Football’s First Defender

Evans on the court suddenly felt a cold sweat on his back, turned his gaze to the sidelines, and found that the coach Ferguson was glaring at him...

"Drogba just made a pulling action, which affected his take-off. It was the referee's blindness, not my problem." Evans defended himself in his own heart.

And Evans also knows himself, knowing that he is such a new midfielder who wants to defend the "Warcraft" Drogba, that is really "the concubine can't do it"!

Chelsea's corner kick opportunity.

Although Chelsea have an advantage in the top ball, after all, there are more Manchester United players in red in the penalty area. With the advantage of the number of Manchester United players, this time the corner kick is the first to compete for the top of the corner, Manchester United player Fletcher. At the corner kick, it went directly out of the penalty area.

Although Lampard, who was ambushing outside the penalty area, took a volley, but the ball was still too difficult to control and ended up directly in the stands.

Chelsea's wave of offensive ended, and the whole team returned to the half-court position and set up a defensive array to deal with Manchester United's attack.

This time Manchester United, which attacked from the left, steadily advanced to the 30-meter area of ​​Chelsea.

Rooney and Yang Feng were still entangled in Chelsea's penalty area before. Lu Xiaopang has always been walking while looking for possible opportunities. He wants a sudden acceleration at any time to give Chelsea a fatal blow.

But Yang Feng kept the distance with him very good, and also kept enough attention to Rooney. Rooney, who no longer had the opportunity to "steal the chicken," after Manchester United organized the ball to the 30-meter area, According to the tactics, the retracement began, and the retracement went directly outside the restricted area.

While the ball on the left, Valencia on the right no longer has to wait for a possible large-scale transfer of the ball on the flank, but directly inserts into Chelsea’s offense diagonally, acting as a top leader The fake nine in front.

Regarding the changes on Manchester United's side, Terry, as the captain, shouted for regional defense to prevent the Chelsea players from following the defensive players to cause chaos in the Chelsea formation.

The stability of Chelsea’s lineup was revealed at this moment. Even if Terry did not remind, the defensive mode of the Chelsea team has changed very quickly. Everyone has played together for such a long time, and they are very tacit. Manchester United have too many opportunities to exploit loopholes.

"Evra, a half-high ball on the left, it's Rooney!"

It is impossible for Yang Feng to abandon the defense zone in the restricted zone and go out to defend Rooney. Rooney's position at this point just retreated to Deco's defense zone. Deco's ability to move and respond to emergencies is still somewhat insufficient.

"Rooney, a very wonderful stop, passed Evra to the half-high ball near the waist and unloaded it directly and easily. Excellent basic skills."

For a forward player, shooting is of course ranked first, and ranked second may be his basic skills.

Shooting skills determine whether he has the talent of a forward striker and the ability to make a final decision in the game.

The basic skills determine whether one can turn the ball passed by his teammate into a shooting option when an opportunity arises.

Especially when teammates pass the ball, in the penalty area, it seems to be wide, but under the interference of the defender, it is an extremely narrow receiving space. If the forward player wants to convert the pass of his teammate into For a shot, you must stop or remove the ball steadily under intense physical confrontation.

At the moment of stopping the ball, if it is not guaranteed to stop the ball perfectly within its own cylinder, then for an experienced defensive player, an upper grab can destroy this attack.

Of course, many strikers can rely on their own body to fight against, and their body width, to squeeze out a larger control area, just like Drogba with physical strikers and those traditional column forwards, even if they stop. The skill of the ball is not so superb, unable to unload the ball directly on the foot, but it can completely resist a large area, resulting in the stop of the ball farther away from the body, but the opponent's defensive player cannot complete the attack damage.

Rooney, who is not so strong, is able to do a good job in the penalty area by relying on the skills at his feet. Although a little fat, Rooney's work on the feet is not bad.

It is true that Rooney rarely does fancy moves in the game, but to be concise and unpretentious is sometimes what strikers need to practice most.

Rooney's shooting skills need not be said, whether it is a head kick, can complete a fatal blow to the opponent on the offensive end.

And Rooney’s stop and dribbling action before shooting is actually quite good. The dribbling rhythm is excellent. Rooney can often dribble the ball alone, continuous fake action, or a small plate when the opponent’s penalty area is chaotic. Take, complete the good show of shaking too many people and scoring goals.

Without any fancy moves, just simply take the ball, dial the ball, change the direction, and change the rhythm. With a little use of his weight, Rooney can play his full strength in the penalty area with ease.

As for unloading the ball, Rooney can directly unload the ball to his most comfortable shooting position after receiving the ball in all directions without dead ends. So Rooney actually has very few preparations before hitting the goal. Rooney, who has a hard hand to unload the ball, integrates all the preparations into the unloading, which greatly reduces his preparation time for the goal and increases the opponent's approach to completion. The difficulty of defense.

"After unloading the ball, he took a step laterally. Before Deco's defense was in place, Rooney shot the goal directly outside the penalty area!"

The ball blasted directly to the upper right corner of the goal like a cannonball out of the chamber. Yang Feng in the penalty area only felt a whistling sound in his ear. It was the sound of wind brought by the ball flying past, but he could not react in time to complete the action. Blocked.

"Boom!"

"The beam! Rooney's sudden long shot hit the beam directly when Cech couldn't react!"

"Cech's second reaction was extremely quick, a forward pounce, successfully received the football, and avoided Valencia's supplementary shot in front of the goal."

Rooney's kick was very hard, but it was a pity that he was a little bit less lucky to score a goal from a distance.

Chelsea escaped a disaster, but in response to such a big change in the offensive end of Manchester United, Chelsea players did not dare to make adjustments on their own terms and could only wait for Ancelotti's instructions from the sidelines.

The first thing Ancelotti did was to let the players who were warming up at the beginning of the second half, seize the time and increase the warm-up volume, while he is on the tactical board, seize the time to make targeted tactical arrangements with the assistant coach. , If Manchester United persists in this offensive mode in subsequent games...

Relying on the press, Manchester United, who won the ball, continued to find opportunities for breakthroughs on the left.

Rooney is also retreating this time, but the Chelsea midfielders, although they have strengthened their attention on Rooney's side. But this time, Manchester United’s left-back Evra stepped forward to take the ball, which freed both Giggs and Valencia on the right from the wing. The two of them, one left and one right, almost simultaneously slant towards Chelsea. Within the penalty area, Chelsea’s midfielder had to separate one more player and retreat to the penalty area to help defend.

Only Deco was left, marking Rooney one-on-one.

"Evra made a cross pass and continued to pass it to Rooney's feet."

When Rooney took the ball, in addition to Deco defending in front of him, Ballack and Lampard, while keeping their eyes on their defenders, also consciously reclaimed to this side to help Deco complete the defense.

But after Rooney received the ball, he did not waste too much time. After stopping the ball, the same action as before, even though Deco was in front of him, Rooney seemed to treat Deco as nothing, and directly dribble the ball horizontally. Let's take another long shot.

Although Deco said that his athletic ability has declined, he defended frontally. At such close distances, Rooney wouldn't let Rooney look down on people so much. He directly faced the defense and completed two consecutive goals in a similar manner.

"Deco stepped forward and went straight to the ball at Rooney's feet. It meant to block Rooney's long shot, but also to try to complete the steal directly."

"Rooney! Smashed! A smashed ball, using the smash to change direction directly to the left, swaying past Deco!"

"Rooney broke into the restricted area!"

Yang Feng handed his defensive area to Essien who had stepped back, and he moved forward quickly to prevent Rooney from hitting the goal.

However, it is unrealistic for a defender to make a perfect block when the offensive player has no other conditions when the offensive player has full initiative~www.readwn.com~ Before Yang Feng comes over, There was a small pause during Rooney's dribbling process. Yang Feng kept staring at Rooney's leg. When he found that Rooney was swinging his leg, Yang Feng went directly to the direction of Rooney's dribbling and jumped and stretched his leg to interfere with Rooney's goal line.

"Fake action! Rooney's fake action of hitting the goal again shook Yang Feng and continued to dribble the ball diagonally!"

Yang Feng, who was completely shaken, also knew it was bad. With his loss of position, Rooney had plenty of time and space to complete a high-quality kick.

"I hit the goal, volley!"

"Go straight to the goal!"

After there was no interference from defenders nearby, Rooney completed a high-quality shot, and the ball flew to the upper left corner of the goal with a strong arc.

Use enough kicking power to wrap the ball and hang it straight to the near corner of the goal.

"Cech!"

"Flying to save!"

"blocked!"

"Double punch out!"

"Cech's save was so beautiful, it resolved Rooney's wonderful attack this time!"

It can only be said that Rooney's previous series of wonderful fake moves helped him shake off Deco and Yang Feng's defense, but it also gave goalkeeper Cech enough time to prepare.

Especially when Rooney kept dribbling the ball to the left, his shooting angle was actually getting smaller, making Cech dare to move closer to the point.

Rooney’s shot is indeed very powerful and extremely tricky, but Cech, who was prepared for a long time, didn’t react very slowly. He just happened to have enough height to take off, and even to prevent Rooney’s kick from being too powerful to stop, Cech You can also flatten out your arms and use both punches to block Rooney's kick.

The score on the field remained 1-0, Chelsea maintained the lead!