Chapter 1193: Falling into the Downwind
Benitez was watching what was happening on the pitch, but he had no intention of making a substitution, just bringing Mascherano closer to the two centre-backs to help defend at the right time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Drogba went from strength to strength, not only finding ways to shoot but also creating chances for his team-mates.
In the 65th minute, Didier Drogba received the ball on the edge of the box, and it turned out that he always controlled the ball and fought with Liverpool, but this time, he headed the ball wide and passed it to Frank Lampard, who was pulled to the wing.
Frank Lampard dribbled the ball to the line and met Arbeloa's defence, but Ashley was on this occasion. Cole had been plugged in at high speed and Lampard exploited Ashley. Kerr covered and broke through Arbeloa's defense and crossed to the baseline.
Frank Lampard didn't go directly to Drogba, who was so well marked that he played the ball behind Drogba to find a midfielder.
It was a cunning pass indeed, with Didier Drogba attracting the attention of the two centre-backs, and Mascherano having to concentrate a little bit on the help of the defence, leaving the Chelsea players in the back much less under pressure.
Ballack and Malouda burst into the box together, Gerrard followed Malouda and Alonso went to defend Ballack.
Gerrard had no problem defending Malouda, but Alonso was not able to defend against Ballack, his body was still much worse than Ballack, after Ballack rushed, Alonso was knocked to the side, and he could only watch Ballack jump to the header.
Rushing to the top in the big penalty area, this is definitely a good opportunity to score, if it is the peak Ballack, scoring such a goal is like probing, but now, Ballack actually put such a pass into the arms of goalkeeper Reina.
Reina saw that it was Ballack rushing to the top, and he was already frightened, but he didn't expect that he hadn't pounced yet, the ball was actually delivered to the door, he didn't even need to move, he stretched out his hands and hugged the ball.
The commentator at the scene sighed: "I can't grasp such an opportunity, Barak is really old." ”
Another commentator said: "Actually, it's not that old, it's just that Ballack only returned from injury before this game, and he couldn't play half of his peak, in fact, Frank Lampard and Drogba were not in good shape in the first half, and they didn't play at a normal level until now." ”
Ballack was also unhappy with his poor quality header, and he shook his head and hurried in front of Reyna to prevent Reyna from launching a quick counter-attack.
Reyna didn't have a chance to launch a fast attack, so he had to throw the ball horizontally to full-back Reese, who could attack.
Chelsea's morale was high and Liverpool's attack was disrupted before it reached midfield, with Chelsea counter-attacking again in midfield.
Makelele passed the ball to Ballack, who had not yet returned to the midfield, Ballack dribbled the ball from the middle to the outside of the corner of the box, but he was not a player who was good at passing the ball underneath, nor did he have the speed of a wide player, looking up at the middle, Ballack crossed the ball to the edge of the box.
Drogba wanted to get the ball, but when he heard Frank Lampard tell him to leak, he slid the ball and let it fly under his crotch.
Didier Drogba missed the ball after hearing Lampard's shouts, and although the time was not slowed down, the Liverpool defenders had already followed, and Lampard had no chance to shoot directly.
Good Frank Lampard, who also showed the quality of a world-class star at this time, saw that there was no chance of shooting, Lampard missed the ball again, and the ball rolled from the top right corner of the box to the top left corner of the box.
Frank Lampard's leak was not a casual one, as he saw the position of team-mate Malouda before he missed the ball, which rolled right in front of Malouda.
Malouda stopped the ball in the box, slid it in the opposite direction, shook off the defenders who might be following him, and saw goalkeeper Reyna moving quickly towards the near corner, he immediately pushed the far corner and hit it in the opposite direction.
I have to say that Malouda is a thief, he was not fully prepared for this kick, but when he saw that Reina was moving, he immediately hit the opposite direction.
Malouda was largely unspent, but Reyna couldn't change the reverse of his body's movements, and could only watch the ball roll past him.
This situation is the most desperate, and there is a feeling of being slowly overwhelmed.
There was a dead silence on the pitch, with Liverpool fans and Chelsea fans staring intently at the slowly rolling ball, eager to blow for him to roll faster.
Seeing the ball go towards the far corner, but a piece of turf was shoveled up in the middle, the ball changed direction slightly and rolled off the bottom line against the goalpost.
Malouda stood there after the goal, and when he saw the ball roll out of the baseline, he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and smashed his fist on the turf with great annoyance, he felt that it might be better if he adjusted it again.
Grant on the sidelines couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, if he doesn't score such a goal, what else can he say, what else can he say, maybe Chelsea's state in the first half was not good enough, but now, Chelsea is absolutely dominant on the field, and there are several opportunities to shoot, but he just can't score, which really makes Grant have a Chen Yu envy and hatred for Liverpool.
If you don't score, you don't score, no matter how good the chance, if you don't score, you don't score, it's useless to regret it, the game still has to go on.
Frank Lampard didn't console his team-mates and quickly picked up the ball and went to the corner flag area to prepare for a corner. In a decisive battle with a strong man like Liverpool, you must seize the opportunity of the opponent's poor form, and if you are woken up by Liverpool, it will be even more difficult to score goals later.
Lampard's corner kick looked for Drogba, but Drogba's point was seen by Liverpool to death, Carragher almost hugged Drogba's body, and the range of action was so large that Drogba had the heart to kill him, but the referee did not say anything.
The ball was pushed out of the box by a Liverpool player, but the second was picked up by Chelsea, with Carvalho hoisting into the box again and the ball being picked up by goalkeeper Reina high into the crowd.
Looking at Liverpool's fall on the pitch, Chelsea had more and more shots, Benitez couldn't stand it, he immediately made adjustments, let the stronger Babel come on, replaced Benayoun, and strengthened the fight in the midfield, five minutes later, Benitez replaced Kuyt, who was about the same physical exertion, with Crouch, and withdrew Chen Yu from the striker to the full-back position, tearing Chelsea's defense from the wing.
Regardless of the effect, Benitez's two substitutions are at the right time, and the tactical adjustment is also on the right path, otherwise Chelsea will be attacked like this, and the possibility of Liverpool conceding a goal is too great, don't look at Chelsea scoring a goal is also an equalizer, but the significance of an away goal is too great, Benitez would rather not score than concede a goal.
Substitutions are like changing knives, Babbel and Crouch just came on the field to complete a cooperation, Crouch header ferried to Babbel, Babbel took two steps horizontally, and volleyed vigorously at a position of 267 meters, which was not a cold shot, when he dribbled laterally, Chelsea goalkeeper Cech was ready, and the Czech flew to save the ball under him.
Cech got up quickly, ran sideways with the ball, and threw the ball into Kalou for a quick counter-attack.
Kalou was also a substitute, his physical explosiveness was stronger than that of the Liverpool players who had been on the pitch for more than 70 minutes, and after receiving the ball near the halfway line, Kalou used his speed to get past several Liverpool midfield defenders in succession and bring the ball to the side of the box.
Glancing at the box, Kalou crossed the ball across the middle for Frank Lampard to cut forward.
Frank Lampard was quick to get forward and when Kalou got the ball through, Lampard didn't adjust his pace and stopped the ball a little wider.
Carragher, who had been eyeing the card for a long time, saw an opportunity and destroyed the ball with a falling tackle.
After the ball was cleared by Mascherano's foot, the second point was still grabbed by Chelsea, the ball was passed to Ballack's feet, and the German fired a cold left-footed shot from 30 yards and the ball flew straight to the left side of the goal, but goalkeeper Reyna was solid enough to deflect the ball away.
At this point, the clock is 80 minutes and Liverpool are still 1-0 ahead of Chelsea.
Of all the one-goal deficits, 1-0 was the most unacceptable for Chelsea, who were now in desperate need of an away goal, and after Ballack's long-range shot, Grant made another substitution, this time with German Ballack, who had only returned from injury, replaced by French striker Nicolas Anelka.
Anelka is known as France's Ronaldo, he is not inferior to Drogba in height, but he and Drogba are two ways, he is more delicate, more flexible, and faster, his play will definitely bring more variables to the game, for now, Chelsea needs to change, the current rhythm Chelsea does not like.
Anelka played a one-two with Drogba on the pitch, and his overhead pass to Drogba sent the monster tank into the box.
Carragher and Ag are not vegetarians either, Carragher did not react at the first time, Ag was even further back, he took the first step and stuck in front of Drogba to prevent Drogba from grabbing the landing point.
Drogba's body had already rushed up, squeezed Agger directly, and then hit the volley without waiting for the ball to hit the ground.
The ball was hit by Reina's reach and hit the bottom line.
However, referee Kasse thought that Drogba had just attacked and squeezed Agger for a foul and awarded Liverpool a free-kick.
This displeased both Drogba and Anelka, and the two surrounded the referee to argue, asking for an explanation.
The referee Kase ran for more than 80 minutes, tired and his legs were sore, and he was angry, so he reached out and took out a yellow card and gave Anelka a card.
After receiving the yellow card, Anelka wilted, he was ordered to help the team score goals in danger, not to add to the chaos, he is not young now, even the substitute is unstable, how dare he make trouble again, so he had to obediently run back to defense.
Reina's quick free-kick from inside the box flew straight into Chelsea's final third, where Crouch used his height advantage to head the ball behind a strong Terry.
Babel and Chen Yu quickly cut diagonally from the side to the middle to grab points.
Chen Yu was faster, but Chen Yu was also targeted more, first by Carolue, and then by Makelele stretched out and hooked from behind.
Makelele was definitely a yellow card, but at this moment Babbel had already grabbed the landing point, and the referee Casse did not say anything and let the game continue.
Babel was thrilled to get a one-on-one chance as soon as he came on and went a little harder and was quickly saved by goalkeeper Petr Cech to get the ball out at his feet.
At this moment, the game has reached 83 minutes, and such a good opportunity was wasted by Babbel, and Liverpool fans all sighed, hoping to go on the field and play this kick themselves.
Benitez stomped his feet on the sidelines and scolded, "Idiot! Idiot! You can't even carry the ball well! What's the use! "He now regrets replacing Benayoun with Babbel, if it is a more delicate Benayoun, it is estimated that this goal is almost the same, a single goal, the success rate is more than 75%, and if you enter, you will win without losing, and now 1:0, it may become 1:1 at any time, and 1:1 is Liverpool losing half a half, just really dizzy, Benitez thought to himself.