Football’s First Defender

Chelsea's offensive was like a tide, wave after wave, and the offensive rhythm was extremely fast, which did not give Inter Milan's defenders a chance to breathe.

Regarding the defensive positions of the Inter Milan players, Chelsea's players on the field are currently implementing a very simple offensive plan. It is to take advantage of Inter Milan's weak defensive ability in the center and front field. Dribbled the ball across the half court, and before Inter Milan's wing defenders stepped up to form an effective defense, Chelsea's wingers completed the ball after half court, using Kalou and Anelka to move laterally to the center, forming a number of players advantage, and further attack in the middle.

And Inter Milan's defense, after several attacks like Chelsea's, has also accelerated the speed of defensive changes and strengthened the defense of weak side defenders in the middle. However, this depends on the defensive attitude and state of the individual players. Players use running to carry out more active defense, and the resulting defensive effect is destined to be a temporary solution rather than a permanent cure.

Malouda passed the ball from the left to the center, although because of Inter Milan's shrinking defense in an instant, the center did not have a good chance to attack at the first time.

But Drogba, who received the ball, did not forcefully use his personal ability to attack. Instead, he chose to return the ball to Ballack who was behind him in the middle circle to reorganize the offensive.

Ivan received Ballack's fast transfer ball on the right. After a simple and quick pass, the ball was transferred from the left side of the strong side to the right side of the weak side. Naturally, Inter Milan's defensive strength has not fully recovered for a while. Anti in place.

Ivan made a through pass to Anelka in front of him.

After Anelka's excellent back-up stop, facing Zanetti's defense, he did not choose to force a breakthrough on the side, but directly moved the ball laterally to look for opportunities in the middle.

The moment Anelka dribbled the ball to move laterally, Lampard in the middle quickly inserted diagonally to the right from the middle area, and ran directly to the back of Zanetti, taking advantage of Zanetti's return to defense. Pad, Motta changed positions to defend the vacancy that Anelka was not in time. Anelka changed his previous method of slowly dribbling the ball laterally to find opportunities, but directly used explosive power to speed up, and began to dribble diagonally to the left. The ball looks for opportunities.

Motta's first step up to grab the defense was not timely, and Anelka's sudden acceleration gave him the advantage of his position.

Anelka's advance in the 30-meter area in the middle, of course, cannot be ignored. Cambiasso immediately stepped up to block, and the other players of Inter Milan, in order to make up for the defensive space left by Cambiasso, Chelsea pressed forward. There are too many offensive players, so they can only choose to give up the defense of the two sides, retract all of them into the penalty area, give up the defense of the sideways, and temporarily organize the defense line in the penalty area.

Both Maicon and Zanetti were defenders who chose to give up the wing for an instant, retreated into the penalty area, and gave priority to solving Chelsea's offensive threat from the center this time.

Overall Inter Milan's defense, except for Cambiasso who grabbed Anelka, everyone else stepped back slightly to keep the team's tight defense in the middle.

Anelka also knew that he could not take too much advantage under Cambiasso's defense. Before Commander Cam was in place, Anelka directly crossed the ball and handed the ball to the left side. Kalu in the middle.

Next to Kalu, Stankovic, who is responsible for defending him in the middle area, is facing a formidable enemy. He must be careful of Kalu's direct long-range shots and prevent Kalu from directly breaking through.

Stankovic has been bowing his waist, staring at Kalu's foot movements, not wanting to give Kalu a chance to show his strength again.

However, when Kalu saw the other line of defense formed by Inter Milan behind Stankovic, he no longer had the idea of ​​​​trying to break through.

Leaving a large enough space, he directly passed the ball diagonally and passed the ball to the space.

Ballack, who came in from the back, received Kalou's wonderful pass very comfortably, and then directly hit the goal with a long shot.

Ballack hit the goal with excellent force and the ball was extremely fast. Although the Inter Milan players in the penalty area wanted to block the ball with their lives, their forward speed was too slow and they did not catch up to the flight path of the ball.

At the critical moment, Cesar still needs to play. The Brazilian goalkeeper made a side attack and put his hands together, barely blocking the long shot.

Cesar's save this time, he could only choose to block the ball, but he couldn't completely control it at all. Facing the second landing of the ball, Lampard and Ivan both rushed forward quickly, competing for the second landing point .

And Zanetti, who was closest to the ball, did not dare to play with fire in the penalty area at this time. He tried to stop the ball and then pass the ball to find his teammates. The first time he followed the ball's trajectory and kicked the ball directly out of the boundary. outside.

For the boundary ball on the right, Chelsea let Ivan personally execute the "grenade" tactic.

Ivan left enough room for himself to run up. After "younging" his body through the run-up, he took the last step and stood firmly outside the boundary. With both arms exerting strength, he threw the ball fiercely towards the international team following the inertia of his body. Milan's restricted area.

This time Ivanovic's "grenade" tactic was executed very well. The "grenade" landed very accurately and threw the ball directly near the penalty spot. Drogba was near the penalty spot to seize his position.

Samuel's top defense alone still couldn't limit Drogba's performance. When the ball was falling, Drogba suddenly made a force behind his back and pushed Samuel back one step, and he completely got the ball. Space to catch the ball.

Drogba also knows that within Inter Milan's penalty area, although he temporarily gains a physical advantage, Inter Milan's defensive players will soon swarm up and surround him.

So Drogba didn't make any extra moves, and didn't dare to waste a little attacking time. He directly stopped the ball with his chest, and while unloading the ball, he completed a half-turn on the spot, volleyed sideways with his left foot!

Drogba hit the goal extremely quickly and smoothly. Samuel stepped forward again, and the other defensive players made a counter-attack. Before it was in place, the shot was already shot.

Inter Milan's goalkeeper, Cesar, was also ill-prepared for Drogba's sudden kick, did not respond, and did not make any saves.

It's just that, almost on the spot, making such a complicated shooting action, although Drogba has already controlled all aspects very well, but in the direction of the shot, because the turn is not complete enough, it is slightly off, about After a third of the goal, this kick still did not equalize the score for Chelsea.

After filming Drogba's remorseful performance, the camera immediately switched to the sidelines. Mourinho was also yelling at the players in the sideline area, and he was throwing the ball in his hand, which should be a warning Players, we must pay attention to Ivan's "grenade" tactics. With that ball just now, Drogba got the chance to kick in the penalty area too easily.

Chelsea is currently on the scene and is not scoring. Up to now in the first half, Chelsea players are stronger than Inter Milan in terms of physical confrontation and running ability, and they have also created many threatening goal opportunities, but luck is Without standing on Chelsea's side, Chelsea's offense is the layer of window paper that cannot pierce the goal.