Chapter 221: Backwardness

Jones shook his head again, not thinking too much, but speeding up to send the ball out, this time he picked a lob and the ball flew over the wall, and Hazard rushed from behind to jump and head at the goal.

The stands resounded with the exclamations of Manchester United fans, and in front of goal, Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea rushed over, jumped high, and grabbed the football in his hands with his long arms in the air.

Eden Hazard's shot went nowhere in vain.

"Well done!" Manchester United's home commentators shouted loud praise.

De Gea held the ball tightly, his eyes vigilantly stared at the unwilling Hazard in front of him, Hazard saw that De Gea did not relax at all, and he still retreated.

United then went on the attack, with David De Gea handing the ball to his team-mates and Ashley Young dribbling up the left flank into the Chelsea half, before crossing for Lukaku to take the lead around 10 yards before Gary Cahill could intercept and shoot home.

Thibaut Courtois was blocked by his team-mates and, despite his desperate efforts to leap forward to the line, was unable to block the sweeping goal to make it 1-0 for United to take the lead, Lukaku's ninth goal of the season, six of them in the league and four in his last five games.

Manchester United's commentators were shouting excitedly, and the media called Manchester United like Chelsea's nemesis before the game, breaking Chelsea's leadership, and now Jones' face was slightly gloomy, he didn't speak, just walked past the excited Red Devils players and stood silently on the kick-off point in the center circle, waiting for the restart to continue the game.

The center circle restarted, the Manchester United players celebrating the goal finally dispersed, each returned to their places, Jones with his hands on the waist stood at the kick-off point, silently looked at Hazard, Hazard looked at Costa who was standing later, and immediately pushed the ball after the referee sounded and handed the ball to Jones.

'Chelsea's Eden Hazard kicks off, he pushes the ball at his feet and he gives it to Jones!' Chelsea's commentary was on the high.

Jones did not pass back, but took the ball forward, Manchester United did not dare to be careless, Smaling and Bailly almost immediately besieged it, seeing that Jones also stopped this side, Jones did not dare to hesitate, accelerated at his feet, knocked the ball with his left foot, took a step forward and squeezed around, hooked the ball with his right foot, the football flew over the head of another person, Jones shortly ran past the opponent's side, stopped the ball on his chest and turned in the opposite direction, just shook Jones who pounced.

"Jones breaks with the ball! He made a breakthrough! His breakthrough is beautiful, this is the artist on the pitch. ”

Someone was running behind him, there was a red-clad figure flashing in front of him, and the corners of Jones' lips twitched, because Manchester United's jersey was red, and now Jones, who was running adrenaline-pumping, reacted that it was time to pass! With a blow at his feet, the ball crossed the air in a blurry line and landed in front of a blue shadow.

"Cesc Fabregas!" Someone shouted loudly, and then the audience resounded with sighs of joy and fierce boos.

Jones blinked helplessly, but the ball didn't go in! "Good shot!" Fabregas patted Jones on the back from behind.

Jones said embarrassedly: "A pass that doesn't score a goal is not good. ”

"No, it's a good shot." Fabregas laughed, seriousness written all over his face.

In the 27th minute of the first half, it was another quick break from Jones, this time on the right to burst into the Red Devils' defensive area, and then he cut inside and passed the ball, and Costa fired straight into the box, this time over the crossbar.

After the pass, Jones and Jones collided together, Jones fell to the ground, the referee blew a timeout, and then he called the team doctor into the field, Manchester United team doctor and assistant ran into the field with a medical kit, and Jones remained on the field after examination and treatment.

The game continued, and a few minutes later, in the 33rd minute, Hazard received a pass from a team-mate and was ready to play a link-up, but there was an undue mistake in the return pass, and United's Marcus Rashford intercepted the ball midway through and burst into the edge of the Blues box when he volleyed with his left foot, this time Courtois reacted quickly and flew straight to block the ball, and the ball was held by the goalkeeper.

Thobaut Courtois began to throw the ball vigorously, Kante received the ball and passed it straight to Jones, Jones broke through with the ball, passed to the right side of the front, Hazard received the ball and volleyed backwards, De Gea saved the ball again, and two minutes later, Manchester United's Smalling passed, Rashford hit the left side of the Chelsea penalty area, failed to press the angle and went over the crossbar.

Chelsea, who are now behind, also began a fierce counterattack after being attacked several times, this time Jones's cross was very accurate and fell straight to Costa's feet a meter, but unfortunately Costa's diagonal shot in the penalty area was wide of the goal.

Costa shook his head, gave Jones a thumbs up and then retreated, Jones gave his team-mates a little more to slow down, and United launched another attack, and Rashford, who was quite excited today, received a through ball from his team-mate Herrera and fired again from the left side of the box, but this time the ball was still high over the woodwork.

One minute later, there was another major mistake in Chelsea's backfield pass, and Marcus Rashford, who had not yet withdrawn, had almost become a one-on-one chance after getting the ball with an extremely quick reaction, but his shot was a step slower, which allowed Cahill, who pounced in time, to leap to block the ball in time.

It was the Chelsea backline that gave the players at the back a big breather.

"Chance, chance, Rashford's one-on-one, one-on-one! He went straight to the door! What's the matter, this ball was actually blocked! The Manchester United commentator looked incredulous.

And Rashford, who missed the opportunity to kill, looked helpless, Jones was also panting, and kept looking at his teammates with murderous eyes, do you want to find death or find death! We're fighting to the death in the front, and you're making mistakes in the back!

"Jones's eyes are terrible!" Hazard and Costa beside him said.

"Huh! I'm just as angry about how our backline keeps making mistakes today! ”

Hazard laughed dryly, there was a serious mistake in the back line just now, although Costa didn't show it, but he must have exploded!

I don't know if it was because of the psychological pressure caused by the successive mistakes, or something else, but in the next few minutes Chelsea were pressed by Manchester United, and the ball flew back and forth in the Chelsea half, and there was no chance to pass it across the half.

This can't go on like this! Jones also began to get anxious, he decided to retreat by himself, first get the ball and then talk about the rest, fortunately, this time, Christensen made a meritorious service, Christensen actually used a header to resolve the opponent's attack and passed the ball out, Jones, who received the ball, accelerated into the Manchester United half, he flashed the opponent's break and then went around the middle to the sideline and picked up the ball at his feet, and the ball passed to the feet of Hazard.