Football’s First Defender

As the game progressed, time passed little by little, and it also put more and more offensive pressure on Liverpool.

Liverpool needs to use offense, find the sense of offense in the game, and score goals in the game as soon as possible.

For Liverpool, it is most effective to use Benteke to break Chelsea's defense.

Benteke can provide Liverpool with a fulcrum in the penalty area when he plays at a high point.

It's just that after a few crosses, although Benteke's threat was revealed, it was not easy to score directly and easily.

Although Chelsea's defensive lineup is short of major generals, it is the top defensive foundation of the Premier League after all.

The back line is short of people, but the defensive ability of the midfielders can also form a certain interference with Benteke in the penalty area, so that Benteke cannot easily display his ability to compete for the header.

For Liverpool's offense, simply looking for Benteke did play a certain threat at the beginning, but as Chelsea shifted their defensive focus to limit Benteke's offense in the penalty area, Liverpool's The offensive effect began to decline again.

Klopp on the sidelines can only constantly teach the players face-to-face tips, so that they can find Benteke in the penalty area during the game, and at the same time, they can't completely give up the ground attack, but intersperse various offensive methods. Using it, it is not so easy for Chelsea to tilt the defensive focus to one side during the game.

Liverpool will use more complex offensive methods to create threats to the game.

Cross from the side, cooperate with the pass and cut after the breakthrough from the side.

When Liverpool began to use various methods to attack in the game, Chelsea did face a lot of trouble on the defensive end.

Benteke, a strong contender, needs to be defended.

Coutinho, Lallana, Firmino's breakthroughs must be defended, and Liverpool midfielders' long-range shots must also be paid attention to.

And Liverpool's two full-backs, who stepped in to attack, were no longer limited to passing from the side, and sometimes stopped and smashed the ball in an emergency to create a larger breakthrough space and find scoring opportunities.

Liverpool's offense began to increase in levels and randomness, trying to give full play to the offensive characteristics of each individual to complete the collective performance of the offensive end.

The most active of these is still Coutinho.

With Benteke as a containment point in the penalty area and in the middle, Coutinho also has a lot of room for independent attack.

For Coutinho, as long as there is a little less defensive pressure around him, he can have sufficient offensive conditions to fully perform and have an excellent offensive effect.

When Benteke's threat of grabbing points was limited, Coutinho started from 70 minutes to play his personal ability, either suddenly or pass, or find teammates, or work alone to complete the offensive performance in the game.

Mainly for Benteke, in the game, a better offensive space is needed to complete the offensive effect.

Under such circumstances, if there is no good way to launch an attack directly, then naturally it is for the so-called excellent offensive opportunity to play a certain containment ability in the game.

With Benteke as a check, Coutinho relies on his personal ability on the periphery, and there are actually many opportunities to get direct long-range shots.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Coutinho first forced a breakthrough from the side. After sending a cross, the Chelsea player took the lead in completing the clearance and re-raised the ball to the side.

After Coutinho regained the landing point of the ball himself, he used the same technical action again to launch a strong attack again.

This time, Chelsea's defensive players found a defensive position and wanted to block directly from the side during the game.

However, Chelsea's players were fooled.

When he completely surrendered his center of gravity and chose to stretch his legs to block the passing route.

Coutinho, who made a complete move with the previous attack, did not pass the ball this time. Instead, he chose to snap the ankle suddenly and dunk the ball back.

This sudden stop and spike helped Coutinho successfully evade the defender, and he can directly complete a better offensive performance in the game and prepare for the subsequent lateral breakthrough.

Although Chelsea's defensive strength has shrunk, it has deployed a lot of defensive strength to defend Coutinho, a threat point.

Even though Coutinho made an emergency stop and smashed the ball past one person, and wanted to pull the ball horizontally and retreat to the middle of the penalty area to find opportunities, he still needed to face the help of Chelsea players.

But even with help defenders at close range.

Coutinho still dared to make his own offensive moves in the game.

This is also technical players, South American players' confidence in themselves.

Coutinho is very confident. Facing the defense of Chelsea players, he is still able to play with his feet, using the rhythm of dribbling, and the free switching between one move and one stop to complete a relatively good offensive change.

Coutinho is alone again. After this time, he won't give other Chelsea players a chance to come back to defend.

Coutinho kicked the ball around and shot the ball directly to the bottom right corner of the goal.

Coutinho's entire offensive process was carried out quite smoothly, and the final kick was also very exciting.

The ball made a wonderful arc in the air, spinning directly from the outside and flying towards the right post of the goal.

It's just that although Chelsea's defensive players are helpless against Coutinho's offense this time, Courtois on the goal line has that defensive strength.

A quick fall to the ground and a side attack directly rejected Coutinho's long-range shot, making Coutinho's attack come to naught again.

However, Liverpool got another corner kick.

Every corner kick may be an opportunity for Liverpool to rewrite the score. Every set kick, Liverpool can play its own side and compete for opportunities for several high-point players.

Benteke, Yang Feng, Lovren, three high-point players, are a huge threat to Chelsea's penalty area.

Chelsea does not have a good way to achieve a single defense limit for three people in one-man marking.

However, there are certain problems in trying to use the number of defenders to limit interference with Liverpool's offensive players.

That is Liverpool on the offensive end, starting in the penalty area, sending more offensive players.

As the game entered the last 20 minutes, Liverpool's defense was ignored, and everything was given priority to offense.

This time Liverpool had 6 players competing for the top in the penalty area.

It can be seen how much Liverpool want to use set kicks to get offensive opportunities.

Chelsea's defensive strength is stretched, so they can only choose to defend Liverpool's key players as much as possible.

However, such a defense still gave Liverpool a chance.

Relying on the blocking of his teammates, Yang Feng still got the chance to head the ball.

A header goes to the top.

Scored again and scored twice.

And Liverpool is leading again, and it is also possible to win a difficult game.