Chapter 657
(I have something to do today, one chapter is missing, and I will make up for it tomorrow's third update)
Mourinho focused his adjustment on Robben and Barack.
In the nearly twenty minutes that had played in the first half, Drogba and Robben were the only two players who could create threats. Now Liverpool has strengthened its defense in the middle, and breakthroughs and incisive cutting on the wing have become extremely important. If Robben cannot attract Liverpool's mid-range players to the wing, Drogba will find it difficult to get room to play.
With Marklele suspended and Essin added to the central defender position, the central defender organizational task fell on Barack. His position today is behind Drogba, similar to the role of a front midfielder. For some time, Barack played well, but after Gerald and Alonso jointly blocked the middle, Chelsea's offense moved to two sides. Barack's chances of touching the ball were severely reduced and he could not even get the ball, let alone the organization.
Mourinho's tactical style has not changed much now. He mainly asked Robben and Karau to change positions, so that Robben could avoid Chen Yu, who was both offensive and defensive and fast, and asked him to break through Liverpool's left-back Rise, but Barack's organizational ability was not displayed. Mourinho asked Barack to reduce assists and attack more of the penalty area, becoming Drogba's helper.
Karau is not a force for attacking. His role is to break through and pass the ball. His luck and courage to attack the goal are much worse. It is difficult to bring much help to Drogba. Barack is not as good as his organizational talent, but his attack power is very strong. He heads, long shots, and grabs points are even less than a striker. If Barack can play his role in the offense, Drogba will not be so lonely in the front.
Mourinho's ability to command on the front line is very good. Even Ferguson is still far behind him. Benitez and Wenger are a little worse. Mourinho only lets the players' positions change without substitutions, and Chelsea's offense and defense have almost changed.
After Robben arrived on the right, his opponents became Aurelio and Rise.
Rise is both offensive and defensive, and has a long-range shooting ability. Fabio Aurelio's skills are delicate, dribbling, long-range shooting, and passing are outstanding, with a broad vision and strong breakthrough ability. It is the style of a typical Brazilian player. However, Aurelio's fatal competitive weakness is his poor physical fitness, and his reaction, speed, explosive power and physical ability are all his weaknesses.
Robben is a bit unique in playing football, but Robben's speed, explosiveness and physical fitness are excellent, especially in terms of speed. The Dutch Pan is definitely not a false reputation. Although he did not take any advantage in front of Chen Yu, Robben is a Uu-like existence in front of Aurelio.
In the 18th minute of the game, Robben threw away Aurelio in the midfield and rushed to Liverpool's bottom line for a long distance. Rise quickly came over to prevent Robben from continuing to go deeper.
Robben's ability is definitely not comparable to that of Karau. The Dutchman has a strong ability to change speed and direction. He started and stopped, walked inward and outward, making Lisai a little confused. Lisai simply stopped following Robben's inside and outward movement. He resolutely retreated and let Robben go to the middle, but did not allow him to break through the bottom line.
Rise made this choice because there were Gerald, Alonso and Sissoko in the middle, all of them were defensive players. Even if Robben cuts inside and goes to the middle, it would be difficult for him to make a difference.
However, Lisse still underestimated Robben. Robben saw Lisse let him go, so he decisively dribbled the ball into the middle and directly attacked Liverpool's penalty area.
Sissoko rushed over to intercept, but Robben dribbled the ball horizontally and flashed by. At this time, Robben's dribbled the ball had slowed down. Alonso came over again and was about to double-team Robben with Sissoko, but Robben directly shot.
Robben's usual move was Robben's usual way to cut in the wing, but because the goalkeepers were almost close to Robben's cut inward, when Robben shot, whether or not he scored a goal often depends on the quality of Robben's shot.
Robben shot very quickly, and Reina quickly moved to the back corner and jumped up to save, but just halfway through the ball, the ball flew out of the bottom line against the back post.
When he fell, Reina broke out in a cold sweat. If the shot hit the right angle, he would definitely not be able to save.
With Robben's threatening shot, Lisai dared not let Robben cut inward again, but Robben's threat is here. He can cut inward and shoot at the bottom and cross at the bottom. The key is that he is extremely fast. Although Lisai is strong, he is at a disadvantage in speed. One minute later, Robben regained the same trick on the flank, Lisai moved sideways to guard. After Robben dunks back, he accelerated down to the bottom and made a cross without defending.
Drogba still grabbed the landing point under the double-team of the two central defenders, but Liverpool's defense is strong, so Drogba can only touch the ball, and he can't call him a header, but the ball misses the left post.
Robben's continuous performance on the right made Benitez feel uneasy, because after Robben made a breakthrough, Chelsea's midfielder was also ready to move and had connections with the right, and Chelsea's offense showed signs of resurrection.
Without Chen Yu, Benitez could only watch and it would be impossible to substitute people in more than a minute. At most, he would have to wait until the midfield ended and let Cen go on the court. However, now that Benitez has Chen Yu, an all-round warrior, and he is a good player there. Benitez feels very comfortable. He immediately asked Chen Yu and Aurerio to switch positions and continue to use Chen Yu to restrain Robben.
Chelsea's luck is indeed quite bad today. Chen Yu had just changed his position to the right to play against Robben. Barack gave Robben a high-altitude ball, and Robben jumped up and competed for the header with Chen Yu.
After returning from injury, Chen Yu's body has not reached its peak state. Now his speed is comparable to Robben, but Chen Yu is much stronger than Robben's header. Although Barack passed this ball to Robben, Chen Yu's judgment of the landing point is better than Robben. His timing and height of jumping are also higher than Robben. Chen Yu almost knocked Robben away and pushed the ball to Gerald.
Roben had an ankle injury, but was hit by Chen Yu and lost his balance. He fell behind and twisted his injury again. When Gerald launched a long pass attack, Roben lay on the ground and did not get up.
Seeing that Robben hadn't gotten up for a long time, the referee blew a whistle to end the game and signaled the team doctor and stretcher to come on the court.
Robben's ankles were swollen when he was lifted down. Mourinho's face became more and more gloomy after seeing it. He looked at the bench. Shevchenko lowered his head to play with his phone. Little Wright looked at him with anticipation, looking eager to try. Mourinho became even more angry. He snorted heavily and waved to Little Wright.
Wright almost jumped up excitedly. Applying in such a powerful dialogue that the world is concerned about is a glory and an opportunity. You should know that European footballer Shevchenko is sitting next to him. It is not easy to get such an opportunity. "Phillip, you go up and play Robben's position, pass more, and contact Gerald Barack in the middle. In addition, dragging Chen is a victory."
Mourinho gave Little Wright a few words and sent him onto the stadium.
This substitution is destined to cause controversy, because Shevchenko has already questioned Mourinho's approach when sitting on the bench. Now that the striker is injured, Shevchenko has no chance to be a substitute. Not to mention that Shevchenko's fans and supporters do not agree, even the neutrals will feel that this is a madman taking revenge on the public.
The commentator on the scene said in surprise: "Little Wright is on the court? Robben's speed and body cannot compete with Chen. Little Wright is one weaker than Robben. Can he do it? Why didn't he go to the Ukrainian nuclear warhead and spend tens of millions of pounds to make him a cheerleader?"
Although Abu is in Romania at this moment, he is not concerned about this game that is eye-catching all over the world. He has been watching live TV. Seeing Robben's end, Little Wright came on the field, and his beloved fellow Shevchenko still has no chance. Abu turned off the TV and turned around and threw the door out of the hotel.
Of course, the people on the stadium, including Mourinho, did not know about the scene that happened in Eastern Europe thousands of miles away. They are now attracted by the tension on the stadium and have no time to pay attention to other things.
After Robben was out of the game, Chen Yu became more active. When Robben was there, Chen Yu had to worry about his counterattack. A lot of energy was spent on confrontation with Robben. However, after Robben was out of the game, Chelsea's attack power further decreased. Chen Yu did not have too many defensive tasks, and caused an offensive storm in Chelsea's frontcourt.
In the minute, Chen Yu passed the ball in a diagonal manner on the right, Crouch stopped the ball with his chest and entered the penalty area, and shot 10 yards away from the goal. The ball was blocked by central defender Essin in time, and Cech flew under him.
In the 26th minute, Chen Yu dribbled the ball horizontally on the side, and shot the ball 28 meters away. The ball flew out of the bottom line against the post.
Then Chen Yu interrupted Barack's pass to Lampard in the midfield, and passed three players in the middle, passing Sissoko directly. This was an opportunity to score a single shot. Unfortunately, Sissoko dribbled the ball too much and was destroyed by Essin, who had a large range of movement, and a flying tackle was driven by a flying tackle.
After Sissoko missed the opportunity to lock in the score, she slapped the ground with her hands in annoyance, but Liverpool's teammates were very tolerant of him, after all, he was just a defensive player.
Chapter completed!