I work as a coach at Stamford Bridge

Chapter 187 Xiaobai
In the 10th minute, Xiaobai and his teammates made a wonderful cooperation and came to the left side of Chelsea's penalty area. Xiaobai lightly knocked back to Messi in the middle. Unfortunately, under the interference of Kaka, Messi lost the ball. They didn't touch each other, and let the ball pass by.

Then he was easily kicked by Terry to the feet of Didier Drogba in midfield.

Missing this good opportunity, Messi looked at Kaka. If there is no way to get rid of him today, it will be difficult for him to make a difference.He wasn't in a hurry, the game had just started, and I don't believe you, Kaka was attacking and defending physically enough to keep up.

Drogba's dribbling was cut off by Pique. At the beginning of the game, Drogba didn't take this matter to heart. In fact, this was also the beginning of Drogba's depression today.

Pique didn't take the ball forward, but gave the ball to Harvey who came to catch the ball in the midfield. Harvey took the ball and looked at the frontcourt. His teammates didn't have a good chance, so he controlled the ball and slowly moved towards the goal. forward.

Before Ballack came up, he returned the ball to Xiaobai in his own half.

As soon as Xiaobai received the ball, Anelka came to his side, kicking his feet and starting his hands, without much movement, but it made you lose the opportunity to accelerate forward.

After several changes of direction, Xiaobai failed to get rid of Anelka, and the forward pass route was blocked a lot, so he had to pass back to Pique again.

If Chairman Pi was still at Manchester United, he might just kick the ball forward with a big kick.But now in Barcelona, ​​Pique didn't dare to take the ball, nor did he use his big feet, but gave it to Abidal on the wing.

As soon as the latter ball reached his feet, Joe Cole came over and had to hand it over to Harvey near the middle circle
Seeing that there is no one around Eto'o for the time being, Harvey found the Cheetah in the frontcourt with a long pass.

As soon as Eto'o unloaded the ball, Ivan jumped in front of him from the frontcourt. Eto'o may be much faster than Ivan in his speed. After Ivan got close to him, his speed could not rise, because Ivan Much stronger than him.

Stuck in position, Eto'o had no choice but to return to Henry again.Probably seeing an old acquaintance, Terry rushed out and kicked the ball halfway, knocking Henry over.

Guardiola complained to the fourth official, but Henry patted his butt, took Terry's extended hand and stood up, and the two smiled affectionately.

Henry has long been used to facing such a situation, and he will not take it to heart. Playing against a Premier League team and not being knocked down by them a few times is not considered an official game.

He even misses it a bit. The most glorious era is to stay in the Premier League. In Barcelona, ​​he will not have his own status no matter what. It seems that the professor led the team to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Shaking his head self-deprecatingly, he quickly cleared these distracting thoughts from his mind. Today, he represents the La Liga team Barcelona against the Premier League team.

Relying on fast running and active defense, Chelsea's players made it difficult for Barcelona's possession to pass the midfield, but it was fine in their own half.As soon as you crossed the midfield line, the Chelsea players rushed towards you as if they were going to eat you. What made the Barcelona players even more disgusting was that you even ran back to the midfield to participate in the defense.

frenzied! !
The trident in the front court was submerged in the muscle jungle of Ivan and others. It is worth mentioning that AZP, who replaced Ashley Cole, performed well. Faced with Messi and Henry, AZP Already deflected several of their catches.

He was not in a hurry to grab the ball, most of them were besieging Barcelona with the midfielders and holding the ball. He reasonably used his body to grab the ball a few times. AZP did not rush forward to assist. Today, the coach gave His job is to defend.

Guardiola saw that the team had been down in his own half for a long time, and couldn't help shouting to signal them to move forward.Inverting and passing the ball are only useful if they are carried out in the opponent's half.

Of course Guardiola also knows how ruthless Chelsea's half-court defense is. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he must also favor the tigers.

In the 26th minute, it was Xiaobai Iniesta again. Taking advantage of the opportunity of a corner kick, Xiaobai circled around the penalty area and ran to the front of the penalty area. At this time, Harvey's corner kick came here just right.

Gently stopping the ball at his feet, without a chance to bring it forward, Xiaobai shot a strong shot from the front of the penalty area, but was still blocked by AZP flying to the baseline with his body.

Right now, his feet were stuffed on AZP's chest. Seeing the ball went out of the baseline, AZP covered his chest and squatted down. Although Xiaobai is not known for his hard feet, such a strong shot is not weak.

The referee Stark stepped forward to ask if there was any problem, and the latter shook his head, indicating that it was okay.

Xiaobai came up to AZP and said a few words of apology, it was not Xiaobai's fault, so AZP had nothing to say, and shook hands with Xiaobai graciously.

This 26-minute shot was actually Barcelona's first shot in this game. Chelsea's defense was so tough that the fans at the scene couldn't believe that this was the Barcelona team they were familiar with.

You've been playing in your own half all the time, yes, the ball is under your control, but you come out, there is no threat!

Instead, it was Chelsea playing away. In the next few minutes, Ballack took a long shot from outside the penalty area on the left side and was shot by Valdez. Anelka also took the corner kick first. Down, the top flew and failed to hold down the ball.

It was still Iniesta. In the 34th minute, he received a pass from Eto'o on the left side of the penalty area. He made a very wonderful stop and returned the pass. Henry rushed out of Terry's defense in an instant. Volley.

Cech didn't dare to be careless, and held the ball out of the near post with one hand.

So far, the only player in the Barcelona team who can still play at an extraordinary level is Iniesta, and all of Barcelona's threatening attacks are initiated or transmitted by Iniesta.

Yunqiao frowned, and then signaled to Ivan and Arshavin to take care of Xiaobai and not let him be too lonely.

In the next round, Arshavin shoveled Iniesta up in the midfield. Under the boos of the audience and the anger of Barcelona players and coaches, Stark sent out the first yellow card of the day.

In the next ten minutes, Iniesta was knocked down one after another by Chelsea. This kind of foul is too common for Premier League players, but it is difficult for La Liga players to accept. My beloved player fell to the ground again and again, but the referee didn't even change the card.

Stark is a very experienced referee, and it is not the first time he has refereeed a match of a Premier League team. He also knows the characteristics of a Premier League team. Will change because of protests from fans and players.

On the other hand, Yunqiao asked the players to strengthen Iniesta's defense because his Yunqiao's eyes have become a variable for Barcelona.It is worth mentioning that the player who suffered the most fouls in the Champions League this season is not Messi, but Iniesta, who has been fouled 26 times so far, not to mention Iniesta He also missed 4 Champions League games this season.

Especially in the knockout match between Barcelona and Lyon, Xiaobai was brought down 10 times, which also broke the number of fouls in the Champions League this season.

Compared with Chelsea, except for one player, all other players have shown their due strength, and that person is the "Warcraft" Drogba who is in the Premier League.

Under Pique's defense, Drogba, who caused headaches for the Premier League defenders, had no way to get rid of Pique's defense in this game.This made everyone including Yunqiao expect that Drogba's condition was not bad, but he was not defended by Pique alone.

In fact, Pique is also defending Drogba for the first time. In the Premier League, Pique has not had a direct confrontation with Drogba. In Pique's view, the most difficult player in the Premier League should be Arsenal For Adebayor, the Togolese are tall, flexible and possess a lot of skills.

In addition, at Manchester United before, Ferguson was also very optimistic about Pique, and even told him about Drogba's technical characteristics: "Drogba is the most comprehensive striker in the world. He is very strong and knows how to protect the ball. Tall, but quick and powerful. Very good shot."

In the last round of the match against Bayern, Pique defended the opponent's 1-meter Tony. You must know that Pique himself is only 96 meters.

From Pique's point of view, Yaya Toure in the midfield is defending, and it is impossible for him to grab the header with Drogba. If he can't grab the header, it is not easy to foul. It is better to see the opportunity to tackle and follow him, and try to compress The angle between him and the goal does not allow him to easily have a shooting angle, and then suppress his advancing speed, waiting for his teammates to double-team.

There is a midfielder there to defend, remember not to compete with him for the header, otherwise it is easy to foul.Ram knows, tackling is a good way, you have to follow him left and right, try to compress the angle between him and the goal so that the goalkeeper is best prepared.

Drogba is very uncomfortable, he has not experienced such a defense for a long time.

(End of this chapter)