Chapter 841: Kaka in a Restored State
"Griezmann straight stopper.. Eden Hazard breaks through with the ball!! ”
"Cross..... Alas?! Oolong ?!!! ”
"The ball went in!! It was ..... who scored the goal David Lewis !! Hazard's powerful cross hit his foot and David Luiz, who was chasing back, was completely unreactive!! And this time, David Luiz can be regarded as playing a rather tricky angle!! ”
"Pretty!! Although it wasn't City's players who scored, they were ahead and their previous goalscoring was commendable!! ”
Because it was an own goal scored by the opposing side, the Manchester City players did not celebrate too wildly.
Eden Hazard laughed in the box, while the other players came up laughing and patted Hazard on the head.
Although this goal was not scored by Hazard, it was also an own goal created by him.
In the assist list, Hazard has to remember one assist.
Of course, although David Luiz scored an own goal, it was also a goal!
Chelsea defender David Luiz scored a goal to give Manchester City a 1-0 home lead over Chelsea!
In the stands, the fans sang and danced.
As long as Manchester City is ahead, then this game must be won!
This is already an iron law for Manchester City fans!
Coach Gao Bo will not let the opponent reverse!!
On the sidelines, Gao Bo was also very happy with this goal.
Even though it's just a one-goal lead, it already means a lot of things.
Manchester City went on a fifteen-minute attack in the opening stages, but they did need a little respite.
If Chelsea take advantage of City's respite and launch a big attack, City's defence will need to deal with it seriously.
And this goal allowed Manchester City not to waste the physical strength consumed in the opening fifteen minutes of the attack, and basically achieved the goal set by the team before the game.
Next, the players can use the time after the goal to trim up a little.
If Chelsea come up with it, then play them on the counter-attack.
If they don't attack, so much the better.
The team adjusts a little, takes a breath, and is ready to attack again!
If we could have led by two goals in the first half, the game would have been basically won!!
And Mourinho is also very dissatisfied with the team's defense this time.
Of course, he wasn't unhappy with David Luiz's own goal.
And what centre-back hasn't scored an own goal?
If you want to defend, there is always a chance that something unexpected will happen after you stretch out your foot.
What Mourinho is really dissatisfied with is that David Luiz was directly thrown away by Hazard with simple and crude explosiveness.
Jose Mourinho believes that David Luiz's explosiveness should not be so far behind Hazard.
Of course, Mourinho certainly didn't know that Hazard also had card bonuses for this kind of external possession.....
In any case, Chelsea are behind on the road.
Falling behind Manchester City is already a very, very dangerous sign.
If you want to complete the reversal of the away game, although it cannot be said that it is absolutely impossible, in fact, the probability is already very small.
In the next few minutes, Chelsea launched the attack with long balls from both sides of the flank, finding the two centre-forwards.
Nemanja Matic and N'Golo Kante pressed high.
The two midfielders, who were very good at interception, were pushed forward by Mourinho to fight for the second penalty.
The back line, on the other hand, is coming up.
"Control the two penalties!! If you can't control it, then foul !!! ”
Mourinho gritted his teeth and confessed to Terry.
And after Terry returned to the field, he also conveyed Mourinho's latest instructions.
Twenty-third minute of the game!
Cesar Azpilicueta plays a long ball from the back!!
Torres and Demba Ba went to grab the point.
And their opponents are Kompany and Umtiti!!
In order to deal with Chelsea's simple and brutal style of play, Fernandinho also returned to the box to participate in the defense of high balls.
The football was headed out by Umtiti!
Nemanja Matic is battling Casemiro for the top.
Nemanja Matic went a head above and was ready to head the ball back into the box.
As a result, Fernandinho burst out of the box, chested the ball and dribbled forward.
Fernandinho then looked up front and prepared to launch a counter-attack.
Torres stepped forward and pulled a hand!
Fernandinho falls to the ground.
Torres was fouled tactically and received a yellow card.
Torres walked away with a nonchalant expression.
He's a striker, and while everyone at Chelsea has a defensive role, a striker doesn't need to be as responsible as a defender.
Therefore, getting a yellow card is also getting a yellow card.
Stopping a possible quick counter-attack from the opponent was definitely worth it.
Even Jose Mourinho didn't react to the yellow card.
Tactical fouls and yellow cards are a normal thing.
However, the success rate of long passes is not high after all, and the possibility of losing the ball is still very high.
By the time City adjusted a bit, Chelsea were once again pressed back.
Manchester City were leading the attack, while Chelsea retreated to play on the counter-attack.
The thirty-eighth minute of the game!
Kieran Trippier is brought down on the right and City win a set-piece on the right side of the pitch!
Antoine Griezmann sent to the middle, Kompany's header was cleared, and Kaka came with a kick on the line of the penalty area!
Football is in the arms of Petr Cech!
"Kaka's shot power is a bit small, and it looks like the injury still has an impact on him!"
Commentator Lightkinson said.
Gao Bo applauded on the sidelines, encouraging Kaka's performance this time.
In fact, at a point in time, when a defender is about to pounce, it's hard to play with power.
Kaka is a push with the arch of his foot. However, he didn't push the angle away, allowing Cech to easily hold the ball.
Although the commentators all believe that Kaka is injured and lacks the power to shoot, or lacks confidence, so he shoots a weak ball.
But Kaka is already gradually adjusting his crosshairs and finding his form!
Forty-fourth minute of the game!
In addition to David Luiz's own goal in the first half, the other shot that came closest to scoring belonged to Kaka!
He received the ball on the line of the penalty area and faked a real dunk, and after bursting into the penalty area with the ball, he volleyed with the instep of his foot!
The ball did not move in a straight line on the ground, but swirled violently against the turf, rounding the arches of Terry's feet and the palms of Cech's hands.
It's a pity that the arc is not big enough, and the football bang hit the post and bounced back, and was cleared by Bertrand.
Kaka's performance is getting better and better.
"Beautiful!! Kaka's shot chose a very tricky angle, and Kaka deliberately made an arc, the football was against the turf, and the speed was fast, but unfortunately, the post blocked Kaka's goal! ”
The commentators praised Kaka's performance.
In this game, Kaka performed well in both the offensive tandem and the individual offense in the front court.
This is of course a good thing for Manchester City, and it is also a motivation for the team's form to stay competitive!
With Kaka's shot on goal, the first half of the game was quickly over!
.....
The first half wasn't too good for Chelsea.
The effectiveness of the counterattack is too poor, or there is not much counterattack at all.
Sporadic counter-attacking opportunities, when long passes came from the back, Demba Ba and Torres, the two strikers, against Manchester City's two central defenders, were not cheap at all.
After Torres was seriously injured, he was no longer as brave as he once was.
His goal tally for Chelsea has plummeted, and so far this season, Torres has made just eight appearances for Chelsea, scoring goals.... A goal.
That's just a goal for a striker to score a goal in eight appearances, which is just too inefficient.
Demba Ba is a regular Chelsea striker, but he is not too solid when it comes to handling the ball in the air.
Crucially, Chelsea's counter-attack was unsuccessful.
Even if two strikers can top the ball in the air, the second point is Manchester City's.
The rest of Chelsea's players simply couldn't press and control the two.
Willian and Schurrle were so involved in defence that at one point they were pinned down in the box along with the defenders.
The two strikers in front are like kites with broken strings.
Torres often came back to defend later, with Demba Ba alone up front.
Even if the long pass from the back is accurate, Demba Ba will not be able to single-handedly challenge a defensive line of Manchester City.
As a result, there was little real attacking threat from Chelsea in the first half.
If he hadn't conceded a goal, Mourinho might have continued to play the same way he played in the first half.
But now Chelsea are one goal behind and it is impossible for Chelsea to win without a little attack.
So, before the whistle blew at the start of the second half, Chelsea made a personnel change.
Salah is on the scene!
Replaced by Portland.
With a back removed, Chelsea should play a back three, Cesar Azpilicueta retracts from the middle to play at centre-back, Willian and Schurrle as two wing-backs, and Mohamed Salah as a striker behind Torres and Demba Ba, with his position free, playing on both the left and right.
Salah is very fast, and he is very fast with the ball at his feet, and he is known as Messi of Egypt.
Not many people yet know what Salah is really capable of.
In Gao Bo's memory, in the original history, he really played out or transferred from Chelsea to Roma, Salah became Roma's most key front-court player, but the real flashpoint of the Egyptian star was the transfer to Liverpool, under Klopp, Salah was almost the best player in the Premier League that season at that time, and his goals were close to Messi Ronaldo.
Of course, Salah is still just a fringe player for Chelsea.
Under Jose Mourinho, Salah didn't get many chances.
Moreover, Mourinho replaced Salah, not to let Salah be the core.
Salah came on with two tasks, one was to control the two penalties as much as possible, and the other was to look for opportunities to break through on both wings, and cooperate with the wing-backs on both sides to pass the ball to two strikers.
It can be said that not to mention Mourinho, now in this time and space, not many people will believe that Egypt's Messi can really play Messi's data, so it is understandable for Mourinho to use Salah like this.
Gao Bo was still nervous for a while when he watched the big Salah play.
However, when he saw the location of Salah's field and his main work, Gao Bo immediately took his heart back.
Obviously a bright Ferrari, Mourinho uses people as if they were tractors.
It's no wonder Chelsea will sell Salah soon.
Even though a substitution was made at the start, Chelsea's attacking momentum was not obvious.
Instead, Manchester City seized the opportunity for Chelsea to change their line-up, frequently gaining space on both sides.
Gao Bo soon decided to make a substitution!
"Li Yuanshan is out, he replaced Hazard!!"
While Willian and Schurrle can also be used as full-backs to defend, the two players are actually attackers, so it's okay to let them defend, and they look aggressive.
However, their defensive ability is not as good as the full-backs after all.
The three central defenders took care of the inside of the penalty area, defending in the dense penalty area, but it was basically difficult to take care of both sides.
Li Yuanshan has only one task after he plays, and that is to put the cross ball from both sides into the opponent's goal!!
Li Yuanshan has done a very good job.
The first minute he came up, he got a header.
Under Terry's defense, Li Yuanshan still completed the header!
Petr Cech pulls the ball out of the line with his hand!!
Being able to complete a header above Terry's head shows that Li Yuanshan has made great progress.
His physicality is here, and he has a fight with Terry at the peak.
But John Terry, after all, is an experienced centre-back and can take advantage of such opponents, which shows that Li Yuanshan is still very inspired in attack.
Then, Griezmann takes a corner!
He drove the ball to the back post!
And Li Yuanshan pulled to the back point and completed a header ferry above David Silva's head!
When the football fell to the edge of the small penalty area, the follow-up Kaka directly volleyed!!
The ball whistled over Petr Cech and into the back of the net!!
Two to zero!!
There was nothing Cech could do about the goal!!
"Pretty!! Kaka's volley, an assist from Li Yuanshan!! 1”
After the Chelsea change, Gao Bo quickly responded, he targeted Chelsea's wings, and with a high school striker in the middle, and this substitution received a miraculous effect, Li Yuanshan headed the ball into the penalty area, and was accurately hit by Kaka! And Kaka's volley was also very exciting!! ”
The commentators cheered on the wonderful goal.
And after the goal, Kaka also pointed at Li Yuanshan.
The two hugged each other to celebrate!
The Manchester City players followed!
Two goals ahead!
Manchester City have sealed the win!!
Both the players and the fans think so!
Kaka also breathed a sigh of relief after the goal.
To be able to score in a team like Chelsea at least shows that Kaka's form has returned to seven-seven-eighty-eight.