Football’s First Defender

After the two-week national team match day, Chelsea will challenge Newcastle, which is third to last in the league, away!

And after experiencing the exhausting schedule of the national team match day, all Chelsea's international players headed to the away game with exhausted bodies. They simply couldn't devote all their mental attention to deal with their opponents in this round of the league!

And since the Champions League knockout matches will continue in the middle of next week, Chelsea's opponent in the quarter-final draw this year is the "Red Army" Liverpool team in the same league. Therefore, when there is no much suspense about the competition in the league standings, and some players are too tired on the national team match day, Chelsea's away lineup selection has been greatly adjusted!

In the goalkeeper position, Cech is still the starter, which is not too much of a surprise!

In terms of the backcourt defense, Bosingwa got a chance to rest this time. After all, Bosingwa has maintained full attendance in the previous league. He is still in the national team for the past two weeks. He has played two full games, and his physical fitness is definitely a problem. is a huge problem! Hiddink simply gave Bosingwa a holiday, letting him recharge his energy and wait for the midweek Champions League to perform well! And in this game, it was Ivanovic who had obvious flaws in his technical characteristics!

Compared with Bosingwa's offensive and defensive capabilities on the right, Ivanovic may be good on the offensive end and has the strength to be competent for a giant team, but on the defensive end, Ivanovic's turn is really bad. Too slow, often unable to limit the opponent's breakthrough, and almost all teams are targeted by tactics!

When facing Liverpool in the middle of the week, you must be careful of Liverpool's wing attack. Therefore, Bosingwa, who also played two games on the national team match day, did not even make the squad this round. He just watched from the sidelines and recuperated. Waiting for the Champions League game in the middle of the week!

In the midfield, Mikel and Essien partnered with double midfielders. These two top midfield defensive players in the world and the most powerful midfield interception ability can also make up for Ivanovic's defensive problems! "Magic Lamp" Lampard and Malouda are two people, one is responsible for scheduling and organizing the attack in the midfield, and the other is responsible for breaking through the wing, passing the ball, and delivering ammunition for the two forwards at the top!

Drogba on the front line was also rested by Guus Hiddink in this game. Everything is for the Champions League and preparing for the Champions League!

At the top is the combination of double forwards Anelka and Kalu! In the absence of Drogba stealing the show, both Anelka and Kalou want to better display their offensive strength in front of Hiddink without affecting the team's outcome!

Chelsea's third line has core players to rotate for the Champions League, but with the combat effectiveness of this Chelsea starting team, it is actually not bad!

Even if it is an away game, but facing only the team Newcastle in the relegation zone, the overall strength of the Chelsea team is still full of oppression!

Although the relegation teams in the second half of the Premier League schedule are not easy to mess with, these weak teams can always exert their strengths in the final stage to complete the victory of the weak against the strong! But in this game, it is obvious that Chelsea, which has the upper hand in strength, holds the initiative and has a better on-the-spot performance!

In the first half of the game, both sides invested a lot of energy on the defensive end, making the offense of both sides advance extremely slowly and play extremely difficult!

The two sides were inside the penalty area and the thickness of the defensive personnel in front of the big penalty area made the two teams choose long-range shots most of the time to end an attack. The 0-0 goalless score was maintained until the end of the half game!

In the second half, Chelsea still had the advantage on the field and created a few more chances than the home team Newcastle, but this time, Lady Luck was clearly on Chelsea's side!

In the 56th minute of the game, Lampard suddenly completed a long shot while dribbling the ball, which caught Newcastle's goalkeeper by surprise! It was using this iconic long shot that Lampard took the lead in breaking the opponent's goal for Chelsea! Chelsea lead the score 1-0!

At his own home court, after the iron barrel array he had put his best to was the first to knock out, Newcastle, which desperately needed points to relegation, naturally was not reconciled to losing so easily at his home court!

Newcastle's coach can only choose to take a risk at this point in the game, replace the offensive players, and change the team's iron barrel tactics, hoping to take advantage of the momentum at home and amidst the cheers of the home fans to equalize the score !

It's just a pity that for this Chelsea team, after taking the lead, few teams can easily let Chelsea spit out their own victory!

This Newcastle team doesn't have that kind of strength!

Essien and Mikel, two of the world's most outstanding defensive midfielders, formed the most difficult midfield defense to break through. Newcastle's offensive conduction in the middle was destroyed countless times by these two!

But he could only be forced to change to the offensive method of two wings, but happened to encounter the encirclement of Chelsea, who were piled up with players defending on the wing!

It can be said that it is precisely because Newcastle does not have the kind of superstar player who can make a final decision and can change the opponent's defense alone. Chelsea's defense can unscrupulously rely on the strength of the center to complete all aspects of defensive concentration!

In this situation where breaking a little defense can destroy Chelsea's defense in an instant, Newcastle does not have the kind of players who can give people a flash of inspiration!

Newcastle's offense, no matter how many offensive players are replaced, there is still no chance! Chelsea's iron-blooded defense is well-deserved!

Even if Newcastle sometimes encounters a dead mouse, occasionally a through ball or a long pass happens to break through Chelsea's defense, but Yang Feng stays at the end of the defense and is ready to defend at all times. For Newcastle's offensive players, it is easy The layers of interception of Chelsea players, without any chance, appeared in the penalty area!

Chelsea's impregnable defense made Newcastle's extravagant expectation of even kicking a high ball from the wing. For Yang Feng and Terry, there is actually not much they can do in this game!

The defensive line composed of midfielders and full-backs makes most of Newcastle's attacks unable to pose a risk to Chelsea's central defender combination!

And Newcastle suffered a heavy blow on the defensive end when their offense did not show any improvement!

After being constantly unfavorable in attacking and being seized by Chelsea to counterattack, although Chelsea's counterattacks were done several times in a row, they were all destroyed by Newcastle's left-behind defenders!

But you can't point to the defender of a relegation team who can do things that many giants can't do. After successfully completing a few defenses, Newcastle's goal was still pierced by Chelsea again!

This time it was Chelsea's only orthodox wide player Malouda who scored the goal!

This counterattack originated from the opponent's attack in the middle. In the process of trying to force a breakthrough, people passed by, but the ball was directly blocked by Essien. Essien completed the interception, and Chelsea switched the ball on the spot. , strive to complete the counterattack quickly!

The ball was passed directly to Lampard by Essien, and Lampard dispatched and commanded in the midfield to transfer the ball!

After that, Lampard passed the ball directly to Kalou who was running to the left! After unloading the football, Kalu directly accelerated on the left side, while another Chelsea striker, Anelka, and Malouda on the right side, quickly inserted into Newcastle's penalty area, ready to respond Kalou's possible pass!

Since the conversion of the ball is an instant, when Chelsea's counterattack has been launched quickly, the speed of Newcastle's players returning to defense is really too slow!

In the case of 1v1 on the wing, although the opponent's central defender firmly occupies the inside position, Kalou has no chance to cut into the penalty area and directly hit the goal!

But at the same time, while the opponent is guarding the inside line, they can no longer come out to interfere with Kalu's full sprint, and interfere with Kalu's direct ball from the side to the middle!

Kalu has plenty of time, and when he is dribbling, he will still look up to watch his teammate's running position!

Anelka's direct and quick drive forward attracted another Newcastle central defender to mark him, while Malouda quietly ambush in the rear, following his player, still behind him Come here, completely lost your defensive position!

Kalou passed the ball directly and forcefully to the back point with enough adjustment time!

With almost no interference from defenders, Malouda directly completed a wonderful volley, which was very crisp!

Before Newcastle's goalkeeper had time to react, the ball had already flown into the net. Chelsea had a 2-0 lead in the away game!

Following Chelsea's second goal, the Newcastle players gave up their resistance. Players from both sides began to pass the ball in midfield, making the game a so-called "garbage time"!

Newcastle, on the underdog side, has no hope. Chelsea said that although three main players have been rested in rotation, most of the players on the field will actually start in the Champions League, so there is no need to expend too much physical energy. Play meaningless games!

In the end, Chelsea won again after the national team match day, beating Newcastle 2-to-2, making a good start for the midweek Champions League match!

After the game, the whole Chelsea team returned to London overnight to recuperate! Since the first leg of the Champions League game is going away to challenge Liverpool at Anfield, the Chelsea generals also understand that this will be an extremely difficult battle! They need to recharge their batteries, adjust their best condition, and present their best performance on the big stage of the Champions League!

In the Champions League, the Premier League has definitely been in its heyday in recent years. Although at this time the Premier League mode is no different from other leagues! Almost all of them are a super team (Manchester United), a few other weaker giants put pressure on the standings, and then other big teams try to stop them in the league and see if they can be lucky and succeed once. !

However, the investment level of the Premier League giants is the first level in Europe, which also makes the Premier League teams extremely competitive in the European arena!

In recent years of Champions League matches, with the support of huge broadcast income, the Premier League teams have bought a large number of players, and they have sprung up. The giants once again broke into the top eight, occupying half of the top eight! And Chelsea and Liverpool met together during the draw. The two Premier League giants will meet directly in the quarter-finals!

A quarter of the draw results made Chelsea and Liverpool, the old enemies of the Champions League, meet again in the Champions League. Perhaps this group of matchups has caused visual fatigue for many viewers!

This is the third consecutive year that Chelsea and Liverpool have faced each other directly in the knockout stages of the Champions League!

In the semi-finals of the previous year, Liverpool stepped on Chelsea's body in the semi-finals and advanced to the finals, but in the finals, they were successfully revenged by AC Milan, washing away the shame of the night in Istanbul!

In last year's semi-finals, it was Chelsea's turn to take the advantage and complete the promotion! It's just a pity that in the rainy match in Moscow, Chelsea lost to their domestic league rival Manchester United, which became the background board behind Manchester United's brilliance!

As for this year's Champions League match, although the duel between the two was advanced to the quarter-finals, but since the two teams' points in the domestic league and Manchester United do seem to have little hope of competing for the championship, they naturally aimed at the Champions League trophy. ! I hope to use better performance to win honor for the team in the Champions League!

In the Premier League that has finished this season, Liverpool has double-killed Chelsea this season, which can be called Chelsea's nemesis!

It's just that these two victories were caused by Scolari's tenure and Chelsea's unsuitability for strong duels! For Hiddink and the Chelsea players, the current Chelsea may be very different from the Chelsea of ​​Scolari! At least all the players feel that their defense must be much stronger than the defense at that time!

During the period after Hiddink came to Chelsea, Yang Feng used his excellent defensive judgment, filling ability, and high-spirited game attitude, which made the team members gradually accept Yang Feng and adapt to Yang Feng. On the field, appreciate his contribution to the team!

And Yang Feng's change compared with the previous two league games will make this Champions League quarter-finals full of more variables and uncertainties!

Anyway, for this UEFA Champions League knockout match, the players on both sides are fully prepared, hoping to show their best strength, stepping on the opponent's corpse, and stepping into the semi-finals!

Not only did Chelsea have a rotation in the league, but Liverpool's rotation was even greater, but the team still maintained their offensive firepower and beat Fulham in the away game!

The two teams, who are doing very well recently, will confront each other head-on!