Chapter 308: Win This Damn Game
'Chelsea are really having a hard time at the moment. "When the referee blew the halftime whistle and the players of the two teams returned to the locker room in twos and threes, Zhang Junwen sighed.www.biquge.info
In a game like the Champions League, the commentator should have a neutral attitude to comment, but Chelsea has Shi Hao in the team, so Zhang Junwen and Zhang Lu will inadvertently favor Chelsea when commenting.
Helplessly, they can be regarded as poisoned milk, the more milk Chelsea, the more Chelsea is angry, and it collapsed at the last moment of the first half.
'Now it's up to Mourinho to make changes at half-time.
In the visiting dressing room, Jose Mourinho made no changes. After analysing the problems that arose in the first half and pointing out how to solve them, he kept his mouth shut.
Every player looked at him expectantly, hoping that he would throw a way to turn things around.
"I'm not a magician, I can't conjure something out of thin air. I said I found Barcelona's weakness and you can see it, we threatened them on a number of occasions and scored a goal,' said Mourinho, 'but here we are now, down from home. I don't think you play badly, but that's the way football is, sometimes a little mistake can make a difference, and sometimes a little bit of luck can make the difference in the end. ”
Mourinho's voice was a little low, but it was by no means gloomy: "But you want to say to the media after the game: We tried, but we were unlucky, so we lost. Do you want to say that? ”
"No!" "Of course not!" The players replied unevenly.
"Our strength is fine, our tactics are fine, our morale is fine," Mourinho paused and suddenly yelled, "So what are you waiting for!" Go get me this damn game! ”
The players roared to their feet, waving their arms and shouting with emotion.
Shi Hao also stood up excitedly. The first goal of the first half, he had a lot of responsibility. But Mourinho did not criticize him.
Although he later atoneted for his sins with an assist, Shi Hao felt that it was not enough.
"I can do more."
Chelsea made no immediate substitutions at the start of the second half, but Enrique brought on Xavi for Andres Iniesta, who had not yet fully recovered.
It was a clear signal that Barcelona were going to step up possession and squeeze Chelsea's attacking chances through possession.
Although Chelsea's players still maintain high morale, they still struggle to get decent chances under Barcelona's possession tactics.
Of course, Barcelona did not dare to invest too many troops in the attack, and the two sides entered a stalemate for a while.
"Barcelona are back to their possession tactics and the game looks a bit lethargic. But they're the best at suddenly speeding up in such a drowsy rhythm and creating a killing opportunity. That's how they attacked in the final stages of the first half and finally knocked on Chelsea's door,' said Zhang, 'Chelsea haven't found a good way to crack it so far. ”
In the 54th minute, Barcelona suddenly picked up speed after a long period of possession and hit the ball to the front, Rakitic suddenly shot from outside the box, but the angle was slightly right, and Courtois, who was tall and armed, firmly held the ball.
Two minutes later, it was Rakitic who cut forward again to cause chaos in the Chelsea defence, and then he distributed the ball to Messi, who flicked his foot to the top of the box and suddenly slotted his foot into the ball. It was his best position to shoot, but Courtois was so focused that he could confiscate the ball.
Enrique soon made a second substitution, and he used the more technical Sergi. Robert replaces Sergio Busquets, who suffered a minor injury in the scramble.
Shi Hao suddenly felt that the pressure was reduced by half. Harvey and Sergi. Robert lacks both physical and speed, and is much worse defensively than Andres Iniesta and Babsquets.
Enrique's idea was to strengthen his possession, but Shi Hao felt that his chance had come.
In the 61st minute, Costa and Oscar teamed up on the right flank to steal the ball from Alba's feet. Oscar poked the ball to Costa and ran into the middle of the lane.
Costa received the ball and dribbled straight into the box at high speed, but was blocked by Pique. He made a feint, missed Pique, and didn't hesitate to delay and kicked the ball into the middle of the box.
Oscar got to the ball and shot with his feet, but Mascherano made a timely tackle and the ball bounced off Mascherano's leg and into the box.
Xavi rushed up to clear the siege, but Shi Hao was one step ahead of him, and the header dropped the ball, and the ball flew towards Oscar.
Oscar didn't take credit this time, he stopped the ball with his back to the goal chest, and then flicked the ball down the middle with his left foot. Shi Hao leaned on Xavi with his body near the penalty spot, stood firmly, saw the landing point of the football, raised his left foot and calmly volleyed.
The ball flew past Alves' face and flew straight into the top left corner of the goal. Ter Stegen jumped sharply, stretching his body to the limit, but he was still a beat slower, and could only watch the football go into the net.
'In the 61st minute, Chelsea equalised! Chelsea continued to play after the steal in the front court, and finally Shi Hao made the final decision! ”
Zhang Junwen said: "This can be seen in the attacking power of Chelsea's frontcourt players, in terms of individual ability, they are not necessarily much worse than the MSN combination, and they can completely cause big problems for Barcelona's backline!" ”
Zhang Lu said: "Here you can see the consequences of Busquets's downfall. Don't look at Busquets's usual fame and rarely have wonderful performances, but Barcelona really can't do without a sapper-type player like him. If he was on the field, then Shi Hao would definitely not be able to break in so easily just now. ”
On the field, Shi Hao and his teammates celebrated the goal. Looking at this scene, Zhang Junwen sighed: "There are about 30 minutes left in the game, if Chelsea continue to play like this, there will definitely be a chance to score." What are Barcelona going to do? ”
Barcelona have not made any changes, they have always only played their own football.
Chelsea, on the other hand, cherish every chance they get off the ball and strive to play a quality attack.
In the 73rd minute, Costa took the ball with his back in front of the penalty area and did it back, Shi Hao met the ball and shot angrily, the ball was very fast, but Ter Stegen performed well and punched the ball out.
In the 79th minute, Costa ran to the left side of the front field near the bottom line to receive the ball, shook off Alves and picked up the back point. After Oscar got the ball, he passed the ball to the goal with a flower insertion foot, Hazard got the ball in the crowd, there was no chance to get up, and he had no choice but to divide it to the side, Shi Hao plugged in at high speed, forced his foot to hit the goal at a small angle, and hit the side netting.