Football’s First Defender

In the last few minutes of the first half, thanks to the great physical exertion of the Chelsea players, Inter Milan's defensive counterattack finally began to play out and played vigorously.

Eto'o received a long pass from his teammate twice and went forward quickly. Although one ended in a direct offside, and the other was quickly responded by Yang Feng who completed the defense, he did not have a good chance to hit the goal, but you must know that in the first half Most of the time, Chelsea's front line of defense almost never gave the opponent's backcourt players so much time to adjust the long pass.

The Chelsea players who played in the away game, as the half-time game is coming to an end, but have not yet scored an equalizer goal, are indeed a little physically and mentally exhausted.

Fatigue is obvious. For example, the accuracy of Lampard's large-scale transfer of the ball has dropped significantly. When he transferred the ball to the right, the landing point was completely out of Ivan's control area, and he landed directly and flew out. Out of bounds, in vain gave the opponent a chance to reorganize the attack.

Not only did Inter Milan counterattack brilliantly, as Chelsea no longer had an overwhelming advantage in the game scene, Inter Milan's offensive position also performed better.

Especially Maicon on the wing, taking advantage of Malouda and Kalu's physical strength is not enough to support the strong attack on the left, Maicon finally dared to advance his position in the last few minutes and participate in Inter Milan in the attack.

Seeing that Malouda was panting heavily and his footsteps were sloppy, Maicon knew that this was a good opportunity to display his offensive ability.

Without too complicated offensive coordination, Inter Milan, as always, insisted on its simple offensive style of play.

Maicon leads the ball directly to Malouda's defensive area. Now Maicon is at his peak, and his offensive ability on the right is absolutely world-class. Maicon's speed, explosive power, and physical confrontation ability are all excellent. Kong, gave Malouda a lot of defensive pressure.

Malouda did not dare to step down or step forward to press easily, for fear of being missed by Maicon, he could only keep following sideways, put a certain amount of defensive pressure on Maicon, and waited for other Chelsea teammates to help him.

Maicon dribbled the ball forward at a normal speed, aiming for Milito, who came over from the penalty area, to run to the position. Maicon made a sudden straight pass, and then he used his explosive power to instantly increase his speed and rushed to the goal. Inside Chelsea's penalty area.

Yang Feng did not give up marking Milito this time. Milito moved from the penalty area to the line of the penalty area to meet him, and Yang Feng followed him all the time.

Yang Feng has been wary of Inter Milan's other teammates to pass the ball to the striker to create a chance to shoot, but he did not expect that this time Milito still chose to be a green leaf.

After leaving the penalty area, Milito suddenly changed his usual posture of preparing to run forward, but took the initiative to confront Yang Feng's body, leaning his back directly against Yang Feng, then lowered his center of gravity, and stood in his position.

After Yang Feng realized that Milito just wanted to play for his teammates this time, he naturally wanted to grab the position and interfere with Milito's reception, but Milito, with his arms limited, blocked Yang Feng firmly. behind.

The moment Milito completes the position, Maicon's pass has already been passed.

Seeing that Maicon passed the ball very fast, he had already thrown away the unprepared Malouda. Yang Feng also knew that the ball must not be easily received by Milito and passed back to Maicon.

Anyway, outside the penalty area, Yang Feng, who has experienced a long period of honing in the professional arena, knows that he should use fouls to solve problems, so he must not hesitate.

Yang Feng, who was blocked by Milito and had no way to go forward, was directly behind Milito, and through a deliberate pulling action, dragged Milito down. He was going to give priority to destroying the ball regardless of whether the referee whistled or not. .

But Milito's physical coordination ability is extremely strong. Yang Feng's foul did make him lose his body balance, but before he fell to the ground, Milito still took advantage of his long legs to barely reach Maicon's pass, and the inside of his foot was light. With a light touch, the ball barely touched Maicon's forward line.

Maicon used his speed to the extreme. When the referee was in favor of attacking and did not interfere with the game, Yang Feng intercepted in front and Malouda followed up in the back. However, Maicon was able to deal with Chelsea by himself. Defensive confidence.

Faced with the pass returned by Milito, Maicon directly strode the ball, first waving the ball into the penalty area, and then maintained full speed, from the sideways "closed door" formed by Yang Feng and Malouda, using The speed rushed out.

UI!

Faced with Maicon's speed, Yang Feng had no way to stop him, and Maicon rushed past him.

"Maicon's single-handed chance!"

In the 44th minute of the first half, Inter Milan once again created an excellent opportunity. Maicon, who covered his offensive light throughout the first half, showed his reputation as a top right back at the last moment.

Now is the time to test Maicon's shooting skills by striding forward to catch up with the football that was waded out before!

Cech directly abandoned the goal and went to block Maicon's possible single-handed goal this time.

"Shoot with one kick!"

"Cech!"

"God's reaction!"

"Hands up, blocking Maicon's explosive shot!"

Maicon did take the lead in chasing the football, but this time, in order to completely get rid of Yang Feng and Malouda's waving ball, Maicon himself was a little too strong, and the distance of the ball was still a little far away, so even though this ball Maicon Kong caught up, but the angle of the shot was not that great.

In the final choice of goal, Maicon is not a full-time striker after all. Maicon is not so confident in his shooting skills, because Petr Cech blocked most of the shooting angles, so he did not choose to shoot from a small angle. Instead of shooting from the far corner, he directly used a burst shot, kicked a half-high ball, and hit Cech's half-squatting attack, and there was still a huge shooting space above his head.

But Cech's reaction was extremely fast. The moment Maicon kicked the goal, Cech reacted to the limit. Before that, his arms drooped, blocking the arms with a larger shooting angle, and directly blocking them upwards quickly. Perhaps it was also due to luck. Maicon's explosive shot was originally extremely fast, but Cech's right arm just blocked the kick. Maicon's wonderful solo performance was still in vain.

Now, the two sides exchanged offense and defense, but it was Chelsea who hoped that the half-time game would end quickly so that the team would have a chance to readjust. The overall momentum was completely reversed by Inter Milan.

However, Inter Milan's offense did not stop because the half-time game was coming to an end.

In the 2 minutes of stoppage time in the first half, Inter Milan seized the time to organize two more offensive opportunities.

Sneijder's long shot from the perimeter also posed a huge threat to Cech. Fortunately, Cech's focus on this ball was not caught by Sneijder's sudden shot from outside.

And Eto'o, taking advantage of the obvious confusion in Chelsea's defense, used his personal ability to successfully reverse offside. He received a pass from Sneijder in the penalty area, but for this ball, Eto'o himself When unloading the ball, there was a small mistake. The ball was stopped too far forward, which caused the loss of the angle of the goal. He knocked across the middle and looked for Milito's pass, which was also directly seen by Yang Feng, and he took the lead to complete the interception .

With the whistle of the referee Gonzalez, the first half of the game finally ended. Chelsea, which had a clear advantage in most of the game, was a little embarrassed at the last moment of the first half.

As for Inter Milan, while strengthening the team's defense and containing Chelsea's offense, they regained the momentum of the game at home little by little, played their own rhythm, and played even better.

The score is still 1-0, with the home team Inter Milan leading, and the second half will be a crucial 45 minutes to test the tactical choices of both coaches and the abilities of the players...