super football star

Chapter 687 The One Point Gap
Since Mourinho moved in, defense has been Chelsea's housekeeping skill. With that extremely oppressive defense, Mourinho's Chelsea once dominated the Premier League.

Although Mourinho has left Chelsea for many years now, Chelsea's defensive ability has not been completely lost, not to mention that the head coach is still an Italian.

What Italy is most famous for is defense. As an Italian coach, defense is at his fingertips for Di Matteo.

Looking at Chelsea's defense in the first half, you can see that throughout the first half, Manchester City's offensive was quite strong, but they were still unable to break the deadlock.

Of course, if this continues, Van Basten is not worried. The players are just normal people, not robots. A game lasts nine to 10 minutes. It is impossible for players to maintain their attention for nine to 10 minutes without making mistakes.

Manchester City just needed a chance, a chance for Chelsea players to make mistakes. At that time, Van Basten believed that his team could completely change the situation on the field.

"However~~~ In the second half, we need to be careful about Chelsea's offense. If we defend for a long time, we will lose. Chelsea is likely to change its tactics and play against us in the second half," Van Basten finally reminded when the intermission was about to end.

However, it is clear that Van Basten was a little overwhelmed. After the second half of the game restarted, Chelsea's tactics did not change, and there were no changes in personnel. Both sides maintained the opening lineup.

Although the right to kick-off belonged to Chelsea, the first shot in the second half belonged to Manchester City. A long-range shot from Li Feng was finally blocked by Cahill with his body.

After Meirelles crossed the center line, he cooperated with Mata, but was suddenly double-teamed by Yaya Toure and Li Feng, and finally lost the ball. Yaya Toure made a long pass from the backcourt and hoisted the ball into the Chelsea penalty area.

Dzeko rushed into the penalty area, but Luiz and Cahill had a clear division of labor. Luiz faced Dzeko, and Cahill took the opportunity to clear the ball with a header, but the ball still landed at the feet of Manchester City.

Aguero, followed by the Manchester City striker, moved laterally to the center, but while Aguero controlled the ball, Ashley Cole had followed, blocking Aguero's way to advance and shoot.

"Here~~~" Just when Aguero was about to make a strong attack, the voice behind him made Aguero change his original intention, turned around and passed diagonally, blue number 7.

It turned out that Li Feng had already advanced from the back at this moment. Although Ramirez, Mikel and even Lampard were beside him, among the three, except for Ramirez who could barely keep up with Li Feng, the other two couldn't catch up with Li Feng at all. One was over [-] years old, and the other was not good at speed at all.

Explosive power~~~Simple and rough, at the moment when Aguero passed the ball, Li Feng used his excellent explosive power to throw away Ramirez beside him, and then just shot a long shot without making any adjustments.

In Li Feng's original idea, the ball passed Cahill back, because Cahill might block Cech's sight, but Cahill's subconscious one-step movement just happened to stop the ball, and was finally stopped by him. Louis followed up immediately to make a clearance.

Chelsea took advantage of the situation to counterattack quickly. Mata broke through and made a direct pass. Torres completed Chelsea's first kick in the second half. His strong shot from inside the penalty area was directly confiscated by Joe Hart.

In 6 minutes, Manchester City almost broke the deadlock. The two Argentines on the right played with Ashley Cole.

However, it was Petr Cech who stood up in the end, an incredible turn and fly, the ball finally hit the crossbar and bounced back to the penalty area, Dzeko, but Dzeko's header did not hit the ball inside the goal.

"It's a pity~~~ It's a pity. Dzeko almost pushed the ball out of the baseline when facing an empty goal. However, I have to say that Cech's performance in this game was really wonderful. The turning back just now was definitely the most exciting save of this round, and he even has a chance to compete for the best save of the season."

As the saying goes, if you survive a catastrophe, you will have blessings. No one thought that Chelsea, who had been passive, would be the first to break the deadlock in this game.

And the meritorious service is still two central defenders. In 9 minutes, Ramirez took a long shot from outside the penalty area and was blocked by Joe Hart. Chelsea won a corner kick.

Mata sent the ball into the penalty area of ​​Manchester City, but it was Manchester City, Yaya Toure who got the first spot. Manchester City's midfielder made a header and landed at the feet of Dawai De Jong.

But before De Jong passed the ball, Louis had already rushed out of the penalty area and directly stuck to De Jong. With Ivanovic stepping forward to fight, De Jong was immediately pinched back and forth.

De Jong was not Li Feng. Under the attack of the two, Manchester City's midfielder didn't even have a chance to clear the siege. Ivanovic kicked the ball back into the penalty area and landed at the feet of Cahill who was retreating.

Turning around and shooting, people who didn't know thought Cahill was a striker, and his movements were smooth and smooth, which could be compared to a real striker.

"GOAL~~~Goal~~~Goal~~~Cahill~~No~~No~~No, not Cahill, this is an own goal, no~~ This ball should be counted on Cahill, his shot hit Yaya Toure's leg, and then changed lanes and rushed into Manchester City's goal, but Yaya Toure didn't lift his leg at all.

"Unexpected result. It was all No. 60 minutes of the game. Chelsea broke the deadlock first. Three defenders made contributions. Luiz and Ivanovic's front and rear pincers forced De Jong to lose the ball. Cahill's movement of turning and shooting with the ball was comparable to that of a striker."

When Chelsea scored, the Manchester City fans didn't even react. After all, it was too unexpected to go in. You must know that for six and 10 minutes, it was their own team that had the advantage.

It wasn't until the Chelsea fans celebrated wildly that the Manchester City fans reacted, followed by huge boos. Of course, this was not for the Manchester City players, but for the opponent. This is the Ittihad. Here, no one can act wild.

The fans in the stands fought for the top, the players on the field fought for the top, and when they saw their opponents scoring a goal ahead of them, the Manchester City players must be lying if they said they were not depressed.

Now that Chelsea scored the first goal, Manchester City will be completely passive in the next game. This also indicates that Manchester City has no way out in this game, because as early as two days ago, Manchester United bloodbathed the Wolves away.

(End of this chapter)