Football’s First Defender

The opening game of the 2009/10 Premier League season was last season's Champions League champion Chelsea, who faced the visiting Hull City team at Stamford Bridge!

The Premier League season, after nearly 3 months of silence, rekindled the battle!

Facing the much-anticipated opening game of the Premier League, Ancelotti chose to be on the safe side and still sent Chelsea's Champions League winning lineup. The starting list remained unchanged from the previous match with Manchester United!

This is the most used lineup in the latter part of last season. Although the offensive power against the top teams has yet to be discovered, for some underdogs, its offensive and defensive capabilities are enough to ensure Chelsea's absolute advantage!

As for the visiting opponent Hull City in this game, in terms of pure strength, it is a team that can only set off the existence of Chelsea in the opening game!

In the Premier League last season, Hull City did not have too many outstanding performances. In the final stage of the league, they managed to avoid relegation with a thrilling 17th place!

In the summer window of the new season, Hull City did not have too many commendable transactions. The team's main lineup was seriously outflowed. In the meantime, Hull City's starting list for this game has changed almost half of the teams compared to last season!

The pre-match media's analysis of the opening game was also in favor of the Chelsea team. There is a huge gap in combat power!

And from the very beginning of the game, it has entered Chelsea's abuse mode!

In strong duels, Chelsea's high ball possession rate is not a good thing. In some tough battles, Chelsea still likes to rely on defense and counterattack tactics. On the basis of low ball possession rate, it can give opponents a fatal blow. !

However, in the abusive game in the league, Chelsea will use its own strength to try its best to control the ball possession rate. The opportunity to give long-range shots to the central players is a good opportunity for Chelsea to break the deadlock!

This is also the past. Although the number of goals scored by Chelsea's core players in each season is not too high, there is no reason why Chelsea's league results are not too bad!

In the case of a good defense, although the overall offense of the Chelsea team is not as smooth and beautiful as other giants, but in the battle against ordinary opponents, the number of shots of 20 to 30 kicks per game has accumulated. Under the circumstances, Chelsea's midfielder's long-range shooting and Drogba's ability to grab points can always be used in the game, helping the team suddenly open the door to victory in the long 90-minute game!

Facing the iron wall of Chelsea's defense, there are very few teams that can guarantee that they will score goals with a limited number of offensive rounds and a small number of shots!

At the beginning of each season, Chelsea's starting goalkeeper, Petr Cech, is always recognized by most people as the most likely winner of the Premier League Golden Glove in the new season, because Chelsea's overall defense is really strong! Absolutely the best in the Premier League!

"Lampard hits the goal from distance!"

"Barack's ultra-long-range bombardment!"

"Drogba's header in the penalty area hits the goal!"

At the beginning, Hull City's defense was busy for a while. Chelsea, who are at home, did not want to drag the game down. They also wanted to use victory to get off to a good start for the new season of the Premier League!

It's just that although Chelsea players created a lot of offensive opportunities today, under Hull City's iron barrel formation, there are not many dangerous offensive opportunities!

Especially in the penalty area, Drogba and Anelka are really hard to beat with two fists and four hands in the face of the retreat of several Hull City players. Drogba can forcefully grab a landing point and complete the fight. The door is already a manifestation of his own strength. Anelka on the other side really doesn't have too many opportunities under the support and defense of the two!

Facing the opponent's iron barrel formation, of course, Chelsea will continue to use the players' ability to hit the goal from a long distance. Otherwise, how Lampard scored goals in Chelsea? When forming a formation, one is to rely on long-range shots, and the other is to create opportunities for set kicks!

As for long-range shots, a capable long-range shooter like Lampard naturally has plenty of chances to hit the goal! Has unlimited firepower!

However, the Hull City team with a traditional British style has countless people in the penalty area. Not only can they rely on their strong body, but also their height advantage to strangle Drogba and Anelka in the penalty area. , and because of the width of the cross-sectional area of ​​the body, Hull City, which is fully defensive, obviously has a wider wall in front of the penalty area than other teams!

Lampard and Ballack's several long-range shots were blocked by the opponent's body before they threatened the goalkeeper of Hull City!

Without too many opportunities, Chelsea can only organize the offense patiently, continue to shoot long shots, and use corner kicks, free kicks and other set-piece opportunities to find opportunities to get a good shot!

However, on the field, the most indispensable thing is accidents. The charm of football is that you never know what will happen in the game. The weak teams and the games that overthrow the giants will happen every season. !

In the first half, Hull City was indeed in a passive state of being beaten, and even being beaten did not even have a decent chance to counterattack!

Hull City managed to complete the defense a few times, but Yang Feng, who wanted to push the long pass to counterattack, was left behind by Chelsea. He saw the pass route in advance and successfully intercepted it. Several players tried to participate in the counterattack and were unable to return in time, which almost caused Chelsea's chance to score!

But there are not many offensive opportunities, which does not mean that the team will definitely not be able to get a good chance to score!

In any case, it is also a team in the Premier League that can complete the great cause of relegation, and Hull City itself is still a team with distinctive characteristics!

After several counterattacks with long passes, all of which were successfully resolved by Yang Feng at the first time, the players of Hull City began to consciously avoid the area where Yang Feng was standing when counterattacking!

Even if there is an empty space, they will start to choose the ground through ball with faster ball speed instead of making long passes with no return!

In the 27th minute of the game, Chelsea's offense once again failed to achieve results!

Although Ballack's long-range shot successfully crossed Hull City's defense line this time and hit the goal frame, but because the goal was too far away, the goalkeeper was left with enough time to prepare. Hull City's Welsh goalkeeper Mai Hill directly into the arms!

Without any delay, Mai Hill directly threw the ball with one hand, allowing Hull City to counterattack with the fastest speed!

Although Chelsea's defense retreated quickly, Bosingwa's offensive range on the right side of Chelsea was still too large, leaving enough room for Hull City to push back!

This time, the Hull City players did not choose to make a long pass directly to the dangerous area near the penalty area. The previous passes to the dangerous area were all successfully cleared by Yang Feng. This time, Hull City began to patiently Hit the open space on the left!

In the new season, Hull City spent millions of euros to buy winger Bernand Mendy, who quickly advanced on the left!

The physical fitness and speed of the black winger are very good. Mendy directly and quickly advanced on the left flank. Bosingwa, who was barely in place on Chelsea's side, rushed forward to give him a physical confrontation at the first time. Great effect!

However, Mendy is on this side. After receiving a pass from his teammates, facing Bosingwa's defense, his ability to dribble and break through is not so strong. He obviously hadn't practiced well yet, he dribbled the ball all the way, and stumbled a little under Bosingwa's defense. Yang Feng was going to come over to help defend at first, but in the end, he still defended in his own area with peace of mind!

Although Mendy's dribbling was not so smooth, he used his body to barely bring the ball near the bottom line. Finally, he wanted to take a step, leaned on Bosingwa, and forcibly completed the pass, but was blocked by Bosingwa. Watt saw through it directly and took advantage of Mendy's movement space. Bosingwa took a step forward and stretched his legs to complete the destruction of the ball. Although Bosingwa's first choice is of course to directly complete the steal, but Mendy's reaction is still fast. , under the influence of Mendy, Bosingwa had to forcibly increase his strength, and directly poked the ball out of the baseline, Hull City's corner kick!

Yang Feng stood in the small penalty area, closely guarding the opponent's traditional England high school defender Michael. Watching Hull City's tall and burly players squeeze into the penalty area, they kept a high concentration on the set-piece defense in this game!

In today's football world, where the general direction of world football is beginning to be biased towards the flow of technology, Chelsea's masters are already very clumsy in the strong duel, but like Hull City, they insist on the traditional British "roughness" Compared with the team with a different style, the Chelsea players are obviously a little "skinny" in the intuitive comparison!

"Hull midfielder Dean takes the corner!"

The corner kick was taken, and inside Chelsea's penalty area, the confrontation between the two sides became more intense. Regardless of whether the ball can reach your own position, there is absolutely nothing wrong with grabbing a favorable position first.

As for Yang Feng, after the scientific weight gain plan for the whole season before Chelsea, his physical confrontation has been significantly enhanced. Although he can't complete the crushing of the opponent's high school defender in physical confrontation, but with his own ability to judge the landing point, Yang Feng, who can take the lead in grabbing a good position, has a much higher overall success rate than Michael, who is defending himself!

However, Yang Feng was doomed to divert his defensive attention to prevent Hull City's other players from hitting the second spot. Dean's corner kick flew towards the back point. The area is not within Yang Feng's defensive range!

This area, guarded by Essien and others, shouldn't be a big problem!

but……

"Hunter! Hull City's midfielder Hunter made a header from behind!"

"Overwhelm Essien and successfully shake his head to attack the goal!"

"For this ball, Cech jumped high and completed a side attack!"

"GOAL!!!"

"The goal is in! The goal is in! Although Cech touched the football with his palm, Hunter's header was so powerful that the ball still flew into the goal! The first Premier League goal of this season was actually by Cech. Ercheng took the lead in creating it!"

"In the 29th minute of the game, Hunter, in the corner kick tactics, suddenly advanced from outside the penalty area and took off to complete the header. Hull City took the lead and created the first Premier League goal of the season!"

No one expected that Hull City took the lead with their first corner kick and first shot!

Chelsea hit the goal 11 times before, but got nothing, but was hit by Hull City!

Facing the backward situation, Ancelotti did not panic on the sidelines. After all, the game time is still long enough, Chelsea is still at home, Ancelotti believes in the strength of his team, and the Stamford Bridge fans are also there The team was given enough support at the first time, and the neat cheers on the scene sounded, which can be regarded as gathering the team's mind and cheering for the team!

There is no time for regrets, and there is no need to deliberately complain. The Chelsea team immediately returned to the offensive state. Chelsea is no better than before. In order to win, they must score at least two goals. The oppressive feeling of the Chelsea players It began to increase, and the attack rhythm became faster and faster!

There are still so many people in the defense line of Hull City, but the physical strength of the players is also huge. After all, dragging such a heavy body and participating in the defense, the players themselves are not flexible enough. As time goes by, Hull The movement of the city defense line became slower and slower!

Chelsea seized the opportunity and began to frequently pass the ball in the frontcourt, advance in a timely manner, pass through, and began to use it!

In the 39th minute of the game, Lampard was in front of the penalty area, and after a series of passes by the Chelsea team, he suddenly made a pass into the penalty area after receiving the ball!

Drogba's running without the ball happened to be in the pass area. Using his explosive power, Drogba successfully occupied a favorable running and receiving position, and used his body to keep up with his Hull City defender. Michael blocked behind him directly. In order to avoid other nearby Hull City players coming over in time, Drogba did not stop the ball and tried a volley with his left foot!

"GOAL!!!"

"Drogba, left-footed volley, equalizer for Chelsea!"

Before the first half of the game was over, Chelsea had successfully equalized the score and regained the absolute initiative on the field!

In the second half, the physical fitness of the Hull City players declined significantly, and they could no longer support the tight enough defensive strength of the back line!

On Chelsea's side, Ancelotti replaced the defensive Essien with Deco, and Malouda, who was mediocre on the left, with Zhirkov. The flexible Kalou replaced Anelka.

Chelsea's offense became more aggressive after 60 minutes of the game, and the offensive changes began to increase, which put great pressure on Hull City!

As for Hull City's counterattack, in the second half, due to the obviously improved defensive attention of the Chelsea players, they got very few opportunities, and there was no chance to threaten Chelsea's defense line in the penalty area!

In the 76th minute of the game, Deco's long pass diverted the ball, and the return pass from the left was directly and accurately transferred to Bosingwa who was plugging in on the weak side on the right!

And Bosingwa's 45-degree cross went directly to the front point of the penalty area. Drogba rushed to the position in time, shook his head from the front point, and directly pushed the ball into the net!

"Chelsea, in the 76th minute of the game, completed the lead!"

"It's Drogba again, this time he grabbed the spot in the front position, directly scored with a header, and scored twice..."

Hull City, which was behind, did want to try to fight to the death in the following games, but apart from the long-range shots with two feet that were not too threatening, they did not pose too much threat to Chelsea's solid defense at all!

Several forced crosses from the wing were also directly cleared by Yang Feng and Terry in the penalty area, which did not give Hull City a chance to win points!

On the contrary, Chelsea's counterattack was impressive, and Drogba almost had a chance to score a hat-trick. It was just a shot at the last moment, which was bravely saved by the goalkeeper!

In the end, Chelsea relied on 70% of the ball possession rate, 37 kicks, 9 shots on goal, and two goals. With a score of 2 to 1, Chelsea successfully reaped a good start to the new season of the Premier League!