Ball king grower

After much consideration, Zidane finally chose a compromise approach, attacking, but not attacking too aggressively, and achieving a balance between offense and defense.

In this case, the defense will not have too many loopholes and it will not be easy to lose the ball, and the offense will definitely have more opportunities than defensive counterattacks.

Of course, this is just his idea. Whether the reality is like this will have to wait until the game starts. After all, Zidane rarely encounters this kind of situation. His team usually has the advantage.

Very big, there are rarely times when he has to rack his brains to consider countermeasures. In terms of experience, he is still lacking.

Finally, he told the players: "Just remember one thing, don't concede the ball. This deliberately keeps us motivated. Secondly, score goals as early as possible. This can destroy the fighting spirit of Chelsea players, no matter how hard-blooded they are.

There will also be defeats, and people are still people after all."

…

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. As Lin Yu said, Chelsea adopted a defensive and counterattack strategy. Zidane also judged this point correctly, but whether his next strategy is correct will take time to determine.

Proved.

It can be said that during this period, the game fell into an anxious state.

Chelsea's defense is very solid, but their offense is a bit weak. Looking at Real Madrid, the offense is not at its strongest, and the defense is not at its strongest. Now it is somewhere in between, and it is not playing very smoothly.

It was Chelsea who got the chance to score first. A counterattack gave Chelsea another free kick in the frontcourt. This one was a little further away, about thirty meters away from the goal.

Fabregas was still standing in front of the ball. If he was taking the free kick, he would most likely choose indirect kicking. Because of this, Mandzukic was closely guarded. Everyone knew that in the penalty area

, although Mandzukic's threat is not as great as Lin Yu's, it absolutely cannot be ignored.

The ball was free throwed.

"Oh. Mandzukic! Mandzukic's header! He actually grabbed this header under the pressure of two people! Oh, what a pity, what a pity, this ball was miraculously saved by Mignolet

What a great opportunity it is."

The neutral commentator likes to watch the excitement. Whoever performs well must be praised. Whether it is Mandzukic's powerful header or Mignolet's beautiful save, he appreciates it.

The goal didn't go in, and Mandzukic was very upset. Hazard came over to comfort him and said, "Don't take it too seriously, it's not your problem."

Indeed, this is really not Mandzukic's problem. He has done his best, but who knows that Mignolet can do better than him.

Shaking his head helplessly, Mandzukic shook off the annoyance in his heart. He gritted his teeth and planned to never waste such an opportunity next time. Absolutely not!

However, although his thoughts were good, it was a pity that in the following game time, he completely entered the rhythm of Real Madrid. He missed an excellent scoring opportunity, and it would be extremely difficult to find another one.

After all, Chelsea plays a defensive counterattack. This tactic requires the opponent's mistakes to cooperate. If the opponent does not make mistakes, the forward will be very depressed.

On the contrary, Real Madrid gradually found its offensive rhythm.

In the 60th minute of the game, Bell held the ball on the right, directly passed Luke Shaw, and then passed Zouma and went straight to the penalty area.

It's a pity that Matic caught up at this time and made a flying tackle. Bell was so frightened that he had to jump up quickly and at the same time, he widened the ball.

Although he didn't lose the ball this time, he lost an excellent breakthrough opportunity. He had no choice but to knock the ball horizontally to Isco in the middle.

After Isco got the ball, he volleyed. The quality of the shot was good, and it even went straight to the blind corner. However, Cech was very focused, jumped up steadily, and picked off the ball.

"Oh, Real Madrid also missed an excellent scoring opportunity. It seems like this situation will last for a long time. It won't be like this in the second half, right?"

Mandzukic in the frontcourt breathed a sigh of relief and didn't score. That's good, there is still a chance.

What he fears most now is that after he wasted the opportunity, Real Madrid scored instead. In that case, he will become the team's sinner. There will definitely be a lot of media criticizing him after the game. He is not Lin Yu.

, without such a strong heart and endurance, it might really collapse.

In fact, not only him, but all the Chelsea players breathed a sigh of relief and did not concede the ball. This is the best.

Mourinho stood up and sat back down again. He also knew that if the opponent scored the goal, Chelsea would have no chance. After all, the opponent was Real Madrid. Letting the opponent score two goals in an away game would be a disaster.

He just committed suicide by himself.

Well done Matic!

Well done Cech!

Mourinho praised his contribution in his heart, and Chelsea fans also shouted the names of these two people loudly.

…

At this time, people seemed to have felt the tense atmosphere of this game. The tense atmosphere was like a storm approaching. There was no wind in the air, it was terrifyingly quiet, and it was as if something was blocking the chest.

, can't breathe smoothly anymore.

"Perhaps this game will be the most painful battle Real Madrid has faced this season."

The game continued, and the players on the field did not have any special reactions. After all, at this time, they had completely devoted their bodies and minds to the game, and they could not have so many thoughts to think about other things.

What do others think of this game and what will be the final result? It is useless to think too much. The common thought of both parties now is this.

"You can't concede the ball, you have to score goals!"

In comparison, Chelsea's desire to score may be stronger, because if Chelsea cannot score, they will be eliminated, and they know this very well.

But scoring goals is not something you can do just because you think about it. The game is very intense, but the more you play with Chelsea, the more you discover that Real Madrid's offensive has become more and more intense as the game goes by.

They defended very hard, let alone counterattacked, so although they wanted to score a goal, they had to face reality and were severely suppressed in their own half and unable to move.

This situation lasted until the 78th minute of the game.

The score still hasn't changed. 1:1. It can be seen that both sides played very hard, but they haven't conceded a goal yet. This is good. For Real Madrid, if the game ends with this score, then they will definitely win in the end.

victorious.

But the more this happens, the more nervous it becomes. Because no mistakes can be made. One mistake may eventually lead to being dragged into overtime, or simply being defeated by the opponent. No one wants to see such an ending.

Mourinho obviously couldn't sit still, and he began to mobilize his troops and prepare to make substitutions.

Willian, Salah, and Lukaku are warming up. Mourinho is obviously going to fight hard. If he doesn't fight hard in the last ten minutes, everything will be over. He has to make some crazy decisions.

When the game entered a dead ball state, he immediately chose to make a substitution.

Matic, Schurrle and Luke Shaw were substituted. Willian, Salah and Lukaku came on.

As a result, there are only three defenders left in their defense, and in the midfielder position, there is only Fabregas, and he is not a purely defensive player.

Mandzukic and Lukaku were at the front, Salah, who had more energy, replaced the out-of-form Schurrle, while Willian played a double attacking midfielder with Oscar.

Faced with Mourinho's substitutions, Zidane also immediately made personnel adjustments. If you change offensive players, then I will change defensive players. I don't believe I can't cure you.

He took Isco and Modric off the field and replaced Khedira and Gundogan, which directly turned into a three-midfielder tactic.

It has to be said that his substitution method is still very targeted. In terms of substitution adjustment this time, he did not lose to Mourinho, but his substitution was not straightforward enough, because Mourinho directly

Three substitutions were used up, and he was still a little hesitant, so he only substituted two people.

Perhaps the result of a game is caused by the gap between one person.

After the substitution, Chelsea's offensive suddenly became fierce, and Real Madrid's offense began to suffer. Even with the three defensive midfielders, they still couldn't stop Chelsea's crazy offensive. Now, they no longer care about defense because they have no time.

Because of this, in the last few minutes, Pogba got an excellent shooting opportunity, but unfortunately he knocked the ball away when facing an empty goal.

"Oh, if this goal is scored, this game will be over. Lin Yu planned a counterattack and passed the ball to Pogba. The goal was empty. If the goal was not scored, I would regret it if I were eliminated."

Before Pogba could wake up from his troubles, the frightened Chelsea also got an equally great opportunity.

This is still a free kick.

Perhaps for Chelsea, if they want to score against Real Madrid, they can only rely on free kicks.

The ball was still thrown out by Fabregas, and then Mandzukic fought for the top. But at this time, Lin Yu had returned to the penalty area to defend. At this time, the opponent must not be allowed to score. Even if Lin Yu fought hard,

He has to fight for his life.

Mandzukic definitely couldn't compete with Lin Yu. The two jumped up almost at the same time, but Lin Yu was obviously a head higher than him, and then he cleared the ball hard.

However, after the ball was cleared, it fell at William's feet. William opened his legs and shot.

The ball didn't go in, but it hit the Real Madrid player's hand.

At this time, there was some chaos on the court. Some Chelsea players complained to the referee and wanted a penalty kick, while some Real Madrid players also argued that it was not an intentional handball.

However, no one expected that Oscar would come out during the chaos. He realized that the referee had not blown the whistle yet. In other words, it was still game time. When he saw the ball in the penalty area and no one was grabbing it, he

I kicked him subconsciously.

This goal was too easy and too sudden. Mignolet was too distracted to make any moves.

As a result, when the Chelsea fans' loud shouts rang out from the stands, the Real Madrid players realized that, too bad, someone had taken advantage of them this time.

The referee quickly blew the whistle and pointed his left hand at the center circle to indicate that the goal was valid.

"The goal is valid! The goal is valid! Oscar has done his job! Oscar has done his job! This sneak attack made Real Madrid pay the price. They could have advanced, but now they have to be dragged into overtime. This is really too much

So sad."

"Really, I don't know what a bunch of people are doing. The referee shouldn't let down his guard if he doesn't blow the whistle. How could Real Madrid make such a mistake? Damn it."

Both the neutral commentator and the Real Madrid commentator felt a little pity for conceding the goal. After all, the goal was a bit unfair. Real Madrid's defense had done its best, but it dropped its chain at this time. This really shouldn't have happened.

ah.

Some Real Madrid players went to argue with the referee, and some even started complaining to each other. Anyway, the scene fell into chaos.

"Shut the hell up!" Lin Yu got angry and said angrily: "It's my fault for losing the ball. I didn't react. Stop talking. It's not like we were eliminated. There is still overtime to play."

Woolen cloth!"