Chapter 1189: Hanging Shot
Drogba made a small run and fired a powerful volley with the instep of his foot in an attempt to violently penetrate the wall. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Chelsea players standing in the wall quickly dispersed to open the way for Drogba's free-kick.
Drogba's shot was powerful, the ball rubbed against the air and made a sharp whistle, but the Liverpool players did not dodge, they jumped bravely against the ball, at this moment, even if they were knocked unconscious by the ball, they must not flinch in the slightest, this is not only a game, this is also a war, a war of honor and dignity.
Burst!
The ball hit Benayoun's ass, but fortunately Benayoun twisted his body, otherwise, if it hit Benayoun in the lower abdomen, it is estimated that Benayoun will be able to shut his breath.
The ball bounced off Mascherano and the Argentine didn't clear it with a big foot, daring to dribble forward from the edge of the box.
Mascherano was ready to attract Chelsea's defence before passing the ball out, but Chelsea's siege was fast, and Makelele, Ballack and Lampard deliberately blocked Mascherano's passing lane during the siege, forcing Mascherano to pass the ball back to his defenders.
The ball returned to the feet of the defenders and it was a failure on the counter-attack, as Mascherano was a stubborn and adventurous player who did not return the ball and instead accelerated forward to get out before Claude Makelele and Frank Lampard could close the gates.
At this time, Mascherano is young and at the peak of his physical function, and Makelele and Frank Lampard are actually at the end of their careers, and if Mascherano sprints with all his might, the two of them may not be able to close the door.
However, Makelele is a defensive expert and has perfected his judgment of the situation and his opponents, and he made a decisive tackle at this point to destroy the ball from Mascherano's feet.
Benitez, who was sitting peacefully in the coach's seat, rushed out angrily when he saw this scene and shouted at Mascherano: "Idiot! Pass! I don't know how to pass the ball! ”
At this moment, Chen Yu in front and Alonso in the back are spreading their hands, feeling helpless that Mascherano does not pass the ball.
Mascherano didn't hear Benitez shouting, but he could guess what Benitez would shout, and Mascherano could ignore Benitez, but he couldn't ignore his teammates, and he was embarrassed to make an apologetic gesture to his teammates.
Chelsea attacked as soon as they got the ball, and the ball passed from Frank Lampard's feet to Joe Cole, who fed it to Malouda, who quickly descended and scrambled the ball into the middle of the box before Arbelloa could block it.
Arbeloa's interference still worked, as Malouda's cross was poorly prepared and the ball was too close to goalkeeper Reina, who came out to confiscate the ball.
Reyna wanted to throw the ball in his hands to launch a counterattack, but Drogba pressed it tightly, Reyna couldn't pass it, and he saw that Chelsea's attack was tight, so he decided to slow down the tempo and threw the ball to full-back Reese.
Reese is not a conservative master, as a full-back, Reese does not have the slightest sense of a defender, his heart is full of attacking fanaticism, the ball is at his feet, he almost does not hesitate to rush with the ball.
The Chelsea players were dropping out and saw Reese attacking along the flank, and Joe Cole immediately went over to press it.
Reese was a full-back who didn't dare to play as much as Mascherano and played the ball to Benayoun who retreated and continued to run forward.
In addition to Chen Yu, Benayoun's skills are the most delicate in Liverpool, he can play full-back and forward midfield, after the ball passes, Benayoun even stops and turns to the middle to dribble the ball, and when Chelsea's attention shifts to him and Chen Yu and Kuyt, he suddenly passes the ball to the side to find Reese.
Reese had already run through the center circle at the moment, and because of the distraction of his teammates, Reese was able to easily dribble the ball and continue to the baseline.
Chelsea right-back Pacos Ferreira is an unpretentious player who is also very solid, Mourinho described him as a player who can score seven points per game, he was not aggressive in the wave of Chelsea attack at the beginning, and he did not retreat to the side of the box when Chelsea retreated, which allowed him to withstand Reese in the defensive third in time.
Ferreira is more modest, with neither outstanding speed nor flashy footwork, but he is tenacious and experienced, he did not step forward to steal, he stuck on the inside line and followed Reeser not far away, maintaining the pressure of the steal, and also maintaining the opportunity to foul.
Reese has Liverpool's hardest toe and can cross from the bottom line, cut inside to the corner of the box and get into the 30-metre area.
But Ferreira has studied him quite thoroughly, and this kind of defense makes Reese very uncomfortable, and the bottom cross may be blocked, and the inside shot, Ferreira will definitely not let him fully exert his strength.
What to do?
Just as Reese was about to hit the bottom line, he found that captain Gerrard suddenly swam to the left side of the penalty area, and Reese was overjoyed and hurriedly passed the ball to Gerrard.
Fearing that the pass would be too close to the defender, Reese didn't dare to give Gerrard an advance and passed the ball to Gerrard's feet.
As soon as Gerrard saw the line of the pass, he secretly cursed Risser's stupid in his heart, how could such a pass allow him to shoot directly, but the ball came over, Gerrard stopped and pulled, and immediately shot from a distance without waiting for the defenders to arrive.
If Gerrard shoots directly, it will be more sudden and effective, although he adjusted these two quickly, but goalkeeper Cech was ready, and the Czech goalkeeper flew to hold the ball firmly in his arms, cutting off Chen Yu's chance to make up the shot.
Gerrard hit his right fist his left palm, and sighed regretfully, if the ball passes in front of him, the hope will definitely be greater, at least Cech does not dare to hold the ball, then Chen Yu may have a chance to make up for it.
But now is not the time to complain, the ball can be passed mainly to Rieser, if it wasn't for him to cut forward so aggressively, Gerrard wouldn't even have a chance to shoot.
Petr Cech launched a counter-attack with a quick hand-toss, and the ball was passed three times and twice, avoiding Liverpool's pursuit and interception, and the ball reached Liverpool's 30-metre defensive area.
It was Frank Lampard who had the ball, Drogba, Ballack and Joe Cole were all on the run in front of them, and although they had a full backline from Liverpool in front of them, Chelsea had a good chance of breaking through the defense if they were well organised.
However, Lampard did not continue to dribble the ball or pass the ball, and suddenly shot straight at goal.
It was definitely a cold shot, and the shot had to be 30 metres away from the goal.
Liverpool goalkeeper Reina knew that Lampard had the ability to shoot from distance, but he didn't expect Lampard to shoot from 30 yards out, and from a very awkward angle.
Reyna quickly moved two steps sideways, flew out, and wanted to hold the ball like Cech, but the ball actually had a side spin, and the ball came out of his hand, Reina's second reaction was very fast, with his hands propped up, his waist straightened, and his feet kicked, and he pounced and pressed the ball under him. Almost at the same time, Liverpool striker Didier Drogba arrived, and the Ivorian monster caught his feet and jumped over Reina.
The Liverpool fans in the stands were startled and relieved when Reina held the ball.
Drogba was about to rush into the goal, no one pressed Reina, Reina quickly got up, tossed the ball to Alonso, and launched a quick counter-attack.
The ball was a big threat at the feet of Alonso, and he took a look up front to find Chen Yu and Kuyt already on the run, and immediately got up and played a long pass behind the Chelsea defender.
Alonso's long ball was pinpointed, and the ball landed exactly between the defender and the goalkeeper.
Chen Yu had already inserted behind the defender at high speed at this moment, and no one could keep up with Chen Yu's sudden activation.
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech saw something was wrong and ran out of the box to clear the ball.
Chen Yu didn't dare to stop the ball, the defender had turned around and chased after him, he paused, the defender would come over to interfere, and he didn't dare to put the ball forward, which was equivalent to handing it over to the goalkeeper, at this time, Chen Yu decisively used his head to push forward and up, and hoisted the ball to the goal behind Cech.
The ball could be touched by his hands, but he didn't dare, and now that he was out of the box, the game had only been played for less than ten minutes before the handball would be red carded, and Cech could only jump up as hard as he could and head the ball.
Cech missed, the ball went over his head and slotted a parabola towards goal.
There was nothing Cech could do, but defender John Terry didn't give up, and he ran back desperately to see if there was a chance to save in front of goal.
John Terry was also a step late, as he had just entered the six-yard box and the ball had already landed towards goal.
Terry slowed down, staring at the ball, his eyes almost popping out, wishing he had the superpower to rack it out.
At the moment, everyone is staring at the ball, if this goal can be scored, it will definitely be another classic, and this goal will also have a decisive impact on the trend of the game.
However, Liverpool and Chen Yu were unlucky, the ball fell right above the crossbar, bounced up and landed on the net.
Chen Yu was staring at the ball after the header, and found that the ball hit the crossbar, and there was not even a corner kick, he was so angry that he flew up and kicked off a piece of turf.
"Ahh Crossbeam! What a pity! ”
"The opening 8 minutes! Chen Yu's hanging shot hits the crossbar! Chelsea escaped! ”
"It was a really simple counterattack, two passes, three players, and a beautiful attack, and if it wasn't for the luck of the handicap, Liverpool would have taken the lead."
The commentator in the commentary booth shouted excitedly, and the scene was similar to a goal.
Benitez couldn't sit still again, he raised his arms, looked up to the sky and sighed, feeling that this luck was really a bit bad, and such an opportunity was not yet available.
Grant stood on the sidelines, his cold sweat almost came down, he focused on Chen Yu in this game, but he didn't expect that only eight minutes later, Chen Yu almost gave Chelsea a fatal blow.
"Keep an eye on him! You can't relax when you run without the ball! ”
Although Grant knew that he couldn't keep up with this time, he also had to yell a few words to make the players concentrate, this Chinese was too scary, let him come so many times, Grant felt that his heart attack was not attacked, but also mentally ill.