Chapter 289: Chelsea After Earnest

While the Chelsea players were still sighing for the goal, Forster quickly kicked the ball away, and when would it be better not to counter-attack? After Southampton's goal kick, they were back in attack, and in the 36th minute, the ball passed to the feet of Gabbiadini, who had been watching the play on the left flank, and as he rarely picked up the ball in this game, it was always easy, and most of the Chelsea players leaned to the right, at this time he was in front of him when he got the ball.

At this time, Chelsea also found a problem, immediately retreated, Hojbjerg directly passed the long-distance ground ball to Raymond who retreated in the middle, Prowse could not return to his position quickly, but Bakayoko has been confidently observing the situation in front of him at the back, and when the ball was passed by Hoibe, he quickly approached Raymond.

Hey saw that Bakayoko was ready to break the ball, and at this time he quickly stopped, for fear that Chelsea would fight back.

However, the next scene was an eye-opener for Heybee and the players on the field, Raymond also stretched out a kick at the same time as Bakayoko's kick, because he was much taller than Bakayoko, and he was standing in front of Bakayoko, his toes touched the football before Bakayoko.

The ball flew from Raymond's feet, and Raymond made a quick turn to break through, a beautiful turn! Raymond had a bigger ball, so both he and N'Golo Kante had a chance to get the ball, but Raymond's pace had picked up and he managed to catch the ball before N'Golo Kante.

Facing Kante, who was about to break the ball, Raymond suddenly stepped on the bike, so that Kante did not dare to get off easily, for fear that he would be passed by Raymond if he was not careful.

For a moment he forgot that even if he didn't kick, he couldn't stop the opponent's breakthrough, if he tackled decisively in advance, maybe there was still hope of breaking the ball, but now in the face of this breakthrough, Raymond broke through successfully, or broke through from the left side of Kante, and directly stuffed Prowse who retreated.

Prowse stopped the ball and immediately passed the ball, only to see him leaning on Carragher's toes, and the outside of his right foot hooked back to pass to Gabbiadini on the front line, Christensen and Azpilicueta did not expect Prowse to pass the ball in this unconventional way in front of the penalty area, and as a result, Gabidini easily received the pass in the penalty area, Cahill lost the opportunity to defend, and could only resist Gabbiadini to prevent him from turning easily, but he still underestimated the opponent's striker, Gabbiadini dodged Cahill with a duffled step and shot before he could pounce.

Thibaut Courtois had already made a save, but found that he had passed the ball to Raymond, who was speeding down the left flank, and Gabbiadini put his team's interests ahead of his own, and Raymond easily pushed the ball into the net.

He was about to start celebrating, but he heard the referee's whistle and the gesture of pointing his hand at the Chelsea goal, Raymond subconsciously turned his head to look at the linesman, and sure enough, he was blown offside, and then the referee ignored the protests of the Southampton players and kept making gestures to the Southampton players to return to the field.

In the end, the Southampton players protested to no avail, feeling that the pressure on the referee was too much, so they retreated to their positions.

At this time, the ball was returned to Chelsea, at this time Chelsea's players were all angry, just now almost let Southampton score at home, after the goal was blown invalid, Chelsea began to continue to suppress Southampton, but at this time Southampton defenders have tightened their defense, in the face of dense defense, Chelsea is not much effective method, under the opponent's full retreat.

Southampton's half was unusually crowded, and there were only two players watching over Jones, not counting the help defenders roaming around him, and as soon as Jones made a move, more than three defenders immediately posted up.

Attacking and defending, both sides were desperate to practice attack and defense at half-time, and time quickly ran out, and the first half of the game ended with a score of 1-0.

Back in the dressing room, Kodic first expressed his dissatisfaction with Southampton's blown goal and said: "If it wasn't offside, the opponent would have drawn, I want you to remember, never be careless, the game is not over, keep me 100% attention!" You know? The crowd whispered.

"Okay, Southampton are going to defend it, but it doesn't matter, as long as they still want a point in the second half, they will definitely find a way to score, and then we will have a chance to blow them up! Jones, you have to pay more attention to the change of position with Hazard and Costa in the second half, and I hope you can switch positions with both sides in this game, so that you can pose a greater threat to the opponent!

Costa, you're going to have to go on offense in the second half, attack, you know? I didn't put you on the pitch to defend, and Cesc Fabregas has to be aggressive forward and be able to maintain enough consistent attack for the team.

Got it! Our goal is to win so that we don't regret this season! 'Kodic is a morale boost for the Chelsea players.

As soon as the referee's whistle blew, Chelsea reverted to attacking form, putting high pressure on their opponents as soon as the second half began, allowing them to collapse prematurely before they had time to catch their breath, a trick that was a good use and was one of the magic tactics of Chelsea's league title triumph last season.

This game was played, which suddenly made Southampton a little uncontrollable, Jones was no longer satisfied with swimming in the front court, and he frequently cooperated with Cesc Fabregas and Hazard to switch positions and cross, which caused a lot of trouble to Maya Yoshida and Stephens, who defended him.

Chelsea's two wings can be pulled to the middle to play, which makes Maya Yoshida and Stephens not know whether it is with Jones or a player in the middle of the defense, Jones has a good tacit understanding with the two, and has created a lot of opportunities.

In the fifty-second minute of the second half, Jones took the ball and Hazard switched positions, Maya Yoshida followed, while Stephens defended Hazard, Costa quickly stepped forward, Jones attracted the attention of Maya Yoshida and Wesley with the ball, and when Jones feigned to break through the middle, Wesley and Maya Yoshida quickly surrounded Jones.

Jones had expected them to come to this trick, and seeing them surrounding, Jones quickly handed the ball to Hazard, who was waiting on the wing, and Hazard crossed directly without waiting for the ball to stop.

Cesc Fabregas, who followed up in the middle, did not fight for a header, but he also interfered with Romeu's header, and the ball bounced to the feet of Costa in the Southampton penalty area, at which point Costa did not think about passing, but met the football with a left-footed volley.

It wasn't Costa's usual foot, but it was also very powerful, and it was pumped directly into Stephens' back, Stephens was suddenly hit hard and his body was still a little staggering, and although Chelsea's combination did not break the goal, it also sounded the alarm at the Southampton backline.