Chapter 111: The Assassin's Ghost (Liver Explosion 3rd Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
John Terry, who is rumoured to be out through injury, will start the game.
Another man who is rumoured to be out injured is indeed unavailable, and Chelsea's starting goalkeeper for today's game is the veteran Schwarzer.
From the outset, the Signal Park Stadium fans at Iduna put a lot of pressure on the Chelsea players, boosing, insulting and making gestures distract from the Chelsea players, and the home atmosphere made Mourinho frown.
Even if he once led Real Madrid to the Camp Nou to play the national derby, or led Inter Milan to play the Milan derby at the San Siro, Mourinho has to admit that the atmosphere at Dortmund's home stadium is even more crazy.
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In the twenty-first minute of the game, David. Luiz launched a big foot transfer attack directly from the backline, Lampard chested the ball and passed to Feramirez, who broke through with the ball, tried to get past Svende to no avail, passed the ball to Willian, Willian passed the high ball into the box, Torres stretched out his foot to stop the ball under the bite of Hummels, however, the stop was too big, and the ball was easily picked up by Dortmund goalkeeper Weidenfeller.
There was an overwhelming boo over the Signal Idona Park stadium and the mocking expletives of the home fans, all directed at Torres.
In fact, the Dortmund fans were as they were from the very beginning of the game, putting pressure on the Chelsea players, and the slightest mistake was met with a tsunami of laughter and boos, and every touch of the ball by the Dortmund players was met with thunderous applause.
"This is the scariest home in Europe." In the media seat, a Chinese reporter was shocked and sighed.
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Chelsea attacked for almost half an hour and were unable to get any decent chances against Borussia Dortmund's tight defence.
Jose Mourinho began to review, Chelsea are so strong that Dortmund have no time to attack?
At a dead-pitch chance, Mourinho called Frank Lampard to the sidelines to make a change to his team's tactics: slow down!
He's going to lure the snake out of the hole and hopefully Dortmund will be able to press out when the pressure on the backline is reduced.
Then it was seen that Chelsea's attack slowed down and seemed to be in no hurry to score goals, as they slowly maneuvered between midfield and Borussia Dortmund.
Dortmund's side, seeing that Chelsea slowed down their attack, they didn't press it out, and they still held it unhurriedly, anyway, now they are leading 2-1 on aggregate, and they are not in a hurry.
Klopp sat in the coach's box, his heart was still relatively calm, and this change in Chelsea was exactly what he wanted.
Jurgen Klopp thought about the first half, and if the first half could end 0-0, it would be a victory for Borussia Dortmund, and the passage of time would be beneficial for Dortmund.
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Another ten minutes passed.
'Maybe it's because the onslaught hasn't worked for a while, Chelsea are slowing down and the players need to adjust their tempo...... Borussia Dortmund changed their business routine today, they have never played so conservatively at home, but! "In fact, for Borussia Dortmund, this tactic is the most appropriate, they are ahead, they have two away goals, they don't have to take any risks, and when the next step is the Champions League final, Klopp is now the safest tactic, which is very correct." ”
"Klopp's tactics were successful...... German commentator Eric Klomp. "For Borussia Dortmund, even if it goes 0-0, they qualify. So he had absolutely no reason to be in a hurry. But it's not the same with Chelsea...... They need to score, at least two, at the pace of the game, 0-0 in the first half, Klopp should be satisfied, it just makes me wonder that after half an hour of attacking, Chelsea don't seem to be in a hurry, what is Mourinho thinking......"
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What was Mourinho thinking?
He's angry!
He also saw at this time that Dortmund didn't think about pressing out to attack today, and their tactics were very clear, that is, to defend and counterattack.
Even if Chelsea slowed down the pace of the game and were willing to give up possession, Dortmund had no intention of stepping up their attack:
In the entire first half of the game, Dortmund's top scorer Jiang Chenxi only got one chance to shoot!
From here, you can see Dortmund's tactics, absolutely not rashly pressing, no excellent offensive opportunities, preferring to fall in the backfield and maneuver with Chelsea in the midfield!
Jose Mourinho was so angry that he realised he had misjudged Dortmund's tactics!
Since leading Porto to the top of Europe in 2004, it has been ten years, ten years in football, as the top coach in European football, he actually fell into the role of Klopp, a junior, and was unknowingly led by Dortmund.
Realizing this, Mourinho's heart was on fire.
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With a gesture from Jose Mourinho, with five or six minutes left in stoppage time in the first half, Chelsea suddenly stepped up again.
'Chelsea are attacking, they have to attack and they have to try to score a goal in the first half.' Lineker said.
Frank Lampard combined with Willian in midfield, who received the ball and dribbled along the flank, Piszczek came up to intercept it, Willian made a beautiful stop, pulled the ball, dodged the gap, and passed the ball straight into the middle.
Torres headed in the box, but Papastathopoulos defended well against Mikel, who was on the cut-in, and he scrambled the ball out of the box before Mikel's header could hit the target.
Frank Lampard chested the ball and passed it to Ramirez, who himself stepped forward.
As soon as Ramirez stopped the ball, a figure appeared in front of him.
"Svende!" Eric. Lange shouted.
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Svende suddenly stepped up, broke the ball at Ramirez's feet, and without the slightest hesitation, passed the ball to Shahin, who then continued the through ball.
"Fight back! Dortmund's counterattack! ”
In the coach's box on the sidelines, Klopp suddenly got up: This is the official Dortmund waiting for a long-awaited counterattack!
Dortmund won't press it out easily, they are waiting for the opportunity after Chelsea press it hard!
Now is the time!
Shaheen passed the ball diagonally, Mkhitaryan dribbled the ball at high speed along the flank, and Ashley Cole was desperately chasing back.
Mkhitaryan made a sudden stop, smashed the ball, dodged Cole's chase and then passed the ball away.
In the box, Chelsea defender David Brown. Luis made some big tackles, but the ball slipped past his feet!
Jiang Chenxi's ghost slapped out from behind Chelsea captain John Terry!