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Chapter 728 Pepe vs Shevchenko

When Mourinho was once again cheated by his full-back, Jose also thought in his mind that the score was already ahead, but the game only started for three minutes, and Chelsea was still very strong. It seems that there is still a fierce battle to fight next. But now that he is leading, Mallorca can play more calmly.

This concealment obviously hurts Chelsea's morale - if the opponent scored a goal, it might not have hurt so much. However, it was a concealment caused by his own player's mistake. Bolaruz was a little sad after this mistake. After re-teleblow, Chelsea's offense was a little weak for a while.

Chelsea have three forwards in this game, but unlike the previous three forwards, Shepchenko is more like a center, and Drogba is active in the middle, while Robben is roaming on both sides. Anyway, he can play on both sides.

Mallorca uses more man-tagging tactics in defense. Matthias follows Drogba. These two are old opponents, while Pepe is responsible for guarding Shepchenko. His speed is barely able to keep up with the nuclear warheads at his peak. Robben is defending wherever he goes. As for the opponent's midfield, Mallorca's midfield will naturally be used to deal with it.

After the round-trip pass, Chelsea did not find any attack. After Robben took the ball, he would always face a full-back whose speed and reaction were no worse than himself. At most, he could complete a cross. If he wanted to cut across the cross, he would immediately fall into Mallorca's siege.

Lampard himself is not an organized midfielder. His strength is that he has long shots after forward and long shots. Essin is also a master of long shots. However, Mallorca's midfield strength is now quite high. The running of Sena Alonso and Barack alone is enough to lay a tight net at the front of the penalty area. After this period of game, Barack has completely integrated into the entire team. His running and confrontation have injected tough power into Mallorca's midfield, making Mallorca's midfielder not inferior to Chelsea's steel midfielder.

With neither the midfield nor the wing, Chelsea's last solution is to pass the ball to the two forwards, and then rely on the personal abilities of the two forwards to open the situation. However, it is not too easy for Drogba to find a chance to get the ball under Matthias's close guard. After all, Matthias is becoming more mature now, and his confrontation and reaction have been greatly improved. It is still possible to watch Drogba in the small area in the penalty area.

In the end, Chelsea can only attack through one method - that is, pass the ball to Shepchenko. The Ukrainian nuclear warhead's personal breakthrough ability and long-range shooting ability are also excellent. Although he did not perform well after transferring to Chelsea, he was famous after all. In addition, Pepe, who is responsible for guarding him, is another newcomer, so Chelsea naturally regarded him as a breakthrough - although Mourinho was also puzzled, if Pepe was an ordinary newcomer, would he let Pepe play in such an important game? Even if

There is no such exercise method for training new players. Although the outcome of this game may not affect the teams of both sides from this group, after all, it can be seen from the first two rounds that both Mallorca and Chelsea have great advantages when facing Bremen and Sofialevski. Even if there are any mistakes between each other, there is still no problem qualifying from this group. Bremen was previously considered to have the possibility of disrupting the situation, but all the losses in the first two games seem to have no impact on Chelsea and Mallorca.

However, in any case, the importance of this game does not qualify in the group, but as the two top teams in Europe now, they had quite a lot of grudges before. Even in the last round of the group, both sides had already qualified in advance, Jose and Mourinho would not give up on this game. Then the dispatch of Pepe was definitely not for the purpose of training new players, but Jose has considerable confidence...

"Does this unknown defender really have that great ability? You Jose has such good eyesight?"

Mourinho thought in his heart that this is one of the reasons why he chose to make Shepchenko the main force of the offensive at this time and strive to open up the situation.

First of all, because there is a deadlock on the court, other positions may not be able to open the situation, and Shepchenko can become a weapon to open the situation. Secondly, Mourinho wants to see if the young central defender Jose is optimistic about is really that outstanding.

After Lampard got the ball in the midfield, he passed the ball directly to Shepchenko who pulled out of the penalty area. Pepe saved from the penalty area, while Mathias was guarding Drogba in the penalty area. If Shepchenko could shake over Pepe, he could tear a hole in Mallorca's defense line.

Shepchenko also knew very well that leaving AC Milan, who had been playing for seven years in the summer and joining Chelsea in cold London, is also a huge challenge for Shepchenko. She would choose to join another top team at the age of 30. For Shepchenko, in addition to Abu's kind invitation, she wanted to prove her strength in the UK.

However, his performance at Chelsea was not particularly outstanding. In the past eight rounds of the Premier League, he played every game, played five times, but scored only one goal. In the game where he scored, Chelsea also suffered the first loss of the season. Drogba has scored five goals in eight games, and Lampard also scored four goals. Compared with these two, Shepchenko's performance is quite average.

Shepchenko himself couldn't figure it out, because he still performed very well in AC Milan last season. He scored 19 goals in the league 28 times, and scored nine goals in the Champions League and became the second scorer in the World Cup. He also scored goals in the World Cup. He performed well, and there was no obvious decline in strength and speed, but he was in a bad state at the beginning of the Premier League - he could only explain that he had not adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League yet...

However, there is not too much time for him to adapt. He failed to score in two games in the Champions League. In the first round, Chelsea won by goals from two midfielders, Essin and Lampard, and in the last round, Drogba's hat trick - as a striker, unless you are Husky, no matter how many goals you score, it depends on your goals to measure your ability. Even if Abraham likes him, Mourinho insists on using him. However, if he doesn't score, fans will be very dissatisfied.

So in this situation, it is also an opportunity for him.

Mallorca used Pepe to guard him, and Shepchenko felt a little unhappy, but for a veteran like him, he didn't care much about false reputation - I can beat you and score a goal, that's enough. People will only say "Sheva scored again!" instead of saying that he just beat a new player...

Shepchenko, who was turning around, immediately saw Pepe rushing towards him. He did not stop his pace, but instead buckled the ball with a diagonal line and then prepared to pull the ball into the ribs!

This is also one of Shepchenko's iconic offensive methods. When he was at his peak, few people could keep up with his pace when he took the first step. After the first step was abandoned, it would be very difficult to catch up with him.

Although Shepchenko is now thirty years old, he feels that his explosive power and speed have not decreased much. After taking this step, he seems to see a smooth road right in front of him!

However, at this moment, a red figure flashed from the corner of his vision, and Pepe had reacted immediately and quickly followed!

More importantly, Shepchenko could feel that the opponent's speed was able to keep up with him!

"Is this guy too fast, or has I slowed down?" A thought flashed through Shepchenko's mind. If it were the former, he might only sigh that he was terrifying, but if it were the latter...

Shepchenko quickly waved away this undeserved emotion and took the initiative to stick with the opponent. The reason why Shepchenko is called a nuclear warhead is that in addition to his fast speed and strong explosive power, his physical ability is also very good. Basically, he will not be at a disadvantage when the defender fights him. Instead, he can start a shot when the opponent is defending. This ability allows him to score goals in front of the Serie A defender.

The opponent's speed is not bad, but the confrontation may not be so outstanding. Most people are agile and strong, and they can only have a little bit of it...

However, Pepe happens to be a player with a very comprehensive physical fitness. This is what Jose likes about him. In terms of physical fitness, Pepe is perfect, but as a defender, he is still quite reckless, and this needs to be gradually enhanced. However, Shepchenko used this method to forcibly break through him, and he completely hit Pepe's strongest place. If it were the Shepchenko at his peak, he might be able to directly rush through Pepe's defense. However, Shepchenko has begun to decline in form, and his physical fitness is even more incomparable to Pepe's in his prime. When the two leaned together, Shepchenko found that it was himself who began to lose balance!

When he discovered this, he was completely suppressed by Pepe. Shepchenko wanted to barely shoot, but he was unable to shoot. The ball flew towards the goal weakly and was easily held in his arms by Van der Sar.

“Good job!”

Jose gave a thumbs up from the field, and he used this point with Pepe. Shepchenko is actually not a person with particularly outstanding skills. His shooting skills are first-class. However, his extraordinary skills often rely on speed and explosive power to immediately shoot after shaking the gap. The lethality is quite high, but if he cannot shake the gap, his threat will drop a lot.

It has always been outstanding in AC Milan, more because he has always had top midfielders behind him. From Boban and others at the beginning to Pirlo and Rui Costa, these are all masters of midfield passes and can provide enough firepower to Shepchenko. The sudden decline in Chelsea's condition has a lot to do with Chelsea's lack of such a midfield. Everything depends on himself to find opportunities. He is not as good as Drogba in this regard.

Pepe still has many problems, but this characteristic is the most suitable one for dealing with a Shepchenko whose explosive power has begun to decline and there is no support behind him.

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