Football’s First Defender

After the draw with Everton in the away game, although Klopp's winning streak in all competitions has been terminated since he took office as coach, for Klopp, it is still necessary to use a draw to find the problem of the team of.

At least, in such an important Merseyside derby, Liverpool did not lose directly away, so it is not too bad a result.

After this city derby, due to the coming of the national team match day, the club competition will be rested for nearly two weeks, which will give Klopp more time to adjust and polish the tactics he is using now, and to better formulate future strategies. Yang Feng is a new offensive style for the midfielder.

Since it has entered the World Cup cycle, most of the national team's international players will return to play in their home countries on this international match day to help the country win tickets for the World Cup on their continent.

As for Yang Feng, this time the national team match day is also the first time he has left the club's training base and returned to China. This time, it will be the first time that Yang Feng has officially participated in the national team match.

Due to some personal reasons, although Yang Feng has long been famous in the European League, he has always had no way to serve the country, and the national team has never recruited Yang Feng in various competitions.

In the past two years, with the change of the executives of the Football Association, and Yang Feng's increasing influence in the European arena and world football, countless Chinese fans have put pressure on the Football Association on the Internet. "Finally a reconciliation was obtained, and Yang Feng also formally promised that he would serve the country.

You know, when Yang Feng solemnly promised in the media that he would participate in the national team competition, many fans were extremely excited.

Of course, what Yang Feng said in the media is to participate in the national team competitions, but in the private agreement with the Football Association, Yang Feng will not participate in some games without gold content for his own competitive state.

Such as the previous world preliminaries, playing Hong Kong, Maldives, and Bhutan and other underdogs, Yang Feng did not return.

This time, Yang Feng's first game on behalf of the national team was against Qatar, the hardest problem in the group stage.

Qatar, the underdog in West Asia, relied on planning players and the development of domestic players. The national team has developed rapidly in recent years. They have played against each other nearly 4 times, including the previous Asian Cup and the Asian qualifiers for the last World Cup. In the two rounds of the match, the Chinese team had 1 draw and 3 losses, and was at an absolute disadvantage when facing Qatar.

Such a tough opponent is already worth Yang Feng's flight back from the British Isles, and immediately put into preparations for the game 4 days later.

Regarding the current tactical arrangement of the national team, when Yang Feng was at the club, he had already obtained tactics from the Chinese coaching team, and he only needed to directly use his personal ability to join the team so that the team's defense line could Like in Liverpool, just follow your own defensive command.

In order to get familiar with each country's ability and style of play, even though Yang Feng had watched some people play "stinky ball" in the game in his previous life, he still had to watch the video of the game patiently and master the skills of each teammate in the game. Strength, to ensure that the defensive instructions issued by oneself, these teammates can have room to complete.

Although it was only in the summer, I practiced with the national team for a short period of time, but for Yang Feng, who already has a place in the world football, directly parachuting into the national team, the generational difference in strength is still obvious .

Why Yang Feng was able to confirm the starting position after two weeks of joint training in the summer, and why Yang Feng was able to get the privilege of not having to travel back and forth when facing super underdogs in some world preliminaries is because Yang Feng's excellent defensive strength has already stood in front of him. There is a huge gap between the top players in the world and these domestic teammates.

Today's national football coach Pei Lan was extremely happy when he was convinced that Yang Feng could return to China to participate in the national team competition.

After all, it's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, and the national football team is in a muddy water. After coaching for a period of time, Pei Lan was already physically and mentally exhausted.

With the return of an outstanding central defender like Yang Feng, for Perrin, at least crushing some second-tier Asian teams in Asia should not be a big problem.

It's very simple, why the national football team can't do it? After all, isn't the defense line rotten to the root?

You must know that in the history of men's football, there is absolutely no shortage of excellent offensive players. Even now, there are still many excellent offensive players who may not reach the top strength in Asia, but when facing some second-rate teams in Asia, they are still good. able to take advantage.

However, the national football team has always been weak on the offensive end, unable to score goals, or can only spend a long time trying to score a goal. In the final analysis, there are reasons for the lack of tacit understanding between the players, but there are also reasons for being dragged down by the defense. factor.

It's very simple. The same city derby between Liverpool and Everton just past is an example.

Is Liverpool's offense not strong? If Klopp really wants to try on the offensive end, Liverpool can definitely invest more players and create a greater offensive threat in the game.

It's just that the offensive and defensive ends are relative. If you invest enough in the offensive end, the pressure on the defensive end will inevitably be greater.

In the situation where stability is sometimes required, just like Klopp, he can only sacrifice a certain offensive threat and give priority to ensuring the number of people left behind in the defense.

The same is true for the national football team.

The defense has always been a pain for the national football team.

For several minutes of black in several important competitions, most of the blame will actually be pinned on the defensive players.

Poor mental quality, lack of physical fitness, without that diamond, but still always want to do that porcelain job.

The national football team always lacks players with sufficient strength and excellent stability in the defense line.

This is also forcing, in order to make the best use of the team's overall strength, the national football team needs to limit the attack of the defensive players, the offensive range of the midfielders, and even give the forward players certain defensive tasks.

It can be said that this concept of collective defense does, to a certain extent, allow the national football team to maintain a good defensive situation most of the time, but at the cost of losing offense, it is often faced with some powerful teams. , the national football team may struggle to even shoot a goal.

Moreover, due to the general lack of physical fitness of the players, the overall defense will suddenly fall off a cliff in the last 60 minutes, and many teams seize the opportunity at the last moment to play a threatening offense.

Whether he was an outsider in his previous life or an insider now, when Yang Feng watched the game video highlights of his teammates, what impressed him deeply was the physical fitness of the players.

"Are they really not thinking about training hard at all?"

Everyone knows that there are deficiencies in their physical fitness, but these national teammates really can't compare with Yang Feng himself in terms of their physical requirements.

During the two-week training camp, watching them drinking and stroking skewers made Yang Feng a little speechless.

Freezing three feet does not happen overnight. These top domestic players do not have such strong restraint. How can you strictly demand those young players, those young players.

For Yang Feng, the teammates of this generation are more of "stitching and patching", and Yang Feng didn't expect that he could change these stars who have adapted to Chinese football...