Chapter 595: Evil Sect

After ten minutes of playing in the second half, Gao Xiaodong's goalkeeping ability was fully recognized by his teammates. The defenders no longer need to worry about the goal behind them, nor are they afraid of opponents lobbing the ball or long shots. The defenders behind them are even more defensive. Patience and calmness, although one person is missing, it only affects Inter Milan's offense and does not have much impact on the defense. Their four defense lines composed of almost 10 people cannot be completely penetrated by Chelsea with all their tricks. .

Ancelotti looked solemn on the sidelines. He saw Italy's reinforced concrete-like defensive intensity and will from Inter Milan, which was short of one player. This was not the weak-willed Inter Milan that Ancelotti was familiar with.

This kind of Inter Milan makes Ancelotti a little scared. He feels that Chelsea should end the suspense of promotion while Inter Milan has few people in the away game. When they return to Stamford Bridge, Inter Milan will have all the personnel at that time, and Chelsea may not be able to win if they want to win. easy.

In the 65th minute of the game, Ancelotti made a substitution, Brazilian defender Belletti came on, replaced the goal scorer Kalou, and pushed Malouda, who was a guest defender, to the winger position to continue to strengthen the attack on the wing.

There is no problem with this substitution. Although Kalou scored a goal, his performance was not good. Malouda's offensive power is much stronger than Kalou, which somewhat restricted his performance in the defender position.

Belletti didn't do it because he was worried about being attacked by his opponent, but now Inter Milan has one less player to play, and the offense is almost abolished. The previous Belletti, who was strong in offense and weak in defense, did not have a big problem.

However, Chelsea's luck seemed to have disappeared. Belletti had just come on, and Inter Milan suddenly launched a counterattack. Sneijder penetrated the gap between center backs Carvalho and Terry, and Eto'o made a diagonal pass at high speed to grab the point.

Chelsea goalkeeper Cech made a quick attack and grabbed the ball before Eto'o. However, after throwing the ball out, Cech covered his thigh and made a substitution gesture. It turned out that he had just run too hard and threw the ball into his arms. The thigh is strained.

Ancelotti was forced to make a substitution and replaced Cech with 34-year-old Portuguese goalkeeper Hilario.

In one game, both teams replaced substitute goalkeepers. This is also very rare. However, the gap between Chelsea's second goal and first goal is not too big. Hilario's performance is still very good in the limited playing time. , of course compared to Cech, Hilario's stability and ability are still much worse.

Hilario is Mourinho's old subordinate in Porto. He came to Chelsea because Mourinho introduced him. Mourinho was very familiar with him. When he saw Cech requesting a substitution, Mourinho immediately transferred him. The offensive players were called over and told about Hilario's weaknesses and strengths.

"Hilario is excellent at high-altitude ball, but he is not good at attacking. In addition, he rarely plays and does not cooperate well with the defense. You have to seize his weaknesses."

Although Inter Milan’s players made full preparations before the game,

But I really don’t know much about Hilario. After all, the chance of a substitute goalkeeper playing is extremely small. Like today, it has been rare in several years for both main goalkeepers to come off. Mourinho’s timely guidance convinced everyone.

The game continued, and Chelsea still laid siege to Inter Milan.

In the 70th minute of the game, Chelsea got a corner kick opportunity. Lampard passed the ball to the front of the penalty area. Anelka, who had always been unremarkable, suddenly looked back and headed the ball towards the back corner of the goal.

This attack scared the Inter Milan people. When Lampard fired forward, Gao Xiaodong was moving towards the near corner.

However, Gao Xiaodong was also lucky. Anelka's sure-shot shot actually hit the crossbar and bounced out.

Gao Xiaodong arrived just in time and grabbed the ball in his arms before Drogba.

Gao Xiaodong threw the ball to Mota to launch a quick counterattack.

Inter Milan passed three passes and two to break through Chelsea's siege. Eto'o broke through from the wing and passed across the middle to find Sneijder, Muntari and Cambiasso who were outflanking.

As Terry retreated, he jumped up to head the ball to clear the ball, but Hilario appeared behind him like a ghost, intending to jump up and hit the ball out. But not only did he not touch the ball, he also accidentally collided with Terry. Fortunately, Carvalho kicked the ball out, otherwise Sneijder would have been advantaged.

In Inter Milan's subsequent counterattack, Sneijder passed the ball over the top and Carvalho headed back. However, he and Hilario did not respond when receiving the ball, and the cunning African cheetah almost intercepted the ball and hit an empty goal.

Hilario's two mistakes were very dangerous. If Inter Milan had hit one player, they might have conceded the ball, which greatly damaged the confidence of Chelsea's defenders.

When Cech was around, Terry Carvalho dared to go up and assist. Now the two of them can only stay behind to prevent Hilario's time bomb from exploding.

The lack of assists by Chelsea's defenders only reduced the pressure on Inter Milan. The advantage still lies with Chelsea. Inter Milan is still passively defensive and only has sporadic counterattack opportunities.

Seeing that the game reached the 80th minute, Mourinho made another substitution adjustment. Stankovic came on and replaced Motta.

Stankovic is versatile both offensively and defensively, but he is not very good at everything. However, he is strong and has a long shot. His replacement of Motta, who was carrying a yellow card, is an obvious signal that Inter Milan needs to strengthen its defense. But he won't give up the attack.

At this time, Chelsea did not use the last substitution quota. After all, the 1:1 score in the away game was very favorable to Chelsea and acceptable. They did not need to risk using up all the substitution quotas.

However, Chelsea's relaxed mentality greatly improved the quality of their offense. In the 83rd minute of the game, Anelka suddenly broke out on the left. He dribbled the ball past Maicon and Cambiasso, and entered the penalty area. Defender Samuel had to cover Anelka.

At this time, the French prodigal Anelka made a fake shot and suddenly passed the ball across to the center of the penalty area.

At this moment, Lucio is the only one in the penalty area of ​​Inter Milan, and he is keeping an eye on Drogba. There were Stankovic and Muntari at the front of the penalty area, but Chelsea had three players forward, Ballack, Lampard and Malouda who penetrated diagonally.

Malouda was missed!

The Frenchman flew up from the penalty spot and shoveled the ball towards the lower right corner of the goal.

This is an extremely dangerous shot, almost like a penalty kick.

Worse than a penalty kick, the goalkeeper's attention cannot be on any one player.

However, at this time, Gao Xiaodong fully demonstrated the advantages of a short goalkeeper, being flexible and falling to the ground quickly.

At the critical moment, Gao Xiaodong swooped sideways and poked the ball out of the baseline with his fingertips.

The Inter Milan fans in the stands gave out shocking cheers. They shouted "High! God is high! God is high!"

After Malouda's tackle, Chelsea people stood up and were ready to cheer. Soon they found that they were happy too early. Guest goalkeeper Gao Xiaodong once again denied this must-goal.

Ancelotti held his head and cursed angrily, "What the hell!"

In the VIP box, Abu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and kept saying, "Why is this happening? How could this happen?"

In another box, Father Moratti was also smiling bitterly. He wondered what kind of player he had introduced for 50 million euros, an attacking midfielder? forward? Or the goalkeeper?

But Chelsea's frustration didn't end there.

Lampard took a corner kick, and both Terry and Ballack came to the penalty area to fight for the top. They and Drogba attracted the attention of Inter Milan, but Lampard's corner kick accurately found Ivan who was inserted in the back row. Norwich.

Ivanovic was the hero of Chelsea's away goal. Seeing him grab the spot, Chelsea people thought that this time, Ivanovic was lucky today.

However, Ivanovic's overwhelming header from the penalty area was about to cross the goal line when Gao Xiaodong poked it onto the post with his fingertips. After the ball bounced out, it was kicked out of the sideline by the defender.

After the ball was blocked, Ivanovic looked as if he had seen a ghost. He felt that the goal today was too evil and could not be scored.

The Chelsea players also hugged their heads. What they did was so unscientific. The attacking midfielder went to guard the goal. He defended better than the main goalkeeper. He saved all the long-range penalty kicks and header free kicks. This is a story. No one here believes it.