Chelsea's opening 10 minutes to take the lead was a big blow for Sunderland, because statistically, Chelsea have only lost one game in the first goal this season, a 2-1 reversal away to Liverpool in the eighth round of the league, and the rest of them are unbeaten, so Sunderland will only be able to find a win in such a situation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chelsea continued to maintain control of the rhythm on the field after the goal, in fact, the Sunderland team also has a certain strength to compete with Chelsea in the midfield, whether it is Dokal, Halilovic, or Elviti's possession ability is very good, but Nan Xiao in the pre-match tactical arrangement clearly arranged to give up the midfield, at least in the first half to resolutely implement this tactical idea, so Sunderland's players had to follow the coach's instructions.

"Because Chelsea have a lot of pressure, Sunderland's defensive pressure is also quite high during this period."

Before we knew it, the 30th minute of the game was reached, and although Chelsea's attacking momentum was still strong, they were slow to extend the score further, but instead made a low-level mistake in a normal pass, allowing Sunderland to get a chance to fight back.

The mistake was made by Chelsea's veteran left centre-back Cahill, because the team has been in control of the situation on the field, and Sunderland's players are all recycled in their own half, so the two wings of the side Marcos Alonso and Moses are relatively forward, and the distance between the two wing-backs is relatively far, Cahill received a pass from David Luiz, and then took the ball and wanted to pass it to Alonso on the side, but at the moment of his pass, he didn't know what was going on and his feet slipped, Alonso rushed forward to get the ball, but as soon as he was far away from Cahill, he had just run back two steps before Carlos found that the extremely fast Carlos had already gotten the ball ahead of him!

After Carlos took advantage of Cahill's pass error to break the ball, he broke through with the ball at high speed, at this time Cahill and Alonso quickly chased back, but their speed was too far from Carlos, and although they used all their strength, they were still getting more and more away from Carlos.

Defoe in the middle also followed up quickly after Carlos got the ball, Nan Xiao has a very clear arrangement in the team's counterattack tactics, if Carlos breaks the ball in the midfield, he can have two options, one is to form a single knife directly to the middle, seeking his own opportunity to score; The other is to advance along the wing at high speed, at which time other attacking players, especially Defoe, must also get close and receive Carlos' inverted triangle pass near the penalty area, that is, if Carlos chooses to advance along the wing, it means that he has only one last option, which is to assist his teammates who outflank in the middle to score.

Left centre-back Cahill was already out of position when Carlos was advancing with the ball, so centre-back David Luiz had to move closer to Carlos to fill the left centre-back position, while right centre-back Azpilicueta also responded to the middle.

Carlos was very resolute when he was about to reach the bottom line, that is, according to the coach before the game, he decisively chose the inverted triangle pass, because he knew that there would be teammates in the middle to outflank, in fact, Defoe was indeed outflanked in place, facing the ball of Carlos's return pass slightly adjusted the step point at his feet, and then met the ball on the edge of the big penalty area is a powerful and heavy shot, the ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal, Azpilicueta has been trying his best to chase back, and at the same time completed the action of falling to the ground to block before Defoe shot, However, due to Defoe's consistent movements, his tackle did not block the ball.

Chelsea's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made a flying save in the face of Defoe's shot, his height is 199 cm, so he has a very big advantage in saving this kind of shot in the upper corner of the goal, and his height and arm length have also made him make many difficult saves, and this time in the face of Defoe's shot, he also performed very well.

'Thibaut Courtois made a good save and his fingertips grazed the ball, so let's take a look at it in slow motion...... That's right, Courtois's fingertips did touch the ball slightly, slightly changing its path and causing it to bounce off the crossbar and fly off the bottom line. ”

The Stadium of Light erupted into a sigh of regret just after the ball bounced off the crossbar, and if it hadn't been for Courtois's miraculous save, Defoe's powerful shot would have been a goal; Defoe also put his hands on his head in disbelief after Courtois saved the ball, and he seemed to think that his shot would be converted into a goal, but he really didn't expect it to be saved by Courtois so bravely; Halilovic and Dokar also walked up to Defoe's side for the first time to comfort him, patting him on the shoulder and signaling him not to be discouraged, there will be many scoring opportunities in the future.

'Sunderland got a corner on the left and because Larsson wasn't there, it was up to Dokar to take care of it.

Sunderland put a lot of force into attacking corners, with Kolo Toure, Kirchhoff, Billy Jones, Jedinak and Defoe all present in the Chelsea box; When Dokal was about to take a corner, he heard the referee's whistle blow, and the camera pulled in, and it turned out that there was a little dispute between the players of the two sides in the penalty area.

The two sides of the argument were Chelsea's centre-forward Costa and Sunderland's midfielder Jedinak, and the two appeared to have had some verbal altercation as they battled for position. Atkinson motioned for the players on both sides to calm down, and he pointed to his chest pocket, meaning that you are pestering, be careful, I will give each of you a yellow card!

After a small episode, Dokal raised his hands again and signaled to his team-mate in the box that he was about to take a corner.

"Dokar's corner kick was swung towards the back post and the goal went in!! It was Defoe's header, and after missing the must-have goal, Defoe proved to Courtois once again that he had the quality to break through the door he was guarding! Defoe stealthily went around the middle to the back post, and the Chelsea players who were supposed to be marking him were just watching the ball, completely oblivious to Defoe's clever movement, and Defoe was unguarded to put the ball in from a far post! Sunderland pulled the score to a 1-1 draw!! ”

"The root cause of this goal is Cahill's mistake, because Sunderland has been showing a full recovery trend after the opening, inducing Chelsea's two wings to press up sharply, and the distance between the two wingers and the full-backs is too far, and Kante and Nemanja Matic also lack protection on this route, so once the line between the full-backs and full-backs is cut off by the Sunderland players, it will form a very dangerous situation; But then again, Cahill's inexplicable mistake is still mainly responsible, but from Cahill's unnecessary mistake, we can also see that Chelsea's players seem to be a little too relaxed, and Conte also has to remind his players in time, especially against a team like Sunderland who are good at counter-attacking, a small mistake can cause the team to concede a goal. ”

In the 33rd minute, Sunderland relied on Defoe's goal to bring the game back to the same level, and Cahill's mistake had a serious impact on the morale of the team, so much so that Chelsea's players looked a little out of shape before the end of the first half, a far cry from the performance of the first 30 minutes; Thankfully, Sunderland's players did not step up their attack with the equaliser and Chelsea were able to return to the dressing room with a draw.

"The two teams had a good first half and were tied 1-1 for the time being. Chelsea relied on a strong attack from the opening kick-off to give Nigeria international Victor Moses the lead, but a mistake by veteran Cahill on 30 minutes almost caused Defoe to score directly, but Courtois made a brilliant save to keep the goal intact. However, it was short-lived, and just two minutes later Sunderland equalised from a corner through a header from Defoe. Let's continue to watch the second half of the game between the two teams after the 15-minute half-time break, and see you soon. ”