Red Rebels

After the team's first victory over Manchester City, Mourinho did not give the team a holiday because throughout August, the schedule was very tightly arranged, especially when they had to face powerful opponents one after another, including Manchester City. , Chelsea, and Birmingham teams, and there is also a European Super Cup with Liverpool.

It is precisely because of the tight schedule that Mourinho used a rare few days of relaxation after playing Manchester City to work hard to adjust the players' condition so that they can better face the challenge of Portsmouth.

This is a team that has performed relatively stably after being promoted to the Premier League. There is no danger of relegation, but there are no big surprises. In the first two seasons, it was always around 15th, and there was not much in terms of signings. The action is not very impressive.

In the first round at home, Portsmouth lost to Tottenham 0:2. This did not surprise anyone, because this team has never been the kind of team that can create surprises. I believe this game will be the same. in this way.

Although the opponent is not strong and the game is at home, Mourinho still paid enough attention and arranged the usual 4231 lineup. The goalkeeper is Cech, and the defense is Evra, Terry, and Curtis. With Maicon, the double defensive midfielders are Fabregas and Essien, the attacking midfielder is Kaka, the two wingers are Ronaldinho and Messi, and the center is Drogba.

Although Beckham has resumed normal training before the game and is considered likely to appear in the starting lineup, judging from Mourinho's formation, he still does not want to be too anxious to use Beckham. Although he was only slightly injured, he was already 30 years old, no more than a young person.

There is no big problem in winning Portsmouth. Keep Beckham waiting for Chelsea and let Cesc Fabregas take the lead and get some training. In the final analysis, no matter how much you watch on the sidelines and how much you teach in training, it will not matter. It's not as realistic as playing a fierce game in the Premier League with real swords and guns.

After two poor performances in two games, Fabregas was still entrusted with important tasks by Mourinho. This made the Spanish teenager grateful. He was very active in the game, running and supporting very actively. Although after the opening There were a few mistakes, but as he gradually entered the game state, the Spanish youngster quickly showed his strength.

In the 17th minute, after Fabregas successfully intercepted the ball after retreating, he found Drogba with a long pass. The latter overwhelmed the defender and knocked the ball to Kaka. Kaka, who performed well in the first round, did not hesitate. Delivered the ball to a key position.

The ball seemed to have eyes, passing between Portsmouth's center back and full-back. Messi and Ronaldinho were like two sharp bolts of lightning, piercing Portsmouth's defense.

Messi caught the ball on the left side of the penalty area, and gently made a curved pass. Ronaldinho appeared in the back and jumped into the top of the goal, blasting the ball into the goal, 1:0!

The entire stadium immediately turned into a sea of ​​joy, and the fans shouted at the top of their lungs to cheer for the team.

After taking the lead, the momentum became stronger. First, in the 24th minute, Drogba succeeded in counter-stealing the ball in the frontcourt. Kaka was sentenced to a foul for dribbling the ball. This is an area about 30 meters away from the goal. Ronaldinho has his duty to stand. At the penalty spot, he used his hard-practiced falling leaf ball to hit the ball into the Portsmouth gate again, 2:0!

Ronaldinho, who scored twice, seemed extremely excited. He was not only on the left, but also frequently switched positions with Messi and Kaká. Coupled with Drogba, who had excellent support skills, the four of them almost defeated Portsmouth. The defense line was completely turned into a pot of gruel.

In the 41st minute, another victory came when Cesc Fabregas passed a scalpel-like through ball from the middle. Messi successfully countered offside and then entered the penalty area. After passing the goalkeeper, he pushed the ball into the empty goal and succeeded, 3:0!

After the half-time break, the two sides changed sides and fought again, still firmly controlling the situation on the field. Portsmouth made adjustments and stayed in their own half. At first, there were several counterattacks that seemed to be similar. Later, when I saw that the counterattack didn't work, I simply skipped the counterattack and focused on defending.

Encountered a stubborn team,

They couldn't come up with many solutions. They could only frequently pass the ball through the two wings and use Drogba in the middle to create threats. However, Portsmouth also knew the power of Drogba and focused on taking care of Warcraft. But Drogba still worked hard to get several opportunities.

In the 63rd minute of the second half, Messi switched to the left and Evra moved forward. After the two played one-on-one, the French left back made a pass and Drogba scored with a header from the center, 4:0!

Three minutes later, they made a comeback again. Messi's cross from the right was too wide and was headered by Portsmouth's centre-back. After stopping the ball on his chest, Kaka passed an opponent's defensive player and volleyed , hitting a world wave.

Portsmouth's goalkeeper didn't even have time to react and saw the ball hit the net, 5:0!

Afterwards, Portsmouth made adjustments, and Mourinho also prepared for the away game against Chelsea three days later. He replaced Kaka with Aguero, Ismail replaced Drogba, and Mikel. Replaced Essien.

After continuous substitutions, although he grasped the situation on the field and created several good opportunities, he failed to score again, and the final score was locked at 5:0!

In two rounds of league games, they scored 9 goals and conceded zero goals. This immediately made Manchester United the team with the highest claim to win the Premier League this season. Especially in another game held at the same time, Manchester United relied on Ruud van Nistelrooy's only one Scored a goal and defeated Aston Villa with difficulty at home 1:0. Although the Red Devils played at home, they were forced by Aston Villa.

The next day, Chelsea defeated the visiting Arsenal 1:0 with a goal from Shevchenko who returned from injury. After Vieira left the team, Arsenal's midfield control plummeted. In this game They were even beaten by Chelsea. Fortunately, the center back combination of Hangeland and Gallas performed well, and Almunia played bravely. This ensured that Arsenal would not concede more goals.

Manchester City, which had just experienced a disastrous defeat in the first round, faced Birmingham, a famous rival in the Premier League, in the second round. Steve Bruce's team has always been a headache. Although there are currently rumors of being acquired by Birmingham, Playing at home, they still caused a lot of trouble for Manchester City.

With Van der Vaart scoring the first goal, Birmingham fought hard to get back the score, and then overpowered Manchester City for a time. One of the goals was called offside, and Van Gaal's team went through the difficult 45 in the second half. Minutes later, in stoppage time, Kolo Toure scored the winning goal with a header from Sneijder's free kick.

Unlike several other competitors who struggled to win, Liverpool, which surprised everyone in the first round, once again won a hearty victory in the second round. Although Benitez was still worried about the arrival of Kuyt, Aimar and Ahmet The central axis formed by Ronso made Liverpool crazy.

A 7-0 victory over Black Cat Sunderland. Owen scored a hat-trick and led the scorer list. Gerrard scored twice. Cisse and Hyypia scored one goal each. A shocking massacre was staged at Anfield. .

With two consecutive [***] wins, Liverpool is in the limelight of the Premier League, especially the pressing style of play tailor-made by Benitez for Liverpool. The defense line presses forward and behind, and Owen, Cisse and Gerrard are all more powerful. Close to the opponent's goal, coupled with Aimar's passing and command behind him, and then Xavi Alonso's coordination and organization.

All this makes Liverpool look full of firepower, scoring 13 goals in two rounds. This has broken the Premier League's opening record. At the same time, it also makes people look forward to it. What kind of amazing strength will the well-established Red Army burst out?

………….Everyone attaches great importance to Liverpool, especially after two rounds of league games. Liverpool has shown such amazing strength, which is absolutely surprising.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, he had an impression of coach Benitez. He should be regarded as a very stubborn idealist. His tactical literacy can definitely be said to be the richest among all coaches in today's football, but he He failed to reach his peak at Liverpool, and also encountered Waterloo at Inter Milan. The reason is simple: he is very stubborn.

Benitez has always advocated a pressing style of play, which has been the case since he was in Valencia. After coming to Liverpool, he also did the same, so he bought Alonso in order to hope that Alonso and Jayson Ladd formed a double midfielder to help Liverpool's defense press forward, but the results showed that Gerrard was not Alonso's best partner.

In addition to the lack of midfielders, Liverpool also lacks a frontcourt commander in the front midfielder position who can take the ball, make plays, deliver cannonballs to teammates, and direct their teammates' offense. Therefore, Benitez did not play well in the winter of last season. Aimar was introduced during the break.

This can be said to be the biggest difference between Benitez and Xiao Yu in his previous life.

Don't underestimate Aimar. If he went to another team and under another head coach, he might be abandoned like a loser, but under Benitez, he almost worked for Benitez. He was tailor-made in general, so as soon as he came to Liverpool, he immediately became the core of Liverpool's offense.

With Aimar in front and Alonso in the back, Benitez's tactics had a central axis, so he used Owen as the left midfielder and Gerrard as the right midfielder, but they always wandered around the holes in the opponent's defense. The location is not fixed.

As for Sissoko, this defensive midfielder who is hailed by Benitez as the new Vieira is full of physical strength. Although his skills are a bit rough, it doesn't matter, as long as he can protect Alonso well and become a defensive line The front sweeper will do the trick.

As a result, Liverpool's tactics finally took shape, and Benitez's tactics began to show their power.

The performance in the pre-season warm-up match was poor. That was because Benitez was still adjusting and running in. When it came to the official game, his team immediately used its most powerful weapon. The pressing style brought by the forward pressure of the defense made Mi Both Dellsbrough and Sunderland felt very uncomfortable and were quickly stunned by several blows from Liverpool, which turned into two big wins.

The first confrontation with Liverpool in the new season was in the European Super Cup, but Mourinho had to make a choice in this game, because before that, he had to deal with Chelsea, and after that, he had to face Birmingham, two games. They are all tough battles. Mourinho also hopes to win the European Super Cup, but he will not give everything he has.

But this Super Cup is a good opportunity to take a closer look at Liverpool.

……………After playing Portsmouth, we headed south to London non-stop to challenge Chelsea, who are not doing well in recent times, away from home.

Ancelotti's team has won two rounds of league games since the new season, but its performance is not convincing. If the 1:0 at home against Arsenal is acceptable, then it was forced by Droylsden. The score was 0:1, which was indeed a bit disappointing, but in any case, we won in the end.

Ancelotti also attaches great importance to the third round home game, because before Liverpool broke out, he always regarded it as the biggest obstacle to winning the Premier League this season. Therefore, Ancelotti did not allow his team to make mistakes in the home game. .

Both sides are determined to score, and they have also arranged their main lineups to play. Mourinho even put Beckham in the starting lineup, partnering with Essien as a double midfielder, while Ancelotti once again asked Ballack to play. Return to the midfielder position, with Deco as the core organizer, and face Chelsea's Christmas tree lineup.

At the beginning of the game, both sides did not test anything and went into the battle with real swords and guns.

He was the first to score at Stamford Bridge. In the 6th minute of the first half, Curtis' big kick in the backcourt caused Kaka to successfully counter the offside. After receiving the ball, he entered the penalty area and faced Hildebrand's attack and easily shot. Scored a goal, 0:1!

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In the 22nd minute, Curtis made a header error and the ball was intercepted by Ballack. The latter passed the ball into the penalty area. Shevchenko beat Terry, stopped the ball on his chest and turned around to hit the goal. Cech was beyond his reach, 1:1!

After that, both sides fought fiercely, especially in the midfield. They were having a great time going back and forth. Even Andy Gray, who was responsible for broadcasting the game, was amazed. This game can be said to be the best match in the Premier League this season. The most exciting game since then, both sides were not conservative at all because of the importance of the game.

The tempo on the field was very fast, and the game entered the halftime break amid the non-stop cheers of the fans.

Neither side made adjustments in the second half. Mourinho did not even replace the underperforming Robben in advance. Instead, he trusted him and continued to keep him on the court, hoping that his performance would improve.

Helplessly, under the careful care of Ashley Cole, Robben did not get too many opportunities throughout the game. On the contrary, Ronaldinho on the left was active and killed Ferreira several times one-on-one, creating a lot of trouble. There were few opportunities, but none of his teammates scored, and Robben even failed to score on his own once.

Although the game went very exciting, the final score was still 1:1, and neither side scored another goal.

After this game ended, the draw for the new season's European Champions League group stage also began!