Football’s First Defender

At Wembley Stadium, Chelsea celebrated the team's first championship of the season amidst the cheers of the Blues fans!

The exhaustion of continuous battles, the weakness after many strong confrontations, with the arrival of this champion, all the Chelsea players disappeared in smoke!

Chelsea players, all you need to do is cheer! Just cheer for the champion you have won through continuous hard work!

For Chelsea's subsequent schedule, the most important thing may be the coming Champions League semi-finals! The first leg of the Champions League semi-finals will be played in 10 days.

Chelsea coach Hiddink, before the FA Cup final, has informed the players that after the final, they can have a short, relaxing and pleasant vacation to restore the players' physical and mental state after consecutive games!

On top of the championship celebration at the scene, Yang Feng naturally followed the order of the players in the Chelsea team, holding up the FA Cup trophy, and taking pictures to commemorate it! Caressing the first trophy of this season at close range, Yang Feng also feels incredible for his game experience this season!

At the time of the initial transfer, Yang Feng just wanted to come to the bigger stage of the Premier League early. He just planned to learn from some senior defenders in the team and accumulate his own strength. ready! As a result, the world is fickle. A few months ago, under Scolari, Yang Feng, who couldn't even kick the ball, has now become the absolute main force of Chelsea! As the main central defender, he has played against Chelsea in all aspects this half of the season!

Of course, Yang Feng also knew in his heart that with the inevitable departure of the "Fire Fighting" coach Guus Hiddink next season, he still had to face direct competition with Carvalho, Alex and others!

Yang Feng himself still needs to use continuous good performance to determine his position in the team, show his strength and potential, and win the approval of the new coach next season!

After the on-site championship celebration, Hiddink also gave his players a full 2-day holiday according to the previous agreement!

Although the weekend league is coming soon, Hiddink has decided to send substitutes and reserve players in this game, just go through the motions!

Chelsea's main players also have important rotation players. The task at this time is to ensure their rest time, adjust their personal game status, and recharge their batteries for the Champions League semi-finals that will start in 10 days!

In the weekend's game, not surprisingly, Chelsea, which is composed of substitute players and reserve players, did not continue its winning streak in the league in the away game! In the end, Chelsea drew 0-0 with Toffee Everton, who also had no fighting spirit and ranked in the middle of the league!

The game between the two sides was very dull, and even many fans watching the live broadcast of the game simply watched the live broadcast for a short while, and then silently turned off the TV!

Then ushered in the fast-paced game of the Premier League, and the 35th round of the game also arrived as scheduled. In this game, Hiddink once again chose to rotate players, only letting a few main players play at the last moment of the second half of the game to find the game state, but Chelsea, which is dominated by substitute players, still relied on strength in the end. A small 1-0 victory over the Hammers to help West Ham United! It can be seen that today's Premier League, although it is a prosperous age, is only compared to the previous giants. For other teams, the gap with the four giants is still huge!

The victory of this game also ensured that Chelsea secured the top three places in the league three rounds ahead of schedule, and won the group stage place in the Champions League next season. There is no need to prepare for the Champions League play-offs like Arsenal, which is fourth!

In fact, the gap of 7 points in the league is not impossible to catch up with 5 rounds left in the game. Chelsea also have different opinions before the game, but Hiddink himself believes that the number one is the more stable the later in the league. Manchester United, and there is also Liverpool, which has no Champions League mission, Hiddink didn't think he might encounter a chance to miss, so he gave up decisively!

Facts have proved that the performances of Liverpool and Manchester United are indeed stable, and Chelsea's points gap has no chance of shrinking at all!

After these two insignificant Premier League games, Chelsea ushered in the Champions League this season, the most important round of the series test, two rounds of direct and strong dialogue with Barcelona!

In the UEFA Champions League semi-finals of the 2008/09 season, after confirming that Chelsea's opponent in the semi-finals was Barcelona under Guardiola, Yang Feng's own memory already remembered the approximate direction of the history of his previous life!

Perhaps regarding the whole process of the two rounds, even though Yang Feng had actually watched the live broadcast at that time, it had been a long time, and now his memory of those two games is not very clear!

However, in the second round of the "Stamford Bridge tragedy" between the two teams, Yang Feng remembered very clearly the referee Herning's controversial decisions during the game!

Let's not talk about whether the referee Herning missed Chelsea's penalty kicks in the penalty area during the second round of the game. It was at the last moment of the game that Barcelona's Iniesta, the wonderful long-range world wave lore Chelsea is indeed a classic lore in the history of the Champions League!

But after that, in Chelsea's last attack, Ballack made a handball foul by Barcelona player Eto'o in the penalty area, but was turned a blind eye by the referee on duty who was close at hand, and Ballack opened his arms afterwards. , with a ferocious face, followed the referee stubbornly, almost hugging the referee and running for half the time in anger. It is also a classic picture that cannot be ignored in the history of the Champions League!

"That is to say, in this round of the series, we may be hacked?" Yang Feng only remembered the classic scenes, and he really didn't know the overall trend of this round of the series, and the big score!

Of course, with the addition of Yang Feng's butterfly team, how far the two teams will play in this series may not be exactly the same as in history!

But Barcelona is the champion of this year's Champions League and has created an unprecedented "six crowns" feat. Yang Feng clearly remembers this!

Whether Chelsea can stop Barcelona from winning the championship due to the addition of their own "butterfly", Yang Feng does not know. But be careful of the referee interfering with the game, and you have to jump out to defend Xiaobai Iniesta's long shot at the last moment, Yang Feng really remembers it!

Yang Feng, he doesn't want his teammate Ballack to become the second child in history again, and he doesn't want Ballack to reproduce the helpless expression he had in his previous life after not awarding a penalty this year!

BJ time, in the early morning of April 29th, in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals of the 2008/09 season, the first leg of Chelsea's away game at Camp Nou challenged the thriving Barcelona!

Now this Barcelona team has not yet been crowned the most important champion of the six-time Champions League. Although in terms of strength, Guardiola's team is close to the peak, but purely competing for lineup strength, the midfielder's defensive ability is obvious Chelsea, the best in Europe, may be on the defensive end, the team most likely to contain Barcelona's pass-and-control attack!

This round of the series is also predicted by most media as a direct struggle between spear and shield!

However, in the first round of the game, Chelsea faced a very real problem, that is, the team's main left back, Ashley Cole, who was almost full-time this season, had received a yellow card in the second round of the game against Liverpool. Matches will be suspended due to accumulative yellow cards!

After Hiddink struggled, at the left back position, he did not take the risk of using a newcomer in such a crucial game, but let Bosingwa first come to the left to play a left back!

Off to Camp Nou! Hiddink put on the lowest stance. The requirement for the team is to do a good job in defense. Even if it is a defensive counterattack, in fact Hiddink said that it should be reduced to the minimum and seize the best counterattack opportunities!

For example, Drogba, who played as a single striker in this game, in the usual games, even against a team with strong offensive strength like Arsenal and Liverpool, Drogba has the privilege not to participate in the defense and concentrate on the defense. Fight back, just contain it!

But in this game, in order to increase the interference with Barcelona's ball handlers, even Drogba himself must participate in the defense of Chelsea's midfielder in Hiddink's tactics!

Chelsea's goal in this game is to keep the tie, bring the game back to Stamford Bridge without falling behind, and then find a way to win the game at their home court!

Hiddink's 451 defensive formation is exactly the same as the defensive formation facing Arsenal in the FA Cup! Even because of Drogba's return to defense, the defensive ability of this lineup is even better!

However, in this game, Bosingwa will go to the left instead of playing the left back position, while Ivanovic will play the right back!

The rest of the personnel and positions have not changed!

Mikel and Essien, the two sweeping defensive midfielders, played together again in this game to ensure their team's midfield defense!

As for Deco, who has returned to the Nou Camp, he can only sit on the bench, waiting to see if there is a chance to come off the bench and prove himself again at the Nou Camp!

As for Barcelona playing at home, its coach Guardiola finally chose the most suitable 433 pass control system for his team!

Henry the Great, the former king of Highbury, together with Eto'o, the Cameroonian cheetah, and Lionel Messi, the successor of the Argentine football champion, formed Barcelona's frontcourt offensive end, a luxurious offensive trident envied by the whole world!

The three in the midfield are Iniesta from Basara Macia's youth training camp, Harvey, the core offensive playmaker, and Yaya Toure, who is tall and strong in both offense and defense! Guardiola chose a more offensive midfield configuration combination! The determination to attack is evident!

As for Barcelona's defense, team captain Puyol has not recovered from some minor injuries in the previous game, and he is also preparing for the Clasico against Real Madrid on the weekend. In this game, he just sits on the bench and stands by. Max replaces him as the starter Central defender!

The partner is Pique, the left back is Abidal, and the right back is the Brazilian Alves!

The goalkeeper is Valdes who has been performing consistently!

Barcelona is not like Chelsea, they can just give up the league and concentrate on preparing for the game! At this stage, with five rounds left in La Liga, Barcelona is only 4 points ahead of rival Real Madrid, and in the middle of these two Champions League matches, it is the Spanish national derby between Barcelona and Real Madrid!

If Real Madrid can overthrow Barcelona in the away game, then the gap is 1 point, and there are still 4 rounds, Real Madrid may not be impossible to complete the reversal!

Now Chelsea's greatest hope is that Real Madrid can consume Barcelona's physical strength and attention in the game as much as possible during the weekend's game!

As for another Champions League semi-final, the Premier League civil war! The match between Manchester United and Arsenal, compared with the duel between the two sides with a big difference in strength, the whole world is obviously more concerned about the fateful match between Barcelona and Chelsea!

The two teams have forged a bridge in the Mourinho era a few years ago!

At that time, Chelsea and Barcelona met in the Champions League knockout round for two consecutive years! Due to the problem of the penalty scale, Mourinho has a lot of grievances against the referee and Barcelona!

Mourinho even left the classic saying "11 against 11, I have never lost to Barcelona!"

This is the first direct confrontation between the two sides in the post-Mourinho era, and it is also in such an important Champions League semi-final!

Although Mourinho no longer coached Chelsea this season, Chelsea's starting players are still the same people as before! They have always had the most hostile attitude towards Barcelona!

"The 08/09 season, the semi-finals of the Champions League, is about to begin! In this game, Barcelona, ​​which is at home, chose a more aggressive starting lineup. It seems that they want to gain a greater advantage at home!"

Yang Feng is very excited on the field now! Although I followed Zenit last season, I also played in the semi-finals and finals of European competitions, and even directly won the final cup!

But the European Cup, compared with the Champions League, is really not the same!

You must know that the players in the current Barcelona team are Yang Feng, who is a Real Madrid fan, and he hates his mortal enemy players!

Even if everyone is not all famous in the history of Barcelona, ​​they have all made a name for themselves in world football! Now being able to compete with them, and even being considered as one of them, for Yang Feng himself, it was full of magic!

Especially the young Messi in the opposite Barcelona lineup! After Barcelona decided to use Messi as the core of the offensive end, they also cleaned up a bunch of past meritorious players and made way for him! (As for human touch, the European giants will always be the big brother, not to mention the second brother, except for the big international! It’s not wrong to watch less football, some trolls are really enough!)

The ten-year Melo era is the future theme of football! The peerless double pride, the current world champion, Yang Feng also doesn't know what kind of threat Messi, who is in the early stage of his peak, will pose to his team in this game!

What Yang Feng can do is to do his best to complete the team's defensive goals, to limit Barcelona's offensive firepower, to strive for every goal, so that Barcelona's offense cannot pass through his defensive area!