Football’s First Defender

Chapter 393: Solid defense

   The score of 1 to 2, although Arsenal is still one goal behind, the suspense of the game has returned. The 60,000 Gunners fans in the Emirates Stadium suddenly regained their vitality, and the shouts of cheering began to become louder. 

   An accidental loss of the ball, Walcott suddenly inserted into the penalty area, in an unobtrusive, seemingly less threatening position, but shot a very wonderful shot.

   This is the football stadium. Accidents happen all the time, just like Henderson spared no effort to put in a counterattack before, creating a wonderful and unexpected goal for Arsenal.

   This time Walcott gave it all back. Instead of waiting on the flank, he inserted into Liverpool's penalty area. He also hit the goal from a seemingly unreasonable small angle, but he achieved miraculous results.

   There are still more than 20 minutes of the game. For Arsenal, who are playing at home, they have a chance to continue to fight for the next goal.

   In response to the tremendous pressure on the side of Wisdom in this game, after losing the ball, Rogers took the lead in making his own substitution adjustments.

   Replaced Wisdom with veteran Carragher and made a major adjustment to the position of the entire defense.

   Glen Johnson went to the left to play the left back to stabilize the defense on the left, Scotter went to the right back, and handed to Yang Feng and Carragher in the middle.

   Then in the midfield, Stirling replaced Downing. Rogers had to use Sterling's absolute speed to pose a huge threat of counterattack to Arsenal, making Arsenal even if they attacked, they had to worry about their own defense.

   Moreover, Rogers borrowed Carragher's mouth to further clarify the team's tactical thinking.

   changes into a 4321 formation, in which Henderson, Lucas, and Gerrard form a three-back midfielder system, which stabilizes the defense of the center and waits for the opportunity to help the side to block the area.

   Sturridge and Sterling must retract in a large range at this time to ensure that they can form a helpful first line of defense in front of the full-back.

Suarez also has to give play to his running advantage. He must always be ready to counterattack, rush into the enemy’s back and complete a fatal blow, and find ways to interfere with the opponent’s conduction ball in the midfield area, making Arsenal unable to easily play in the midfield Regional scheduling.

   Facing Liverpool’s more energetic defense, facing Liverpool’s more determined defense, the final moments of this strong confrontation directly evolved into a contest of offense and defense.

  The game progressed to such a point that it tested the execution ability of the two teams at the end of the game.

   "After Arsenal just got back a goal, the morale is high and they want to try to tie the score directly."

   "But on the visiting team's Liverpool side, after coach Rogers adjusted the arrangement in time, the team now has a unified mind, that is, all players give priority to the final defensive task.

   "Can Arsenal's strong attack be able to score another goal?"

   Wenger is on the sidelines, and now he is thinking about whether he should also make substitution adjustments.

   Physical energy consumption is relative. Although Liverpool players consume more physical energy, the Arsenal players also consume a lot of physical energy.

   But who should I change?

   Wenger looked at the players who were warming up, and he was a little frown.

Years after years of selling their main players and realizing revenue, Arsenal’s entire team is almost empty. Although the team’s youth training, as well as the "semi-finished" players, and veterans have joined the team for the team. The addition of the lineup, but Arsenal's intuitive combat power today is definitely the least among the Premier League giants, but it is also an indisputable fact.

   How many forwards have been sold for so many years, and now, when Wenger needs to attack, of course he wants to increase the forward players in the frontcourt, but there is no more on the bench!

   Arsenal’s forward in India this season is just Giroud, barely including Podolski who started the game, no one else...

And on the bench that can strengthen the offense is the midfielder, the old injury Diaby, and the recently recovered Rosicky, although they are all warming up, but both of them have just recovered from their injuries and only participated in team training. And there is no guaranteed state of the game, it is still unknown whether it will be effective to send two people to the field in such a fierce game.

   The other players, that is, defenders and goalkeepers, are not really aggressive.

   In the end, Wenger chose to continue to bear it. Unless the players on the field are really out of stamina and can't hold on, otherwise, instead of putting in a substitute player to take risks, it is better to let the players on the field stick to the attack.

   "Ramsey's forward cut, breakthrough, formed a threat, Henderson decisively used the foul, directly dropped, and gave Arsenal a free kick on the right side of the frontcourt!"

   would rather foul than give the opponent the opportunity to easily break into the penalty area and pose a threat.

   As far as set-kick defense is concerned, Henderson believes that in the case of his own "three central defenders", he must be more advantageous in terms of fighting for landing, and this foul position is not suitable for direct free kicks.

   For this foul, Henderson felt that he had made a profit without being shown a yellow card by the referee.

   "Wilshire! Pass to the back point!"

   As soon as the arc of the flyback point is reached, the speed of the ball is not too fast, but the ball is an outward-spinning arc, falling slowly from above, but it also makes it almost impossible for players to reach it before reaching the landing point.

   As many as 3 Arsenal players, after kick-off, went straight to the back point, the goal is to rush to this point.

But Mertesacker and Giroud's height can be used, but facing Liverpool's three central defenders who are good at headers, there is not much room to play, and the card position is greatly restricted. .

   But Wilshere's pass is really great, and the point is close to the position of Giroud who is inserted between Yang Feng and Scott.

   But Yang Feng's height, bounce, and ability to fight in the air are all perfectly displayed this time. After accurately judging the landing point, he leaned back and jumped to force the header. He came into contact with football one step ahead of the rushing Giroud.

   "Girou's summit!"

   "If you didn't hit the ball, Yang Feng first completed the clearance to the limit, and then headed back to make the clearance. Yang Feng would always use the most reasonable and difficult moves to complete the clearance at the most appropriate time."

   Arsenal’s offense not only has to tear the line of defense in Liverpool’s midfield, but also find a way to cross the last line of defense, the strongest Liverpool guarded by Yang Feng himself.

   However, as Liverpool have more personnel involved in the defense, Yang Feng adjusted his mobility to the maximum after a series of assignments of the players' respective defensive tasks.

  Although he has to undertake certain man-marking and defensive area tasks, Yang Feng can have considerable initiative at the end of the defense line and attack from all sides to make up for the defects of other teammates in the defense line.

   Once, twice, three times...

   Arsenal’s offensive encounters time and time again, and they have been unable to score any further goals. The time of the game has also begun to become Arsenal’s enemies, constantly reminding the Arsenal players that there are not many opportunities!

   At this time, for the Arsenal players, what is needed is luck, and what is needed is an unexpected opportunity to break through Liverpool's door.

   "Liverpool made a mistake. When his side launched a counterattack, Lucas slipped on the sole of his long pass and the ball was not kicked far. The Arsenal player got it near the midfield!"

   "Arsenal turned into a counterattack."

   "Wilshire accelerates forward with the ball!"

   "Seeing that two Liverpool defensive players lock the area in front of the penalty area and pass to Ramsey on the left."

   "Ramsey passed the ball without stopping and found Giroud in the penalty area."

   "Gilu is leaning on Yang Feng to give full play to his high center forward advantage and take the lead, but he has no room to turn around and hit the goal under the defense of Yang Feng's rear."

   "Flick! After receiving the ball, Giroud didn't hesitate to give Yang Feng a chance to grab the ball, and directly moved the ball to Podolski who was inserted to the left."

   "Podolski! A small angle to hit the door?"

   "No! It's a cross pass!"

   "Girou who followed up, kicked and shot!"

   "Yang Feng! Blocked!"

   "When Giroud took the lead to complete the push with his left foot, Yang Feng reacted quickly and fell to the ground quickly and blocked the shot angle with his body."

   It’s too late for Giroux to make any more moves. Goalkeeper Renner, cleverly took the football blocked by Yang Feng into his arms...

   Looking at Yang Feng, who was lying on the ground and panting, Giroud finally felt the difficulties faced by every Arsenal forward in the previous few seasons when facing Yang Feng...

   was only on the video before, and I saw that Yang Feng used the defense again and again to block every seemingly excellent scoring opportunity of the offensive players, but this game, I personally experienced this kind of powerlessness, it is really disappointing!

Several good opportunities, especially this time, Giroud thought that he had already gotten a shot from lightnovelpub.net~, but Yang Feng, who was next to him, would be caught in such a way that he was late in the game. Blocking the shot is really making all of his own efforts vanish.

   Luck did appear on Arsenal’s side, in 87 minutes of the game

  , Arsenal also had a chance to tie the score, but Yang Feng made everything illusory.

   The score of 1 to 2, after Yang Feng's repeated efforts to turn the tide, there is still no change.

   "3 minutes stoppage time!"

   A goal gap, Arsenal are still attacking, but after Giroud's excellent opportunity was still blocked, it may also be due to the decline in physical fitness, Arsenal's offensive, a little exhausted.

   "With Yang Feng's big foot, the referee blew the whistle of the end of the game. Liverpool played away and defeated the powerful rival Arsenal 2-1, gaining valuable 3 points on the way to qualify for the Champions League!"

"Liverpool, in the last 20 minutes, used his worst defense to defend the victory of this game. Arsenal's final stage, many attacks, were all resolved by Yang Feng and the Liverpool defense he commanded. ."

In this game, Liverpool’s changes on the defensive end really made everyone’s eyes shine. The weakest defensive instability that has been most criticized throughout the season is improving a little as the midfielder’s control and defensive abilities are strengthened. This is Liverpool's biggest gain in this game.

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