Football’s First Defender
Chapter 661: Group qualify
An away victory over Manchester City is not only a victory in a league matchup, but also a great help to the morale of the Liverpool team.
With the power of a big victory, Liverpool returned to the home court and played against visiting Eindhoven in the middle of the week.
Although Liverpool lost to their opponents in the first leg of the Champions League during Rogers's get out of class, but relying on the outstanding performance of the past three rounds of the group stage, Liverpool now has two wins, one tie and one loss, with 7 points temporarily ranking first in the group.
Eindhoven ranked second in the group with 6 points.
Wolfsburg’s 6 points and CSKA Moscow’s 4 points still have a chance to compete for the qualification.
However, Liverpool definitely have a very good qualifying advantage.
As long as they win this home game, then Liverpool can get the right to qualify in advance, regardless of the disputes of the other three teams.
Since there is still the competition for the Club World Cup, for Klopp, he actually doesn’t mind advancing to the knockout round as first or second in the group. If this game can win, then Klopp will definitely be in In the last round of the group stage, choose to rest to ensure the physical fitness of the players, can stick to the Club World Cup matches, and the Christmas schedule of the Premier League.
Eindhoven is still in charge of the youth army, there is no way, the current Dutch League is such an environment.
With various broadcasting technologies and the pervasiveness of the media, when there are players who shine in the first place, they may be poached by the major teams.
The Eredivisie League has now completely become a training place for the little demon, and it is still the kind of business model that has to be sold after training to semi-finished products.
Unless there is the kind of player who was originally unknown and suddenly completed a super-explosive in one season, even if the big players in the Eredivisie, most of the players are sold at a price of 30 million euros, they are already top-notch.
Generally speaking, players who have proved their strength in the Eredivisie will immediately leave the Eredivisie with a transfer price of less than 20 million and go to the leveling team in the top five leagues to further prove their strength and play their worth. .
And the old giants like PSV, their competitiveness in the UEFA Champions League is actually slowly declining.
At home against Eindhoven, most of the Leprechaun players in his team have no impression of Yang Feng.
Yang Feng has no impression. It may be that Eindhoven has rarely cultivated the kind of genius that sells to the rich in the past few years.
For Eindhoven, who advocates an offensive style, Liverpool’s tactical arrangement has not changed much from the previous game against Manchester City. The team is still based on the defense of the high position in the front court to target the opponent’s offense and fight the opponent. The counterattack can also be regarded as an offensive tactic of changing directions.
The difference in the strength of the players on both sides is very obvious.
At Anfield Stadium, Liverpool had to start the game and achieved a pretty good suppression effect.
In the second minute of the game, Liverpool's wing attack created a great opportunity.
Coutinho used his breakthrough ability to directly waded through the visiting team's defense line, and then completed a cross at the bottom.
Firmino, who followed up in the middle, nodded directly in front of the ball, but the away team goalkeeper played well, a side flutter blocked the kick and did not allow Liverpool to score a lightning goal.
Today's Liverpool, relying on the high position pressure in the front field, completely restricted Eindhoven's offensive in the away field and achieved complete suppression in the game.
After barely withstanding Liverpool's many attacks, the defense line composed of young people from Eindhoven was declared lost in the 21st minute.
After a rare counterattack in Eindhoven, after being intercepted by Yang Feng, Yang Feng quickly passed the ball to Lallana in front of him, and Liverpool moved on the ground to advance the counterattack.
Lallana drove the ball forward with a precise kick, passing through the gap between the two defending players in Eindhoven, and accurately found the foot of Iby who was fast forward on the right.
Iby took the ball directly and quickly forward. When he entered the penalty area on the right, he chose an inverted triangle pass and turned the ball to the center.
It was Firmino who followed up in the middle. Without the defensive players, Firmino stopped the ball and immediately completed the goal.
shot a shot and hit the bottom left corner of the goal. The away team's goalkeeper didn't react enough this time, and Firmino successfully opened the scoring for the team.
And 7 minutes later, Liverpool expanded the score.
Front court corner kick opportunity. Coutinho took a high ball to accurately find the position of the back point. A world-class central defender like Yang Feng has an absolute advantage when it comes to opposing young players.
Relying on the strong to bully the weak, directly overpowered the opponent's central defender, nodded and scored the second goal for the team.
Two goals ahead, the situation of the game is completely in the hands of Liverpool.
Only two minutes later, Eindhoven’s offense showed his young talent and creativity.
In the frontcourt attack, Luke De Jong received a through ball from his teammate and successfully reversed offside. An emergency stop spike in the penalty area, after being dunked by Skatel's defense, directly pulled the ball horizontally to complete a kick. Shot at the far corner.
Judging from the broadcast camera, the angle of the shot was very good, but in the end it did not threaten the goal. Yang Feng made up from the other side and jumped in the air~lightnovelpub.net~ raising his leg high and succeeded Blocking the pass this time made the opponent's chance of hitting empty this time.
After Eindhoven’s threatening attack, Liverpool’s offense has made a comeback.
In the Liverpool team, Firmino and Coutinho Lallana played a continuous pass in the frontcourt.
Standing in the penalty area, Firmino completed the final pass and passed the ball back to the following Lallana. Lallana opened the angle and directly completed a long-range shot.
It's just that this long shot was blocked by the PSV player, who jumped up and completed the defense.
But the ball still bounced to the feet of Coutinho, who followed up on the left. In the face of this surprise, Coutinho did not adjust, followed up with a kick and scored the ball from the close corner.
3 to 0, Liverpool secured the victory in the first half.
Unlike Manchester City in the previous game, although the away defeat has been set, PSV still maintained its competitiveness in the second half. For the young players of PSV, this game is not a struggle. If you have a good result, you have to show your personal strength and potential in front of the rich team and many scouts who are there to watch the game. It doesn’t matter how many goals you lose. You have to seize the opportunity of the European War to show yourself. Important.
In the second half of the game, PSV took advantage of Liverpool’s slack and seized the opportunity. A few players in the front field played a subtly coordinated match. Luke De Jong, a long shot from the outside, scored the face that was back. One ball.
Fortunately, the result of the game was no surprise. Liverpool won the game 3-1 at home and successfully qualified for the group one round ahead of schedule...