Football’s First Defender

After the trip to the United States, Chelsea returned directly to the British Isles for the final preparations before the start of the new season!

Although the warm-up matches were played in the United States for four games, after all, the opponents of the two games were not strong, and the other two scenes were against the Serie A duo, both with a strong Italian style!

Therefore, Chelsea also deliberately found an English-style team for a warm-up match before the match against the old rival Manchester United. The opponent is the team that ranked fourth in the British Championship last season and was eliminated in the play-offs, Reading!

After flying back to the United Kingdom from the United States, after a long trip, Chelsea only took a day off to allow the players to rest and relax, then regroup and prepare to face the warm-up match with Reading!

On August 1, Chelsea headed to Reading home for the final warm-up match before the season! At this time, there are still two weeks before the opening of the league, and Chelsea has deliberately begun to ensure the one-week game mode, so that the team can directly enter the rhythm of the game at the beginning of the league!

Reading's very traditional English style of play has indeed caused a lot of trouble for Chelsea. After all, most of the players have not completely recovered to the best game state, and in the previous series of warm-up matches, there was no "reckless" team like Reading. Speed, fast and fierce, Chelsea's defense is in chaos!

It’s not that Terry and Yang Feng’s starting back line can’t defend the opponent’s Champions League forward combination, but because Chelsea’s overall wing is too open, giving the opponent’s wing players too good opportunities for long passes. . When the pass is accurately guided, then the Reading forward who has the initiative to attack can completely move first, and the teammates pass the ball during the course of the move. This makes the initiative completely in the hands of the opponent forward. Of course, to Yang Feng And Terry caused great defensive pressure!

However, although Reading played very well on the offensive end, Yang Feng's defense is still remarkable. For Reading's high center, although Yang Feng could not completely limit the opponent's header, Yang Feng passed his judgment on his footwork. , There is also the prediction of the drop point of the long pass, but it can guarantee that in most cases, it can form a very effective interference!

The opponent had 4 headers in the first half, 2 times directly on Yang Feng's blocked head, and the other two were also directly missed by Yang Feng's personal interference!

Yang Feng used his good performance to leave a deep impression in Ancelotti's heart!

In the first half, thanks to Lampard's goal, Chelsea still took the lead 1-0, but in the scene, Chelsea did not play the suppressing effect of the Premier League team!

After all, it was a warm-up match. At the beginning of the second half, Ancelotti continued to make substitutions and adjustments. Carvalho and Alex played together, replacing Yang Feng and Terry's central defender combination, and the wide players also let the day. Korkov comes on the field, adapt to the British game style and rhythm! The teenager Sturridge also went into the battle, replacing Drogba, who had a cost-effective performance in the first half!

Chelsea’s new aids and substitute players played, which directly evolved the game into a confrontation battle, mainly the defense of the two teams. Under the opponent's offensive, they both lost sight of each other. It is better to directly attack each other and hurt each other!

Without the protection of Feng Yang and Terry, Alex's weakness of insufficient height in defense has been fully exposed!

Facing the unreasonable high center forward of the British Championship, Carvalho can still resist the top, but when he shifts to the defense of Alex, there are bigger loopholes!

In the end, the two teams hurt each other in the battle, scoring a total of 3 goals in the second half, shaking hands 2 to 2!

It is worth mentioning that the two goals that Reading scored were all headers. Chelsea's defense suffered a greater loss in the second half!

However, the warm-up match is to look for problems, look for a state of the game, at least Ancelotti chose to believe in the classic combination of Yang Feng and Terry last season through the intuitive comparison of this game!

And the whole Chelsea team set their goals to a week later, the first official game of the new season, with Manchester United in a direct confrontation with the Community Shield!

The Manchester United League has won three consecutive championships, and the Community Shields of the previous two years have also been collected. The year before, it was Chelsea to win the championship. Now Ferguson also wants to win another three consecutive championships in the Community Shield!

Although some participating teams in the Community Shield Cup are only an important friendly match, they are the British champions with the lowest gold content, but for the red and blue battles of this competition, everyone believes that the two teams with great hostility must be A week before the start of the Premier League, a real fight will be made!

On August 9th, Wembley Stadium, which is responsible for hosting the Community Shield game, flooded with a large number of fans of the two teams. For this Community Shield, the coaches of Chelsea and Manchester United showed great interest before the game. !

After all, the two teams had just faced off in the Champions League final at the end of last season, and Chelsea had a successful revenge!

The grievances a few months ago were also brought into this game. Fans hope that their team can win the opponent and make a good start for the new season!

However, Chelsea, compared to last season, after retaining most of the main players and substitutes, they also introduced the Russian international Zhirkov to focus on strengthening the continuous breakthrough ability of the wing!

On the other hand, Manchester United, although there are also a few good signings, it is still difficult to make up for the huge impact of forward Tevez and Ronaldo’s departure!

In this game, Ancelotti continued to use the 442 classic formation!

The back line was still the main back line of last season. Yang Feng partnered with Terry to form the center back line, handed to Ashley Cole on the left, and Bosingwa on the right!

As for the midfield, Essien acts as the back midfielder, while Ballack and Lampard are in front of the midfield and participate in the attack!

On the left is still Malouda, who can't move, while the space on the right can only be used by midfielders or Bosingwa!

The forward is Drogba and Anelka!

Regarding Zhirkov bought from Russia, Ancelotti experienced a month of observation and tried, and found that this signing now looks really tasteless!

The transfer department said vowedly that Zhirkov's various abilities, and as a Russian player, Zhirkov's joining can accomplish the goal of boss Abramovich "at least one national player joins his team"!

But Zhirkov really eats too much position on the court and too much possession of the ball!

As a jackpot player on the left, Zhirkov can play both left back and left midfielder. However, with both Ashley Cole and Malouda in good health, Zhirko With his thin body, there is no way to win him a starting position!

In the previous warm-up match, Ancelotti also tried to let Zhirkov go to the right to see if he played well. After all, the transfer department initially evaluated that Zhirkov could play the right wing. Complement Chelsea's wing breakthrough ability!

However, the reality is that Ancelotti is a little disappointed. Zhirkov can indeed do the job of an ordinary wing player on the right side ~www.readwn.com~ However, Ancelotti needs better A wide player, not a Russian Ronaldinho who is stunned by everyone on the right!

Rather than allowing Zhirkov to occupy a spot on the right, it is better to wait on the bench and replace Malouda or Ashley Cole in the second half of the game to strengthen the team’s offense on the left. Too!

A clever woman is hard to cook without rice. Since Chelsea is still the player formation of the old team, Ancelotti will naturally follow the trend, almost copying the mature tactics of his predecessor!

After all, this is a game of winning and losing, Ancelotti still wants to use a championship as a good starter!

As for the personal tactics that I have practiced for a long time, wait until the league and meet some weaker teams before trying...

For Manchester United, not only did Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez lost two important players, the injury problem was also serious!

Last season's main central defender combination, Ferdinand and Vidic, are now in a state of recovery!

O'Shea returned to the center-back position in this game, Brown played center-back, right-back Brazilian Fabio, left-back is still Evra!

The old goalkeeper Van der Sar has retired, and the starting goalkeeper for the new season is Ben Foster!

In midfield, Nani and new aid Valencia are separated on the left and right sides, while the midfield is Fletcher's partner Scholes!

The strikers are the only two remaining stars, Berbatov and Rooney!

In just over two months, in this Community Shield game, Manchester United’s starting lineup has changed eight positions compared to the previous Champions League final. It can be said that the transfer still has injuries. Let this Manchester United be a little broken!

And Chelsea is all out of the station, maintaining a very strong stability, the balance of the game has not yet started, it has fallen to Chelsea's side!