Green Journey

Chapter 409: Melon Kong Confrontation!

"Intensity!!!! The intensity of the press!!!!!! Strengthen the intensity of the midfield press!!!!!!!"

"Don't let them pass the ball easily!!!!!!!!!"

On the sidelines, Conte's expression and demeanor were particularly agitated, and it seemed that he was about to fight.

Conte stepped on the sideline and stretched his body to keep shouting to the players on the field, while making gestures with both hands to pass on his tactical instructions.

After seeing Fabregas and Kante respond, Conte took a deep breath of the hot and cold air to calm down.

Looking at Chu Zheng, who was chatting and laughing with De Bruyne on the field and trotting towards the middle circle, Conte felt helpless and at the same time envious of Guardiola.

This summer, after Conte took office, his first signing target was actually Chu Zheng.

Conte was very greedy at the time. He wanted to take Chu Zheng and Kanter away from Leicester City.

Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich is also very supportive and gave him enough signing funds, so he can do it.

However, in terms of personal transfer intentions, Chelsea was passed.

At that time, after learning that Chu Zheng rejected him, Conte even had the idea of ​​going to China to persuade Chu Zheng himself.

In Conte's eyes, Chu Zheng is really an infinitely close to perfect player, very suitable for his tactical system.

Do not!
Conte feels that players like Chu Zheng are suitable for any kind of tactical system, even he himself can be said to be a tactical system.

As long as any head coach gets Chu Zheng, he can create any kind of tactics around Chu Zheng. This is a multi-functional super core.

Football skills are actually the five aspects of passing, stopping, leading, shooting, and running, and Chu Zheng has no shortcomings in these five aspects.

Except for a slightly weak shot, other aspects are almost impeccable.

The most commendable thing is Chu Zheng's genius imagination and creativity.

Just like just now, lifting the hanging door at that position is simply a genius-like idea.

Conte believed that the Chelsea players on the field were like him at the time. Before Chu Zheng's shooting action appeared, he never thought that Chu Zheng would hang the goal.

On the field, after receiving Conte's tactical instructions, Chelsea re-opened the ball, and soon lost the ball under the pressure of Manchester City.

After losing the ball, Chelsea quickly launched a midfield press. Through tacit running, they first blocked Manchester City's offensive line, and then forced Manchester City to pass the ball back to the backcourt through high-intensity close pressing.

Conte's new tactical order took effect very quickly, and the Manchester City midfielder soon appeared to frequently return to the backcourt.

Guardiola soon noticed a change in Chelsea's tactics.

But he doesn't have a good coping strategy now.

Now the Premier League and other European teams, everyone knows that Manchester City's defense line Stones and Otamendi are not stable, and their ability to withstand pressure is poor, which is an unstable factor for Manchester City.

As long as the pressure is continuously applied through high-intensity pressing, Manchester City's defense will be in chaos.

In fact, the best strategy to deal with this kind of pressing is to shoot the ball continuously like Barcelona, ​​but unfortunately, he has only taken over Manchester City for a short time. He still needs a longer period of time to reach the level of Barcelona's way of treating opponents like dogs. long time.

On the field, Chelsea continued to exert pressure through high-intensity pressing.

Soon Manchester City's defense became happy.

In the 16th minute of the game, Manchester City got a sideline kick from outside Chelsea's penalty area on the left.

Seeing that the Chelsea players blocked the sideways in front of them airtight, Gundogan made a strong throw and threw the ball to Kolarov on the center line of the sideway.

Kolarov quickly adjusted his footsteps after taking the ball, and then made a long diagonal pass directly.

The landing point was at the front of the upper right corner of the penalty area on the other side of the half. Alonso quickly got in place and jumped before Navas.

In the ribs, Hazard stopped the ball and turned around in one go, and then started Hurricane.

The flexible snakeskin running position made Navas, who was chasing behind him, almost slipped and fell.

Dribbling the ball across the center line, he saw that Costa in the center circle area had already pulled towards his ribs obliquely, and he quickly stuffed the ball over.

Stones followed closely, forcing Costa all the way to the side.

Faced with Costa's continuous feints, Stones was calm and not fooled.

When Costa crossed the sideline of the penalty area, Stones, who was taking a step back, was directly in a position, separating the ball from Costa with his body.

The timing of that slot was amazing.

Then came a heart-wrenching scene.

After losing the ball, Costa quickly stuck up from behind Stones like a piece of dog skin plaster, trying to grab the ball back.

Stones protected the ball with his back, and made two consecutive feints from left to right, but failed to get rid of Costa behind him.

In front of the bottom line in the penalty area, Stones soon had no way to retreat. He sank down from his horse, protected the ball with his body, and fought desperately with Costa behind him.

At this moment, Costa is like a wild beast, frantically biting the prey in front of him.

Soon Stones was squeezed forward under the pressure of Costa's beastly physical fitness, his upper body was almost 90 degrees parallel to the ground, and the ball that was originally protecting his body rolled to his crotch, and he lost lost control of the ball.

Then Costa behind Stones directly stretched his feet to hook the ball that rolled after Stones stepped off.

Watching this scene, Guardiola almost died suddenly on the sidelines, and wanted to go to the field to split Stones' brain to see if it was full of paste.

Going out early, or kicking straight to the baseline or touchline will kill you?You have to protect the ball in front of the bottom line to play, something went wrong!

However, Guardiola forgot what he just did.

Guardiola stood on tiptoe and looked at his own penalty area. At this time, Fernandinho returned in time and blocked Costa.

Costa was also very decisive. With a poke, he handed the ball to Pedro outside the upper left corner of the small penalty area.

At this time, in the Manchester City penalty area, there are no Manchester City players in the area around the penalty spot and the top of the arc.

Fabregas in the left rib area at the top of the arc quickly ran diagonally towards the penalty line.

As long as Pedro gives the ball over, he can hit the goal directly without interference and equalize the score.

But Pedro didn't think so.

Pedro turned the ball around and faced the Manchester City goal when the ball stopped.

When he found that Kolarov was standing in the upper left corner of the small penalty area blocking him, he quickly gave up his idea of ​​hitting the goal and kicked the ball towards Fabregas with the outside instep.

Fabregas ran towards the ball, looking like he was going to kick it directly.

However, before he could kill the ball, a blue figure flew past from the right side and kicked the ball directly to the left sideline under his nose.

"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Seeing Chu Zheng recover and make a clearance in time, all the Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium were relieved at the same time.

"Stones, I almost got angry. You must be careful when handling this kind of ball."

"Yes, try to be as concise as possible." Zhang Lu shook her head and smiled, "I have no idea what he was thinking just now."

After saying that, Zhang Lu continued: "Confidence is possible, but you have to be clear about the opponent you are facing."

"Yes, Costa will not relax on the court, even if it is only for a second, he will grab you."

"Actually, I think Stones' reluctance to lose the ball has something to do with Guardiola."

"Just now Kolarov kicked the ball directly out of the sideline, and then the camera showed Guardiola. Guardiola was very dissatisfied."

"So Stones may have gone to the other extreme because he was afraid of being scolded."

Hearing Zhan Jun's words, countless domestic fans burst into laughter. They have never seen such a blame.

"Haha! It turns out that the pot belonged to Guardiola!" After hearing Zhan Jun's explanation, Zhang Lu was overjoyed, "Fortunately, Chu Zheng came back in time, otherwise Fabregas would have directly slammed the door, and probably would have entered directly. .”

Soon, the game continued, and Chelsea's pressing tactics gradually extended from the midfield to the frontcourt.

Manchester City's pass from the backcourt was seriously disturbed.

Just when the Manchester City fans were worried that the team would repeat the same mistakes, the Manchester City players on the field gave a coping strategy.

In the 19th minute of the game, Chelsea launched a high-position press in the frontcourt.

Otamendi retreated along the left line of the penalty area to get Bravo's cross ball before the bottom line.

Facing Hazard who rushed quickly, Otamendi obliquely pushed Fernandinho who entered the penalty area from the left rib of the top of the arc.

Fernandinho stopped the ball and turned around in one go. Facing Fabregas who rushed in front of him, he swung his right foot horizontally to the right, then started a horizontal follow-up and directly passed a long pass to the right side of the frontcourt.

At the same time, Navas, who had just retreated behind the center line, immediately turned a U-shaped turn to the right, and then increased his speed.

The ball jumped forward extremely fast after touching the ground on the landing point.

At this time in Chelsea's half, apart from Navas and Cahill, there are only Aguero and Azpilicueta in the middle.

In the high-post press in the frontcourt just now, Chelsea pressed extremely hard in front of the formation. It was completely unexpected that Manchester City would suddenly change their style and directly play this kind of long pass attack.

At this time, Aguero and Azpilicueta, who started from the middle circle area, are also sprinting towards the ball.

After Cahill crossed the halfway line, he knew that even when he was young and strong, he could not match the speed of Keylor Navas.

Seeing that Azpilicueta rushed towards the ball half a body ahead of Aguero, Cahill, who was originally on the outside, found the right time to turn in on the inside during the sprint.

It was this turn that forced Navas to slow down and continue to sprint to the outside, which laid an advantage for Azpilicueta to compete for the ball.

Three seconds later, Azpilicueta, Aguero, and Navas rushed to the ball at the same time.

Azpilicueta is not as capable as Stones. He directly grabbed the ball in front of Navas and Aguero and kicked the ball out of the sideline.

"Azpilicueta, another successful cross-zone defense!"

"It's a tacit understanding. Cahill's blocking of Navas is very important, otherwise Azpilicueta can't beat Navas."

When the words fell, Zhang Lu changed the subject and said with a smile: "Today, Guardiola's tactical design is very detailed. Chelsea presses forward and implements a high-position press. Manchester City sees that Chelsea players are all in their own half. They directly play behind Chelsea. The tactics are well implemented. Very flexible!"

On the sidelines, Guardiola also felt a little regretful about this failed attack.

His tactical design today is to play the ball in the backcourt as soon as he can, and to find the space in the defense if he can't. He must make full use of the depth of the court.

Next to him, Conte looked terrified at this time, and he glanced at Guardiola, feeling very helpless.

Guardiola obviously figured him out.

But think about it, with Guardiola's ability, it is impossible to repeat the mistakes he made against the Celtics and Camp Nou against Barcelona.

Sometimes stubbornness may lead the team into the abyss.

Although Guardiola's formations and substitutions are sometimes incomprehensible, he is definitely not a head coach who does not know how to adapt.

In the next game, as time goes by, the offensive and defensive transfer rhythm of the two sides is getting faster and faster.

Although no goals were scored after more than ten minutes, the two sides had mutual offense and defense, and the game was getting better and better.

Manchester City is focused on using the depth to attack, but Chelsea is making full use of the width of the pitch to mobilize and pull Manchester City.

But Conte's main offensive idea is Hazard on the left.

In the 26th minute of the game, after Chelsea transferred the ball to the right, a fierce competition for the ball broke out with Manchester City before and after the center line on the right.

The ball was finally poked by Kanter to Moses' feet.

Moses swung his legs on the spot, and directly transferred with another long pass.

Hazard went forward to the ribs and unloaded the ball perfectly, and then quickly started to cut inward to the defense line at the top of the arc.

Along the way, Hazard first passed Navas by relying on his flexibility and extremely fast foot frequency, and then continuously dialed the ball on the outside of his right foot to avoid the grabs of Otamendi and Fernandinho.

After reaching the front of the arc, seeing Chu Zheng approaching, Azar moved his right foot and suddenly shot a cold arrow, which was a slash with his foot on the ground.

The ball stuck to the turf and turned a reverse C-shaped arc from the outside to the inside, and then rubbed against the inside of the right post and entered Manchester City's goal.

In the face of Hazard's extremely tricky angle and sticking to the ground, Bravo was powerless, exposing his disadvantages of height and lack of wingspan.

This kind of ball is almost the Achilles' heel of an agile but small goalkeeper like Bravo.

"The ball went in!!!!!!"

"Azar's continuous breakthrough from the left side of the top of the arc to the top of the arc in the middle!!!!!!!!!"

"In the 27th minute and 18 seconds of the game, Chelsea equalized the score! This is Hazard's ninth Premier League goal this season!"

"Conte's thinking today is very clear, which is to make full use of the width of the court to play, find the right opportunity to find Hazard, and let him rush or pass the ball..."

At the scene, seeing the team equalize the score, Conte raised his fists high and roared towards the field.

Beside, Guardiola's face was calm as usual.

He can't blame any players for this goal, nor is it caused by Otamendi and others' defensive misplacement or mistakes. It is entirely the goal created by Hazard's super personal ability.

Guardiola looked at Hazard who was jumping and throwing punches to celebrate on the field. He knew it was time. He wanted to end Hazard and kill Chelsea's particularly active left offensive today.

Thinking together, Guardiola turned around and walked quickly back to the coach's bench, took the tactical tablet handed over by Arteta, then walked to the sidelines and waved while calling Chu Zheng and De Bruyne loudly.

Soon Chu Zheng, De Bruyne, and Guardiola took advantage of Chelsea's celebration time to chat on the sidelines.

(End of this chapter)