Football’s First Defender
Chapter 681: the Great Wall
Leading 2-0 in the half game. For Liverpool, this strong matchup was completely integrated into their own game rhythm.
Gui is the current Premier League leader Arsenal, naturally unwilling to catch it on the road, Arsenal in the second half of the game, began to exert force on the offensive end, hoping to regain the initiative on the field.
More power is put into the offense to ensure Arsenal's offense, maintain the suppressive power, to increase the number of attacks, the number of goals, and the probability of scoring.
Liverpool’s changes are more about using new tactics on offense, without delaying Yang Feng’s defense and returning to the central defender position to restore the previous defense.
is only Liverpool's side defense. Although it can be in the defensive position most of the time because of the small forward penetration, but on the defensive end, it is still the weakest link in Liverpool's formation. This is also true.
Especially on Moreno's side, although the speed is not much different from that of his Spanish fellow Belerin, Belerin has long legs, and leg length is justice. When Belerin breaks through, it can always be the first to add up. Speed comes, get a passing space, can pass the ball into the penalty area.
There is a Giroud as a fulcrum in the interior, and Ramsey and others' forward penetration. Bellerin sometimes points forward and sometimes points the pass, which is a huge test for Liverpool's defense.
Arsenal's suppression at the beginning of the second half gave the team a lot of opportunities to threaten the attack.
In the 57th minute of the game, Arsenal made another pass after Bellerin broke through from the wing. It passed to the goal and was cleared by Skrtel, only to give Arsenal a corner kick. In the second half, Arsenal made a second corner kick. opportunity.
Ozil took the corner kick.
Within the penalty area, Arsenal's two central defenders, plus Giroud, three high-point players, barely occupy a certain height advantage.
Although Liverpool’s average height has an advantage, it’s just that Liverpool is still at a 2 to 3 disadvantage in terms of high-point players.
Yang Feng is in charge of watching Koscielny, while Skrtel continues to stand against Giroud.
Ozil's corner kick was taken this time, the ball was extremely fast, and there was also a rapid drop, and a pass was directly found in front of the goal.
Yang Feng had a bad premonition when he saw the pass forward in front of the goal in the middle, but he didn't have a chance to make up the defense under such a fast pass.
Giroud's obliquely inserted forward to the front point, pressing Scotter firmly behind him, while traveling, stretched out his left foot, within the small penalty area, flicked his ankle, aimed at the rapidly falling football, and kicked The ball hits the goal post directly and flies into the goal.
Mignolet fell to the ground and couldn't make a save. He could only watch and the football rolled into the net.
"1 to 2, Arsenal relied on a set-piece opportunity and Giroud scored a goal."
"Grand Giroux's offensive state is very good this season, has scored the 12th goal in the league, Arsenal regained the suspense of the game."
After being used by Arsenal to score a goal, Liverpool can only focus their attention on the following game to try to defend the victory of the game.
Arsenal continue their offensive posture, while Liverpool are based on defense and then counterattack.
In fact, Liverpool had a lot of counterattack opportunities in the second half, but none of them turned into goals.
First, Yang Feng completed precise guidance in the backcourt and found Lallana in the front right.
After Lallana received the ball, he sent a cross directly from the bottom of the right wing.
passed the ball directly to the goal, but Koscielny completed the clearance first.
It's just that because Lallana's pass has a big arc, Koscielny's clearance did not go far, but some kicks.
Firmino, who was near the penalty point, raised his leg directly, unloaded the football, and after completing a half-turn on the spot, he directly completed the goal.
volleyed sideways and went straight to the upper left corner of the goal.
This kick was powerful, but the angle control was a little bit deviated, and the ball slipped out, and Firmino failed to complete the hat trick.
After 3 minutes, Liverpool played a wonderful counterattack again. Yang Feng, who had the ball in the backcourt, found Coutinho on the left with a long pass this time.
Coutinho leaped forward to attract fire after receiving the ball.
then reversed the triangle and passed the ball to the foot of Firmino outside the penalty area.
Firmino, who has a smooth foot, attracted Arsenal's defensive players and quickly stepped forward to make up for defense.
And he made a cross pass and found Henderson not far away.
Henderson didn't take a long shot by himself, but in the game, he directly sent a pass diagonally to the left. Coutinho, who launched the attack before, swiftly reversed the offside successfully and directly inserted into the penalty area. Within, complete a kick.
No luck, this kick hit the door directly on the crossbar.
Liverpool wasted continuous counterattacks and also allowed Arsenal to see the dawn of an equalizer.
In the 73rd minute of the game, Arsenal played a wonderful cooperation in the frontcourt. Walcott's wing dribbled the ball across, which put tremendous pressure on Liverpool's central defense.
Walcott, after attracting Liverpool's midfield defense, passed the ball directly to Ozil from a short distance, while Ozil kept the ball, directly to one end, and picked the ball to the Liverpool penalty area.
Giroud and Ramsey moved forward at the same time, and Scotter's defense was completely blocked by Giroud, giving Ramsey a pick-and-roll screen.
Ramsey faced the attacking Mignole, directly chose to shoot and shoot towards the goal. The ball went directly over Mignole’s head and flew towards the goal.
Mignole subconsciously fished out, but after not touching the football, he could only accept his fate.
The trajectory of the ball had fallen, and when it was about to fall into the goal goal, Yang Feng stood up, quickly retreated to the goal, flew out, and completed a barb clearance with his feet!
"My God! Yang Feng, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com quickly ran back to the door, and unexpectedly took off and flew out in the air, completing a kick in the air."
"An unconventional clearance action, but Ramsey's wonderful kick goal was vanished."
After , in order to continue to strengthen the attack, Wenger decisively sent Welbeck to transform into a double forward and continue to exert pressure.
Liverpool's defense, although dangerous, but it has been digging strong to keep the score.
In the 83rd minute, Arsenal once again played the frontcourt.
The right side was once again the starting point of the offense. After a continuous pass, Welbeck, who received the ball, went straight to the bottom of the penalty area, and then sent an inverted triangle pass.
The ball directly found Giroud in the penalty area.
Giroud greeted the ball and hit the goal. After he tricked Scotter into grabbing, it was a pulling action after stepping on the ball. At the same time, he completed a turn, avoided Scotter's defense, and turned to another. Volleyed directly with his left foot.
The action was smooth and flowing, and the angle of the volley was extremely tricky. From the point of view of TV broadcast, this kick went straight to the lower left corner of the goal, which was another wonderful personal shot.
Then, it was blocked by Yang Feng again.
Where there is danger, Yang Feng appeared there. Yang Feng, who slid over again, blocked this time in the penalty area, leaving Arsenal unable to score the equalizer goal.
"The Great Wall of China" once again stood in front of Anfield's goal, allowing Liverpool to rely on the defense to win a game.