Football’s First Defender

As two giants of the Premier League, ranked second and third in the Premier League standings with the same league points, this quarter-elimination matchup of the Champions League, as expected by everyone, should have been evenly matched and anxious to the end stage!

However, no one thought that Liverpool, who played at home in the first round, would now fall behind by a score of 1 to 3!

Being two goals behind and allowing the opponent to have three away goals, this is enough to put Liverpool at an absolute disadvantage in advancing to the next round!

The Liverpool players on the field, after being behind by 2 goals, obviously started to get a little anxious. Because of the score behind, they also obviously started to get a little angry, and their actions started to get a little louder!

Originally, Chelsea planned to take advantage of Liverpool's desperation during this period of time to see if they could sprinkle salt on their wounds, but seeing that Liverpool players were getting more and more active and fouling more and more, the game changed from a football match , There is a tendency to change to a fighting game!

The number of yellow cards on both sides has begun to increase, and the players are a little bit ignorant of the game, especially those players who have had enough yellow cards in previous games and have accumulated yellow cards. They gradually forget that they need to control their movements on the field!

"After Malouda took the ball, he tried to break through on the left! But Gerrard, who was rushed over to help defend, made a flying shovel and fell to the ground!"

"The referee rushed over! Showed a yellow card to Gerrard, who was obviously acting too much!"

Turning around, when Liverpool organized the attack, he saw Gerrard hurt his teammate with his fierce action before, and Chelsea's defenders also had no intention of stopping. Terry came out to mark Dirk. Seeing that Gerrard was a little sticky to the ball, he made a tackle directly from the side and rear. Gerrard made a foul and was also given a yellow card by the referee!

The players on the field, because of the situation and anger, are a little bit up, don't care! Just let yourself be happy and vent your anger!

But the statisticians on both sides were terrified!

Originally, Hiddink got a report from his own statistician. Gerrard would be suspended for accumulating yellow cards in the second round because of the previous yellow card. When Liverpool will lose another general in the next game, Hiddink laughed on the sidelines. Flowers!

But turning around, Terry's somewhat reckless foul also successfully sent himself to the list of accumulative yellow card suspensions for the next Champions League game!

Hiddink didn't understand, his team was clearly ahead, why Terry followed suit! The center back line is the position Hiddink is least willing to change now. As a result, Terry himself applied for this yellow card, forcing himself to replace another center back in the next round!

In the last 10 minutes of the game, the players on both sides began to be keen on physical confrontation instead of football itself.

In the end, the two teams did not create too threatening offensive opportunities at the last moment of the game, and the score of 3 to 1 was maintained until the end of the game! Chelsea has gained a huge advantage in the away game and has the initiative to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League!

The two teams will move to Stamford Bridge in the middle of next week for the second round!

In the post-match press conference, unlike Chelsea coach Guus Hiddink who was being interviewed with a smile all over his face, Benitez had a gloomy face and conducted a routine post-match interview!

However, Benitez is still full of reason and did a good job of protecting the players. After the game, he directly took the responsibility for the loss on himself!

He took the initiative to explain that he did not notice the threat of Chelsea's wing attack. The loss of control of the high ball was the main reason for Liverpool's failure! He took the initiative to blame himself and relieve the pressure on his players!

However, Benitez also said that this is just a loss in a game. Even if the team falls behind by 2 goals, Liverpool still has a chance to advance to the next round!

Chelsea did not celebrate in Merseyside for too long, but returned to London overnight to prepare for the weekend's league matches and the second round in the middle of next week!

For Chelsea, the victory of this game was purely using their own high-altitude ball to open up the advantage, plus Liverpool's shot was mostly resolved by Petr Cech and Yang Feng! But there are still many problems exposed, and there are still many shortcomings. In the next game, even at home, we must not slack off!

In the weekend's Premier League, Liverpool and Chelsea's schedule is the Premier League's early game, and Chelsea is playing at home against Bolton, a team in the middle and lower reaches of the league!

Although in the standings at the beginning of this round, because Manchester United missed one round, the 4 points gap from the top of the list does not seem so unattainable, but Hiddink still chose to rest the lineup to prepare for the second round of the Champions League knockout round!

Because Terry was suspended for accumulative yellow cards in the Champions League, Terry still started this game, while Yang Feng was rested in this game. The Portuguese international Carvalho who recently returned from injury played to replace Yang Feng!

For the second round against Liverpool, Hiddink has not decided whether to use Carvalho or Alex to replace Terry as the shadow forward. Carvalho will start this game, and Hiddink also wants to see his game How is the state recovering after the injury?

Right back Ivanovic, midfielder Essien, midfielder core offensive player Lampard, and striker Drogba also got a rotation in this game!

Hiddink doesn't care about a league victory or not, but next week's Champions League knockout match, at his home court, Hiddink hopes that there will be no moths!

In this league that is warming up for the midweek Champions League game, in terms of performance on the field, Chelsea is indeed not at its best!

Firstly, it was because of the away game against Liverpool, which caused the fatigue of several non-rested players. Secondly, the running of the Chelsea players was not active, or with the tacit approval of the coach, there was some water!

After all, the Champions League match a few days later is the highlight. In this very ordinary league, Hiddink emphasized that he must not get injured or consume too much physical energy!

This is also a common problem of many giants. In some games, although there are seemingly powerful players, they are in an absolute crushing position in terms of pure strength, but because they underestimate the enemy, they are not active in running, and the players are timid. Don't dare to make moves, which leads to twists and turns in the seemingly hand-held game, and even the inability to win! Chelsea's game is that the players on the field are a little timid, and they dare not and do not want to give full play!

Bolton, who came to Stamford Bridge as a guest, is ranked 12th in the league, with a gap of 8 points from the relegation zone. Under such circumstances, almost all of them gave up resistance directly, without wasting any energy, and instead went all out to fight for the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league.

Using their own home to score enough points, the away game is either a loss or a tie. Only when they are against the last few teams that are directly relegation opponents, Bolton will go all out and win a few away games!

Bolton understands what points are the key points for relegation, the kind where 3 points are used as 6 points, and what points are not worth trying to get!

It is such a team that puts relegation in the first place and arranges itself clearly. It will not fight Chelsea here! After all, for Bolton, the next round of away games against Portsmouth, the last team, is their key game this month. Before that, the team must ensure their health and physical condition!

The two teams are in a very salty state on the court, which made the first half of the game extremely dull!

Chelsea don't plan to attack hard, and the visiting team doesn't plan to use physical confrontation to defend!

This also made Chelsea clearly hold more than 70% of the possession rate, but there were almost no good shooting opportunities in the first half!

However, sometimes, for a wealthy team, it's no big deal if the team's offense is not good, just let the star players come out and play!

In the 40th minute of the first half of the game, Ballack shot a cold arrow from the outside of the penalty area. With a wonderful world wave, he pierced through the ten fingers of Bolton's goalkeeper and rewritten the score to 1-0! Chelsea was able to return to the dressing room with the lead!

As soon as the second half started, Chelsea showed that they wanted to close the game quickly! Just at the beginning, Chelsea launched a fierce attack!

Anelka, who started the game, received a pass from Malouda in the penalty area and directly shook his head to attack the goal. Only 3 minutes into the second half, he rewritten the score to 2-0 for Chelsea. !

After that, Chelsea's offensive continued unabated. Deco also used a long shot to penetrate Bolton's goal in the 60th minute of the game, while Anelka received a direct goal from Deco near the penalty spot in the 63rd minute. After plugging the ball, he turned around and hit the goal, scoring twice, extending the score advantage to 4-0!

In less than 20 minutes of the second half, Chelsea scored 3 goals one after another. In the atmosphere of celebration of the home fans, they almost firmly accepted the game!

But just after Hiddink took a big lead, he replaced Ballack, Malouda, and Ashley Cole in preparation for the Champions League! Because the appearance of the three young boys from the youth team may have aroused the anger of the Bolton players on the opposite side!

After nearly playing dead for 70 minutes, Bolton began to show the unique strength of his traditional English team!

The young players who were replaced by Guus Hiddink were still a bit unprepared for such a fierce physical confrontation. They became Chelsea's defensive weakness on the field and were beaten by Bolton's rough men!

Coupled with the fact that the starting central defender Carvalho's state is not very good, Chelsea's defense suddenly became a little shaky!

In the 70th minute of the game, Bolton played smoothly in the midfield. The core midfielder Marcan passed the defender and passed the ball to Andy in the penalty area of ​​Chelsea!

Carvalho, who was defending Andy, was obviously a little slow in his attacking speed. Andy turned around and passed him. Facing Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, he directly shot a low shot and rewritten the score to 1 to 4!

Just 4 minutes later, Bolton made a comeback!

This time it is to open a breakthrough on the wing!

After Ashley Cole left the field, Chelsea's new young left-back didn't have enough strength to fight at all. Bolton's winger relied on his weight, directly crushed him on the wing, and then made an easy long pass!

In another duel with Andy, Carvalho was once again at a disadvantage when he was fighting for the top of the header. He was succeeded by Andy and directly completed the header!

At such a close range, Cech was also unable to react in time, and Bolton scored 2 goals in a blink of an eye, bringing the score back to 2-4!

Carvalho's header failed this time, making him completely miss the chance to play in the Champions League in the middle of the week. Hiddink does not want Carvalho, who is in such a bad state, to go to the Champions League to plant a bomb for his team!

Just when Hiddink regretted that he shouldn't have changed all the personnel so early, Chelsea's defense suffered another heavy blow in the 78th minute!

Bolton was in the corner kick tactics, although Terry pushed the corner kick out of the penalty area, but Bolton midfielder Taylor waited on the outside, directly volleyed the ball into the goal guarded by Petr Cech! After scoring 3 goals in 8 minutes, Bolton tied the score at 3-4!

The Chelsea players were scored three goals in a row, and it was like waking up from a dream, and they dare not be careless again! Although they may not care about the result of this game before the game, this does not mean that Chelsea players can bear the result of a 4-0 lead and then be used by the opponent in the last 20 minutes of a big reversal!

Obviously began to concentrate, and Chelsea, who strengthened their defensive strength, began to defend seriously, wanting to rely on defense to drag through the last ten minutes of the game!

Bolton's players, on the other hand, suddenly found that they seemed to be able to complete a big reversal. Facing the temptation to leave a name in the history of the Premier League, they also changed their previous state of being completely unconcerned and started a full-scale onslaught!

In the last 10 minutes of the game, due to the increased attention of both sides, it turned out to be a heated state, and it began to become extremely exciting on both offensive and defensive ends!

Although this kind of excitement, in the eyes of Chelsea fans, it is not as easy as winning 4-0, so that the fans have been happily coming! This result is purely caused by the team's excessive waves, and fans need to prepare their own quick-acting heart-relief pills!

However, when the Bolton players really faced Chelsea's impregnable walls, even though many of them were non-main players from Chelsea, and there were even three players drawn from the youth team, the gap in strength was there, and the siege lasted for more than ten minutes. Bolton, in the end, did not score the fourth goal again! The score of 4 to 3 was kept by Chelsea until the end of the game!

In the end, Chelsea beat Bolton 4-3 at home at Stamford Bridge, once again tying Liverpool, which also won the game with a substitute lineup in the early game, and ranked 2nd and 3rd with 67 points in the league. The round of the game has not yet started, and Manchester United, which has 2 games less, only has a gap of 1 point!

Of course, this league game has brought enough warnings to Chelsea players and coaches. No matter how big the lead is, you must absolutely guarantee your state and focus on the game! Leading by 4 goals was almost overturned by the underdogs at home within 20 minutes. Now facing Liverpool, they are only leading by 2 goals. Be careful!