Football’s First Defender

Lampard's goal was a hair's breadth away from the goal. Otherwise, if Chelsea would have taken a 2-goal lead before halftime in the first half, then for Barcelona in an away game, the difference between the two goals would be absolutely irrelevant. It's not easy to get back!

The gap of one goal, because the score in the first round was only 0 to 0, so if Barcelona can really score a goal, they will also directly occupy the advantage of promotion because of the advantage of away goals! So after Barcelona loses the ball now, although they are at a disadvantage, there are still opportunities! Chelsea, on the other hand, cannot relax in the slightest, their lead is not guaranteed!

Although Chelsea's players are indeed very fierce in the frontcourt, no matter how strong the defense is, of course it is impossible to guarantee that the ball will be intercepted every time. The Barcelona players will still make full use of their personal abilities, or It is a good opportunity for cooperation between the teams. In many cases, the breakthrough from the backcourt is completed and the ball is transferred to Chelsea's half!

At this time, Chelsea's players will correspondingly enter the state of positional defense, and use their excellent defensive ability to limit Barcelona's pass penetration in the frontcourt!

"Barcelona is struggling on the offensive end!"

"Chelsea's defensive structure is very good. This game is an away game, and Barcelona, ​​which has not invested so many players on the offensive end, can't create too many threatening offensive opportunities at all!"

"Iniesta hit the goal with a long shot from the outside and flew out of bounds!"

Home field advantage is all aspects. In many games where teams are evenly matched in pure strength, the home team will always occupy many small off-court advantages because they are at their home court!

These various favorable factors may affect the progress of the game in the end!

For example, at this moment, after Iniesta's goal flew directly out of the baseline, the home ball boy behind Cech immediately threw another football. Cech quickly positioned the ball and kicked it out!

"Cech kicked the ball to the left with a big kick, deep in Barcelona's half!"

"Alves, the defense on this side has not yet stabilized!"

"Malouda fought for the landing point of the ball, headed directly forward, and accelerated to run over after landing!"

"Alves, follow closely on Malouda's right!"

Malouda's game experience is very good. Faced with the pursuit of Alves, Malouda moved sideways to the right during the running process, took the initiative to find his body to fight, and directly hit the chasing Alves. A stagger, unable to rush up to the fastest speed!

Alves can only choose to go further to the right, wanting to overtake from the outside, but Malouda, who is rushing to speed, is also not slow!

Alves can only guarantee that he will follow Malouda, but he cannot complete the rescue in the first time!

However, Malouda's route is indeed closer to the left. Whether he is passing the ball directly to the penalty area or preparing to break into the penalty area, he needs to reduce his speed to complete the corresponding technical moves!

And Alves, occupying the position on the right, only needs to keep accelerating and chase Malouda to ensure his defensive position. As long as Malouda slows down a little, Alves can catch up directly!

Malouda did not choose a big change of direction during high-speed running, but to ensure his own speed as much as possible, he just leaned slightly to the right running path, and Malouda opened his arms within the scope allowed by the rules. , deliberately confronting Alves' body!

Alves saw that there was really no way to run in front of Malouda, especially Malouda's arms directly blocked his way of accelerating forward, and Alves could only choose to get started in the end!

Malouda waved his arms and supported Alves, and Alves stretched out his hand to pull Malouda's jersey without hesitation!

Running at high speed, the two staggered towards the left edge of the penalty area at the same time!

"Malouda made a sudden stop, trying to step on the ball and make a sudden stop! He bumped into Alves, who had been defending him and chasing him!"

"beep--"

The sudden whistle sounded!

The referee blows his whistle!

Foul inside the box?

The Barcelona players were the first to be confused! Because no matter how you look at this ball, it will not be a penalty for Malouda's foul, and if Alves' foul is called, then the position of this ball must be a penalty kick!

The Chelsea fans at the scene were first surprised by the whistle, and then ecstatic in their hearts. It's just a pity that they haven't had time to burst into cheers!

The referee has already made his own penalty gesture!

"No penalty kick! Free kick! The referee signaled that the two sides had just pushed and shoved outside the penalty area and whistled for Alves' foul! It was just a free kick!"

"It's just that the penalty whistle sounded a little slow!"

What the referee whistled was that the foul before Malouda entered the penalty area and made an emergency stop was just a free kick on the line of the penalty area!

The position of this free kick is not very good. Although the straight-line distance from the goal is so close, the angle of the goal is also very limited!

Just now Malouda has reached the level of the small penalty area line, so according to common sense, the difficulty of hitting the goal directly is very difficult!

The angle is limited, and there are many defensive players in the penalty area. If you choose to pass the ball, the possibility of causing chaos in the penalty area is higher!

However, Drogba took the initiative to ask for this goal, wanting to rely on his own power to forcibly create a chance to shoot!

"Drogba! Leave a long approach distance!"

"approach!"

"The door is open!"

"Valdes!"

"Amazing save!"

"Block the ball!"

Enough run-up distance, Drogba ran to the billboard outside the field for the angle of the shot, and was the starting position of the run-up!

A powerful volley! The ball is not high, which is half the height of a person! But the long-distance run-up and an arc-shaped run-up route made Drogba's vigorous volley also hit a strong arc!

Directly bypassed the double wall formed by Iniesta and Messi, then immediately spun back and flew towards the goal!

Drogba's kick hit the goal, the ball was very fast, and this arc was completed extremely fast by virtue of the speed of the ball. Before reaching the dense area of ​​Barcelona's defensive players in front of the goal, it had already completed the turn and flew to the goal!

However, the goal line is still guarding Barcelona's most stable Valdez in this game!

Valdes, after Drogba kicked the ball, he found that it was directly hit the goal with his feet, and he didn't have time to observe in detail. He could only subconsciously jump up like an octopus, spread his whole body, and expand the defensive area !

And this kick was finally blocked by Valdez's right arm. Drogba almost relied on his personal hitting ability to successfully score again for Chelsea!

"Chelsea's corner!"

This time, because Drogba also entered the penalty area to compete, Yang Feng obviously received less defensive attention!

Only one Abidal is responsible for marking Yang Feng, and Barcelona's two central defenders are focusing on marking Drogba and Terry!

Unlike just now, when Drogba went to take a free kick, Pique came directly to guard Yang Feng!

Yang Feng obviously wanted to step forward to make a follow-up shot just now, and the football saved by Valdes happened to be near Yang Feng, but Yang Feng was stuck in the position by Pique on the way, unable to move forward, and missed the time for the make-up shot !

And now Abidal's defense, which has been rotated, is obviously not as good as Pique's!

"Lampard takes the corner!"

"Yang Feng! A sudden thrust from the back! Come to the front point! Overwhelm Abidal! Shake his head and attack the goal!"

"This ball! Headed to the back! Valdez swooped sideways!"

"Sliding the door out! What a pity!"

The set-piece tactic came out, and Yang Feng also completed the personal duel with Abidal, and took the lead in running to his own dessert spot in the front point, but unfortunately, this header was a little bit short!

The ball flew very close to the goal, less than ten centimeters from the back post, which really scared the Barcelona players into a cold sweat!

Especially Valdes, after this goal, he can only rely on shouting to remind his teammates to pay attention to everyone's defense against Chelsea, to vent his inner emotions!

The game continues! The Barcelona players don't plan to be on the road, they have been dragging, waiting for the second half to attack again!

Even though in this game, Barcelona's most offensive lineup is not playing now, but Barcelona's players have been trying to make progress on the offensive end, and they have to prove their ability in front of the whole world!

It's just a pity that they are facing Chelsea, who may have the strongest defensive ability in today's European football!

Barcelona, ​​which is not the best offensive firepower, poses a limited threat on the offensive end. In addition, this is Chelsea's home stadium Stamford Bridge, not the Nou Camp in the first round. One goes up and down, and Chelsea's performance is getting better and better. And Barcelona is in huge trouble!

"Iniesta picked a pass to the penalty area! It was resolved by Yang Feng again!"

"Yang Feng didn't have many performances on the defensive end in this game, because the teammates in front of him helped him complete a lot of defensive tasks!"

"However, in the limited opportunities to appear on camera, Yang Feng always used perfect performances to prevent Barcelona from trying to score into the penalty area or pass the ball past Yang Feng!"

"The ball was directly passed by Yang Feng to Anelka on the right!"

"Chelsea's chance to fight back!"

The Barcelona players wanted to retreat to their own half like a tide, but in this wave, one of the two waves at the front was wearing a blue jersey!

"Lampard! Only 2 steps forward with the ball, and he was directly dragged by Iniesta beside him!"

"But when he was about to fall to the ground, Lampard still passed the ball, a straight long pass, and passed it into Barcelona's penalty area!"

"Drogba! He ran at the forefront of the counterattack, with only Abidal on the right beside him!"

Drogba gave full play to his advantages in physical confrontation, directly leaned his body against Abidal on the right side, and turned his body halfway around, completely blocking Abidal on his side, unable to move!

After jumping up, his left foot was perfect in the air, and he unloaded the ball accurately. After that, Drogba, who had already rushed into the penalty area, could try to hit the goal directly after landing!

Even though Valdés has already struck out, in Drogba's vision, he still has a great shooting angle. Even if he hits the goal with his left foot, Drogba also believes that he has a high probability of helping the team expand the score!

However, suddenly, Drogba felt his eyes turned! From staring at the ball, to looking directly at the sky!

"Drogba! Down! Down!"

"This ball!"

"The referee didn't say anything?"

"Valdes rushed over at full speed and hugged the football!"

The referee came near the penalty area, stopped, and waved his hands quickly, indicating that there was no problem with the ball!

Drogba, who was sitting on the ground, raised his hands and complained to the referee!

After seeing that the referee had nothing to say, Drogba lay flat on the ground, pounding the ground with both hands, expressing his anger and incomprehension!

In this era without video replays, the referee's influence on the game process is too great!

Even in the broadcast footage, Abidal did have a very obvious pulling action at the end of this ball, which affected Drogba's balance. It was indeed enough to call a penalty kick, but the referee no longer May be changed!

Even though several nearby Chelsea players went to the referee to protest together, it was of no avail! The referee ran away without paying attention!

Instead, the Barcelona players didn't care about anything, and directly attacked Chelsea's defense line after Valdes threw the ball. Fortunately, Ballack stopped Barcelona's attack with a foul in time!

Barcelona did not gain too many opportunities on the offensive end, but the defense line continued to have accidents! This also made Guardiola dare not attack so recklessly and let the team actively look for opportunities!

With Guardiola's latest instructions brought into the pitch, Barcelona, ​​already less able to create a threatening attack, became even more powerless to penetrate deep into Chelsea's 30-meter zone!

Barcelona's two full-backs were completely restricted by Guardiola's forward attack range, making Barcelona, ​​who had no threat from the wing, even passed and penetrated due to a serious shortage of manpower, and was strangled by Chelsea!

In the end, Barcelona's offense, even long-range shots, became a difficult task!

Guardiola's idea is very simple, one goal behind, Barcelona still has a great chance, and if they catch up to a draw, they will advance! Two goals behind, as a guest at Stamford Bridge, Barcelona may really explain here!

Let the team continue to try on the offensive end. With the current situation, the probability of Barcelona scoring a goal is far lower than Chelsea's counterattack success rate. Guardiola can only ask the team to do a good job of defense first, at least to kill Chelsea's counterattack Don't let Chelsea go crazy at home!

Chelsea, who hold the lead, naturally won't rise up at this time, and attack with all their strength! After Barcelona began to shrink the lineup, although Chelsea had the initiative, they still had a taste of it, and the troops invested in the offensive end were limited!

The two teams, who had played back and forth before, with a very fast offensive and defensive rhythm, suddenly fell silent on the field!

In the last 15 minutes of the first half of the game, the two sides fell into a strangulation in the midfield, and there was no more threatening attack!

In the end, Chelsea ended the first half with a one-goal lead and entered the intermission!