Chapter 620: The Difference Between National Team and Club
Chelsea launched a fierce attack away from home, Robinho and Anelka continued to dribble from the flanks and then cut across the middle to launch attacks - on the football field, the threat in the middle is naturally the greatest, after all, closer to the goal, but in this way, Manchester City also seems easier to defend, especially the two of them are so frequent to move closer to the middle, virtually compressing the space of Lampard, Ballack and even Drogba, making Manchester City's defense more targeted.
After withstanding a dozen minutes of onslaught from Chelsea, City began to counter-attack, with Ribery being their bridgehead and others connecting in the middle and at the back post.
Despite playing just two games for the national team, Ribery seems to be in good form, constantly attacking from the left, and pressing Bosingwa to the point where he can't make the most of his assist ability.
In the 37th minute, the Manchester City fans cheered again, Ribery received a ball from Deco on the wing and broke through Bosingwa's defense with lightning speed, and then passed the ball to the middle, Torres received the ball, paused for a moment and quickly distributed the ball to Benzema, who was inserted on the wing.
Fernando Torres' shot was a beautiful one, Cole was drawn to Alves with the assist, and Benzema picked up the ball at the edge of the box, leaving only one defender in front of him, Chelsea captain John Terry.
When Terry caught up, Benzema quickly made a feint to pedal a bike, and when Terry's center of gravity shifted slightly, he immediately dunked the ball in the direction and killed it with the ball!
"Oh! Benzema breaks through Terry's defence! He burst into the box and faced Cech directly! ”
In the exclamations of the commentators and the frantic shouts of Manchester City fans, relying on a surprise feint, Benzema dodged Terry's defense, and after breaking into the penalty area, faced the attacking Cech, and decisively shot at the first time!
The ball flew to the near corner and Cech fell to the ground, still a step too slow, as it rolled under his armpit and flew into the Chelsea goal!
“GOOOOOOOAL! The ball is in! Benzema! Benzema! He scored his first competitive goal for Manchester City! The young Benzema showed his quality against Chelsea and it was a beautiful goal! Torres' timely split put him in front of Terry, and then Benzema broke through Terry's defence with a beautiful break to score the goal! When Dick bought Benzema for 27 million pounds, many people thought that the price he offered was too high, and from now on, such a price is not too high, at least in such a game, Benzema proved his strength with a goal! ”
Benzema burst into the stands with open arms and waved his fist at the stands, while the City fans in the stands shouted his name and cheered loudly for his goal.
Dick waved his fist, compared with Chelsea's attack, Manchester City showed much more flexibility in this goal, combining the side and the center, pulling back and forth, the opponent's defense could not complement each other, in a one-on-one situation, the defender always suffers, even a top defender like Terry, it is difficult to defend an attacking player of the same level in one-on-one.
This has nothing to do with strength, because the offensive possibilities are diverse, and the defense will have to pay more.
Benzema's goal gave City the lead into the second half, and the fact that they had come back before half-time after conceding a goal gave them a huge boost to their self-confidence – after all, there are only a handful of teams that can quickly come back from behind against Chelsea.
Scolari looked annoyed when he returned to the dressing room, ordering Robinho and Nicolas Anelka to move more on the flanks, while allowing Drogba to drop back and give Frank Lampard and Ballack more chances to get forward.
Dick was in the dressing room and just asked for the second half to continue to do so, strengthening the defense in the middle and preventing them from cutting inside into the box on the wings, and for the likes of Robinho and Nicolas Anelka, their crosses were nowhere near as threatening as their breakthroughs.
Scolari's adjustments in the dressing room still played a role, and soon after the start of the second half, they completed the attack with a beautiful combination of wings and back-row insertion, Mikel and Ballack passed the ball in succession, Lampard received the ball and distributed it to the wing, Anelka took the ball and knocked it back into the middle again, Drogba attracted Kompany, Lampard received the ball and had already stepped into the box, facing Samuel's defence, he smashed the ball and dodged a shot gap. Then a quick right-footed volley into the bottom corner of the box from inside the box!
Hart struggled hard to save the ball and Chelsea equalised shortly after the start of the second half!
After the goal, Frank Lampard pointed his finger at the sky and the rest of the Chelsea players swarmed him in the middle to celebrate the goal!
After this goal, the two sides are back on the same page, and for the fans at the scene, this game has been very exciting so far, but if there is no winner or loser, it will be a pity which side it is.
In such a strangulation, Manchester City began to rely more on counter-attacks to attack, Chelsea is anti-away to carry out a suppressive attack on the road, for Scolari, he believes that the current situation is very favorable for them, as long as they continue to attack, then it is very likely to win the game in one go, but he ignores one point, Chelsea's backline, the speed is not very fast, especially when the two full-backs are constantly attacking forward......
Under the pressure of Yaya Toure and Parker, Mikel made a mistake, his return pass was not able to pass to the proper position, but was cut off by Torres halfway, after the break, Torres has basically formed a single knife, he quickly put the ball forward, about to break through!
Terry, who was the last line of defence, rushed from the side, and with no choice, he brought down Torres with his hands and feet - which naturally made him suffer the punishment he deserved, and the referee showed him a red card directly, and Terry was sent off!
In the 70th minute of the game, Chelsea began to face with 10 men!
A substitution has been used up before, replacing Drogba with Malouda, who has not been recovering from injury, Scolari, who has let Anelka play as a center forward, was forced to make a second substitution, and Brazilian defender Alex came on the field and replaced Anelka - for this substitution, Anelka seemed very dissatisfied, after all, his performance in this game was not bad, but at this time he became the object of sacrifice, not to mention that Anelka himself has a strange temper, even if he is a person with a normal temper, he will not be able to stand it......
Anelka walked directly into the players' tunnel after leaving the field, and he didn't do such a thing once or twice, and Scolari didn't care about Anelka's mood, but continued to pay attention to the game on the field.
Dick laughed slightly when he saw this scene, Scolari is still a little childlike after all - in fact, in this case, it is normal to replace a striker, Malouda has just come on the field, he should not be replaced, Anelka and Robinho, it is Robinho who should be replaced, even if he has just scored a goal, it is because Anelka's impact and in the center forward position are more excellent! However, Scolari replaced Anelka, and in addition to seeing Robinho score, another factor may be that Robinho was brought in by him and his Brazilian compatriot, while Anelka moved to Chelsea last season......
You must know that the club's locker room relationship is much more complicated than the national team, at least if you are dissatisfied with any player in the national team, you can not recruit him in, and the impact will not be great, but in the club, even if you don't use any players, he still has a contract with the club, and complaints will affect the atmosphere in the entire locker room, for this, it is estimated that Scolari did not think so deeply......
Now with the lead in numbers, the whole scene was reversed, Manchester City began to press Chelsea in their own half in turn, Chelsea with one less person now has no power to counterattack, two good players who can rely on their individual ability to attack at the front Drogba and Anelka have gone off the field, Malouda can only wander on the side, Robinho even if his skills are excellent, because of his relatively thin body, he can't pose much threat to Manchester City's attack, in this case, Manchester City's attack, Start to get more unscrupulous!
One thing is very simple, if your counterattack makes the opponent have nothing to fear, then the opponent's attack will start to become more ferocious, and at the same time, it will be more confident, making your defense more difficult!
No matter how good Chelsea's defense is, it can't withstand such a fierce attack, especially after Terry is off the field, their defense is also missing a core strength, Manchester City continues to break through the opponent's defense on both wings, Dick is replaced by Bale, and Deco is replaced by Bale to strengthen the impact of the wings and the ability to grab points in the middle, under such an attack, Chelsea's defense is even if it is 100 dense, there is a time when it is sparse!
With the 83rd minute played, City took the lead for the second time in the game, and it was also a game-winning goal.
The goal itself was simple, City's best attacking partners combined to complete the goal, Ribery on the right used a series of feints and speed to get rid of Cole's defense, and then passed the ball into the box, Torres grabbed Alex before he cleared the ball with a cushion shot into the door guarded by Cech, but the reason for such an easy goal was because Manchester City's attack had exposed a huge hole in Chelsea's defence!
In the cheers of the Manchester City fans, Dick stood up and waved his arms, while on the other side, Scolari closed his mouth tightly and did not say a word, he lost this game, lost with a beautiful start, Dick, who was much younger than him, taught him a lesson, so that Scolari, who won all the first three rounds, began to feel that there is indeed a big difference between club and national team.
Manchester City, who won the game with all the main players, began their own celebrations and rests, and next, they will face the challenge of the Champions Cup, which is the first time since they returned to the Premier League, for this game, Manchester City, also have great hopes!