Chapter 217: Not Excited Enough

"This must be a tactic designed by Conte to defend against Dai Zhiwei, but this tactic has been used many times, and it has proved that it is not very useful for Dai Zhiwei, why does Conte still use it like this? Isn't that also a drain on its own resources? Lineker looked at Gerrard, the special guest of the game, next to him, with doubt.

"Uh...... I don't know about this, this tactic has indeed been used by many teams, it is impossible for Conte not to know, but I believe that Conte has used it, there must be his intentions, we might as well observe Chelsea's defense in the next games, to see what Conte is thinking. Gerrard cleverly avoided his embarrassment, but although he was a great player, he was definitely not a great coach, and he obviously couldn't understand Conte's intentions at this time.

The three Chelsea players around him were making small movements behind their backs, either pulling Dai Zhiwei's jersey or pulling his shorts, and one didn't know whose hand it was, and even grabbed Dai Zhiwei's most important part.

"I'll go!"

Dai Zhiwei's hairs stood up, where did he accept the treatment of being caught by other men? I only felt a chill, and quickly passed the ball out, and at the same time turned to glaring at the guy who was defending him.

Who knew that these three guys were thicker than the other, and they didn't even look at Dai Zhiwei, turned around and defended other players.

"What a disgusting person!" Dai Zhiwei shuddered in his heart, and then made up his mind to stay away from these guys.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It really deserves to be a corrupt country, and he doesn't hide it on the green field!

After that, Manchester United's ball will stay at Dai Zhiwei's feet, and it will definitely not stay for more than 5 seconds, and if it can shake off the defense of Gary Cahill and others, it will be thrown away, and if it can't be shaken off, it will immediately pass the ball out, and will not give this obscene old guy any chance to encircle himself at all.

"Hehe, it seems that the previous tactics have worked, as long as he doesn't have the ball, his threat is cut in half, so we have a better chance of winning." Gary Cahill sinisterly and lewdly laughed.

During this period, Chelsea's attack was impressive, and the connection up front was very smooth.

In fact, the strength of Chelsea's group of players is not weak, and Conte's tactics are not bad, but the coach is out of harmony, as long as the next team is united, this Blues can fight against any opponent.

Conte nodded with great satisfaction after seeing the performance for this period of time, standing in front of the bench, and was still in the mood to walk back and forth.

Able to stifle United's attack today, while still keeping Herrera and Nemanja Matic scrambling, Conte felt that this game was the best of the season before the game was over.

With about 25 minutes into the game, United began to slowly change their attacking focus, and began to gradually increase the attack on the two flanks under Mourinho's shouting, whether it was Valencia on the right or Ashley Young on the left, and the attack was more decisive.

In his opinion, as long as Dai Zhiwei is locked, no matter how prosperous Manchester United's two wings are, it is useless to have no Dai Zhiwei.

The elder Jiang Gary Cahill has always been sticking to Dai Zhiwei like chewing gum, and even when Dai Zhiwei is not holding the ball, he has always focused on him.

Rudiger and Gary Cahill have similar ideas, they are both cautious about the idea of killing Dai Zhiwei, but in Rudiger's opinion, for this game, they can't bet all their treasures on Dai Zhiwei, hoping that one Dai Zhiwei can beat Manchester United.

Manchester United also have Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford, and they all have to be careful with these characters.

The tactical shift for United had just begun and Pogba had not yet fully adapted to it, although he had come close to giving United the lead by winning a suspected penalty for Marcus Rashford in front of the box.

Seeing that the effect is good, Mourinho is a little relieved.

Although Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial have not been as consistent as Dai Zhiwei has been in the team, anyone who ignores them will most likely be punished.

With 60 minutes left in the game, Mourinho silently counted the time in his heart, his eyes motionless to observe Dai Zhiwei's performance.

Without Dai Zhiwei's wonderful performance, he always felt that his heart was not so steady.

That's when Chelsea launched a quick counter-attack.

Kante, with the help of Moses, managed to steal the ball at Pogba's feet, and then he handed the ball to the nearby Cesc Fabregas, who did not wait for him Herrera to press and immediately distributed the ball to Tiemoue Bakayoko in the middle.

Pogba quickly turned back to defend, but as soon as he took a step, Bakayoko made a beautiful diagonal deep pass down the middle, and the ball instantly penetrated Nemanja Matic's defence and flew straight behind Ashley Young.

Ashley Young jumped back and jumped hard to get to the top.

But the disadvantage of height is natural, and Ashley Young was still calculated by Chelsea.

Hazard stepped forward quickly and landed the ball firmly at his feet, but before Ashley Young could hit the ground, Hazard didn't hesitate to take the ball into the box.

"Watch out for the fill-in!" Bailly yelled and pounced on Hazard.

By this time, Hazard was already close to the goal, bobbing from side to side at his feet, trying to get past Bailly.

Bailly saw the convergence of Hazard's two movements and did not hesitate to break the ball with his feet.

Hazard originally thought that he would have to deal with Bailly for two or three rounds, but he didn't expect Bailly to be in such a hurry, and he went straight down as soon as he came up.

Hazard hurriedly flicked the ball towards the bottom line, and now he can only hope to be able to wipe it into the box, otherwise he will have to force a cross.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt Bailly touch his calf, and after a little hesitation, Hazard decisively chose to fall to the ground.

Immediately there were boos on the field, and in the stands behind Hazard's collapse to the goal, countless Manchester United fans yelled at Hazard angrily, and stretched out their middle fingers to gesture at Hazard, scolding Hazard in their mouths.

Before the referee could get to the place where the incident occurred, Manchester United players and Chelsea players surrounded him, Manchester United players angrily denounced Hazard for "diving", and Chelsea players strongly demanded a red card to send off Bailly, and then awarded Chelsea a penalty.

The referee coquettishly pushed away all the players who surrounded him, while warning them that if anyone was making an idea for him, he would unceremoniously show him a yellow card, and then after calling Eric Bailly and Eden Hazard to teach him a few lessons, he pointed to the penalty spot.

There were deafening boos at the new Wembley Stadium, and all United fans were unsparing in their saliva and middle fingers, and as much as they could humiliate Hazard and the referee with the foul language they knew, but these were automatically filtered by the ears of Hazard and the referee.

Eden Hazard took the penalty himself, he stood in front of the penalty, and the United fans in the stadium constantly made noises to interfere with him, while David De Gea stood on the goal line and made all kinds of moves to interfere.

But after Eden Hazard's shot, everything became meaningless.

Eden Hazard converted the penalty with a volley that was so powerful that De Gea was on the right track.

Eden Hazard helped Chelsea take a 1-0 lead over Manchester United in the FA Cup final!

Behind!

Mourinho stood on the sidelines with a very serious expression and frowned, obviously a little anxious about the situation on the field.

Manchester United's performance today was not ideal, first Dai Zhiwei's inexplicable poor form, then the delay in counter-attacking after conceding the goal in front, and finally the incorrect timing of the central defender's shot.

It's okay to play in the league in this form, but it's a bit exciting to fight Chelsea for this title.

With more than 10 minutes left before the end of the first half, Mourinho did not plan to make any adjustments in the first half, he walked to the sideline and shouted to Nemanja Matic, and when he ran to the sidelines, Mourinho reminded him to push the attack into front of the Chelsea penalty area as soon as possible and try to equalize before the end of the first half.

Nemanja Matic left with orders, and Mourinho didn't say anything to the other players, and it was not too late to wait until the dressing room to say something.

As for Dai Zhiwei, Mourinho believes that he will definitely think of something in his heart when he sees himself explaining things to Matic, in his opinion, Dai Zhiwei has always been a very smart player, and he generally does not need to be reminded too much on the court.

0:1 behind, this is a situation that Manchester United players never thought of, even when they joked together before the game, they only thought that the goal would be late, and occasionally it was said that they might fall behind first, but no one cared too much at the time. I didn't expect it to come true in the end, which made the Manchester United players unprepared.

The United players were in a state of disarray for the minutes after conceding the goal, which left the Chelsea players in a state of disarray, and the continued attack forced the Reds to regain their chances, and they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to score a few more goals and seal the victory once and for all.

It's not that the Chelsea players are too greedy, it's just that Manchester United's counter-attack is too strong, and many people are worried, so they have to try to build a bigger advantage.

Conte was also very satisfied with the performance of Manchester United. Especially seeing Dai Zhiwei's state, he firmly believes that his tactics have played a role.

The Chelsea players on the field were more involved in attacking, and during this period of time, they were like macho men who had taken aphrodisiacs, frantically breaking through the defense of Herrera and others, and flocking to De Gea, the "beauty".

Tiemoue Bakayoko's midfield was so successful at this point that his passes were often unguarded by the United players and you had no idea where his passes would go.

Of course, this is also due to the active movement of Chelsea players up front, and it is this positive attitude that makes people think that Chelsea are numerically superior to Manchester United, giving Tiemoue Bakayoko and others more options.

Chelsea had more than twice as many shots as United in the last 10 minutes of the first half, but Lukaku was in poor form to take advantage of his chances, missing a few chances to grab a spot in front of goal and let the pass slip past the goal.

It wasn't until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half that the Chelsea players left the pitch in a state of reluctance, but at this time the Blues players were all very excited, and they were all talking and laughing, knowing that this season Chelsea rarely beat Manchester United on the pitch.

In stark contrast to this, the expressions of the Manchester United players, who were 1-0 down, was a bad result for them.

It is ironic that they were debusing themselves before the game about where they were going to celebrate tonight, only to be one goal behind.

At half-time, the Chelsea dressing room was jubilant as all the players were excitedly talking about the highlights of the first half, when they were almost bursting with confidence.

Conte didn't say anything when he saw that the team was playing well. However, he still reminded several defenders that they must strengthen their marking of Dai Zhiwei in the second half, otherwise Dai Zhiwei will seize an opportunity and risk burying all his efforts.

After all, a green superstar like Dai Zhiwei only needs one flash to be fatal.

The Chelsea players said yes in unison, but soon they were back talking about the first half and hoping for a few more goals in the second half.

On the other side, in the Red Devils dressing room, it was the opposite, Mourinho took advantage of the break to quickly set up the tactics of the second half, while Dai Zhiwei was concentrating on wandering the world.

He recognised he didn't play well in the first half but wasn't nervous because he believed he could adjust – even at just 90 per cent he was enough to destroy the Blues' defence.

The 15 minutes of the break passed quickly, and the Red Devils fans at the new Wembley Stadium were almost standing, and the team's poor performance in the first half also affected the mood of the fans.

Chelsea kicked off first in the second half, perhaps because the first half was too sweet, as the Blues came up with an attacking stance, as if they wanted to eat United in one bite.

Hazard picked up the ball on the wing, and finally waited for the opportunity to attack, and couldn't help but be a little excited, and the ball rolled off the sideline without rushing up with a sharp acceleration.

Hazard smiled embarrassedly at his team-mates before running towards Pogba to defence.

At this moment, Pogba suddenly turned back and ran back, and after receiving the sideline ball from Valencia, Pogba lured Hazard with a false swing, and then shook off Hazard with a ball.

With his speed, Pogba may not be able to outpace Hazard, so he was smart not to choose to continue to break through, but to pass the ball to Dai Zhiwei, who received in front, with a cross-kick.

Dai Zhiwei turned and knocked back, and Matic continued to split the side after receiving the ball.

Manchester United's attack is coming!

(End of chapter)