization in the visiting team's locker room.

"A season of hard work and another move!"

"Everyone work hard!"

"Recover the gap between these two goals!"

If you don't break out in a desperate situation, you will die in a desperate situation.

Manchester City, relying on the extremely strong strength of the players, belongs to the team that can explode.

The champions two years ago, once they rose up, they are the most powerful contenders for the Premier League championship in recent years.

Even though this year's Liverpool has reached the point of terror on both ends of the offense and defense, but the Manchester City players, after getting rid of the psychological burden, showed their best self and came to counterattack in the second half.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Manchester City took the lead in launching the offensive.

Unlike in the first half, when they tried to find Silva as a point of attack, Manchester City began to pursue the simplest way of attacking from the side when penetration in the middle could not play a good offensive effect.

Use the personal abilities of your side players to continue to create opportunities.

However, unlike relying solely on Dzeko before, at the beginning of the second half, Manchester City arranged more players in the penalty area to help Dzeko grab points.

Even Aguero and others on the sidelines were warming up from the second half, ready to come off the bench at any time to further enhance Manchester City's offensive.

Navas is on the right, facing Flanagan's defense.

Navas, who has speed and technical advantages, is able to do a job with ease under Flanagan's defense.

There is no need to accelerate too deliberately. After receiving the ball, Navas can directly stop the ball at the boundary of Liverpool's penalty area, face Flanagan, and lure Flanagan to make a mistake.

Flanagan was caught in the first half and rushed up rashly, was passed clean by Navas and directly threatened the goal.

At this time, Flanagan only dared to hold his position, but he didn't want to be easily passed by Navas again.

However, the two sides stood, and the moment Navas started, he directly took advantage. Although he could not break through Flanagan's defense in the past, he could still open up enough passing space with an accelerated bottom.

Flanagan couldn't limit Navas's pass, and Navas only made a pick pass in order to complete the shot quickly.

But well placed.

In the penalty area, the penetration of Dzeko, Silva and others attracted the attention of Liverpool's defense.

When Navas actually passed the ball, it was a pass to the back point.

Fernandinho in the backcourt volleyed and completed a stunning shot, but Mignolet fell to the side and turned the ball away.

Manchester City's offense has been effective, but Liverpool's defense is still impregnable.