Football’s First Defender

The champion of the last European Cup in the 08/09 season was Shakhtar Donetsk, a wealthy team from Ukraine that only re-emerged in the 21st century.

Since entering the 21st century, Shakhtar Donetsk has attracted a large number of powerful Ukrainian players with its strong financial resources, and has also introduced outstanding midfielders from Brazil, which has made the overall strength of the team improve day by day. In 2009, in the final of the last European Cup, through a goal in overtime, they defeated the Bundesliga powerhouse Werder Bremen and won the European Cup championship trophy.

Now, they will play the UEFA Super Cup against the Champions League champions, Chelsea, at the Stade Louis II in Monaco!

The Principality of Monaco, which is only 400 football fields in size, has a famous football stadium in Europe, the Stade Louis II.

This stadium has always hosted the European Super Cup. Although 18,000 spectator seats are not too many, the surrounding facilities of the stadium are not bad, which can meet the consumption needs of the fans of the two teams present.

However, as a football venue with many years of history, and just finished a home game of the Monaco Club, the quality of the turf of the Louis II Stadium is obviously not as good as its own Stamford Bridge for Chelsea. The home courts of these teams than Fulham have shortcomings.

Ancelotti himself is very disappointed with such a stadium. The uneven turf is very unfriendly to Ancelotti's tactical play that he wanted to control the midfield at the beginning.

On the contrary, for Shakhtar Donetsk, their style of play is relatively simple and rough, relying on their body and the explosive speed of Brazilian foreign players. In other words, the impact will not be that great.

For the strength of this Shakhtar Donetsk team, Chelsea's scouting department has done a lot of understanding.

Shakhtar Donetsk, who is not short of money, almost retained the team's main lineup in the summer transfer window. The only important player who lost may be Ziglinski, who is preparing to join Barcelona with a transfer fee of 20 million euros. However, due to preparations for this UEFA Super Cup match, Ziglinski's transfer is still short of the final step, and he will report to Barcelona after the UEFA Super Cup game is over.

The team has a tough style and excellent offense and defense, especially the three foreign aids from Brazil, all of whom are top-notch fighters.

Yang Feng is too familiar with the three Brazilian foreign players Shakhtar Donetsk.

The main striker of the Miners, Luis Adriano, perhaps in Yang Feng’s memory, he did not get a place in the rich team like other Brazilian foreign players who left from the Miners. A rogue goal in the middle is known by all.

In a UEFA Champions League group match in a certain year, after the North Zealand player fell to the ground due to injury, the referee stopped the game directly, but when the game restarted and the referee finished throwing the ball, the Miners players returned the ball in accordance with sportsmanship For the North Sealand goalkeeper, everything was normal, but Adriano on the other side suddenly accelerated. Taking advantage of the North Sealand defender's inattention, he stopped the ball directly, passed the defender, dribbled the ball past the goalkeeper, and scored a goal. After the game, the phrase "forward instinct" caused an uproar in European football! UEFA's Disciplinary Committee even filed a lawsuit against him for his personal conduct...

Unlike Adriano, the other two Brazilian players will leave their mark in the Premier League in the future.

At this time, the miners winger William will soon join the blue team Chelsea where Yang Feng belongs to, and in a certain period of extremely sluggish state artificially caused by the car, he will use various set kicks to score for the team and become the team leader of the team. thigh-level characters.

As for another midfielder, Fernandinho, needless to say, for a long time to come, he will be Manchester City's only "waist". Anyone can be injured, but Fei Bird can't afford it. The absolute "core" in the Manchester City lineup!

Most of the others are Ukrainian players or players from other Eastern European countries. Most of these players will complete their entire careers in Eastern European countries. They have no chance and do not adapt to the way of playing in major Western European leagues.

Even before the scouting match, the miners' central defender Ziglinski, whom the Chelsea forwards paid attention to, Barcelona paid a large transfer fee for him, but in Yang Feng's impression, Barcelona didn't seem to have such a number one player, and he probably didn't. It will be the end of everyone.

In the early morning of August 29th, BJ time, the European Super Cup started on time!

Chelsea captain Terry and Shakhtar Donetsk's old captain Srna hold the Champions League trophy and the European Cup trophy respectively, leading the team to enter the field. Goal, UEFA Super Cup trophy!

In view of the nature of the field, Ancelotti put away his diamond-shaped midfield tactics in this game and chose a more practical and safer Champions League lineup.

Essien returned to his most familiar midfielder position to help the team limit the miners' two outstanding Brazilian frontcourt players.

It's just that the miners, who know how much they are, did not take the risk of continuing their offensive play in the Ukrainian league, but chose to "coax" a wave very decisively!

The coach of the Miners on the sidelines, the Romanian Lucescu, although his face was pale and haggard, but he also knew in his heart that the strength of his team was too far behind Chelsea, so he could only choose a safe defensive counterattack.

As the meritorious coach who led the Miners to win the European Cup last season, Lucescu contributed a lot to the team. Even though he had just undergone heart surgery in July due to a heart attack, Lucescu still Resolutely recovering quickly, he returned to the coaching bench. He wanted to lead the Shakhtar team one step further and win the European Super Cup trophy!

At the beginning of the game, Chelsea occupied possession of the ball under the retracted defense of the Shakhtar team.

Although the Eastern European teams are out of touch with world football in terms of skills and tactics, the excellent physical fitness of the Shakhtar players has also put huge pressure on Chelsea's midfield!

Although the flexibility is not enough, but running hard, directly and forcefully colliding with the body, under the slightly loose whistle of the referee, Chelsea's offense did not have much way to make a breakthrough throughout the first half.

Unlike Chelsea's offensive stagnation, the miners' defensive counterattack has played vigorously since the opening.

Especially William in the winger position can always use his personal speed and excellent personal ability to create excellent counterattack opportunities on the wing.

Throughout the first half, William alone created no less than 3 counterattack opportunities on the wing.

The Shakhtar team was fully prepared for this game. Aiming at Yang Feng's strong defensive interception ability in the backcourt, the Shakhtar consciously counterattacked, all of which were through balls on the ground, and most of them were close to the two sides. position, increasing Yang Feng's running distance. And there was almost no pass. They went straight to Chelsea's hinterland and passed the ball near the penalty area. It can be said that Yang Feng did not give Yang Feng any chance to easily defend in his own defensive area and complete the defense!

Although there is no way to directly threaten Chelsea's defense by directly looking for a pass from the wing, it is more suitable for Shakhtar players to play freely in the wide space on the wing.

William showed his personal technical ability very comprehensively on the wing, so that Ancelotti on the sidelines saw that he wanted to apply to the boss Abramovich for transfer funds after the game, and tried to make an offer for William!

Because Ashley Cole is also involved in the offense, although he can barely return to the defense most of the time, it is difficult for him to carry out a 1v1 personal defense in the face of William's breakthrough on the wing. Although Terry's attack speed is not slow, it is difficult to take advantage of William, who has strong personal technical ability, when he defends.

Three threatening offensive opportunities, one was a very threatening cross from the side after forcibly breaking through Ashley Cole, but Yang Feng, who was waiting in the penalty area, took the lead directly. Before the miners followed up and hit the goal with a header, Complete the clearance.

The remaining two times were to get rid of Ashley Cole, even shook Terry, and completed the inside cut.

An anti-aircraft gun was fired once, slightly higher than the crossbar, and the remaining kick was very tricky. Fortunately, Cech bravely saved it!

Compared with William's brave performance, Adriano's performance in the first half was a little flat. First, most of the miners' counterattacks went directly to the side, and occasionally passed the ball to Adriano in the middle. It was intercepted by Yang Feng. Secondly, Yang Feng's defensive task includes watching Adriano, so Adriano's running position is somewhat useless in front of Yang Feng's huge body. Yang Feng will always use his strong body at the right time to block directly. Live the best forward location in Adriano!

At the end of the half, Chelsea had more than 60% of the ball possession rate, but the number of shots between the two sides was 6 to 5, which was not much different. In terms of threat level, the miners were more threatening.

During the intermission, Ancelotti made an exciting "combat mobilization"! In the final analysis, the pressure on An Pang to take over Chelsea is really not small. After all, his predecessor's achievements in winning the Champions League in half a year of coaching are a bit too dazzling. This also makes Ancelotti urgently need to prove himself with some championships, the Community Shield Cup, The UEFA Super Cup, the two champions at the beginning of the season, is naturally in Ancelotti's pocket, especially the UEFA Super Cup, the two-level cup championship matchup, if you can't win the championship, then the next day When my own tactical reform encounters resistance, how can I have the authority of the coach to deter the players, and how can I get the support of the fans and the team management.

In the second half of the game, Chelsea's offense began to improve, especially after the physical exhaustion on the defensive end in the first half. As the game progressed in the second half, the miners' defense began to loosen.

As for the counterattack threat of the miners, Yang Feng and Terry switched positions in the second half, so that Yang Feng could help Ashley Cole in the nearby defense, effectively limiting William's free will on this side.

The attributes of Yang Feng's world-class central defender began to be gradually revealed. His excellent predictive ability made it possible for William to make up for the most critical moment of his breakthrough in time. After William exhausted his strength, he rarely had the chance to win. Break through further.

The experienced Terry is equally at ease facing Adriano. Adriano is indeed a fairly good striker, but his game style is too obvious. When facing a good central defender, his ability to play is extremely limited.

With no worries, the Chelsea team began to invest more energy on the offensive end. Through continuous passing and scheduling in the frontcourt, while Chelsea continued to increase the ball possession rate, it also made the Miners' defense line exhausted.

The final collapse of the miners' defense was due to Chelsea's wing attack.

The left side is, as always, Chelsea's main offensive starting point. The duo of Malouda and Ashley Cole firmly pinned the miners' defensive attention to this side.

With Drogba and Anelka also moving closer to the left, it put a lot of pressure on the miners' defense, and other players had to retreat to Drogba's side.

At this time, Ashley Cole's direct long pass to transfer the ball is a bit of a trick.

Bosingwa, who was on the right, waited at the middle circle line early, and when the ball was transferred out, he naturally moved forward quickly.

Although the left back of the miners has been vigilant, but due to physical exertion, it directly suffered a direct physical disadvantage with Bosingwa. Relying on his physical advantage, Bosingwa forcibly ran over.

As Bosingwa directly slashed into the penalty area diagonally, the miners' defense was in chaos for a while, and central defender Ziglinski had to quickly come out to defend, but Bosingwa also rubbed the ball directly and passed the ball to Ziglinski The defensive area just now!

Anelka, who came back from the middle, took advantage of the opportunity to move forward and hit the goal with a shake of his head, which caught the goalkeeper off guard. In this way, Chelsea took the lead in the 73rd minute of the game.

As the game progressed, players from both sides trampled on it. The Louis II Stadium, which was originally like a vegetable field, simply turned into a vegetable field. The potholed lawn is now a huge challenge for technical players and speed players With Chelsea's lead, although the miners want to counterattack at the end, the field conditions have also become the constraints for the miners to play.

The most obvious thing is that it is not easy for William, who performed extremely well before, to break through Ashley Cole's defense, let alone Yang Feng, who is ready to defend at any time in the future.

Under Chelsea's conscious control of the rhythm, the miners did not get too many offensive opportunities. The score of the game was finally fixed at 1-0. Chelsea successfully won the second trophy at the beginning of the season.

Although this kind of cup is a bit tasteless, it is still a championship trophy after all. The Chelsea players still accepted the cheers from the Chelsea audience with smiles on their faces. Under the leadership of captain Terry, they lifted the European Super Cup championship trophy...

The second championship of the new season, so easy to get!