Verse 635 The hungry beast of prey
Chinese Zhao Yaning, who was standing at the penalty spot, was indeed laughing, but he was not laughing at Liverpool getting a good chance, but at making fun of Klinsmann, or Chelsea's coaching staff. He even said, to put it more plainly, that he was laughing at Abu.
Last season, and even further on, Chelsea's set-piece defence has been a typical parallel position. At that time, Chelsea had three high points, Terry, Carvalho, and Gala, and the players' individual air defense was strong, so they naturally had no problem playing parallel positions. However, now Chelsea has lost Galla, in their penalty area, only Terry and Carvalho still have good header defensive ability, Ashley Cole is better than Galla as a full-back, but it is not a good high point, their players have changed, but this tactical detail, but the problem of tactical details, has not changed.
For such reasons, Zhao Yaning can think of one or two: everyone understands that zone defense is a better idea for header defense, but the problem is that zone defense is also the most troublesome set-piece idea. Benitez also quarreled with Carragher about this when Liverpool changed their defensive strategy, and the team also conceded goals for this. Such a change is not very easy to do. At that time, in order to produce results quickly and for stability, Mourinho did not arrange the area defense, and chose to rely on the ability of the players, rather than excellent tactics to achieve defensive play, which can be regarded as teaching according to aptitude. Now, the players have developed a habit of not wanting to make any changes, and the coaching staff is not thinking about the actual situation and just letting it develop, which is too indulgent for the players.
Seeing that such a thing was enough to make Zhao Yaning laugh. Zhao Yaning remembered the comments of some German media about Klinsmann's coaching of the German team: an idealist who always makes plans too well, but lacks enough elaborate arrangements in execution. Some people even say that his tactical arrangement is completely done by assistant coach Loew. Looking at the beautiful football slogan he shouted, and then looking at his arrangement of this detail, Zhao Yaning can understand some of the meaning of these words. Moreover, although this sentence is vague, its real meaning is probably nothing more than that he is ambitious and talented, and Klinsmann is afraid that he does not pay so much attention to details. He's got a great charisma and can make the players, the coaching staff and anyone really like him, and if you're willing to put in a bit of effort, take a team for a couple of years and work on the tactical details, you're definitely a good coach. It's a pity that his starting point is too high, he is only afraid of the future, and he doesn't like to mix small teams so much.
And Abu invited him, so naturally don't expect him to change too much in the current situation of the team: in fact, Zhao Yaning seems to be the same for whoever is invited, no matter who comes, he will not dare to make a big change in the face of leaving without a championship. This Chelsea team, although it is very strong, but if it wants to make big changes and improvements, I am afraid that it will have to wait for the old guys to retire.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yaning had already thought of a way. He kicked the ball to Reese, who was not far away, and ran out of the penalty spot himself.
It wasn't even a direct shot!
It's something the Chelsea players didn't expect. (Please use the pinyin domain name of this site to visit us.) How many times have Liverpool and Chelsea collided, when Zhao Yaning took a free kick, he preferred to drive directly into the penalty area, either to shoot or let his teammates attack the goal. The ball was near the corner and they looked like they were passing first. Liverpool players have never been afraid of Chelsea's physical confrontation, which also makes Chelsea players feel that Liverpool's arrangement is probably still a battle for the top, but this time, Zhao Yaning's approach was greatly unexpected. This made Chelsea's penalty area immediately chaotic.
At this time, Zhao Yaning had already run past Rieser's side. And at this moment, he also stretched out his hand and motioned for Reese to pass the ball over.
When he received the ball, Zhao Yaning had already run to the vicinity of the penalty area, and he had an angle of 30 degrees to the goal. At this time, Chelsea's penalty area was still in chaos, and players on both sides were crowding the offensive and defensive arrangements, but no one could know what Zhao Yaning would do at this time. And Zhao Yaning also attacked at this time: he didn't choose to pass the ball into the penalty area, but rubbed the ball up with one kick and hoisted the ball directly to the back point!
It's a shot!
When Cech reacted, he was still a little slower defensively. After all, there were several Liverpool players standing in front of him, Zhao Yaning did not serve directly, but chose to raid with the ball, Cech's understanding of Zhao Yaning, naturally thought that he was going to play cooperatively, but Zhao Yaning did not pass the ball this time, the ball he rubbed up, went directly to the far corner of the Chelsea gate, and caught Cech off guard.
Petr Cech didn't even have time to jump before he could just watch the shot fly into the Chelsea goal.
“gooooal!!!!! Zhao Yaning scored!! Liverpool took the lead, Liverpool took the lead over Chelsea! ”
Zhao Yaning looked at the stands and waved his fist. Being able to take the lead in a decisive cup match is obviously an extremely rare good thing, and being able to fool Cech and score a beautiful goal makes Zhao Yaning even more happy - the nameless ghost is boring to kill, and it is still such an opponent, which is exciting!
Soon, the game started again, and this time, it was clear that Chelsea, who were already behind, could not sit still and opted to pick up the pace.
It's hard enough for Chelsea. At this time, there was no one in the Chelsea players who had an absolute advantage in speed. Ballack and Frank Lampard are both considered slower players, while Essien, although fast, is the most slack in his technique, and the ball is not much faster when it reaches his feet.
But even with the speed, their chances didn't increase much. The Premier League has always attached great importance to the wings, and in the absence of a side attack to open the defense, the defense in front of the penalty area can almost block most of the opponent's attacks. In the face of such a Chelsea, the current Liverpool, relying on Sissoko alone, can almost complete the defense of several people, not to mention that behind him, there is still a best backline, Chelsea insists on the idea of attacking in the middle, and it can't open the situation at all.
Sheva, on the other hand, tried to get the ball back, did a few combinations, and tried to break through. It is a pity that Chelsea have long been accustomed to simple and rough attacking methods, small-scale cooperation, coordinated advancement, relying on awareness to tear apart the opponent's defense, this kind of Italian delicate play, is not good at Chelsea.
Lampard tried to get the ball on again, but when Shepchenko didn't see an opportunity and played the ball back to Lampard, Lampard didn't wait for Shepchenko to run, but fired a shot straight into the back of the net.
Shepchenko stood speechless on the edge of the penalty area for a long time before sighing and retreating.
This is not the football he knows, the football he knows, it is the football that is played by cooperation, cooperation, and inspiration. The football he knows is to make passing the ball the first priority, and strive to play a beautiful football that feels like every ball is in the goal. But that's not how Chelsea played. When they play, they just shoot when they have the opportunity and take more chances. Their players seem to have a common idea: every opportunity is hard-won, and now that it's at my feet, I'm going to have to try it.
Sheva does not understand, and is unlikely to understand, this kind of thought: those who are born in the clouds do not understand the eagerness of the underground people to climb up in order to grasp every opportunity. If Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba hadn't had the drive and determination to take every opportunity, they wouldn't have been able to excel enough. The different paths of growth determine that their thinking is also quite different.
Until half-time, Chelsea were 1-0 down. The practice of not playing on the wings and only playing in the middle has too much impact on them.
In the second half, Liverpool's offensive continued. Chelsea tried to defend better, but Ferreira struggled to keep Zhao Yaning, and their right-back's holes were too difficult to fill, and until now, they had to rely on Carvalho's repeated defenses to be able to barely stop Zhao.
And their offensive end, at this time, has not improved at all. Liverpool's defense is simply an impregnable wall for Chelsea - in fact, if you continue to play like this, Zhao Yaning feels that the defense of most teams in the Premier League is like an impregnable wall for them. At the start of the 04/05 season, the absence of Arjen Robben once again loomed over Chelsea, who were physically fit enough to grab enough chances, but lacked the means to convert them into goals effectively. Liverpool have Zhao Yaning who can constantly raid the Chelsea backline, but Chelsea have nothing, they can only sit back and watch the opponents continue to wreak havoc on their backline.
It's like two people wrestling, and the strength is about the same. However, while wrestling, one of them also has a knife in his hand, which can stab him twice continuously. In such a confrontation, Chelsea naturally fell behind.
However, no matter how much they fell to the bottom, Chelsea did not lose the idea of attacking. Mourinho has injected all kinds of unyielding and even a bit of a mixed temperament into this team, although he has left himself, but Chelsea will not easily admit defeat even if he falls behind.
Soon, after getting the ball again, Lampard was again pushing forward with the ball. Since the summer, his status and ability have been questioned, and many believe that Ballack can do better than him, but it is only because he is a veteran of the team that Ballack has had to make way for him - the claim that Frank Lampard is a ball master has emerged, which makes Lampard's desire to prove himself more and more urgent.
And in front of him, Drogba reached for the football.
The pressure on Drogba is far greater than that of Lampard, Ballack has a relatively calm personality after all, and Frank Lampard is the team's vice-captain and a homegrown player, and Ballack does not dare to do anything. But Drogba is different, he is an outsider, the notorious parallel commodity who can't score goals in the eyes of the whole Premier League, and his rival is Shepchenko, the European footballer who has a good relationship with his boss and transferred from the giants.
He needs to prove himself more than anyone else. Once, like Frank Lampard, he didn't understand why Liverpool were always able to burst out with unprecedented fighting power when they met Chelsea, but now, he understands a little: when people are questioned, they naturally have a greater desire to prove themselves.
Frank Lampard kicked the ball over. Behind Drogba is Nemanja Vidic, and his position is on the edge of the box. At this time, he could feel the pressure coming from behind him, but he didn't feel that he needed to care about it.
Anyway, what I need to do, it's not going to change because of anyone. No matter how strong you are, I have to score goals, because if I don't, I can't prove myself – that's your mentality, and now I really feel why you have to fight against the strong as a weakling.
Turn around and shoot!
“gooooal!!!! Didier Drogba!! A powerful shot! beautifully!! Reina had nothing to do and Drogba equalised!! ”
Drogba let out a roar at the goal. A new season, a new beginning, Chelsea does seem to be slipping, but Drogba, a beast, has never stopped his journey of chewing and swallowing food! Cat flutter Chinese