Football’s First Defender

After successfully winning four consecutive league victories, the Chelsea team returned to London to prepare for the first UEFA Champions League game of the new season, the UEFA Champions League group match against Portuguese giants Porto at home.

Since winning the Champions League under the leadership of Mourinho that year, Porto, the Portuguese Super League team, has gone on the road of "black shop" forever.

The three major players in the Portuguese Super League, Porto, Benfica, and Sporting Lisbon, have all started to focus on youth training and carry out player training.

Thanks to the convenience of obtaining Portuguese nationality, many South American players were poached by a group of Portuguese clubs at a very young age for youth training and nationality.

When European leagues generally had restrictions on the number of non-European players, many South American players applied for their second nationality as Portugal after playing in Portugal for several years, and entered the five major league platforms as European players.

It is under such circumstances that the Portuguese Super League competition has become the most famous youth training base in Europe, and even the entire grape has formed a whole pyramid-like league system.

The top three of the Portuguese Super League rank at the top of the league. There are a large number of "youth training demons" in the youth training system waiting for the opportunity to play. The team is also interspersed with some capable and experienced veterans. They can make a lot of money by selling people, but the team's record is not too bad. At least a team like Porto, as long as they don't sell people too hard, will qualify for the Champions League in the Portuguese Super League , Even divided into a good group, work hard, might not be able to enter the knockout round of the Champions League.

Under the top three of the Portuguese Super League, there are all living beings in the Portuguese Super League. Even other middle and upper reaches of the Portuguese Super League. There are just over a dozen fixed roster players, and for the obviously wealthy top three of the Portuguese Super League, the redundant youth training players will be directly loaned to teams of the corresponding level in the Portuguese Super League according to their talent. For the three giants of the Portuguese Super League, the number of players on loan will be determined based on the relationship between the clubs.

This means that in the championship competition of the Portuguese Super League, Porto and Benfica occupy a more favorable position among the three giants, because these two clubs have more players in their youth training systems and can influence more teams. However, Sporting Lisbon, when encountering most Portuguese Super League teams, does not have much enthusiasm, but can only rely on their own strength to fight recklessly.

Usually, the middle and upper reaches of the team's target is very obvious. For teams like Guimarães and Braga, which are in the second tier all the year round, the toughness of the season is very obvious. For the two giants, one point is worth one point. In the end, the competition for the championship of the Portuguese Super League may be produced within the stalled points.

After all, football is played by people, and sometimes emotional factors still play a big role. For example, players who are full of Porto's brand, even if they are transferred or loaned to other Portuguese Super League teams, will naturally show mercy when facing Porto. And facing a rival team like Benfica is naturally like playing chicken blood.

For the same reason, refer to the internal struggle of the Western Super League. Many teams will choose different fighting methods when facing specific opponents.

Just like the team that Wu Sanshi joined, when they met Real Madrid, it was a posture of giving points, but when facing Barcelona, ​​it was playing hard and ruthless.

In the Portuguese Super League, the Porto team, which is not under too much pressure, carried out a decisive rotation in the last round of the league, fully preparing for this group match with Chelsea.

This season's Champions League grouping, Chelsea drew the upper lottery, and among the teams assigned to Group D, there is no team that can pose a threat to Chelsea.

The Cyprus team Atletico Greek is recognized as a point-giving boy, while Porto and Atletico Madrid are not on the same level for Chelsea in terms of team strength.

As long as Chelsea plays steadily, the first place in the group is basically in hand.

In terms of the current strength comparison, Atletico Madrid is not too strong at this time after years of blood loss. At least according to UEFA's official predictions before the game, Porto's lineup strength should still be slightly stronger than Ma. Competition.

Therefore, Chelsea's home game against Porto can also be regarded as a direct confrontation between the two teams competing for the first place in the group.

Regarding this game, Ancelotti did not dare to neglect in the slightest, and continued to play hard on the team's main force, Chelsea's main 442 lineup started.

The defense is still a stable combination, and the right back will start this game with Bosingwa.

In midfield, Essien's midfielder, attacking trio, Lampard, Ballack, Malouda.

The double striker is still Drogba partner Anelka.

Chelsea, who played in the main lineup, still has the advantage on the court when facing Porto's iron barrel formation in the away game. However, as a very talented Porto, although the players may not necessarily knead because of changes every season Together, but the overall athletic ability is not a big problem.

In Yang Feng's eyes, although Porto's striker had shrunk back to participate in the defense at this time, looking at the two generals of the opponent's striker, Yang Feng did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Falcao and Hulk, although they are still young and are in the stage of training in Portugal, but in terms of the prestige of these two in football in the future, it is worthwhile for Yang Feng to use the greatest defensive attitude to deal with it. The possible counterattack of the two, and Porto's rare offensive round.

However, when Chelsea's offensive players faced the Porto defense line composed of Guarin and Medelez, they didn't have much to do for a while. Both sides played very restrained during the game.

In the boring first half of the game, both teams did not create too many game opportunities. Porto completed the defensive tasks set before the game, while Chelsea's side needs to consider how the team's offense can be more effective.

In fact, although Chelsea's offense is not too sharp, it is not as useless as the performance in the first half. It is really the physical fitness of the players in the new season. There have been some problems due to successive battles. I just dared to change a few positions. In most positions, I still chose to continue to use the main players to ensure that the team's tactical position is more optimal.

In the second half of the game, amidst the cheers of the audience, the performance of the Chelsea players picked up. The crosshairs of the wide players inserted and uploaded were also found. Lampard and Ballack in the middle, the threat of long shots also began to increase. Great, everything is turning in a favorable direction for Chelsea.

Of course, the tempo of Chelsea's offense has accelerated. While creating an offensive threat, it also gave Porto a lot of opportunities to counterattack after a successful defense. Although the players have good strength, but facing Chelsea's tight defense, without too much cooperation, they are not too much of a threat.

As Chelsea's pursuit of threat on the offensive end gave Porto more chances to counterattack, Yang Feng's side began to get busy in the second half.

It's just that Yang Feng guarded the back of Chelsea's defense line. Under Porto's direct counter-pass, he directly completed most of the clearance balls on the court based on his own judgment ability, and a few of them could not be controlled. The other players of Chelsea have basically completed their own work.

Porto's counterattack finally fell into place, and the chances of actually posing a threat are actually not many.

That is, Falcao, after receiving a ground pass from the side, under the defense of Yang Feng, using his own movement frequency, opened up a goal space outside the penalty area, and directly chose to shoot, but this An outspin ball was saved by Petr Cech before it flew into the goal.

Chelsea's offense finally blossomed in the 69th minute of the game.

Ashley Cole and Malouda on the left put on at the same time, coupled with the timely forward pressure of Chelsea's central players, put a lot of pressure on Porto's defense, and this time on the left, Malouda attracted enough After his defensive attention, Ashley Cole went straight to the bottom, and after receiving the ball from Malouda, he kicked the ball directly from the wing and made a pass.

In the penalty area, Drogba is at the penalty spot, directly inserting diagonally forward into the area in front of the goal, overwhelming the defenders, and directly completing the head-shaking attack.

The ball flew to the back point, the Porto goalkeeper was caught off guard, and Chelsea scored the first goal of the game!

Drogba has carried out his good form as always, scoring consecutive goals in various competitions at the beginning of the season.

After sticking to most of the game, Chelsea still scored a goal first. In the last 20 minutes of the game, Porto could only constantly deploy troops to try to increase the number of offensive players to try to equalize the score.

And Ancelotti directly removed Anelka and Ballack, and replaced Alex and Mikel!

With five defenders and double defensive midfielders, Chelsea's face of "slave division" made Porto's final attack not have much effect.

1 to 0, Chelsea won the first Champions League victory this season, and continued to maintain their winning streak in the new season!