Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 774 The Hardest Moment

In fact, before this goal, Benitez noticed something was wrong.

Nie Fei organized in the middle, Ibrahimovic retreated to the penalty area to assist, even Ribery suddenly entered the penalty area diagonally from the center, plus a Drogba who grabbed points in the center, Newcastle's four frontcourt attackers All of them were concentrated in the middle. At this time, Benitez realized that he had probably been fooled by Mourinho.

It's just that the reaction is the reaction, and Benitez is also very clear that even if he reminds him again, it will have no effect, unless Newcastle doesn't score this goal-it's a pity that such a thing did not happen.

"This is troublesome." After looking at his watch, Benitez thought to himself.

In fact, Chelsea's situation is not so bad now. After all, they are only behind by one goal, and there is still nearly half an hour before the end of the game. That's enough - Benitez only took one point this time, and he didn't think about breaking Mourinho's home unbeaten record since he landed in Europe.

But in football games, sometimes it is not so easy to score a goal. Although Chelsea's offensive power is not bad at all, with Newcastle's current momentum, it is really difficult to score a goal for them.

Amidst the crazy cheers all around, Benitez's brain was running at high speed. After thinking for a while, he called Thiago, the midfielder on the bench, and said a few words to him, Thiago Nodded, then ran to warm up.

Lawrenson and Lineker, who were admiring Newcastle's exquisite goal just now, also saw that Benitez asked Thiago to warm up, and they couldn't help but feel a little strange.
Portugal international Thiago is a defensive midfielder. Although he has both offense and defense, he is basically stronger than offense. The defense may be better than Alonso, but he definitely does not have Alonso's ability to organize offense. When scoring a goal, what's the use of using a defensive midfielder?

Mourinho saw the key to Benitez's substitution at a glance. Yes, Chelsea need to attack now, but with Newcastle's defense and quick counterattack ability, if the midfielder does not have a interception, it will be more aggressive. As for the midfielder, it can only be sieved by Newcastle's fast and changeable counterattack tactics, and if the midfielder can't concentrate on attacking but also pays attention to defense, then Chelsea's offense will be difficult to play handy, and in the face of Newcastle When defending like the Great Wall of Steel, if the offense cannot be at full strength, it is basically no different from itching.

So Mourinho called Lucio who was still celebrating: "Prepare to defend and counterattack. When counterattacking, tell Nie Fei and Ribery that they can play more long passes from the two wings and bypass their defense in the middle."

Lucio nodded and quickly told the other players on the field Mourinho's instructions.

At this moment, the players on both sides knew in their hearts that the most difficult moment of the game had arrived.

Chelsea must struggle to get at least one goal from Newcastle's tenacious defense, and Newcastle must struggle to hold on to this one goal advantage, or make another victory through a counterattack. The most terrible thing is that this goal must be achieved for both sides , if it can't be done, then the hard work in the league for a season will be wiped out.

More importantly, the players of Chelsea and Newcastle do not want to be the team that scored more than 90 points in the league but failed to win the championship. , ridiculed or regretful tone said: "It is that so-and-so team, after a season, scored more than [-] points in the league and nearly [-] points, but it is still only a runner-up - the most unlucky runner-up in the history of the entire European league." At times, everyone feels ashamed to death.

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Before the kick-off, Benitez replaced Xavi Alonso with Thiago. After Thiago came on the field, he also quickly conveyed Benitez's instructions to all other players, and then he stood A little behind the middle circle.

After the kick-off, Chelsea immediately handed the ball to Robben on the left after a few kicks.

Seeing Robben take the ball, Essien also left his defensive midfield position and moved to defend Robben. Apart from Mourinho's instructions, Essien did this because of his sufficient defense against Makelele. Confidence is also one of the reasons.

Essien admires Makelele's performance in the midfielder position, because Makelele is far inferior to himself in terms of physical fitness, but he is more stable than himself in defense. With the rich experience accumulated in his waist career, Essien will study his defensive experience seriously every time he plays against Makelele.

But after studying for almost a year, Essien is still a defensive midfielder who is good at one-on-one and man-marking defense. He can mark any offensive player without temper in one-on-one confrontation, but he can't be like Makelele. Takes a team's overall defense up a notch.

Therefore, in the game, Mourinho usually arranges Makelele to organize the defense in the middle, while Essien sweeps the midfield or marks the opponent's most threatening offensive player.

Seeing Essien pounced on him, Robben felt a little scared. In the first half, Robben created the penalty kick because he saw that Bernard's tackle did not use too much force and would not hurt himself. But although the guy in front of him has the same dark skin as Bernard, his obvious movements are even darker. In the first few encounters, he always used the kind of movements that had a relatively strong impact but wandered between fouls and non-fouls. Myself, Robben doesn't want to lie on a stretcher again not long after he just recovered from his injury-if this game is already the last game of the season, that's all. It's a big deal to sacrifice a holiday and lie in a hospital bed for the championship, but ten days later. There is a Champions League final.

Just like the World Cup, it is extremely frustrating for a player to miss the World Cup and Champions Cup finals due to injury. For example, the German genius Deisler, if he hadn’t been injured in every major competition, he probably wouldn’t have Retiring because of depression -- of course, that hasn't happened yet.

Thinking of this, Robben was a little scared. After seeing Essien approaching him, he immediately made a cross pass, returned the ball to Lampard, and then quickly jumped past Essien.

Seeing that Robben saw him as if he had seen a ghost, Essien was still a little proud. After all, it is not easy to let a winger who has dominated the Premier League this season pass the ball as soon as he rushed up, but As soon as he turned his head, his pride disappeared immediately, because after Lampard received the ball, only Makelele was left in front of him to defend, with Deco assisting him.

After a two-for-one cooperation with Deco, Lampard quickly got rid of Makelele's defense. In fact, passing the ball to Robben just now was also a trick of Chelsea's offense, just to put Essien Attracted, because Makelele is only one person no matter how good his defense is. Without Essien's running assistance at the side, it would be difficult for Makelele to defend the front of the entire penalty area. Newcastle's two midfielders are defending. The above are complementary to each other.

After getting rid of Makelele, Lampard did not continue to advance into Newcastle's penalty area, but after getting out of the way, he immediately took a long shot from the front of the penalty area!
Lampard has always been very threatening to take a long shot immediately after passing a person in front of the penalty area. He has scored 80.00 league goals this season. Except for two penalty kicks, at least [-]% of them have been scored. The ball was scored with a long-range shot from outside the box, which is a respectable number for a midfielder.

The quality of this long-range shot is also high. The ball flew straight forward in the air at the beginning, but after halfway through the flight, an obvious arc appeared, and it flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal!

Cech made a beautiful side throw, and he held the ball out of the crossbar with one hand in the air!

Immediately afterwards, Lampard's corner kick was pushed out by Drogba who returned to the defense. Makelele took the ball and immediately handed it to Nie Fei on the right.

Nie Fei broke through with the ball, and Thiago immediately moved over to defend him. After making a fake move to continue the breakthrough, Nie Fei dunked the ball back, and then made a long pass across the entire court, directly transferring the ball to left.

The ball flew right in front of Ribery, and Ribery dribbled the ball across to get rid of Johnson, but Chelsea's two defenders had returned to the defense, Ribery had no choice but to take a long shot from the front of the penalty area, and the ball was caught by Cudy Chiny easily confiscated.

Chelsea's offense was obviously much stronger than in the previous games, which is natural, because if they did not attack, they would have to wait until the end of the game to lose the league title, while Newcastle began to strengthen their defense, using their good counterattacks and opponents deal with.

Newcastle's counterattack was very sharp, but Chelsea's midfielder Thiago was nailed to the most threatening center of Newcastle's counterattack like a nail. Let’s talk about this, but after all, the success rate of long passes is not high, and the speed of the counterattack is greatly reduced due to the long time of the ball flying in the air, so now both sides have encountered a lot of trouble in offense, how can Chelsea have a headache? With Newcastle's solid line of defense, Newcastle will have a headache if they form an effective counterattack.

However, the players on both sides are still struggling to maintain the operation of their teams. At this moment, they only have one thought in mind - to tie the score and maintain the lead!

(End of this chapter)