Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

After taking the lead, Manchester City began to restrain their minions and slow down the pace of attack. Although they could continue to attack, Yang Luo chose to let them deal with the game in the most economical and effective way. Chelsea had to start pressing the attack, hoping to quickly equalize the score. However, Manchester City strictly guarded Chelsea's two flanks, causing Drogba to often fall into a situation of fighting alone. Although Drogba is now in his absolute peak, he is far from a prolific shooter at this time, so after competing for the first point, his success rate of working alone is not high. The guiding ideology of Yang Luo and Tuchel is to limit the support of others to Drogba and cut Chelsea's attack. So in the following time, Drogba got a lot of single-handed opportunities, but the effect was not good.

Manchester City seized every possible opportunity to quickly counterattack!

In the 31st minute, Chelsea made a long pass from the backcourt, and Drogba barely won the first point, but then he was intercepted by Kompany under the defense of Distin.

The Belgian central defender did not hesitate and directly passed the ball to Maicon on the right.

Duff wanted to interfere, but Maicon started to accelerate and used his body to carry the Irishman away.

In the strong dialogue, Maicon's forward insertion from the backcourt is also Manchester City's usual way of advancement. After he came to the midfield, it was equivalent to Manchester City's offense with one more person.

Joe Cole had to follow up and prepare to interfere with him.

But Maicon directly handed the ball to Ronaldinho who was retreating, and made a two-on-one cooperation with him!

Very easily, Maicon shook off Joe Cole and rushed to Chelsea's frontcourt.

At this time, Tymoshchuk had to defend Ronaldinho, so he couldn't go forward to interfere, which resulted in no obstruction in front of Maicon!

He took a few more steps and entered the 30-meter area directly!

You know, Maicon has the ability to shoot from a distance here!

Terry had no choice but to step forward and prepare to block Maicon's shot.

But Maicon suddenly smiled and passed the ball into Chelsea's penalty area.

At the same time, he accelerated suddenly and moved forward from Terry's side to the penalty area!

Torres in the penalty area leaned on Ricardo Carvalho and received the ball.

At this time, Torres had two means, one was to lean on the defensive player to force the ball to turn around and shoot, and the other was to pass the ball to Maicon who moved forward into the penalty area.

But Terry had already discovered this pass route. Although he was half a body slower than Maicon after turning around, he was always ready to use a tackle to disrupt this pass!

However, Mourinho on the sidelines discovered a third means.

That is to pass the ball back to Robben who cuts in horizontally, so that he can complete the shot!

He was anxious and shouted loudly: "Gallas!"

But the noise in the stadium made his shouting not reach the ears of the players!

Seeing that Robben had cut in near the penalty area, Torres could complete a very good cut-in shot with just one pass.

But Torres suddenly made a fourth choice.

He gently knocked the ball with his heel.

The Portuguese winger who came in from the left rushed over, and he gently led the ball into the penalty area!

Because of his speed, Paulo Ferreira was left behind by him!

With just one step, Cudicini was left in front of him!

Facing the goalkeeper's tight defense, Ronaldo suddenly chose to volley!

The football went straight to the far corner!

Cudicini subconsciously blocked it with his foot, but did not touch the football!

The football hit the inside of the post and bounced into the goal!

2-0!

Manchester City has expanded its lead!

Hurry!

The stadium was filled with cheers again.

The advantage of two goals is already very large, and Manchester City fans have seen victory in sight!

Yang Luo shouted excitedly.

This goal is perfect in his mind!

No matter which player handled the ball, he could not find any flaws at all!

Lineker couldn't help but admire: "What a beautiful teamwork goal! From Maicon's holding the ball to the two-pass cooperation, to Torres's pass after entering the penalty area, the whole process was smooth! In my opinion, this is the best goal of this round!"

Alan Hansen said: "Indeed, this goal can be scored full marks from the speed of advancement to the tacit understanding of cooperation. I can't help but praise it more.

Watch this goal several times! "

Mourinho on the sidelines closed his eyes in disappointment.

This goal was not controversial, but it also made Chelsea's situation in this game more difficult.

He stared at the direction of the Manchester City players, but he did not look at Ronaldo who scored the goal, but at Maicon.

The Brazilian right-back's dribbling breakthrough really made him shine.

As a full-back, his ability to initiate this attack is really admirable.

In comparison, his two full-backs are really a bit weak!

He showed an envious look in his eyes.

After the celebration, The game restarted.

Chelsea had no other choice but to continue their attack.

In the 39th minute, Joe Cole passed the ball to the left.

After Duff received the ball, Maicon quickly followed him.

The Brazilian full-back had just gotten rid of Duff's defense and scored a goal, so the Irishman was eager to get back on him.

So he did not continue to seek cooperation with his teammates, but prepared to force his opponent!

He first pushed the ball to the bottom line, and then pretended to accelerate.

But Maicon did not take the sway.

Duff simply took advantage of the situation and started to speed up towards the baseline!

He wanted to see if the Brazilian was faster than him.

Maicon immediately stood up and started to speed up, ready to keep up with him.

His speed was not much slower than Duff!

Duff saw that he couldn't force it, so he suddenly stopped, and then prepared to speed up again, using his own rhythm to shake off his defense!

But just as Duff was about to continue to push off the ground to speed up, he suddenly felt a spasm on the back of his thigh, and the whole person stopped involuntarily.

At this moment, he felt that his right leg could no longer exert force!

Muscle strain!

His heart sank, as if he already knew his situation.

Maicon took the opportunity to steal the ball. He was about to launch a counterattack, but when he saw Duff's situation, he decisively chose to kick the ball out of the sideline.

Mourinho's face on the sidelines was completely gloomy.

He knew that Duff seemed to be injured.

This is undoubtedly very unfavorable for Chelsea.

As Chelsea's wing sharp knife, Duff plays an irreplaceable role in Chelsea's offensive system.

Now that they are two goals behind, Duff's injury has almost become the last straw that overwhelms Chelsea!