Football’s First Defender

In the dressing room after the game, Lampard took the initiative to take responsibility for the team's goal loss! In fact, whether he admits it or not, everyone is like Der Spiegel in their hearts. Fortunately, the team won the game with Lampard's own lore redemption!

In the professional arena, victory is the best result, and there is no need to pursue more processes when you win!

Hiddink only emphasized after the game that in the final stage of the game, everyone must grit their teeth to ensure concentration!

In fact, everyone has played professional players for many seasons. During the long season, it is impossible to have a team. There are players who can always maintain mental concentration and excellent game state, so many players also understand Lan Pad's mistake!

As far as Yang Feng is concerned, the goal scored by a header on the top of his head in this game also made him understand that the environment he is in now is not Zenit, but in Chelsea, in the Premier League!

In the Zenit era, Yang Feng, who has always been regarded as a treasure by Advocaat, integrated into the team quickly. In addition, all teammates are straight-hearted, and there are not so many superstar players. Everyone has a lot of dealings and exchanges. , So on the court, Yang Feng can command his teammates unscrupulously, as long as he is right!

But not in the Premier League, except for Yang Feng who sees Terry on the field and occasionally directs, everyone else is just doing their own work, and it’s okay to discuss occasionally during the break, but at critical moments, someone needs to shout or blame teammates When mistakes are made, few people speak up!

Maybe this is the rich family! Because of various problems among the players, it is definitely not possible to play football purely!

In the Premier League, because of its fast pace and simplification of offense, it is doomed that such omissions will happen from time to time. Through this opponent's tenacious resistance, Yang Feng understands that he wants to play in the Premier League. Standing on the ground, in addition to strengthening the strength of physical resistance, you must also watch all directions and listen to all directions at the same time, and be ready to wipe the ass of your teammates at any time!

Yang Feng didn't want to try this kind of situation where the player who scored for the opponent was used as the background board!

Due to this round of the game, Liverpool, who was distracted by the European game, was defeated by the relegation team Middlesbrough 2-0 in the away game. Chelsea was able to rely on the advantage of goal difference to counterattack to the second place in the league!

However, Chelsea is still 7 points away from Manchester United at the top of the list. This is because Manchester United missed a game because of the Carabao Cup final!

Ferguson's team, after many wounded have come back, has maintained a perfect performance on all fronts!

In the 28th round of the league, Chelsea challenged the relegation team Portsmouth away!

Portsmouth, which is only 2 points ahead of the relegation zone, knows that it is not easy to get 3 points from Chelsea, but they still want to struggle to see if they can hold a tie by taking advantage of the home court!

With as many as 8 teams with less than 30 points, Portsmouth with 28 points regards every point as the key to relegation!

Although Hiddink wanted to continue the offensive lineup of three forwards for such a weak team, but Anelka suffered a small injury during training. Fortunately, Malouda came back from the line of fire and could provide a hot spot on the wing!

Hiddink directly changed to 442, Drogba and Kalu played double forwards, Malouda came back to replace Anelka as a winger, and the other positions were unchanged from the previous 433 starters!

For such a weak opponent, Hiddink sticks to his Dutch philosophy, and it's over with all-out attack!

It's just Malouda's appearance, although it has enhanced Chelsea's breakthrough ability from the wing, but correspondingly, Kalu in the penalty area cannot form a double ghost shot effect with Drogba because of his height problem, making Drogba often one. People, under siege!

And Portsmouth, 451 defensive formation, people near the penalty area, and pay great attention to the protection of the second point, so Kalou inside the penalty area and Chelsea's Ballack and Lampard outside the penalty area did not hit the goal Or a chance for a long shot!

Chelsea accounted for 70% of the ball possession rate, with as many as 20 shots, but under the defense of the home team, only 4 shots were within the goal frame!

Fortunately, among these 4 shots, Drogba scored with a header in the 79th minute of the game!

At that time, due to the 0-0 score, Chelsea's two full-backs participated in the offense to a large extent, acting as passers from the wing.

Ashley Cole stepped up from the left side and kicked the ball directly to the middle. Drogba was inside the penalty area. This time he finally found a chance to resist two defenders. Grab the landing point and complete the header!

With a header at such a close range and with a certain shooting angle, it is normal for the goalkeeper to not respond. Chelsea scored the only goal of the game!

In the game, Portsmouth, who were focused on defense, could only rely on long passes to counterattack. I hope that the single striker Gray can steal one in the counterattack!

But a counterattack without enough people to support it will be useless in front of Yang Feng!

In this game, Yang Feng directly destroyed most of Portsmouth's long pass counterattack, and part of the counterattack teamed up with his teammates to defend the defense line. After the whole game, except for the opening and closing periods, Portsmouth had a few times In addition to good offensive opportunities, in the middle of the game, the home team had almost no offensive opportunities!

Yang Feng once again proved his value to this Chelsea team in the game. With him, the two full-backs can participate in the attack more confidently and boldly, increasing Chelsea's chances of kicking the ball from the side!

After winning Hiddink's four consecutive victories 1-0 since taking office, Chelsea moved to West Midlands to challenge the Championship team Coventry away!

With basically no hope in the league this season, Chelsea has focused on the only remaining FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League that they are very eager to win!

In the quarter-finals, the English Championship team was drawn by lottery, which can be regarded as a good start for Chelsea to compete for the FA Cup!

In the league, Manchester United continued to maintain a winning streak and did not make any mistakes. Chelsea still had a gap of 7 points in one more game. Chelsea, who were almost hopeless, in the FA Cup, even if the opponent was the Championship team. , Still playing with all the main force!

Even if he will go to Turin to challenge Juventus in an away game in four days, Hiddink believes that his team can maintain a good game state under double matches in a week!

After all, as a wealthy team, in the second half of the season, double matches a week is actually the norm in every season! Hiddink believes that his players can cope with this situation! I will also allocate my physical strength by myself!

Unlike the Premier League teams, who will more or less add some changes in the process of being reckless, most of the English Championship teams at this time are reckless to the end!

However, Coventry's mid-level Championship, the strong midfield defense against Chelsea, and the excellent ability of Terry and Yang Feng to defend high-altitude balls, this game, even at home, did not achieve too much. Great offensive opportunity!

Chelsea played steadily. While defending well, the offensive end seized the big loopholes in the home team's defense. Drogba and Kalou scored a goal each in the second half. They beat Coventry City 2-0 and advanced to the semi-finals of the FA Cup!

After that, there was not much rest time, and less than a day back to London to recuperate, Chelsea took a flight to Italy to prepare for the second round with Juventus!

As an Italian team, it has always had a strong home field ability in the European arena! Chelsea also dare not take it lightly!

At the Olympic Stadium in Turin (before the new Juventus stadium was built, it has been shared with the Turin team), as soon as Juventus opened, the fans on the scene were ignited!

Only 18 minutes into the game, Del Piero succeeded in a long shot in front of the penalty area and tied the total score at 1-1!

However, although Juventus is in the revival stage, it is still too far away from the Juventus who dominated Serie A in later generations!

The aging problem of its players is extremely serious!

Even though Nedved is an iron man, the 37-year-old Nedved is obviously no longer at his peak!

Perhaps Nedved can still rely on experience to cope with Serie A games, but facing Chelsea, he is obviously a little powerless!

After Chelsea took the lead in conceding a goal, they immediately accelerated the pace of the game. Although the total score was equalized, since Juventus had no away goals, Chelsea only needed to score one goal, and their opponents had to score two more goals to advance!

Facing Juventus' aging lineup, Chelsea's generals don't have the thought of respecting the old and loving the young at this moment. Holding Nedved's defensive position, they are constantly breaking through and hitting!

Towards the end of the first half, Nedved's central defensive area was breached, Joe Cole used his speed to force past Nedved, and after creating momentary defensive chaos in the Juventus defense, the ball was Passed directly to Kalu who was waiting on the right side of the penalty area!

Kalu, who has always been hidden under the light of Drogba, seized the opportunity this time, directly in the penalty area, and shot a burst after receiving the ball. Buffon flew sideways, but because the ball was too fast, he did not pounce. Kalou regained a 2-1 lead for Chelsea with an away goal in hand!

In the second half of the game, Juventus was obviously more anxious to attack, Hiddink replaced Deco and Essien, who had just returned from injury, to strengthen the team's defense!

Essien, Mikel, Deco, Ballack, Lampard, the configuration of the five midfielders clearly arranged Juventus' offense, leaving only Drogba in the frontcourt as a counterattack threat!

Juve's offensive players plunged headlong into the impregnable wall formed by Chelsea's five-man midfield. Even if they were lucky enough to rely on long passes to pass through the encirclement of these five players, there was still an extremely maneuverable Yang Feng in the back who was always sweeping up the backcourt. Defend!

Juventus tried to attack many times but failed. Instead, they conceded too many goals in the midfield and were beaten by Chelsea many times as direct counterattacks!

In the 68th minute of the game, following a mistake in midfield by Nedved, he was tackled directly by Essien!

Essien directly passed the ball to Lampard in front of him. Lampard looked at Drogba's position and made a long pass with just the right amount of advance!

Drogba carried Chiellini at the end of the Juventus defense line, and in the physical confrontation, he still controlled the football!

There was no mistake in stopping the ball, he unloaded the ball directly to his feet, and wiped it into the penalty area!

Since Chiellini was defending alone, Drogba had taken advantage of his body position, and this ball has formed a semi-single-handed state!

Seeing that the situation was not right, Buffon directly abandoned the goal and attacked, hoping to take advantage of the fact that Drogba had just unloaded the ball successfully, before he had time to adjust to his best state, and attacked to get the football!

But Drogba, one of the top strikers in the world, saw Buffon's attack, even though his body has not adjusted to the best, but it does not delay him to complete the moving action in awkwardness!

Just twist your body and hit the door with the back of your foot!

Buffon lowered his center of gravity and blocked most of the angles. However, he was in a half-squat state and couldn't make a side attack. Facing Drogba's kick from the outside of his foot, Buffon could only watch helplessly. Watching the ball fly by my hand, but I can't do anything!

The angle of this ball is actually extremely small, but the control under Drogba's feet is extremely strong! In the end, the football flew to the far corner, just hitting the post and hitting the net!

Chelsea overtook the score 2-1 away and led 3-1 on aggregate!

The game time is less than half an hour even including stoppage time. Juventus needs to win by 3 goals to complete the reversal. This is an impossible task no matter how you look at it!

However, maybe there is little hope of promotion, but as a traditional Serie A giant, Juventus players have no intention of losing at home, even for the fans who are there to support them, they have to fight hard!

Unlike Juventus, whose fighting spirit is still high, Chelsea players have already begun to enjoy the joy of victory ahead of schedule!

Although the game is not over yet, but with the defensive strength of the five midfield lineup, Chelsea don't think Juventus can make a comeback!

Indeed, even though the Chelsea players are obviously not active in running, it is still difficult for Juventus' offense to create excellent opportunities!

However, in the 87th minute, Amaury received a long pass from his teammate, directly under the defense of Terry, flew the header, and gave the ball to Marchisio who inserted from outside the penalty area!

Marchisio volleys without stopping the ball! Although Yang Feng has seen Marchisio's almost unstoppable insertion from the back, but due to Piero's previous running position, Yang Feng's movement is restricted. After confirming the direction of Amaury's header, Yang Feng again It was too late to step forward to block Marchisio's shot!

With an excellent shot in the unguarded state, Marchisio pierced Cech's ten fingers with a long shot and tied the score at 2-2!

In the end, Chelsea drew with Juventus 2-2 away and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a total score of 3-2!

Within a week, the two teams advanced, Hiddink brought Chelsea back on track, and competed for the two cup championships at the same time!