Chapter Eighty-Eight: Thunder Rises on the Ground
"The Sunderland team is going to make a second personnel adjustment, and Nan Xiao replaced the team's defensive defender Yedinak with Zhang Xiuwei, is this to continue to strengthen the attack?"
Just a minute after Sunderland's substitution, Chelsea used a second substitution, with Barcelona veteran Pedro coming on to replace Victor Moses, who had contributed a goal for the team. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Chelsea should be back to a back four now, Azpilicueta is back at right-back, Hazard and Willian are back to play two wing-backs, and Pedro is in the center forward position to form a 441 formation, so that although the offensive ability is somewhat weakened, but the defense will not suffer too much loss." Zhang Lu made a timely analysis after the Chelsea substitution.
Faced with the situation that the opponent played one less, the Sunderland team finally showed their vicious fangs, Nan Xiao's substitution adjustment is actually a go, Zhang Xiuwei's ability and Yedinak are still a certain gap, his only ability to be stronger than the Australian international may only be in the ability to pass and control the ball, just Nan Xiao just wants to take advantage of Zhang Xiuwei's advantage in this point, because he wants to let the team firmly control the midfield from this moment, even if it is to sacrifice a certain defensive ability.
Sunderland team, which gradually controlled the midfield, also began to be like a fish in water in attack, Murphy and Carlos such impactful strikers once they can get strong support from the midfield, it will cause very great pressure on the opponent's backline, due to the increased pressure on the backline, Chelsea's two full-backs Eden Hazard and Willian will return to their team's backline from time to time to help defend, and under such a trade-off, their pressure on the Sunderland team will be further reduced. Sunderland, in turn, can focus more on the attacking end.
In the last fifteen minutes of the game, Sunderland could be said to have formed a siege, but due to the shrinking of Chelsea's defence, Carlos and Murphy's speed advantage could not be brought into play, and Sunderland did not have players with long-range shooting ability in the squad at the moment, so the seemingly non-stop attack was really thunder and rain.
Nan Xiao also saw the problems that the team was encountering in the attack, so he made the third and final personnel adjustment after a short period of thought.
"Sunderland's side is going to make another substitution, and in the 85th minute of the game, Swedish midfielder Sebastian . Larsson replaced youngster Halilovic and it looked like Nanshaw was looking to use the cross to put pressure on Chelsea again. β
After the introduction of Larsson, Sunderland's formation changed dramatically, with Kirchhoff leaving centre-back and stepping into the opposition penalty area, a setup that Nanshaw also used in the third round of the league at home to Swansea City, except that it was KonΓ© who stepped up front.
After Kirchhoff went up, Billy Jones adducted and Kolo Toure formed a combination of central defenders, and Van Aanholt mentioned the position of left midfielder, and the winger on the other side of him was Larsson, who had just changed to the field, and the two wingers of the original team, Murphy and Carlos, also pulled back to the fullback position, Dokar and Zhang Xiuwei continued to sit in the midfield, Sunderland basically adjusted to a 442 formation, and their main tactic in the last less than 10 minutes was a cross from the side, Trying to score another goal.
Kirchhoff is 196 centimetres tall, three centimetres more than Chelsea's tallest Cahill, so he has an advantage in the fight for headers, and in fact he did get the ball a few times, but it was either deflected off or he didn't use the power, and in any case did not create a dangerous attack.
The game between the two teams also came to the final five minutes of stoppage time with Sunderland's crosses and Nan Xiao's side were in complete control of the situation, but could not convert the advantage into a goal.
"There's still a lack of top stars who can make a difference in the game."
This is what Nan Xiao is saying to himself in his heart at the moment.
Dokar continued to control the second spot and adjusted the ball a little to move to Larsson on the right again, but he looked up at Courtois's position and suddenly saw that something was unreasonable, he was standing too close to the left post to expose a large area of the goal on the right.
Seeing this opportunity, Dokal didn't think much about it, adjusted the ball at his feet again, and raised his right foot to shoot coldly; The shot was not very strong, but it was well controlled, and Dokar was bent on hitting the top right corner of the goal, allowing Courtois to make a save to prevent the ball from going into the net.
"Dokar's sudden shot from outside the box!" Yulu was also obviously a little surprised by Dokar's sudden upheaval.
Not only Youlu, but even the players on both sides of the field did not expect Dokal to suddenly kick in this position, because Sunderland has not tried a long-range shot in this game, so the Chelsea players are not very protective of the edge of the big penalty area, so Dokal easily got the opportunity to shoot from a distance, and at the same time, the whole shooting action was not disturbed at all, and the completion was extremely coherent and stretched.
After Dokar's shot, all eyes fell on the ball flying towards the goal, including Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who saw Dokar's shot and suddenly realized that his position was a little off, so he had to move two steps to the right before making a save.
Dokal's shot silenced the fans for an instant, and they all held their breath and stared at the trajectory of the ball until ......
"The ball is in!! Corner! This is a dead end in the absolute sense of the word!! β
"World Wave!! Dokar put Sunderland ahead in the first minute of stoppage time!! β
"Dokar's cold shot from outside the penalty area penetrated the gate guarded by Courtois, although Courtois made a hard save, but the angle of the goal was too tricky, so even the Belgian goalkeeper with such a tall arm was out of reach, and he could only look at the ball and sigh!!"
After the goal, Dokar ran straight to Nanshaw on the sidelines, behind him were the rest of Sunderland's players, and even Mannone on the other side of the goal ran excitedly; All the Sunderland players surrounded Nan Xiao and danced the dance they usually dance on the training ground in the celebration of the tsunami at the Stadium of Light, and this dance was also taught to them by head coach Nan Xiao himself, which is a song by Aaron Kwok, who is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" in the Chinese music scene. Watching a group of people from all over the world dance their own country's dance together on the court, You Lu and Zhang Lu couldn't help but laugh in the studio.
"This Nan Xiao seems to not only teach his players in football tactics, but also our Chinese culture has been injected into the blood of this club, what a great person."
Chelsea launched a frenzied comeback after conceding the goal, but their attacking thinking did not appear to be so consistent due to the lack of energy, and Sunderland were able to easily neutralize their attacks one by one.
"At the end of the game, Sunderland relied on a world wave from the team's 10 core Dokar to complete the stunner against Chelsea, of course, we must not forget that in the 70th minute, Costa's red card departure also became a turning point in the game, in the case of one less player, Chelsea also lost their previous huge advantage, and this is likely to be the most uncomfortable game Chelsea have encountered this season, and we hope that Chelsea can quickly get out of the shadow left by this gameWe also congratulate Sunderland on their victory over a strong Chelsea side in the closing game of the first half of the season, overtaking Everton in the table and jumping to sixth place, and we look forward to continuing their dark horse form in the second half of the season and bringing us more exciting games. Well, audience friends, this game between Sunderland and Chelsea is introduced to you here, I hope that in the new year, you can still continue to pay attention to Feiyue Sports, here, You Lu and Zhang Lu also wish you a happy new year! β
"Happy New Year! Good bye! β