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Chapter 71 A Group of Wronged Babies
With the return of Cambiasso, Chelsea's formation, which is no longer dominant in numbers, was somewhat recovered, and the two sides passed the first half smoothly.

During the intermission, coach Mancini's face was gloomy. After all, Chairman Moratti has raised the requirements for Champions League results.

Although Papa Mo did not clearly propose that Inter Milan must eliminate Chelsea to enter the Champions League final, but it has already reached this point, and no one wants to fail.

If Inter Milan is eliminated, Moratti is likely to fire Mancini in a fit of anger.

You must know that when Papa Mo bought Inter Milan, he was determined to replicate the glory of his father's "big international" period.

More than ten years have passed now, but the Champions League is still far away, and Moratti is almost unbearable.

"Jing, you did a good job in the first half, trying to restrain your emotions. But I hope you can increase your breakthroughs and shots in the second half."

Jingxuan nodded, but complained in his heart:

"I have to run to the midfield if I get the ball, and I even shoot the goal!"

"Zlatan, I hope you will be more active in the second half, you can increase your running appropriately, and you can also participate in the team's defense, is that okay?"

"Coach, I will score in the second half!"

Ibrahimovic's answer is very interesting, which obviously means:
Don't come to me for dirty or tiring work, I'm the one who wants to score in the frontcourt!
But everyone has long been used to Ibrahimovic's character, Mancini just nodded and did not continue talking.

"Esteban, is your stomach feeling better? You won't lose weight in the second half, will you?"

When asked about this in public, Cambiasso was a little embarrassed, and answered embarrassingly:

"Coach, I've checked with the team doctor just now, it's all right."

"Well!"

At the beginning of the second half, Mancini replaced the somewhat strained Vieira with Gimenez, Crespo replaced Stankovic, and the team changed to a 4-2-2-2 formation.

Chelsea's defense in the center is too fierce, and the side attack is enough to deter Inter Milan. If they use a 4-3-1-2 formation to station troops in the midfield, they may not be able to keep a clean sheet in defense, but they will be completely cut off in offense.

In the first half, Stankovic was completely restricted by Makelele, so Jingxuan had to return to the midfield to get the ball frequently, unable to effectively kill Chelsea's goal.

After the change in the second half, Jing Xuan and Jimenez divided the left and right sides. Jing Xuan, who has good defensive ability, can limit Essien's pressure while strengthening the side attack.

Jimenez can also help Maicon fill the position, so that the latter can safely and boldly attack.

Restricting the performance of Chelsea's two wingers, even though Chelsea has the upper hand in the center, the double midfielder composed of Cambiasso and Zanetti still has a strong defensive ability. Mancini is now betting!
In the 49th minute of the game, during Inter Milan's defense, Jingxuan recovered to the left of the midfield to assist Cambiasso in defense.

I saw that after Makelele got the ball, he wanted to cooperate with Essien in a two-for-one match. Jingxuan predicted the path of the ball in advance, and intercepted the ball with a flying shovel and shoveled the ball out of the sideline.

In the 51st minute of the game, Materazzi launched an attack with a long pass from the backcourt. Ibrahimovic changed his habit of taking the ball at his feet in the past and chose to take off and ferry the header to Crespo on the left.

Although the ball was passed a bit too small, Crespo wiped the ball and barely entered the penalty area with a weak stab shot, which was easily confiscated by Cech, but such a coherent attack hardly appeared in the first half. come to be effective.

In the 55th minute of the game, Materazzi and Didier Drogba had oral sex. The two "greeted" each other with their heads on top of each other. They were pulled away by the teammates on both sides who rushed over, and the referee gave verbal warnings respectively.

In the 59th minute of the game, Chivu was brave once, dribbling the ball to attack the center, and then passed a diagonal pass to Jingxuan on the left.

This was the first time Jingxuan took the ball easily on the side of Chelsea in the second half. The previous few passes were all intercepted by Makelele and Lampard.

Chivu's forward drive drove Makelele away, and Jingxuan could naturally get the ball.

After Jingxuan took the ball, facing Essien's defense, he moved the ball forward with his right foot, then made a sudden brake and smashed the ball, and pushed the ball to the front of his left foot, shaking away Essien's defense, and then left The foot dribbled the ball into the bottom line of the Chelsea penalty area,

He glanced up, and then an easy rub pass, hit the ball near the penalty spot.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic rushed up and leaped high, with a side volley.

It's a pity that the ball missed the post slightly, and Inter Milan missed the best chance of the whole game so far.

Chelsea coach Grant realized something was wrong on the sidelines. After all, Jingxuan not only has speed, but also has such a balance between his left and right feet.

For the ball just now, he picked up speed with his right foot, then dunked to his left foot, shaking Essien away.

If it is a normal player who can't stand against the foot, it is impossible to dribble the ball with his left foot so coherently and shake off Essien's defense.

So Chelsea decisively changed their tactics. As long as Jingxuan got the ball from the wing, Chelsea would be surrounded by Essien and Makelele from two directions.

In the 65th minute of the game, facing Joe Cole's press, Chivu calmly passed Jingxuan near the left baseline. A cross from the field, giving the ball to Jimenez on the right.

After the latter received the ball, facing Ashley Cole's defense, he chose to break through and pass from the bottom.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic deliberately missed the ball in the front of the penalty area, and Crespo followed up with a shovel and broke Cech's ten fingers.

Inter Milan scored an away goal!

It also tied the total score of the two sides to 2:2, and one more goal is needed for Inter Milan to eliminate Chelsea and reach the Champions League final.

It is worth mentioning that this goal is Crespo's fourth goal in the Champions League this season, which has already tied the scoring record of last season.

After conceding a goal, Chelsea stepped up their offense. Coach Grant replaced Joe Cole, who was in a mediocre state, with Malouda.

In the 68th minute of the game, Malouda broke through Chivu's defense on the wing, and the latter shoveled Malouda down behind him. The referee showed mercy and only gave Chivu a yellow card.

Chelsea took a quick free kick from the wing, and Ballack caught the ball in the arc of the penalty area and dunked Zanetti, starting a low shot with his left foot.

The ball hit Burdisso's ankle and flew to the other side of the goal. Cesar couldn't make a save, but Chivu's clearance in front of the goal kicked the ball out of the baseline and Inter Milan escaped.

Then Lampard was about to take a corner kick from the baseline, but the referee stopped the game again.

Ibrahimovic and Drogba had a quarrel because they were fighting for position in the penalty area. The scene of the two center forwards talking harshly in the penalty area was indeed rare, which aroused the applause of the fans on the sidelines.

In the 71st minute of the game, Ibrahimovic took the ball in the midfield and was intercepted by Makelele behind him. Ibrahimovic, who counter-robbed, was forced to kick Makelele from behind.

The latter fell to the ground in pain, the Chelsea players quit, and all surrounded Ibrahimovic, wanting to reason with him.

Especially Captain Terry, when he saw Makelele fell to the ground in pain, he immediately roared and rushed over from the penalty area.

However, after seeing that the foul was Ibrahimovic, Terry immediately changed direction and ran to the referee, complaining to him about Ibrahimovic's "bad deeds".

Faced with the questioning of the Chelsea stars, Ibrahimovic simply ignored these "babies" who were more than half a head shorter than him.

So the Chelsea players were like a group of wronged children, they could only run to surround the referee and reason.

(End of this chapter)