Football’s First Defender

A dull draw in the fourteenth round of the league does not affect Chelsea's momentum of winning this season!

After all, the league is long. With 38 rounds, it is impossible to keep every player in the best condition. No matter how strong a team is, it cannot win 38 consecutive victories. Which team must not be upset in a few games this season!

This is the charm of football. There are differences in strength and weakness, but football is round, and the weak will not necessarily be caught without a fight!

As far as Scolari is concerned, the effect of taking the risk of using right back Ivanovic as a guest central defender in the game is still good. At least some professional media people who saw the starting list before the game and complained about Yang Feng, after the game It's a good thing that Ivanovic chose to shut up after seeing Ivanovic's fairly good performance in the central defender position!

In the UEFA Champions League group stage that continued in the middle of the week, Scolari simply let Ivanovic rest in rotation, and let the young central defender of the reserve team start to play the UEFA Champions League!

Although Bordeaux's strength is limited, after all, at home, the Ligue 1 team's resistance is particularly fierce. Chelsea firmly controls the dominance of the game, but they just can't seal the victory after leading by one goal!

In the end, the Bordeaux striker took a long shot to tie the score, and the game ended 1-1. Chelsea scored another draw in the Champions League group stage!

In the Premier League that continues on the weekend, Chelsea will meet the challenge of the same city team Arsenal at Stamford Bridge in the fifteenth round of the league!

This kind of duel between giants naturally attracted the attention of the audience. Although Arsenal performed extremely well in the first few rounds at the beginning of the season, Arsenal, which is dominated by young people this season, has had too many ups and downs on the court, and there are serious uncertainties in their performance! After the winning streak in the first few games of the season, Arsenal has fallen into a vicious circle of invincibility. Now not only is it 10 points behind the top team, but even the ranking has slipped to sixth!

Before this game, because Alex's physical condition test had not returned to the best, Scolari considered again and again, and still sent Ivanovic to play the right center back in the fifteenth round!

Since Ivanovic performed well in the central defender position in the last round, Scolari will naturally continue to rush the ducks to the shelves, allowing Ivanovic to continue to show his versatility!

It's just that Scolari's imagination was pretty good, but he didn't consider Newcastle and Arsenal at all, they are not teams of the same level at all!

Even Arsenal's recent state is very bad, but a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Arsenal's foundation has always been offense, which is beautiful offensive football!

Perhaps facing the iron barrel formations of many teams and the world-class defense lines of some strong teams, these young people have no way to do it, and sometimes fall into the opponent's defensive trap, but facing a team that just cameo The player who came to the central defender position, Arsenal's striker savored to attack Ivanovic on this point!

Although in the away game, Wenger set up a 532 lineup as soon as he came up, hoarding heavy troops in the midfield, starting from the defense to prevent Chelsea from easily attacking and passing down, and put Van Persie and Adebayor at the front. Power forward, a serious threat to Chelsea's defense!

In this game, Arsenal's tactic is to give up some of the ball possession, and instead, like most ordinary Premier League teams, rely on defensive counterattacks to catch Chelsea's qualifying mistakes and strive to kill them with one blow!

Chelsea actually possessed 60% of the possession of the ball, indicating that Chelsea once again frequently took the ball to organize positional attacks, which also means that Chelsea will face more frequent counter-attacks from their opponents!

In the game, whether it is Adebayor or Van Persie, whenever there is a chance to counterattack, the first choice is to attack Ivanovic's side!

Ivanovic's explosive power is flawed, and Ivanovic, who was born as a full-back, is different from the defensive theory accepted by orthodox central defenders after all!

Regarding the choice of position, as well as the cooperation with teammates, there is obviously a lack of tacit understanding!

These shortcomings, in the game against Newcastle, could not be effectively targeted because of the lack of personal abilities of Newcastle players!

But van Persie and Adebayor, world-class forwards, don't want to catch Ivanovic's weakness too easily!

From the first counterattack, the Arsenal players, during the counterattack process, were looking for the combination of Terry and Ivanovic, so that the two would act incoherently in a panic. It will directly cause too great a chance, but it will indeed tear Chelsea's defense line apart, and there will be bigger loopholes. It is not necessary to create absolute threats and opportunities every time. As long as there is a probability, you can find opportunities to break through Chelsea. door!

In fact, Chelsea was once close to winning the game during the game. Because of John Julu's own goal in the 30th minute, Chelsea, who had no way to break the dense formation, took a 1-0 lead!

Sitting at home and still holding a one-goal lead, although there are hidden dangers on the back line due to injuries, Chelsea's midfield is really too strong, so strong, at the end of halftime, no one would think Come in is not in good shape Arsenal can escape at Stamford Bridge!

However, in the second half, the situation changed suddenly! Van Persie tried the entire first half, and after figuring out Ivanovic's defensive routines, he showed his killer qualities in the second half!

In the 59th minute, 62nd minute, and within 3 minutes of the game, Van Persie scored twice to help Arsenal overtake the score 2-1 away!

Ivanovic has become the backdrop for Van Persie's wonderful goals twice in a row!

Every time, when defending in an uncomfortable position, Ivanovic will always feel a little confused, uncomfortable, lack of running position and driving range, and powerless to cooperate with teammates to block the space!

Arsenal's tactics are successful. At such a critical moment, Ivanovic has always become the breakthrough point of Chelsea's defense. Van Persie's two goals completely beat Ivanovic back to mortals and let Scolari Disgraceful!

Seeing Ivanovic's poor performance on the field, Scolari had to make substitutions and adjustments immediately, replacing Ivanovic with Alex!

In fact, when Van Persie scored the first goal, Scolari already had a bad feeling, but before the substitution was completed, Van Persie scored the second goal like lightning!

Chelsea was at home, and it was reversed!

In the following games, although Chelsea woke up like a dream and took advantage of the home court to continue the siege of Arsenal, the offensive players still did not return to their best condition, 16 kicks, 14 kicks, everyone without shooting boots Chelsea players can only watch their city rivals celebrate their victory in their own home court!

Undoubtedly, the focus of media reports after the game was of course the use of Ivanovic, as well as coach Scolari's stubborn selection of personnel!

In the last round of the game, although Chelsea did not win the game, the 0-0 score also made Ivanovic's performance not as bad as this game!

In the last game, many media, facing Ivanovic who still kept Newcastle clean sheet, had no way to question this obviously angry personnel arrangement!

But this game was reversed 2-1. The media can finally boldly raise their doubts and disapproval of the position of central defender!

Everyone understands that Yang Feng, as the main central defender of last season's European Cup champion team, is definitely capable of playing in the Premier League. Perhaps at the beginning of the season, you can say that Yang Feng has many equally outstanding players in front of him, even better than him. Yang Feng is an even better and more experienced central defender!

However, in the last two rounds, when there was obviously a shortage of central defenders, because of off-field factors, Yang Feng was restricted from playing and sent to the reserve team!

Many media have learned from Chelsea's internal sources that Scalari is wrestling with the team's top management, using the method of suppressing Yang Feng to force the top management to submit! But this kind of behavior that delays players, does Scolari pay too little attention to his own players!

After the game, on the one hand, there were news reports on the game, but in all major media discussion boards, there were discussions about Scolari, whether he had considered Yang Feng's delegating to the reserve team and the price he paid for power and profit The results of the team, and the reaction of the fans!

Although it is a high-sounding refutation of the rumors, Chelsea officially issued a statement stating that there is no problem within the team, and there is no conflict between the head coach and the management. The needs of the team, and the necessary stages for Yang Feng's future development!

Although there are many media, in order to stir up trouble, they made a special trip to the reserve team to guard Yang Feng at this time, hoping to get some revelations from him!

But Yang Feng also understands that although he and the head coach can't urinate in the same pot now, they must not dismantle the club's stage. Speaking according to the media at this time will definitely put the club at an absolute disadvantage!

As a professional player, Yang Feng certainly understands that some things can only be solved behind closed doors and in his own home! Instead of making it public!

Next, in the face of interviews and inquiries from some good British journalists, Yang Feng has brought Tai Chi to the extreme, just evading it, just avoiding the important ones, and when encountering questions about Scolari, he cleverly avoids them, or diverts them to other topics aspect! Encountering the recent situation of the club, it is perfect, and I believe the team will become even better!

Anyway, Pian'er Tang said a lot, and Yang Feng fooled these reporters!

Without the cooperation of the parties involved, and under the request of the high-level management of the Chelsea team, there have been limited interviews recently. Many people who eat melons expressed that they are not satisfied, and the imagined big scene did not come out!

Yang Feng continued his perfect defensive performance in the reserve team game, while Chelsea fell into even greater trouble!

Although after being reversed by Arsenal, Chelsea beat Bolton 2-0 in the 16th round of the league! Anelka and Deco's goals brought Chelsea's offense back on track!

And Alex's full recovery finally enabled Scolari to field a normal central defender combination, without being devastated by the media's constant question "why let Ivanovic play central defender and not use Yang Feng"!

But inside Chelsea, there is actually some weird atmosphere pervading! For the Brazilian coach who is a bit cronyistic, and has repeatedly reduced the ball possession of the central players, and constantly emphasized the tactical concept of wing attack, many people actually have different views in their hearts!

In the 17th round of the league, Chelsea faced West Ham United, which is fourth to last in the league, at Stamford Bridge! The goal of the Hammers this season is to avoid relegation, but facing the championship group Chelsea, when it is still an away game, in everyone's impression, the Hammers, who have conceded nearly 2 goals per game, can save face and lose a few less. Everyone is lucky!

However, the result is that Chelsea's bewildered state at home has let go of the 3 points that should have been held in hand!

With Craig Bellamy taking advantage of the speed, West Ham forced their way past Alex's kick to take the lead in the first half and carry the lead into the second half!

In the second half of the game, although Anelka scored a goal at the beginning to equalize the score, Chelsea have been unable to perform in the subsequent games!

Even though Drogba and Anelka were once replaced to form a double center forward, Chelsea had nothing to do in the face of the Hammers' defense of a group of native England rough men!

With 23 kicks and only one goal, Chelsea once again had this kind of situation of gaining power and not scoring! On the offensive end, Scolari's training of the team somewhat disappointed the fans!

Fans spend money to watch the game, not to watch their own team, every time they face the underdogs they can't win!

Although in the standings, because Liverpool also lost the chain, Chelsea ranked second with a difference of one point! But the terrible chase behind him is the most troublesome!

Manchester United, aiming for the League Triple Crown, is only 6 points behind the leader Liverpool in the absence of a game! The Premier League championship group has changed from two tigers competing for hegemony to three countries fighting for hegemony!

The league continues, and entering December, the Premier League schedule has become more intensive! Chelsea travel non-stop to Merseyside to take on the Toffees Everton!

As a perennial mid-range team in the Premier League, Everton has always played the role of a league spoiler!

This time, sitting at Goodison Park at home, the Toffees showed no mercy!

An iron barrel array was placed tightly, and most of Chelsea's attacks were resolved one by one!

And because captain Terry, at the last moment of the first half, the opponent counterattacked too much and was directly shown a red card. Chelsea's offense was even more stagnant because of one less player!

In the end, Everton didn't pursue the three-pointer too much, and kept the 0-0 score to the midfield. Chelsea, who had two consecutive draws, fell into huge trouble!