Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 770 Adjustment of Benitez

The moment the ball flew into Chelsea's goal, a huge cheer erupted over St James' Park.

It took nearly half an hour to suppress the opponent before relying on the opponent's defender's own goal to open the scoring. How difficult and tormenting it is!
But now, the torment is over!After Newcastle scored an advanced goal, all Newcastle fans firmly believed that they could win the game!The momentum Newcastle showed in the previous game made everyone feel their belief in winning this game!
The contagious power of belief is powerful. When Newcastle players celebrated wildly on the field after only leading by one goal, even countless Chelsea fans felt that a team that was the most popular in England but failed to get involved in the league in 78 years When the championship team is about to reach this goal, what kind of fighting spirit and enthusiasm can it explode!

On the one hand, it is a desperate fight, and if this game is not won, a season's hard work will be wiped out. Under such circumstances, how should Chelsea play?
So even though they were only one goal behind, Chelsea fans were starting to feel bad.

But at this time, Benitez calmed down.

The so-called vicissitudes of life can only see the true qualities of a hero. Although Benitez was flustered by Pei Wei at first, which made him unable to respond in time when Newcastle attacked, but now, perhaps because Chelsea is about to be forced The reason why he was at a dead end, but he quickly calmed down, and began to think quickly about countermeasures just like a normal game.

He quickly thought of it - a very simple countermeasure.

Benitez stood up, called Robben from the field, and whispered a few words to him. Robben nodded and quickly returned to the field.

Mourinho saw this scene, but he did not do anything, but continued to sit on the bench to watch the game, because he believed that no matter what adjustments Benitez made, he would soon be able to get out of the field. seen in the situation.

Sure enough, he saw it quickly-the adjustment made by Benitez was very simple, just let the two wingers switch positions on the field, let Robben play on the right and Duff play on the left.

In fact, the two Chelsea wingers often switched positions during the game. Duff himself was born as a left winger, but he switched to the right side after Robben arrived. Although Robben is a standard left-footed player, but in He can play on any side of the winger position, but this time Benitez seems to have done it more thoroughly. Robben is almost fixed on the right side, becoming a pure right winger.

In this way, Newcastle's defense is a bit difficult. Newcastle's defense on the right basically relies on Essien, a beastly muscular man, to help defend there. It's a disadvantage, and Bernard on the left is just right for Duff, who is not lacking in speed and impact but is a bit rough in technique. After switching positions, Duff and Essien, who are much better in physical fitness than Robben, are just right. He didn't lose the wind in the confrontation, but Bernard seemed to be at a disadvantage after facing Robben.

With such a simple change of position, Newcastle's defensive advantages on the two wings have become disadvantages.

So after the re-kick-off, although Newcastle's offense was as fierce as ever, Chelsea's offense gradually improved. After being able to hold the ball, Chelsea's defense also got a rare buffer opportunity, and the two sides began to attack on the field. Have to keep up.

Seeing Benitez pull back the disadvantages so easily, Mourinho couldn't help but secretly admire in his heart, this Rafael is really good at grasping the situation on the field!In this respect, he was indeed one line behind the opponent.

But Mourinho did not make any changes. The reason is very simple. The opponent's two wingers can change positions freely, but his two full-backs cannot be swapped casually. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess?He can only give instructions to Essien, let him change the focus of defense to the left.

Besides, this change by Benitez is just to bring back the situation of being passively beaten. Now the situation is at most comparable, and even Newcastle still has a certain advantage in the offensive, with about ten attacks. Six or seven times were initiated by Newcastle. No coach will make changes in this situation, because making random changes in an advantaged situation is likely to make players feel at a loss on the field, and will lose the already obvious advantage. .

The football game itself is not a game that requires the coach to direct on the spot. Otherwise, the football game will be allowed to pause in the middle of the game to explain the tactics like basketball. Football relies more on the performance of the players on the field. It is impossible for the head coach of Bull B to lead an amateur team to defeat a professional team.

Of course, adjustments on the field are also useful, otherwise there would be no halftime break for the players to rest and the coaches to adjust their tactics. The coaches usually adjust their tactics through substitutions and temporary command from the sidelines. Only three people can be changed, and there are emergencies such as players being injured and sent off, so coaches generally seldom change players casually. You can't stand out of a certain range, otherwise the fourth official will come and interfere. Therefore, generally speaking, players on the field of strong teams will adjust themselves according to the situation on the field, or the head coach can give a signal or a few words on the sidelines. Quickly adjust tactics, just like Benitez did.

Now Mourinho thinks there is no need to adjust, although the defense on the left is a bit dangerous now, and Essien can't help defend the left as he did just now, because Duff's breakthrough ability is also very good. Maicon and Nie Fei, who are not very defensive, are difficult to block, but the left defense itself is a relatively strong part of Newcastle. Bernard has excellent physical fitness and fierce fighting, and Ribery is not like Nie Fei. The defense is relatively poor. Although Robben has been active a lot, he has not yet been able to beat Newcastle to death.

Chelsea's right-back Johnson can't help much offensively. After staying at Chelsea for two years, he only scored one goal, and that goal was a very accidental long shot. He used to be in West Ham United. He has never scored a goal and has no assists. Although Robben is active, it is still very difficult to deal with Bernard and Ribery alone.

And it is obvious now that Benitez has not discovered the tactics he arranged before the game. When defending, the three midfielders of Alonso, Deco and Lampard still pay attention to the defense of the wing. The defense has weakened a lot invisibly. Although they still pay attention to the defense in the middle, in Mourinho's view, the tactics they have arranged are still effective.

Before the tactics he arranged were used, he took the lead through a corner kick, which put Mourinho in a good mood.

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Nearly 10 minutes had passed since Newcastle's goal, and it was less than 10 minutes before the end of the first half.

In these 10 minutes, although Chelsea's offense has improved a lot, even Chelsea fans can see that Chelsea has only regained part of the disadvantage, and it seems that they want to equalize in the first half. The score is not easy, and we can only make plans after the intermission.

People who think this way have forgotten a rotten saying: football is round.

There are too many examples of the team as a whole scoring goals when they are at an extremely disadvantaged situation. Maybe one such situation will occur in ten games. Unfortunately, this game seems to fall into this category .

Chelsea's counterattack, they quickly passed the midfield, did not entangle Newcastle in the midfield, and hit the ball to Robben's feet.

This is normal. After having two beast waists, few teams in Europe dare to compete with Newcastle in the midfield. Although Chelsea's midfield is not weak in confrontation, it is still lacking compared to Newcastle. Strength, if it gets entangled, is also a very troublesome thing. During this period of time, Chelsea's offense was initiated by Robben, and it was normal for it to pass to his feet.

Robben took the ball forward, and Bernard cautiously greeted him. During this period of time, he was at a disadvantage in the confrontation. He was swayed by Robben several times. It was a good shot, so Bernard was more careful when he came up.

Robben flicked the ball towards the bottom line, but Bernard didn't follow up immediately, because this Dutch Peter Pan has never been a master of passing from the bottom, and cross-cutting after a breakthrough is his most common breakthrough Way, if I just keep up like this, then Robben, who has the advantage of speed, may quickly switch back and get rid of himself.

But soon he caught up, because he found that Robben seemed to be coming for real this time, and broke through from near the bottom line!

When it comes to the narrow place on the bottom line, Robben's advantage in getting rid of the ability quickly will probably be even greater.

As a result, as soon as Bernard caught up, Robben immediately made an emergency stop, and then quickly swiped the ball horizontally, cross-cutting!

Bernard was so ashamed that he almost slapped himself, and said to pay attention to this guy's crosscutting, but he succeeded in crosscutting.

"I'm so fucking upright!" Bernard almost yelled like this, but he was still calm, and immediately made an emergency stop, and then chased after Robben. At this time, Ribery had already returned to the defense. , can immediately form a pincer attack with Bernard, just like the previous few Chelsea attacks.

Robben passed the ball at this time!He passed the ball back to Deco, who had already plugged in at some point, and then accelerated into the penalty area, and Deco immediately passed an exquisite over-the-top ball to less than half a meter in front of Ronaldo himself. !

Newcastle's two central defenders are defending Tony and Lampard in the penalty area, and no one comes up to stop Robben!
"Danger!" Laurenson couldn't help shouting.

PS: Sorry for being late home, there will be another chapter in half an hour.

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