Chapter 956: The Two Heroes (Medium)
Force!
Referee Webb's whistle blows. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Kick!
An undoubted free kick!
The movements of the Carragra people are too obvious for the earthlings to see.
The free-kick was in good position in goal, but the Chelsea players were not happy and felt Carragher should be given a yellow card.
At Liverpool's home stadium, the opening was only ten minutes, how could Weber have so much courage to give a yellow card, not to mention that this foul was not a foul that had to be given a yellow card, Webber ignored the Chelsea players and directly signaled the Chelsea players to kick off quickly.
The Chelsea players just felt that Webber was young and took the opportunity to put pressure on him, hoping to get the benefits in the later games, but Webber ignored it and did not continue to dwell on it.
Standing in front of the ball were Chelsea's central midfielder, Frank Lampard, and Didier Drogba, who created the free-kick.
Frank Lampard stood in front of goal, Webber blew the whistle, Lampard flicked the ball horizontally, Drogba pulled his foot and fired angrily, while the Chelsea players standing in the wall crouched down to give Drogba room to shoot.
Didier Drogba tried to shoot through the wall with his own power, and the Chelsea players in the wall worked well together, but the Liverpool players bravely jumped over to block the gun's eye, and Arbeloa just blocked the whizzing ball.
The ball hit Arbelloa's back, and Abelloa crouched on the ground in pain.
The ball was picked up by Chelsea midfielder Wright, who ignored the Liverpool player who was crouching on the ground and continued to attack Liverpool's penalty area with the ball.
Wright's behavior annoyed the Liverpool players, first Pennant made a flying tackle to try to bring Wright Jr. down, but was dodged by Wright, but Chen Yu hit another flying tackle behind the side, shoveling Wright Jr. twice.
Force! The poignant whistle sounded again, and this time Webb showed a yellow card to Chen Yu, who deliberately shoveled people.
"Stupid!"
"Black Whistle! You're blind! ”
"Shovel him! Uneducated pigs! I can't see any of us hurt! ”
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The Liverpool fans in the stands were gone, and they let out loud boos at referee Webb and Wright Jr., who had just seen an injured player attacking.
Chen Yu didn't care, shrugged his shoulders and walked away, he was a striker, it didn't matter if he got a yellow card, he had been having an evil fire in his heart for a while, and now he had a shovel of this unsportsmanlike fool, and he was much more comfortable.
Chelsea were awarded another direct free-kick, but this time it was a little too wide to shoot straight at goal.
It doesn't matter though, Chelsea's free-kicks are strong, Frank Lampard's passes are good, Terry, Drogba and others have excellent headers, so set-pieces from any position are good opportunities for them.
Liverpool are well prepared for Chelsea's set-pieces, everyone has the right people to defend on, and there are two people like Didier Drogba and John Terry who are watching and never let Liverpool take the lead with set-piece opportunities.
Frank Lampard whipped in a low corner, the ball was so fast that none of the players in front of the post could get it, and the attacking and defending players in the middle fought hard to keep each other elbowed, and after a slight delay, the ball flew quickly in front of him.
The players at the back post were well prepared, Essien and Reese stuck each other, hugging each other almost like wrestling, and neither could jump up to grab the point, but full-back Ashley. Kerr used his speed to shake off Finnan and headed back to the edge of the box just as the ball was about to fly off the line.
At this time, the players who grabbed the point in the penalty area and the defensive players thought that the ball must be out of bounds, the Chelsea players were about to go back, and the Liverpool players also gave up marking the players who were marking their own marks, and suddenly saw Ashley Cole put the ball back again, the attacking players hurried to grab the point, and the defensive players hurried to find someone, and for a while the chaos inside and outside the penalty area was like a hornet's nest.
At this time, the defensive players are the most unfavorable, it turns out that they are one-on-one defense, who is staring at everyone is clear, now it is so chaotic, no one can find who is staring, the vast majority of them are misplaced defense, and there must be players who miss the defense, whether they can prevent it is almost a matter of luck.
Liverpool's luck was bad, it was Didier Drogba who appeared before the drop, and the closest to Drogba was Pennant.
Pennant himself is a pure offense, his defensive ability is very average, and his body is not a grade compared to Drogba, when he saw Drogba rushing over, Pennant was ready to use his body to get in the position, and then he was like being hit by a train, and he was directly knocked away, and he didn't even have a chance to pull people.
Drogba stopped the ball on his chest and rushed into the penalty area, and without waiting for the ball to land, he raised his right foot and shot it, and the ball flew towards the goal like a cannonball.
There were a lot of people in the penalty area, and even if they aimed at the goal, they didn't dare to say that they couldn't touch anyone, but Drogba's shot was so miraculous that it got through the extremely narrow human gap.
As long as such a ball is forced, it is basically incomprehensible, and the goalkeeper will not be able to react even if his vision is not blocked, let alone his vision is blocked.
Reina subconsciously wanted to save when he saw Drogba shooting, but his body had just finished accumulating, and before his feet left the ground, the ball went into the net, and his body was fixed there like a sculpture, and he couldn't move anymore.
1:0
After the goal, Drogba lifted his shirt over his head, slapped his furry chest vigorously, and let out a beastly roar.
The Chelsea players ran towards Drogba and pounced on him like koalas.
Drogba's wild celebrations were a huge inspiration to the Chelsea fans who came to watch the game, and in a very short period of time, Anfield was almost the home of the Blues.
Mourinho went crazy on the sidelines, jumping up and slamming his fist hard, then darting along the sideline before sliding to his knees onto the pitch.
Jose Mourinho's passionate performance once again irritated the Chelsea fans, with their cheers and applause reaching a new level, almost reaching the sky.
While Drogba celebrated, the Liverpool fans were stunned by the goal they had just conceded, and Mourinho's pretending to annoy the Liverpool fans and they booed almost in unison.
The Liverpool fans at Anfield were almost three times as large as the Chelsea fans, and the boos they booed together were not comparable to the Chelsea fans, but they instantly covered out all the voices in the stadium, and there was only a flood of boos on the field, and no Chelsea fans could be heard any more.
Benitez stood on the sidelines, looking calm, but his heart was already full of mixed feelings.
After Mourinho landed in the Premier League, the reason why he was able to win two league titles quickly was not only the strength of the strong capital, but also the superhuman defensive ability of Mourinho.
Jose Mourinho once said this arrogantly about his defense: if we don't score, then the score is 0:0, if we score, the score is 1:0.
Because he is very afraid of Chelsea's defense, every time Benitez and Chelsea meet, he will put the defense in the supreme position, score when he can, never force if he can't score, never concede the goal first, because once he loses the ball, it is difficult to break through Chelsea's defense, especially if he wants to break Chelsea's defense without conceding a goal.
Benitez was a little complacent due to his comprehensive victory over Chelsea last season, and he was not as cautious as he used to be when he played against Chelsea again, and it was only now that Chelsea had scored that Benitez did not feel good.
Although this is not the time to panic, it is not appropriate to stand here motionless and not say a word.
Benitez called the players who were closer to the sidelines and gave them a few words of encouragement, telling them to forget about the score and continue to play according to the pre-match tactical plan.
At this time, in fact, whether it is simple or complex tactical deployment is not very useful, the real role to remember, is to make substitutions, or to make big tactical changes at halftime, the coach does this, at most it is a comfort to the players and themselves, which means that I am working hard.
In the VIP box, Abramovich was excited, he rushed to the sidelines and applauded vigorously, not only for Drogba, but also for Mourinho, to be honest, after the end of last season, Abramovich was actually a little suspicious and worried about Mourinho, he doubted and worried that Mourinho still has the ability to overturn Liverpool's suppression and get the first Champions League trophy for Chelsea. This shows that Mourinho is still at a good level in terms of training and management.
"Just beat Liverpool...... Abramovich thought in his heart, he believes that by beating Liverpool, Chelsea's biggest obstacle to world dominance will be removed.
In another box, Liverpool's owners Hicks and Gillette were there, they were a little disappointed and surprised to see Liverpool concede, but they didn't react much, the main reason why they were able to keep their composure was because they had enough confidence in Chen Yu, they believed that Chen Yu would definitely score and help Liverpool equalize, this belief was so strong, strong that Hicks and Gillette felt a little incredible.
The commentator at the scene was cheering for Drogba: "...... Drogba! The elephants of Côte d'Ivoire are in power! He crashed into Pennant and scored the leading goal! Didier Drogba showed his tank-like strength, and in front of him, the defenders were like papier-mâché, and a player couldn't defend at all, no wonder Chelsea fans said before the game that Liverpool had Chen Yu and Chelsea had Drogba...... Now the pressure is all on Liverpool and Chen Yu, if Liverpool can't equalize quickly, with the speed of the Chelsea counter-attack, it will be almost impossible for Liverpool to resist for a long time......"
The coaches and players know better, but it is not easy to equalize quickly, you have to be patient, the more you rush to score, maybe it backfires, and you end up conceding more goals.
So after Drogba's goal, Liverpool did not immediately speed up the pace of the game, nor did they put the premise of the formation, or attack like the original, but when there was a chance to score, Liverpool's players pressed forward very resolutely and boldly, and were no longer as cautious as Drogba was before the goal.
In the 12th minute of the game, Arbeloa held the ball and attacked along the sideline, and under the response of the central player, he played two wall-hitting combinations with Alonso and Gerrard in a row, and then shook off all the defenders and came to the corner of the penalty area, directly facing Chelsea's full-back Essien.
Chen Yu was worried that Abelloa would not be able to break through Essien, so he deliberately moved to the side, preparing to meet Aberoa.
Arbeloa was also excited, and when he faced Essien, he actually beckoned to Chen Yu, made a passing feint, and then suddenly accelerated to start, ready to force a breakthrough through Essien.
Essien's attention was also more focused on the pass, not expecting Arbeloa to be so bold and dare to force a breakthrough, Essien decided to give him some color, he made a horizontal flying tackle, and shoveled Arbeloa with the ball.
Force!
Referee Webb's whistle blew again and Essien was given a yellow card.
It was a dispensable yellow card, but now that Chelsea are ahead, Arbeloa put in a brilliant performance, and referee Webber did not resist the pressure from the home fans and gave Essien a yellow card to calm Chelsea's emotions.
Chelsea now have a goal in hand and are not so concerned about the yellow card, only arguing a couple of sentences before conceding it.
The free-kick was not well placed and amounted to a short corner at best, but Liverpool still took it seriously and everyone pressed around the Chelsea box and the goalkeeper came out to watch.
It was Alonso who took the corner, Chen Yu grabbed the point in the middle, and Gerrard was ready to shoot from the edge of the box.
Alonso's kick-off was composed, the ball was not fast, but the landing point was excellent, and he said that whoever passes it over the head will pass it to whomever the head has very little deviation.
It's just that with Chelsea's defensive ability and intensity, Alonso's passing method is not so easy to use, this time his pass accurately found Liverpool's strongest scorer Chen Yu, but Chen Yu couldn't take the ball under the attack of two Chelsea players, and barely jumped up and just rubbed the ball on his scalp.
Although Chen Yu was ashamed that he was not able to grab the landing point, what he didn't expect was that the direction of the change made the player on the other side, who had no hope of grabbing the landing point, get the landing point.
Reese didn't hesitate to head the ball into the box for his team-mates and Chelsea players to battle it out.
Reese wanted to win as Chelsea had scored, but his luck was clearly not as good as Chelsea's, and the ball was snatched up by a Chelsea player and headed straight off the touchline to end Liverpool's attack.