74 League Cup winners

"Hooray, West Ham!

"Champions, champions, we are champions!"

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Chen Ping kept waving his fists excitedly. Arshavin's performance was just too good. With this ball, the game is stable, and the League Cup title is secure.

"Chen, we are champions. ”

Julian Dix also stood up immediately, hugged Chen Ping from behind, and celebrated loudly in Chen Ping's ear. He's genuinely excited, West Ham reached a Carabao Cup final 23 years ago but only finished runners-up in the Carabao Cup. The previous year, in 1980, West Ham had won the FA Cup.

That was West Ham's last title.

That said, West Ham haven't won a title for more than two decades. If he wins the League Cup this time, then Chen Ping is the coach who has brought West Ham a title for the first time in 20 years.

"Yes, we are champions. ”

Chen Ping nodded.

The League Cup championship, Chen Ping will never lose it. Therefore, Chen Ping stepped forward and made a gesture while saying loudly: "Steady, steady." Leo, go back, go back, don't get too far ahead. Michael, you go back too, go back. Adduction, adduction. ”

A game is a game, and Chen Ping wants a championship.

The food is ugly, Chen Ping doesn't care. As long as you win the League Cup, it's ugly to win. Therefore, after scoring the third goal, Chen Ping immediately pulled Carrick back again.

Defend.

With players like Ribery and Arshavin who are good at technique and speed, Chen Ping will play counter-attacking with you. You Middlesbrough can help me. And Chen Ping's requirements for the team are also very simple, let the team adduct the defensive line. Just let it go on the side, if you want to cross, you can cross, and I won't care about you. Middlesbrough didn't even have an impactful centre-forward, and there was little threat from the crosses. When Chen Ping was shouting, McLaren was next to him.

Hearing Chen Ping's words, his face immediately darkened.

Damn it.

The West Ham midfielder suddenly stepped forward and did give Middlesbrough a hard time. But again, as soon as West Ham step forward, there will certainly be problems in defence. This is also an opportunity for Middlesbrough.

But West Ham had just scored a goal, and they shamelessly retracted again, and they had to play with a back three.

Three goals behind.

McLaren couldn't think of a way, and now he could only step up the attack, so he looked at the bench and replaced Doriwa with Richts. Middlesbrough changed from a 4-2-3-1 formation to a 4-4-2 formation in midfield.

Boateng is a single midfielder, and Juninho plays as a front midfielder.

McLaren was also out of the way.

"Michael, Michael. ”

McLaren adjusted, and Chen Ping immediately called Carrick at the moment of the dead ball. Said to Carrick: "Tell our people, long pass to Ricky." Let Ricky control the ball in front. Frank and Andre are right next to Ricky. ”

Middlesbrough will step up their attack and the pressure will increase defensively. If you want to make a good quality long pass, only Carrick can. Others are more difficult. In this case, Chen Ping wants to let Lambert play a bigger role.

Let Lambert run more up front.

Dare to keep the ball.

"Yes. ”

"Go ahead. ”

Defend.

With a three-goal lead, defense is king. Three backs, the middle can't be hit at all. Even at the peak, Barcelona will have a lot of headaches in the face of a back three, let alone a team like Middlesbrough. The big Juninho is not Ronaldo Jr., nor Messi later.

When breaking dense defenses, players like Ronaldo Jr. and Messi, who have strong breakthrough ability, can use their breakthroughs to create opportunities. However, since the injury of Juninho, his explosiveness and speed have greatly decreased, and he no longer has the breakthrough ability that he had back then. Don't say it's the big Juninho, if a player like Messi is seriously injured and loses his explosiveness and speed, then the breakthrough ability will also be greatly reduced.

Because these short breakthrough masters rely on explosive power and speed, and the frequency of their feet to pass people. If you lose these, your power will drop by half.

Since Juninho couldn't create chances in the middle, Middlesbrough opted for a wide pitch.

Pass the ball to the wing and let the wide cross go. After all, with the addition of a striker, there is one more point to grab the ball. West Ham's choice remains simple. You can cross, and the most important thing for a full-back is not to not let people cross, but to make crosses that are not comfortable. Another thing is to be sure to stand in position and not let the wide players burst into the box.

Therefore, although Glen Johnson and Bynes are not strong defensively, as long as they do not attack rashly, they can still stabilize their positions. Because neither Mendieta nor Cendon have that kind of strong burst ability.

A cross is a cross.

Not very concerned.

West Ham, on the other hand, kicked off whenever they had the chance. Once again, the game went into a dull phase.

Minutes and seconds passed. McLaren was already sitting on the bench in a gloomy manner, his face becoming more and more ugly. Because the second half has been played for almost 30 minutes, there are only ten minutes left in the game.

But the score was still 0-3.

Three goals, if you want to get it back, you should have scored one goal before the eighty minutes. But as it stands, Middlesbrough have a lot of crosses, but there is little threat. Until now, Middlesbrough have not created a truly threatening chance.

You can't get in the middle, and crosses from the wings don't have much effect.

There is some despair.

McClaren is now unable to find a way to break down West Ham's defence, and he is very frustrated. An assistant coach is not the same as a head coach, and the decisions that need to be made are different. When I used to be an assistant coach, I had a head coach in front of me in this situation. But as your own head coach, you have to make your own decisions.

But McLaren couldn't decide anything.

McLaren sat on the bench and didn't know what to think.

I can't think of a way anyway.

McClaren was the same, and even more so with the Middlesbrough players who had beaten West Ham for almost 30 minutes. Facing a heavily defended West Ham, Middlesbrough has been unable to create threatening chances, and Middlesbrough's players have slowly lost their fighting spirit.

Three goals behind was enough to make Middlesbrough's players lose confidence. Of course, in addition to the loss of confidence, the Middlesbrough players also began to have problems with their physical strength.

As a result, the offensive began to weaken slowly, and the pressure on the West Ham backline also slowly weakened. So that Carrick, who has been focused on defense, can slowly have the opportunity to control the ball and organize the attack.

"Daley, give the ball to Carrick. Carrick, long pass to Lambert. ”

Carrick's technique at his feet is not very good, and once a player pesters Carrick, then Carrick's power will be greatly reduced. Fortunately, at this time, the players of Middlesbrough began to lose confidence,

Carrick has no Middlesbrough players around him.

Once no one was distracting, Carrick's long passes were very accurate.

"Lambert, Lambert leaned on Essiogu. ”

Essiogu is a Premier League great, having spent £8 million on Middlesbrough when they brought him in four years ago. He is the representative of a strong central defender in the Premier League. However, compared to Lambert, the physical confrontation ability is much worse.

After all, Essiogu was in his thirties, and of course, even at his peak, his physical fitness was not as good as Lambert's. Lambert kept the ball at his feet and waited for the West Ham player to come and pick it up.

'Lambert, Lambert passes the ball back to Ribery. Ribery cut inside from the left to meet Lambert. Arshavin has started on the right flank, Ribery ...... Wow wow, Ribery, this is Ribery's wonderful point-and-finger pass! It's wonderful, it's wonderful. It was ...... to be able to see such a wonderful pass in the Carabao Cup final. ”

As soon as Ribery won the ball, Arshavin accelerated on the right.

And Ribery also kept looking at Arshavin and made the appearance of wanting to pass the ball. But it looked like he was going to pass to Arshavin, but when he was about to touch the ball, Ribery suddenly chose the inside of his foot and pushed it down the middle.

Refers to the east and west.

Before passing the ball, Ribery had been watching Arshavin run on the right, drawing the attention of all Middlesbrough players. The Middlesbrough defenders naturally leaned to the right.

But Ribery turned out to be looking at Arshavin all the time, but passed the ball to the middle.

Shook everyone, it should be said that it deceived everyone.

"Lambert, Lambert, this is a single knife!"

Ribery made a brilliant finger and broke through the entire Middlesbrough defence in one fell swoop. By the time the Middlesbrough players reacted, Lambert had easily received the ball and faced Schwarzer.

"Lambert, Lambert, shoot!"

“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

"Lambert completely killed the suspense of the game. With 81 minutes played, West Ham led Middlesbrough 4-0 thanks to Lambert's goal. It was a goal that completely decided the Carabao Cup title this season. ”