Football’s First Defender

After the trip to the United States, Chelsea returned directly to the British Isles for the final preparations before the start of the new season!

Although there were four warm-up matches in the United States, after all, the opponents in two games were not strong enough, and the other two games were against Serie A duo, both of which had a strong Italian style!

Therefore, Chelsea deliberately found an English-style team for a warm-up match before their old rival Manchester United. The opponent is the fourth-ranked British Championship last season and was eliminated in the play-offs, the Reading team!

Flying back to the UK from the US, after a long journey, Chelsea only had one day off to allow the players to rest and relax, and then regrouped to prepare for the warm-up match against Reading!

On August 1, Chelsea went to Reading's home court for the last warm-up match before the start of the season! At this time, there are still two weeks before the opening of the league, and Chelsea has deliberately started to guarantee a weekly game mode, so that the team can directly enter the rhythm of the game at the beginning of the league!

Reading's very traditional British style of play has indeed caused Chelsea a lot of trouble. After all, most of the players have not completely recovered to their best game state, and there was no "reckless" team like Reading in the previous series of warm-up matches. Speed, fast and fierce, Chelsea's defense was in chaos!

It’s not that the starting defense formed by Terry and Yang Feng can’t defend against the opposing British Championship striker combination, but because Chelsea’s overall wide space is too large, giving the opponent’s wide players too good a chance to target long passes . When the pass is precisely guided, then the Reading striker, who occupies the initiative to attack, can run first, and his teammates pass the ball during the run. This makes the initiative completely in the hands of the opponent's striker. Of course, for Yang Feng And Terry caused great defensive pressure!

However, although Reading played very well on the offensive end, Yang Feng's defense is still remarkable. For Reading's high center forward, although Yang Feng could not completely limit the opponent's header, Yang Feng passed the judgment of his footsteps. , and the prediction of the landing point of the long pass, but it can guarantee that in most cases, it can form a very effective interference!

The opponent fought for the header 4 times in the first half, 2 times directly hit Yang Feng's blocked head, and the other two times were directly missed by Yang Feng's personal interference!

Yang Feng left a deep impression on Ancelotti with his good performance!

In the first half, relying on Lampard's goal, Chelsea still took the lead 1-0, but on the scene, Chelsea did not play the suppressive effect of the Premier League team!

After all, it was a warm-up match. At the beginning of the second half, Ancelotti continued to make substitutions and adjustments. Carvalho and Alex played together to replace the central defender combination of Yang Feng and Terry. Erkov is on the field, adapting to the British game style and the rhythm of the game! The teenager Sturridge also came into battle, replacing Drogba, who performed well in the first half!

Some of Chelsea's new players and substitute players have turned the game into a confrontational battle. The main reason is that the defense of the two teams is under the opponent's offensive.

Without Yang Feng and Terry's protection, Alex's weakness in defense was fully exposed!

Facing the unreasonable high center forward of the British Championship, Carvalho can still resist the top, but when he switches to Alex's defense, there is a bigger loophole!

In the end, the two teams hurt each other in the confrontational battle. A total of 3 goals were scored in the second half, and they shook hands 2-2!

It is worth mentioning that the two goals scored by Reading were all headers. Chelsea's defense suffered a bigger loss in the second half!

However, the warm-up match is to find problems and find the state of the game. At least Ancelotti chose to believe in the classic combination of Yang Feng and Terry last season through the intuitive comparison of this game!

And the whole Chelsea team is aiming at a week later, the first official game of the new season, a direct duel with Manchester United in the Community Shield Cup!

Manchester United has already won three consecutive league championships, and the Community Shield awards and shields of the previous two years have also been included in the bag. The year before last, they stepped on Chelsea to win the championship. Now Ferguson also really wants to win the Community Shield for another three consecutive championships!

Although some of the teams participating in the Community Shield are only an important friendly match and are the British champions with the lowest gold content, but for the red and blue battle of this competition, everyone believes that the two teams with great hostility must definitely A week before the start of the Premier League, there will be a real fight!

On August 9th, Wembley Stadium, which was in charge of hosting the Community Shield match, was flooded with a large number of fans of the two teams. For the Community Shield Cup, the coaches of both Chelsea and Manchester United showed great interest before the match !

After all, the two teams just faced off directly in the Champions League final at the end of last season, and Chelsea succeeded in revenge!

The grievances from a few months ago have also been brought into this game. The fans all hope that their team can win the opponent and make a good start for the new season!

However, on Chelsea's side, compared with last season, after retaining most of the main players and substitute players, they also targeted the introduction of Russian international Zhirkov to focus on strengthening the continuous breakthrough ability of the wing!

On the other hand, Manchester United, although there are a few good signings, but it is still difficult for them to make up for the huge impact of striker Carlos Tevez and Ronaldo's departure!

In this game, Ancelotti continued to use the classic formation of 442!

The back line is still the main defense last season. Yang Feng partnered with Terry to form the center back line. Ashley Cole left the left and Bosingwa the right!

In the midfield, Essien acts as a defensive midfielder, while Ballack and Lampard are in front of the midfield, participating in the offense a lot!

Malouda is still unstoppable on the left, and the space on the right can only be used by midfielders or Bosingwa!

The forwards are Drogba and Anelka!

For Zhirkov bought from Russia, Ancelotti experienced a month of observation and experimentation, and found that this signing now looks a bit tasteless!

At the beginning, the transfer department vowed that Zhirkov's various abilities, and as a Russian player, the joining of Zhirkov can fulfill the boss Abramovich's goal of "at least one domestic player joins his team"!

But Zhirkov really eats too much of his position on the court, and too much possession of the ball!

As a jack-of-all-trades player on the left, Zhirkov can play both left back and left forward. However, with Ashley Cole and Malouda both in good health, Zhirkov Husband's thin body, there is no way for him to win the starting position!

In the previous warm-up match, Ancelotti also tried to let Zhirkov go to the right to see if he could perform well. After all, the transfer department’s evaluation at the beginning was that Zhirkov could play a cameo on the right. Supplement Chelsea's wing breakthrough ability!

However, the reality is that Ancelotti is a little disappointed. Zhirkov can indeed perform the job of an ordinary wide player on the right, but what Ancelotti needs is a better wide player, and Not a Russian Ronaldinho who disappears from the crowd on the right side!

Instead of letting Zhirkov occupy a place on the right, it is better to let him wait on the bench and replace Malouda or Ashley Cole in the second half of the game to strengthen the team's attack on the left. Woolen cloth!

It’s hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. Since Chelsea still has the old squad of players, Ancelotti naturally followed the trend and almost copied the mature tactics of his predecessor!

After all, this is a decisive game, and Ancelotti still wants to use a championship as a good start!

As for the personal tactics that I have practiced for a long time, I should wait until I meet some weaker teams in the league before trying it...

Manchester United not only lost two important players, Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, but the injury problem is also serious!

Last season's main central defender combination, Ferdinand and Vidic, are now in a state of recuperation!

O'Shea returned to the central defender position in this game, Brown is acting as a central defender, the Brazilian Fabio is the right back, and Evra is still the left back!

The old goalkeeper van der Sar retired, and the starting goalkeeper for the new season is Ben Foster!

In the midfield, Nani and new aid Valencia are separated on the left and right sides, while Fletcher and Scholes are in the midfield!

The striker is the only two remaining stars, Berbatov and Rooney!

In just over two months, in this Community Shield match, Manchester United's starting lineup has changed 8 positions compared to the previous Champions League final. It can be said that there are still injuries in the transfer. Let this Manchester United a little hurt!

Chelsea, on the other hand, has all members out of the station and has maintained a fairly strong stability. The balance of the game has not yet begun, and it has already fallen to Chelsea's side!