Football’s First Defender

Ancelotti, although he doesn't want to admit it, the fact is that Chelsea's three-back formation, with the accidental loss of the ball in the opening 4 minutes, and Fulham's more determined subway defense, on the offensive end, all The effort that can be made is really limited.

In the second half of the game, although Chelsea still had the offensive advantage on the field, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chelsea's offense would not be of much use if it continued like this for a long time.

Fulham's defense is getting stronger and stronger, and their confidence is getting stronger and stronger. Even though the Chelsea fans at the scene are cheering for the team loudly, in fact, Chelsea's victory in this game seems to be directly missed. .

The game went on for 60 minutes. When the offensive power of the 352 formation could not be displayed, Ancelotti directly made substitution adjustments, replacing Carvalho with Ivanovic, and at the same time let Zhirkov play instead. Left back, Chelsea's formation has been re-transformed to the most familiar 442.

After the adjustment of the 442 formation was completed, Chelsea's offense on the two wings became more layered, and the offensive threat posed by the flank attack began to increase.

Chelsea no longer need to think too much about defense at this time. Fulham's goal of relying on defense to score points in this game is very clear. In the counterattack, the number of people entering each time is very limited. After the normal performance of Yang Feng and Terry Now, except for the opening goal, Fulham no longer has a second shot within the range of the main goal frame. The number of pure shots has always been 4 times, which has not increased for a long time.

Fulham is relying on the defense of the whole team to drag the game to the end, take all three points, or get one point to draw with Chelsea, which is a good record.

Ancelotti, who needed to add fire on the offensive end, used his second substitution in the 67th minute of the game.

Sturridge, who had just transferred in the summer transfer window, came off the bench and replaced Mikel, a defensive midfielder. Chelsea's lineup began to change to a more aggressive 433, and began to attack in the final stage of the game.

Ballack has nominally become Chelsea's last defensive midfielder, but he still puts a lot of energy into the offensive end.

Ballack and Lampard began to position vaguely on the field. The two did not have a fixed position, but one attacked, and the other retreated a little bit. This can not only delay the organization, mobilize the ball, but also help the team. Defense!

After Chelsea completed the transformation, the most notable thing is that except for the two central defenders and the goalkeeper, the other players have excellent offensive capabilities and can complete the offense individually or make a good pass to teammates.

And whether it is Sturridge or Kalu, they are the kind of frontcourt players who can not only respond in the penalty area, but also pull to the side to open up space. This also makes Chelsea's wing attack, on the left. A duo of Sturridge and Gazhirkov can be formed, and on the right, a triple attack of Kalu, Joe Cole and Ivan can even be formed!

Chelsea's rich offensive players and different offensive team combinations can help the team make different offensive attempts.

In the 74th minute of the game, Fulham would lose for a long time and was scored by Chelsea to equalize the goal!

The continuous passing of the four Chelsea players on the right, Ivanovic inserted, and Joe Cole, Kalu, Lampard in the middle, made a continuous multi-footed pass, and finally, a diagonal insertion by Joe Cole Go inside the box and receive a great through ball from Lampard!

Joe Cole broke into the penalty area and completely disrupted Fulham's defense. Two Fulham defenders rushed to Joe Cole's side, but relaxed their guard on Drogba in the penalty area.

Sturridge on the left also inserted into the penalty area, attracting the attention of a Fulham defender. Drogba's side was only defended by Smalling...

Joe Cole seemed to be going to hit the goal directly, which attracted the attention of the Fulham defenders and the goalkeeper to himself, but he suddenly changed his ankle, changed the direction of the ball, and buckled it back to the middle. Drogba, who followed up, knocked Smalling away and shot directly. The ball flew into the net steadily, and Chelsea finally equalized the score.

The score became a tie. Chelsea, who just scored a goal, was full of momentum, while Fulham on the other side, defending hard for 75 minutes, was scored a goal, and their spirit was obviously not as good as that of the home team players.

Chelsea, taking advantage of Fulham's adjustment order from the coach, has not yet fully conveyed the pass, and continued to attack Fulham!

Some Fulham players hadn't recovered from the equalizing goal just now, and they encountered Chelsea's fierce attack again!

Ivanovic, the state of the game after coming off the bench in this game is obviously much better than in the previous game.

Cooperating with Joe Cole in a 2v2 collision with the wall on the right, Ivan himself went forward directly to the outside of the right, received a pass from Joe Cole, forced a quick start, took a step forward, and passed the ball directly. Passed to Fulham's penalty area.

In this pass, Ivan chose a flat pass in the fast dribbling. The speed of the pass was extremely fast, and the height was not too high.

Inside the penalty area, Chelsea's three forwards are all struggling to grab a favorable position.

It's just that Sturridge and Kalu's physical confrontation ability are very average, unable to resist too much space, and it is Drogba who obviously has an absolute advantage, even if Drogba himself is the first resist Two, but it never fails.

Drogba took off to compete for the top, and standing in front of him was Smalling. Smalling is only 20 years old at this time. As a young central defender, his physical confrontation ability at this time is not very good.

Smalling was indeed in a defensive position, but during the final jump to defend, Smalling himself had completely lost his defensive position, or he was hit by Drogba and lost control of his body.

Smalling and Drogba took off together. Because of his forward position, Smalling was really "found" by Ivan's pass.

It's just that, in the end, Smalling was unable to make a clearance and directly acted as a turning point, directly bouncing Ivan's pass towards the goal.

An unexpected own goal, in the blink of an eye, no one expected that Ivan's pass would directly create another own goal!

Before 74 minutes, although Chelsea had an absolute advantage on the field, they were still behind 0 to 1. No one can guarantee that Chelsea can defend their home court.

But when the game came to 76 minutes, Chelsea scored two goals in a row, leading the score back to 2-1, reversing the game. Now it is Chelsea's turn to show their defensive strength and accept the final game victory.

For the last substitution, Ancelotti chose to use Ashley Cole to replace Zhirkov, who had been on the left all the time, up and down, and his physical fitness was a little weak.

Chelsea used their own iron barrel formation to hand over Fulham to be a man, so that Fulham, who replaced the striker early and replaced the defender, did not have any threatening offensive opportunities at the last moment of the game!

2 to 1!

After an absolutely difficult game, Chelsea finally won the only league victory in December at the end of December, ending their most difficult month of the season with a victory. Get back on track!