Chapter 019: Chelsea in Free Fall (Part I)
Manchester City defeated Napoli 3-1 away, Yang Fan scored twice in the game! Manchester City still won away from home in the case of sending a big score of substitutes, so far, this season's Champions League group stage is over, Manchester City team has four wins and two draws, 14 points, 3 points ahead of the second place Bayern Munich, and won the first place in the group. ”
The mobile TV on the subway is playing the news of yesterday's game, Yang Fan's passionate celebration after scoring a goal, it is so emotional in the eyes of the passengers, and the fans are also talking about the game.
You read that right, it was indeed Manchester City who won against Napoli.
It's been three months since Manchester City's 2-2 home game against Napoli, and it's December, and the early winter in Manchester is already chilly.
In the space of more than three months, Manchester City have achieved a record unprecedented in the club's history through a multi-fronted campaign, with them unbeaten in all competitions, winning their group in the Champions League and now leading the league table, with them currently one point ahead of Manchester United.
Three days later, in the 15 rounds of Premier League fixtures, Manchester City travelled to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea.
In fact, Chelsea are in a bit of a bad situation at the moment.
The new boss Villas-Boas simply couldn't hold down the dressing room, and the youthful revolution and tactical changes he pursued within the team were not successful, and the quagmire of results and the serious confrontation between the old players made Chelsea, once a formidable Chelsea, now more like a paper tiger.
With the whistle of the referee of this match, England's golden whistle Bol, the heavyweight match of Manchester City vs Chelsea began.
There was a wave of boos over Stamford Bridge, and just three minutes into the game, City had their first shot on goal, and it was Yang Fan who hit the goal.
Colo Toure suddenly passed the ball over the top in the midfield, after Yang Fan **** stopped the ball, he forcibly broke through Alex's defense by speed, and then faced Terry who was making up the defense, Yang Fan forced his foot to shoot, and after the football was blocked by Terry, the ball was slightly off and hit the side net.
Yang Fan's shot just now, Yang Fan was a little negligent, he used his speed to pass Alex, and then he was going to continue to dribble the ball, but he didn't expect Terry to grab so timely, so he hurriedly got up and was blocked by Terry.
In the first leg of the contest between Yang Fan and John Terry, the Chelsea captain had a slight advantage, which also made the Chelsea fans who came to the scene cheer, and the London reporters in the press box were also inexplicably excited.
Manchester City's corner.
David Silva took a corner, this was a tactical corner, he knocked the football to De Jong, who ran towards the football, but did not stop the ball, but swept the football away, inserted Zabaleta kicked the football into the penalty area, Yang Fan jumped up and fought for the top, did not touch the football, however, was shaken by his movements, Ivanovic did not touch the football, James Milner at the back point with a knee pad, the football slightly off.
"James Milner!!!, Manchester City showed a strong attack at the beginning of the game, two shots in a row, which made Stamford Bridge boo, the importance of this game, Chelsea fans are naturally clear, win the game, they will enter the FA Cup final!!"
'The City players look excited, which is good for the fans and shows that it's going to be a big game today. "Chelsea manager Villas-Boas wasn't in his starting line-up today, Ramirez Anel, Cardiro, Bamykel and Frank Lampard and Essien, all the midfielders are the kind of players who can single-handedly change the game at some point!"
Villas-Boas stood on the sidelines, he did not sit back in the dugout after the game began, he knew very well that Chelsea's opponent today would be difficult, the key was Yang Fan!
To contain Manchester City's attack, the first thing is to prevent Yang Fan, which is already the consensus of any team that wants to defeat Manchester City, but unfortunately, so far, no team can really defend Yang Fan, but ushered in a crazy outburst of Yang Fan.
Villas-Boas has been studying Manchester City's game footage these days, hoping to find a way to limit Yang Fan, but unfortunately, it seems that there is no effective way. You can only see the tricks and guess the moves.
In addition, on Yang Fan's side, Tevez's performance is also commendable, the Brazilian and Yang Fan now have a very good tacit understanding, the number of goals is also good, the English media said before the game, Alex and Terry will face the Manchester City team's forward combination today, Chelsea's pair of central defenders, today will be the most severe test.
After James Milner changed direction and dribbled the ball continuously, he divided the football to the side, Zabaleta passed the football horizontally again, Yang Fan pulled the ball, and as soon as he turned around, Terry cut his body sideways, cut it in, forcibly separated the ball, and cut off the ball beautifully.
Terry kept Yang Fan in the back of his hand and quickly passed the ball to Frank Lampard for Chelsea to counter-attack.
Frank Lampard made a wall-to-wall link with Mikel, who came to pick him up, to draw attention to the Manchester City players, and then he handed the football to Mikel again.
Mikel sent a very fast boccia ball, and Ramirez pulled the ball and turned sideways to pull the whole action in one go, getting rid of Colo Toure's top grab.
"Before the game, Ramires said that he wants to help Chelsea continue to sprint towards the title, and he wants to contribute to Chelsea, which shows that Ramirez is quite looking forward to this game. Lineker smiled and said, "It's a good sign, at least it shows that there is no infighting at Chelsea now, everyone is focused on the game, on the work!
There have been rumours that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wants to sack Villas-Boas, so to speak, and this Chelsea side is in turmoil right now.
After Ramires got rid of Colo Toure, he made a beautiful dribble past Manchester City's left-back Zabaleta and then smashed a straight shot to Anelka.
It should be said that the cooperation between Anelka and Ramirez is still relatively tacit, take this cooperation as an example, it seems that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a good heart, Ramirez's kick is very appropriate, such a through ball can make Anelka very comfortable to rush up the speed, the ball is five or six meters in front of him, Anelka can add up the speed, such a pass, for players who are not good at speed, when receiving the ball and sprinting, it will also be quite comfortable.
De Jong stabbed in and was about to cut off the football, but saw Anelka change direction and burst past him.
Speed is not Anelka's strong suit, so instead of continuing to dribble the ball down the wing, he passed the ball to Ramirez, who took the ball and continued to dribble it, while Anelka quickly rushed into the box!
"Be careful! Don't let Ramirez cut inside. John Mortensen loudly 'reminded' that because of his support for Yang Fan, the gold medal commentator has become more and more 'biased' towards the Manchester City team when commentating, but this one never seems to have hidden his favor and support for Yang Fan.
Just when Ramirez wanted to cut inside, a figure came over, Zabaleta stepped in, and a tackle that fell to the ground brought Ramirez down and shoveled the ball directly off the sideline.
"Beautiful tackle! Zabaleta did a good job. ”
Chelsea's throw-in, Essien flicked to Mikel, who observed the situation and shifted the long ball to the left with his right foot.
Ashley Cole makes a nice stop and then crosses the bottom!
Colo Toure defends Drogba.
When the ball was over the two of them, they jumped almost at the same time, and Drogba's impact was strong, and although Colo Toure used his hands and feet underneath, he still couldn't stop Drogba from jumping.
Didier Drogba heads home!
The football was pounced on by the Manchester City team when they saw Joe Hart!
Zabaleta caught up and turned to clear the ball, but his kick was not far away. Essien ferried the ball to Frank Lampard, who struck a shot!
The ball flew towards the goal and was blocked by Kompany.
Essien was one step ahead, though, and he paddled his knee with it.
The soccer ball flew into the net.
“!”
'Essien!' He scored! 'Big Buffalo' opened the scoring for Chelsea!'
'1-0!'Essien breaks the deadlock for Chelsea!'
The stadium erupted in cheers at Stamford Bridge and the Chelsea fans erupted with great enthusiasm as they let off steam.
In the 14th minute of the game, Chelsea scored, Manchester City away 0-1 Chelsea!
On the turf of Stamford Bridge, Essien was running wildly, and at this time, the live radio sounded, and the Chelsea fans chanted Essien's name three times in a row, sending him applause and cheers!
“oo…… Just 11 minutes into the game, Chelsea took the lead. It was Essien who scored the goal. ”
"A conceded goal is nothing! we just scored and got it back, and we all lifted our spirits. Yang Fan clapped his palms and roared loudly, and the others were all enthusiastic when they heard him shout. It can be said that Yang Fan has already won the absolute trust of Manchester City's teammates, and others even have a strange feeling that as long as Yang Fan is on the field, as long as Yang Fan does not give up, then nothing can stop Manchester City.
The Manchester City players were not frustrated by the conceded goal, but seemed to be motivated by the conceded goal.
In the 15th minute, Zabaleta did not pass the ball after breaking the ball at the back, but drove the ball straight into the Chelsea penalty area. This caught Chelsea off guard, thinking that Zabaleta would attack with a big pass, so the Chelsea players were quick to return to defence and no one was marking them in the face of Zabaleta who suddenly plugged in.
Of course, Essien would not allow Zabaleta to continue to dribble the ball like this, and as he ran back, he saw Zabaleta advancing rapidly with the ball and immediately came up to intercept it.
Essien was defending James Milner, but now he came up and when Zabaleta saw James Milner exposed, he was overjoyed and hurriedly passed the ball.
When James Milner got the ball, Yang Fan and Tevez also started at high speed.
After James Milner got the ball, he didn't break through with the ball at high speed as others thought, but pretended to turn and break through, and after attracting Ivanovic to come up and intercept, he knocked the ball with his heel and De Jong got the ball.
De Jong's main job is to intercept in midfield, he is doing the dirty work, he is naturally aware of his ability, it is not his job to stop the attack, he immediately took advantage of the right foot to push the football to David Silva, who immediately crossed.
The ball was grabbed by David Silva, who swung the ball directly to the left side of the box.
Yang Fan plugged in at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, he padded the football with his knees, and jumped himself, which dodged Mikel's tackle, and then Yang Fan landed and chased the football like a lightning speed.
It's in the restricted area!!
The whole Stamford Bridge stadium was immediately booed!
Chelsea fans naturally know a lot about Yang Fan's threat, and when they saw Yang Fan get rid of Mikel so easily and go directly into the penalty area, they immediately became nervous!
Chelsea fans were booing in the hope of influencing Yang Fan, while in the stands of the visiting fans at Stamford Bridge, Manchester City fans cheered!
After Yang Fan inserted the ball at high speed to the side of the penalty area, he immediately cut inside along the edge of the penalty area.
Seeing Yang Fan cut inside, Terry could only leave James Milner next to him and pounce towards Yang Fan.
Suddenly, Yang Fan made a move to cut inside, which immediately attracted Terry to come up and intercept.
Drawing Terry out of the penalty area, that's exactly what Yang Fan is all about!
Seeing that Terry was indeed mobilized by himself, Yang Fan immediately passed the ball!
Then people saw that in the penalty area, a Manchester City player jumped.
This is James Milner, who had no one around him to defend and made a wonderful lion header on the back of the net!
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech couldn't stop the ball from finding the net despite saving the ball!
“!”
"James Milner! This header is really beautiful! Chelsea's defense was torn apart by Yang Fan, and there was not a single defender around Milner when he headed the goal! Manchester City equalized away!!"
"Manchester City scored! It was Milner who scored! The goal was wonderful! However, Yang Fan's breakthrough and pass from receiving Yaya Toure's pass were the most exciting part of Manchester City's attack!"
Manchester City's players celebrate their goals like crazy!
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