Football’s First Defender

Chapter 648: Handball

   "uncomfortable"

   This is what most Liverpool players feel the most.

   The temperature is more than ten degrees lower than that of England. The cold wind can be tolerated, but the breathing, panting, and inhalation of cold air into the lungs during the running process make many players feel strange.

   Even when they came to Moscow for training before, the Liverpool players have tried their best to adapt and adjust the breathing rhythm, but training and competition are after all two intensities.

   At this time, under this cold wind, the opponent's attack was driven by the opponent's attack to run at full capacity. The cold air was gasping during the march and directly sucked into the body. The discomfort caused by the Liverpool players was quite uncomfortable.

   Even the breathing and gasping during the run brings discomfort. How can players focus on the defensive end and do their best?

First of all, Liverpool’s defensive problems appear in the defense of the wing. After all, Liverpool’s major midfielders are the kind of players who are good at running and good at defense. They have "rough skin" and are naturally facing this difficult environment. , The adaptability has reached the strongest.

   At this point, Yang Feng and Skrtel on the defensive line are actually doing quite well and influential, but they are not as prominent and large.

   But Liverpool’s left back, Moreno, suffered a huge impact.

   Such a "bad" game environment made the Spaniard Moreno, who is familiar with the Mediterranean climate and plays in warm and humid environments all the year round, suffered serious disturbances in his running and breathing during the game.

   Under such uncomfortable circumstances, Moreno's defense on the wing naturally did not do much perfection.

   In this case, Moreno was originally a typical offensive strong and weak defender, so naturally he couldn't exert his full strength on the defensive end.

   The Brazilian football player Fernández, who has been naturalized into Russia, has always been a key attack corridor built by CSKA Moscow in the position of right back.

   Facing Moreno's abnormal defensive performance, Fernandez will seize the opportunity to directly attack Liverpool's defense in the penalty area.

   CSKA Moscow’s offensive, from the very beginning, stared at the defensive weakness of Moreno on the left side of Liverpool.

   Fernandez, Tosic and two of them took turns to attack on this side.

   In the 11th minute of the game, Fernández broke through the wing from the bottom. After attracting Moreno's defensive follow-up, he made a pass back and easily handed the ball to the foot of Tosic who followed up behind him.

   After receiving the ball, Tosic attacked directly into Liverpool's penalty area.

   Because of Tosic's own flexibility, he also has excellent technical skills under his feet.

   Although Lucas quickly made up for defense, Tosic, who drove the ball to the edge of the penalty area, was a sudden stop and spike while on the move, and he directly deducted Lucas, who had rushed to make up for defense.

  Before the other defenders of Liverpool were able to fill up their defenses, Tosic put the ball to his left foot, a low and flat kick, and "passed" the ball directly to the point behind the goal.

   Tosic hit the ball directly after this smash on the right, making Liverpool's defenders instantly scared into cold sweat.

   Judging from the flight trajectory of the ball, this kick seems to pass and shoot. No one knows whether Tosic has a control problem in the far corner, or if he chooses to find a backward pass.

   It can only be said that Moussa, who was at the back point, dashed forward and shot, and got rid of Skrtel's defense, but the distance to the football was still a little short.

   Moussa’s shot was a little too close, and the football followed its original trajectory, and it was less than 10 centimeters away from the center post into the net.

   It can be said that this time Tosic suddenly inserted into the penalty area and gave Liverpool a wake-up call, that is, it is not so easy to retreat in Russia.

    In the first half, although Liverpool put on a double forward arrangement, but more often in their own half of the defensive counterattack.

Benteke played more of his own role as a fulcrum, acting as a fulcrum role in the counterattack after Liverpool completed the defense, to help teammates control the first point of football, and then pass the ball to teammates to create a counterattack. Threatened.

However, it is limited by the lack of real speed players and the team's counterattack strength. In addition, although Benteke is strong, the central defender combination of the Russian national team in the CSKA is not vegetarian. .

  The physical fitness of the fighting nation is still very good. With their better confrontation ability and excellent performance in the cold environment, Liverpool's counterattack did not produce very good results.

   Liverpool’s counterattack threat is limited, which naturally greatly strengthens the CSKA Moscow players’ determination on the offensive end.

   The attacking rhythm in the early stage of the game is completely in the hands of CSKA Moscow players, and Liverpool’s defense is almost in the half of the game to besiege.

   And the home team's continuous offensive on the right finally reaped the result in the 32nd minute of the game.

   The continuous offensive impact made Liverpool's sideline defense absolutely turbulent.

In CSKA Moscow, under the attack of nearly half an hour, the home team players took advantage of the ball in the midfield to relieve their physical strength and prepare for the last wave of offensive in the first half. Liverpool's defense line began to actively press forward and wanted to apply the ball. The pressure of right keeps the home team from playing so easily.

   But it was such a usual frontcourt pressure, but on the away field, there was a huge problem because the player's condition was greatly damaged.

  Zagoyev was in possession of the ball in the midfield, facing Henderson's pressure, and turned around to complete the team~lightnovelpub.net~ directly to plan the team's offense.

When the Liverpool defenders were all attracted by Zagoyev’s attention, Zagoyev did not choose to take the ball by himself when he still had some dribbling space in front. Instead, he sent a foot over the top while on the move. Pass, look directly to Liverpool's right side of the penalty area.

   This long pass landed exactly at the corner of the sideline on the right side of Liverpool's penalty area. Due to Liverpool's overall defense line, the defender could not control this position, and Mignolet could not make it in time.

   In the speed competition between the two sides, Moreno closely followed Fernandez, who was defending the home team's right flank.

   The ball hits the ground and bounces forward, but Fernandez, who is taller, stretches out his foot and hooks the ball back.

Moreno, who has been running back with all his strength, didn’t realize that much. The ball bounced forward on the ground. Moreno didn’t control it, but he inertially moved forward. Suddenly he encountered the football that Fernandez hooked back and flew towards his face, subconsciously. Moreno reached for a block...

   The ball's running trajectory did not occur too much on the sideline. After Fernández controlled it, he directly completed a heavy kick with his left foot, only to be completed by Minholet in front of the goal, blocking the ball from the baseline.

   For Fernandez, completing this kick is just a subconscious and coherent action. Compared with a corner kick, Fernandez, who just saw Moreno's handball in the penalty area, wanted a penalty at this time.

   Facing the protests of many home team players, he explained to the referee that it was a handball. The referee took advantage of the opportunity of a dead ball to communicate with the assistant referee...