Football’s First Defender

In the new season of the Premier League, due to the impact of the financial environment, the major traditional giants have to cut down on food and clothing, and their investment in the transfer market is limited.

There is only one accident, and that is the Blue Moon Manchester City Club.

Oil capital has demonstrated its terrifying ability to print money, and in the summer transfer window, it has invested heavily.

After frantically replenishing forward line personnel in previous seasons, Manchester City focused on replenishing the team's midfielders in the summer.

Through the introduction of powerful players such as Yaya Toure, David Silva, Milner, Kororav, etc., in the strength rankings of the authoritative media, Manchester City, which has become star-studded in all lines, has achieved great success in the Premier League season. Before the start, it was determined that he had the strength to hit the Champions League.

Coupled with the fact that last season, Tottenham, which had successfully broken the monopoly of the four giants in the Champions League, the Premier League in the new season is likely to stage a situation where the top six compete for hegemony.

It's just that the highlights are wonderful, but it is undeniable that with the reduction of investment in the traditional giants, the Premier League teams are still unable to compete with the two giants of La Liga in terms of the starlight of the team.

For Chelsea, the team's most realistic goal this season is of course defending the league title.

Although the depth of the team's lineup has been greatly affected, in the early games, Chelsea's performance was not restricted by the lineup.

Chelsea, which won 5 consecutive victories in the opening league, seems to prove to everyone that although the team lost a lot of blood in the summer window, with the current lineup, Chelsea is still a top team.

Although in the sixth round of the league, due to the influence of the English League Cup and the Champions League group stage, the Chelsea players lost to Manchester City, which had been frantically strengthening for several consecutive summers without sufficient rest.

But after that, Chelsea got back on track. The team defeated the strong enemy Arsenal one after another, and defeated Blackburn at home. top position.

Chelsea's offensive numbers are indeed somewhat stretched due to the departure of many players. Although there are supplements from Ramirez and Benayoun, Ancelotti still believes in the team when he cannot fully integrate into the team. Those old faces from a season.

In order to deal with the team's lack of offensive power, Ancelotti can only allow the team's full-backs to participate more in the offense. By increasing the number of offensive players, such a rough offensive method can maintain Chelsea's offensive power.

And Yang Feng on the defensive line has more room to play this season.

With Chelsea needing to pile up numbers on the offensive end, Yang Feng's defense line is often threatened by the opponent's counterattack.

There is a statistic in Chelsea. At the beginning of the new season, the average number of interceptions that Yang Feng needs to complete per game has increased by more than 60%. Although the team has a good record, the pressure on the defense has increased significantly compared to the past few seasons.

In other words, Yang Feng is really good at defending the opponent's counterattack, and will always use the most reasonable method to solve the threat of the opponent's counterattack.

Ancelotti, the most satisfied thing about the Chelsea management this summer is that he rejected the crazy offer from Real Madrid and kept Yang Feng. Otherwise, Chelsea will suffer in the new year. The final test to attack...

It's just that Ancelotti is happy, but Chelsea's management is not happy now.

Back then, when Chelsea bought Yang Feng from Zenit, they directly signed a four-year contract with Yang Feng. Although Chelsea had discovered Yang Feng’s potential since Hiddink’s era, they planned to re-sign Yang Feng for a longer period. time contract.

But Yang Feng's side always refused.

At that time, everyone considered that Yang Feng should use better performance to win higher contract quotations and higher wages.

Facts have proved that Yang Feng was also right.

Although Chelsea did not complete the final defense of the Champions League last season, the loss to your official website in the Premier League and the FA Cup is still considered a good result.

The key is that Yang Feng has really become the absolute core of the team's defense.

Although Chelsea's captain is still Terry, Terry also has enough influence on the field, but in terms of the role in the game, it is undeniable that the younger Yang Feng is gradually transforming into the real boss of Chelsea's defense ...

In the critical period of two years left in the contract, Chelsea's management, of course, planned to use a higher salary to keep Yang Feng after some discussions, but in the summer, before the contract renewal negotiations started, Yang Feng had already offered to The team submitted a transfer application.

And after Chelsea clearly rejected various trading offers and forced Yang Feng to stay in the team, Yang Feng did not perform any tricks of stopping training or disappearing. He still practiced conscientiously, participated in competitions, and still focused on playing a better self.

It's just that Yang Feng represented Chelsea, overcame obstacles on the court in the new season, and completed wonderful supplementary defenses and defensive positions for Chelsea. However, Yang Feng did repeatedly reject the contract extension conditions offered by Chelsea's management.

Yang Feng is determined to leave Chelsea, no one can persuade him.

Of course, if Chelsea really refuses to let him go, then Yang Feng can only enjoy a cheap contract and play for Chelsea for another two seasons.

But in that case, Chelsea will also lose the super high transfer offer represented by Yang Feng.

Chelsea's management is also struggling, and even they don't understand why Yang Feng is determined to leave Chelsea under such a high salary level.

After all, there are not many giants that can match the current Chelsea. The skinny camel is bigger than the horse. Besides, Chelsea's defensive ability has obviously improved slightly after Ramirez joined. So Yang Feng's departure, In the end, it may only be attributed to "childhood dreams"!

Yang Feng's insistence on negotiating the contract renewal does not affect Ancelotti's use of Yang Feng. After all, what Yang Feng wants is the future, and what the management wants is performance and proof of his operational ability.

As Chelsea's defensive line, the player with the strongest ability to cover leaks, and the best center back to defend the opponent's counterattack, under the offensive tactical system used by Chelsea today, the defense of Yang Feng's position is becoming more and more important.

Yang Feng, who didn't completely fall out with the team and has a fairly guaranteed career, didn't let the club management put pressure on the coach to limit Yang Feng's playing time.

It's just that Chelsea's top position is becoming less and less obvious as they play on all fronts.

Chelsea, whose lineup is really weak this season, has experienced a cliff-like decline in the league due to the tight schedule of the Champions League due to the great advantage in the first ten rounds.

Before the Boxing Day schedule, Chelsea had only won one game in seven rounds of the Premier League.

With 1 win, 4 draws and 2 losses in 7 rounds, it became extremely difficult for Chelsea to win when the offensive end could not be played out.

On the other hand, Manchester United, at most 6 points behind Chelsea, completed a counterattack in the standings and pulled Chelsea from the top position!

Chelsea, which already had a weak lineup, also began to suffer from extensive injuries as the season entered December.

The team relies on a team to fight. Under the pressure of the Champions League, the Premier League, and the English League Cup, the physical fitness of the players has been consumed a lot, and injuries are normal.

In addition, the time has entered the end of the year, the most devilish schedule in the Premier League, and the cruel schedule of Boxing Day is about to begin.

Chelsea has injured Essien, Malouda, Drogba and many other generals successively. Of course, the players who came off the bench are still obviously weak in strength.

After Chelsea's game, every time it started to become extremely difficult.

In the final analysis, the reason for Chelsea's fluctuating record this season is that the team's offense has a big problem. There are not so many midfield offensive players, and Ancelotti himself is too smart to cook without rice.

When Chelsea's record declined significantly, An Pang would not take the risk of using some young players. In order to improve the team's record, he could only force the main players who were obviously physically weak to persevere and continue to fight for the team.

The home game against Bolton is the second game of the Boxing Day Devils schedule. Fortunately, Chelsea is playing at Stamford Bridge, their home stadium.

Although Chelsea's offensive firepower this season is not too outstanding, but amidst the cheers of the home fans, Chelsea's home firepower is not too bad. After all, 8 home games have won 6 games. If the goal cannot be scored , How can we achieve the final victory?

No one expected that Bolton would become the dark horse this season.

Liverpool continues to sink in the new season. Liverpool, considered the top six seeds, is now ranked in the middle of the league. The other top five have performed well. Bolton, as the big dark horse, is only ranked sixth now, but he is tight. Biting the Champions League, Chelsea, which is third, is only 3 points away.

Facing direct rival Bolton, Ancelotti has made sufficient preparations.

Although the offensive tactics have not changed much, but in the positional battle, facing Bolton's extremely simple long pass and sling, An Pang has arranged a lot of defensive arrangements to compete for high-altitude balls on the defensive end.

It is perfect for the team to score goals early. If they can't do it, they can only rely on defense to ensure that they will not be counterattacked by the opponent, and then find another way.

Chelsea lost Ballack, and now even the threat of long-range shots in the middle has declined. Only Lampard is constantly shooting long-range shots, but it also gives Bolton's defenders and the opponent's goalkeeper enough defensive preparations, and stays. Allow plenty of reaction time.

Bolton, in this game, has no intention of giving up.

In fact, recently, Chelsea's record is too poor, so that Bolton saw the hope of stealing chicken away.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Chelsea players are not in their best physical fitness and state, the Bolton players still want to try on the road to see if they can overthrow Chelsea.

The two sides played an extremely open game. Bolton used his better running ability to continuously complete the restrictions on Chelsea's offense, and organized his own counter-offensive frenzy.

However, under the solid defense of Yang Feng and Terry, Bolton's offense is still not good enough, and there is no way to create better offensive opportunities.

But, sometimes, everything changes...

In the first half 0 to 0, both sides failed to gain on the offensive end, in the second half, Chelsea still took the initiative to attack, hoping to take the initiative to attack.

However, in the absence of enough passers on the offensive end, Mikel, who was forced to participate in organizing the ball, played the ball with great power, causing Anelka to fail to stop the ball, but was intercepted by the opponent and directly sought a counterattack .

Bolton's left back, without any time delay, directly made a long pass to find his teammate in the frontcourt.

However, Yang Feng's reaction was still so quick. Relying on the judgment of the landing point, Yang Feng directly stood in the most favorable defensive position, jumped high and completed the clearance.

However, this time, something unexpected happened.

There was nothing wrong with Yang Feng's header to clear the siege, but Bolton's forward Mark rushed straight from behind Yang Feng, trying to use the run-up to complete the jump and hit the ball.

Yang Feng had already pushed the ball, but Mark himself was unable to slow down and retract his body collision.

For Yang Feng's ball, under the time requirement, he had to take off with all his strength for the sake of safety, and the take-off time continued.

And Mark, directly from the side and rear, knocked Yang Feng down in the air.

In order to maintain the balance of his body, Yang Feng subconsciously chose the position of his feet to balance when his body was rushing forward, but this time, the pain in his knee made Yang Feng lose his balance instantly and fell on the turf.

"It hurts!" This was Yang Feng's first reaction

Although Yang Feng was extremely active in the central defender's position, he had suffered very few injuries and could be called an iron man.

But this time, the knee position is a pain of concentration.

When he fell to the ground, Yang Feng knew it was over. With his current height and weight, his knee was injured, and he was still concentrating on pain. The injury was definitely not serious.

The game must be unstoppable. After a checkup, the team doctor signaled for a stretcher to enter the field in disappointment, and then dragged Yang Feng directly to the hospital.

Yang Feng, who was lying on the stretcher, fully understood this time, this time it was definitely not a minor injury, and the little luck in his heart before was completely gone. Now, Yang Feng just hoped that this injury would not affect the A professional career that I have finally started.

After all, it is in London's own territory, and there are sufficient medical facilities in all aspects. Yang Feng's injury consultation is carried out very quickly, but the final result is destined to make Yang Feng unable to sleep.

A torn cruciate ligament, 6 to 8 months of training, and being reimbursed for the season may affect his future career. Even if he is as optimistic as Yang Feng, at this time, it is like a thunderbolt, and he cannot believe such a fact.