Chapter 472: Fighting Spirit and Reality

The West Ham players regained their fighting spirit and grit, while the Chelsea players were a little incredulous that they had been equalised so quickly.

West Ham only had two attacks in this half, and there was a goal, and it seems that the opponent should not be underestimated, but Kodic only spread his hands with the goal conceded, and expressed his helplessness at the team's defensive mistake.

However, he didn't say anything angrily to his players, even if the team conceded a goal now, it wouldn't be a big deal, counting the second half, there was still an hour of play, and with this rhythm of the game, he believed that it would not be long before his players could continue to score.

Moreover, as soon as the goal was equalised, the Chelsea players were enraged, and when the game resumed, Chelsea pressed hard, and West Ham United also returned to defense again, and the game returned to its previous form, Chelsea laid siege to West Ham United.

But the equaliser gave confidence to the West Ham players, and in this state of excitement, West Ham did not concede more goals in the first half and went into the break with a 1-1 scoreline.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, West Ham walked into the dressing room with a draw and their players walked into the tunnel with a smile and a smile.

The Chelsea players bowed their heads and went back to the dressing room, where the West Ham players encouraged and praised each other, especially Arnautovic, who scored the goal.

"Well done, Tovic!"

"Your header is so beautiful!"

Everyone congratulated Arnautovic, and Arnautovic was also satisfied, because he had worked hard to get it.

That's when West Ham manager David Moyes walked in: "We did a good job in the first half, but don't be too happy because the pressure will be more in the second half, don't concede goals easily in the second half.

We were still defending and counter-attacking in the second half, and if we didn't have a good chance, even if we gave up attacking, we had to defend with all our strength and not concede goals. ”

'When we defend until 80 minutes, the mentality of the players at Chelsea changes, they want to score more, there are players who show themselves more, and that's when we have the chance.

'Let's re-talk about the goal of this game, we want to win and break Chelsea's dream of winning the title unbeaten this season!'

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In the home team's dressing room, although Kodic was not very angry, he still had to express his attitude, and he said with a gloomy face: "What are you doing after the goal, they equalized so quickly!" ”

Chelsea's players sat on the bench in the dressing room, changing their sweat-soaked shirts from the first half as they listened to their head coach.

"It's my responsibility." Christensen stood up and said: "It was my defensive mistake that allowed the opponent to equalize. ”

After motionling for Christensen to sit down, Kodic continued: "It's not a big deal to be scored by the opposition, in fact we should have scored two or three goals in the first half to win the game directly. ”

Kodic then set up the second half: "In the second half you go on to attack with all your might, Rudiger in the second half you show me Mario, Cesar Azpilicueta you fancy Arnautovic, Andreas Christensen you keep an eye on any player who enters our half. ”

"Jones, don't give them any chances in the second half, I need you to break their shells in the second half!"

Jones exclaimed, "Head, I'll do it!" ”

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At half-time, the Chelsea commentator commented: "Okay crowd friends, welcome back, the second half is about to start, the Chelsea players came out of the tunnel first, and the camera on the pitch locked on Jones.

Chelsea's biggest contributor to the season is not recognizable from his expression and will hopefully he can continue his good performances in the second half. ”

The crowd watched Jones on the big screen and all the Chelsea fans shouted: "Jones! Jones! Show them how good you are! ”

There was much of the difference between the second half and the first half, with Chelsea besieging West Ham while the West Ham players continued to shrink their penalty area, albeit the same as the first, but the first-half goal gave them a fighting spirit.

This fighting spirit underpins them against Chelsea and will not diminish until the end of the game.

Compared to the first half, West Ham United were more resolute, and they even shrank back in the first moment, completely passive.

Chelsea were not polite at this time, as they launched an onslaught on West Ham United as soon as the second half began.

After Jones passed the ball into the box on the left flank, it was pushed out by the opposing defender, and William on the perimeter controlled the ball landing, William did not let the ball stay too much, he shook his ankle, and the ball was passed to the position near the arc of the penalty area.

Giroud cut in from behind and hit the ball straight at goal, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back into the box, and Ogbonna cleared the ball out of the box in a panic.

The Chelsea commentator explained: 'In less than two minutes of the second half, Chelsea had a dangerous shot on goal! Olivier Giroud's shot came close to keeping the lead in place, but the crossbar saved West Ham's life. ”

The ball that was cleared didn't go far and fell to Tiemoue Bakayoko, who pressed up, and Chelsea's second wave of attacks began, and Chelsea's attacks came in waves.

'Chelsea's attack is here again, now it's Tiemoue Bakayoko with the ball, on the wing, Alonso with the ball!'

Alonso got rid of it in a row! The West Ham players are completely unable to keep up with the pace of Chelsea! ”

'Alonso has rushed into the box with the ball! Straight into the penalty area, Giroud follows and shoots straight at goal! ”

"Incredible! Such a close distance actually hit the goalkeeper Joe Hart! The ball popped off the line, Chelsea won a corner and West Ham escaped again! ”

'At the start of the second half, Chelsea came close to scoring twice, which was very bad for West Ham, who couldn't keep up with Chelsea's tempo at all, and it was only a matter of time before they were scored. Football commentators watched the situation on the field and analyzed it.

'It looked like the Chelsea players were a little angry at Arnautovic's first-half goal, they started the game with all their might and it worked really well.

Willian was ready to take the corner, with more than a dozen men piled up in the box and West Ham was packed with players from both sides.

After observing the positions of the players on both sides in the penalty area, Willian raised one arm and the ball flew in an arc to the back post.

Giroud, seeing Willian's gesture, circled the back post the moment the ball flew up, and the ball went through the front and centre in the air and headed straight for the back post.

The two agreed at half-time that Giroud, who is 193 centimetres tall, is a very important point of play in Chelsea's set-piece tactics.

Giroud stared at the ball falling in the air, judged the landing point, jumped and shook his head to attack the goal!!

The West Ham goalkeeper was on the lookout for Giroud's header, and Joe Hart punched Giroud's header straight away!

After this corner kick was not completed, the Chelsea defenders also ran back to their own half, and they didn't want to be counter-attacked by the opponent and concede another goal!