Chapter 117 Header Equalizes? We Are Not Bayern Munich! [Please Subscribe]

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Such a wonderful start has to make Real Madrid fans ecstatic.

Most people thought that Real Madrid would score first, including neutral fans.

But they did not expect it to be at such an early time point.

This is very beneficial to Real Madrid, because it means that Chelsea's most threatening counterattack on the offensive end will be difficult to play efficiently.

It's a very simple truth. Real Madrid has taken the lead, and the coach is still Mourinho. Why doesn't he sit back and fight Chelsea's counterattack?

If Mourinho still lets Real Madrid press forward at this time, it can only be said that he also wants to make a living and his mind is a little unclear.

Unfortunately, he did not give the fans a chance to criticize his tactics. He made tactical adjustments very calmly on the sidelines.

Start from Arbeloa and convey to every Real Madrid player in the backcourt.

When Li Ang and his team finished celebrating and returned to their own half with a smile on their faces, they happened to meet their teammates who were communicating tactical adjustments to them.

After listening to Mourinho's tactical instructions, Essien was happy and felt uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart.

He was happy because Mourinho's understanding of Chelsea was as thorough as ever.

He felt uncomfortable because Mourinho was too familiar with Chelsea, so familiar that he didn't give Chelsea any space or opportunity to play.

He knew that his old friends would fall into a real desperate situation, and this time, he and they were enemies!

"Real Madrid seems to have changed its formation. Mourinho's tactical adjustment was very fast. Ronaldo and Di Maria seemed to retreat! Four, two, three, one! Real Madrid's tactical choice is too stable. Mourinho wants to counterattack Chelsea!"

He Wei just gradually regained his calmness from the excitement at this moment.

He Wei still observed the changes in Real Madrid's formation on the field very carefully, and soon saw Mourinho's tactical intentions.

The current starting eleven of Real Madrid is indeed quite useful.

When playing 4-3-3, Real Madrid's midfielder's ability to fight for the ball and control is quite strong, and they can put pressure on the opponent's defense line with the three forwards.

When changing to 4-2-3-1, Li Ang retreats, and the double defensive midfielder formed with Alonso can protect their own defense line very well.

Essien also recovers his position, and Real Madrid's interception and stealing ability in the backcourt is fully utilized. Alonso can calmly launch a long pass counterattack after stealing the ball.

The two sets of play can be switched at any time, and both are very familiar to Real Madrid's current main players, and there will be no tactical confusion.

This naturally gives Real Madrid more advantages than other teams in tactical adjustments.

For example, this time.

Di Matteo is still urgently discussing with the assistant coach whether to change to 4-4-2 and take the initiative to attack for a while.

Real Madrid has already set up a posture to play defense and counterattack, and Mourinho only made a tactical instruction.

Fortunately, the veterans on the Chelsea field knew what to do.

After the restart, Lampard took the ball and signaled the younger and faster Mata and Ramirez to press forward, while he himself took the initiative to withdraw to the defensive midfielder position to organize the attack.

Lampard, who has not yet embarked on the road of coaching, showed his superb football IQ on the court.

The tactical sacrifice he made on his own initiative liberated Ramirez, who was in good form before.

With more people in front to provide passing support for Drogba, Chelsea's offensive after spreading out the formation was quite decent.

But they faced the vigilant Real Madrid defense today.

Drogba's ability to hold the ball outside the penalty area is indeed very strong, but his fulcrum role did not help his teammates find good opportunities to advance on both wings.

In terms of speed, Marcelo and Arbeloa are both top-notch in football, not to mention that Alonso or Li Ang will always be there to help them defend.

Whether it is Ramirez or Kalou, they can't compete in speed and confrontation. Real Madrid's two defensive midfielders are waiting on the side. They can't force their way to the wing.

Real Madrid's protection of the front rib area of ​​the penalty area is also in place, mainly because they have learned the lesson of Barcelona's defeat in the last Champions League semi-final.

Juan Mata and Lampard both have the ability to send a straight pass. At that time, the slow Professor Bu was instantly penetrated by this fast straight pass.

Essien and Li Ang who retreated to Real Madrid are not slow, plus Ramos who is very mobile in the back line.

The three of them will at least not give Chelsea a chance to break through the defense with one kick.

From the wing to the middle of the midfield, Real Madrid's defense is very organized, and the division of labor among the players is clear.

And the most important point is that Real Madrid's players dare not underestimate Chelsea at all.

After all, Barcelona, ​​which previously underestimated the opportunity, has already failed, and the bloody example is in front of them.

Even if Mourinho didn't remind them too much before the game, Real Madrid's players would not be stupid enough to get cocky during the game.

They didn't dare to get cocky even after scoring first.

In the last round, Barcelona scored first, and they got two goals before being beaten!

So this made the main players of Real Madrid constantly remind themselves subconsciously that leading Chelsea by two goals was not safe at all, and they had to be cautious, and they had to be cautious!

So after the change of formation, Real Madrid was so stable that countless Chelsea fans became anxious.

What about the big attack?

What about the counterattack you said you would force us to counterattack?

How come it has become that our offense is constipated and you are thinking about counterattack and stealing chicken!

This TM script is wrong!

Di Matteo felt the thorny situation, so he stood on the sidelines, watching the situation of the game and wiping the sweat from his forehead from time to time.

Five minutes passed, and he didn't think of a move. Ten minutes passed, and he still didn't think of a move.

Seeing the play of Real Madrid letting Drogba pass the ball outside the penalty area and decisively double-teaming Drogba in the penalty area, Di Matteo no longer had the idea of ​​playing a big cross tactic.

At least it's not the time yet.

In terms of the hard power of the players, Mourinho has definitely given an almost perfect answer to the tactical loopholes, which is not to give him room to exploit tactical loopholes.

After thinking about it, Di Matteo felt that the only way to go was to play the set-piece tactic.

After all, Chelsea has no fewer header experts than Real Madrid.

Only by playing set-pieces can the gap between the individual strength of Chelsea and Real Madrid players be quickly narrowed.

Thinking of this, Fosso Di Matteo also made up his mind and directly gave his own tactical adjustments, asking Juan Mata and Kaludo to find a way to hold the ball and advance to cause Real Madrid's defensive fouls!

Li Ang quickly saw Chelsea's tactical intentions on the court.

But he could only focus on Mata on the left and try to steal the ball cleanly and not give him the opportunity to foul.

But on the other side, facing the continuous impact of Kalou and Drogba, Long Ge had to take tactical fouls when necessary.

There were not many fouls, but it did give Chelsea a chance.

Mourinho was not surprised that Di Matteo could think of the tactical idea of ​​playing set-pieces.

After all, Di Matteo was a young star who first became famous in the Serie A league. He was influenced by Italian football. After switching to coaching, he inevitably worked hard on tactical research.

As for Chelsea's set-piece tactics, Mourinho dare not say that he is very familiar with Chelsea's current set-piece tactics, after all, he has been away for so many years.

But he is still very familiar with Chelsea's two main players in the header.

Before the game, he did targeted training drills and emphasized the header threats of Drogba and Terry many times.

In addition, he also specifically reminded that his defensive players need to pay more attention to Ivanovic.

This right-back with outstanding header and confrontation ability.

So in this deployment of defensive set-pieces, Benzema and Ronaldo in the Real Madrid frontcourt were also called back.

First of all, in terms of the number of defenders, Real Madrid still gave Chelsea enough respect.

Drogba must be double-teamed, and other Chelsea header players are basically one-on-one close defense.

Mourinho was a little worried at first.

He even planned to let Albiol warm up if he couldn't hold the situation steady on the defensive end of set pieces.

At that time, Albiol would replace Arbeloa and let Ramos go to the right. In this way, Real Madrid's ability to defend high balls would be greatly improved.

However, Real Madrid's performance on the defensive end of set pieces soon dispelled Mourinho's concerns.

Very active.

Every Real Madrid player who fought for a point on the defensive end was quite active.

Even if they didn't win a point in the end, Chelsea's players would find it difficult to head the ball under severe confrontation and interference.

Real Madrid defended Chelsea's set-piece attack twice in a row, which immediately put countless Real Madrid fans at ease.

Drogba was helpless.

Now that he is old, his impact is still quite strong, but he can't stand the double defense of Ramos and Pepe.

Especially when he thought that this "luxurious" defensive treatment was probably formulated by Mourinho himself, Drogba became even more helpless and depressed.

The successive offensive setbacks actually hit the confidence of Chelsea players invisibly.

And after they lost the offensive ball, Real Madrid's counterattack gradually became more and more sharp.

At this time, they probably knew that Ronaldo would make a tactical sacrifice today.

But when Ronaldo rushed up with the ball on the counterattack, the frightened Chelsea defenders really didn't dare to let him break into their own defensive hinterland.

It's okay for others to be tools, most of them don't have the ability to be the main attacker, so they have to be the supporting role.

But if a superstar like Ronaldo is a supporting role, if you don't send someone to double-team him, he can instantly turn into a main attacker and stab you hard!

So on the counterattack, Ronaldo repeatedly dribbled the ball to attract the attention of Chelsea's defenders and then quickly passed the ball to the outside.

This tactic has been tried and tested, and Benzema and Di Maria each got a chance to shoot.

Unfortunately, their close-range push was saved by Cech, and their lob was slightly out of the goal.

They played well, but their luck was a little worse this time.

But with the continuous accumulation of such opportunities, it seems that Real Madrid's next goal is only a matter of time.

Chelsea fans were very frustrated, and so were the Chelsea players on the field?

In the 37th minute of the first half, Di Matteo really made up his mind to let Kalou and Drogba play as double strikers.

Chelsea changed to a 4-4-2 formation, with Ramirez going to the left, Mata still on the right, and Lampard and Mikel sitting in the midfield.

Well, it's another classic one-high-one-fast offensive combination, and the 4-4-2 is also very suitable for Chelsea to play the traditional English style of rushing and dribbling.

But it must be said that after changing to a long pass and dribbling, which is simpler and more direct, Chelsea actually had more opportunities than in the first half hour.

It's still because of Drogba.

The ability of the Warcraft to hold the ball with his back to goal is indeed strong. The rotation of Li Ang and Essien can only prevent Drogba from turning around with the ball smoothly.

But if you say that you are competing with Drogba and preventing him from passing the ball to other Chelsea players, that is a joke.

Unless it is a foul.

But at this time, Real Madrid wants to avoid giving Chelsea more set-piece opportunities as much as possible.

So Li Ang and Essien can only chase back quickly to stop the Chelsea players who are advancing with the ball after forcing Drogba to pass the ball.

Now their defensive efficiency is inevitably low.

Chelsea also found a lot of kicking opportunities on the offensive end, especially on the two wings.

Before, you said that there was only one point in the Real Madrid penalty area, Drogba, and no matter how brave he was, he couldn't break the double team.

But now with Kalou, even if Drogba can't win a point, he has the option of header ferrying.

No matter how stubborn Real Madrid is, they dare not let Kalou ambush Drogba's side and shoot at will.

Therefore, further retracting the formation became a tactical choice that Real Madrid had to make at this moment.

In the 45th minute of the first half, after entering the stoppage time, Lampard once again sent a long pass in the backcourt.

However, this time he did not aim at Drogba, but suddenly made a long pass to the left and passed it to Ramirez who was pulling to the side!

Arbeloa pressed forward to press the ball at the first time, and Long Ge quickly returned to defense from the middle, but at this time Ramirez had already covered Ashley Cole who had inserted and completed the sideline!

Although Cole is old, he has a rich technical foundation. After successfully going to the bottom, he gave a very threatening back-and-forth pass!

Drogba, who was still cruising in the back of the penalty area, did not know when he pulled out of the penalty area. After a little movement, he suddenly started a decisive forward insertion!

Ramos looked at Kalou at this time, and there was no time to double-team Drogba with Pepe.

The African monster ate Pepe, who was younger than himself, in a one-on-one situation and completed a powerful header!

But under his surprised gaze, Casillas reacted with a speed that surprised him!

With his fists blocking the path of the ball that was like a cannonball, Casillas's hands were very steady. Even though it hurt, he completely blocked Drogba's header!

"Ashley Cole's cross from the bottom, Drogba attacks!!! Casillas! Oh--!!! Casillas saved Drogba's violent close-range header!!! Arbeloa kicked the ball out of the penalty area, Alonso! Real Madrid's counterattack opportunity!!!"

He Wei's commentary tone changed from surprise to passion in almost a second!

Real Madrid rushed up!

After captain Casillas completed the save, the other Real Madrid players who were counterattacking started the full-strength sprint mode without reservation!

Alonso's long pass directly found Benzema who was retreating in the middle and raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Guo Feng was not weak at all at this time. He resisted Mikel's defensive interference and passed the ball to Li Ang who was following up!

Li Ang accelerated and rushed past Mikel's pursuit and then decisively passed the ball to his right front!

Di Maria pressed in the large wing space left by Ashley Cole's forward advance. Li Ang passed the ball to him and he almost faced Terry who was retreating!

It was stupid to force a breakthrough at this time, so Di Maria chose to pass the ball directly with his back foot!

Ronaldo started to speed up at the back of the penalty area. Cahill's defense was in place, but he didn't expect that Ronaldo did not attack the goal, but chose to adjust his position and head the ball back to the middle of the penalty area!

Li Ang, who had already rushed into the Chelsea penalty area, had no time to think.

When he stopped the ball, he happened to be one step behind the penalty spot. Facing Terry who moved sideways to defend, he took a deep breath and then kicked the ball!

The muscle memory from practicing penalty kicks before helped him a lot at this moment.

Cech was also confused when he saw Li Ang's close-range shot.

"How dare he?!"

At this moment, the fans watching this scene, whether they were fans of Real Madrid or Chelsea, or neutral fans who did not support either side, had the same idea as Cech.

How dare Li Ang shoot from this position? !

Can't he push the ball to the far corner or the near corner to ensure that the ball will hit the goal frame first?

Many fans exclaimed or complained at this moment.

But the Real Madrid players have great confidence in Li Ang.

In this position, Li Ang would have scored the ball two months ago if he had not kicked the ball away!

The probability of scoring is about 40%.

Today, Li Ang has scored at least 80% of the time after ten kicks!

This is the hit rate he has practiced every day!

Li Ang doesn't have this footwork in other positions in the penalty area, but he is trustworthy near the penalty spot!

In the surprised gaze of the crowd, the football hit the bottom edge of the crossbar and bounced into the net in an instant!

Cech stretched out his hand in vain.

At this moment, Li Ang has begun to roar and run along the bottom line!

Equalized by a header? What a joke! We are not Bayern Munich!

We are Real Madrid!

We are the kings of the Champions League!