Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 195: Champions League Civil War 2
The time soon came to November 11th, and the match between the two teams was scheduled for 9 pm.

Liverpool arrived at Stamford Stadium an hour earlier. An hour before the start of the game, the stadium was already full. Tens of thousands of Chelsea fans were wearing blue jerseys. From the moment the two sides entered the stadium for adaptive training, the fans of the home team began to put pressure on Liverpool. Although there were sporadic Liverpool fans who followed the team to the Stanford Stadium to cheer for Liverpool, the noise they created could not offset the voices of tens of thousands of Chelsea fans.

After training on the court for about half an hour, both sides returned to the locker room for final mobilization and arrangement. Both sides could not afford to lose in this game. Although according to the current points and rankings of the two sides and the strength comparison of all teams in the entire group, Chelsea and Liverpool have a very high probability of qualifying, but the first and second positions in the group are related to whether they can occupy a favorable position in the knockout stage.

When the two sides were still in the locker room, the starting lineups of the two sides were obtained in the live broadcast room of each country. At this time, the commentators who were broadcasting the game were using their native languages ​​to introduce the starting lineups of the two teams to the fans in their own countries, and analyzed the tactical arrangements of the two sides from the starting lineup.

In this game, Chelsea sits at their home court and sent a lineup that they often use this season: goalkeeper Petr Cech, Johnson, Terry, Ferreira, Carvalho on the back line, Lampard, Makelele, Thiago in the midfield, Chen Xiao, Robben and Shevchenko in the forwards.

A typical 4213 formation, this lineup has caused headaches for many teams in the Premier League this season, including Liverpool.

Today, Liverpool's starting lineup is: goalkeeper Reina, defenders are Finnan, Hyypia, Carragher, Traore, midfielders are Riise, Gerrard, Alonso, Sissoko, Kewell, and striker is Dirk.

Benitez, who vowed before the game that he had found Chelsea's weakness, sent a 451 defensive counter formation.

While everyone was analyzing their tactics and highlights of the game for the starting lineups of the two sides, amidst the sudden burst of cheers and boos in the stadium, everyone found that players from both sides entered the stadium under the leadership of the referee, and then shook hands, exchanged team badges, and then guessed sides under the leadership of the referee.

Finally, when all the players stood in their positions, everyone saw that Liverpool, who were playing away, had won the right to attack. At this time, the players on both sides looked at the referee who had put the whistle on his mouth.

Finally, the referee looked at his watch, then raised his hand to signal to the fourth official on the sidelines, and then blew the whistle to start the game. The Premier League civil war between Chelsea and Liverpool in Group G of the UEFA Champions League in the 05-06 season officially began.

After the start of the game, Chelsea began to launch a high-intensity high-position press against Liverpool. Forwards including Chen Xiao began to defend Liverpool's backcourt players by pressing space. Mourinho chose to do this to let Liverpool, who played defensive counterattacks, speed up the pace of the game, and did not allow Liverpool's midfielders to think too much about time and easy passing space.

However, the gain at such a price is what Mourinho thinks is worth it.

From the very beginning of the game, Benitez could not sit on the coaching bench safely, because Mourinho’s style of self-destructing [-] and injuring [-] opponents was something he did not expect before the game. Benitez always felt that Chelsea would not attack rashly after the opening.

However, Chelsea's tactics did not follow Benitez's ideas at all. After the game started, Liverpool's crumbling defense made Benitez stand on the sidelines and yell non-stop.

Apart from yelling at Benitez, there is no other way. After all, the game has only started for less than 15 minutes, and it is impossible to choose a substitution now. The development of the situation is indeed what Benitez is worried about.

In the 16th minute of the game, Mourinho's choice finally paid off.

Robben and Thiago spared no effort to harass Traore's pass in the frontcourt. Thiago intercepted the ball in the middle. After getting the ball, Thiago looked up at his teammates and quickly transferred the ball to the right before Alonso rushed over. Because it was a hasty pass, Thiago's pass was not good, but we often say that football is round. Big, Chen Xiao was preempted by Finnan to occupy a favorable position, but I don’t know if Thiago’s footwork was wrong when passing the ball. The ball obviously had some arcs when it was in the air, and Finnan, who was stuck in the position, made a serious mistake when he stopped the ball with his right foot.

The ball was out of Finnan's control all of a sudden, and Chen Xiao, who was stuck in the position, immediately noticed the opponent's mistake. Chen Xiao immediately passed Finnan and chased forward. The frightened Finnan tried to hold Chen Xiao in a hurry, but Chen Xiao was very vigilant and used his swinging hand while running to open the hand of Finnan who was holding his clothes.

By the time Chen Xiao got the ball, Liverpool's defense was about to fall apart. Finnan was chasing Chen Xiao desperately from behind, while central defender Carragher had already left his original position and began to pounce towards the side. The midfielder Gerrard was preparing to fill Carragher's position, but would Chen Xiao do what they wanted?When Carragher was not fully in place, Chen Xiao started to cut directly into the penalty area, and now he faced Carragher directly.

Under the eyes of everyone, Chen Xiao stepped on the bicycle continuously in front of Carragher, who was not on a firm footing, and then picked up the ball with his right foot. Carragher thought that Chen Xiao was going to pick the ball, and immediately turned around, but Carragher found that there was no ball. When he reacted, Chen Xiao had already passed him with the ball. With a poke, he passed the opponent directly.

Chen Xiao, who passed Carragher, directly faced Reina, and there were no other defensive players in front of him. Then Chen Xiao directly chose a volley from a 45-degree angle.

1 to 0, the game progressed to the 17th minute, Chelsea took a one-goal lead at home.

(End of this chapter)