Chapter 409 Confrontation between melons and holes!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 409 Confrontation between melons and holes!
"Intensity!!!! Intensity of the pressing!!!! Increase the intensity of the midfield press!!!!!!!!"
"Don't give them an easy pass!!!!!!!!!"
On the sidelines, Conte's expression and behavior were extremely excited, and he looked like he was about to fight.
Conte stood on the sideline, leaned out and kept shouting to the players on the field. At the same time, he kept making gestures with his hands to convey his tactical instructions.
After seeing the responses from Fabregas and Kanter, Conte took a deep breath of the hot and cold air to calm down.
Seeing Chu Zheng trotting towards the center circle chatting and laughing with De Bruyne on the field, Conte felt a little helpless and at the same time a little envious of Guardiola.
This summer, after Conte took office, his first signing target was actually Chu Zheng.
Conte was very greedy at the time and wanted to take Chu Zheng and Kante away directly from Leicester City.
Chelsea owner Abramovich is also very supportive and has given him enough signing funds, so he can do it.
However, Chelsea was passed on in terms of personal transfer wishes.
After learning that he was rejected by Chu Zheng, Conti even had the idea of traveling to China to persuade Chu Zheng in person.
In Conte's eyes, Chu Zheng is really an infinitely close to perfect player, very suitable for his tactical system.
No!
Conte feels that a player like Chu Zheng is suitable for any tactical system, and he can even be said to be a tactical system himself.
As long as any head coach gets Chu Zheng, he can build any tactics around Chu Zheng. This is a multifunctional super core.
Football skills actually consist of five aspects: passing, stopping, dribbling, shooting and running, and Chu Zheng has no shortcomings in these five aspects.
Except for a slightly weaker shot, everything else is almost impeccable.
The most valuable thing is Chu Zheng’s genius imagination and creativity.
Just like just now, lifting the door from that position was simply a genius idea.
Conte believed that the Chelsea players on the field were just like him at the time. They never thought that Chu Zheng would hit the goal before Chu Zheng's shooting action appeared.
On the field, after receiving Conte's tactical instructions, Chelsea took the ball out again and soon lost the ball due to Manchester City's pressing.
After losing the ball, Chelsea quickly started to press in the midfield. Through tacit running, they first blocked Manchester City's offensive line, and then used high-intensity personal pressing to force Manchester City to pass the ball back to the backcourt.
Conte's new tactical instructions took effect quickly, and the Manchester City midfielder soon began to frequently pass back to the backcourt.
Guardiola quickly noticed a change in Chelsea's tactics.
But he doesn't have a good coping strategy now.
Nowadays, everyone in the Premier League and other European teams knows that Manchester City's defense with Stones and Otamendi is not stable and has poor ability to withstand pressure, which is a destabilizing factor for Manchester City.
As long as the pressure is continued through high-intensity pressing, Manchester City's defense will be in chaos.
In fact, the best strategy to deal with this kind of pressing is to shoot the ball continuously like Barcelona did. But unfortunately, he took over Manchester City for a short period of time. If he wants to reach the level of Barcelona where he treats his opponents like dogs, he still needs a long period of time.
long time.
On the field, Chelsea continued to exert pressure through high-intensity pressing.
Soon the Manchester City defense became happy.
In the 16th minute of the game, Manchester City received a sideline ball outside Chelsea's penalty area on the left.
Seeing the Chelsea players blocking the flank in front of him, Gundogan made a strong throw and threw the ball to Kolarov on the center line of the wing.
Kolarov quickly adjusted his steps after receiving the ball, and then directly passed the ball diagonally.
The landing point was in the upper right corner of the penalty area on the other half. Alonso quickly got into position and jumped in front of Navas.
In the ribs, Hazard stopped the ball, turned around in one go, and then started to rush.
That flexible snakeskin movement made Navas, who was chasing after him, almost slip and fall.
Dribbling the ball across the center line, he saw that Costa in the center circle was already pulling diagonally toward his ribs, and he quickly stuffed the ball over.
Stones followed closely and pushed Costa all the way to the wing.
Faced with Costa's continuous feints, Stones was calm and did not fall for it.
When Costa crossed the edge of the penalty area, Stones, who was taking a step back, immediately got stuck and used his body to separate the ball from Costa.
The timing of the card position is amazing.
Then a heart-wrenching scene happened.
After losing the ball, Costa quickly stuck to Stones from behind like a piece of dog-skin plaster, trying to snatch the ball back.
Stones protected the ball with his back and feinted from left to right twice in a row, but failed to get rid of Costa behind him.
In front of the baseline in the penalty area, Stones soon found himself unable to retreat. He lowered his back and dismounted, used his body to protect the ball, and fought desperately with Costa behind him.
At this moment, Costa was like a wild beast, biting the prey in front of him crazily.
Soon Stones was squeezed forward under the pressure of Costa's beast-like physical fitness. His upper body was almost parallel to the ground at 90 degrees. The ball that was originally protected in front of him also rolled to his crotch. He lost it.
To control the ball.
Then Costa directly stretched out his foot behind Stones and hooked the ball away after Stones stepped down.
Watching this scene, Guardiola almost died suddenly on the sidelines. He wanted to go on the field and split open Stones' brain to see if it was all pulp.
Will you die if you kick the ball out early or directly out of the baseline or sideline? If you have to protect the ball in front of the baseline, something will happen!
However, Guardiola forgot what he had just done.
Guardiola stood on his toes and looked at his own penalty area. At this time, Fernandinho rushed back in time and blocked Costa.
Costa was also very decisive. With one stab of his foot, he handed the ball to Pedro outside the upper left corner of the small penalty area.
At this time, there were no Manchester City players in the Manchester City penalty area, around the penalty spot, and around the top of the arc.
Fabregas, who was in the left rib area at the top of the arc, quickly ran diagonally toward the penalty spot.
As long as Pedro gives the ball over, he can hit the goal directly without interference and equalize the score.
But Pedro didn't think so.
Pedro turned the ball around and faced the Manchester City goal when he stopped the ball.
When he discovered that Kolarov was standing in the upper left corner of the small penalty area blocking him, he quickly gave up the idea of hitting the goal and instead kicked the ball towards Cesc Fabregas with his outside instep.
Fabregas ran towards the ball and looked ready to kick it directly.
However, before he could get to the ball, a blue figure flew past from the right and kicked the ball directly to the left sideline under his nose.
"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Seeing Chu Zheng's timely pursuit and rescue, all the Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Stones, you almost got angry. You must be careful when handling this kind of ball."
"Yes, try to be as concise as possible." Zhang Lu shook her head and laughed, "I have no idea what he was thinking just now."
After finishing her words, Zhang Lu continued: "You can have confidence, but you have to know clearly what kind of opponent you are facing."
"Yes, Costa will not relax on the court. He will steal you even for just one second."
"Actually, I think Stones' unwillingness to lose the ball has something to do with Guardiola."
"Just now Kolarov kicked the ball directly out of the sideline, and then the camera showed Guardiola. Guardiola was very dissatisfied."
"So Stones may have gone to the other extreme because he was afraid of being scolded."
Hearing Zhan Jun's words, countless domestic fans burst into laughter. They had never seen such a blame-shifting person.
"Haha! It turns out that this pot belongs to Guardiola!" After hearing Zhan Jun's explanation, Zhang Lu was also overjoyed, "Fortunately, Chu Zheng came back in time, otherwise Fabregas would have just knocked on the door and probably walked in directly.
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Soon, the game continued, and Chelsea's pressing tactics gradually extended from the midfield to the frontcourt.
Manchester City's backcourt passing and control of the ball was severely disrupted.
Just when Manchester City fans were worried that the team would make the same mistake again, the Manchester City players on the field gave their coping strategies.
In the 19th minute of the game, Chelsea launched a high-position press in the frontcourt.
Otamendi retreated along the left side of the penalty area and got Bravo's cross ball in front of the baseline.
Facing Hazard who rushed towards him quickly, Otamendi pushed Fernandinho diagonally into the penalty area from the left rib at the top of the key.
Fernandinho stopped the ball and turned around in one go. Facing Cesc Fabregas who rushed in front of him, he moved his right foot horizontally to the right, then started to follow up laterally and then passed the ball directly to the right side of the frontcourt.
At the same time, Navas, who had just retreated behind the center line, immediately made a U-turn to the right and then increased his speed.
After the ball hits the ground at the point of impact, it jumps forward very quickly.
At this time in Chelsea's half, apart from Navas and Cahill, there were only Aguero and Azpilicueta in the middle.
In the high-position press in the frontcourt just now, Chelsea's formation was extremely pressing. I didn't expect that Manchester City would suddenly change their style and directly play this kind of long-pass attack.
At this time, Aguero and Azpilicueta, who started from the center area, were also sprinting towards the ball.
After Cahill crossed the halfway line, he knew clearly that even when he was young and strong, he couldn't beat Navas' speed.
Seeing Azpilicueta rushing towards the ball half a body ahead of Aguero, Cahill, who was originally on the outside, found the right time to turn inside during the sprint.
It was this turn that forced Navas to slow down and continue sprinting to the outside, giving Azpilicueta an advantage in fighting for the ball.
Three seconds later, Azpilicueta, Aguero and Navas all reached the ball at the same time.
Azpilicueta was not as capable as Stones. He directly slid in front of Navas and Aguero and kicked the ball out of the sideline.
"Azpilicueta, another successful cross-zone defense!"
"There is a tacit understanding. It is crucial for Cahill to block Navas, otherwise Azpilicueta cannot beat Navas."
After finishing the words, Zhang Lu changed the topic and smiled: "Guardiola designed the tactics very carefully today. Chelsea pressed forward and pressed high. Manchester City saw that Chelsea players were all in their own half, so they directly hit behind Chelsea. The tactics were implemented very well."
Very flexible!”
On the sidelines, Guardiola also felt a little regretful for the failed attack.
His tactical design today is to play the ball out of the backcourt if he can, and if he can't, he will directly find the space in the back line. He must make full use of the depth of the court.
Beside him, Conte looked horrified at this moment and glanced at Guardiola, feeling helpless.
Guardiola has obviously figured him out.
But think about it, with Guardiola's ability, it is impossible for him to make the same mistakes he made against Barcelona at Celtic and Camp Nou again.
Sometimes being stubborn can lead the team into the abyss.
Although Guardiola's formations and substitutions are sometimes difficult to understand, he is definitely not a head coach who doesn't know how to adapt.
In the following games, as time went by, the offensive and defensive transfer rhythm of both sides became faster and faster.
Although more than ten minutes passed and there was still no goal, the two sides were attacking and defending each other, and the game became more and more exciting.
Manchester City is focused on using depth to carry out offense, but Chelsea is making full use of the width of the pitch to mobilize and pull Manchester City.
But Conte's main offensive idea is Hazard on the left.
In the 26th minute of the game, after Chelsea moved the ball to the right, a fierce battle for the ball broke out with Manchester City in front of and behind the right center line.
The ball was finally tipped to Moses' feet by Kanter.
Moses swung his legs on the spot and made another long pass.
Hazard moved forward to the ribs and unloaded the ball perfectly, then quickly started to cut inside the defense line at the top of the key.
Along the way, Hazard relied on his flexibility and extremely fast footwork to get past Navas, and then continuously flicked the ball with the outside of his right foot to avoid Otamendi and Fernandinho's advances.
After reaching the top of the arc and seeing Chu Zheng coming to kill him, Azar moved his right foot and suddenly fired a cold arrow, which was a cut with one foot on the ground.
The ball followed the turf and turned in a reverse C-shaped arc from outside to inside, then rubbed the inside of the right post and entered the Manchester City goal.
Facing Hazard's extremely cunning angle to the ground, Bravo was helpless, clearly exposing his shortcomings of height and wingspan.
This kind of ball is almost the Achilles heel of a nimble but short goalkeeper like Bravo.
"The ball is in!!!!!!"
"Hazard's continuous breakthroughs from the left rib at the top of the arc to the top of the arc in the middle!!!!!!!!"
"In the 27th minute and 18 seconds of the game, Chelsea equalized the score! This is also Hazard's ninth Premier League goal this season!"
"Conte's idea today is very clear, which is to make full use of the width of the court to play, find the right opportunity to find Hazard, and let him break out or pass the ball..."
At the scene, seeing the team equalize the score, Conte raised his fists and roared towards the court.
Next to him, Guardiola's face was calm as usual.
He couldn't blame any player for this goal, nor was it caused by a defensive misalignment or mistake by Otamendi and others. It was entirely a goal created by Hazard's super personal ability.
Guardiola saw Hazard jumping on the field and pumping his fists in celebration, and he knew it was time. He wanted to end Hazard and stifle Chelsea's particularly active left attack today.
With thoughts in mind, Guardiola turned around and walked quickly back to the coaching bench, took the tactical tablet handed over by Arteta, then walked to the sidelines and waved while loudly calling Chu Zheng and De Bruyne.
Soon Chu Zheng, De Bruyne and Guardiola took advantage of Chelsea's celebration time to get together and communicate on the sidelines.
