Chapter Seventy-Five: Veteran Terry and Junior Li Qingshan

"Oh!! Matic!! Nice defense!! The narrator exclaimed!

Matic stuck in position and cut off Li Qingshan's ball.

As soon as the game started, before Li Qingshan could go to Terry's trouble, Matic contributed a beautiful one-on-one defense first.

Li Qingshan planned to try his passing skills, and when he saw the space between Nemanja Matic and John Terry, he planned to shoot directly after passing Nemanja Matic. As a result, the ball is gone, and the person has not.

Nemanja Matic completely guessed Li Qingshan's forward line when he had the passing intention, and he broke the ball with a horizontal move between Li Qingshan and the football.

In order to prevent the opponent from counterattacking, Li Qingshan pulled his hand, and then the referee's whistle sounded, and Li Qingshan fouled.

Fortunately, the referee of this game, Atkinson, showed mercy to Li Qingshan's men and did not show Li Qingshan a yellow card.

"Hahaha, Li Qingshan was ready to try a pass as soon as he started, which is not what he is good at, Matic easily broke the ball, and then Li Qingshan committed a foul and gave Chelsea a free kick at the back. Li Qingshan's foul was largely a tactical foul, but referee Atkinson may have considered that Chelsea did not have much room to counter-attack this time, and showed mercy to Li Qingshan's men. ”

Li Qingshan stretched out his hand to apologize to his teammates, it seems that his outstanding skills really need to be honed.....

Ancelotti frowned, but after seeing Li Qingshan regain the center forward position, he didn't say anything more.

Sometimes players can improvise on the pitch and Ancelotti understands that, as long as it doesn't negatively affect the game.

Chelsea's free-kick was whipped in and Willian cut inside from the right and fired just over the crossbar.

In the opening stages, the two teams tested each other and looked a little cautious.

Li Qingshan is the heart of Manchester United's attack, and many times, the football will end up at his feet.

After a failed attempt at midfield, Li Qingshan decisively gave up on the idea of trying more in the game, and he was at the front of the team, firmly in front of the two Chelsea centre-backs.

In this way, the confrontation between Li Qingshan and Terry came quickly.

As soon as Li Qingshan stopped the ball, Terry behind him quickly rushed up and stabbed the ball away while Li Qingshan had not stopped the ball yet.

Li Qingshan also reacted quickly, he blocked Terry sideways, did not let the opponent get the ball, but he also lost possession.

In the first confrontation between the two, Terry had a slight upper hand.

However, for a defender, ten successful defenses are not worth one failed defense. And for a striker, even if he is blocked ten times, as long as he succeeds once, then he is also the hero of the team.

Here's the difference between a striker and a defender, and maybe it's a little unfair. A striker's mistake may be to snatch the ball away from the opponent, while a defender's mistake is most likely to be a lost goal.

Li Qingshan didn't care about conceding the goal this time. Ninety minutes in a game, you can't attack every time smoothly – otherwise there could be a dozen or twenty goals in a game.

Terry, on the other hand, built confidence in this defence. He guarded against Li Qingshan, which was a good sign.

The thirty-five-year-old veteran still felt that his physical condition was still very good, and his agility and physical confrontation ability did not seem to be much worse than that of the young Li Qingshan.

Before the game, the media also said that in today's English football, the players of Terry's generation have aged, and today's Premier League belongs to the generation of players such as Li Qingshan, Harry Kane, and Hazard.

But Terry proved with his actual performance that he, an old guy, can still compete with the young new generation of players on the field.

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When Li Qingshan once again received the ball with his back outside the penalty area, Terry quickly leaned in and clinged to Li Qingshan's back, preventing him from completing the turn.

At the same time, Terry had movements at his feet and hands, constantly interfering with Li Qingshan to get the ball.

I have to say that Terry's defensive experience is really quite rich, and his actions will not be whistled for fouls, but doing so makes Li Qingshan very uncomfortable. His defensive ability is still very good, after all, he was once the best central defender in the world.

Taking advantage of the time when Terry was entangled with Li Qingshan, Matic and Mikel blocked Li Qingshan's passing line to the left and right, while Oscar was stuck in the middle.

Li Qingshan stopped the ball at his feet for a while, and Chelsea completed the blockade of Li Qingshan.

Mourinho's tweaking of Chelsea's defence has had such an obvious effect, and it is really hard to imagine that such a well-organized team has lost so many games this season.

Li Qingshan didn't plan to pass the ball out, he took the ball in this position just to test the opponent's defensive strength.

Now it seems that the other party still has a high degree of embankment against itself in the middle lane.

Without the option of passing, Li Qingshan also has his own way.

He leaned back sharply. Using his body to squeeze defenders is what he does best.

And Terry has been prepared for this for a long time, he knows very well what Li Qingshan is good at. As soon as Li Qingshan leaned over, Terry shrank back suddenly. He didn't want to have a head-on collision with Li Qingshan directly, after all, he hadn't lost his position yet, as long as he was stuck in the middle and didn't let Li Qingshan easily complete the turn, he would be considered a successful defense.

The 35-year-old Terry knows exactly what he wants to do in defence, he is long past the age when he fights with strikers, and he should do it at the lowest cost.

Terry's contraction made Li Qingshan's strength flutter, but he quickly pounced and resisted Li Qingshan again. In this way, Li Qingshan's reliance naturally did not have any effect, the two sides were still outside the penalty area, and Li Qingshan did not complete the turn.

Li Qingshan couldn't hit it and didn't stay where he was. Terry only needs to entangle him and the defence will be successful. And Li Qingshan needs to hurry up, he must move, otherwise if he stops in place, his advantage will be small - the other party has completed the encirclement, and he must do something before the encirclement is reduced.

He flashed to the left, dribbled and walked, followed by Terry.

Li Qingshan made a feint to the left, followed by a knock with his right foot and a sharp stop.

Terry had been highly focused, and when he saw Li Qingshan walking to the left, he knew it was a feint. Because Li Qingshan's main foot is the right foot, if he goes to the left, Li Qingshan can only shoot with his left foot if he wants to shoot.

Strikers generally prefer to put the ball on the side of their main feet, so that the quality of the shot will be much higher.

Sure enough, Terry waited for Li Qingshan to make a sharp stop. He turned around and got stuck on the route that Li Qingshan was about to turn around.

However, Li Qingshan's movements and reactions were much faster than Terry's, and after the emergency stop and turn failed, Li Qingshan quickly knocked his right foot to the left, giving up the intention of turning to the right, but turning directly to the left.

Li Qingshan came to two consecutive emergency stops to change direction, Terry's brain reacted, but his defensive action did not make it, after all, he was not as flexible as when he was young.

Fortunately, after Li Qingshan turned to the left, the power of the right foot knock was not mastered, and when he turned around, the ball was already a little far away from his body, and his left foot could only shoot at the goal, and the result was directly out of the bottom line.