opening a balotelli

Chapter 236 Killing, but also punishing the heart
After the reporters standing on the sidelines recovered from the state of shock, they immediately looked in the direction of Chelsea's bench.

They want to know, is there still a supernova in Chelsea's bench that has not been discovered?

The genius who can send this kind of pass is let go again, Chelsea, it is worthy of you!

But Foshuai Di Matteo is also a little confused now.

No, he observed De Bruyne for a lot of time during the summer training. Although this kid passed the ball well, he never sent such an assist on the training ground.

Otherwise, he will definitely not let De Bruyne go, isn't it just a guarantee of rotation? With De Bruyne's passing skills and genius footwork, he will also give De Bruyne a chance.

But at this moment, if Speed ​​knew what DiMatteo was thinking, he would definitely laugh.

In terms of the tactical rigor and trust in veterans required by Di Matteo in training, De Bruyne wants to show that he has no chance.

If you hold the ball for a while, or if you want to dribble the ball on the side, Di Matteo will stop immediately.

For such a talented player, Chelsea's coaching staff is not talking about your current shortcomings, what plan we will make to help you improve, and how much time we will give you to adapt.

They just say you can't do it, it's wrong, you can't play in the Premier League like that.

Then you have said that, De Bruyne is still acting like a ghost.

Trust is always what a player craves most when he arrives at a new club.

Chelsea's signing strategy over the years has only highlighted one word: trench!

Trust may be easy to show at other clubs, but here at Chelsea, they ask you to perform first and then talk about trust.

For a veteran who has been famous for a long time, there is nothing wrong with this. After all, Chelsea's goal every year is to be a champion. For a championship team, the competition within the team is realistic and cruel.

But it is also done for young players. Hazard is kicked out if he adapts, and De Bruyne is the typical representative if he chooses to leave.

Of course, Chelsea have Abramovich, they will never lack young talented players, they can make a lot of money if they play one, and if they can't play it, they just sell it.

It's just that Chelsea have only stumbled many times at Sheffield United over the years.

Even the reporters on the sidelines were muttering.

I really caught a sheep and slammed it. There was Matic Bertrand before, and then there was De Bruyne. If Bertrand hadn't chosen to return to Chelsea, then Sheffield United would be in trouble. Three kills.

"I just said that Speed's choice to let De Bruyne start must have his intentions, my God! Such an assist is only two or three meters away from the midfield line. In this position, he dares to send diagonally. Over the top straight through, and it succeeded, Speed, Speed, picked up another big treasure from Chelsea!"

"Should the person in charge of Chelsea's transfer reflect on it? This is the third one, and De Bruyne Chelsea has never used it, so he transferred it to Sheffield United on loan, and there is a buyout clause , Is it just not optimistic? De Bruyne is a 100% passing genius! I don’t think Sheffield United will let it go. Although Joaquin is good, he is getting older after all. De Bruyne adapts to one or two After the season, you can officially take over."

The more Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu watched De Bruyne, the more they liked him. Who made this kid give Li Mo a super assist?

At the moment, De Bruyne, who has almost become famous in the Premier League, is embracing Li Mo to welcome the warm congratulations from his teammates.

High spirits!

This word is used to describe De Bruyne now.

He's a proud man, always has been.

Chelsea chose to give him to Sheffield United in the summer window. To be honest, it has always made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Hate is definitely out of the question. After all, Chelsea brought him from Genk to the Premier League. At this point, he is very grateful to Chelsea.

But De Bruyne still feels great to be able to show off at Stamford Bridge now.

He thinks it's a testament to his ability.

It's not that he's not capable. He trained at Chelsea in the summer and all he needed was a chance to compete fairly, but Di Matteo didn't give it to him.

But that's a blessing in disguise.

From Speed ​​and the Sheffield United coaching staff, De Bruyne feels real trust and respect.

What shortcomings does he have, what else does he need to do to achieve a stable rotation, these things the coaching staff told him sincerely.

De Bruyne accepted it, worked harder for it, and devoted himself to daily training with more enthusiasm.

And today's starting game is the best compliment for him.

He likes Speed, likes the coaching staff, likes this team, and prefers Li Mo, who can stably convert his passes into goals in training.

This is a place where dreams and self-worth can be realized, and at this moment, De Bruyne has completely returned to his heart.

"Now you are the only one in the team who dares to pass the ball like this, Kevin, well done!"

When the celebration was almost over, Li Mo brushed De Bruyne's golden hair with a smile, and praised De Bruyne again without hesitation.

No one doesn't like praise, and although De Bruyne is proud, he is no exception.

After coming to Sheffield United, De Bruyne has made good progress in integrating into the team in terms of tactics, but in private life, he doesn't have much intersection with the current group of teammates.

Li Mo praised him for a while, and his teammates also warmly congratulated him, which made him a little embarrassed.

In Li Mo's memory, De Bruyne seems to have been abandoned by his host family when he was a child, so his mind is more sensitive. It is not easy to get into his heart and become good friends with him.

But both of them are young people. After training and playing together for a long time, the relationship will naturally become close. It just takes some time and a process.

Li Mo is now taking the opportunity to boast for a while, after all, no matter how stubborn his character is, De Bruyne is only a 21-year-old young man, hehe, he must be taken down sooner or later!
The two of them covered their mouths on the way back and didn't know what they were talking about, but judging from their relaxed demeanor and smiling expressions, they were both in a good mood at the moment.

Speed ​​is also very happy. De Bruyne played a very good tactical effect in his first start. Now they have successfully led Chelsea. This start can only be described as wonderful.

In today's game, Speed's bottom line is actually to get a point, and he can retreat at Stamford Bridge. After all, most of the main players in the team will have to return to the national team to play in the world preliminaries.

But now that the game is broken, the bottom line can be adjusted flexibly.

Anyway, it is not their home court, they are not in a hurry, Chelsea should be in a hurry, and Sheffield United only needs to defend well in the next game and play Chelsea's counterattack.

"Let Jamie not have to go back to the locker room at the end of halftime, but just stay on the sidelines to warm up. In the second half, we will play four-four-two instead."

Speed ​​discussed with the teaching assistant for a while.

They all communicated with De Bruyne before the game, and the opponent also knew that he was basically in the first half, so replacing him in the second half would not make the opponent dissatisfied.

After all, De Bruyne's confrontation ability is still weak. You can't expect Di Matteo to be confused all the time. If Di Matteo reacts in the second half, he will top Lampard or replace Essien to rush to De Bruyne. , then it will easily tear through the first line of defense in Sheffield United's midfield.

Fortunately, DiMatteo hasn't made any major adjustments yet, and Speed ​​also asked De Bruyne to find his way on the court.

But with the shocking performance just now, Chelsea did not dare to give De Bruyne any more space. After the kick-off, Chelsea's pressure on the Sheffield United midfielder came up immediately.

Fortunately, Speed's adjustment was timely, and Sheffield United also quickly shrunk their formation and launched a strangulation tactic in the midfield. It was a posture that I don't want control of the midfield, but you don't want it either.

This kind of strangled defense is holistic. De Bruyne is also satisfied after completing the assist and is very active on the defensive end. Even if he cannot complete the steal, it is always a good thing to interfere with Mata or Hazard's organization. .

Although Chelsea wanted to seize the time to counterattack, but Sheffield United's strangling tactics split their three-way link.

Hazard can break through with points, but he can't explode every time, but with him as an offensive arrow, Chelsea still got a lot of set-piece opportunities.

Although Maguire respects Terry very much, he will not save face for the old captain of the national team at this time, and has stepped forward again and again when defending set kicks.

His big head made Chelsea fans feel powerless.

With a height of 1.9 meters four and an excellent judgment on where the football will fall, Maguire can't help but become the focus of the audience when he is fighting for the top.

David Luiz was still eager to try, but after being flanked by Li Mo and Vertonghen once, he also saw the situation clearly.

The special Sheffield United defensive players are like animals, the kind that are better than each other!

Especially Li Mo, how can you be more active as a center forward than your own defender?You are not playing a central defender, you are a center forward, bastard!

As time goes by, Chelsea's players will inevitably become a little impatient, but Sheffield United is like this. They defend with all their strength and don't care whether the scene is good or not. In the air and on the ground, you have the ability to attack. If you can't attack, wait. He was suffocated to death.

After all, Torres is not Drogba. Without the offensive backbone and battering ram at critical moments, Chelsea has become less like the previous Blues.

In front of the army of muscle stranglers, Chelsea's unreformed technical style of play does not seem to be too convincing.

Until the end of the first half, they were just dawdling outside the penalty area, which made the Blues fans a little flustered.

They won't experience the feeling of being suffocated by Sheffield United again today, will they?

In the end, if it really lost 0-1, it would be too aggrieved. The key is that Sheffield United didn't seem to make much effort, and even gave up the midfield. Why is Chelsea still playing so hard?

When Vardy did not return to the locker room, but started to warm up on the sidelines, Chelsea fans felt like eating flies.

This makes it clear that Vardy will resolutely play a defensive counterattack. Li Mo and Bell are enough for Chelsea to deal with, and another Vardy will be added.

Speed, you are not human!
The boos began to sound, but that was all the fans could do, and there was nothing to stop the handsome old man from making a decision.

At the beginning of the second half, Vardy directly replaced De Bruyne, and Sheffield United also returned to their most familiar [-] formation.

"It's been hard, Chelsea is going to be hard today. Sheffield United played counter-defense when they were leading. I can only say that it depends on the adjustment of Fernando Di Matteo. If they still play like the first half, then It is very difficult for Chelsea to win today, of course, their top priority now is to find a way to equalize the score first, why not let Lampard try more, I think Torres is not in a good state."

Looking at Torres' struggling performance, Zhan Jun felt very uncomfortable.

There is no doubt that as a Liverpool fan, he likes Torres very much. It is also very uncomfortable for him to see the former striker become what he is today.

But competitive sports don’t look at feelings. If you can do it, you can do it. If you can’t, you can only go down. At this time, Sturridge is still sitting on the bench at Chelsea. the result of.

However, Di Matteo was still a little timid and didn't dare to change players earlier, mainly because Abramovich was watching the game in the private room today. If he changed Torres this time, it would definitely make the big boss unhappy.

Almost 15 minutes into the second half, Chelsea still had no achievements on the offensive end. Seeing that it was No. 60 minutes into the game, Di Matteo felt that Abramovich should also see that it was inappropriate to continue to use Torres, so he called out with confidence. Called Sturridge to warm up.

No.607 minutes, when Sturridge replaced Torres, Abramovich sitting in the box looked very ugly.

He bought so many technical players just to let Di Matteo activate Torres and let Torres slowly return to his previous state, not to continue to watch Torres struggle.

Now Torres' performance is still ugly, and the team seems to be unable to win the game against Sheffield United, so Abramovich can't stand it anymore.

He doesn't care about spending money, but he wants to see the results. Di Matteo assured him that the reconstruction is almost complete, but the backhand was played and tortured by Sheffield United on the field.

Rebuilt like this?
Abu felt that he was cheated, and he was very angry.

But Di Matteo didn't realize it. After replacing Sturridge, he finally started to work around, pulling Mata aside and letting Lampard and Ramirez switch positions.

At the last moment, he still trusted the veteran more, hoping that Lampard could lead the Blues to break through Sheffield United's defense.

Seeing this, Li Mo kept shaking his head.

Foshuai's adjustment is too slow, will he think of advancing Lampard's position?late!

Li Mo looked at his coach's bench, and sure enough, Speed ​​saw Di Matteo make a move, and quickly called Trippier who had already warmed up.

Three minutes later, Trippier came on to replace Joaquin, and then switched positions with Medel. Medel returned to the right midfield position to further strengthen the interception and coverage of the midfield. Trippier's appearance also made Sheffield United On the right side, there is a huge threat from the back.

Well, just as Chelsea wanted to speed up, Sheffield United released Medel, a big killer.

Matara directly faced Medel, and now it’s hard not to be invisible. Hazard is still competing with Bale. No matter how good you are Lampard, you can’t play alone, right?

Li Mo has become active.

Chelsea's attack will be blocked later, then his chance will come again.

Anti-counterattack and anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-counterattack, no matter what, you have to hit Chelsea with one or two counter-attacks.

In the No.708 minute of the second half, when both sides' physical fitness had dropped a lot, Sheffield United still found an opportunity. After snatching the ball from Sturridge, Vertonghen came directly. Remember the long-distance long-distance pass is to find Li Mo who is at the forefront.

David Luiz's post defense was fast, but Li Mo didn't get any ink marks at all, and directly backed up with a header and rubbed. Vardy, who was full of energy, rushed out in an instant, led the ball and started running all the way.

Terry is still experienced, pulling Mikel to a deeper position, just to prevent Sheffield United from counterattacking, but Vardy wisely chose to dribble the ball to the side, and did not give them the first chance to intercept.

According to last season's style of play, Matt Ridge has already plugged in at high speed on the left, and Trippier on the right will also quickly lap the side. Vardy can choose to wait for Trippier, or hit the ball horizontally. Li Mo came over.

But Sheffield United's style of play has changed this season.

Because a bell came.

Counterattack, with Bale, this is very simple.

Vardy kicked up and passed the ball directly behind Terry and Ivanovic while running. It doesn't need how accurate his pass is, just need to send an advance amount, and be careful not to let Cech attack first to get the ball. .

And Bell also inserted into the gap between Ivanovic and Terry almost instantly.

Cech wanted to attack and destroy the ball, but seeing Bell's amazing speed, he immediately put out such thoughts.

He was afraid that he was only halfway through the attack, and Bell would catch up with the football. In that case, Bell would just shoot an angle, and he would have nothing to do when he was halfway through the attack.

But now Cech can only gamble. Facing Bell's single-handedness, Cech opened his arms and expanded his defensive area.

He can only trust his goal-line skills.

But Bell also believed in his shooting skills. A decisive low shot aimed at the near corner of the goal fooled Petr Cech and made all Chelsea fans feel chilled instantly.

After Li Mo saw Bell's one-handed goal, he was completely relieved. He trotted to the corner flag area and hugged Bell, who was still possing love, and then the two were overwhelmed by Sheffield United players swarming up.

2-0!

Playing the simplest anti-counterattack stunned Chelsea, and the ball that broke the game was assisted by a player released by Chelsea.

It's scary to kill people, but also to punish their hearts~
(End of this chapter)