Football’s First Defender

"This is an ugly game!" After the game, Guardiola criticized Chelsea's very conservative tactics with dissatisfaction!

"The team in front of us doesn't look like a Premier League giant team at all. It's like facing those weak teams in the league. They will do anything for the final result!"

"I believe that we, Barcelona, ​​can easily defeat this 'weak team' in the away game and advance to the final!"

Unlike Guardiola and Barcelona players, who were sullen and slightly angry about the draw, Hiddink and Chelsea captain Terry at the press conference were full of smiles!

"Didn't play well? Then you can see our performance a week later!"

"The game is the result! At least we have achieved the unbeaten goal before the game!"

"By returning to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, I will show all my terrifying strength!"

"Mundo Deportivo" became the vanguard to ridicule Chelsea. As Barcelona's quasi-Adam's apple media, the newspaper reported that Barcelona used strong strength to gain absolute control in the whole game, and laughed at Chelsea's humiliation of the giants in the away game. Demeanor, even if the coach is not Mourinho, he still continues his defensive tactics of retreating, and he does not know how to make progress! In the end, Yang Feng's several wonderful defenses were called the mysterious power of the East, and it was only luck that brought a draw away from Barcelona!

When the mainstream media in England were simply reporting on the game, the first to reply to the "World Sports Daily" was its arch-rival "Marca"!

Sure enough, colleagues from the same country are enemies. Unlike the praise of Barcelona from the world, the writer of the Marca newspaper for this game criticized Barcelona's pass control system. In trouble!

After praising Chelsea's iron-blooded defense and bringing different visual enjoyment to the fans, there is a kind of insinuating Barcelona's style of play, which will only bully weak teams!

Regarding the debate in Spain, most of Chelsea's players don't understand Spanish, they just listen to it as a joke! What they have to do now is not to gain an advantage in public opinion, but to win at home and advance to the final is the most important thing!

The first round of the game was indeed not a very exciting knockout match! However, the Chelsea players thought they could leave Spain with their heads held high. They used the same tenacious defense to complete the basic goals they set before the game. Now they are going back to London and preparing to end this round of the series at their home court. game!

It has been proved by facts that their own team is the stronger side. They can beat Barcelona by strength and continue to maintain the team's record advantage over Barcelona over the years, that is, "When 11 players played against Barcelona, ​​Chelsea never lost. Pass!" This time, not only can't lose, Chelsea will directly beat Barcelona at home!

However, the first thing Chelsea have to face is the following weekend of the Premier League. In the league, Hiddink continues to implement his "abandonment" strategy for the league!

Although Chelsea is currently in the standings, the gap with the leader Manchester United is not big, and there is still a theoretical possibility of winning the league, but Hiddink does not look forward to the negligible probability of winning the league, and continues to use the idea of ​​​​leaving the league with youth training as a substitute. Use the weekend of the league to give the main players enough time to rest and relax!

However, in the terrifying home court at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea still easily defeated the visiting "farmer" Fulham at home, relying on such artificial "remnants"!

Kalou started as a striker in this game and scored twice! Help Chelsea win easily 3-1!

Of course, Chelsea's victory in this game does not mean that the gap between the Premier League team and Chelsea's mixed bench lineup can easily defeat Fulham, which is ranked 7th in the league!

But Fulham itself is too "satisfied" with their current ranking. The inner thinking of their team is that they don't want to rank so high and "occupy" the Premier League's European places to go to the Europa League to dawdle!

For the Europa League, this kind of tasteless competition, all the teams in the Premier League have the same attitude, that is, if they can’t go, they won’t go, even if they accidentally get a place in the Europa League, it’s still in the qualifying round or the group If you don't want to compete, you will force yourself to be in a bad state, and force yourself to kill yourself in the "performance bureau"!

After all, today's Europa League is not a Champions League game. There are expensive appearance fees and broadcast fees. The "mosquito meat" appearance fee given by the Europa League is still close to that, but no Premier League team will watch it. Eye-catching!

Even if there are some Premier League club owners who are cheapskate and covet the bonus, but thinking of participating in the European competition, the league results may not be guaranteed. Considering that the risk of relegation may be greater in the two-front battle, they retreated!

After all, there is the example of Everton. Even if it is Everton, which is firmly sitting at the top of the second echelon except for the rich teams, even if the strength of the lineup is good every season, the league results are good every year and bad every year, because of the European competition. drag!

The increase in the number of games and the fatigue of the flight journey have increased the risk of injury for the players. The managers of all the teams are shrewd. For them, they can go wherever they like in the Europa League!

Fulham, which has successfully completed their relegation goal, has now entered the summer vacation mode a few rounds ahead of schedule. For them, they are now ranked seventh, and they have to start from the qualifying round to participate in the Europa League. They can't wait to lose the final game , Let your ranking drop all the time, qualify for the Europa League, let other teams go, let other teams go, otherwise, starting from the qualifying rounds, the team will have to prepare for the new season. In advance, it also delayed the players' own holidays!

So in this game, Fulham's players obviously seemed to be working hard, and they were completely turned upside down by Kalou in the front! Fulham also lost 1-3 "as they wished"

Shortly after the end of the Chelsea game, Chelsea's next opponent, Barcelona, ​​was also at Real Madrid's Bernabéu Stadium, and the arch-rival Real Madrid launched a decisive direct duel against this season's La Liga champions!

However, it was also beyond everyone's expectations. Barcelona, ​​fighting on two fronts, broke out completely in this game, beating rival Real Madrid 6-2, not only completing the season double kill against Real Madrid this season, but also completely killing this season The suspense of the La Liga championship!

Barcelona's offensive players vented their unsatisfactory offensive end in the midweek Champions League match, and their grievances against Chelsea's conservative tactics, all on Real Madrid's weak defense!

Real Madrid, which is no longer the Galaxy battleship of previous years, suffered a humiliating defeat at its home court. Angry Bernabeu fans also began to boo their players during the game! The defeat on all fronts this season has also strengthened the management's efforts to overthrow and rebuild this team!

However, the Chelsea players may be a little relieved that even though Real Madrid fell behind 1 to 3 in the first half of the game, they have been playing against Barcelona frantically, which can be regarded as consuming more physical energy of the Barcelona players. Come on!

Although they belong to the Spanish club team, Real Madrid was also out of the Champions League early, but in the spirit of the enemy of an enemy is a friend, Real Madrid is very willing to help Chelsea stop Barcelona! Even if Real Madrid can not win the championship themselves, they will never let Barcelona have a better time in the Champions League. They have done everything they can do for Chelsea. Next, it depends on the performance of the Chelsea players themselves!

Another good news for Chelsea is that Barcelona's main central defender, captain Puyol, was injured again after a fight against Real Madrid. According to reports after the game, Puyol will be sidelined for a few weeks. Will miss the second leg against Chelsea!

This also means that Barcelona's defense will lack the most stable central defenders. No matter who will fill Puyol's space, they will not be Drogba's opponent, and will leave enough space for Chelsea!

And the whole Barcelona team didn't care too much, because after the Real Madrid game, they came to London from Madrid with a plane, and started to familiarize themselves with the environment in London a few days in advance!

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Stamford Bridge Stadium, on this day when the second leg of the Champions League semi-final begins, there will be no absences again! Countless Chelsea fans came to the stadium, or in the square outside the stadium, or in the bar, to cheer for their favorite Chelsea!

The cheering voices of the Barcelona fans who came to Stamford Bridge with the team were dispersed by the crazy Chelsea fans with their shouts. The sound of the scene was full of cheering for Chelsea!

"I got the starting lists of the two teams from UEFA officials before the game!"

"Aiming at the crucial second round of this game, the coaches of the two teams, Guardiola and Hiddink, have made their own targeted adjustments to the team!"

"For the visiting team Barcelona, ​​this game is a guest at Stamford Bridge. Instead of continuing to stick to their 433 pass and control offensive tactics, they changed to 442 and sent an extra midfielder defensive player to strengthen their defense in the away game first!"

"Barcelona's starting goalkeeper is still Valdez! As for the central defender, although Puyol was injured in the weekend league, Guardiola still did not choose to continue to trust Max, who made a huge mistake in the first leg, but Yayatu Lei's position continues to be adjusted backwards from the defensive midfielder, and he will act as Puyol's substitute in this game and play as a central defender!"

"Yaya Toure with Pique, Abidal at left back and Alves at right back!"

"In terms of midfielders, Iniesta and Xavi are still the main players of the team. On the offensive end, Barcelona are the two engines! It's just that behind them, Guardiola replaced Keita in this game. Busquets and two, come to strengthen the team's defensive attributes!"

"In front of the two fronts, Barcelona chose Eto'o and Messi, who are more suitable for counterattack tactics, in this game. Henry didn't get the chance to start this game, so he could only stand by on the bench!"

Barcelona lowered their stature very low in the away game this time, and they also understand how much home court advantage can increase the team's strength for a strong team. So at the beginning of the game, Guardiola intends to directly let the team do a good job of defending first, and then use the defensive counterattack tactics to properly find opportunities to counterattack against Chelsea!

If you want to win the away game, you must go through the exciting period of Chelsea's opening stage! Instead of playing against Chelsea blindly and directly on the road!

"On Chelsea's side, Hiddink has also made tactical changes! Chelsea, who are playing at home, no longer hide their secrets on the offensive end in this game, and directly used their most familiar attacking formation, which Hiddink believes is the most suitable for the current game. line-up!"

"The official Chelsea position is 433 formation! The specific formation needs to be observed in the game!"

"Four backs are definitely right! In this game, Ashley Cole came back from the ban and served as left back. Bosingwa, who is both offensive and defensive, replaced Ivanovic and returned to his right back position. Yang Feng and Terry are still partners. Central defender!"

"The goalkeeper is still Petr Cech, who has found his game state recently!" "The three midfielders, Lampard, Ballack, and Essien, can be regarded as both offensive and defensive! At the same time as Mikel, he blocked Inesta and Xavi to the greatest extent, but with Barcelona missing a striker, Chelsea's central defense should not be under too much pressure!"

"As for this game, Hiddink did not start the two defensive gates of Essien and Mikel at the same time. It can be seen that Chelsea is determined to use offense at their home court to actively control the rhythm of the game! "

"In the official three striker position map, Malouda and Anelka are separated on the left and right sides, and the top of the offensive end is still the monster Drogba!"

"Although the official formation is 433, I still feel that Chelsea's formation is most likely to be 451 or 442! The specific factor that determines Chelsea's formation is Anelka's position! He is playing as a right winger in this game. Space, or enter the penalty area, help Drogba, give the assist space on the right side to Malouda who is inserted to pass the ball, it is worth the expectations of the audience!"

"Looking at the starting situation, there is a high probability that the two sides in this game will switch offense and defense compared to the first round. If there is no accident at home, Chelsea should be as Hiddink said before the game, relying on being looked down upon by Barcelona ' Attack, come knock out Barcelona at home and go home!"

Before the game started, the fans of the two teams had already entered the game state first. The Chelsea fans who were suppressed at the Nou Camp and could hardly speak out, returned to their own Stamford Bridge this time, and naturally returned to the Barcelona fans as they were. !

The fans of the Blues, during the warm-up process of the Barcelona players, have already booed them enthusiastically to declare their right to speak at home!

As the game time approached, the players returned to the locker room to get ready. Under the leadership of the referee, surrounded by the sound of the Champions League theme song, Chelsea and Barcelona walked out of the stadium in two teams!

In the 08/09 season, the semi-finals of the Champions League, the second round of Chelsea vs Barcelona, ​​is about to start!