Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 772 The Second Half Begins

Benitez really didn't notice Mourinho's arrangement. Although Newcastle only played two sides in the first half of the game, it seemed a bit abnormal, but Mourinho used something in this critical game. The trick he didn't expect is too normal, and obviously, Newcastle's tactics have achieved good results in the first half, so Benitez is only against Newcastle's violent wing attack in the dressing room Instructions were given to both Deco and Lampard to pay attention to returning to the defense, especially to help the two sides to assist in the defense, and then emphasized the counterattack after the defense, so that Newcastle can no longer press the attack like it did at the beginning of the first half. Can't even hold the ball.

For this league title, Chelsea's players are equally eager, because although Betts has been Chelsea's head coach, after successively serving as Hoddle, Gullit, Vialli, Ranieri and Benitez, Chelsea have won nearly ten years. In a few years, they have become the first-class teams in the Premier League, but they have never been involved in the league championship. This year, both Manchester United and Arsenal have fallen (in fact, they are not considered sinking, they have both scored close to or more than [-] points in the league. , but the results of Chelsea and Newcastle this season are too perverted), with only Newcastle remaining as their opponent, they certainly hope to win the league championship in one go, and then win the Champions League championship, becoming England's history. The third won the triple crown of the league and the Champions League!

The Chelsea players who rushed out screaming happened to meet the Newcastle players. Originally, the players of the two teams had a little friendship with each other. After all, there are quite a few players from a national team. Say hello or something, but after meeting them this time, they all turned their faces and ignored their opponents, thinking about how to kill their opponents alive in the game.

Including Nie Fei, who usually has a pretty good temper. After seeing Deke, he didn't even say hello, and directly gave the back of his head to Deke, and Deke didn't care at all, because he didn't see himself at this time. National team teammate Nie Fei.

After the players on both sides walked out of the player tunnel with faces crossed and came to the field, Benitez also walked out of the locker room slowly alone. As a result, when he looked up, he happened to see Pei Wei and Mu Rinho also came out of the locker room.

Benitez was stunned for a moment. In fact, he planned to avoid Pei Wei and Mourinho to avoid the embarrassment of meeting each other, so he came out a little earlier. What he didn't expect was that Mourinho let The players started a little earlier, and the two sides still met here.

"Hi, Rafael." Pei Wei was the one who greeted him first, and he smiled brilliantly.

"Pei." Benitez smiled bitterly: "The action you made before the start of the first half was not very kind."

Pei Wei laughed out loud when he heard this: "It's just to say hello to you... Is Roman so stingy? If it were me, even if you were sitting with the former boss for dinner Doubt you, because I know your character very well."

"Is this considered to be another provocation?" Benitez continued to smile bitterly.

Mourinho also couldn't help laughing: "Raphael, don't forget how you treated us at Stamford Bridge in the past ten days... Pei just maximized our advantage."

"So what? It's still a draw, and I just want a draw." Benitez shrugged.

"Yes, it is indeed a draw, but only now." Mourinho immediately retorted.

"Okay, two big coaches, maybe the media will be happy when you bicker, but I don't want to see you playing here..." Pei Wei pointed outside: "I prefer to see you on that stage Fighting skills... Raphael, after 45 minutes, who wins and who loses, that's when it's clear, isn't it?"

"Yes, that's it." Benitez nodded, glanced at Mourinho, and then left first.

"Using the results on the court to determine the outcome, I like this statement." Mourinho watched Benitez walk away, and said softly.

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Once the second half started, there was another huge cheer in the air above St James' Park.

Of course, most of the cheers were given to Newcastle players. Who wants this to be Newcastle's home court? Any welcome other than your own fans.

Not to mention the outstanding performance now, even in the darkest days, Newcastle fans never showed any kindness to any visiting team. Their kindness and encouragement only existed for one team. That is Newcastle.

So at the beginning of the second half, when Chelsea took the lead in attacking the kick-off, overwhelming boos immediately poured down from the stands.

The well-tested Chelsea players naturally don't care about the booing. They still attack from both sides. Like Mourinho, Benitez also makes a fuss from both sides. Since the opponent will The focus of the offense is on the wing, so we will face each other. No matter what, we must suppress your attack on the wing, so that your full-backs will not dare to press up easily.

In the attack that started in the second half, Robben and Duff returned to the position where they played the most. The Newcastle players were familiar with this kind of defense. Xin was on the side to help defend. Robben just used a beautiful pull ball to turn around and shake away Maicon's defense. Essien immediately rushed out from the diagonal thrust, a relatively large steal, a beautiful pass The ball breaks.

Robben sat on the ground and complained to the referee that Essien had fouled. The referee Ball didn't even look at him, but immediately ran towards Chelsea's half, because after Essien stole the ball, Newcastle's counterattack began. .

Speaking of attacking methods, the current Newcastle is still the most handy in counterattacks, especially this kind of quick counterattack after stealing the ball in the backcourt. Immediately, Ribery and Nie Fei on the two wings rushed across the half, and the two forwards After halftime, Drogba rushed forward and Ibrahimovic played in the back, and immediately formed a multi-directional, wave-banded counterattack.

It's just that after playing so many games with Newcastle this season, Chelsea also gained some experience in counterattacking Newcastle. Nie Fei, who quickly got the ball, was forced to the corner flag by Galla. In desperation, Nie Fei chose Passing back, Ibrahimovic's long shot in front of the penalty area was saved by Cudicini.

After Cudicini threw the ball, Chelsea fell down a few feet in the backcourt. After the Newcastle players pushed up, Terry who got the ball immediately had a big kick and drove the ball up the frontcourt.

Tony jumped high at the front of Newcastle's penalty area and grabbed the ball over Dawson's head. After receiving the ball, Duff made a long shot without stopping the ball. Cech flew to take the ball.

"Why, does Chelsea want to go back to the original?"

A few minutes later, Pei Wei could see it, and couldn't help but say a word.

During this period of time, after Chelsea got the ball, they always put down a few kicks in the backcourt first, and then made a long pass to Tony before the Newcastle players started to press. It is a big threat, because neither Dawson nor Lucio is 1.9 meters tall. In normal confrontation, the two of them take turns to fight against Tony. It’s a disadvantage. Besides, Tony’s main job this season is to serve as the bridgehead of the team’s offense, using his physical advantages and ball-handling ability to create opportunities for his teammates, so even though all the goals of Tony this season add up to less than 1.9. However, he has always been Benitez's first choice for the only center position. He forced Crespo, a world-class center, out of position. He was loaned to AC Milan by Chelsea. as his substitute.

And Chelsea's style of play can just play to Tony's advantages.

This tactic, to put it bluntly, has a name that is familiar to fans who know penalty kicks: "Long pass and lob".

The long pass is also the most typical English football style of play, and it was also the most commonly used style of play by English teams before the 90s. However, after the influx of foreign players into the Premier League, this style of play is almost only used by mid-lower teams and English teams. This tactic can only be seen in the Championship League One teams. After being trained by Gullit and Vialli, two head coaches known for their "sexy football", this tactic has almost disappeared.

However, under the current circumstances, this simple and rough tactic, on the contrary, relieved the Chelsea players so that the scene would not be completely suppressed by Newcastle like in the first half.

"It's okay, I didn't plan to suppress Chelsea like that and score goals in the second half." Mourinho said to Pei Wei calmly: "Besides, that kind of suppression is tiring and inefficient. I can't let my players go on vacation after being exhausted, their wives and girlfriends will blame me."

Pei Wei couldn't help laughing, but seeing Mourinho like this, he knew that Mourinho had completely come out of the rivalry with Benitez and began to calmly judge the game situation.

Pei Wei has always believed that although Mourinho is a line behind Benitez in terms of on-the-spot command, this line will not allow Mourinho to be dominated by Benitez in the two rounds of the Champions League. Active, the biggest reason for this situation is that Mourinho is a little too focused on the confrontation with Benitez, and now, as long as Mourinho can jump out, then Newcastle's chances of victory will be much greater.

However, in the eyes of the fans, the current game seems to be in a stalemate.

(End of this chapter)