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Chapter 504 The first championship of the 0708 season

Chelsea and Liverpool have similar strengths. Although Chelsea attacked hard after Chen Badminton scored, they could not break through the defense of Liverpool for a while. In the last ten minutes, Chelsea had the upper hand, but they were unable to score. In the end, Chelsea could only accept a 0:1 behind.

After the halftime break, Liverpool did not move, while Chelsea made a substitution adjustment. Mourinho was very dissatisfied with his attacking power on the strike line. He replaced Wright Jr. and replaced midfielder Joe Kerr, changing the original 433 formation, strengthening control in the midfield, and preparing to use Joe Kerr's delicate skills to create offensive opportunities.

Liverpool and Chelsea have played against each other once or twice. Benitez is very familiar with Mourinho's ideas. He knows that Mourinho wants to attack and change the formation. The approach he takes is to respond to changes in the same way, continue to strengthen defense, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. With a counterattack ace like Chen Yu, Benitez is not afraid of any opponent's fierce attack at all.

In the first half, Chelsea played on both sides and hoped to use Drogba's power to solve the problem. In the Premier League, the power of Warcraft is often the most effective way for Chelsea to solve the problem. However, facing Liverpool, which is also powerful, Chelsea's winger tactics did not work. In the second half, Chelsea hoped to combine the side and the middle, but the midfield control ability composed of Essin, Mikel, Lampard, and Joe Kerr was not that strong. Except Joe Kerr, the others' breakthrough ability is also average. Facing Liverpool's fierce and active pressing, it is not easy for Chelsea's midfielders to control the ball, let alone create opportunities for offense.

Liverpool has never suffered any losses in the Cup, and the defensive counterattack tactics are also easy to use. When Chelsea tried to control the midfield, Liverpool used several counterattacks to almost break through Chelsea's goal again.

After fifteen minutes in the second half, the morale of Chelsea and Liverpool players changed drastically. Chelsea players began to become impatient and fearful. The shadow of previous losses in the cup came again, making them lack confidence in this game. The more they played, the more confident they became, and they were able to do both defense and counterattack easily.

Liverpool players on the court have the upper hand, and Liverpool fans in the stands are also very excited. They sang Liverpool's team song "You Never Walk Alone", and their loud singing almost turned Wembley Stadium into their own Anfield.

Chelsea fans became the silent side. They were unwilling to lose to Liverpool, but their players on the field were too weak. The second half was time for them to quickly win the score. However, fifteen minutes passed, and they didn't even have a good shot opportunity to create, which disappointed Chelsea fans.

Mourinho certainly can't let the game continue like this. If he continues like this, Chelsea will almost certainly be suffocated by Liverpool's small score again.

Mourinho waited for another five minutes, and saw that the game still had no improvement at all. Mourinho made a substitution again. This time he directly replaced the central defender Carvalho and replaced Peruvian forward Pizarro, and lined up a pure offensive formation of 343.

It is definitely a risky way to line up such a formation for Liverpool. Seeing Mourinho so bold, the commentator at the scene couldn't help but say: "Murinho is a bit of a big deal this time. He may have forgotten who his opponent is? He also forgot how many goals Chen Yu scored last season. Now there is only Terry, the central defender. Once Liverpool fights back, who can stop Chen Yu?"

What Linkel said makes sense, but Chelsea has been suffocated by Liverpool several times in the Cup. This time it is a less important Community Shield. Mourinho certainly has to try to change his playing style and prepare for meeting Liverpool in the Cup.

Although Chelsea has sent about six offensive players now and two full-backs are boldly intervening in the attack, Liverpool is still playing in a hurry and is actively fighting in the midfield. The two full-backs are passing and not making any breakthroughs, forcing Chelsea to attack under their normal defense. Once the forward gets the ball, he will immediately launch a fast attack. Even one or two players will resolutely fight quickly and strive to launch an attack before the Chelsea players return to defense.

With the differences in strength between the players on both sides, Chelsea sent so many offensive players, and the chance of shooting was created. However, under Liverpool's tight defense, such long-range shots that were mostly not too threatening and shots from double-teamed defenders were all resolved by Liverpool's goalkeeper Renner one by one.

Ten minutes passed in this game without any danger. Time? After the 30th minute of the second half, this time point was very dangerous for Chelsea. Now their physical fitness has begun to decline. If they cannot equalize the score in the shortest time, the initiative behind will be completely in the hands of Liverpool.

Even if Mourinho is cold-blooded, he can't keep calm at this time. When Liverpool's players slowly moved to the sidelines to serve the out-of-bounds ball, Mourinho protested against the fourth official and the referee, demanding a yellow card for the Liverpool's out-of-bounds ball. The referee ignored Mourinho's request, which made Mourinho even more angry. He yelled at the referee and was warned by the referee.

Mourinho's performance also had bad hints for Chelsea's players. Next, under the leadership of Terry and Lampard, Chelsea launched a more fierce attack, and this time it gave Liverpool more opportunities to counterattack.

In the 35th minute of the game, Chelsea besieged Liverpool's penalty area three times but failed to score. After Lampard forced a shot, the ball hit the defender and bounced out to the feet of Liverpool's midfielder Alonso. Alonso was the core of Liverpool's offensive and defensive transformation. After getting the ball, he did not rush to launch a counterattack. Instead, he first glanced at the position of his teammates in the game, and then passed the ball to Kuyt, who was the best in position.

Alonso's pass with the ball gave the other Liverpool offensive players enough time to react. Chen Yu and Gerrard quickly stepped forward and rushed towards Chelsea's half. Together with Kuyt holding the ball forward, he pointed directly at Chelsea's penalty area like three arrows.

At this moment, Chelsea's middle lane Terry is still there, Essin is also there, and Mikel is chasing back quickly. At this time, Chen Yu did not go straight from the middle lane, but ran to the side lane, leaving the middle lane to Gerald.

Kuyt, who was also on the other side, understood it and passed the ball to Gerald. He crossed the center line along the other side at high speed and headed straight to Chelsea's penalty area.

At this moment, Liverpool formed a 3-on-3 situation in Chelsea's backcourt, but Chelsea was in a passive return to defense. The three of them were running desperately, and they could not get stuck in a position, so they could only be passively beaten. Gerrard received the ball in the middle and continued to step forward, leaving Terry no time to care about him. Essin had to focus part of his attention. After pushing the ball through the center circle about ten meters, he saw that Terry and Essin wanted to double-team him. Gerrard passed the ball over the top of the middle distance, passed the ball to Chen Yu, and continued to penetrate into the middle.

The ball was in Chen Yu's hands, and Essin and Terry became nervous. Essin immediately ran to the side to intercept. In addition to running with Gerald, Terry focused a lot of energy on Chen Yu. Obviously, the Chelsea captain was not relieved that Essin would intercept Chen Yu alone.

However, Chen Yu, who already had a goal in hand, was not in love with the fight, nor did he have personal heroism. When Essin was still a little far from him, Chen Yu passed the long pass and found Kuyt who was no one to defend.

Kuyt pushed the ball forward with his chest and quickly rushed to the edge of the penalty area. When Terry's horizontal defense was not in place, goalkeeper Cech was attacking, Kuyt shot.

Kuyt's shooting timing was very good, Terry was difficult to reach, and Cech was too close to react, so the ball flew into the far corner of the goal from Cech's ribs.

2:0

Kuyt was extremely excited after scoring the goal. Although this was just a goal from the Community Shield, his opponent was Chelsea. In the Premier League, it was definitely not easy to be able to score Chelsea's goal. Kuyt opened his arms and ran to the stands like a fly to accept the cheers of Liverpool fans who were also caring.

Scoring such a goal at this time is fatal to Chelsea. The moment the ball entered the net, Chelsea fans sat in despair in despair. Some kept shaking their heads, some sighed repeatedly, some were speechless, and some got up and walked out of the field, not wanting to look at the proud face of the Liverpool people behind.

"...goalgoalgoalgoal...Kuit! Kuyt killed the game. In the 75th minute, Kuyt received a pass from Chen Yu. He shot decisively! He broke through Cech's fingers and changed the score to 2:0... Now the game has lost its suspense. As long as there is no big miracle, the Liverpool will win the Community Shield Championship this season in fifteen minutes..."

Although the commentator's words on the scene were drowned in the cheers of Liverpool fans, the word "Champion" seemed to resonate. Next, Liverpool fans stood up and shouted at the stadium to shout the championship, which shook the sky, turning the entire Wembley Stadium into a red world.

Benitez smiled and waved his fists at him, then turned around to shake hands with the coaching staff and the substitutes one by one to celebrate Kuyt's goal.

Mourinho looked at the Liverpool fans celebrating wildly in the stadium and stands, his face was dull, and he spitted hard, then turned back to the coach's seat, sat in the shadow, motionless.
Chapter completed!
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