As a goalkeeper, carry the team forward

Chapter 72 Holy Baby Torres

One day later, the 17th round of the Premier League was all over. Liverpool's "surprise" loss to Villa at home became the biggest focus of this round.

Those who think that Liverpool's loss to Villa was an upset are based on memory impressions.

In fact, Villa's points ranking is now far higher than Liverpool.

Villa, undefeated in 5 rounds, is currently ranked [-]th. If it weren't for their too many draws, the ranking could be raised to a higher level.

Of course, the number of goals conceded by Villa is currently the least among the Premier League teams. According to this trend, Villa may have a chance to break Mourinho's record of conceding only 15 goals in a single season.

Therefore, Villa players began to enter the signing targets of other clubs. Needless to say, Benteke, Clark, Vlaar, and even Lehigh have all clubs eyeing them.

Villa is getting better and better, there is no doubt about it.

On the other hand, Liverpool, under the leadership of Rogers, is now ranked 11th, already in the bottom half of the Premier League.

Jose also finally understood that it is not an easy task to compete for the Premier League title. Apart from not conceding goals, one must also score goals.

Perhaps because of this, those offensive players will attract much attention.

"One day, I will change this situation." Jose was full of fighting spirit.

After the match with Liverpool, there was an episode. Gerrard approached Jose himself. He first congratulated Jose on his performance, and then tactfully asked Jose if he was interested in joining the England national team.

Jose didn't agree, and of course he didn't block the possibility.

For such a big event, Jose needs to think carefully before making a decision.After all, joining other national football teams means giving up Chinese nationality, which is what Jose is most reluctant to part with.

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Another game that is also surprising is that Chelsea was tied 2-2 by Southampton at home. Benitez has never won a victory since he took office.

It seems that the coach cannot be changed casually.

The match between the two teams was full of passion. Shortly after the opening, Demba Ba and Hazard scored the lead successively, but Southampton players Lambert and Pancheon scored consecutively to equalize the score.

Chelsea has been in poor form recently. Is it a good thing for Villa, who are about to play against them?
If Chelsea are pulled down again on the weekend, wouldn't Villa have completed their unbeaten record against the Big6 giants in the half?There are many people who have such thoughts.

As Villa's performance got better and better, the confidence of the people in the team began to increase, and they even faintly began to feel a little arrogant.

At some point, there was a voice in the team: Lambert should not continue to play defensive counterattacks. The players should take the ball more and press the formation. The reason why Villa have so many draws is because the formation is too tight. back.

Lambert was noncommittal about the sound.

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12 month 23 day.

16:[-] local time.

Stamford Bridge Stadium.

In the last game of the 18th round of the Premier League, Villa challenged Chelsea away and officially started.

Before the start of this game, Manchester United's away draw with Swansea was the only upset game, so neutral fans focused their attention on this game and looked forward to Villa's upset victory over Chelsea.

Jose did not enter the squad because of the avoidance clause, but he still came to Stamford Bridge with the team.

Thinking that this place will become his home stadium in the future, Jose has an indescribable feeling.

Paul Lambert played in a 352-[-]-[-], which was more aggressive as they had hoped.

Starting goalkeeper: Guzan.

The three guards are: Nathan Baker, Carrack and Hurd.

The five midfielders are: Holman, Lehigh, Lowton, Westwood, Bannan.

The double forwards are: Benteke and Weimann.

As for Chelsea, Benitez put on a 4231 formation.

Chelsea's legendary captain John Terry was absent due to injury, David Luiz made a guest appearance as a defensive midfielder for the second time, Cahill came back from the ban and returned to the starting lineup, the specific list is as follows.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

The back four are: Ashley Cole, Gary Cahill, Ivanovic, Azpilicueta.

Double midfielders: David Luiz, Lampard.

Three attacking midfielders: Moses, Mata, Hazard.

Single Arrow Forward: Torres.

Villa reversed and won as a guest at Stamford Bridge last season, ending the embarrassing record of 10 draws and 3 losses in the past 7 guest visits. Therefore, in this game, Villa hopes to make persistent efforts.

For Lampard, this game also has a special significance, this is his 500th start in the Premier League, ranked only behind James, Speed ​​and Ryan Giggs.

After the opening, Chelsea immediately took the initiative, and they launched a fierce attack on Villa's goal.

In the 48th second, Santo Torres took the ball outside the penalty area and tried to break through, but was brought down by Hurd. Chelsea won the first free kick opportunity of the game.

The penalty spot was about 25 yards from the goal. Lampard chose to shoot directly from a free kick, but unfortunately it hit the wall.

Villa grabbed possession but didn't pose too much of a threat.

After 1 minute, Azpilicueta took the ball from the right. He glanced at his teammates in the penalty area, and then chose to cross with a big foot.

The ball crossed the crowd and fell 15 yards into the middle of Villa's penalty area, and Torres took the first step to top it.

I saw Torres flicking his head, the ball changed direction and flew directly to Villa's goal.

The ball is in.

At this time, the opening time is only 129 seconds!
It was Torres' 14th goal of the season, his fastest so far, and Villa's 2500th goal conceded in Premier League history.

This is destined to be injected into the history books.

The name of the Holy Child is by no means simple.

Jose, sitting behind the bench, was lost in thought as Torres celebrated with his teammates.

If, just now, I was on the field without using stunts, would I be able to block Torres' blow?
After thinking for a long time, Jose had the answer in his heart.

An excellent goalkeeper should not only pay attention to the opponent's shots, but also pay attention to the improvement of the situation on the field all the time.

Guzan made such a mistake. He only cared about guarding his goal, but ignored the changes in the situation on the field. He probably didn't realize that Azpilicueta's cross was so threatening. .

In addition, the absence of Vlaar is also a lack of defense. After all, Clark is still too young to command the entire defense alone.

Coupled with the fact that Baker and Hurd have been out of battle for a long time, facing Torres' header competition, they did not properly mark and move.

Fortunately, there is still a lot of time left, and Villa still has a chance to recover the score.

Of course, Jose also found out that Chelsea's home fans were too quiet.

Facing Torres' goal, they simply clapped their hands.

Are all Chelsea fans so cold?

(End of this chapter)