Chapter 700: Defensive tone

In this game, for Liverpool, there is still a good news before the game that, although Atletico Madrid will play all the main players today, it is not always certain whether they can exert their full strength.
This weekend’s league, because of Liverpool’s rival Everton, had to be postponed because of a League Cup match, so Liverpool has no task to play this weekend.
But Atletico Madrid is different. He not only has the league to play, but also the crucial Madrid derby.
For Atletico Madrid, since its rise in the past few seasons, it is natural to look for opportunities. In the Madrid Derby, take a lesson in Real Madrid, who considers itself noble, to see which team Madrid belongs to.
A lot of good news also allows Liverpool to seek to play better in the game to combat opponents.
However, at the beginning of the game, Liverpool found that the offensive tactics they were preparing to play were not so easy to complete.
Atletico Madrid is not an ordinary team.
The first league among the five major leagues in Europe has always been controversial.
Both the Premier League and La Liga promote themselves as the first league in their publicity.
In terms of ratings, the number of spectators, and the degree of beauty of the game, the Premier League is definitely the number one deserved.
This can be seen from the copyright fee.
After all, as the first league to fully implement a fee system in China to watch live broadcasts, this is the confidence. It is indeed an enjoyment for fans to watch Premier League matches.
Even if the rookies peck at each other, or the relegation battle, it is very exciting.
But in terms of UEFA's league points, it is the dominant player in La Liga.
In the UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid and Barcelona have been hitting hard for years, especially Real Madrid. Before Mourinho, the consecutive "Shiro" points can be said to be full.
Later, Atletico Madrid, Valencia and other teams, as long as they are in the Champions League, they can generally qualify in the group.
La Liga teams are still full of fighting spirit and passion for the European game.
Not only in the Champions League, he performed well.
Several other La Liga teams also have a great investment in the performance of the Europa League. For example, the Europa League champions in the past two years have all been taken over by Sevilla.
In this season's Europa League, Sevilla has entered the knockout round again, and it seems that there is a posture of three consecutive championships.
Some fans even joked that if Sevilla can really win three consecutive championships, then it is better to change the name of the Europa League directly to the "Sevilla Cup".
In terms of points in the European game and the strength of top teams, La Liga does have the strength of the first league.
This matchup between Liverpool and Atletico can also be seen as a competition between two leagues.
Atletico, as a team that has regained its glory under the leadership of the coach Simeone in recent years, relying on an excellent defensive counterattack and a very efficient offensive option, in La Liga, it is good to face the two giants. frightened.
It can be said that the same city rivals Real Madrid, the Madrid duo have achieved good results in the Champions League in recent years, that is, they have a strong room for strength to play under this knockout system.
The main tactics of the two teams rely on defensive and counterattack tactics. This style of play can maximize the team's performance in a strong confrontation.
Compared with Real Madrid's defensive is fake, it is more convenient to play the team's super offensive ability after leading the snake out the hole.
Atletico Madrid really puts defense in the first place. When counterattacking, try to choose simple and efficient methods.
After a game, there may not be many shots, and the real threat opportunities are even fewer. But for Atletico, sometimes, in two rounds, scoring one or two goals can be counted as It is a perfect task, and then the opponent's offense is contained on the defensive end.
Before the game, everyone's prediction was that Atletico was on the away field, and they had to put on a low profile. In the game, they should give priority to defense and then seek counterattacks.
But what I didn't expect was that Atletico opened the game directly seeking the initiative to give priority to the ball and launch an offense in the game.
This wave of opening three strikes directly defeated Klopp's plan. Liverpool was caught off guard in the opening stage.
The Atletico Madrid team controls the ball from the beginning.
There is no such thing as a quick attack after catching the ball. Today’s Atletico Madrid play quite patiently. Some even make a lot of
meaningless
conduction shots in the backcourt to force Liverpool to make a large-scale forward. Field pressing.
From the beginning, Atletico Madrid showed a mentality that I wanted to do things away.
The team's possession of the ball in the backcourt is very safe.
The continuous conduction of the ball between the back line and the goalkeeper forced Liverpool's defense to only increase the intensity of the frontcourt.
After all, Atletico Madrid was just like that in the opening stage, passing the ball for one and a half minutes in the midfield, and there was no intention to attack forward, so Liverpool had nothing to do.
After all, there is no such thing as the 8-second rule and 24-second violation on the basketball court. To complete the conversion of the ball, you can only rely on the defensive side. The active pressing in the frontcourt will cause greater impact to the passer. Defensive pressure.
But Atletico Madrid is a team from Spain. Although the team has always been known for its iron-blooded defense, it is like the Italians who are born with chain defense. Atletico Madrid players naturally have a certain level of abilities. .
With the subtle changes in the environment, coupled with the influence of Spanish football culture, Atletico Madrid players passing control in the backcourt, for a while, it seems that Liverpool really can not complete the crack.
Under the "temptation" of Atletico Madrid's constant pass control, the Liverpool players had to do their best to push forward in the game to break Atletico Madrid's annoying pass control.
If Liverpool are now leading 1 to 0, then Liverpool may let their opponents pass until they are old, and they will not care about them.
However, the current score is 0 to 0. For Liverpool, in this home game, they still want to win, so they can only release more defensive players in the midfield to seek conversion of the ball. .
However, with the increase in the number of defensive players in the frontcourt by Liverpool, the number of defensive players in Liverpool's own half is much less. This is the opportunity that Atletico Madrid is waiting for.
Cork in the backcourt, directly before Henderson's press came, a big foot suddenly moved forward and hit the Liverpool penalty area.
Griezman got rid of the defender, went directly to offside, and was about to catch the ball, directly hitting Liverpool's penalty area.
Fortunately, Yang Feng's defense speed was quite fast. He rushed over from the side and made a sliding tackle, which made Griezmann, who had just gotten rid of Emre Can’s defense, retreat, and was directly used with a sliding tackle to get the ball. Shoveled out.
Fortunately, Yang Feng's supplementary defense is in place. Otherwise, without Yang Feng's defensive interference in this ball, Griezmann can completely form a chance to counter offside...
Atletico Madrid's first offense almost created a threat.
Had it not been for Yang Feng's excellent defense, Atletico Madrid would have completed the goal of scoring away goals in the first 2 minutes.
After Liverpool, they wanted to organize their own offensive at home, but in the face of Atletico Madrid's defense, they really couldn't find where they could be the main attack point and break through.
Atletico Madrid’s defense is definitely the pinnacle of the current European Football League. Whether the team is surrounded by the frontcourt, or the defensive coverage of the midfield, as well as the ability of the defenders to handle the ball, even the excellent goalkeeper Oblak Play makes Atletico's defense a comprehensive and three-dimensional attack.
Liverpool's offense, at this time, wants to play its penetrating ability in the frontcourt, but there is no good way.
Atletico Madrid's barrel formation, when it is fully displayed, there is really no way to easily break it.
After all, facing the two galaxy battleships of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid's iron-blooded defense can make it in the game, not too much disadvantage.
Now that they have put on a defensive posture to deal with the offense on the court, Liverpool's frontcourt players are naturally not as big as Real Madrid and Barcelona. When facing the defense of Atletico, they naturally cannot complete the attack quickly.
In fact, for Liverpool, it is essentially in the game, relying on the frontcourt players' steals to quickly complete the offense.
Really want to break Atletico Madrid's defense in the offensive position, Liverpool really needs players who can perform their personal abilities outstandingly to break Atletico Madrid's iron barrel formation.
Sometimes, to break the iron barrel formation, it takes so much luck and the spirit to dare to try.
Players are required to pass the ball simply and accurately between small areas to complete the offensive play.
Liverpool's first attack that was considered threatening occurred in the eighth minute.
Yang Feng was in the midfield position, organizing the team's offense, and suddenly chose a long pass to hang the football directly into the penalty area of ​​Atletico Madrid.
Yang Feng handled this ball with great strength and impact.
The football just passed the defensive player's head, making Atletico Madrid's defense unable to clear the siege at the first time, and the football's landing point was just near the Atletico Madrid penalty area line, so Oblak had no way to come out to make up for defense.
With such an excellent placement and passing strength, Firmino's anti-offside forward is very likely to directly cause a threatening kick when he takes the football placement.
It's just that Atletico's defensive defense, this time, still set off.
Godin was directly in the forward process of Firmino, pulling various small movements to organize Firmino's full starting speed, while Savage ran to the landing position quickly, although he did not control the first landing. Point, but came to Firmino's body and formed a forward and backward flanking force against Firmino.
Under the attack of Atletico Madrid's double central defenders, Firmino's small body was directly knocked down.
Fell in the penalty area.
Was the ball fouled?
In terms of the rules of football, whether it is Godin's dragging action, or Savage's conscious blocking and collision, this time the attack, Atletico Madrid's defensive end is suspected of fouling.
However, for such a physical confrontation, a penalty kick was directly called. The referee thought for a while and let the game continue instead of directly calling the penalty kick.
After all, a penalty kick is very likely to determine the victory of this series.
In the case of Liverpool's unsuccessful attack, Atletico's counterattack was quite targeted.
Cork's through pass from the backcourt penetrated Liverpool’s multi-player defense line, and was directly about to pass to the open area of ​​Liverpool’s backcourt. Griezman had already started to run and was madly moving forward. Accelerate forward.
If this ball is given to Griezmann, it will definitely be an excellent single-handed opportunity.
Yang Feng, this time, came out of the oblique assassination. Although Yang Feng's own speed could not catch up with Griezmann, who had already increased his speed, Yang Feng was directly behind Griezmann and judged it. This time the precise route of the pass, and the ball was taken down first.
Yang Feng has always been a defensive needle in Liverpool's defense line and has a very strong defensive ability.
The defense of both sides achieved the ultimate in this game.
Atletico is relying on, excellent collective defense, and Liverpool's side is Yang Feng's personal defensive show.
The offensive players of both teams have very good personal performance, but when both teams have the same excellent defensive performance ~EbookFREE.me~, there is no way to play the desired effect on the offensive end.
In the 12th minute of the game, Liverpool's offensive made a comeback.
After the fierce press from both sides in the midfield, the Liverpool players took the ball from the midfield and attacked directly on the right.
After receiving the ball, Milner made a straight kick and passed the ball to Klein, who was quickly inserted from the side.
Klein did not choose to pass the ball directly. Instead, he made a straight pass similar to a through ball and went directly to Atletico Madrid's small penalty area.
Firmino was fully prepared for Klein's pass and rushed to the front point.
This ball, in the case of close range, as long as Firmino completes the goal, it will inevitably cause an excellent threat to the goal.
However, Godin did not give Firmino a chance at all.
In the case that Firmino had completed the goal, Godin at the back side had already shoveled over, using his body to completely block the line of the goal the first time Firmino hit the goal.
The ball hit Godin's body and went directly out of bounds, Liverpool's first corner kick in the game.
Atletico Madrid is very good at defending set-pieces.
On the one hand, Godin and the others are extremely capable of fighting for the top, on the other hand, the goalkeeper Oblak's control of the restricted area is too large.
Coutinho’s corner kick was originally intended to find Yang Feng in front of the goal, but the angle of the pass was good, and Yang Feng also occupied a good position. However, before the ball Yang Feng had not reached the ball, he was directly attacked by Oblak. Picked the ball off.
In today's game, the two teams played very well on the defensive end. It can only be said that the game has been carried out so far. For both teams, the defensive tone of this game has been determined from the beginning of the game... …