Chapter 503: The Game of Substitutes

On April 29, the 36th round of the 2017/2018 Premier League season began!

The game is about to start at 4pm, "Swansea suffered a five-goal defeat at the foot of Manchester City in the last round, and they have drawn three and lost two in the last five rounds without a win, and are in 17th place in the table with 33 points, four points above Southampton and Stoke City in the relegation zone.

Fernandez and Bartley are both injured, Carvajal could give up the three-centre-back tactic, and Narcin and Renato Sanchez could also miss out due to injury.

Chelsea's last game against Huddersfield Town won 5-0 to win the Premier League three games ahead of schedule, and Chelsea will be on the bench in this game, which is key to Swansea's relegation.

However, I think Chelsea's advantage is still clear, and even Chelsea, who have come off the bench, could also take the three points away. ”

In the discussion of the fans, the game began, and Jones Hazard and others sat on the bench and watched the game carefully.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Chelsea striker Tiemoue Bakayoko's long-range effort gave Chelsea the lead, but Swansea equalised just three minutes into the second half, and every remaining game was important for Swansea as they were relegated.

Subsequently, the game fell into anxiety, the two sides went back and forth, but neither could break through the opponent's goal, and the score remained 1-1 until the 70th minute.

Two of Chelsea's strikers, Willian and Pedro, squandered a couple of goalscoring chances throughout the game and seemed to have forgotten their shooting boots on goal.

So, in the 71st minute, after seeing Willian hit the plane with another shot, Kodic turned his head and glanced at the bench, and said to Segura: "Segura, go warm up!" ”

Segura was in good spirits, immediately took off his coat, and began to move and warm up on the sidelines.

After 10 consecutive league games without playing, Segura came off the bench, and Kodic's intention was to see if he could take advantage of the fact that they were unfamiliar with Segura and catch their opponents off guard.

Kodic believes that Segura will not be weak in the face of a shot on goal, and the chances of scoring are quite good.

Pedro got the ball, Swansea players surrounded him, Segura was in an unguarded space, and Pedro didn't know what to do?

Pedro took the ball in the opposite direction of the goal, freed up space, flashed the angle, and carried the opposing defender behind the crowd, and passed the ball to the space of Segura's running line in the left penalty area with a second of left-footed pass.

Segura ran towards the ball's rolling path and it was purely an undisturbed shot that was no different from a solo goal.

The two defenders who were close together could only run desperately towards the middle of Segura and the goal, hoping that Segura would stop the ball and delay the time so that they would have a chance to block the ball.

Swansea's goalkeeper also rushed back to the left of the goal, ready to save Segura's shot.

However, it is already too late, the ball is always faster than the person.

Segura had already rushed into the penalty area, and without stopping the ball, he shot directly at the ball, and the football flew into the near corner goal in an instant.

The balls are all in the net, and the goalkeeper has just jumped up, how can he save it?

In the 78th minute of the game, Pedro assisted Segura to score his second goal of the game.

"Ah......h

With a shout, Segura turned and rushed to the Chelsea crowd and shook his fist in celebration.

In the stands, the Swansea fans were still wide-eyed and holding their heads in their hands, feeling a little incredulous, they were going to lose, they were going to be relegated!

"Chelsea, Chelsea!"

"We are invincible!"

"Go back to London! You are not welcome here! ”

Segura is 27 years old, his career is on track and he is almost set, he has nothing to pursue to play in the Premier League, it would be better to score goals.

Hearing the shouting and scolding of the fans, Segura did not scold them, of course, he could not scold so many people alone.

Segura just put a smile on his face, put his hands to his ears, and made a provocative gesture of listening, signaling the fans to scold louder, he couldn't hear.

This naturally made the Swansea fans in the stands even angrier and scolded even louder.

But Segura doesn't care, all he can do is score more goals against their team and celebrate in front of them when he scores.

However, Chelsea did not score after that, but was scored by Swansea on a counterattack, but in the end, although Chelsea did not win, but in the end, Chelsea drew 2-2 with Swansea and maintained their unbeaten season!

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After the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Liverpool once again saw what Chelsea are capable of, and Liverpool began to review themselves.

Of course, Liverpool are optimistic about progressing to the final, and in their opinion, Chelsea's first leg was the most lucky!

Now that Liverpool are taking away games seriously, it is Chelsea who are worried in the media, and if Swansea themselves had not wasted their chances, Chelsea would have suffered their first defeat of the season.

Moreover, Chelsea exposed a big problem in this game, and that is exhaustion!

Chelsea's astonishing performance is that all four sides go hand in hand, winning the Carabao Cup and the league, reaching the FA Cup final and possibly reaching the Champions League final.

However, the biggest shortcoming of Chelsea's team lineup was also revealed at this time, and Chelsea's physical fitness, which was almost a set of lineups, had a huge problem!

In the match against Swansea, Chelsea were all substitutes, on the one hand, because the league has already won the championship, and on the other hand, the whole team is now out of fitness and must rest in order to cope with the second leg against Liverpool.

Although Chelsea's main force has now been confirmed to play in the second leg of the showdown, Chelsea's fitness crisis will not ease, which is the biggest concern of the London media for Chelsea.

Kodic naturally knows the fatigue of the team, but he can't help it, the team's current squad is like this, and the four-line battle is also a last resort, whether it is the league or the Champions League, the FA Cup is played to the end, to say which one to give up, it is impossible.

After the match with Swansea, on the afternoon of May 2, the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Liverpool's away game against Chelsea will begin.

In this game, Kodic is naturally the main force, Kodic hopes that the team can enter the final, so that he only has two finals to play, and the remaining two league games do not matter if they win or lose, which can alleviate the physical problems of the players.