Green Journey

Chapter 543 It's time for Conte to find a way!
In the 36th minute of the game, Manchester City left and Chelsea outside the penalty area, Sane dribbled the ball again to attack.

But in a blink of an eye, he was surrounded by water, fell into a predicament of isolation and helplessness, and finally lost the ball.

Zhang Lu in the LeTV live broadcast room frowned: "Manchester City's switching between 343 and 4141 today is very smooth, allowing them to gain control of the game."

"But the problem is also very obvious."

"That is, when Chelsea completely blocked the center, Manchester City's wing attack was also hampered by tactical strategies."

"For example, Delph, he moves up and down the offensive and defensive ends. Although he allows Manchester City to switch smoothly between 4141 and 343, under this tactical layout, it is difficult for Delph, who is not a wide player on the left, to provide Sane with enough support."

"During this period, Sane frequently fell into one-on-many dilemmas on the left, which resulted in Manchester City's attack on the left not achieving much effect."

"But Guardiola is a master tactician."

"When Kyle Walker retracted into the right central defender and had less forward penetration in the game, in order to allow Manchester City to completely open up the situation on the wing, he arranged for Manchester City's four midfielders, who have excellent mobility and passing ability. Browne and Chu Zheng went to get more contact and cooperation with Sane and Sterling."

"This combined with quick counter-attacks, Manchester City won more offensive opportunities than Chelsea in the game."

"De Bruyne, Sterling, Chu Zheng and Sane constantly cooperated in strong attacks. Their speed and excellent passing and cutting skills made up for the gap in frontcourt offense caused by Kyle Walker's inability to advance forward as the right center back. "Zhang Lu's thinking was particularly clear, and Zhan Jun nodded repeatedly.

In the 39th minute of the game, Courtois took a goal kick and handed it directly to Cahill outside the penalty area on the left.

Kalsi dribbles forward and out of the top corner of the penalty area.

This time Chelsea learned the lesson from the previous time and the players were active in running.

Fabregas quickly retreated, trying to cooperate with Louis, Cahill and others to create space to break Manchester City's high press.

On Manchester City's side, Jesus, Chu Zheng, and Sterling formed a triangle and stood on the side road, ready to attack Chelsea at any time.

Under the command of Fabregas, Cahill crossed Luiz in the top area of ​​​​the arc to the right.

At this moment, Manchester City launched an attack.

Resus turned around, quickly rushed forward, and pressed Louis who was holding the ball.

Chu Zheng also followed Fabregas who was two or three meters away in front of him and ran horizontally to the middle. Once Fabregas got the ball, he would immediately go up and press.

Sterling remains in the half, next to Clichy and Alonso.

Soon enough, Luiz sent the ball back to Cahill outside the top corner of the penalty area.

Sterling exploded in an instant and went straight to Cahill.

Cahill was very calm. After stopping the ball, he quickly wanted to make a diagonal pass to the right, and Fabregas turned around and rushed back to meet him.

At this moment, Sterling, who had just rushed in front of Cahill, turned to the left and just intercepted the ball that Fabregas gave to Alonso on the wing.

In an instant, countless people in the stands were hanging in their throats, feeling that Tian Linggai was breathing cold.

"Man City steals the ball in the frontcourt and gets a chance to counterattack." Zhan Jun exclaimed.

On the court, as soon as Sterling got the ball, Jesus quickly retreated to the top of the arc.

Chu Zheng also turned around and ran towards the middle, establishing a diagonal connection with Sterling.

But in the next second Sterling crossed the ball to Jesus on the left, and then moved forward along the ribs into the penalty area.

Due to Fabregas's rapid lateral approach, which cut off the passing line, Jesus was unable to return the ball to Sterling and had to dribble the ball himself.

In a blink of an eye, Fabregas and Luiz formed a pincer attack on Jesus at the front of the arc on the right.

At this time, because of Fabregas behind him, Jesus could not turn around, so he had to throw the ball to the right under his feet, intending to forcefully pass between the two.

But Louis has quick eyesight and quick hands, kicking the ball away with one kick.

The ball rolled straight to Chu Zheng who was following behind the three of them.

Seeing Chu Zheng take the ball, countless Chelsea fans in the stands and Conte on the sidelines subconsciously held their breath, their eyes looked very frightened, they were afraid.

In front of the top of the arc, after Chu Zheng stopped the ball with his right foot, he saw Azpilicueta standing in the left area at the top of the arc.

Sane, who was in the left rib area at the top of the arc, had already started running towards the ribs of the penalty area, and Chu Zheng suddenly made a through kick.

The next second, Sane successfully met the ball outside the upper corner of the small penalty area on the left.

But Azpilicueta was not slow, and retreated along the inside line in time, blocking Sane's line from pushing the far corner.

Sane was also very decisive. Seeing that the far corner line was blocked, he directly hit the near corner with his left foot.

As a result, Courtois failed to threaten Courtois in front of the near post. The ball flew out of the baseline and hit the side net trembling.

From the perspective of the stands and the broadcast, the goal looked very much like a goal.

For a while, many Chelsea fans subconsciously hugged their heads and howled.

"Pass the ball!!"

"be quick!!!"

"quick!!!!!"

On the sidelines, Conte acted as excited as cursing, shaking his hands vigorously, and yelling at the Chelsea players on the field, his face was full of dissatisfaction.

In the 42nd minute of the game, on the left side of the center circle, Stones made a long-distance pass to Lu Sane on the front side.

After Sane got the ball on the sideline, he faced Moses, who was hunched over his waist, and saw that Delph did not come up, but Chu Zheng from the upper corner of the penalty area ran across. He immediately knocked the ball over, and then Bottom along the edge.

Chu Zheng met the ball and went straight in front of Sane on the wing.

His through ball was as good as ever, but Sane was caught by Moses and didn't make a full run.

In a blink of an eye, Azpilicueta, who went down the inside line along the sidewalk, arrived first.

Moses slowed down immediately when he saw it.

Sane did not give up and went straight to Azpilicueta.

But in the next second, Azpilicueta did not stop the ball, but directly kicked back the ball to Moxi behind Sane.

Moxi was underprepared for this ball, and the distance was a bit close.

Moses raised his foot in a hurry, but instead of stopping, the ball hit the sideline behind him.

At the same time, Chu Zheng immediately started and went straight to the ball.

But Moses was closer.

Moses turned around, followed two steps and fell to the ground. He swept the ball to Kanter who was retreating inside from the wing, allowing Chu Zheng to miss.

After Kanter got the ball, he immediately passed it forward to the right to Cesc Fabregas in the upper corner of the penalty area.

This pass made Delph, who was snatching up from behind him, immediately slow down and turn to the ribs, and put the inside line to the outside line.

Delph's choice is very wise. The effect of Kante taking the ball and Hazard taking the ball may be very different.

Fabregas saw that the passing line to Hazard was cut off by Delph, and he had to pass the ball to Kante on the wing.

Kanter rushed hard after getting the ball and entered the 30-meter wing area in an instant.

But at this time, Manchester City also set up a five-man defense line from the center in front of the arc to the left.

Seeing that the sideways were tightly blocked, Kanter wisely handed the ball to Hazard on the right front sideline.

Only Hazard, who has top-level breakthrough ability, has a chance to break through such a tight defense. Kanter is very self-aware of his own skills at his feet.

But after Hazard got the ball, he didn't find a flaw in Manchester City's defense.

On Manchester City's side, Stones, Kompany and others have almost perfect spacing.

After such a hesitation, Delph, De Bruyne and Chu Zheng rushed back.Two fill the space on the left rib of the top of the arc, and the other is positioned at the front of the top of the arc in the middle.

After taking a few steps inside, Hazard stopped and stepped on the ball with his right foot. He didn't know what he was waiting for, giving people the feeling that there was nothing he could do against Manchester City's defense.

But in a blink of an eye, he passed consecutive passes with Kanter ahead, mobilizing Stones and Delph in this way.

After Kanter knocked the ball back to Hazard outside the upper corner of the penalty area, he suddenly ran laterally into the penalty area.

At this moment, Hazard picked the ball into the rib area of ​​​​the penalty area.

De Bruyne immediately entered the penalty area and went straight to Kante who was about to get the ball. Kompany also leaned towards the upper corner of the small penalty area to cut off the line of Kanter's cross.

But the next second, Kanter rushed to the ball but stepped on it.

Immediately, the ball went straight to the back point.

Manchester City's defense was caught off guard.

On the left side of the penalty spot, Walker quickly turned around and went straight to the spot, but it was a bit late.

Alonso rushed outside the top corner of the penalty area and volleyed without stopping the ball.

But fortunately, Kanter's foot pad passed a bit deep, and Walker quickly got in place to seal the far corner, so Alonso had only one shot line to choose from.

That is Edson, who is hard-pressed to seal the close corner.

The next second, facing Alonso's powerful volley, Ederson ducked to the right and blocked the ball out of the baseline with his right shoulder.

Witnessing this thrilling scene, countless fans in the stands shook their heads and exclaimed.

Then the Chelsea fans applauded.

Although it failed to score a goal, this is already a rare and threatening offensive scene for the team.

"Chelsea targeted the space behind Delph's ribs from the beginning, which he failed to recover immediately. They did get several opportunities, but since Manchester City became vigilant, they had no space behind Delph's ribs. The offensive effect of the organization began to be greatly reduced." Zhang Lu said.

"Conte needs to think of a way." Zhan Jun said with a smile, "The first half is almost over, but so far Chelsea have hardly had many offensive opportunities, and the ball is in the hands of Manchester City most of the time. .”

"Possession was 73 per cent and 27 per cent for both sides."

While the two were talking, Manchester City's attack came on the field.

In the 44th minute of the game, Walker received the ball outside the arc of the middle circle on the right and quickly distributed the ball to the front right.

De Bruyne quickly shifted from the ribs to the side to receive the ball.

At the same time, Sterling, who was in front of Chelsea's left rib area at the top of the arc, also quickly retreated.

The next second, De Bruyne caught up with the ball on the sideline, passed Sterling diagonally, and then moved forward along the sideline.

Sterling didn't take the ball and hit the ball directly in front of De Bruyne.

Outside the upper corner of the penalty area, De Bruyne carried Alonso on the left and got the ball first.

The ball was brought outside the penalty area, and immediately came a low and flat cross.

At the penalty spot, Jesus, who was sandwiched between Azpilicueta and Luis, immediately ran forward.

At the front of the small penalty area on the right, Jesus was in position to meet the ball and shoot, but Azpilicueta on his left stretched his foot at a very precise time and blocked the ball directly out of the baseline.

Guardiola nodded straight from the sidelines, and seemed to be extremely satisfied with Jesus' active running interspersed.

In fact, compared with Aguero, Jesus is more in line with Guardiola's tactical requirements on the field. This player can strictly implement his tactical requirements.

Of course, Aguero, who has been beaten by him now, is also good.

After a while, the fourth official on the sidelines held up a sign for injury time, only 2 minutes.

Soon, De Bruyne was standing next to the right corner area, ready to take the ball.

In the penalty area, Manchester City had six players.

And Chelsea is also facing a big enemy. A total of 9 people returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, leaving Hazard alone in front of the top of the arc.

Seeing the gesture raised by De Bruyne, Chu Zheng, who was standing on the penalty spot, took a few steps back and stood between the penalty spot and the broken line of the penalty area.

But even so, Chelsea did not relax its supervision of Chu Zheng.

After Louis and Cahill communicated, one person was quickly separated to stand beside Chu Zheng.

In the next second, De Bruyne took a corner kick and the ball went straight to the middle.

At this moment, Chu Zheng before the penalty kick suddenly exploded.

Rao had guessed Manchester City's corner kick routine, but Luis still couldn't keep up with Chu Zheng.

It felt like Chu Zheng was like a tank equipped with a rocket engine, running over him in an instant, leaving Louis unable to counterattack at all.

On Chu Zheng's side, after rushing out one meter, he immediately took off with the help of inertia. The height he soared made countless people gasp.

De Bruyne's kick was obviously tailor-made for Chu Zheng.

The height of the ball was high enough that Cahill and Matic, who were jumping after Chu Zheng, could not touch the ball at all.

The next second, in full view of everyone, Chu Zheng, whose take-off height was at least 90cm, rushed to the top of the ball.

In the middle of the goal, Courtois quickly flew to the right.

Then the next second, the ball knocked away his outstretched right fingertips and plunged into the goal.

"goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Goal again!!!!!!" Zhan Jun shouted suddenly, "Chu Zheng scored the 104th goal, scoring twice!"

On the sidelines, seeing Chu Zheng score again, Guardiola punched him hard in excitement.

In the stands, all the Chelsea fans were devastated at this time. They never expected to be hammered into another one by Manchester City at this time.

On the field, after Chu Zheng scored a goal, he immediately turned around and rushed to De Bruyne in the corner, and the two hugged each other heavily.

This ball was so comfortable for Chu Zheng to hit.

Both the height and the route are appropriate, and De Bruyne can send this kind of refreshing pass.

In Madrid, Spain, Zidane, who was sitting on the sofa, stared at Chu Zheng with a bright smile in the camera.

Zidane felt that Chu Zheng's ability to bounce and stay in the air was better than that of Ronaldo under his command, which made him feel extremely incredible.

Before that, he had always believed that Ronaldo was the player with the best jumping and airborne abilities in active football, but he did not expect that Chu Zheng's full-strength jump would be so terrifying.

"This kid really should play in the NBA." Zidane said to himself while touching his bald head.

After saying this, Zidane fell into deep thought again. He planned to edit out all Chu Zheng's headers and show them to the players in the tactics class tomorrow, so as to be mentally prepared to avoid being caught off guard.

On the field, shortly after Chelsea took the ball again, referee Atkinson directly blew the whistle to end the first half.

(End of this chapter)