Chapter 701: Defensively

After successfully defending Liverpool's offensive, Atletico Madrid immediately launched a wave of offense.
Gaby sent a long pass directly from the center and back, trying to cross Liverpool's defense and directly hit Liverpool's penalty area.
However, Yang Feng still played with his stable defense, chose a good position, and successfully blocked the ball.
Yang Feng's defensive selection, in the face of such a long pass, still maintains a high success rate, and even Yang Feng can control the ball's clearance to the area he wants.
Directly used the header and returned the ball to the midfielder's teammate, Coutinho's feet.
However, Yang Feng still found that he had some support after finishing the header.
It is not so easy to consciously change the habit of playing in the usual leagues when facing opponents of different leagues and different styles.
According to the usual rhythm of the game, in order to pursue the efficiency of the team's counterattack, Yang Feng gave the ball to the midfielder Coutinho.
After receiving the ball, Coutinho can directly launch a counterattack.
But today, Liverpool is facing Atletico Madrid.
Atletico's defensive grabbing ability is very good, even better than Liverpool's grabbing ability.
After all, Liverpool relies on the players' running ability and Klopp's tactical arrangement.
However, Atletico Madrid's top grab was also injected with a spirit of iron and blood, a defensive attitude that engraved the defense in the bones.
When Yang Feng topped the ball, Atletico Madrid's defensive players had already quickly applied defensive pressure to the spot.
As soon as Coutinho unloaded the ball, he was immediately robbed by Atletico Madrid players.
This time, Saúl did not even give Coutinho any room for adjustment. As soon as the ball was dropped to the ground, or even before it reached the ground, Saúl had already leaned on his body and stabbed the ball directly. Came out.
Atletico Madrid's frontcourt can constantly grab the ball, and it is extremely efficient and fast. This is even more powerful than Liverpool's frontcourt counter grab.
Although Liverpool is now gradually regaining its form, it still has the strength of a European first-line team.
However, when the two teams have similar playing styles, it is obvious that Atletico is more focused on some defenses, while Liverpool is more inclined to offense.
After Saul stabbed the ball out again, he must not forcefully choose to take the ball forward, because then under Coutinho's chasing defense, as well as other Liverpool players' defense, the ball may be lost.
Instead, he retreats to advance, and he buckles the ball directly to the back and finds the forward Gabi not far from the back.
Gabi didn't stop the ball and wasted any time, just a straight pass diagonally to the right and found Griezmann.
Griezman made a stop and then drove the ball diagonally to the front left, but only after attracting the attention of Liverpool defenders, he took two steps and immediately passed the ball short distance with his left foot. Avoid dribbling the ball by yourself, being directly attacked by the Liverpool player to defend, fight the ball hard and intercept it.
Bietto in the middle, after receiving this pass from Griezmann, he immediately understood.
Atletico's offense has always relied on three aspects to score goals.
Among the set-piece tactics, Mahjong has always been a strong point, and it is an excellent opportunity for Atletico Madrid to score goals.
Another aspect is the team's ability to counterattack.
In the case of the opponent's main attack or lead, whether it is a counter-grab on the spot, the offensive opportunity obtained in high position pressure, or the team's overall defense in the backcourt, the opportunity found according to the loopholes in the opponent's defense line They all allow Atletico Madrid to score a lot of goals in the game.
The last aspect is the team's excellent frontcourt coordination ability on the offensive end.
Today's Atletico Madrid midfielder, after losing the original striker Diego Costa, was immediately transformed by Simeone into a quick attack combination.
In order to maximize the offensive ability of the players, Simeone gave the frontcourt players greater decentralization in the positional attack, so that they can give full play to their personal abilities, especially the speed advantage, to achieve offensive effects.
With this ball, Vieto directly leaned against the defender, kept the ball, and swiped the ball to the right.
The ball was again set to the front of Griezmann's path.
Griezmann, in the process of diagonally forward, after completing the pass, but still accelerating on the path of travel.
The Liverpool defensive player, after Griezmann completed this pass, was slightly relaxed about his defense, which directly caused Griezmann to throw away after Bietto completed the score. With Henderson's defense, after receiving the ball, he can directly penetrate into Liverpool's penalty area.
Fortunately, Yang Feng reacted quickly. This time, Yang Feng was at the last position of the defense. He quickly made up his defense from within the penalty area. He made a sliding tackle and made Griezmann just received the ball. Completed the steal and lost the ball.
Yang Feng shoveled the ball to the right, Klein took the ball directly after receiving the ball, and launched the attack.
It’s just that Clay’s attack on the right side didn’t feel much pressure before passing midfield, but after passing through the midfield area, he suffered from Atletico Madrid and was very well organized. Defense.
Not only did players put defensive pressure on Klein with the ball, but even the passing route that Klein might find was blocked by Atletico players in advance.
In this quick counterattack, Klein also pursued a quick offense.
There was no idea of ​​reorganizing the offense. Seeing Firmino running in front, Klein sent a long through ball directly from the side.
This pass is an excellent opportunity, but a defensive old churros like Godin can't make such a big mistake.
Choosing a good position in advance and jamming the route of Firmino’s forward insertion and catching the ball. Godin’s purpose is very simple. It is to keep a close eye on Firmino. As for the clearance of the incoming ball, naturally there are other Teammates come to complete defensive tasks.
Felipe successfully intercepted Klein's pass this time, and immediately passed the ball to the midfield position, again from Atletico Madrid to launch a counterattack.
However, when Atletico Madrid passed the ball to the hinterland of Liverpool, it was also guarded by Liverpool. There was no easy opportunity to complete an effective attack in the game.
The two teams have truly achieved defensive end, each other can make excellent defensive performance, and most of the opponent's offense has become invisible.
Do you fight in midfield?
Exist, and it doesn't seem to exist.
The reason for existence is that most of the football time is indeed within the midfield, and the two sides exchange the ball back and forth.
The reason for the non-existence is that, after all, neither side has really played a large-scale fight in the middle.
Almost all of the time for the ball to change between the two sides is when they have ideas and want to launch an attack.
In this time period of 15 to 30 minutes, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid have achieved the ultimate in their defense.
Together, the two sides contributed a wonderful defensive battle to all the audience on the spot, as well as the audience in front of the TV, in these 15 minutes.
The defensive players of the two teams guard the 30-meter area of ​​their respective teams very well. As long as the offensive players of any team are "killing", then the corresponding defensive players will use excellent defensive skills to eliminate the threat invisible.
During this time, Yang Feng continued his outstanding performance in this game.
Indeed, Griezmann has speed and technology, but facing Yang Feng's replenishment, Griezmann is destined to have no good way to find attacking opportunities easily.
Yang Feng's replenishment choice always directly destroyed Griezmann's offense just right. Today, Yang Feng once again showed what an insurmountable defense is.
Of course, Yang Feng showed great power on this side, and Atletico on the other side also responded by relying on the overall defense.
Atletico Madrid's offense is not hard enough, and it is normal to be restricted.
But Liverpool’s frontcourt offensive combination is definitely better than Atletico Madrid in terms of players’ overall offensive strength and tactical drills. However, there is no good way to play in front of Atletico’s defense.
The tempo of the game suddenly fell into a slow state, but the game is 90 minutes, the charm of football is that you don't know in which second, huge changes will occur on the field.
When the rhythm has slowed down, Liverpool is at home after all, and the team still has a certain advantage in possession rate, which also allows Liverpool to be considered to have the initiative to attack.
The game situation is so dull, it is definitely not what the players want to see. They need to launch a fast-paced attack to score goals and win at home.
The boring game between the two sides before, for the Liverpool players, is more like a wave of physical storage in the game, and then fully released.
After 30 minutes, Liverpool players took the lead to speed up the pace of the game.
Liverpool continued to maintain the slow offensive state before, but suddenly Yang Feng, who broke through to the midfield position from holding the ball, directly sent a long pass to the left.
After the ball landed, Coutinho accurately found the foot of the fast forward Coutinho, and Coutinho took the ball directly into the penalty area.
This sudden wave of Liverpool's force really caught Atletico Madrid's defense by surprise. After Coutinho completed the pass, it was Firmino who followed up in the middle.
Firmino just threw himself out, and wanted to finish this time grabbing points in front of the door.
Firmino did finish the shot, but he faced Oblak.
Without any fancy moves, it is a very solid save.
Oblak reacted, facing Firmino's close-range shot, still blocking the shooting route with his outstretched right hand...
After the ball was blocked by Atletico's goalkeeper Oblak, it bounced back to Godin's feet, and Godin directly sent a long-distance pass to find teammates who had begun to counterattack.
Kirk received a pass from Godin in the midfield and then saw Griezman running further ahead.
After the ball was in place, Cork didn't have any other ideas. The first time he passed the ball.
In response to the Liverpool player's failure to return to defense in time, Cork directly sent a long-distance ground through ball to find Liverpool's defense after this attack.
Cork's pass is very penetrating and directly penetrates Liverpool's defense.
Yang Feng wanted to intercept, but in the face of a fast through ball, he couldn't help it.
The ball leaked, and then the man? Also missed!
It's not that the missing person this time is a problem with Liverpool's defensive choice.
It's Griezmann's fast enough forward, who specifically presses your offside line to play his own anti-offside tactics.
This time, it is still the same.
However, this time, Liverpool's defense, which was busy with most of the first half of the game, was quickly broken by Griezman.
This time Griezmann's own speed was at its extreme.
It just happened to catch up with Kirk's wonderful through pass this time, and after making Griezmann's anti-offside success, he could directly get a single-handed opportunity.
"Single-handed chance, Griezmann."
"Adjust two steps. After reaching the penalty zone, it is just a gesture to hit the door!"
At this time, Griezmann is trying his best to adjust and finish the goal in the game~EbookFREE.me~.
However, at the moment Griezmann hit the door, he felt that he was kicking on the "iron plate."
Griezmann's scoring rate was fast enough this time, and when the opportunity came out, he didn't make too many adjustments.
However, Yang Feng desperately returned to the defense and caught up with Griezmann's shot from within the penalty area.
"Yang Feng!"
"Slid over and blocked Griezmann's kick..."
Yang Feng continued to show his super ability on the defensive end.
However, not only is Liverpool seeking to speed up the rhythm of the game, but for Atletico players, they also want to speed up a certain rhythm and play a better offensive effect.
The Atletico Madrid players invested more in the frontcourt.
For example, Yang Feng's sliding tackle blocked the goal this time, and the second place of the ball was finally won by Atletico Madrid players.
Atletico Madrid's players immediately pressed forward to seek to continue to open the offense in the frontcourt.
After 30 minutes of the game, Liverpool’s offensive investment increased, and Atletico Madrid are also preparing to fully exert their strength at this time to see if they can score first in the game.
And the second drop point is controlled by Saul.
He did not directly choose to take out to the side and then pass.
Instead, he protected the ball and passed the ball to Felipe who was inserted.
Felipe was involved in Atletico's counterattack in the frontcourt, which indeed made Liverpool's defense somewhat like a rival.
Fortunately, Saul, who ultimately dominated this attack, suddenly chose to cross the middle, facing Liverpool's defense, and hurriedly took a long shot without causing much threat.