Football’s First Defender
Chapter 655: Physical fitness problems targeted
The outcome of this red and blue war, in the final winner, although Liverpool had the last laugh in the game, the focus after the game was actually all focused on Chelsea, which had obvious problems within the team.
Although Mourinho said in the press conference that the team has no problem, he and the players are very ok, the team is just in poor condition and bad results.
However, media reporters will not listen to such official remarks. Instead, they are trying their best to find the deep secrets of the Chelsea team from Mourinho's self-talking, facial expressions and attitude.
For Liverpool, as long as they can win away games, the victory of this game also allows Liverpool to end the vicious circle of multiple rounds of competition in all competitions and to further improve in the league rankings.
However, the hardship on the schedule is gradually testing Liverpool's physical fitness.
In the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, Liverpool at Anfield played against the visiting CSKA Moscow.
In the European game, the Russian team left their own cold home court and came to the away game, and their strength automatically declined.
For Liverpool, this home game is of course not to be missed.
In order to grasp the absolute initiative to advance, Klopp continues to send his current most satisfactory starting list to actively strengthen the possession of the ball at home and maintain the team's initiative on the offensive.
Without the limitation of the weather, Liverpool players can obviously display most of their strength easily, and CSKA Moscow players who come from afar, in the eyes of Liverpool players, and some of the British crowns encountered in the cup. The level only knows the opponent who uses the body to fight, there is not much difference.
Less than 30 minutes into the game, Liverpool took the lead 2-0.
It was Coutinho who opened the record first. Coutinho, who had scored twice before against Chelsea, continued to maintain his excellent foot feel. In just 7 minutes of the game, he completed a wonderful outside long shot.
The ball whizzed out at the time and hung the top left corner of the goal, making Akinfeev's save in vain.
Coutinho scored the first goal for Liverpool.
Then in the 27th minute, when Liverpool were suppressing the frontcourt, Yang Feng once again scored a goal in the Champions League.
In the corner kick tactics of the front court, Yang Feng ambushes in the middle, and the second serve comes first, directly pressing the visiting team's center back, completing the header and scoring the goal for the team to expand the score.
Two goals lead, the next game will be simpler and easier.
Liverpool began to choose the ball-handling method in a planned way to save more physical energy.
In the first half of the game, under Liverpool's ball-handling play, the score of 2-0 was maintained until the intermission.
In the second half of the game, the visiting team CSKA Moscow obviously didn't want the away game to be caught in this way. The team's offensive was strengthened through substitution adjustments.
It's just that Liverpool have a high position in front of the defense, which limits the fluency of the away team's shots and reduces the number of attacks that the away team can score.
After , there is Yang Feng in the backcourt, using his super personal defensive ability on the defensive end to limit the personal offense of the visiting forward.
The side-to-center combination play in the center of Moscow can't make a specific threat.
The passes that entered the penalty area were all intercepted by Yang Feng and his teammates.
And Liverpool's performance on the counter-attack is still efficient.
Lallana's counterattack goal in the 62nd minute gave Liverpool a 3-0 lead and further sealed the victory.
Liverpool’s third goal did have some confidence in hitting the visiting team.
Without the slightest hope, the CSKA Moscow players did not have much motivation and wasted their precious physical energy on the road.
The final 3-0 score was maintained until the end of the game.
Liverpool, who won another victory, this time, firmly grasped the initiative to advance to the Champions League in his own hands.
After a consecutive week of double matches, Liverpool’s opponents in the league, ushered in the challenge of the London team Crystal Palace.
Crystal Palace performed very well this season. With the efforts of Kabaye, Zaha and others in the midfield, the team performed very well on the offensive end.
Although it is still a slightly rough traditional British style of play, the team has used the speed, physical strength, and athletic ability of the players to the extreme this season. The perfect series has also formed its own unique style. The tactical system often puts on a brilliant performance against a giant team.
And today, Liverpool, which is fighting continuously on all fronts, is destined to be a tough battle when facing Crystal Palace, even at home.
For Liverpool, 433's formation is not much different from before.
The Crystal Palace side is also the team's 442 lineup used this season.
The entire team, more than half of the players, are the kind of players who look black and hard, relying on the team's super physical fitness to gain a foothold in the Premier League this season.
At the beginning of the game, Crystal Palace showed the talent of players in athletic ability.
Isn't Liverpool willing to press high?
The Crystal Palace, who came as a guest, also used a wide range of runs to compete with Liverpool players in a full-court, multi-directional running competition.
The rhythm of the game was quickly mentioned by the Crystal Palace players. Everyone was chasing the football, attacking and defending in a fast offensive and defensive rhythm.
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The increase in offensive and defensive rounds means that there are more chances to intercept the ball in the frontcourt and counterattack on the spot.
The opening game was indeed exactly as Klopp expected.
Liverpool's high position in the midfield, pressing, really led the game according to his own expectations.
The team got a lot of offensive opportunities in the midfield, especially some opportunities to counterattack on the spot, allowing Liverpool to easily complete multi-foot threatening shots in the frontcourt.
Although the team’s defense line was also threatened by Crystal Palace’s counterattack, Zaha’s speed, and the athletic ability of the visiting team’s strikers all made Yang Feng’s defense lead a great deal, but everyone felt that Liverpool were doing this. In a familiar rhythm, it is normal to get ahead.
However, the Liverpool players on the field obviously felt a bit bad in the continuous running.
Tired, tired, feeling a little bit weak.
Within half an hour of the game, the Liverpool players felt as if they were playing more tired than at the end of the previous half.
This is the tactics of Crystal Palace. From the very beginning, the running ability of Liverpool players was mobilized to transform the game into a track and field competition under the fast-paced offense and defense of both sides.
The Liverpool players have been affected by successive battles in various competitions before and have poor physical fitness. Crystal Palace is going to kill Liverpool under such circumstances...