Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 619 Moment of despair!

Suarez, who misfired throughout the first round, rushed to the stands of the visiting fans with open arms and a smile on his face after scoring at Stamford Bridge, intoxicated by the cheers of Liverpool fans!

"Wow! Liverpool scored the first away goal!

Compared with being unable to attack for a long time at Anfield in the first round, and almost unable to hit a decent shot, Liverpool's attack after coming to Stamford Bridge is much smoother and easier!
Gareth Bale took charge of the rapid advance, cutting inside and past David Luiz, and then sent a deadly through ball. Suarez went forward and faked it. !
Liverpool scored an away goal, and the difficulty for Chelsea to make a comeback has skyrocketed!

Because now they need to score three goals for Liverpool before the end of the regular game!

And you can't keep dropping the ball!
too difficult!
The situation that Chelsea least wanted to see was presented before their eyes!

Liverpool leads Chelsea 1:0 and leads 2:0 on aggregate! "

All the Chelsea fans were dumbfounded. They didn't expect that the defense was broken so easily by Liverpool. Many people might think that Chelsea's performance at Anfield in the first leg could be replicated at Stamford Bridge. They were so wrong!

Cruyff has a saying, let the opponent's players with poor skills control the ball, then the probability of our defensive success is very high.

The football philosophy contained in this sentence can be described as broad and profound.

From the perspective of detailed defense, restricting the opponent's skilled players can indeed destroy the opponent's offensive quality.

From a general perspective, it is easier for opponents to make mistakes if they do not play in the rhythm and way they are good at!

Regardless of the fact that Kanter's goal in the first round only gave Liverpool a one-goal lead, it changed the situation of the two teams in the knockout rounds!
Chelsea wouldn't mind a penalty shootout with Liverpool, but Liverpool would!

So Chelsea is more conservative in mentality, as long as they don't fall behind, they can feel at ease.

But Kanter's goal made Chelsea lose the necessary conditions for a defensive counterattack, especially when Liverpool came to Stamford Bridge and also put on a defensive counterattack posture.

Looking back on Mourinho's coaching career in the past ten years, what he is best at is defensive counterattack.

In Porto, he became famous by relying on defensive counterattacks. In Chelsea, he also relied on defensive counterattacks to sweep England. In fact, his performance in Inter Milan's civil war was average, but he also achieved good results in the European war by relying on defensive counterattacks.

Even though he went to Real Madrid, which has a tradition of offensive football, Mourinho still relied on defensive counterattacks to overthrow Barcelona's domination of La Liga!
And once he loses the conditions for defensive counterattack and his team can no longer rely on defensive counterattack to attack the city, he will also step down from the altar!
So the score gap before this game was not that big, but the huge difference in potential made Situ Yunbing confident!

This game is a sure thing!

Unless Liverpool performed abnormally and Chelsea quickly equalized the score, even so, because Chelsea invested more offensive players in the starting staff, Liverpool still had the advantage of striking late.

It is impossible for them to return to the situation where Liverpool attacked strongly in the first round and Chelsea defended tenaciously. The situation does not allow, the conditions do not allow, and there are too many factors to change!
Today's Liverpool is explaining to the world at Stamford Bridge what it means to advance, attack, retreat, and defend, and move freely!
At Anfield, they were able to bombard without fear of the opponent's counterattack threat to break the ice for 80 minutes, and they could also come to Stamford Bridge to play steadily and seize the opportunity to quickly counterattack and break through the Chelsea gate!

Liverpool are stronger, no doubt about it.

Not only are they stronger, but they also need to prove through the results that they are the stronger winners!

Mourinho felt very tricky, perhaps a little unexpected that when Chelsea gave Liverpool enough space, their defense was a bit vulnerable!
Even if the home court fell behind, Mourinho still gave the team a gesture to stabilize the defense.

But the Chelsea generals are now in a situation where they have to attack!
When one goal is behind, they can spend with Liverpool, just need to equalize the score before the end of the regular game, then they can drag the game into overtime!
But now that Liverpool have scored an away goal, it means Chelsea have one more enemy: time!

How to score Liverpool at least three goals in 75 minutes is their top priority!
If one is not recovered in the first half of the game, then it can be said that Chelsea will be declared eliminated!
Because wanting to score Liverpool three goals at half time is simply impossible!
Situ Yunbing is now calm and relaxed, allowing the team to stabilize the situation and continue to adhere to the tactical plan formulated before the game.

Chelsea kept trying to attack from the left. The attack they conceded just now was from the right, but the effect was mediocre.

At any rate, there is Hazard with stronger personal ability on the left, but Hazard's performance today may not be as good as last round!

In the first round at Anfield, Hazard had a wide space to control the ball. At least he had no problem passing one or two people. But today, facing Liverpool's dense defense, Azpilicueta and Kanter took turns. It is basically difficult for him to sway the ball from left to right, and it is basically difficult for him to sway the ball smoothly for more than ten yards, and he will be intercepted or knocked to the ground!
Willian and Hazard tried long-range shots respectively, but the effect was not good. Torres also had an imaginative lob shot in front of the penalty area, but it missed.

Liverpool's offense implemented Situ Yunbing's tactical requirements, simplifying without a good chance.

They are definitely more calm than Chelsea!

In the 37th minute of the game, Ramirez was pressed by Gerrard in the frontcourt, but his pass to Oscar was intercepted by Robertson in advance!

Seeing Robertson steal the ball, Situ Yunbing couldn't help applauding and shouted: "Good job, this is my good boy!"

After stealing the ball, Robertson made a diagonal pass to find Eriksson, who was running quickly in the midfield to respond. The latter stopped and pushed the offensive into Chelsea's half.

Ramirez and William immediately gathered and ran to the center to defend, but Eriksson passed the ball straight ahead.

Suarez kicked the ball around David Luiz and knocked it back diagonally to Gerrard who followed up.

Gerrard quickly slammed the ball to the left of the penalty area. When Gareth Bale and Suarez went forward together, Chelsea's defense actively retreated. David Luiz rushed to intercept Gerrard. The latter But he knocked the ball across the middle of the penalty area.

Eriksson quickly rushed to meet the ball without making any adjustments and directly blasted!
The football flew straight to the upper left corner of the goal, Petr Cech saved to the limit but was still powerless!
Eriksson laughed and rushed to the sidelines to celebrate, Gerrard and other teammates followed.

Mourinho closed his eyes painfully on the sidelines, but still tried his best to keep calm.

Situ Yunbing smiled and pointed to the direction Eriksson was running to, and the colleagues on the coaching staff applauded and cheered behind him!
"Eriksen scored from a long shot from the line of the penalty area! Another victory for Liverpool!
Liverpool once again scored a goal through a defensive counterattack!

I think this goal has killed the game!

Chelsea will be knocked out.

Because if they want to come back, they need to score four goals!
This is almost an impossible task!

Liverpool lead Chelsea 3-0 on aggregate! "

Liverpool fans were ecstatic, Chelsea fans began to feel a little dejected!
Everyone also knows that with Chelsea's current offensive firepower, trying to break through Liverpool's goal four times is tantamount to nonsense!

Chelsea's generals probably also know that if they continue to play like this, there might be a tragedy, so the offensive has been restrained.

At the end of the first half, the game was very flat in terms of rhythm and scenes.

Some viewers may think that Liverpool has not consistently played offensive football, but in Mourinho's eyes, this is where Situ Yunbing is strong or feared by opponents!

He has no lofty and illusory ideals, he is the most perfect spokesperson for Darwin's theory of evolution on the football field, survival of the fittest!
He will change his style of play according to different situations and environments, without departing from the basic reality of the team!

It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult.

Because too many coaches are more inclined to pursue the ultimate.

Those who are conservative must hone their defense until it is impenetrable.

Radicals must rely on offense to make them invincible!

And Liverpool is a nearly perfect example of balance!

To defend with hardness, to attack with intensity!
And the hub of all this is in the midfield, which is the key position to determine the posture. The combination of Casemiro and Kanter was actually not favored by the ball critics last summer, and they thought it was too conservative. To quantify it is "defensive overflow", it is better to release some offensive ability a little bit!
But Situ Yunbing has brought this team into a state where it can be retracted freely. This is a nearly perfect team from an overall point of view. Of course, there are still deficiencies in details, such as Robertson, but in the past season However, his growth is gradually making up for this shortcoming. If you look at it now, it is hard to say that Robertson is the weakness of Liverpool's defense!

It took him more than a year to improve, and Situ Yunbing employed people to firmly support him to the top position. The reward was that Liverpool solved a long-term stability in a position that many strong teams had trouble with.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the first half, Situ Yunbing turned and walked towards the player tunnel with a calm expression.

And Mourinho seemed to be preoccupied. He had been thinking, thinking about how to fight hard, how to break the boat to bring about a great reversal!

But with these people under his hands, he really doesn't know how to fight!
Two years have passed since Drogba left the team in 12, but Chelsea have not had a stable center forward.

Torres, Demba Ba, and Eto'o are not a center forward who can bring stable goals to the team for a long time.

How much Mourinho hopes that Eto'o did not go to the Russian Super League for two years to seek gold, how much he hopes that Liverpool will send an instruction manual when Torres joins Chelsea, how much he hopes that Demba Ba can become the second Drogba.
At this moment, he truly experienced the helplessness and despair!

(End of this chapter)