Chapter 126 One-sided
Glory's goal was the last straw that broke Chelsea's back.
Before Ancelotti could come up with any countermeasures, his team was torn apart by glory.
When I was two goals behind or facing Manchester City, it seemed that there was no need to think about countermeasures.
Can Chelsea still win this game?
Unless Manchester City is mentally disabled.
But how could they be in such a critical game?
Ancelotti sighed, and a feeling of powerlessness surged into her heart.
He is not unfamiliar with this feeling, and he also felt it in the 207 Champions League final. He also felt it when the two sides fought in the first half of this season.
As long as you fight with Glory, you will definitely feel this way - no matter how much effort you make before the game, you will find that these efforts are unnecessary and all useless.
To be honest, although I am familiar with this feeling, Ancelotti really hates this feeling very much.
Ancelotti returned to the coaching seat, sat down, and then looked at the stadium in a daze without saying a word.
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While Ancelotti was deeply helpless, Manchester City fans at Stamford Bridge and those Manchester City fans in front of the TV were cheering unscrupulously.
With two goals in a short period of time, in their opinion, Manchester City has completely secured the victory.
The next game is completely under their control. Manchester City will be fast, as long as they want, as long as they want, and as long as they want, as long as they want, as they want, are basically the final say in the game rhythm.
In such an important battle between Tianwang Mountain, Manchester City can win Chelsea, and many people have really seen hope of winning the championship
Forty-two years, the first championship in the top league in England
Manchester City fans' eyes were wet when they thought of this.
At the end of the last century, in Manchester City's darkest period, their highest goal was to stay in the Premier League steadily, rather than to be a lift. As for the Premier League championship, they didn't even dare to think about it.
But now, this dream that I dare not have at all dare to have has a high chance of becoming a reality...
Who says Jinyuan football is not good?
If there is no gold dollar, can we buy the honor?
Without honor, how could we have a chance to compete for the league championship?
Manchester City fans may now be the least irresistible to foreign capital.
When Murdoch wanted to acquire Manchester United, it attracted protests and attention from Manchester United fans across the UK. Later, American businessman Glazer acquired Manchester United. Some angry and disappointed Manchester United fans organized a club by themselves, named "United Manchester". The name happened to be the opposite of Manchester United, and the meaning was self-evident. They started from the lowest level of leagues and wanted to make this team a team that truly inherited the spirit of Manchester United.
But when the same thing happened to Manchester City, only a very small number of Manchester City fans protested, and such a thing as organizing the "City Manchester" club never happened at all.
Manchester United has a glorious past that makes their supporters proud of it, so they cannot accept the defilement of capital on their beloved clubs.
But Manchester City didn't. Their lives are too hard and they are eager to get better. How to get better? Of course, you need to have money.
Chelsea is actually a living example that Manchester City fans can see - how money can transform Chelsea from a league disruptor to a league champion.
This game is also a showdown between new and old nouveau riche in the Premier League.
Now it seems that Manchester City, which is more ruthless than Chelsea spent money at the time, won this showdown.
Nowadays, football is really inseparable from money...
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After Manchester City took a two-goal lead, Chelsea players seemed a little lost and didn't know how to play in the next game.
Attack, right? They scored goals in one counterattack. Aren’t they getting more and more behind if they continue to play like this?
If you don’t attack, you’re behind two goals now. If you don’t attack, keep the score until the end of the game. Aren’t they still unable to get rid of the fate of losing?
So is it an offense or not?
The vast majority of Chelsea players choose not to attack.
Because how did the ball just now be thrown?
Isn’t it just that they were eager to equalize the score after falling behind and put in a big push to attack, which made Manchester City seize the opportunity and make a successful counterattack?
We still have to attack at this time, and I really think that we didn't lose enough balls.
If you want to attack, at least you have to wait until this trend has passed...
So in the next game, Chelsea is no longer in a hurry to attack.
They shrink their defense and strive to avoid conceding the ball.
At this time, Benitez also made a substitution.
He replaced Sneijder with Martin Petrov.
Sneider, who just returned from injury, was in poor condition and was in poor physical condition. In order to prevent him from getting injured again, Benitez replaced him.
Anyway, he doesn't need to stay on the court now.
It would be better to have a little more rest, he will be needed in future games.
Sneider was not dissatisfied with the head coach replacing himself in less than 60 minutes of the game, and he accepted the decision very happily.
The team is now leading by two goals, the team plays the best defensive counterattack, and Glory is on the court. Sneijder is not worried about any unexpected situations now.
He slapped Martin Petrov with a relaxed and pleasant mood, and then walked off the court.
After Martin Petrov came on the court, because he had a faster speed than Sneider and was a good player in wing attacks, Benitez's idea was very clear, that is, he still played defensive counterattacks.
With the speed and personal skills of the three men, Glory and Petrov and David Silva, they threatened Chelsea's goal.
Any of the three of them has good personal abilities and strong individual combat capabilities.
So when counterattacking, you can not only pass the football to Glory, but also threaten Chelsea's goal.
At the same time, all three of them are very fast and can cooperate.
Just keep these three people on the court, so Chelsea won’t dare to put a big push in the next game.
We always say that "the best defense is offense", but many people always misunderstand this sentence, believing that attack is the kind of attack where large soldiers are in the face of the enemy and the opponent is breathless.
But in fact, the best defense should be Benitez's adjustment now. It seems that the offensive player is replaced with an intention to strengthen the attack, but in fact the effect is to stabilize the defense.
This is the "best defense"
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After Benitez made adjustments, Chelsea's game became even more uncomfortable.
Want to attack?
Three fast horses were aimed at his backcourt.
Not attacking?
That is to kill people with a dull knife, and tore people to death little by little.
Ancelotti also made adjustments to try to strengthen the offense.
But the effect is not good.
When the game reached the 80th minute, the score still did not change. The score was very eye-catching on the large screen of Stamford Bridge, and was eye-catching and dazzling.
Many Chelsea fans were silent, and the stands at Stamford Bridge Stadium became much quieter.
In the last ten minutes, Ancelotti got up from the coach's seat and walked to the sidelines. He stood and watched the last ten minutes of the game.
But his existence did not change the score.
In the last ten minutes, Manchester City played very calmly and allowed Chelsea to bombard their half. They were not in a hurry.
Anyway, even if they conceded a goal, they still lead Chelsea by one goal. And the bigger thing is that they scored a goal through counterattack before conceding the goal...
In the end, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game.
"After the game, Manchester City beat Chelsea away, the gap is not very big, but in terms of the scene, Manchester City should be able to score more goals, and the score should be even more disparate, but it doesn't matter... It seems that Manchester City won. In the process of competing for the league championship with Chelsea, they won this very critical game."
"This Manchester City is so powerful that it cannot defeat. If the opponent presses the attack, they will fight back. If the opponent shrinks the defense, they also have powerful weapons that can break the intensive defense. Who can defeat them? Who can stop them?"
At Stamford Bridge Stadium, on Chelsea's territory, Manchester City players are running and celebrating.
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At a post-match press conference, Ancelotti refused to admit that the defeat in the game was a heavy blow to the team.
"We are four points behind them now, which is not a big gap. We have been four points behind them before, but in the end we still caught up. It's too early to say that the league championship belongs to Manchester City..."
Benitez also expressed the same view: "I'm happy to beat Chelsea, but the victory in this game has nothing to do with the league championship. If we want to win the league, we need to win the next ten rounds of the league."
Benitez is not pretending to be a pretentious move. He really thinks that it is not the time to be happy. There are still ten rounds left in the league, and Manchester City will definitely enter the quarterfinals in the Champions League. As the end of the season approaches, there are a lot of pressure on Manchester City in each aspect, and that is the real test.
So you still have to be careful now.
And Ancelotti said this naturally in order to boost the morale of the team and not to give up before the league is over.
There are ten rounds left in the league, and now it's four points behind, and it's not time to say give up.
This is his first season at Chelsea. He needs a league championship to consolidate his coach position. He knows very well that Chelsea's boss Abramovich is not a particularly patient person. Think about it. Grant led Chelsea to the Champions League final historic, but wasn't Abramovich finally kicked out by Abramovich?
Chapter completed!