Football’s First Defender
Chapter 663: Relegation team's counterattack
After defeating Swansea at home, Liverpool finally got rid of the influence of the double match in the past week. It is rare to have a midweek to win a break.
This kind of rest time is very important for tired Liverpool players. After all, although the players are excellent players, they are not iron men.
The players also need to rest and adjust their game state.
After all, this is not a FIFA game. You can't let every player consistently keep his game in the best state.
Players also need to constantly use the rest time to relax their bodies, relax their spirits, and adjust their best state to the best state of the game day.
For the next devil schedule, this time, after the game against Swansea, Klopp specially gave the team two days off to allow the players to adjust themselves. It can be described as the authority and tolerance of himself as the head coach. On the one hand, they are fully shown to the players.
After a week of rest, the Liverpool players are full of energy and have better physical fitness, so they can participate in the subsequent games.
Liverpool’s next league opponent is Newcastle.
Newcastle this season, in the standings, has fallen into the relegation zone.
The season has only scored 10 points, and in the 7 home games that have been played, Newcastle has only won 1 win.
1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses, Newcastle’s current record is quite dangerous to relegation.
However, Newcastle’s home firepower is still guaranteed, 7 home games, scoring 13 goals, simply because the home defense is equally bad, losing 15 goals, ranking so low.
Generally speaking, in the perception of professionals, a weak team wants to be upset against a rich team. You only have good defense, not necessarily.
Because of the long-term defense, the probability that a weak team wants to rely on the iron barrel formation to burst into a big cold is too low.
The teams that are really easy to upset are those with considerable offensive ability.
Because, if this kind of team is playing crazy, relying on the team's offense, it might not be able to fight against the attack, survive from the dead, kill the rich team, and burst into a big upset.
In this away game, for Liverpool, it is to give priority to ensuring their own defense in the game and not to attack Newcastle.
After doing a good job on the defensive end, Liverpool can try their best to develop their offensive methods.
It's just that Klopp did a very good job of the pre-match plan, but when it came to the game, it was a different scene.
Sometimes, the relegation team is the most difficult team to provoke in the Premier League. Although it has not yet passed the New Year, it has not yet entered the invincibility period of the relegation team in March, but in order to stay in the Premier League, Newcastle is facing the six giants today. When one of Liverpool, they showed their quite strong offensive firepower.
Among them, naturally there are teams who need to escape the pressure of the relegation zone, and there are also many home games. The home team fans are encouraged by the cheering, but they are also inseparable from the wonderful performance of Newcastle midfielder Shervey in the game.
This old Liverpool player, when he was playing against his old club, thoroughly stimulated his potential and performed quite brilliantly.
As soon as the game started, Liverpool's home game was suppressed by the attack of the home team Newcastle.
Today's Newcastle, taking advantage of his home court, played quite proactively in the game.
And unlike some strong teams, they have to seek more cooperation and maintain the overall threat. Pass through the half and cross Liverpool's high position to press. In order to deal with Liverpool's frontcourt press, the home team Newcastle's offensive tactics are quite good. simple and clear.
is the team's main wing attack, can rush past, pass, then pass.
If the situation is not right, Liverpool's pressing defense is close, then it is to immediately go to the front teammate with a big foot.
Regardless of whether the teammates can receive it, it will not give Liverpool a chance to fight back on the spot after completing the counter-grab in the front court.
Newcastle's offensive style of hitting the big game, although it seems that there is no strategy, but in the game, it played a very good offensive effect.
Especially Newcastle itself has many African players and French black players. The players are very strong. Under this simple and crude offensive tactics, they can maximize their advantages.
Yang Feng and Scott's regular defense line actually performed quite well in the face of this kind of wild way. The reason why wild way was unable to develop is naturally because the efficiency of this kind of offense is too low and it is too fancy.
Otherwise, many giants don't bother to use such a good formula to break the frontcourt.
But Newcastle does not care. For them, quantity can be accumulated into quality.
As long as there are more attempts, chances are created.
Yang Feng and Scott have a large defensive coverage area, and they have easily completed many long passes and clearances from Newcastle.
However, after Newcastle's many attempts, luck is really on the side of the home team today.
In the 25th minute of the first half, the midfield of the two teams was still very anxious. When both sides relied on running in the midfield to fight for the ball, Newcastle's Sherway, who had the ball, was an "irresponsible" long kick. Pass, the ball passed directly into Liverpool's penalty area.
And this time, the long pass in the siege and the hurried "relief" really achieved the greatest degree of luck.
The pass landed on the left side of Liverpool's penalty area.
This landing position, this ball speed, is just right for the Liverpool defender and goalkeeper, and they can't get to the position for the first time ~lightnovelpub.net~ is controlled within the tiny area of the ball.
And Newcastle's black striker Cisse, but he will not spare his physical strength, rushing from the wing to this point.
Yang Feng knew that he would definitely not be able to rush to this point, so he could only try to chase it back and prepare to complete the subsequent blockade.
And the hope of the whole Liverpool village is Klein, only he can barely keep up with Cisse.
It's just that Cisse didn't waste Chervi's wonderful pass this time. Perhaps in normal training, Cisse did not receive such a "wonderful" pass from Chervi.
While traveling at high speed, he still had a position-grabbing physical confrontation with Klein, but Cisse still stretched out his long legs and successfully unloaded the ball smoothly, without any chance of unloading for the Liverpool players to defend.
After unloading the ball, the right foot landed on the ground as a supporting foot, and the left foot directly followed to complete a volley.
Although Yang Feng had tried his best to catch up, Cisse's rapid formation of the goal still prevented him from completing the blockade.
"GOAL!!!"
"Cisse! A perfect connection with Shervey."
"In this ball, Shelway's pass was full of risky nature, but Cisse caught up with this pass, and in the penalty area, leaning on Klein, completed a wonderful volley and the ball went straight to the right of the goal. In the lower corner, Mignolet did not respond."
"Newcastle! At his home court, 1-0 lead the mighty Liverpool..."
"Is it? Newcastle's relegation career starts with a home win over Liverpool?"