Chinese champion

Chapter 362
The second half began. Mourinho and Mancini looked at each other when they walked out of the player tunnel. They both knew in their hearts that although the first half was lively and exciting, it was just the beginning. The decisive battle is still in the second half.

Sure enough, as Mancini expected, Chelsea really switched to the solid defense and quick counterattack tactics they are good at in the second half. The tactic of housekeeping is to play with great proficiency, and many European giants have fallen at the feet of Chelsea in this way, including Barcelona three years ago.

Inter Milan strictly implemented the tactics formulated by Mancini during the half-time break. Although the offense was still fierce, the defense was never slack-the four defenders strictly guarded the backcourt and rarely crossed the center line, which did not give Chelsea a quick attack. Chance to fight back.

After the ball was lost in the frontcourt, the attacking players quickly counterattacked to gain time for the other players to return to the defense, while Wang Xiaomin and Zanetti on the two wings kept a close eye on Chelsea's Ruben and Shevchenko, leaving them no space To show off their speed, the two defensive midfielders retreated quickly at the same time, building a solid line of defense in front of the penalty area. Inter Milan from Serie A naturally has his own experience in dealing with defensive counterattacks.

Mourinho looked at Mancini in surprise. No wonder Inter Milan's performance has been getting better and better in the past two years. It seems that this young coach who suffered a lot in the Champions League in the past two years has really grown up. Yes.

After taking the lead in the first half, what Mourinho wanted was to use defense to make the opponent impatient, because in his opinion, a team like Inter Milan has not known what it is like to lose for a long time Once they fall behind in the game, they will inevitably launch a crazy attack to recover the score, and they have never lost. They will not pay too much attention to the opponent's counterattack. No matter who they are, they will always attack themselves when they are always winning. with full confidence.

But I didn't expect Mancini's vision to be so accurate, so he didn't worry at all. Instead, he strengthened his defense and slowed down the rhythm. Even their own team can't match them. Looking at the European continent, probably only Barcelona and Arsenal can match their offensive firepower.

Even if Mourinho has sufficient confidence in Chelsea's defensive ability, but in front of the powerful firepower of Inter Milan, he can't guarantee that he will not concede a goal. Keep it until the end and win, but winning only one goal at home is not a good result.

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Essien felt that Pei Wei in front of him was becoming more and more difficult to defend. In the first half, he could steal him from time to time, but now, it was almost impossible to figure out what his next move would be. It takes twice as much effort as usual.

Essien is definitely not an unknown junior. Although many people believed that Chelsea spent 3800 million euros to sell Essien from Lyon, he was a veritable "taken advantage", but he quickly proved Mourinho's vision with his own performance. After Makelele got old, he became an indispensable piece in the Chelsea midfielder. He has excellent defense, good physical fitness and strong explosive power-he almost possesses what an excellent midfielder should have. All the qualities of him, not to mention, his offensive ability is absolutely good!
Mourinho once said that in Chelsea, Ballack and even Lampard as the core of the midfield can be missing among the midfield players, but Essien cannot be missing!Because on the bench, there are still attacking players in the midfield like Joe Cole and Mikel, but there is no all-rounder like Essien who is both offensive and defensive!

Although this sentence is exaggerated, the importance of Essien to Chelsea can be seen.

But even such a world-class midfielder still couldn't stop Pei Wei's progress.

Cambiasso passed the ball to the right, Ronaldinho took the ball, Ashley Cole immediately came up to defend, Ronaldinho did not break through directly, but gave the ball to Pei Wei in the middle, and continued to Insert forward.

Essien is close to Pei Wei, and he will not let Pei Wei get the ball easily, because he knows that at Pei Wei's speed, if he gets the ball well, it will be difficult for him to keep an eye on him alone. Unless one of Ballack and Lampard comes to attack, the defense against other Inter Milan players will be weakened a lot.

However, Pei Wei had no intention of holding the football. He leaned against Essien and rubbed the outside of his left foot. The football spun and flew backwards from the two of them.At the same time, Pei Wei also turned around and walked around from another direction, avoiding Essien's close pressing.

The ball just flew to the feet of Ronaldinho, who got rid of Cole slightly by relying on his speed. Ronaldinho was still faster than Cole based on his speed alone, but he didn't dare to continue to take the ball, because throwing it away was just a matter of time. In an instant, if he hesitated for a moment, Cole would definitely catch up immediately, and it would not be so good until then.

Since the first day Ronaldinho landed in the Premier League from the Portuguese League, he has met an opponent who can almost be said to be his lifelong opponent: the England international, the representative of the young generation of left backs trained by Wenger: Ashley Coe you.

Arsenal and Manchester United, when Chelsea had not been injected with huge funds by Abramovich, these two teams were the two top teams in the Premier League in the past ten years, and Ronaldinho and Ashley Cole, a right Forward, a left back, they are natural rivals in terms of position alone, not to mention that the camps they belong to are Manchester United and Arsenal, which have been fighting for more than ten years.

Coincidentally, after Ronaldinho joined Manchester United, Portugal and England also often met in world competitions. The two will still have a spark hit the earth in the national team game, but what makes Ronaldinho depressed is that, In the contest with Ashley Cole, he was the one who lost most of the time.

This made the proud Ronaldinho very upset, just like in the 2004 European Cup, although Portugal finally won the game and defeated England, but in the game, his breakthrough on the right was almost defeated by Ashley Cole It was completely blocked, just as the on-site commentator said with emotion: "It's like Manchester United being firmly suppressed by Arsenal in the league (Arsenal was at its peak at the time, and they created an unbeaten record for the entire season that season. ), Ronaldinho was also completely blocked by Ashley Cole!"

He could have passed the ball quickly, but he changed his mind when he saw that both Zhuang Feng and Ibrahimovic were closely watched by the Chelsea defenders in the penalty area.

He intends to break into the penalty area, disrupt Chelsea's defensive formation, and then create a chance to score.

After making up his mind and doing what he said, Ronaldinho stopped the ball lightly, deliberately slowed down a bit, and when Cole rushed from behind at high speed, he suddenly dunked the ball back!
Now Cole was fooled by Ronaldinho. He originally thought that Ronaldinho would pass the ball, so he rushed over at his fastest speed to intercept his cross, but he did not expect Ronaldinho to pass the ball. Buckled back, one rushed over the head with too much force.

When he stabilized his body and turned around, Ronaldinho had already passed him and was about to break through into the penalty area. Cole had no time to think about it, so he stretched out his foot and shoveled from behind.

Just when Ronaldinho was about to move on, he didn't expect Cole to shovel over from behind in such a reckless manner. Cole's foot happened to stumble on Ronaldinho's leg. Ronaldinho was totally unprepared and suddenly The child fell to the ground.

The referee's whistle blew immediately, Mourinho's face became tense, and he couldn't help standing up from the coach's bench. On the other side, Mancini's face was beaming. Cole's foul happened to be Wang Xiaomin's foul on Ruben in the first half. position, a free kick in this position, if grasped well, it is very likely to score!

And just now Cole's action was relatively big, at least he should have received a yellow card. When he has a yellow card, the defense of Ronaldinho may have scruples.

Obviously Cole also thought of this, he kept pleading with the referee, and at the same time kept saying: "I didn't touch him, he was flopping!"

Other teammates also helped, but obviously it didn't work. The referee waved them away and waved to Cole at the same time.

Ronaldinho managed to get up from the ground. When Cole fouled just now, he was not prepared at all, and he did fall firmly. At this time, Cole's words came to his ears, especially "flopping" "That word, Xiao Luo heard it so harshly!
In the Premier League, there were mean fans who gave Ronaldinho the title of "Diver King", and Ronaldinho would sometimes fall down exaggeratedly after being touched on the court, and it was said Let’s just say, but he was obviously not a flop just now, and he was fouled by Cole when he rushed in and it was very likely to score a goal. In this case, he actually said that he was a flop!
Anger started from the heart, and evil grew from the guts. Against this enemy, Xiao Luo completely broke out!

While Ashley Cole was still arguing to the referee: "I really tackled the ball first, and I didn't shovel the others...", there were a few exclamations from all around, and Cole hadn't reacted yet. The back of the head has been slapped heavily!
(End of this chapter)