Chapter 351: Brighton's Counterattack
Hughton was regretful on the sidelines, such fans didn't score, it was unreasonable, although the goal didn't score, but Hughton realized that it was right to play this way, so they would have a chance to play.
Hughton immediately walked to the sidelines and motioned for his players to continue playing like this, chasing the score back as soon as possible, and then waiting for an opportunity to overtake.
Seeing that Brighton seemed to have the intention of counter-killing, Kodic also walked to the sidelines, signaling the Chelsea players to press forward, and the back line should pay attention to creating offside, and must press up on the attack, so that Brighton is powerless to counterattack.
Although this is not their home stadium, they also have to be anti-away, must use the attack to beat the opponent dare not counterattack, Azpilicueta began to direct the team to start attacking, Chelsea players also immediately pressed forward frantically, and Azpilicueta immediately sent the football to the feet of midfielder N'Golo Kante.
Brighton striker Hamid pounced, N'Golo Kante immediately stepped up to the wing, and then quickly fed the ball to Moses on the wing, who quickly sent it to Eden Hazard in front of him as soon as he received it.
Chelsea's attack was fast, as soon as Hazard caught the football, he squeezed strongly into the middle and began to cut inside, Brighton's players suddenly became nervous, Stephens pounced on Hazard who walked towards the middle, and at the same time, Brighton's full-back Duffy immediately ran to the middle, and the two guarded Hazard.
Just when the two were sandwiching Hazard, they didn't notice Alonso on the wing, he was quickly moving forward, Hazard already knew, just when Duffy pounced, Hazard immediately buckled the ball to the side, and the ball quickly slid under Duffy's feet and rolled to the bottom line on the side of the field.
In the exclamation of the Brighton fans, Alonso quickly chased the football, the Brighton players were shocked, Duffy turned and pounced on Alonso, while the central defender Goldsson pounced quickly and headed towards Duffy's position, he could not let Alonso cut inside.
The fans on both sides of the pitch were very nervous, both staring closely into the stadium, and when Goldsson was about to pounce, Alonso on the wing immediately swung his right leg and passed the ball into the box.
Beforehand! Alonso crossed the ball to the forward post, and Jones immediately rushed in from outside the box and quickly cut in to the front post, where he squeezed Hamburg defender Dunk behind him.
The football flew quickly to the front point, Jones quickly inserted it, and when the ball arrived, Jones didn't need to jump in the face of the ball, and he rushed up quickly and shook his head directly to the ball, and threw the football to the near corner of the goal.
Stephens behind Jones rushed up and hit Jones's body straight up, he wanted to knock Jones out of the way to affect the balance of Jones's body, but he didn't succeed, after Jones threw the football out, Stephens crashed into Jones, Jones's body fell rapidly, but now everyone's eyes did not fall on Jones, but all stared at the football that flew towards the goal.
Matthew Ryan jumped high, his body flew out, and his outstretched palm knocked the ball out of the line, Matthew Rui secured the Brighton goal, the ball did not go in, and the Chelsea fans immediately put their heads in their hands, and their faces were full of disbelief.
"Pounced! Matthew Ryan pounced!! Oh my God, Jones' header was blocked, it's incredible! The Chelsea commentator made no secret of his surprise.
"Chelsea's attack this time is very fast, and the cooperation is quite tacit, the effect is very good, but the luck is a little worse, it seems that Chelsea's attack is really strong, in the absence of several main players, there is still a good attacking power, Brighton seems to be unable to withstand it."
"Oops!!" Chelsea fans immediately erupted in a sigh from the stands, the ball was simply unlucky to go in.
Brighton's fans were worried, and they were very upset when Chelsea almost doubled their scores.
At this time, Hutton immediately yelled loudly on the sidelines, yelling at the Brighton players, he could not let his players be depressed, otherwise the game would be over now.
Corners, Chelsea corners.
Eden Hazard immediately drove the ball into the penalty area, and Jones was arguing with the defenders in front of him, but the ball was too high and obviously headed for the big back point, and the ball flew through the box and flew directly out of the touchline on the other side, and the Chelsea attack came to an end.
Brighton's men were relieved and they immediately launched an attack, with Stephens swaying past Tiemoue Bakayoko in the 25th minute of the first half before slotting the ball straight to Mahi in front of him, who shook off Rudiger and volleyed straight into the corner of the box, but the ball went just wide of the crossbar.
In the twenty-fourth minute of the first half, Hazard quickly rushed on the wing, but was strongly blocked by Brighton, he had to quickly knock the ball across the middle, Kante in the middle did not stop the ball, directly picked up the ball, the ball quickly crossed the Brighton defense, the Brighton defender did not react, so that Jones got a single chance.
Chelsea fans cheered happily when they saw Jones enter the opponent's position alone, but this time Jones's shot was directly out of the goal, and after the football was missed, Jones was annoyed, such a single opportunity he didn't grasp, it simply shouldn't be.
In the thirtieth minute of the first half, Stephens cut off Bakayoko's ball in the midfield, Stephens quickly broke through with the ball and rushed to the Chelsea defense, at this time, Chelsea's back line as a whole retreated, giving Stephens space, and Stephens, who was advancing at high speed, did not waste this opportunity, and quickly volleyed, and the football flew to the Chelsea goal.
Goalkeeper Caballero behaved normally, flew up to save the ball from the bottom line, corner, Brighton won a corner, Zutner drove the corner, the football flew quickly to the Chelsea penalty area, in the penalty area Hamid jumped high to push the ball to the goal, and the football flew directly into Caballero's arms.
Caballero, who had the ball, immediately ran to the side and threw the football to Azpilicueta in front, Azpilicueta took the ball and quickly dribbled forward, Azpilicueta, who wore the captain's armband, broke through with the ball from the wing, Gross quickly pounced, Azpilicueta changed direction before Gross pounced, and led the ball to the middle.
Prober followed up with a sliding tackle and slotted his extended right foot towards the ball at Azpilicueta's feet, who calmly picked it up with his right foot, and then he dodged Probo's sliding tackle with a sharp leap.
There was a quick round of applause in the stadium, Azpilicueta's action was indeed beautiful, Azpilicueta, who had just landed, did not stop, and passed the ball directly to the left wing, Prober just saved, and the gap on this side was very large.
Alonso easily caught the ball and quickly rushed towards Brighton's penalty area, Xerlotto crossed in front of him, Alonso pretended to break through to the side, but in fact he went to the middle Xerlotto saw through his intentions and directly blocked the route of the inchement, Alonso tried to break through many times, but failed to succeed.