Chapter 384: Fly, Dutch!
A week after the ninth round, the Premier League has its tenth round of league play, with Chelsea hosting Manchester City with a blue moon. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This match has also attracted a lot of attention in China, as there are players and managers from China on both sides.
With one winning the top spot 3-0 and the other beating 6-2, both teams are in excellent form and have put the battle at Stamford Bridge in the spotlight across the Premier League.
But at the critical moment, Gao Han once again demonstrated his trustworthy quality.
Although Keegan's pressing tactics caused Chelsea plenty of problems after the opening, they managed to last only half an hour before Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring in the 33rd minute when he received Ronaldinho's lethal through ball and volleyed home from inside the box.
After the restart-up in the second half, Chelsea continued to work hard and took advantage of the opening opportunity to play a wave of high court, with Samuel Eto'o scoring twice in quick succession to further extend the score to 3-0 for Chelsea.
City then launched a counter-attack and created a lot of threat, but Van der Sar did well to keep the goal in the back of the net.
In the 82nd minute of the second half, Ronaldinho assisted Gallas with a free kick.
At 4-0, the Blues won another big win.
In this round, Arsenal drew 1-1 with Charlton Athletic, while Manchester United lost 3-1 at home to Fulham, causing a series of upsets.
However, Thierry Henry is the top scorer with Newcastle's Alan Shearer with nine league goals, while Chelsea's Samuel Eto'o has five and Zlatan Ibrahimovic has four.
So once again, the Independent ran a big red headline in its front-page column.
Henry equals Ibrahimovic plus Samuel Eto'o.
can win two rounds in a row, and everyone can see that Chelsea has a strong momentum of goals.
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After playing the tenth round of the Premier League, the Blues face their first Carabao Cup game of the season.
The opponents are Notts County from the third division of English League Two, which are currently in the relegation zone of League Two.
Gao Han fulfilled his promise and was given a 4-1 home win over Notts County to qualify for the last 16 of the Carabao Cup.
Robin van Persie scored twice, Arjen Robben and Frank Lampard scored one each.
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Back to the Premier League, for the eleventh round.
Arsenal's away game against Leeds United started first, and the Gunners won 4-1 away at Leeds United with Thierry Henry's hat-trick to lead Arsenal out of the shadow of a three-game winless run.
Henry, meanwhile, has increased his league tally to twelve this season.
After scoring his first hat-trick of the new season, Thierry Henry was scrappy and said in an interview with The Independent after the game that he didn't care about the so-called king of goalscorers at all, because all his energy was focused on one thing, and that was to score goals.
'I feel like I've never been in better shape and I feel like I can score more!'
Arsenal followed United's success on their home turf, with goals from Diego Forlan, Duff and Roy Keane beating Portsmouth 3-0.
The Premier League duo once again proved that in the Premier League, where the gap between strength and weakness is not small, as long as they adjust their form, it will be difficult for any opponent to stop them, and they are always the strongest contenders for the title.
However, it was with Arsenal and Manchester United beating their opponents that Chelsea were met with stubborn sniping from Everton at Goodson Park.
Moyes played a four-three-one-two back three in this game, and even striker Radzinski basically retreated to the midfield to participate in the defense, leaving a young player Rooney in front of him.
This kind of defensive formation, coupled with the defensive players led by the tough guy Gravison and the central defender Jabbo, the defensive actions are relatively simple and rough, which makes the Chelsea who are playing away feel very uncomfortable, and it is difficult for the passing control system to operate smoothly.
The stalemate lasted for 70 minutes, but the situation remained unchanged.
The whole stadium at Goodson Park looked like it was going to be a draw, and even many Everton fans were laughing and taunting Chelsea from the stands, laughing at the Blues for playing like a.
This left the Blues in a big way.
But it wasn't until the seventy-fifth minute that Gao Han called Robben, who had come back from the warm-up, over.
"Arjan, I can see that they would love to see our simple and rough side. ”
Robben didn't understand what the manager meant, but he was excited.
Because he knew he was going to be substituted.
"You go up and play on the left, you only have one task, keep breaking through, breaking through, breaking through. ”
Robben nodded heavily, which was what he did best and what excites him the most.
"See that number 28?" Gao Han pointed to Everton's right-back, and only after Robben nodded did he continue: "Remember his name, Tony Hibbert, you will step on his shoulder tonight and let everyone know you!"
Robben was so angry when he heard this.
"Go!" Gao Han patted Robben on the shoulder vigorously and sent him on the field.
Chelsea's substitution was once again booed by the Everton crowd.
Gao Han replaced Ronaldinho with Robben, who has started almost every game so far this season, and judging from the performance of this game, he is indeed a little tired, so let him take an early break.
At the same time, in Gao Han's coaching system, skill cards can also be used again, so he immediately used a five-star assault card on Robben, hoping to help Robben perform, and at the same time used a five-star attack card on Ibrahimovic, once again activating the effect of the combination card that has improved by leaps and bounds, greatly strengthening the attack power in the frontcourt.
"Fly, Dutchman!" thought Gao Han confidently.
In the midst of the boos of the whole stadium, Robben kicked the ball for the first time after coming on the field, and Everton's right-back Tony Hibbert pounced on him, wanting to give him a dismount, but he didn't expect Robben to pick up the incoming ball, turned around to avoid Hibbert, and then accelerated to catch up.
This time, the ball from the left side was divided, which immediately surprised everyone in the audience, especially Robben's fast speed, which made everyone in the audience enthusiastic.
But the subsequent cross was cleared by Yabo in advance.
But soon, Chelsea's attack came again, still passing to the left to find Robben.
When the Dutchman received the ball, he rushed forward without thinking and went straight to Hibbert.
The unlucky England right-back, as soon as he reacted and wanted to pounce on Robben, was shaken by the Dutch and gave it directly!
This simple, direct, brutal, and even unreasonable forced breakthrough made Everton manager David Moyes look furious on the sidelines, constantly yelling at the players, telling them to be careful and not to grab easily.
Seeing the Scots lose their temper like this, Gao Han's heart was a little more balanced at this time.
"Since we can't make sense, let's be simple, and speak with our fists. Gao Han sneered, "Let you know, I'm not easy to mess with!"
Robben's substitute came on the field and completely broke the situation on the field, he forced breakthroughs on the left side again and again, which gave Everton a lot of headaches, not to mention that Hibbert has struggled to support most of the half, even if he is in peak condition, I am afraid it will be difficult to prevent the galloping Dutchman, who can only watch the other side break through their positions again and again.
Finally, in the 83rd minute, Robben once again relied on lightning speed to forcibly shake off Hibbert and Graveson, and passed into the big penalty area, Ibrahimovic deliberately missed the front point, and Eto'o followed up with the goal!
Goalkeeper Nell Martin couldn't do anything about the shot.
1 to 0!
In the end, Chelsea beat Everton 1-0 thanks to Samuel Eto'o's winner.
Looking at Moyes's angry expression on the sidelines, which was almost vomiting blood, Gao Han was smiling from ear to ear.
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After the 1-0 win over Everton, Dutch teenager Arjen Robben won full applause, but at the same time, Chelsea also suffered from a lot of media doubts, especially in the face of Everton's stubborn stubbornness but there was nothing to do, so that many media shouted that Chelsea is going to end.
In particular, in midweek, Chelsea played in the second knockout round of the UEFA Cup against Romania's Bucharest Stars, and the first leg was an away game, with Gao Han arranged a rotation and the game turned out to be a tough one.
In the end, it was with Terry's stunner that they defeated the Bucharest Stars 1-0.
The fact that the teams in the small leagues were playing so hard certainly reinforced the media narrative that Chelsea was not going to do it, and the Blues immediately welcomed the Premier League's traditional powerhouse, Robson's Newcastle.
Although the Magpies have not been in good shape recently, the media has high hopes for the traditional powerhouse of the Premier League and the team that beat Chelsea to finish in the top four of the league last season.
Shockingly, just 21 minutes into the game, Chelsea broke the deadlock with a goal from right-back Glenn Johnson.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic then added another goal to make it 2-0.
Before the end of the first half, Chelsea's Ronaldinho forced a breakthrough in the middle, created a red card and a penalty, sent off one of the opponent's main central defenders, and scored a penalty himself, 3-0.
After the rematch in the second half, Samuel Eto'o and substitute Arjen Robben scored in quick succession to make it 5-0.
With a five-goal victory, the Blues not only fought back effectively against the doubts of the outside world, but also had a rainbow of momentum.
A week later, thanks to goals from Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, they beat Saints Southampton 2-0.
With the goal in this game, Samuel Eto'o took his Premier League tally to eight, while Ibrahimovic also reached six, with both showing impressive goalscoring momentum.
On the contrary, it is Arsenal's Thierry Henry, although the Gunners have also won consecutive games in the past few rounds, but Henry has suffered a goal drought in two consecutive rounds, and the top scorer has gradually been caught up by Newcastle veteran Shearer.
The England veteran centre-forward's goalscoring momentum this season has been quite impressive and admirable.
And because Henry didn't score in two rounds, the Independent finally shut up.
Although Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are still a little away from Thierry Henry's twelve, no one can doubt that with Chelsea's current form, the momentum of the two strikers may not be out of the question.