Luke Young, 28, was once hailed as England's best right wing-back since Gary Neville.

He made his debut at Tottenham Hotspur but was never trusted, so he moved to Charlton Athletic in the summer of '01 and began to play a regular role, when he was 22 years old.

England's right wing-backs have always been in the bag of Manchester United players such as Gary Neville and O'Shea, and other England home right defenders have been difficult to get, but in 05, the year Gary Neville turned 30, Luke Young finally got his chance and quickly established himself in the national team.

He was twenty-six years old.

Younger, harder, more resilient and defensively excellent, these are Luke Young's strengths, and he was quickly reused by Eriksen, who quickly became the main force of the national team, looking forward to the World Cup in Germany in '06.

But in a league match in April 06, he suffered a heavy knee injury and said goodbye to the national team and the World Cup.

It took him a summer to recover, but since then, his form has suddenly vanished, and in the following season, he has not shown the convincing quality he once had.

This season, Charlton was relegated and Luke Young switched from Charlton to Middlesbrough.

It was Gareth Southgate, a former England centre-back who helped him a lot, quickly regained his form and showed plenty of quality on the right flank, and he began to be favoured by the more advanced Premier League sides.

After all, Middlesbrough is only a mid-table team, and they have been struggling with relegation almost every season.

Luke Young, like all other players, is looking forward to joining a team that is even higher.

With that in mind, he has been doing really well all season.

Even during the winter break, he did very well.

Until tonight, this one met Liverpool.

Strong dialogues are always of particular interest, and Luke Young is well aware of this.

For more than an hour ahead, Reese and Aurelio played well on the left, but Luke Young was diligent and decent, and there were no obvious mistakes.

Soon, Liverpool made a substitution, and Yang Yang replaced Reese.

World Footballer of the Year, European Ballon d'Or, No. 1 player in world football in the past year......

There are too many halos hanging above Yang Yang's head, which makes him easy to become the focus of fans' attention, and naturally becomes the target of others' attention.

Who doesn't want to step on Yang Yang's position?

Freeze him directly, and tomorrow's newspapers will be full of the defender's name.

Unlike his eager young team-mate David Witt, who is already 28 years old and more mature, Luke Young is only 21 years old, the age when a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Therefore, at first, Luke Young still behaved very restrained and did not dare to slack off.

Yang Yang didn't seem to be in particularly good shape, he didn't have a good performance, he took the ball and played the ball in a decent way several times, and once tried to break through with the ball, but after being pinned down by Luke Young and David Witt at the same time, he quickly passed back to his teammates.

The world footballer of the year doesn't look like he's at his best.

Gradually, Luke Young began to try to show more.

Because he felt that he should have limited the out-of-form world footballer.

Even, he began to think that it was now eighty-three minutes, and if Yang Yang's performance was still sluggish, in another two or three minutes, he would try to move forward to participate in the attack, especially in the last few minutes.

With an idea, his heart couldn't bear it no matter what, so he began to observe, and his attention was no longer focused on Yang Yang's body, he began to pay attention to his teammates around him, and pay attention to the attack in the front court.

During a quick counter-attack in midfield, Luke Young was hesitant to step forward.

With Middlesbrough's attack concentrated too much on the left, Benitez reacted quickly and restrained Downing.

If the right side follows at this time, I believe the threat will be much greater, and it will be very sudden.

But just as Luke Young hesitated, Liverpool's midfielder suddenly broke the ball successfully.

Mascherano, the Argentine midfielder who performed very well in the game, was once again successful in defending.

He was like an insurmountable barrier in Liverpool's midfield, firmly protecting Liverpool's defence.

And after the break, Luke Young, like everyone else, was guessing which way he would pass the ball.

Unexpectedly, Mascherano seemed to feel the contempt of the Middlesbrough defenders for him, and after taking a step forward, he looked up to the left.

Luke Young immediately noticed Mascherano's eyes, was he looking at me?

No, he's looking at Yang Yang!

Luke Young instinctively had an ominous premonition, and turned his head to look at Yang Yang beside him, but out of the corner of his eye, he only saw Yang Yang's outstretched hand, which seemed to be pointing forward.

Before he could fully see clearly, he felt a figure in front of him.

That's fast!

It's so fast!

This is Yang Yang's speed?

Luke Young didn't even have time to reach out to grab it, and he was rushed over by Yang Yang.

When he turned around, he saw that Yang Yang had already rushed to the big forbidden area.

"David!" Luke Young shouted loudly.

……

David Witt was originally behind Luke Young and chased back as soon as possible.

He reached a height of 1.96 meters, typical of an English strong man, but speed and turning were his weak points.

Although Yang Yang was faster, he was more backward, and David Witt was slow to turn but closer to the goal, so the two rushed to the edge of the penalty area almost at the same time.

Mascherano's long pass is in the right direction, but the strength is a bit too strong.

Goalkeeper Schwarzer resolutely chose to abandon the goal, but it was clearly a wrong decision.

Yang Yang and David Witt chased to the edge of the box almost at the same time, both with their backs to the direction the ball was coming from.

David Witt has two options, one is to come by himself and go straight to the ball and clear the ball.

Another way is to get out of the way and clear the siege for goalkeeper Schwarzer.

The young player was in a hurry, obviously hesitant and not decisive.

Yang Yang is about the same age as David Witt, but he is already a seasoned and experienced player, and after seeing Schwarzer attack, he knew that the Australian goalkeeper had made a very bad decision.

So, Yang Yang chose to slow down and turn around, and blocked David Witt with his left hand, which was a distraction strategy.

This block made David Witt, who was already hesitating, stop directly in place.

Yang Yang was more agile and turned faster, directly ahead of David Witt, jumped high, stopped Mascherano's long pass with his chest, and when he landed, his body was right in the middle of David Witt and the ball.

David Witt, on the other hand, blocked Schwarzer, who was attacking.

Yang Yang's chest stopped, and the ball fell to his left side, although he turned his back to the goal, he picked up his left foot and picked it up easily along the falling football.

The ball went past David Witt past goalkeeper Schwarzer and into the back of the net behind Middlesbrough.

It was also at this moment that Luke Young chased Yang Yang nearby, and saw Yang Yang, who was facing away from the goal, clenched his fist and shouted without looking back after kicking the shot with his left foot, laughing from ear to ear, as if he had eyes behind him and saw that the ball had been scored.

In fact, the ball did go in.

From starting to shake off Luke Young, to slowing down and cutting, stopping the ball with his chest, and then to shooting with his left foot, the whole process happened in a very short period of time, and before many fans could react, the referee had already blown the whistle for the goal.

Slur over! It's easy!

Luke Young watched in amazement as Yang Yang slowly walked past him, celebrating his goal with his teammates who pounced on him.

All of a sudden, he had a very strong feeling that this was the World Footballer!

Is this ball simple?

It depends on the person!

Maybe in Yang Yang's opinion, such a ball is very simple to handle, so he handles it smoothly, even with a bit of chic.

But in Luke Young's opinion, it was a difficult shot, with speed, explosiveness, flexibility, physicality and even the back-to-goal volley after stopping the ball on his chest, which required a very good sense of shot.

Look at David Witt and Schwarzer, these two are also Premier League players, but in that situation just now, the two of them almost collided together, but Yang Yang easily stopped the ball and scored with a pick.

It was his first goal in two months!

Therefore, Luke Young clearly heard that Gerrard jumped on Yang Yang's body, holding his head excitedly and shouting, "You finally scored!" We've finally waited for you to score! ”

The rest of Liverpool's players also seemed to be extremely excited, apparently not just because of a win.

The goal-scoring Yang Yang is back!

Maybe he's not at his best, maybe he's not a big threat yet, but he's scoring again!

From the attack just now, Luke Young clearly felt Yang Yang's terribleness, and he even felt how stupid he was to be careless about Yang Yang just now.

With Yang Yang's speed and explosiveness, as well as his excellent technique and keen sense of shooting, even if he went all out and stared at him intently, he might not be able to restrain him, and he was even distracted.

And not only him, but David Witt and Schwarzer and others were also clearly careless.

Only manager Southgate, who is obviously very aware of Yang Yang's threat, is very worried, and has been on the sidelines, constantly calling on the players to pay attention, but he has not been able to play in place of the players in the game.

Luke Young looked at the excited Liverpool players and listened to the thunderous cheers in his ears, and he was deeply frightened, because he finally really saw the strength of the world footballer!

He finally understood why Yang Yang was able to score so many goals in the past year or so.

But, it's too late.