Chapter 586: Champions League Semifinals (2)
After the start of the game, neither team really showed any desire to attack, but Bayern Munich were more conservative and repeatedly ceded the ball to Chelsea to let them attack.
If Chelsea were able to occasionally catch the opponent's mistakes and score goals in previous games, then in today's game Chelsea did not even have attacking players, four midfielders, except for Frank Lampard, who can now step forward to attack, and there is only one Duff left in the midfield who is operating on the wing.
So Bayern Munich looks conservative on the pitch, while Chelsea looks conservative on paper, and now it's up to which side can burst out with that legendary hidden attribute counterattack.
However, judging from the first 20 minutes of the first half, Bayern Munich's chances of winning are relatively large, because Chelsea's several attacks have not even passed Bayern Munich's midfield, and the previous opponents have five or six attacks to hit Bayern Munich's penalty area.
But now, as soon as the ball reached midfield, it was intercepted by a couple of midfielders, and Chelsea's attack was completely stopped.
Bayern Munich did not attack at all in these ten or twenty minutes, and Bayern Munich was specifically testing Chelsea's attack during these times, and he did not play a counterattack, and he was passively beaten.
Vincent just wants to see if the attack that allows Chelsea to risk their lives can break Bayern Munich's iron bucket formation. This is a special use of one's own strengths to meet the weaknesses of opponents.
Chelsea has no way to press the attack, in their own home stadium, Bayern Munich put on such a posture, this is to force Chelsea to do what they don't like to do, Chelsea is also helpless, Bayern Munich can't retract like this away from home, Chelsea has to retract like this at home, if Chelsea doesn't dare to attack when the opponent shrinks the defense across the line, then it is needless to say that it is a fan, even if Abramovich he will not agree.
So Ranieri is using what he is not good at to meet what Fan Shang is best at, and even if Ranieri shows his housekeeping skills, he may not be able to defeat Fan Shang, let alone now.
After more than 20 minutes of attacking without any progress, Ranieri actually wanted to make adjustments, but his conservative heart made him hesitate again, and he didn't know whether to let Chelsea continue to attack or let them return to their familiar defence.
Just when Ranieri was indecisive, Vincent did not give him this time, in the 23rd minute, Bayern Munich after more than 20 minutes of grievances, they saw Vincent's gestures on the sidelines, no need to blindly defend, Bayern Munich can attack.
In the 25th minute, Bayern Munich midfielder Ze Roberto once again blocked Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard's pass to Crespo in the box.
This time, instead of controlling the ball as before, Ze Roberto passed the ball in an instant to the left side of Ribery, whose role in this counterattack was to speed up the assault, and Ribery himself did not look ahead with the ball. It wasn't until Ribery's eyes saw the line of the penalty area that he slowly began to slow down and prepare to stop.
The defender who followed Ribery was their full-back Bridge, his speed was really not flattering, he should have been on the same starting line as Ribery before, but he was running slower and slower, and finally was overtaken by Ribery.
Ribery was almost near the baseline at this time, but fortunately, Ribery's left and right feet were still relatively balanced, and he crossed the penalty area with his left foot.
Batistuta was pushed by Terry in the air, and his center of gravity was unstable, but the god of war was the god of war, and he stumbled slightly in the air, and stabilized himself in the air with the "fork psoas muscle" that is still strong now.
Then the god of war scored with a header, but the force was still not enough, so he could only watch the goalkeeper hold the ball firmly in his hand.
However, although this counterattack was not successful, this counterattack definitely brought some small shocks to Chelsea, they thought that Bayern Munich's counterattack would play so effectively, the first counterattack could threaten the goal, if it weren't for Terry, this goal made the god of war easy to top, it should be a goal.
This routine works well, especially when Chelsea are forced to attack by Bayern Munich, this kind of counterattack is even more threatening.
Now Chelsea's two full-backs are more awkward, with Bridges and Gallas having no advantage in terms of speed, and Arjen Robben and Ribery can get rid of their defence as long as they have enough space.
These two fullbacks should be Ranieri's biggest failure today, the defense in the positional battle is basically good, but when the defense counterattacks, the speed of the two is obviously not enough, and it is easy to lose control of the two wings of Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich's two wings are changeable and changeable, and it is always possible to bring some good opportunities to Batistuta, although he was closely clinged to Terry and Desailly today, but even if there are two people defending in the semi-peak war, he will also seize one or two in several opportunities.
In the 30th minute, Robben used his speed to pull away Gallas's defense, and then his own kick cut in, and then the ball was saved by the goalkeeper, Batistuta was one foot away from this, Desailly relied on his experience to destroy the goal half a second earlier, or the experience of the veteran saved Chelsea's life.
However, it is said that Desailly has the intention of retiring after this year's European Cup, and for him, this career is enough, basically he has won the championship, and it is time to go home and spend time with his family.
However, this time it is the same problem, the two full-backs were blown up by two wide players of Bayern Munich, which belongs to the style of restraint, if it is two technical forwards, the effect may not be like this.
But there is no if, and now Chelsea's defense is being defeated by Bayern Munich's counter-attack.
In the 37th minute, Robben and Ribery cut inside at the same time in the counterattack, and the most terrible thing was that when the two cut inside to a certain extent, they made a two-to-one combination, and then Ribery completed this shot, but the shot was a little substandard, and the ball was still held by Cudicini.
These three counter-attacks were just the beginning of Bayern Munich's counter-attack in this game, and Bayern Munich had more chances to create goals for the rest of the game.