Football’s First Defender
Chapter 688: Counterattack
Rooney's goal really brought back the suspense of the game, but the lack of game time is also a reality.
For Rooney's goal, Yang Feng first took responsibility for himself in front of the defense line. After all, he gave his opponent this opportunity when he was marking Fellaini.
However, Yang Feng is also inspiring his teammates while he is taking the responsibility. If you want to keep paying attention, you must not make mistakes again.
In the last ten minutes or so, for Liverpool, it was necessary to use bronze walls and iron walls to block Manchester United's attack.
And Manchester United, also desperately, launched their final counterattack.
In the final stage of the game, Manchester United's siege and Red Army's defense became the main theme on the field.
Klopp even continued to replace defensive players to enhance his defense in the penalty area.
Three central defenders tactics, all players retired, Klopp finally used a tough defensive tactics to successfully defend the game, and let the team successfully complete revenge for Manchester United at home.
In the face of strong opponents like Arsenal and Manchester United, even if they have home court advantage, it is not easy to still be able to achieve two consecutive victories.
Before the start of the UEFA Champions League knockouts, Liverpool can play in the league to the greatest extent possible to continue to maintain pressure on the team in front of them.
After two home games, in this league, Liverpool is going to the away game to challenge the "Canary" Norwich team.
Norwich has only one goal this season, which is to relegation.
Although ranked fifth, they are only 2 points away from the penultimate Newcastle United.
If you are not paying attention, after a defeat, Norwich may fall into the relegation zone unlucky.
This also makes Norwich very important to each of his home games.
After all, in the current league at home, Norwich has a record of 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. The efficiency of grabbing points is quite high. Norwich also wants to continue grabbing points at home.
Even if the opponent is Liverpool, who is in good shape these days, Norwich, who has already concentrated on the league, still wants to try whether it can create miracles at home.
For Norwich, one point may determine the fate of relegation at the end of the season. Therefore, at home, facing any opponent, it is a tie and victory. Norwich must strive to lead more points in the relegation zone.
As a newly promoted horse, Norwich has quite its own characteristics.
They do not have strong funds, the team continues to retain the tactical system of the British Championship, more of the traditional English football.
In terms of player composition, there are not too many big-name players, and there are more British players like Scotland and England, and some "skin" and "durable" African players.
Spend the least money to maximize the team's combat effectiveness.
Against such an opponent, Liverpool actually occupies a great advantage.
It's just that everyone underestimated Norwich's fighting power at home, as well as their resilience.
At the beginning of the game, Liverpool was in the game, continuing his repressive attack in the early stage.
The strong team beat the weak team, Liverpool achieved nearly 70% of the ball, it is not too much.
Less than 2 minutes after the start of the game, Yang Feng made a long pass in the midfield and passed the ball accurately to the Norwich penalty area line.
Firmino quickly moved forward and successfully reversed offside. When there was a pull on the back of the opponent, he rushed to the landing position and completed a kick shot first.
The ball has a good route to the goal, but in terms of the strength of the shot, Firmino is a little bit bigger. The ball did not fall within the range of the goal box, but fell directly on the net behind the goal crossbar. On, it's a little bit worse.
Liverpool's offensive in the frontcourt was maintained very well, and Yang Feng also played his own passing role in the midfield, constantly returning Liverpool's reorganized ball to the most threatening place.
And Liverpool's siege in the front field finally paid off in the 16th minute of the game.
Yang Feng sent a straight pass in the midfield and directly found Coutinho, who had been attacked on the left by a wave of offensive on the right, which attracted the attention of the home team's defense.
After Coutinho received the ball, he made a breakthrough directly on the left, facing the defender who rushed over in a hurry, and directly stepped on a bicycle to break through the wing.
The fast-paced change, his outstanding personal ability, coupled with the defensive players rush to grab, and not too well into this defense.
Coutinho successfully completed a breakthrough on the left and immediately made a cross.
The ball passed directly to the left of the penalty area, near the penalty area line.
It was the Liverpool midfielder Milner who jumped in to keep up.
Under the defensive pressure of the opponent, Milner did not choose to stop the ball and give the opponent a chance to defend and grab it. Instead, he quickly stabbed the ball forward with his left foot, just sending a through ball.
This kick passed to the through ball in the small penalty area, and was successfully obtained by Firmino who was crossed diagonally in front of him.
In the process of running, make adjustments. At the moment of chasing the ball, the left foot did not complete a small angle to hit the goal.
The home team goalkeeper fell to the ground too slowly. This wonderful kick rolled past the goalkeeper's leg and rolled directly into the goal slowly.
Liverpool 1-0 and took the lead away.
And Firmino continued his outstanding performance in these games and scored goals in the game again.
Firmino, now more and more happy to cooperate with the head coach Klopp's transformation of his position.
Consecutive goals made Firmino feel that he is more and more adapted to this position as a striker. In the future, it might be possible to become a world-class striker. Even Firmino wants to "engage" No. 9 of the Brazilian national team. The jersey has become another world-class striker.
And 2 minutes later, Liverpool have the opportunity to rewrite the score again.
Lallana's breakthrough with the ball in the midfield directly caused a foul by the home team player in front of the penalty area, and Liverpool got a direct free kick opportunity from a very close distance.
Milner chose to take a tactical free kick and pass it directly, avoiding the opponent's wall.
Henderson assisted from the far side, facing the cross pass, and hit the goal with a crossbow.
The kick was completed before the defender saved outside the penalty area.
The shooting power is extremely powerful and the angle is also very tricky. Seeing the ball, it will fly directly into the lower left corner of the goal. This time the home team goalkeeper reacted quickly. He fell to the ground and threw his long shot away.
Jean Norwich, the score was not expanded.
Sometimes luck complements each other, and if you survive a catastrophe, you will have luck.
When Liverpool launched the siege of the front court, Norwich's investment in the counterattack was still quite bold.
Anyway, the current situation of the team is like this, one goal behind is also behind, and the game is over if two goals are behind.
When Norwich fought back, he dared to invest his troops.
In the 25th minute of the game, Norwich hit the goal with a long shot in the counterattack, which almost penetrated Mignole's ten fingers.
At the critical moment, Mignolet made an excellent save and held this wonderful long shot with a single palm, only giving his opponent a corner kick.
The set-kick tactics are originally what a team like Norwich with a strong British championship style is good at.
After all, most of the English players and African players in the team, with excellent physical fitness and excellent confrontation ability, have a huge advantage in the position-kick tactics.
Norwich’s corner kick this time, because the player’s footwork was too rough, he even passed the ball backwards, drawing an arc in the air, and he was about to fly out of the baseline.
Yang Feng is slack, thinking this should be a goal kick.
But Bassoon, in the home team's lineup, showed amazing jumping ability and explosive power at the back point. Before the ball went out of the bottom line, he forced the jump and pushed the ball back, and the top returned to the center position.
The players on both sides in front of the goal have not yet dispersed, and in the chaos, Mkaboni is in front of the goal and defending him Yang Feng is competing for the top.
However, when the two reached at the same time and completed the force, Yang Feng used the ball more fully, and the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by Yang Feng.
However, the Liverpool teammates did not control the drop point of the ball, the ball was still grabbed by the Norwich player, and the header was again returned to the penalty area.
Mkaboni in the restricted area directly leaned on Yang Feng and did not give Yang Feng a chance to step forward.
The physical fitness of the African players is excellent. Yang Feng was pressed by his opponents and couldn't move forward at all.
However, Yang Feng is also exerting force to interfere with Mcaboni's move to stop the ball afterwards.
As long as the ball Mcaboni is removed, he can't turn around and hit the goal at the first time. At that time, other Liverpool players can defend the ball and grab the ball.
But Mcaboni made a move that was beyond Yang Feng's expectations.
For this ball, Mkaboni did not unload the ball, and then sought to turn around and hit the goal.
Instead, all attention was focused on the position of Yang Feng, waiting for the ball, landed on his own, and bounced slightly to his feet, when other defensive players from Liverpool gathered around and wanted to grab the ball.
Mkaboni, after raising his right leg, hit the ball directly with a heel to complete the goal.
"not good!"
Yang Feng secretly sighed that it was bad. He really hadn't thought that Mkaboni would choose such an unconventional way of hitting the door, which really surprised Yang Feng.
And Yang Feng was not too prepared, subconsciously stretched his leg to intercept, but still failed.
In the small restricted area, being so concealed and hitting the door at such close range made Mignolet helpless.
When the ball rolled into the goal, Mignolet was still stunned.
1 to 1!
Norwich took advantage of this set kick and successfully equalized the score. Mkaboni scored a wonderful heel goal.
The lead was equalized, which is somewhat unacceptable for the Liverpool players.
They thought that when they were in the lead, an opponent like Norwich might have to raise their hands and surrender, but they didn't expect that the opponent would return the game so easily.
Liverpool continue to strengthen their offense on the pitch and look forward to rewriting the score again.
But the Norwich players who just equalized the score were full of morale.
Using his active running and slightly "savage" collision, he rebuilt an excellent defensive system in the midfield.
To make Liverpool's attack, for a while, it was unable to play a too threatening attack, and could only rely on long shots to try.
And Liverpool players, on the offensive end, due to the inability to rewrite the score, it is inevitable that the players will have some mentality imbalance after the lead is equalized, and some impatience in handling the ball.
The offense was not smooth, but Norwich was given the threat of counterattack and the opportunity for Liverpool's defense.
Right winger Graham was on the right line in the counterattack and received a pass from his teammate, just outside Yang Feng's defense.
Although due to the extremely fast return of the Liverpool players and the high rate of the team's defensive players, the first time, Norwich did not make a counterattack.
But Norwich's counterattack continued to be the same as before, daring to invest in troops.
More players entered the Liverpool half to seize this rare attacking opportunity.
Graham, who took the ball on the right, dribbled the ball into the penalty area on the right of Liverpool, attracting the defense of three defenders.
Seeing that he was about to be surrounded, Graham leaned against Milner with his back to complete the protection of the ball, and his eyes swept to the forward teammate.
Suddenly a heel knocked the ball directly to the bottom line, and successfully passed Milner's feet.
Naismith moved forward quickly from the right.
For this run ~lightnovelpub.net~ Naismith can only say that he saw the open space in the penalty area, and as a wide player, he stepped in.
As for whether the ball can be passed and how to pass it, it is all a matter of teammates. You only need to be responsible for running and finishing.
And Graham's magic touch this time, a heel tackle, really surrounded the three of Liverpool's play, and Naismith, in the small penalty area, directly hit the goal with a small angle.
Although Mignolet swung his arms hard to barely touch the ball, Nai Smith's volley was too powerful, and the angle was wide enough.
Even if it was touched by Mignole, it did not affect the angle of the goal too much. The ball still hit the back post and bounced into the net.
2 to 1!
Norwich, who played at home, even surpassed the score in the 40th minute of the first half.
After Nai Smith scored this goal, the entire Norwich home court turned into a sea of joy.
More than 20,000 home fans cheered and shouted to praise the team heroes who worked **** the field.
The Liverpool players are somewhat confused.
At the last moment of the first half of the game, he was hit by a counterattack that was not a perfect opportunity, and the home team turned into an offense.
In the case of a 1-0 rate of the first goal, the opponent even pulled two goals in a row, then you turned the score, which made many Liverpool players feel incredible, and even started to be a little confused. Can you really win this away game? ?
Fortunately, there is not much time left in the first half.
Although lagging behind 1 to 2 at half time, for Liverpool, it is finally possible to use the intermission time to make a better adjustment.