Chapter 115: Nightmare
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When the referee's whistle blew, Torres lay on the ground with an innocent look on his face, not knowing how many times he had fallen to the ground, and from the very beginning of the match, he was caught in hand-to-hand combat with Vertonghen, losing several encounters.
The gap in physical fitness is difficult to make up, and although Torres works hard, his speed and technique are not comparable to Vertonghen's, but in terms of strength, he is clearly not an opponent at all.
The referee came over and only warned Vertonghen that fouls like this are too common in the Premier League to be worth the cards.
Chelsea's captain Frank Lampard was negotiating with the referee, and Torres wanted to lie on the ground and not get up, but seeing that the referee never meant to take out the cards, he could only stand up helplessly.
"He just hit me with the arm!" Torres complained, but the referee simply ignored him.
"Is that scary? Little girl, the more ruthless is still to come! Vertonghen whispered as he passed by Torres.
This is Vertonghen's task in this game, to do everything possible to provoke Torres, and sure enough, Vertonghen's words made Torres's anger immediately come up, and he just wanted to step forward to theorize, but was stopped by Hazard.
"Fernando! Don't be fooled, he's trying to provoke you! ”
As a teammate of the Belgian national team, Hazard knows Vertonghen too well, this seemingly silent big man, in fact, has a cannon mouth, and usually when the national team trains, there is a lot of trash talk.
Torres gritted his teeth and nodded, then turned and walked away, followed by an anti-aircraft cannon fired from Lampard's direct free-kick.
The game has been going on for 15 minutes now, and the two sides are fighting very fiercely on the field, but they can't get too good chances, and the game is still deadlocked.
Tottenham don't seem to be in a hurry at all, every time they get the ball, they are patiently looking for opportunities, passing the ball, running, and moving forward little by little.
Chelsea, on the other hand, look a little impatient, after all, they are playing at home, they are unbeaten in the league and are currently in first place in the standings, Di Matteo wants to sit firmly in the position of manager, and winning the league title this season is the most basic goal, and this face against Tottenham Hotspur must not be missed.
In the eighteenth minute of the game, Chelsea got another chance, Hazard's side breakthrough, so that Tottenham's right side of the defense was paralyzed for a while, Hutton rushed up, was easily rid of Hazard, and then directly crossed, Torres has squeezed into the Tottenham penalty area, stood up, ready to fight for the top, Vertonghen is behind him, just when the football flew over, Vertonghen suddenly stealthily grabbed Torres's shirt and pulled it down.
Yes~~~~~~~~
Torres screamed, fell to the ground, and then waited for the referee's whistle to blow, but unfortunately, he waited for a long time and did not hear the whistle he expected, and looked up to see that the football had been moved to the middle by Tottenham.
Torres hurriedly jumped up, waved his arms, and shouted: "Foul!" Referee, he fouled! ”
The referee didn't seem to hear him, ignored Torres and just ran towards the Chelsea half.
Vertonghen scoffed: "Boy! Do you think this is La Liga? You can let you fake the fall as much as you want! This is the Premier League, it is a man's battlefield, don't play tricks on your little tricks, otherwise, you will suffer in the end! ”
Torres was choked by Vertonghen so much that he couldn't say a word, and although he fell a little exaggerated just now, Vertonghen's foul was also real.
But now no one notices them at all, and all eyes are on Degan.
After receiving a pass from Modric, Digan pulled the football sideways, leaned on Mikel, who was pasted up, and turned around.
Turning around and facing the goal directly, Degan took the opportunity to move the ball forward, and then ran wildly, leaving Mikel behind, in the process of running, Degan was also observing the movement of his teammates, Bale had rushed along the left flank, Lennon was also moving in his direction, and Modric was behind him.
After Degan caught up with the football, he also made a choice, knocking the ball to the right, and after Lennon got the ball, he directly moved the ball to the feet of Bale.
After the Welsh genius got the ball, he crossed directly, Degan had rushed to the Chelsea penalty area at the moment, saw the landing point of the football, jumped high, although he still had Ivanovic in front of him, but Degan obviously jumped higher, completely ignoring the existence of Ivanovic, waist force, the whole person was fixed in the air, shaking his head to attack the goal.
Petr Cech reacted immediately, and he judged the right direction, but unfortunately, the speed of Degan's header was too fast, so fast that Petr's body couldn't keep up with it.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!”
Smith roared, and the Tottenham fans in the stadium began to revel, and in the corner of the stands, fireworks were set off, becoming a splash in the entire stagnant water of Stamford Bridge.
On the field, after Dugan completed the shot, he also fell to the ground, and after he confirmed that the football had entered the net, he stood up with his hands and feet, rushed towards the camera on the sidelines, lifted his jersey, and printed a line of words on his shirt: Tell you what a real man is!
The fans in the stadium saw it clearly, and Torres, who had just run to the middle line, suddenly turned blue when he saw this, and he knew that Degan's words were mocking him.
"Degan's goal! It's Degan's goal again, this guy never seems to stop, just before the header, Chelsea's central defender Branislav Ivanovic is in front of him, he is as weak as a child! At the same time, Digan also seems to have told Torres how to play the position of center forward! ”
After Digan's goal, Torres' performance in this game was completely subpar, and he seemed to be so keen on hand-to-hand combat with Vertonghen that he completely forgot about his job, while Degan was able to rise up front after revitalizing the team's attack.
The deadlock on the pitch was broken, and Chelsea could no longer continue to play defensive counter-attacks, and if they didn't want to break their unbeaten run this season, their only option was to attack.
And it had to be an equalizer in the first half!
By looking at past matches, whether at Atalanta, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Barcelona or even the Belgian national team, with the exception of the 2006 World Cup final, Deegan has been able to win as long as his team can take the lead in the first half.
Seeing Digan celebrating on the pitch, Di Matteo on the sidelines couldn't help but feel shocked, and the shadow of last season's Champions League final hit his heart in an instant.
For Di Matteo, who had no coaching experience, that game was a never-ending nightmare, seeing that the title was about to arrive, but with Degan coming out, two goals completely sent Di Matteo from heaven to hell, and since that game, Di Matteo has woken up from his dream several times.
Now the battlefield has shifted to the Premier League, but the nightmare of Deegan has always been with us.
Offensive!
Di Matteo made a quick decision, he had already lost to Deegan once and must not lose a second time!
On the pitch, Chelsea immediately adjusted the formation, from the initial defensive counterattack, to an all-out attack, but Torres, the "fulcrum", was firmly controlled by Vertonghen, the front field lacked a standing centre-forward, Chelsea's attack can only threaten the Tottenham goal through the midfield attack group of long-range shots.
Friedel is an old man who talks about juvenile madness, at the age of forty, he is still very agile, and he constantly resists high, so that Chelsea's attack can only hit a wall repeatedly.
While withstanding Chelsea's attack, Tottenham were also waiting for an opportunity to counter-attack, and in the 35th minute of the first half, Modric won the ball in the middle and suddenly sent a penetrating pass, and Digan suddenly appeared in front of the Chelsea penalty area.
"Danger! Stop him! ”
Cech roared loudly, Ivanovic pounced at the first time, Ferreira was also moving in the direction of Degan, Deegan felt the situation behind him, the original stop action, suddenly changed, with his back to the goal, the outside of his right foot, the ball went to one end, the ball bounced up violently, flew directly into the Chelsea penalty area, and then Deegan turned around, bypassed Ivanovic, and pounced to the middle.
It was Bale again, and the moment Deegan passed the ball, he slammed into the Chelsea box from the left, spotted the ball and fired a shot.
Cech reacted dissatisfied, fell to the ground and made a block with his foot, and the ball was blocked, but ~~~~~~
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!”
Deegan opened his arms and began to celebrate again.
A clever follow-up shot once again found the back of the net that Cech was guarding.
Seeing this, Di Matteo couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, with a depressed face, turned around and walked back to the coach's box, sat down expressionlessly, and looked at the field blankly, he could feel that this game was out of action again.
It wasn't just Di Matteo, but the Chelsea players on the pitch were also stunned by Deagan's two goals.
As for the stands, the originally enthusiastic Roman Abramovich had already left Stamford Bridge after Digan scored the second goal, and this was the first time since he took charge of Chelsea, leaving the pitch early before the game was over.