Chapter 719 - The Usage of Long Passing Punch Hanging
Chelsea have won the last five league games against Liverpool, which may not even be able to stand God, directly killing Chelsea's three central defenders, no Terry, no Blarros, no Carvalho, which makes Chelsea's defense directly second-rate.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is definitely a very smart guy and he devised a strategy to get rid of Chelsea's centre-backs after knowing that they had injured three centre-backs, and it only took four minutes to prove that it worked.
However, being able to score so quickly is not only about the correct tactics, no matter how correct the tactics are, no matter how many opportunities there are, someone must be able to grasp it. It just so happened that Chen Yu, who was bought by Liverpool in the summer, came back, and Chen Yu, who was known as an average of one goal per game, was even better after his comeback, scoring 14 goals in 10 games, and has become a thigh-level figure on Liverpool's forward line, and now he has helped Liverpool open the scoring and directly opened the door to victory for Liverpool.
After Liverpool's goal, the Chelsea were a little anxious.
As the defending champion of the league, the team is full of big names, there are experienced veterans, domineering forwards, offensive and defensive midfielders, and a manager known as God's second, who has a psychological advantage over Liverpool in the league, so they shouldn't be in a hurry, but because of this tofu scum defense, Chelsea people really can't calm down, they are worried that they don't know when the central defenders are nervous, Liverpool may expand the score, so Chelsea's players hope to equalize early, Avoid being counter-attacked by Liverpool's strikers.
Mikel made a long pass to Drogba, wanting to use the forward's ferry to create opportunities for Kalou and Ballack and Frank Lampard like Liverpool.
However, Liverpool's backline is not Chelsea's cameo nature, Carragher and Ager are both full of strength, one person can't resist the monster Drogba, and under the two of them, Drogba has no play, after all, he is not as advantageous as Crouch in height.
Mikel and Ballack made two long passes, Drogba was not able to take advantage of Liverpool's defenders, Chelsea fortunately did not drill the horns, after the long pass was hung a few times, to see if it didn't work, immediately changed the way, and it became Robben, Kalou, Geremi, Ashley Cole four people broke through on the wing, creating a cross opportunity for the striker.
Arjen Robben and Ashley Cole are one of Chelsea's sharpest wings, and the combination of the two can beat most of the world's defences, but today they met their opponents, Chen Yu and full-back Finnan were very solid on the wing, directly freezing one of Chelsea's most important points of attack.
Chelsea as the most wealthy giants, they are full of talent, they also have excellent attacking players on the right side, Geremi and Kalou two attack Liverpool's left side to take a lot of advantage, although Risse is also very strong, but under the strong pressure of Chelsea's midfield, the lack of help Risse also played averagely, in just five minutes by Kalaw and Geremi each broke through, but Liverpool protected the penalty area very well, not only did not give Drogba a chance, but launched a fierce counterattack.
However, Risse is not the master of bullying, in the seventh minute of the game, Liverpool launched a quick counterattack, the ball hit the front again with a long pass, Chen Yu ferried to Gerrard, Gerrard took two steps, saw that Chelsea's players were almost attracted by Chen Yu and Crouch, Richie, who was inserted at high speed from the fullback position, was unguarded, and Gerrard immediately got up with a long pass and hoisted to the Chelsea penalty area.
Risse took a few steps to burst into the Chelsea penalty area and fired a shot into the top left corner of the net before goalkeeper Petr Cech could arrive.
The long-range shot was Risse's masterpiece, Gerrard's long ball landed very well, Risse shot with a very high quality, and after the shot he was ready to cheer, he didn't think the goalkeeper would be able to save such a shot from a small angle.
But today's Cech suddenly felt like Chen Yu possessed his body, although it was the first comeback, but his reaction and consciousness did not look like a goalkeeper who had been injured for more than a year.
Petr Cech had already attacked, but when he saw Riese shooting, he immediately stepped back and then flew to save the Liverpool full-back's shot.
"Bang Bang!"
Seeing that Cech still had such excellent saving skills and reaction speed, the Chelsea fans erupted in a warm cheer, and the Liverpool fans in the stadium did not even boo the helmet-wearing goalkeeper.
The on-site narrator said regretfully: "...... It was definitely the best save of the round and without Cech's save there would have been almost no suspense between Chelsea and Liverpool......
Benitez on the sidelines saw that Riese's shot was saved, he patted his thigh regretfully, such an opportunity was not seized, it was a pity, if it was replaced by Chen Yu's ......, Benitez didn't dare to think about it anymore, the picture was too beautiful.
Jose Mourinho watched Chelsea's defence leak so much that he flew up in anger and kicked the billboard down.
Chelsea were stunned and got possession of the ball and continued to play long balls, but Drogba was defenced and Kalou was barely seen, as if he were wearing an invisibility suit, only Frank Lampard and Ballack followed up and fired two long-range shots, but neither of them hit the woodwork.
In the eighth minute of the game, under the pressure of Liverpool's forwards, Ferreira hurriedly passed the ball back to goalkeeper Cech when he had a problem, the ball speed was too fast, Cech ran over and didn't touch it, the ball rolled directly out of the bottom line, and Liverpool won the second corner kick since the opening without blood.
Seeing that the so-called all-round defender Ferreira was so clumsy, Mourinho didn't even bother to get angry, he sat in the coach's box and watched his players perform.
Liverpool's corner kick was taken by captain Steven Gerrard, and after Gerrard and Chen Yu exchanged a few words, Chen Yu and Crouch came to the box to compete for a header.
Before Gerrard did not serve, Chen Yu was by Crouch's side, first, he could help Crouch share the pressure, and second, it was possible to catch Crouch and the opponent scramble for the leaked ball, but Gerrard's pass, Chen Yu suddenly slanted into the middle to the side of the penalty area, and Mikel, who was staring at Chen Yu, was obviously a little inattentive and was left behind by Chen Yu.
Chen Yu rubbed the ball back against Gerrard, and the ball flew high into the middle.
Chen Yu's back rub is very beautiful, the height is just over the defender, and the height is 2. 02's Crouch was just like a fish in water, he also completed a header under Ferreira's close defense, the ball flew against the crossbar towards the goal, but this time Crouch's shot was also miraculously saved by goalkeeper Cech.
Unable to find a chance in successive attacks, or even finding a shot on target, the Chelsea players calmed down and spent ten minutes proving that long balls and slings did not do much for Liverpool, at least not as efficiently as goals.
Although Chelsea's manager Jose Mourinho did not speak at this time, Chelsea deserved to be the defending champions, and most of the players in the team were experienced players, and they knew that the opponent could play simply, because their own back line was too fragile, and the opponent's striker was too strong, and he couldn't play long passes, at least not only long passes, and Chelsea's players began to try a combination of attacking tactics in the middle and on the wing.
Chelsea's overall strength is actually above Liverpool, their biggest problem is that the centre-backs are too clumsy, and they were caught by Benitez so badly that they conceded the ball in the opening four minutes, and now they let go of the attack, the two wings opened up the break, and Drogba in the middle was the axis, making the ball for Kalou, Lampard and Ballack.
Although Chelsea's cooperation is not as delicate as Barcelona's, but at least there is a cooperation in the middle, plus they are all stars with strong individual ability, after a simple cooperation in the middle, Frank Lampard, Ballack, Kalou and Drogba are single-handedly with Liverpool, Chelsea's advantage comes.
In the 12th minute, Essien made a long pass, Drogba headed the ball, and Carragher grabbed the header before Kalaw cleared.
In the 13th minute, Geremi's throw-in from the right side was thrown into the penalty area, and Carragher's clearance hit teammate Ager and bounced off the bottom line. Frank Lampard then whipped in a corner from the right and Drogba headed wide from nine yards out.
In the 15th minute, Ballack crossed from the right, Drogba chested the ball, and Finnan cleared it from behind. Frank Lampard then whipped in a corner from the right and Ballack nodded wide from distance.
After adjusting their tactical play, Chelsea quickly gained the upper hand, shooting and possessing more time, and Liverpool's lead was in jeopardy, and they could be equalised at any time.
At this time, Benitez also quickly responded.
Alonso and Gerrard's double midfield configuration, in the hands of the very casual rotation of Bei Shuai, is a rare chess piece, especially when the game enters the second half of the stage, as long as the two are not injured, not sick and not suspended, it must be Alonso's main attack, Gerrard's main defensive configuration, from the cup to the league, it is better to be, but now Liverpool is facing heavy pressure, playing technical flow The Red Army does not have an advantage, not to mention Ballack and Lampard, Mikel and Kalou are capable enough to disrupt the Red Army's defense, and it is easy to be broken through by the opponent when playing against the attack, Now with a one-goal lead, Benitez has made a huge change to the "Ajay group" - from attacking and defending to being all in the main defence, Gerrard and Alonso have become defensive midfielders.
Alonso and Gerrard have become defensive midfielders in fact, there is not much loss to the attack, from the beginning to the present, Liverpool only have one tactic, that is, long passes and long shots, Alonso has a passing ability from 60 meters away, he can always use the same long ball as precision guidance to cause trouble for Chelsea.
Liverpool have a lot of long-range shooters, and they don't need captain Steven Gerrard and Alonso to play in person, they just do blue-collar work at the back, which is very important to ensure the safety of the goal.
Alonso and Gerrard all operate around the center circle, not attacking lightly, only engaging in "sabotage", just trying to stifle the opponent's desire to attack in the center circle.
Rafael Benitez's tactics made Chelsea play very awkwardly, they had already made a combination of side and center, and now they were stuck by Alonso and Gerrard near the centre circle, and the forward, forward and back lines were disconnected, and Chelsea wanted to get the ball up front and had to pass it through long balls, which was exactly what they didn't want to do.
Now relying on the players' self-adjustment is no longer working, Mourinho has just stepped to the sidelines at this moment and began to teach his players the opportunity to use the injury time to prepare for the equalisation in the first half, otherwise it will be too much of a blow to Chelsea's enthusiasm.