Football’s First Defender
Chapter 564: Eat 1 dumpling on Burnley
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Chapter 565: The most cost-effective victory
Liverpool, with a two-goal lead, combined with a home game, did not give Manchester City any chance to counterattack in the subsequent games.
In the second half of the game, Liverpool prioritized the team's defense, and always sought to control the ball and complete the control of the rhythm of the game.
Manchester City really wanted to use their powerful offense in the second half to complete the counterattack, and even exchanged offensive personnel early to strengthen the team's offensive.
However, today’s Yang Feng is absolutely in excellent condition. Not only did he successfully complete the task of limiting Manchester City's sharp knife Aguero in the game, he even had spare capacity to help other teammates to complete the defense occasionally.
Yang Feng completed many defensive performances in the second half, fully demonstrating his comprehensive and stable defensive skills.
In the end, Manchester City’s attack lost the magic of the past at Anfield, and Liverpool also kept the score of 2-0 to the end.
After defeating Manchester City and passing the biggest hurdle, Liverpool continued to trail Chelsea by one point, maintaining pressure on the leader Chelsea.
After defeating Manchester City in the league and before the second round of the Champions League, Liverpool still needs a week of double matches, with Burnley at home.
Burnley in the relegation zone desperately needs points to complete relegation, but facing Liverpool, or at Anfield away, for Burnley, it is destined to be bad luck.
Especially Burnley, a mid-lower Premier League team, whose team style is based on the traditional "British rough", fully retains the team of the British Championship, and the signings are also very limited.
The offensive situation is single, and on the defensive end, it can only rely on physical confrontation to put pressure on the offensive players.
If a team of this style plays smoothly, it may drop ten times in one effort, relying on a brute force, to crush all the opponents in front of it.
However, in most cases, Burnley faces the forefront of the standings, has a certain pass and control skills, players with strong ability at the feet of the team, they must be pressed on the ground more often.
At Anfield Stadium, the Liverpool players concentrated on preparing for this game, and the Burnley players obviously couldn't make any waves.
In this game, Liverpool are all the main players. In the fierce competition in the league, Liverpool must ensure that every three-pointer is firmly in his arms.
In the Rogers era, the focused transmission and control system finally has a stage that can be displayed to the extreme when facing Burnley's "rough" line of defense.
Even for Burnley, at the beginning of the game, it was quite witty that he defended by five guards honestly, and all players retreated to their own half.
But Liverpool’s offense can still make use of the players’ excellent running ability, as well as the greater flexibility than the Burnley players, to easily create offensive opportunities in the game.
Moreover, against opponents like Burnley, Yang Feng can give full play to his defensive strength when defending the opponent's counterattack.
At the beginning, Yang Feng was the father of the entire Premier League mid-lower team. When Dalglish was in charge, the easiest way for Liverpool to quickly improve results was to put almost the entire team into the offense and completely focus on the backcourt. Give it to Yang Feng to defend.
At that time, Yang Feng used to deal with strikers of this mid-lower team with a grip, and on the defensive end, with one person, he could easily control Liverpool's entire second half to limit opponents' counterattacks.
At the beginning, Dalglish, without the support of very good offensive tactics, was able to lead Liverpool into the Champions League area by unreasonably scoring points when facing the middle and lower teams.
Nowadays, on the offensive end, Liverpool rarely use two full-backs as full-backs in the entire game like the Dalglish era.
Occasionally, it's good to use one to enhance the offense, but it will no longer be used forever.
This is also the reason why the Premier League is gradually entering its heyday.
The relatively fair share of broadcasts allows every team and every season to get a considerable amount of money.
This also makes it possible for even some mid-lower teams to have the ability to buy some powerful players in the European transfer market, and even some young talented players who have not yet played out and need to level up.
In recent years, almost all of the money in the hands of the middle and lower Premier League teams has been used to invest in the offensive line of their own teams.
With the introduction of more other non-British players in the Premier League, the tactical style is still self-contained, but it is definitely not a simple and crude offensive style like traditional football.
More South American players and offensive players from other European leagues are flooding the front lines of Premier League teams. Although there is not enough support from the overall strength of the team, they are unable to attack tactics in the team's position, which makes many middle and lower teams Reborn.
However, in the counterattack, the small range of offensive cooperation can fully reflect the counterattack ability of these players.
Nowadays, the strikers of every team in the Premier League almost have the kind of offensive players who are fast enough or have enough technical ability to speed up the team's counterattack rhythm.
This also makes it more and more difficult for Yang Feng to defend the opponent's counterattack. He also needs more helpers to help himself and control the vast half of his side.
Burnley, on the other hand, maintains an absolute "British rough" tradition. Even most of the players on the team are native players from England or the British Isles, with pure British descent ~lightnovelpub.net~ and This tactical style gave Yang Feng absolute freedom in this game.
In this game, the once-familiar Yang Feng is back again. One person, really alone, supported the defense of the entire team.
Burnley's few chances to counterattack is that the ball passed to Liverpool's half, and then Burnley's players, before catching up to the position, were taken the lead by Yang Feng.
Or Burnley's pass, and found his forward fulcrum, but facing Yang Feng's defense, and Yang Feng's excellent card position, the away team forward has no possibility of fighting for the spot except for a foul.
Yang Feng succeeded in 6 interceptions and had a 100% success rate. The entire Burnley team was prevented from completing even a single kick in the first half.
As for Liverpool, even though Burnley chose the Iron Barrel, the Liverpool players easily completed the task of breaking the deadlock with all the players pressed.
In half of the game, two full-backs pushed in front and Liverpool scored 3 goals.
Coutinho’s iconic long shot, Sturridge’s strong shot in the penalty area, and Skrtel’s corner kick, Yang Feng pulled out of the space and scored a header to score 3-0 for Liverpool in the half. Leading edge.
In the second half, the two teams are more like foreign workers. The distance between the two teams has decreased significantly compared with the first half.
Both teams retain precious physical stamina and don't waste it in this game with a certain result, and prepare for the next schedule.
While Liverpool won easily with 3 goals, they also temporarily lead Chelsea and return to the leading position...