Chapter 262: Penalty Kick

"Penalty! Chelsea were awarded a penalty! This is a penalty that Jones won by breaking through Lee Young-pyo in the penalty area to make a tackle foul on the opponent! Let's take a look at the replay, Jones cleverly used the crotch pass after the rhythm pause of the dribble to successfully break through Norton, Norton turned to tackle, but hooked Jones's calf, there is no doubt that this is a penalty, the referee awarded no problem! ”

As the home fans cheered, Jones was pulled to his feet by Pedro, Jones stood from the penalty spot and scored the penalty with ease, and after the goal, the Chelsea players celebrated in a low-key manner, and Carvajal looked helpless on the sidelines.

Kodic excitedly stood up and waved his arm, and Chelsea took the lead at home! The situation will be more favorable for Chelsea, although Chelsea is only half the main team and half substitute lineup, although the first 30 minutes did not play an offensive game, Jones also felt that the form of his teammates has declined, it is difficult to continue a good form for a long time, but Jones also wants to maintain the team's unbeaten record, so he started this game.

After 35 minutes of the first half, the Chelsea players began to slow down the tempo, and Jones had to slow down with his team-mates, and Jones also wanted to get a physical cushion at half-time.

Swansea are playing away, they may not be as physical as Chelsea, they have been led by the nose by Chelsea since the start, completely unable to grasp the initiative of the game, without risking a full pressure, Swansea has been helpless, so the first half ended with Chelsea leading 1-0.

Back in the locker room, Kodic praised the team's performance in the first half, he didn't make more tactical changes, he actually knew that Jones would make more changes to the team on the spot, and he also wanted the team to play creatively with the tactical core concept.

Soccer is more difficult than other sports in that it's almost impossible to apply the fixed coordination pattern of repetitive training in training to the game, like in basketball, the head coach holds a tactical board and tells the players who passes the ball to whom, who is going to run, what kind of tactical coordination to play, football is impossible, because there is more space, there are more players, and the feet are used, not the more flexible, controlled and accurate hands.

Most of the offensive creation on the football field comes from improvisation, which is the most difficult, in the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Swansea strengthened the pressing of the midfield, but they still could not solve a problem, more people on the defending, fewer people on the offensive, even if the defense was successful, how to improve the efficiency of the attack?

Ayew struggled to stand alone up front, and even though Swansea defended successfully in central midfield, it was difficult for football to reach Ayew and Bony!

However, Swansea's defence learned the lessons of the first half, and the backline picked up the spirit, moving more often laterally, focusing on the distance of the overall defence, and trying to compress the space for Chelsea to create a local tear apart.

This also greatly hinders Chelsea's attack, it can be said that Chelsea's attack is affected by the space factor, a striker like Pedro, if he is not given space to rush, his power will be difficult to play, and without a forward to drive the opponent to turn back to the defense, the effect of ground passing will be greatly reduced.

Although Jones can ensure that Chelsea's attack is unimpeded when it moves forward, when it comes to the front line of the attacking end, he will be targeted by opponents! This has curbed Chelsea's attack, which of course would have been ineffective if Eden Hazard and Costa were on the pitch.

Carvajal gave the player a beating at half-time! It's not that the players didn't defend aggressively and weren't good enough, but from the 45 minutes of the first half, their fighting spirit was commendable.

"Your mission isn't just to defend that Jones! If you only need to defend on the pitch, you won't be in the starting lineup! ”

It dawned on the players that they were overly focused on Jones, even if they teamed up with their teammates to defend Jones successfully, but so what? Did they beat Chelsea and help the team build their edge?

No! Jones is an offensive player, an offensive player can fail, there are many failures, as long as he succeeds once, he is a hero! As long as it can create better offensive opportunities for the team! Jones, however, could also return to the halfway line and get involved in defence, with Swansea now almost impossible to penetrate the Chelsea defence.

Even without Jones, Chelsea's back line in this game is not something that Swansea can break through! Judging by Swansea's lack of impact points from the wings, the only attack they can break through the Chelsea defence must be brewing in the middle!

In the 69th minute of the game, Jones dribbled the ball in the front, his rhythm is very slow now, Swansea they don't want to concede the ball anymore, it's like a monolith, Swansea's defense is now very tight, especially after losing the ball, the vigilance is higher, and Jones is also starting to have a headache.

Moxie assisted again, this time Jones completed a pass with him again, and then completed a triangle pass with Segura, Jones forced the right position in front of the penalty area, he couldn't see a reasonable passing point, Van der Horn was coming to block him, he chose to shoot directly from a distance!

Fabianski, who blocked the near corner of the goal, held the ball steadily, and when Jones was turning from the line of the penalty area, Fabianski threw the ball out with one hand, and the football flew to the forehead of Carol, who was at the back of the midfield, and Carroll realized as he watched the football fly towards him: the opportunity has finally come!

He knocked the ball directly sideways with the arch of his foot to Ji Chengyong, who was inserted after the speed, and then ran forward quickly, Moxie was closer to Carroll, and he couldn't go straight back to defense, because he couldn't run faster than a football, so he immediately burst out to intercept Carroll, but he didn't expect him to get close yet.

Carroll passed the ball diagonally back to Ji Chengyong, Jones did not chase back at full speed in this defense, after more than a year of high-level training, his game experience accumulation made him more sensitive to the situation, he noticed that Swansea's back line did not move, the full-back did not step forward to assist, Swansea's attack only relied on Carroll, Ji Chengyong, Ayew.

And he is obviously far away from Carroll, and his full-speed recovery is very likely to be inefficient, on the contrary, even if Chelsea is paying the price of Moxie's interception failure, it also hinders Carroll from continuing to move forward in disguise, so that this time Swansea's attack is still to play more with less.

Carroll took the ball to the front waist area, Cahill blocked him head-on, Carol didn't dare to do more entanglement, he noticed the running position of striker Ayew, and immediately passed the ball straight to Ayew, smart Ayew, the running position is very beautiful!