Football’s First Defender

Advocaat was actually struggling throughout the half, whether he really wanted to let go of the offense!

Although the opponent's goalkeeper has been cheating!

But Zenit had several chances, and it was only a little bit short, and it was only one step away from scoring!

If one's own side can participate in the offense more, even if it is just adding a full-back, it is possible to contain more defensive forces and allow one's own offensive players to have better shooting opportunities and angles!

After all, the goal is so big, no matter how open the goalkeeper is, it is impossible to block the whole goal. As long as you work hard, you can't do it once, twice, twice, or three times, sooner or later you will be able to score!

The key is his two central defenders, can they really withstand the opponent's counterattack?

Black strikers like Yakubu are not to be feared. After all, both Hagen and Skrtel are good at dealing with such slow-moving black and hard strikers!

But Pienaer and Osman on the wing are the two central defenders who have completely defeated themselves!

Recently Edvocaat has actually been reflecting on it. He has experienced a period of national team coaching career, and it seems that he has become a little lazy!

The problems revealed at the beginning of the season, after accidentally finding Yang Feng who suits his system, he naturally enjoyed Yang Feng's plug-and-play tactical arrangement!

He never thought about how to remedy Yang Feng if something went wrong. This has also led to the passive situation in the Europa League group stage today!

Obviously sitting on a very strong attacking front line, but due to the problem of the defense line, he has to be restrained!

The training of defense does not happen overnight. In addition to accumulating the number of defenders in a short period of time, you can get immediate results. If you want to improve your own defensive quality, you need a long time of training!

This is also for Hagen and Skrtel. After Yang Feng was injured, they also worked together for more than a month. Although they improved in the face of counterattacks during training, they still couldn't do what they did when they cooperated with Yang Feng. Perfect!

In fact, in the world of Yang Feng's previous life, Zenit has stumbled all the way this season. It took more than half of the season to allow the defense to gradually produce a chemical reaction and perfectly integrate with its own offensive tactics!

In the entire 20 rounds of the Russian Super League, they were just struggling. Either all members returned to defense after scoring a goal, or they attacked each other and hurt each other. Zenit, who strived to score more goals, finally completed the team in the sprint stage of the last ten rounds. Tactical run-in, 9 wins and 27 points, and the defense finally no longer drags down the offense. While ensuring zero seals, the offense mostly wins by a big score!

Of course, an event like the Europa League can be understood as a natural disaster!

After all, the soil and water are unsuitable, and off-court factors, many aspects limit the performance of a team!

As for the current world line, Yang Feng's absence completely brought Zenit back to the prototype at the beginning of the season!

Edvocaat, I just hope that in this game, even if it's just luck, it's time for the defense to break out. After all, it's very unprofessional to be pitted every game!

During the halftime period, the assistant coach explained some important points, while Advocaat was contemplating and deciding the tactics for the second half!

The second half starts with an all-out attack!

Use our full strength and let them see our offensive firepower!

Attack for 15 minutes. If you can't score a goal and still maintain a tie, take a proper rest for a period of time to recover your physical fitness. The final 20 minutes will be a decisive battle!

In the end, Advocaat still decided to give it a go in the away game. After all, it is not his style to hand over the fate to the opponent!

Now let's see if Goddess of Luck can take care of Zenit! After all, they are always scored first by others recently. According to the analysis of probability, it is time for Zenit to score first!

The second half of the game has begun!

In this game, Advocaat has been planning to give it a go since the second half!

Anyukov has stepped in and attacked twice in a row!

And it's no longer like before, timidly serving as a transition point for receiving the ball, but actually investing in the offense!

Zenit finally chooses to rely on its most confident attack to solve the problem!

Anyukov and Denisov's 2-on-2 cooperation!

With the addition of Anyukov, it is obvious that Everton's defensive attention is tilted to his right!

Zenit's Arshavin on the right and the central midfielder have more space to play!

But Denisov, who took the ball, did not choose to move to the right in a wide range!

Instead, take the ball directly and continue to force Hibbert!

This is showing confidence!

Because Osman was attracted by Anyukov! This time it is a real 1v1

Facing Denisov's dribbling, Hibbert can only keep choosing to retreat!

This time Hibbert figured it out, gave up going forward to defend, honestly defended his position, protected the penalty area, and interfered with Denisov's possible pass!

But Denisov will not pass in this position honestly. After all, Everton is also a strong team in the Premier League. This kind of contention between the two sides standing up and fighting purely, even if they are as strong as Boshen in the penalty area, it is estimated that it will be difficult to discuss. Get cheap!

Denisov chose to forcibly break through from the bottom! Rush to the penalty area!

Hibert followed closely and firmly occupied the inside position, leaving no room for Denisov to slip in from the baseline!

Denisov forcibly changed direction, wanted to move up from the bottom line, and looked for an opportunity to cut inside and hit the goal!

But Hibbert didn't lose his center of gravity. He also turned around and continued to maintain his position!

but!

Another change of direction!

Denisov broke through to the bottom line again!

Continuously shifting the center of gravity of the body, Hibbert finally couldn't keep up with the rhythm!

Denisov once again relied on his own personal ability to break through Hibbert and walk towards the goal along the bottom line. This time is an excellent opportunity!

Take an inverted triangle pass after two steps!

The strength of this inverted triangle pass is a bit strong, and it is passed near the penalty spot!

However, it perfectly avoided the interception of Phil Neville who came to defend!

The one in the middle is Arshavin who is coming in from the side!

Shoot with one kick! Ground ball!

Hit to the bottom right corner of the goal!

This ball!

Howard! It's him! It's him again!

His body hasn't fallen down yet, but his arms have stretched out first, blocking the rolling football!

This ball can be blocked out of the baseline!

Howard still maintained his brave state in the second half!

The next corner kick! Arshavin's corner kick went straight to Skrtel at the back point! However, Howard jumped high and successfully picked the ball off with both hands! Even throwing the ball created a very threatening counterattack opportunity!

Fortunately, Jin Dongjin, who was in charge of delaying the corner kick, accurately judged Pienaar's dribbling line and scooped the ball out of the baseline cleanly!

The score is still 0 to 0!

The game time is getting less and less, and Everton's defense is getting more and more shaky, but Howard's hanging is still continuing to renew!

A kick from Dominguez!

It's Howard again! Grab the football firmly!

We can see Domingos grabbing his hair in frustration. After all, the angle of this shot is still tricky. However, Howard reacted and successfully blocked the shot!

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This time it's Anyukov's long shot!

It's also a heavy bombardment, full of power!

Pogrebnyak wants to follow up with a follow-up shot!

However, Howard's second reaction after blocking the ball was extremely fast. There was no chance for Boshen to make a follow-up shot! He just grabbed the ball with both hands and controlled the football!

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Arshavin also tried a long shot! Still no chance!

Although Howard has become the busiest person on the field, he has not made a single mistake so far. He deserves to be the best player on the field!

Zenit's offense just can't make progress!

On the contrary, it's Everton's counterattack. They've played very well recently. Fortunately, Skrtel, Hagen, and Kim Dong-jin worked together to resolve several dangerous situations!

Both sides have chances to score goals! It depends on who can seize the opportunity first! Or which side can't stand it!