At the start of the second half, Chelsea made two decisive substitutions, replacing the inusable Sidwell for Essien.

Perhaps it wasn't true that John Terry and Frank Lampard had said something to Grant at half-time, with the Israelis not only bringing on Essien at half-time, but also setting up Alex to warm up on the sidelines.

The effect of the substitutions was immediate, at least Chelsea's midfield is standing on its feet.

Among Mikel, Essien, and Lampard, in addition to Mikel, who plays a defensive role, the other two are the kind of "B2B" midfielders who can go up and down, and with a specific division of labor, Lampard can be more involved in the attack.

Unlike in the first half, I had to help defend and organize the attack. Now that he can finally let go of the forward insertion, for a moment he has a faint feeling of the central midfielder charging forward in the previous two seasons.

In the same way, there is one person who feels this way.

That's Alan Smith.

At a time when the team's midfield suffered a large number of injuries, head coach George Lee finally put Smith in the central midfield position that he cherished the most.

In the first few games, Smith is slowly finding the feeling he used to have.

However, I don't know if it was because he played too much on the wing, and Smith actually didn't perform very well after returning to the middle.

It gives people a sense of looking ahead and backwards, attacking, defending, and organizing him to participate in everything, but none of them is particularly eye-catching.

George Lee also spotted the problem, especially after seeing Frank Lampard's performance in the first half, and he finally understood the root of the problem.

At half-time, George Lee specifically approached Alan Smith and explained the situation to him.

"I don't need you to be too involved in the team. You know how many pounds you have, you don't think Wesley is not here, you play his position and you have to do his job. ”

"Are you the kind of person who threatens the ball?"

"Think about what you did when I asked you to play in midfield?"

"Push it, go hit the opponent's defense, go grab it. Alan! ”

"Rush up and grab them, then grab the ball and kick it into the goal."

Smith didn't understand why the head coach was talking to him like that.

I just thought about whether I could do more for the team, and the team lacked people to organize the attack, so I would do it myself. Just like when the team was short of people on the left side, he took the initiative to stand up and play on the left side.

George Li didn't seem to understand much about his disciple, so he hurriedly told him in a different way.

"I think that blue-clothed No. 8 is a little upset, can you kill him for me."

“OK！”

As soon as he said this, Smith came to his senses.

He has been watching this Lampard unhappy, not only has he to get something out with himself every time he plays, against himself; is more important in the national team, he can only be his substitute all the time.

Why?

Competency issues?

Certainly not, Smith has always considered himself one of the best centre-midfielders in England, especially with his attacking prowess being one of the best in the Premier League.

If Liverpool's Steven Gerrard is okay compared to himself, but why are you Frank Lampard so arrogant? Your Frank Lampard's goals are all brushed up with the team system, you see that Portugal manager is gone, what did you Frank Lampard play like today?

Since the manager asked me to get rid of Frank Lampard, I gave him some colour in the second half.

^^^

The two looked at each other in the tunnel before the start of the second half. If there is a special effect, the spark between the two is estimated to burn the entire Elland Road Stadium.

In the 51st minute, Chelsea's left side of Ashley Cole and Essien combined to get past James Milner, who was defending on the wing.

Then it was again to the retreating Shevchenko, who was stuck behind the Chelsea striker.

But Cole quickly plugged in at this time and received the ball passed to him by Shevchenko.

Leeds United's 352 formation exposed a shortcoming at this time, that is, there is only one full-back for the real defenders on the wing.

If that so-called full-back is pinned down by the opposing striker, the road will be wide open.

It just so happened that it was Chelsea who were extremely good on the wing.

After Cole got the ball, he didn't care about Phillips on the side, nor did he look at Shevchenko.

Sweeping the ball straight down the middle and looking for Frank Lampard.

Ashley Cole is also a smart guy and knows that this time can only be relied on by the core of the team. What Phillips, Shevchenko is unreliable. If Drogba had been on the pitch today, he might have tried to get in and through, but since Drogba wasn't there, he had to try to find Frank Lampard.

It was Barton who was originally targeting Frank Lampard in midfield, but Barton did not keep a watch, allowing Lampard to get rid of it and seize the opportunity to step forward.

The 'magic lamp' picked up the ball on the left side of the penalty area and struggled for most of the game, with Lampard finally finding the opportunity in his favourite spot.

Stopping the ball, dialing the ball in one go, and then definitely a volley.

Van der Sar saw Frank Lampard's position and was ready to make a save.

It's just that a white figure suddenly appeared, making Van der Sar prepare for it in vain.

Alan Smith, out of nowhere, broke the ball off the line before Frank Lampard could shoot.

"Well done, Captain."

Leeds United's centre-back Albuchesen rushed over as soon as possible and pulled up Smith.

And Van der Sar also came over and hugged Smith, who was many years younger than him but was the captain of the team. Despite his youth, Van der Sar feels that Smith is a qualified captain. He also knows where he stands and is a manager who wants to help Smith become a qualified captain.

Now it seems that Smith is more than up to the task.

Frank Lampard looked at Smith viciously from the sidelines, and it was the bastard who had ruined his own good deeds.

In the 60th minute, Smith was brought down by Frank Lampard as he pushed forward and the referee showed yellow cards to both men.

The reason why the fouled one had to be dealt with was because Smith quickly got up and pushed Frank Lampard after falling to the ground, and the two almost caused a big confrontation.

The referee can only be on the top 20 boards.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Smith's shot was blocked by Terry.

In the 71st minute of the game, Frank Lampard gave Shevchenko a through ball, and the Ukrainian was blocked by Van der Sar.

In the 78th minute, Frank Lampard seized the opportunity and finally got back to Smith, who fell to the ground as the Chelsea no.8 elbowed him to the head as the two battled near the centre circle.

Luckily for Smith and Frank Lampard escaped a second yellow card, he would have been sent off.

The two of them just go back and forth, constantly competing against each other. The score between the two teams has remained 2-0, but the second half was clearly a little more exciting than the first, at least not one-sided.

Chelsea have also threatened Leeds United on a number of occasions.

Just when all the home fans thought the game would end 1-0, Alan Smith suddenly exploded.