20demayo Chapter 181
Chapter 181
Just as Jon said in the studio before.
After the fierce collision of the first two or three minutes, after Schmeichel kicked off again, both sides slowed down the pace of the game.
During this period, the two teams were more focused on looking for each other's flaws near the midfield. Once they found the opponent's loopholes, they would immediately send a straight pass to try to penetrate the opponent's defense line.
This slow but back-and-forth style of play lasted for nearly half an hour, during which both sides had good offensive opportunities.
Unfortunately, Leeds United's two shots from Ibrahimovic and Torres were easily resolved by Cudicini because they were too straight.
On the Chelsea side, Robben completed a single-line breakthrough against Mills. He had seized three opportunities to cut in and shoot after shaking open the angle in front of the penalty area. One of them was of high quality. Fortunately, Schmeichel was focused and tried his best to lift the ball out of the baseline.
The match time came to the 37th minute, and the score on the field had not changed. However, in the studio of Sky Sports, the two commentators seemed to have noticed the changes in Mourinho and Li Shiguang from the occasional flashes of the camera.
"Gary, I don't know if you noticed that Li looked a little anxious." Looking at the Leeds United players who were passing the ball in the midfield, Jon took the lead in shifting the topic to this.
"I feel a little bit too." Lineker nodded, "I just noticed what you said in the picture. Mourinho has already returned to the bench and sat with his hands folded. Although his face is still ugly, you know, he has always been like this, hehe."
"Yeah." Jon continued, "But Li has been frowning since the start of the game, standing on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets and never relaxing. Just now I noticed that after Bale was intercepted by Ferreira again, he seemed to call Bale over and said a few words, and his hands were also gesturing. It seems that he is Bale was a little dissatisfied that he couldn't break through Ferreira's defense today. "
"You're right, Ferreira is indeed experienced. He knows very well that he can't outrun Bale, so he almost didn't give Bale a chance to start in more than half an hour. He is worthy of being a player who won the Champions League with Mourinho!" Lineker agreed, "I think Li has to make adjustments earlier. If nothing unexpected happens, Bale will hardly have a chance to play today."
Although the two commentators analyzed it very well, they were only half right!
Li Shiguang did find it difficult to rely on Bale to break through Ferreira alone. This Portuguese is too difficult!
But at the same time, he also found another problem. Ferreira couldn't keep up with Bale's pace when he broke through with the ball just now!
Although the two threatening attacks of Leeds United were completed by Ibrahimovic and Torres.
But the attack was launched from the left side, but Bale found that he really couldn't break through Ferreira's defense in the positional battle, so he passed the ball near the penalty area.
To be precise, almost all of Leeds United's attacks so far in the game were launched from the left!
In this case, after nearly 40 minutes of high-intensity running, even though Ferreira had plenty of physical strength, he was a little close to a physical vacuum period.
In the last few minutes, Ferreira basically relied on his strong willpower to hold on. He is now looking forward to the 15-minute break in the midfield to replenish his exhausted physical strength.
So Li Shiguang yelled at Bale just now not to blame him for not breaking through successfully.
On the contrary.
What Bale heard in his ears was the encouragement of his head coach.
"Well done, Gareth, keep up this impact, he's about to be unable to hold on!"
However, in such a noisy environment at the scene, let alone the two commentators sitting in the studio, even Simeone behind Li Shiguang didn't hear what he just said to Bale...
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In the 41st minute of the game, Chelsea launched a relatively threatening attack from the midfield.
But when the ball was passed to Shevchenko, he did not choose to pass the ball to Drogba who was waving his hands and moving forward into the penalty area, but chose to force a breakthrough. But this time Lahm was not easily passed by him, but seized the opportunity to kick the ball away from Shevchenko's feet.
"Wow! I want to give 100 points for this steal!" Seeing this scene, Lineker immediately said excitedly, "Choose a good position, get stuck, kick quickly, a perfect and clean steal!"
"Yes! A beautiful steal! And Leeds United launched a counterattack on the spot!" Even if I am more optimistic about Chelsea,But Jon also expressed his appreciation for Lahm's neat steal. At the same time, he also found a problem on TV. Since Chelsea was attacking before, their defense line had been pressed to the center line. At this time, there was a large space behind them!
Even Jon, who was sitting in the studio, found the problem, and the two coaches standing on the sidelines naturally found it a long time ago.
From the moment Lahm stole the ball, Li Shiguang was like crazy, waving his hands and shouting in Lahm's direction: "Philip! Pass the ball!"
And Mourinho's feet seemed to be equipped with springs. He jumped up from his seat and ran to the sidelines and shouted: "Return to defense!! Paul!! Keep an eye on the Welshman!! Stop him even if he fouls!!"
However, Lahm did not give Ferreira any chance to foul.
After stealing the ball, he just looked up at the position of Bale in front of him, and found that his teammates had started, and he directly made a long pass.
Lahm passed the ball very far, giving Bale enough space to run.
Bale, who was running without the ball, could not be stopped by Ferreira, even Ashley Cole on the left!
As expected, about 10 meters away from Chelsea's penalty area, Bale comfortably caught the football that was already rolling on the grass.
At this time, the entire Chelsea defense, including Ibrahimovic and Torres who were also running towards the Chelsea goal, were left far behind him. In front of him, there was only Cudicini who was eager to attack on the goal line!
Amid the cheers of Leeds United fans in the stands, Bale rushed to Chelsea's penalty area with the ball at full speed.
Cudicini saw that his teammates really couldn't catch up, so he decisively rushed towards Bale.
Seeing that Bale's body center of gravity began to lean to the right, and his left foot had made a move to prepare for a shot, Cudicini immediately fell to the ground and opened his arms, trying to expand his defense range.
What he never expected was that Bale did not choose to pass the ball this time. Instead, he gently pushed the ball to the left at the moment he fell to the ground. Then Cudicini felt a breeze blowing next to his head, and the young man in the white jersey flashed past him from his right!
The man and the ball passed!
The desperate Cudicini did not want to turn his head to look. The deafening cheers from the stands behind the goal had already told him what the outcome of Leeds United's attack would be!
1:0.
Near the end of the first half, Leeds United finally took the lead at home!