Chapter 427: The dull "victory"

Many people believe that Liverpool, lacking Suarez, will fall into a certain amount of chaos in a short period of time on the offensive end, and will even affect the last few games of Liverpool's Champions League qualification.
But Sturridge proved with his outstanding performance that Liverpool not only has Suarez, but also Sturridge!
Two games, scoring 5 goals, Sturridge broke out, allowing Liverpool to easily win the two games.
And with Sturridge's consecutive goals, after the goal, the iconic mechanical dance celebration was also in the fan community for a time, causing a scramble to follow suit.
Especially the large number of Chinese fans. After watching the Liverpool game, many people will always imitate Sturridge’s celebration after they score a goal. For a time, they have formed a group effect in China. It caused a wave of mechanical dance.
The two consecutive victories have opened the gap between Liverpool and Tottenham fifth in the league. As long as the penultimate game wins, Liverpool will advance one round and qualify for the Champions League.
The penultimate round of the league, the Merseyside Derby, was played at Anfield Stadium.
In such a popular derby in the same city, Anfield Stadium is naturally packed, and both sides will use their outstanding performance in this game to strive for a good result.
Perhaps Everton's record at this time should have been hopeless. However, it has been determined that Moyes, who will step down as the "Taffy" coach at the end of the season and go to Manchester United to coach, urgently needs to use a good result of this game to bid farewell to the Everton fans who have supported him for many years. The Red Devils fans proved their coaching skills.
So in terms of fighting spirit, Everton, who is lacking in fighting in the second half of each season, is indeed a rare high fighting spirit in this game.
Jose Enrique returned to the starting line. No other players changed. In this Merseyside Derby, Rogers sent the team's most stable and most effective staffing.
On Moyes' side is the 4411 formation, which directly advances Fellaini to enhance the team's control ability in the midfield and the ability to compete for high points.
It's just that when it really entered the game, Liverpool's imagined confrontation, or its own main attack, the opponent's defense did not appear.
Everton, directly arranged a copper wall in the midfield, strangling Liverpool's goal point.
Moreover, this strangulation is all-round, leaving no loopholes.
Even Yang Feng, who was dragged in the end, would be fiercely pressed by the Everton forward.
Liverpool's midfielder's shots have suffered huge difficulties and will always be destroyed by Everton's players.
From the beginning of the game, Liverpool simply couldn't play the offensive cooperation they wanted.
Even if players can sometimes use their personal abilities to use the space that appears on the court to complete a breakthrough from the middle, but facing Everton's backcourt defense players' reckless action and the attitude of fouling, it also makes Liverpool's offensive fundamental Unable to advance to the hinterland of Everton's penalty area.
Every season, the Merseyside Derby will be very popular, which is why the referee relaxes the penalty scale for this game.
As long as there is no malicious foul, players can continue to do large-scale defensive actions to ensure the smoothness of the game.
This is also the reason why the ball has been destroyed, the number of shots has not been several times, and the score is still 0-0, but the game is very beautiful.
This is another kind of football aesthetics. The fierce pressing, fast-paced back and forth offensive and defensive, the players on both sides of the field at all costs of running, immersed the audience.
Except for a few new players like Sturridge, most players have experienced Merseyside derby many times and understand the referee's penalties.
This also made that, although there were a lot of fierce confrontations, and even a lot of sliding tackles, the referee on the field did not show a yellow card throughout the first half.
Everything is still within the controllable range, all within the normal framework of the Merseyside Derby.
What Liverpool needed was a victory, but Everton, who was a guest in the first half, was really embarrassed to press.
At this time, we can see that Suarez's disadvantage is lacking.
Sturridge can make up for Suarez's lack of firepower after his absence, but there is no way to make up for Suarez's tactical role.
In this game, Everton dared to concentrate heavily in the midfield to start a siege, because Liverpool did not have a player in the frontcourt who could serve as a tactical fulcrum.
Sturridge's finishing ability is indeed good, but it is also very unrealistic to want him to take the high ball every time and resist the physical confrontation of the opponent's central defender.
Without a fulcrum player in the frontcourt, Liverpool cannot skip midfield and directly attack Everton's halftime.
I can only think of a way to rush through Everton's strangulation area in the midfield, but this kind of breakthrough is indeed not so easy.
Even if he breaks the siege of the midfield, he is dragged down and his successor is weak.
In the first half, Liverpool hit the goal with 4 feet, and only 1 shot was not too threatening. It was within the range of the goal frame and did not show the powerful firepower of 9 goals in the past 2 games.
Of course, Everton's excellent defense came at the cost of completely sacrificing his offense. In the first half, Everton only completed two shots and all shots from long range. Yang Feng's defensive work is very boring, facing all Everton players, forcing the ball from the wing, there are very few middle and indirect counters, and it is not enough to create enough threats.
In the second half of the game, Everton’s midfield defense did not show a tendency to decline in defensive quality. Rogers, who could not bear it, could only make substitution adjustments, replacing Henderson with Borini, who could barely play a pivotal role. , I hope to break this deadlock.
However, Everton's corresponding defense is also extremely good, the midfielder continues to keep pressing, but no longer expects to completely lock Liverpool's shots, only need to delay the effect.
Then began to mobilize the defensive force to rebuild the team's defense in his own half.
But it's not guarding the big penalty area line, but 10 meters away from the front and launching a fierce press.
The defense tuned by Moyes, in this game, received the support of Everton players with a high degree of completion, making Liverpool's offense simply unable to create enough offensive threats.
Time is passing by, but the score on the field is always 0 to 0.
Being afraid of Everton's counterattack threat, Liverpool's attack, in the case of a tie, did not dare to be too aggressive.
After all, Liverpool only needs two points to ensure Champions League qualification~EbookFREE.me~ If this game is tied, as long as the next home game is unbeaten, the ranking can also be guaranteed.
On the contrary, this loses, the next one may need to win to ensure the ranking.
Therefore, at this time Rogers did not dare to completely let go of the attack, and it was not that simple to want Everton to die with a normal attack.
In the whole game, almost all of Liverpool's shooting data came from long shots, and almost all shots from super long distance did not create much threat.
Of course, for Everton, the number of shots is only a poor 4 feet. The defense led by Yang Feng is more about running, catching the opposite clearance ball, and staring at the Everton winger. The passing pass.
There is no offensive miracle, the 0-0 score remained until the end of the game.
In fact, the game was not dull, but the fierce confrontation was concentrated on the strangulation of the midfield, so that both sides had no chance to further advance the offense to the goal and create a threat of hitting the goal.
But for Liverpool, the good news is that due to Tottenham’s draw on another field, Liverpool eventually advanced one round to ensure their qualification for the Champions League next season.
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