371 Warcraft is born
Qin Xiong has been looking for holes in Chelsea's defence.
Looking at Chelsea's defensive system in general, it is almost impeccable, but the most important feature of football is that it is played without interruption, unlike basketball and rugby, which often pause, so dynamic games often return to static.
In a static situation, the team can arrange a tight defensive line, which is why the team with a utilitarian football philosophy is often accompanied by a lot of tactical fouls, and the defense line is delayed and rarely pressed, because they want to meet the opponent's offensive impact with the most perfect static blocking line every time they defend, so that they can play their established defensive strategy in the movement.
Breaking this static requires surprise, like Qin Xiong's sideline ball suddenly smashed on Ljungberg, making the opponent's target actually wrong, and at that moment, there was a flaw in the static defense! Then a one-point collapse creates a chain reaction that creates a disorder in the entire defensive system.
Qin Xiong was looking for this kind of breakthrough to create a killing opportunity.
No matter how smooth Arsenal's attack is, in the back and midfield, the ball is firmly controlled, the passing organization, and the efficiency is already declining, because Chelsea is too utilitarian, they always arrange a tight defense line in the danger zone and wait for the opponent to impact, so what is the point of Arsenal how to pass and cut on the periphery, team cooperation?
In the 74th minute of the game, Qin Xiong stepped forward along the left side, and then made a cross-cut dribbling method, and before encountering Makelele, he got up!
Everyone would think he was shooting, but he used the outside of his instep to curl the ball around the defender's cross!
It was a bizarre cross that curled out with his right foot in front of the penalty area, and the ball went around Terry and flew towards the back of goal!
Ljungberg stepped forward decisively. But before he hit the goal with a header. Petr Cech holds the ball straight in front of the back post!
Qin Xiong sighed slightly in his heart: The space is still too small!
It is unlikely that you will hit directly behind you. He wanted to make a trick, but he didn't expect Cech to be very alert, if Cech had hesitated to expand the defensive area, maybe the goal would have been played.
Chelsea's fast-break was launched, with Frank Lampard playing the ball in front of the left in midfield, Joe Cole cutting the ball across the middle, and at the same time Gudjohnsen slotted in diagonally to the left in front of the box, with Patrick Vieira with him.
Gudjohnsen's running position gave Joe Cole more room to move. Silva made a decisive dash towards Joe Cole after making sure Ashley Cole was following Duff.
Joe Cole suddenly knocked the ball back into the middle of the back.
By the time Frank Lampard touched the ball, Qin Xiong was already standing in front of him and ready to defend head-on.
Qin Xiong had the idea of not giving Lampard a breakthrough, but Lampard had no idea of breaking through, and the moment he shook the ball horizontally out of the gap, Qin Xiong immediately realized that Lampard was preparing to pass the ball, and he stretched out his legs to block, but he was still a step slow, after all, he made this choice passively.
Frank Lampard rolled the ball to the right in front of the box.
After the ball, Lampard didn't look at Qin Xiong, but instead fixed his eyes on Drogba.
Perhaps Arsenal thought that the wingers in Chelsea's counter-attacking were made in order to create opportunities for the back row. Quite the opposite, actually!
That's just a trick to mess up Arsenal's defence!
Their main goal has not changed at all.
Jose Mourinho has confidence in Drogba and will challenge Senderos as a weak link in the defence whenever he has the opportunity from the start. How can you give up if your continued efforts don't pay off?
Therefore, Chelsea's attacking changes in the second half are really to cover for Drogba and create a better one-on-one environment for Drogba.
This time, Drogba stopped the ball and turned to face Senderos, in several offensive and defensive confrontations with Senderos, Drogba has figured out Senderos's defensive habits, when Sendros stretched his legs and was ready to intercept, Drogba seemed to kick the ball behind Sendros roughly, and then, the monster burst out with terrifying confrontation ability and forcibly rushed past Senderos!
Senderos tried to block Drogba with his body, but he turned passively, and his body's center of gravity was not as stable as Drogba's, and Drogba was consciously fighting against him!
Bang!
All the spectators at Highbury, including those in front of the TV, saw the most primitive passion of confrontation on the football field, and the difference between victory and defeat was clear at a glance!
Senderos was pushed away like a child, staggering and falling to the ground!
His eyes were full of shock and humiliating anger!
And Drogba exudes a terrifying aura of power, like an ancient beast wantonly in the Arsenal penalty area!
Toure helped defend for the first time, but when Drogba blocked Toure with his body and carried Toure to complete the kick shot, Toure knew in his heart that competing with a striker of Drogba's level, losing the opportunity is equivalent to losing a qiē!
Didier Drogba slammed the ball at goal, so Toure couldn't interfere with his shot, and he swept the ball towards the inside of the far post!
It was too close for Lehmann's save to no avail, and the ball hit the inside of the netting and then rolled back and forth inside the goal.
The Gunners fans in the stands at Highbury Stadium were all dumbfounded.
In addition to the loss and consternation of conceding the goal, I was also shocked by the terrifying power that Drogba showed at that moment!
He's really like a monster!
Senderos looked helpless like a bullied child, frightened by the goal his team had conceded.
“2:2! Chelsea equalised! Didier Drogba scored a crucial goal! Will anyone still laugh at Drogba's rough playing skills? He perfectly illustrates the simple and brutal lethality of a power center! Look at Sendros, he's been crushed! Totally crushed! He is not on the same level as Drogba, and this goal is completely caused by a one-on-one defeat! Arsenal are in a very dangerous situation, and if they can't beat Chelsea at home and let their opponents get two away goals, then Chelsea's chances of progressing to the last four of the Champions League will be very high! ”
Didier Drogba went wild to celebrate, he is not the top striker in European football at this stage, and in the almost a season at Stamford Bridge, his goalscoring efficiency has not been high, especially compared to Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy, two of the Premier League's recognised top goalscorers.
But his tactical role and status under Jose Mourinho cannot be ignored, and now, in the Champions League, Drogba has proven himself.
The Blue Army Warcraft is born in the green world!
Senderos is an unlucky guy, he knows that no matter how many times he has frozen Drogba before, he will live in Drogba's nightmare after this goal, because the picture of being ruthlessly crushed by Drogba will be described by the media again and again, this is the life of a defender, doing dirty work and tiring work that does not want to live, countless successes cannot withstand one failure! (To be continued......)