Football’s First Defender

In the 69th minute of the game, Drogba's goal allowed Chelsea to expand the score advantage to 2-0. The gap of two goals, in the remaining 20 minutes, it is not impossible to catch up, but facing Chelsea like this, in the For a team that has reached the ultimate defensive end, it is indeed not a very easy thing to achieve.

Benitez immediately made corresponding substitution adjustments. Originally, the team was going to start replacing offensive players to strengthen the offense at 70 minutes. However, just now there was still a one-goal gap within reach, and now the two-goal gap is in front of us. , If you want to catch up, you don't need Liverpool's players to work harder and work harder.

The Dutch winger Babel took the lead as a substitute, replacing Riera, who did not perform at his best in this game. Benitez still has to continue to strengthen his offense, no matter how bad Ivanovic is in this game Excellent, but the decline in physical fitness is obvious. Now that Babel, who has plenty of physical fitness and does not suffer from physical confrontation, can really achieve a different effect if he rushes on the wing.

As for the problem of limited personal offensive ability on Lucas' side, Benitez also made substitution adjustments. Israeli Benayoun came off the bench and replaced Lucas, allowing both sides to have both Personal breakthrough ability, Benitez intends to continue to focus on finding opportunities on the two wings.

As for Liverpool's deployment of troops on the offensive end, it is naturally impossible for Ancelotti to turn a blind eye.

Seeing the two sidewalk cards played by Benitez, Ancelotti decisively threw out his own countermeasures.

Since Deco's physical fitness is on the verge of limit, Ancelotti, who is very experienced in using veterans, has the habit of ruthless main force, but it is all for young people, and the protection work for "old people" Ancelotti is still It can be done.

And when Liverpool's two substitutions are obviously aimed at their own two sides, Ancelotti will naturally send out his own side defenders to take over the game on the defensive end.

Malouda, who rarely got a rest time in this game, went into battle at this moment, replacing Deco to strengthen the team's defense on the left.

Thanks to Malouda's presence on the field, with his speed and physical advantage, Chelsea's defense on the left is almost secure.

It allows Chelsea to use the defensive advantage of the center to be more defensive and assist on the right.

Moreover, although the player Babel has gained a reputation at a young age, his speed, technical ability, and physical advantages are all excellent, but looking at it now, his growth has stagnated in the past few years.

In recent years, Babel has not played the title of "New Kluivert" he broke through in the Netherlands in Liverpool, but some tend to hurt Zhongyong.

For Babel, who was young at the time, the arrogant arrogance he developed in the Dutch league made him look very out of place in a giant like Liverpool, and he was not able to integrate into Liverpool's offensive system for a long time. Babel is now only in the late stage of the game, completing some personal attacks on the wing, trying to find a way to rely on his personal strength, and see if he can create some opportunities for the team.

"Liverpool is now two goals behind, and they urgently need fresh offensive blood to help the team make a breakthrough on the offensive end."

Babel's playing, relying on his own personal ability, can sometimes really create some opportunities.

In such a game, relying on personal ability to create some offensive opportunities is indeed an effective offensive method, although the price may be that the team's overall offense will stagnate.

However, Liverpool's overall attack now is also a matter of luck. Naturally, the ball can also be handed over to Babel, allowing him to play freely on the left.

Liverpool's offense this season is actually somewhat similar to Chelsea's. The team's ability to break through is not too strong, especially after losing a midfield dispatcher like Harvey Alonso. It has become even more unbearable, so Liverpool is still quite strong in chaotic battles, quick battles, counter attacks, or defensive counterattacks, but when playing against the wind and fighting tough battles, Liverpool's offensive ability has indeed declined significantly this season.

In the game, Liverpool, which is almost equal to Chelsea's possession rate, has created only half of Chelsea's chances so far, and the total is less than 10 shots, which is a proof.

"Babel received the ball on the left and went straight in with the ball by himself."

Ivanovic is responsible for defending Babel. Of course, he will not easily let Babel break through, hold his position firmly, and use his body to hit Babel to interfere with Babel's dribbling rhythm.

However, Babel, who is a descendant of Suriname, not only has excellent speed, but also has excellent physical fitness as a player of black descent. In the late stage of the game, Ivan's state is still affected by physical fitness. The physical confrontation did not have much impact on Babel.

"Babel dialed the ball with his left foot to the outside, accelerated directly, and wanted to forcibly wade over!"

"Ivan follows closely!"

"A sudden spike, Ivan didn't have time to turn around, passed!"

The reason why Babel can become famous at a young age, become a football powerhouse, the main player of various national echelon teams in the Netherlands, and have the opportunity to join the Dutch national team at a young age is enough to see his strength.

Although the growth is limited, the fundamentals are there after all. Now Babel, who has come off the bench and has plenty of physical strength, can take advantage of Ivan's lack of physical strength and use various changes of direction to pass Ivan.

"Babel! Directly dribbled horizontally and hit the goal with a long shot!"

"Valley!"

"Hang straight to the upper right corner!"

"Cech! Fly to save!"

Babel's long-range shots are of high quality, but Cech's positioning is not a big problem. After all, everyone knows that Babel is a "terminator". When the ball is delivered to Babel's feet, there is almost no pass. when.

Therefore, for Babel's lateral dribbling, Cech has been concentrating and did not dare to be careless. When Babel hit the goal, Cech made a direct judgment, moved quickly laterally, and took off directly to complete the save.

"Blocked! Babel's long shot was successfully saved by Cech!"

"For this ball, Babel used a sudden spike from the left to change direction, throwing off Ivan's defense, cutting in laterally, and before Chelsea's defenders in the center rushed to help defend, he suddenly swung his legs and hit the ball. The goal. Although the leg swing is small, the goal is full of power, the ball is fast, and the angle is quite tricky."

"It's just that Cech's goal once again showed the demeanor of the world's top goalkeeper. Cech, who has been changing his position, has not weakened his defense against Babel. After a long shot, Cech made a sideways save. Successfully blocked the football with a single palm, and Babel's long-range shot failed to score..."

Liverpool's last extreme violent attack was officially pulled away from Babel's this time.

Already behind by two goals, the Liverpool players who were forced into a desperate situation, regardless of their own physical strength, continued to press crazily. When Chelsea controlled the ball, they used running to complete the ball conversion.

And the home team, which already holds a two-goal advantage, will naturally not leave Liverpool with the opportunity to successfully press and counterattack on the spot for the so-called possession rate at this time.

Once Chelsea's ball-handling player appears, under the forward rush of the Liverpool players, he can't find the point of exit for the first time, and he must directly "abandon himself" with a big foot forward, or kick out of the boundary. Anyway, Liverpool's positional offense is the same in this game.

And time has proved that Benitez's well-thought-out attacking intentions on the two sides turned into the left wing in the end.

Benayoun on the right had no chance at all under the defense of the new Malouda.

This is the case with this Liverpool team today. Many players in the team have their names there, but they just cannot show their strength in the team and grow as expected by the outside world.

In every transfer window, Liverpool will carefully select some strong players to supplement the team's combat power, but most of them, in the end, play mediocre, without the original sense of surprise.

Benayoun, the Israel international, is just that. After getting a substitute opportunity in this game, he did not show his ability to call the wind and rain on the right side of the year, and disappeared directly on the right side of the court...

The left was once again Liverpool's last hope.

It's just that although Babel can rely on his own personal ability to bully Ivan, who has run for most of the game and is no longer physically fit, but under the attention of Essien and Ballack's two midfielders, Babel is in a good position. The attack from the left can no longer directly cut inside to threaten the goal.

Babel, who tried a few inside cuts, but no longer had an easy chance to hit the goal, continued his personal performance as Liverpool's hope on the wing.

Since the technique of cutting in and shooting long shots before the penalty area is not good, then I will position myself deeper into the bottom line, trying to get past Ivan before the bottom line, and then enter the penalty area, trying to find a way to hit the goal from a small angle.

Um! Babel's pass button felt like he had forcibly picked it off. Anyway, it was Babel's obsession to find a way to hit the goal.

Babel, who was "calling the wind and calling the rain" on the left, was entangled with Ivanovic and had a great time playing.

Babel enjoyed the process of "bullying" Ivan on the wing, but in terms of results, there was still not much progress.

Although Babel has the advantage, and Ivan is not able to directly break the football under his feet, but Ivan maintains his position pretty well. Although Babel has a clear advantage, he will turn Ivan around. But if he wanted to shake off Ivan's defense and directly enter the penalty area, he was always short of the last shot.

Every time, Babel and Ivan tangled to the end and gave enough time for Chelsea's other defenders to help defend, Babel mostly passed the ball directly to the center, or passed back to the midfield. Players, anyway, it doesn't help the team's threatening offense. It's better to pass some threatening balls directly at some good times and when there is space!

Anyway, Liverpool's offense is now chaotic and somewhat disorganized.

The team's offensive run-in is not good, and individual offenses cannot be carried out due to the personal status and personal level of the players. As the game time goes by, the balance of victory in this red-blue battle is infinitely pressed towards the two-goal lead. Chelsea.

"Gerrard, it's hard to get a chance in midfield with enough space for the ball."

"After receiving Benayoun's pass, Gerrard turned around and took a step forward. Before Essien's defense was in place, he shot directly!"

"However, the handling of the ball was still too hasty. Gerrard didn't hold down the kick to hit the goal, and directly fired the anti-aircraft gun."

"In this game, the chances that the Liverpool captain got were really limited. Although Liverpool had been under pressure for a period of time during the game, Chelsea had always maintained the greatest vigilance against the threat of Gerrard's long-range shot in the middle of Liverpool. Gerrard's long-range shooting ability, under the defense of Essien and others, has not been brought into play at all."

The game time was close to 85 minutes, but Benitez's two substitutions did not show much effect. The score on the field was still 2 to 0. The long-term attack failed, which also made Liverpool's players feel uneasy. Emotions have been affected. In the last moments of the game, two goals behind and one goal behind, for the backward side, the hopes given are completely different. Some Liverpool players are a bit muddled. Just an ordinary league...

Liverpool's offense started to be more random. In other words, it was because some players did not move completely according to the tactics due to physical and psychological problems. Even if Liverpool controlled the ball to attack, the overall formation was relatively a bit rough. scattered.

Babel is still showing his personal ability alone on the left. Most of the players on both sides are watching a show on the court, enjoying the short distance tickets.

This time, Ivan, who took advantage of Chelsea's possession of the ball before, took a breath of relief from Babel, and directly hit him with a strong body, breaking the ball directly.

"Ivanovic, a successful personal defense, directly cut off the football at Babel's feet, Chelsea's counterattack opportunity."

"Ivan directly made a long pass and made a big diagonal pass to the depth of the left!"

Malouda, who rested off the court for most of the time, still had plenty of energy, and this time he broke out completely.

Although Glenn Johnson is a good right back, but in the final stage of the game, due to back and forth attacking and retreating to defend, there is really not much physical energy left.

This time Chelsea's counterattack was completely Malouda's personal performance. He directly used his own speed and excellent physical confrontation ability to crush Glenn Johnson. Johnson finally wanted to foul with a rough move, but It also didn't block Malouda who had started to speed up.

Malouda was a little staggering, but he still maintained his balance. The referee also ran and signaled that the attack was favorable. After Malouda dribbled the ball past Johnson's defense, it was flat before the goal. With Carragher's speed, it is too slow, and it is impossible to make up the defense in time.

"Malouda's single shot!"

"Reina is attacking!"

Malouda, who inserted diagonally into the Liverpool penalty area from the left, faced the attacking goalkeeper Reina, and finally chose to hit the goal from a close corner!

Reina mainly blocked the vast far corner area behind him. Although Malouda split his legs to increase the defensive area when Malouda hit the goal, he still did not block the football.

"GOAL!!!"

"Malouda! A shot from a close corner on the counter-attack, and the goal is scored!"

"At the last moment of the game, Malouda, who came off the bench, added to the icing on the cake and sealed the victory 3-0!"

The celebration of the blue Chelsea players is in stark contrast to the loss of the red Liverpool players. The handover of the era is just like the result of this game. In the era of the Premier League, blue may be destined to replace what once represented by red. the splendor of...