Football’s First Defender

Arsenal's corner kick tactics, facing Chelsea's obvious advantage in the number of defenders in the penalty area, and the player's height advantage, there is still not much chance!

Even after determining that they would not make a tactical corner kick this time, the Arsenal players simply left two more people in the backcourt, ready to defend Chelsea's next quick counterattack!

really! Arsenal, with only 4 players in the penalty area, has no luck this time!

After the corner kick this time was sent out, Yang Feng directly pushed it out firmly at the front point!

But because Arsenal have enough defensive personnel in the backcourt! After receiving Yang Feng's header pass, Lampard moved forward a few steps and found that there was no threatening attack opportunity to directly counterattack, so he had to choose to control the ball steadily and prepare for the next positional battle!

Chelsea's current staff's paper offensive strength is indeed not the strongest, but it is still possible to make some changes, and suddenly beat Arsenal by surprise!

For example, Essien, who has been contributing his strength on the defensive end, suddenly plugs in and can cause chaos on the Arsenal defensive line. In fact, Essien’s offensive ability has been underestimated! In other words, it was overshadowed by his stronger defensive strength!

"Chelsea in the second half, although they have not made any changes in personnel, they obviously played more proactively than in the first half!"

"Now, Lampard takes the ball to organize the offense, and Drogba runs without the ball in the penalty area!"

"However, as Chelsea's current single striker, Drogba has to face the defense of at least two nearby Arsenal players when facing the attacking Arsenal position. Almost in the positional battle, Drogba and Chelsea The connections of several midfielders have all been cut!"

"When Chelsea can't make a breakthrough in the center, can they only continue to look for wing attacks?"

"After several attempts, Lampard can only continue to choose to pass the ball to Malouda, who obviously has the offensive initiative on the left side!"

"Ashley Cole, still directly inserted into the offense from behind, to complete his coping work when attacking on the wing!"

"However, in the inter-game period, Arsenal’s coach, Professor Wenger, obviously communicated with Walcott and Sarnia on his right side on the sidelines. Now, Arsenal’s right defenders are clearly on the defensive end. More energy was put into it. And Arsenal was at the centre-back position, while the two were guarding Drogba, they also divided a part of their attention on the right side of the defense!"

"Ashley Cole, suddenly jumped in, a little closer to the middle, and moved forward. Do you want to play a 2v2 extraordinary tactic with Malouda?"

"But with this goal, Walcott's follow-up was extremely good, and it did not give Ashley Cole a chance to get rid of easily!"

"Malouda saw that Ashley Cole didn't have much chance to run, nor did he risk passing the ball!"

"After Walcott was clearly led by Ashley Cole, Malouda chose to break through by himself! Do you want to break through Sarnia directly? The French national team and the direct confrontation between teammates!"

"One is the attacking position of France on the left, and the other is the iron gate on the right. I believe that these two people are in the national team, and they have privately discussed offensive and defensive skills!

"But in this offensive round! Malouda is clearly at a disadvantage!"

"Malouda made several moves, trying to get rid of Sarnia, but it seems that they were unsuccessful! Sarnia did not take the fake action of Malouda at all, and stood firmly in his defensive position!"

"Without a choice, Malouda counterattacked his own side in order to avoid being directly defended by Sarnia. In desperation, he could only choose to pass back to his teammate in the middle!"

"But there was no breakthrough in the personal offensive from the wing, which led to Arsenal's defense in the center. There were no flaws. After all, Chelsea did not invest much in the offensive end!

After Ballack received the ball, because Ashley Cole was too far forward, he took a long shot by himself. It is very likely that Arsenal will directly chase and counterattack, posing a threat to his left side!

But if you want to rely on a stable pass and find opportunities, facing Arsenal's two midfielders, they are still tightly positioned, and there is no chance!

"Barack's return pass was given to Essien who was behind the team!"

"Because Bendtner is still actively participating in the defense, Ballack made a lighter pass back this time and was almost intercepted by Bendtner who turned back at full speed and chased him!"

"Fortunately, Essien has been paying attention to Bendtner's actions. Seeing Bendtner's defensive interception action, Essien also directly started to move forward, facing the pass, and arrived earlier than Bendtner. After the ball, drive the ball directly!"

"Essien's sudden advance!"

If you say that Essien's forward attack on Arsenal has no predictive tactics, that would be too underestimate of Wenger's level! Wenger still remembers Essien’s forward attack ability. In the previous few seasons, he faced Mourinho many times. When Chelsea’s offensive failed, he either relied on set-pieces or Essien’s performance. Become Mourinho's key means to break the deadlock!

But Wenger may not have thought that Chelsea would put so many people on the offensive end!

While Essien moved forward, according to Chelsea's regular offensive tactics, the two full-backs should have at least one, or even both of them would withdraw to stabilize the team's defense!

You know, behind Essien, the defenders are Yang Feng, Terry’s central defender partner, and Mikel’s midfielder, but they are facing the double forwards that Arsenal has been pressing on the frontcourt. Turner and Arshavin!

But Chelsea is an unreasonable tactic at this time, an extremely offensive tactic!

The two full-backs still maintained a very high forward pressure, giving Arsenal two wing defense pressure!

At the attacking threat point in the middle, Lampard, Ballack, and even Drogba, who retreated slightly to the penalty area line and prepared to move forward against offside, all widened the width. All Chelsea personnel are in Essina. When the ball was advancing, no one was stagnant. All were running without the ball. Arsenal's defense was completely contained in the previous inherent defense. For a while, there was a lack of communication and only knew that Arsenal who completed his defensive work. None of the Na players unexpectedly stood up to stop Essien's breakthrough at the highest priority moment!

After all, the current head coach of this team is Hiddink, not Mourinho before! If it is Mourinho, then even if Essien will sometimes intervene in the offense, there will be someone else on the team who will come back to protect on the defensive end!

Hiddink has a lot of hard work, for one purpose, he can not care about rules at all!

Since I still have 3 defenders, what happened to 2 defenders? More than enough! On the offensive end, Hiddink believes that even if the ball is changed, his frontcourt players can still complete the defensive return task!

"Essien took the ball for a long distance. Arsenal's defenders had no players to stop Essien for a while!"

In the roar of Fabregas's field, Nasri was sent to stop Essien!

Arsenal’s defense was actually well allocated before. Fabregas, Denilson, Nasri, and left-back Klichy, four players, the overall defense is Chelsea midfielder Lampard, Ballack, forward Three Bosingwa!

Then the two central defenders are responsible for marking Drogba!

Of course, this is just a rough idea. After Chelsea players change positions or Drogba retreats to the middle, the defense between several Arsenal players will also be fine-tuned appropriately!

But Essien's suddenly plugged in. As Arshavin and Bendtner are still chasing after Essien, and there is no defense in place, then Arsenal are really in the midfield position and can only defend 1v1 with all of them!

Chelsea took Essien as the standard, and the entire front, except for the Arsenal goalkeeper, created a 7-on-8 halftime situation!

Except for Drogba, which is a 1v2 situation, all other positions are 1v1. As far as Arsenal's defense is concerned, this is a move that affects the whole body!

If Chelsea breaks the gap at a certain point, it is very likely to cause a huge hole in the Arsenal line of defense!

Of course, this kind of investment in a large number of attackers is also a double-edged sword, hurting both the enemy and yourself! If Arsenal can complete the defense, as long as they push back, it is very likely to cause a huge threat in the counterattack. Even Arsenal's counterattack players run faster, and it is possible to form a situation of more play in the frontcourt!

"Nasri meets Essien!"

"Essien immediately started to slow down!"

For Essien, it is very clear where his strengths and weaknesses are!

You and Nasri, the winger, are at a disadvantage compared to speed and flexibility. However, if they are stronger than your body, the entire Arsenal backcourt may also be better than Essien by two central defenders. !

So in the face of Nasri’s defense, or even Fabregas or Denilson’s forward defense, Essien’s choice is to slow down and use his physical advantage to protect the ball and directly push forward!

"Essien is holding Nasri with his left hand, and he doesn't give Nasri a chance to stretch the leg from his side to break the ball, just push it straight forward!"

"Nasri is very helpless. In the physical confrontation, there is more than one level difference between the two. Nasri has no way to stop Essien!"

"Foul! Foul!"

Seeing Essien's advancement more and more forward, getting closer and closer to the dangerous area, Fabregas shouted for Nasri to directly foul! So that his forward players can quickly come back to defense in the next round!

But I don’t know if the noise at the scene was too loud, or because he was too focused on defending against Essien. Nasri’s mind was a little confused at this time, and Fabregas’s shout in his ear was a little unintelligible. There was no foul, but Essien kept pushing forward!

Perhaps this is the difference between offensive players and professional players who take on defense at the moment of the game! In Nasri's defensive consciousness, in the case of indirect danger, there is no overall sense of fouling!

Seeing that Nasri did not foul at the first time, but let Essien continue to push forward, Fabregas felt broken for the first time!

At this time, for Xiaofa, he should risk going forward to defend and block Essien, or choose to do his own business, watch Lampard, and let Nasri defend Essien alone. The question of your own choice!

Fabregas, decided to complete his defensive duties and put the team's defense first!

Fabregas ran in the direction of Essien while motioning to the team's central defender, Alexander Song, to make up for his gap!

For Xiaofa, if you get to the position at this time, it is best to double-team with Nasri to grab the ball. You can't stop it. You must use a foul to completely stop Essien's attack. Pass the ball!

"Fàbregas! Suddenly chose to let go of Lampard, ran to Essien's position at full speed, and wanted to cooperate with Nasri to end Chelsea's attack!"

"Essien! Passed the ball! Before Fabregas completed the double-team, Essien directly chose to pass the ball to the team's other midfielder, Ballack who suddenly withdrew!"

This pass is not actually a missed collision! At least Essien himself, because he has an absolute advantage in physical confrontation, he still has enough energy to observe the situation on the scene during the advancing process!

So Fabregas, suddenly grabbing action, was really seen by Essien!

But because of the angle of the pass and the angle of Fabregas's rush, Essien found that he did not directly find Lampard's momentary opportunity!

At this time, Essien noticed Ballack on the right, and suddenly pulled back and opened the distance with the defender Denilson!

Essien naturally passed the ball directly to Ballack, and hoped that Ballack ~www.NovelMTL.com~ could also find Lampard's openness and act as a transfer station to pass Lampard with high quality!

"Barack catches the ball! Without any delay, he picked a pass and gave it to Lampard on the left!"

For an experienced player like Ballack, the grasp of the opportunity to pass the ball on the court, as well as the investigation of the court situation, is absolutely world-class!

With this ball, Ballack not only saw Lampard's open position, but also observed Alexander Song who had rushed forward to cover Lampard, but Ballack did not choose to pass the ball to Germany, who was only defended by a central defender. Instead, Roba still chose to pass the ball to Lampard. However, this picking pass did not directly find Lampard's current position, but passed it behind Alexander Song!

"The amount was very large in advance, and this pass passed directly over the head of the forward Alexander Song, Lampard also quickly inserted forward and met Song Zhao!"

"Alexander Song, turn around and chase, but due to inertia, he is clearly behind!"

"Lampard unloads the ball! Single-handed ball in the penalty area!"

"It hit the door!"

"Volley directly!"

"This ball!"

"The ball is scored! The ball is scored! GOAL!"

"Lampard! Lampard led Chelsea again in the second half!"

"Lampard's kick is really looking for an angle! This single-handed kick, although Alexander Song behind him puts a lot of pressure on the goal, but Lampard's shot quality is not good!"

"Because this kick is very angling, this ball directly avoided Fabianski's save, it almost flew into the net against the goal post!"

"Chelsea, in this year's FA Cup final, managed to get another lead!"