Football’s First Defender

Inter Milan was crushed by Chelsea. On the offensive end, although there are still many offensive players, there is almost no room for them to play.

Sneijder moved to the left to respond to Zanetti's pass. Although Sneijder's basic skills were very good, he stopped Zanetti's long-distance through ball directly at his feet, but facing Mikel who was defending him , At the first moment, Sneijder had no way to turn around and make the next offensive move.

Instead, Mikel continued to exert force behind, almost pushing Sneijder directly out of bounds.

Fortunately, Sneijder himself has rich experience. Before the ball went out of bounds, he chose to go along the sideline and make a half-turn to try to break through. Had to choose to stretch his feet, and directly touched the ball near the sideline under Sneijder's feet out of bounds, and Inter Milan got a chance for a sideline ball.

Sneijder wisely chose to quickly serve the sideline ball. Since Milito was closely guarded by Yang Feng in the middle, there was no good opportunity, so Sneijder could only look forward to Eto'o.

And Eto'o also made use of his high flexibility. First, he made a fake move of accelerating forward to attract Terry's center of gravity, then suddenly retreated and returned to the outside of the penalty area to meet Sneijder's sideline. The ball, before the other Chelsea players completed the encirclement, Eto'o took the ball again and passed the ball to Motta who came from the center.

It's just that Motta was too busy observing the offensive positions of his teammates and the defensive positions of several Chelsea midfielders, ignoring the situation behind him.

Motta aimed at Sneijder who was running to the bottom line along the left, originally thinking of sending a through ball with a large amount of advance to find Sneijder who was going forward. But Motta's leg swing has been completed, but before the ball is played, he suffers from external interference from the side and rear.

Kalu, who was actively returning to defense, quickly rushed over to defend from Motta's side and rear. He hit the ball with his foot first, and then moved forward inertially, knocking Motta staggered, and the referee did not call a foul.

The ball was kicked directly to Ballack by Kalou, and Chelsea launched a defensive counterattack directly.

Ballack originally wanted to make a long-distance direct pass to find Anelka, who was already accelerating forward on the right, but Cambiasso, who was in charge of Inter Milan's central defense, stretched his legs to complete the block on the pass route, and the pass appeared. Changed direction and was bounced, turned into a high-altitude ball, and fell near the middle circle.

Facing the high-flying high-altitude ball after this change of direction, Drogba counterattacked from the front court, actively returned to the middle circle, crushed Mota with his body, and directly jumped up the chest to unload the high-altitude ball. Then the ball was given to Lampard who followed up behind, and he re-entered Inter Milan's penalty area.

The strong running ability of Chelsea players is undoubtedly revealed at this timing of offensive and defensive transitions. Taking advantage of the fact that Inter Milan's offensive players in the midfield have not yet defended in place, and even some players have not crossed halftime, Chelsea's counterattack players, such as the left Both Malouda and Kalu quickly entered Inter Milan's core defensive area through halftime!

Lampard, who was in possession of the ball, distributed the ball to Malouda, who advanced from the left. Malouda directly developed his speed, and rushed forward obliquely to attack Inter Milan's unsteady central defense.

Maicon has been following Malouda sideways, in order to prevent Malouda from suddenly changing direction and going to the side, he did not dare to go forward too much to press. At this time, Cambiasso came from the other side to help Maicon complete the defense, but Malouda used his dribbling rhythm combined with the small steps under his feet, but cleverly avoided Cambiasso's attack. After a shovel, when Inter Milan's central defense line ran towards him to defend, Malouda did not greedy for merit and directly divided the ball horizontally.

The ball was handed directly to Anelka on the horizontal line.

Anelka moved the ball to the right, stopped the ball sideways, and strode the ball diagonally to the right.

Taking advantage of Inter Milan's defense before completing the defense, Anelka directly blasted the goal one step outside the penalty area.

The ball hit a diagonal, the ball went straight to the upper left corner of the goal, Cesar flew to save, but also missed the football. It's just that Anelka still didn't hold down the ball, it was a little bit higher, and it almost flew out by rubbing against the goal crossbar.

Seeing that Chelsea's offensive threat is getting bigger and bigger, and his team's defense line has become elusive, Mourinho had to make on-the-spot changes to strengthen the team's defense and defend the first half first.

Under Mourinho's command, Inter Milan's frontcourt players also began to withdraw to defend, except for Milito's own height and weight, which is not very effective in sports defense. It is better to stay in the frontcourt when Inter Milan counterattacks Outside the fulcrum, Eto'o and Sneijder both retreated to their own half, using their own speed, and began to help their team's central defense.

Inter Milan's defense line began to become tighter with the addition of the two new forces.

Especially the center line of defense that was almost hit by Chelsea before, the current defensive level is almost an extra layer due to the addition of Eto'o and Sneijder, which brings new challenges to Chelsea's offense.

When Malouda dribbled the ball across the half, he chose to give the ball to the center as always. When Lampard received the ball, he was interfered by Eto'o. Although Lampard played the ball cleanly, he would The ball was passed to Kalou, who moved to the middle, but due to the rush to get the ball out, Lampard's passing power was still a bit strong, and Kalou's stop was inevitably a bit too big.

But when Kalu wanted to chase the ball again, he was already surrounded by four Inter Milan players, and the first point of the ball was also directly stopped by Sneijder, who was closest to the defense.

Kalou relied on inertia and wanted to tackle to get the ball, but he was still a bit too reckless. Although Kalou touched the football with his feet first, he made a scissors kick with his feet and directly shoveled over Sneijder. The referee directly whistled for a foul and showed a topaz card.

As Inter Milan's lineup began to shrink, Chelsea, which previously occupied the absolute initiative on the field, although the ball possession rate remained above 70%, the team's offensive threat began to decline significantly.

Chelsea can no longer create dangerous offensive opportunities in the middle by using pass and cut cooperation. With the defensive supplements of Eto'o and Sneijder, the pass to the center becomes easier to be blocked. , and even if the central players receive the ball, they will be interfered by Eto'o and Sneijder's help defense during the action. For a while, Chelsea's central attack has come to a standstill.

Chelsea, who had failed in several attempts to attack in the center, after Inter Milan improved the quality of defense in the center, could only give up the tacit teamwork they had played before losing the team, and began to use "unreasonable" individual attacks to try to break through. An extra line of defense for Inter Milan.

After Kalou no longer had easy opportunities to attack in the middle, he very keenly chose to return to the left wing and charge for Chelsea.

In order to cope with Kalou's attack on the left, Chelsea first attacked Inter Milan's defense from the center to the right, and launched a feint.

Lampard advanced a few steps in the middle, compressed Inter Milan's defense line, and directly transferred to Ivanovic on the right in a wide range, while Ivan was in the half-time position and began to try to break through on the right , under the joint force of Zanetti and Eto'o, Ivan directly chose to pass back.

This time, both Ballack and Lampard stepped forward to compress Inter Milan's defense, while Yang Feng, who raised his position to the middle circle, responded behind.

Since Yang Feng's long pass was practiced, Chelsea's offensive routines have actually become richer. When Yang Feng received the ball, there were no defenders around to interfere. Yang Feng, who was in an open field in front of him, directly dribbled the ball forward. Inter Milan's inherent defense line has attracted Inter Milan's Motta to come over to defend.

However, Yang Feng did not choose to play with fire on the offensive end. After Mota had not yet become a threat, Yang Feng directly made a long pass to find the left side of the court, and Kalu was already free.

Kalu received Yang Feng's precise long pass, unloaded the ball lightly, and then directly entered the state of wing assault.

Maicon had a lot of space behind him, and with the risk of Kalou breaking through on both sides, he suddenly chose to steal from Kalou. Kalou, on the other hand, took advantage of the timing of Maicon's kick, and strode forward directly, completed the acceleration, and entered the penalty area from the left.

It's just that Inter Milan's central defender Lucio in the penalty area made up the defense in a timely manner. In order to pass Maicon, the distance of the ball was a bit too long this time. Lucio rushed the ball directly from the middle and kicked the ball directly with a sliding tackle Out of line...