Chapter 55: My name is Red Scarf
Claude Makelele's choice seemed to most to be the right one, and although Brescia looked to have played a quick counter-attack, Chelsea's other two midfielders had not yet returned to position in time, and the defense at the edge of the box looked a little thin, but their back line was relatively intact. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Among the four defenders, Terry and Gala were closely watching Toney's movements in the penalty area at this time, and the two of them were like a pair of pliers to firmly strangle Toney's receiving route, although Zhang Shu was rushing forward to the left rib position, wanting to enter the penalty area, right back Johnson had returned to the defense in place, and was following Zhang Shu's right rear, if Baggio wanted to pass the ball to Zhang Shu, he could cut inside at any time to intercept the pass.
In the direction of Baggio with the ball, Chelsea left-back Bridge has been close to the middle of the line, even if Baggio wants to break through with the ball, it is difficult to quickly shake off the opponent with his speed, and Makelele, who stays in front of the middle penalty area, can quickly form support for his teammates.
Looking at it this way, Chelsea's defence still looks very solid. If Brescia want to guarantee success, the best way to do so is to get the ball back to Pep Guardiola, who is up front to reorganise the attack.
Baggio looked intent on doing the same, and after continuing to step down the right and it seemed that Bridge was pressing, he did not choose to continue to force his way into the Chelsea defence, but instead stopped and controlled the ball at his feet.
"Good chance!" Seeing that Baggio's dribbling speed decreased, Bridge increased his speed a little more, and the distance between the two sides was closer to each other, and now he could touch the football at the opponent's feet almost as soon as he stretched his foot, and since there was a direct chance to break the ball, he didn't plan to let Brescia's attack start again.
But he clearly underestimated Baggio's ability to control the ball in a small area, and just gently pulled it back with a weight, and the ball dodged Bridge's toes like a mischievous elf. Baggio then turned around and stepped on the ball with his right foot that pulled the ball, leaning back to block Bridge.
"Tsk, it's a pity... Bridge, who was behind Baggioka, thought to himself that he felt a little sorry for not being able to break the ball directly. But this thought only flashed in his mind for a moment, and soon vanished.
Although he couldn't get the ball, the opponent has been pasted by himself, and now he is forced to turn his back to the goal, even if he temporarily protects the ball, but there is no other way to continue the attack except to pass the ball back, and from this point of view, his defense can be regarded as a successful defense.
So he stepped up his efforts behind his back, hoping to break the deadlock between the two sides with strength.
Bridge's approach paid off, and under the pressure of his body, Baggio could no longer guarantee the ball at his feet and could only pass the ball out.
However, the direction of his pass was not to the back, but to the side, and the ball slowly rolled to the sideline, and Martinez, who was inserted at high speed before he was close to going out of bounds, stretched out his foot, and the football rolled towards the Chelsea bottom line.
During the time when Baggio was protecting the ball, Martinez had already run up from the backfield, and his speed did not decrease after the ball, like a speeding sports car, which instantly passed Bridge, who was still holding Baggio's jersey, and chased towards the football.
Now there are no other defenders in front of him.
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"Good chance, Baggio's side! Martinez! It's time to cross! ”
Watching Martinez catch up with the football, Fabio raised his voice and he seemed to smell the goal.
'Can Brescia get a goal? Tony is in the position! ”
There is no hiding his tendencies, as an Italian commentator, Fabio is relatively neutral when commenting on Serie A, but in the European arena, he is on the side of Brescia without suspense.
"Pass the ball!" Seeing that Martinez did not cross at the first time after catching up with the ball, but continued to cut inside along the bottom line to the middle, he cried out a little anxiously.
As a well-coordinated pair, Galla and Terry made a decision almost instantaneously, without any exchange, Terry began to move closer to the wing, he stood near the corner of the six-yard box, cut off Martinez's route to continue the inside, and Gala stuck in front of Tony to prevent Tony's grab.
Makelele also retreated to the penalty area, at this time it no longer makes much sense for him to stay in front of the big box, the defense in the box is tight, and the most important thing is to assist Galla to defend the center forward of Brescia at this time.
At this time, Martinez suddenly passed the ball.
Seeing Martinez make a pass, the eyes of the Chelsea players in the box were fixed on the football, only waiting for the ball to fly out and once it entered their own defensive range, they stretched out their feet to block.
The ball did fly out, but instead of flying into the penalty area, it was like a return pass away from the goal.
"Inverted triangle pass?" Makellele's eyes widened as the ball flew towards the top of the box behind him, and although he couldn't see what was going on behind him because of his position, he had just run from that place, and there shouldn't have been any Brescia players there.
"Baggio was pestered by Bridge, Tony and Gala watched, Zhang Shu had Johnson with him... He thought to himself, "Oh no, is it Di Biagio who plugged in?" ”
Makellele, who was feeling bad, slowed down and wanted to turn around to look behind him, but as soon as he turned around, he collided with a man.
Looking up, it turned out to be Glenn Johnson, who was supposed to follow Zhang Shu, and a little farther away, standing at the front of the big penalty area, Zhang Shu raised his right leg high and made a volley to meet the ball.
"Bang!" The contact between the football and the instep made a loud sound, and Makelele only felt a white light pass in front of his eyes, and he instinctively stretched his neck, wanting to use his face to block the light of this imposing spiritual power, but even if he had used all his strength, he was still a few centimeters away from sitting on the ground.
Almost instantly, the ball flew over Makelele's head, and on his bald head, he could even clearly feel the wind of the ball breaking through the air and slashing through his scalp.
After a second, Makelle lowered his head.
He didn't look back at the result of Zhang Shu's shot, and the momentary silence of the singing in the stands had already told him the answer.
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"Zhang! Shot! As Zhang Shu shot, Fabio lowered his voice and roared in a low voice.
Just listening to his voice, the audience seemed to be able to see his face clenched on his back molars and the green tendons on his neck - although as a narrator who could only make a voice on the television, few viewers had seen what Fabio looked like.
But this deep voice quickly completed the transformation from low to high, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!!! Almost as soon as the ball flew into the goal, Fabio roared.
"Zhang! Sheet! Zhang's long-range shot broke through the Chelsea goal! In the face of Zhang's powerful volley, Cudicini could barely react! Zhang stood up again! Pretty!!! ”
He shouted loudly, more passionately than ever.
'Despite the large number of stars that Chelsea bought with money, Brescia is still undaunted! The stars who were worth tens of millions of pounds in this game looked powerless against Brescia's civilian defence! And now this small club from the Apennine Peninsula has poked a hole in Chelsea's chest like David defeated Goliath! Before the game, Zhang said that money does not bring victory, and he was right. This is football in its purest form of victory in the face of more and more money erosion! ”
"Brescia are now top of the league and this small club has an annual budget of only 1% of Chelsea's, which may be unthinkable in England, but being able to get such a small club to the top of the table is the reason why Serie A can be called a mini-World Cup! Proud Englishmen should know by now that football lessons are not something that can be played with money alone! ”
Fabio's words drew cheers from the Italian audience in front of the television.
Now the small club from Serie A is leading the English nouveau riche who has long occupied the headlines in the newspaper by relying on big buying this summer, and this reality makes many Italian viewers feel very cool and enjoyable.
Although many of them are not Brescia fans, strictly speaking, even if Brescia beat Chelsea does not have much to do with them, but this time does not prevent them from "rubbing their sense of superiority".
Compared with the Italian audience, the pride of the Chinese audience is much more justified.
"Zhang Shu opened the scoring for Brescia and they played very well in this game, not only in attack, but also in defense when they didn't give the opponent any chances, which was probably something that most of us didn't expect before the game. Brescia gave us a pleasant surprise! ”
Huang *Jian*Xiang said happily, "Zhang Shu's 'wealth can't win' before the game now seems to be more and more hopeful to become a reality." There are 20 minutes left in the game, and I hope Brescia will continue to play steadily like this and keep the win! ”
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"Why are you here!" When Makelle recovered from the disappointment of conceding the ball, the first thing he did was to yell at Johnson, who had just knocked him down, "Didn't you just follow that Chinese!" ”
Glenn Johnson, who lost the ball, was also angry, and he yelled back directly, "What's wrong with me recovering the penalty area from the side according to the tactics!" The edge of the penalty area is where you are responsible! Don't put the blame on me! ”
Both he and Claude Makelele have only come to Chelsea this season, and neither is much older than the other, so naturally there is no need to be polite to the other.
What's more, he is not throwing the pot around, just now Zhang Shu inserted himself from the ribs into the penalty area, and he did have the responsibility to defend, but then Zhang Shu withdrew again, and the central defender in the penalty area was hoisted away, so as the fullback on the other side, he naturally has the responsibility to reclaim the penalty area to make up for the defense.
According to the principle of zone defense, his defensive areas are the wings and the ribs, and he takes care of the penalty area when the defense is weak, and the front of the big box is not where he needs to pay attention. And according to the division of labor in marking defense, Zhang Shu is also the task of Makelele, will he be kind enough to help him, will it all be lost to himself?
Glenn Johnson felt that Makelele's inexplicable squirting of himself was simply unreasonable.
And Makelele is even more depressed, the defense line he faced just now is Martinez's side, he doesn't know what is behind him at all, in the case of Johnson and Zhang Shu before, he continued to retreat to the penalty area after holding the middle is a normal choice, who knows that Zhang Shu will run into the penalty area and then exit? And Johnson even let Zhang Shu go like this, can you blame yourself for such a defensive hole?
Both of them felt that they were right, and soon you and I were pointing fingers at each other.
"Did I wipe your butt less? Who helped you fill in when you went up to assist? ”
"You can't blame me for not being able to assist? If you have the ability, you can go up too! ”
Makellele's Johnson's quarrel Mazzoni looked in his eyes and he looked at the Chelsea dugout, and Lajli didn't have the slightest intention of stepping up to stop it. -- The "tinkerer" is not the kind of coach who can forcefully suppress the locker room, not to mention that compared to these players who were bought by Abu with a lot of money, his status in the chairman's heart is much lower.
Mazzoni shook his head, thankfully that would never happen to his team.
The goal was actually the result of a mistake between the two players, Chelsea have changed too many players this season, and the new season has just begun, and it is inevitable that there will be no tacit cooperation.
That's why Mazzoni is so confident about the game.
As Zhang said, Chelsea's players are strong, but Chelsea – at least Chelsea now – are not strong enough.
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Zhang Shu didn't see the scene of Makelele and Johnson arguing behind him, and even if he did, he wouldn't stay there to watch the excitement.
Because he has more important things to do.
The T-shirt prepared in the locker room before the game finally came in handy, to be honest, playing with a T-shirt under the jersey was actually quite uncomfortable, he didn't score in the first half, and Zhang Shu was almost ready to take it off at halftime.
It's a good thing he didn't do that, otherwise he would have lost such a good opportunity to have fun, and he doesn't know how long he would regret it.
Seeing the football fly into the goal, Zhang Shu ran directly in the direction of the corner flag, and took off his jersey while running.
So the eyes of the Chelsea fans in the stands and the cameras on the sidelines saw the words on it.
"Mr. Abu, I'll save you the winning!"
Underneath is written a line of small letters in a marker of another color,
"No thanks, my name is Red Scarf."