The strongest winger

Chapter 738 Stopping Chelsea

What Mourinho said in an interview with the "Guardian" is well-founded, and Frisk did not deny it at the time. In addition, the penalty in the second half of the game was indeed clearly biased towards Barcelona, ​​so many referees who were angered by the "World Sports Daily" returned to normal.

So, everyone turned their attention back to their respective leagues.

Often at this time, the major European leagues have reached a stage of intense heat.

Even if Chelsea are now nine points ahead of Manchester United, they can't rest easy. The Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. There are often matches where relegation teams beat the top teams in the league. Sometimes they can even beat teams like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool when they are in good form. They have to guard against it.

Chelsea's next league opponent is Everton, and Barcelona's opponent is not weak. It is Real Madrid's loyal younger brother Getafe. With Real Madrid only four points away from Barcelona, ​​Getafe, as the younger brother, naturally shoulders the heavy responsibility of blocking Barcelona. Therefore, Barcelona dare not neglect.

Similarly, as the official mouthpiece of Barcelona, ​​"Mundo Deportivo" naturally has to turn its attention back to the league. After all, there are still two weeks before the semi-finals of the Champions League, so there is no rush.

Back in the league, Chelsea beat Everton lightly with Aiello's one pass and one shot at home, but it was a pity that Manchester United also won the league game against Sunderland at home, and the points gap between the two sides was still nine points.

But for defending champion Chelsea, with only five rounds left in the league, a nine-point lead is almost an insurmountable gap.

Next, Chelsea will start a week of double matches. This situation will continue until the end of the second round of the Champions League semi-finals before returning to the normal one-week match.

In other words, this period of time is also a test for Chelsea, which makes Mourinho have to carry out a scientific rotation of players for the team again. Otherwise, the continuous use of a group of players is likely to lead to more injuries. Deco and Fellaini who joined the team at the beginning of the season have been injured.

Apart from his super personal ability, the reason why Ai Luo can score so many goals has a lot to do with the toughness and creativity of the midfielder.

It was the same at Valencia, and it was the same at Chelsea.

Since both Chelsea and Barcelona have entered the semi-finals of their respective domestic cups and have to prepare for the cup after the league, before the semi-finals of the Champions League, both sides of the semi-finals of the Champions League have no time to focus on each other, and more focus on the upcoming semi-finals of the cup.

Chelsea will go to the Emirates Stadium to challenge Arsenal, while Barcelona will also go to the famous Devil's home stadium Pisjuan to challenge Sevilla.

The opponents are all strong teams, and there is no room for loss.

The Emirates Stadium can be said to be a painful place for Chelsea this season. When they created 63 unbeaten league games, they were violently blocked here, and finally lost the game 1:2, thus missing the creation of the 64th unbeaten league game...

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Chelsea adopted player rotation in the last round of the league, and the effect was good. Mourinho continued to rotate some players under the advice of the team doctor. For example, Malouda, whose appearances have dropped sharply this season, appeared at the starting right winger. Ballack and Essien were exempted from the game due to calf strain, and were replaced by Modric and Mikel respectively.

The same is true for the defense. The right back Ivanovic, who has performed amazingly recently, is also absent due to injury and is replaced by England full-back Bridge.

Arsenal, who are currently ranked third in the league, are 13 points away from Chelsea with only five rounds left in the league. They are definitely out of the league championship. Wenger also adjusted the direction of the game to the Champions League and the FA Cup. After all, they have already reached the semi-finals.

It can be said that Arsenal is one of the teams that have the best chance of preventing Chelsea from winning the championship. Arsenal’s style of play is mainly based on short pass penetration, which is highly entertaining. The midfielders in the team are all famous for their outstanding skills and strong ability to escape. Therefore, facing Chelsea’s muscular midfielder, they will not panic. Coupled with players like Arshavin and Walcott on the wing with excellent skills and speed, Arsenal’s style of play is more diverse, making it difficult for Chelsea to guard against.

The biggest headache for Mourinho is that the current Russian international Arshavin is in excellent condition. In the last round of the league, Arsenal challenged Liverpool away. Arshavin staged a big four and helped the team draw with the home team 4:4.

In fact, the FA Cup semi-final at the Emirates Stadium also confirmed this point. In the 9th minute of the game, Arshavin used an opportunity to cut in from the side to break the deadlock on the court.

"Andrei Arshavin!" The Arsenal TV commentator shouted excitedly: "The 'Tsar' continued his competitive state at Anfield four days ago, and helped Arsenal open the scoring at the Emirates Stadium!!"

At the same time, the Arsenal fans in the stands were extremely excited. They seemed to see the scene of beating Chelsea 15:2 at home in the 1th round of the league this season.

Even if Arsenal can't win the league title this season, Arsenal fans at least have something to be proud of, that is, they are the only team in the Premier League that has been able to beat Chelsea twice in one season!

Mourinho, who was sitting on the coach's bench, frowned, obviously a little helpless at conceding a goal in the 9th minute of the game.

In the final analysis, Arshavin's goal was attributed to a series of wonderful passes by the midfielder, which helped Arshavin open the gap and succeeded in singles against Bridge.

He knows that if this problem is not resolved in the future game time, then this conceded goal is definitely not the first goal conceded in this game.

After a while, Mourinho ran to the sidelines and took advantage of the dead ball to call Lampard to his side to teach him the opportunity.

In the next defense, the starting right winger no longer stood forward, but recovered to the position of the right avant-garde. Mikel and Lampard in the center recovered appropriately. Modric also came to the left rib to assist in the defense when defending, compressing Arsenal's frontcourt dribbling and passing and cutting space.

Sure enough, after compressing Arsenal's offensive space in the frontcourt, it will be difficult for Arsenal players to use the width of the court to create a local numerical advantage to face the Chelsea full-backs one-on-one.

There is no doubt that the next time belongs to Chelsea show time.

They performed the counterattack to the extreme.

Arsenal's frontcourt penetration must be achieved through the participation of multiple players, so it is difficult to adjust the entire defense line in the first place when switching from offense to defense.

Sagna and Alexander Song may have an advantage when defending Aiello statically, but they can't take advantage in sports battles. Ailuo's combination of technology and speed is perfect. He can maintain speed and change direction at high speeds. It is very deceptive, so as to get rid of the ball.

In the 15th minute, Mikel pre-judged the ball passed by Fabregas to Adebayor in advance, and then passed it to Lampard in front of him.

Alexander Song grabbed Ai Luo's jersey in the half-circle arc to prevent him from taking the ball and getting rid of it in the first place.

However, Ai Luo had an obvious prediction. The moment Lampard passed the ball to Modric, he suddenly pushed Alexander Song away, and made a gesture to meet Modric who was holding the ball.

Alexander Song didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly retreated with Aiello. The other Arsenal players' attention was also subconsciously focused on Aiello, so that they ignored Drogba's retreat, forming a diagonal line with Ailuo's position.

Modric directly took the football passed by Lampard to the front right, and even stopped and dribbled Volco behind him, and continued to take the ball.

Fabregas, who made a pass error, had to step forward and choose to defend Modric, but Wenger emphasized before the game that he should focus on marking the offensive organizer Modric in the process of transitioning from offense to defense.

But Modric, who was holding the ball, didn't wait for Fabregas to approach at all, and passed the ball to Aiello on the route of retreating.

"Ai!"

The Arsenal TV commentator exclaimed.

Alexander Song in the camera is very focused, and he still puts great pressure on the opponent even when Ai Luo is stuck in the position.

Seeing that Ai Luo is about to respond to the football, in order to prevent the fast counterattack that Chelsea is famous for, Alexander Song is going to push Ai Luo to the ground the moment he catches the ball, killing the counterattack in the cradle.

This is why Arsenal were able to keep a clean sheet in the past quarter of an hour.

The football was getting closer and closer. Alexander Song's right elbow was on Ai Luo's shoulder, and at the same time his feet were making small movements behind him. He firmly believed that his series of combined actions were enough to make Ai Luo fall to the ground, and then he heard the referee blow his whistle.

Under normal circumstances, the referee will not give a yellow card for such a foul.

But... Alexander Song seems to have forgotten that this situation can only be realized if Ai Luo has the ball.

Ai Luo leaned forward under the pressure of Alexander Song, and it seemed that he might fall to the ground at any time. The referee also kept his whistle in his mouth. As long as the football did not fall under the feet of the Chelsea players, he would blow the whistle in his mouth.

At this moment, Ai Luo, who seemed to be staggering to catch the ball, suddenly gave way with his left foot and missed the ball.

"Foul!! Huh? Missed the ball??" Lineker exclaimed from surprise to surprise.

Ai Luo was tall and just blocked Alexander Song's field of vision, which meant that he had no idea that Ai Luo had missed the ball...

In order to avoid falling to the ground, Ai Luo supported the turf with both arms to forcefully stabilize his figure, then bowed his body to complete the turn at the first time, got up and went forward!
(End of this chapter)