Chapter 410: Prelude to the Championship
"Dangerous !!!!!!"
The Chelsea commentator was relieved to see that the ball had not gone in, and continued: 'It was too dangerous, City's attack started, Xavi's shot hit the post, and in the end the post saved Chelsea! ”
Kompany saw that his shot was blocked by the post, and Kompany was also disappointed with his head in his hands, this ball was still too much for the angle!
Manchester City's attack gradually picked up, Kodic stood on the sidelines with a frown, and now that Chelsea's defence was a little shaky, he certainly understood that in a 90-minute game, Chelsea could not afford to leave City without a single chance to threaten.
The opposing team is, after all, one of the most attacking teams in the Europa League this season, and in the 76th minute of the game, he replaced Drinkwater with N'Golo Kante, who is still a relatively attacking player, while Drinkwater is a defensive midfielder, and Kodic continues to strengthen his interception and pressing in midfield.
The most important thing for Chelsea now is to get the game to go faster, as Drinkwater was eager to give each other a high-five with all the players when he came off the pitch, and only jogged to the sideline after referee Pawson intervened, and when he was about to leave the pitch, he stopped to applaud the crowd chanting his name.
This time, the Manchester City players couldn't stand it anymore, and Silva walked directly forward and tried to quickly push Drinkwater off the pitch, but Drinkwater simply stopped and quarreled with Silva.
Everyone can see that as the game time goes on, Manchester City also began to be a little impatient, and finally when Chelsea successfully completed the substitution, the time had reached 78 minutes, and Chelsea spent 2 minutes on the substitution alone, which fully illustrates the attitude of the Chelsea players towards the next game.
When the game resumed, Manchester City continued to organise attacks, but they were under a lot of defensive pressure from Chelsea in midfield, which made their attacking organization in midfield unable to be fluid, and Manchester City's anxious mentality impression, the players gradually lost the patience to organize the attack slowly in the midfield.
The passing game time is also constantly reminding Manchester City's players that their time is really running out, but the more anxious Manchester City is at this time, the more difficult it is to ensure the quality of their attack.
This made Guardiola on the sidelines also very annoyed, but he didn't have a good way, anyway, now the team is going to continue to press the attack, it is better to add more fire, Guardiola replaced Fernandinho and replaced Jesus!
Replacing a midfielder and a winger, Guardiola is going to continue to strengthen the attack, Fernandinho sees that Guardiola chooses to replace himself, and feels a little incredible, he is the most creative midfielder in the current Manchester City team, Fernandinho's importance to Manchester City's attack is obvious to all.
He really didn't understand Pep Guardiola's substitution, but Fernandinho didn't have a chance on the spot, he walked off the pitch from the touchline on the other side, allowing City to make a quick substitution.
The game has come to the 80th minute, so Guardiola has chosen to continue to strengthen the attack, piling up four strikers in Manchester City's frontline! However, this substitution adjustment did not have an immediate effect, but was used by Chelsea to play a counterattack!
Fresh from the substitution, City's ability to control the midfield with one man less in midfield was reduced, and the situation was immediately exploited by Chelsea, and in the 84th minute, De Bruyne passed forward to Gabriel Jesus on the wing, but the new Jesus was not yet in the game, and Alonso scrambled in front of him to break the ball.
Alonso was in control of the ball, he glanced at Jones's position and launched a long ball attack directly, and Jones calmly stopped the ball at his feet.
Jones took a quick look at the situation on both sides and decided to launch this attack himself! He pulled the ball and turned around, carrying Kompany's defense forward, Kompany really couldn't stop Jones, and De Bruyne on the other side hurriedly made up for it and caught Jones with Kompany.
And Otamendi is dragging behind, ready to snatch the ball at Jones' feet at any time, Jones alone has attracted the attention of three Manchester City players, you can imagine Jones's deterrent to Manchester City's defense!
With Gabriel Jesus on the pitch, Sergio Aguero played in the middle, while Gabriel Jesus and Silva occupied positions on either side of the flank, but at this time they were still in the front of Chelsea, and because the number of midfielders was one less, Manchester City's two midfielders did not have time to fill this position at this time.
So he gave Hazard a big gap without defense, Jones saw De Bruyne kill from the other side, and he didn't dare to slack off, he could press Kompany with his physical advantage, but when the opponent's three players stepped forward at the same time, it was still difficult for him to dodge the opponent.
So Jones stabbed his right foot and the ball passed past Kompany, and by the time he turned around, Hazard had already burst along the gap on the flank, running diagonally with the ball towards the Manchester City penalty area!
Seeing this, Kompany didn't care about Jones, and hurriedly made up for the past, Hazard's current direction of advancement, but he could directly take the ball into the Manchester City penalty area to shoot!
On the other side, Kyle Walker took Kompany's place and moved in the middle to keep an eye on Jones! Hazard didn't choose to continue dribbling the ball before Kompany came up, but swept the ball directly into the box!
'Hazard passes, Jones !!!!' The voice of the Manchester City commentator suddenly became nervous!
Jones, who was in the middle, kept Kyle Walker and Otamendi at bay, and in the face of Hazard's pass down the middle, he fell to the ground and shot before them!
"4 to 2!!!! Chelsea extended their lead to a two-goal lead in the 88th minute!!! ”
'With less than three minutes left in the game, I dare to declare Chelsea can win the Carabao Cup right now, it was Jones' third goal of the game, and he continued to break the scoring record this season with a hat-trick in the Carabao Cup final!
Jones and the Chelsea players celebrated wildly after the goal, and even the Chelsea bench players rushed onto the pitch and hugged the players on the pitch.
They couldn't have been more aware of the significance of the goal, they finally didn't have to worry about being turned around by a late goal, and in the last few minutes of the game, it was fair to say that Chelsea had already won the Carabao Cup, and the cameras on the pitch followed the Chelsea players who were frantically celebrating!