Football’s First Defender
Chapter 443: Defensively wins
Jose Enrique is already the best player in the Liverpool team at the left-back position so far. Rogers is at the full-back position and it is impossible to make any adjustments to his current position.
Simply wanting to strengthen the defense, there are actually no good defensive players in Liverpool's formation that can be used as a substitute.
As for the increase in manpower from other defense lines, Rogers is definitely drinking poison to quench his thirst. For the giants of Manchester United, if you give them easy offensive space, it will definitely cause a fatal blow to Liverpool.
After thinking for a while, Rogers decided to attack on this halfway.
Coutinho originally assisted in the defense close to the left side, but Coutinho’s own characteristic is the ability to dribble under his feet. Although the speed is not slow, Coutin is compared to Valencia's winger attributes. On this side, Neo gives Valencia a very limited defensive pressure on the defensive end, which also allows Valencia to unscrupulously insert the attack, regardless of the space behind him.
Attack against attack, speed against speed.
Rodgers directly used his first substitution adjustment in this game for Valencia's strong point, replacing Aspers with a fast enough Sterling.
Let Coutinho return to the center position to play his offensive advantage, and let Sterling play on the left and go to the 100-meter sprint race with Valencia on the same side.
Sterling's weak physique may not be able to fight Valencia, but compared to the previous Coutinho, on the defensive end, it has not dropped to much, but because Sterling is faster. Coutinho’s advantage, but the defense may be better.
Although the defensive improvement may not be obvious, but after Sterling played, Liverpool's counterattack threat on the left has increased a lot.
Coutinho may not be able to make a targeted impact on the space behind Valencia.
But Sterling can do it. In terms of speed, Sterling may even be faster than Valencia.
Shortly after Sterling came on the field, Valencia pushed forward as always to make a threat, but after the attack was over, Yang Feng made a long pass in the penalty area and directly looked for the empty place behind Valencia.
After Sterling finished accelerating, he kept Valencia behind.
That is, Sterling's own ability to hit the goal in the high-speed running is still lacking, and his personal hit at the last kick failed to break De Gea's ten fingers.
But the opportunity created by Sterling using his own speed also shocked Manchester United in a cold sweat.
Valencia's attack on this side was limited by Sterling's threat, and he didn't dare to rush forward as he did before.
Without the breaking point of Valencia, Manchester United's offense began to stagnate again.
On the Liverpool side, stabilize their defense and fight Manchester United's counterattack. Although the possession of the ball is not more than 50% as usual, there are back and forth, but there is no effective attacking threat of attrition. , For the leading Liverpool, it is definitely advantageous.
On the Valencia side, after having scruples, Manchester United's two wing threats are not that big.
And Ashley Young can't find the offensive state for a long time, Moyes can only make substitution adjustments, let the team's other wide player, Nani come out to see if he can open the situation on the left.
Nani's appearance did bring some vitality to Manchester United's left, but it was not so easy for Manchester United to make immediate progress in attack.
Although it is not like Valencia, he played a successful effect on the wing as soon as he played, but Nani's pass is much better than Ashley Young, who is in poor form today.
Nani sent a through ball and directly found Welbeck in front. Welbeck received the ball in the open and interspersed horizontally like Liverpool's penalty area. It was the only threatening attack by Manchester United in nearly ten minutes. .
Later, Welbeck fell directly into the penalty area under the defense of Yang Feng and Glen Johnson, but the referee did not say much.
Just motioned to Welbeck to get up quickly.
From the slow-motion playback, it is true that Yang Feng had a lateral collision, but in terms of the Premier League's penalty scale, this purely physical collision is indeed a normal defensive range.
Even if Manchester United's offensive situation on the left has improved after Nani came on the field, for Liverpool's defense, it can still be supported on the court.
Instead, it was Nani's appearance. Because of its weak defensive attributes, Liverpool's counterattack launched by Henderson on the right side can even achieve quite good results.
Nani played only 5 minutes, and in a counterattack from the right to defend Henderson, he could only stop with a shovel behind his back and received a yellow card.
On the Manchester United side, the offensive threat was not enough, but they also began to be defensively harassed by Liverpool's counterattack threats.
In the case that the offense has been unable to continue to achieve results, Moyes can only make further substitution adjustments.
Replaced veteran Giggs with Little Pea Hernandez.
Manchester United played a three-forward tactic. Moyes wanted to increase the number of forwards through the increase in the number of forwards and win the chaos, so that the team could put more pressure on Liverpool’s defense and try to make progress. ball. It's just that the fierce fighting of the players on both sides still leaves each other with no good opportunities, threatening the opponent's core defensive area.
In the dull game on both sides, each team has a hot spot player who can arouse the passion of the fans.
Coutinho on Liverpool's side uses his excellent dribbling ability and can use continuous dribbling to lead the team's offensive frenzy.
On the other hand, the hot spot for Manchester United is Evra.
Today, Evra's performance is indeed outstanding. Not only can he complete his defensive work well, but also his offensive performance is remarkable.
Looking at the entire game, Manchester United has been constantly creating opportunities for the team with regard to Evra.
And some of the opportunities are still seized by fighting.
When Manchester United’s offensive didn’t work ~lightnovelpub.net~ and couldn’t penetrate Liverpool’s defense, Evra successfully intercepted Gerrard’s pass in midfield, and then drove the ball to the penalty area, 1v3. Nothing less to the Liverpool defensive players, and finally relying on his brave dribble, won a great free kick for Manchester United in front of the penalty area.
It's just a pity that Manchester United's offensive players performed really poorly today. A free kick in such a good position also ended with an anti-aircraft gun.
The entire Manchester United offensive line, even if a number of offensive players have been added, the offense has not changed.
Especially for Liverpool, after successively replacing Carragher and Sissoko, the team's last defense has become stronger.
The offensive tactics Moyes wanted from Manchester United could not create a shot in a dangerous area.
Twenty minutes later, the most threatening aspect of Manchester United was that Nani relied on his personal ability. After an inside cut, a long shot hit the goal, which was resolved by Mignolet. All other offensive attempts were eventually destroyed by Liverpool’s defenses.
1-0, Liverpool won the game in the first "Double Red Club" of this season, and also won three consecutive victories in the Premier League at the beginning of the season. The Red Army's recovery may be this season.
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