Defending has been Chelsea's focus since Jose Mourinho's arrival, and with that oppressive defence, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea dominated the Premier League for a time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Mourinho has been away from Chelsea for many years, Chelsea's defensive ability has not been completely lost, not to mention that the manager is still an Italian.

What Italy is best known for is defense, and as an Italian manager, defense is easy for Di Matteo.

If you look at Chelsea's defense in the first half, Manchester City were quite strong in attack throughout the first half, but they were never able to break the deadlock.

Of course, if it continues like this, Van Basten is not worried, the players are just normal people and not robots, and it is impossible for players to stay focused and not make mistakes for 90 minutes in a game of 90 minutes.

City just needed a chance, a chance for Chelsea players to make mistakes, and at that time, Van Basten believed his side could change the situation on the pitch completely.

"However, ~~~ in the second half we need to be careful of Chelsea's attack, if we defend for a long time, we will lose, Chelsea is likely to change our tactics and play against us in the second half" Van Basten finally reminded at the end of the break.

However, it is clear that Van Basten has been a little overly concerned, and after the resumption of the second half, Chelsea's tactics have not changed, and there have been no changes in personnel, with both sides maintaining their starting line-ups.

Although the kick-off belonged to Chelsea, the first shot of the second half belonged to Manchester City, and a long-range shot from Li Feng was finally blocked by Cahill with his body.

Meireles crossed the halfway line and linked up with Juan Mata, but was suddenly caught by Yaya Toure and Li Feng, and eventually lost the ball, Yaya Toure hoisted the ball into the Chelsea penalty area with a long pass from the back.

Dzeko struggled into the box, but unfortunately Luis and Cahill had a clear division of labor, Luis was on top of Dzeko, and Cahill took the opportunity to clear the ball with a header, but the ball still fell at the feet of Manchester City.

Sergio Aguero, the Manchester City striker followed closely behind, moving across to the middle, but while Sergio Aguero was in possession of the ball, Ashley Cole had followed up and blocked Aguero's path to advance and shoot.

"Here~~~" Just when Aguero was about to make a strong breakthrough, the voice from behind him made Aguero change his original intention, turn around and pass diagonally, blue No. 7.

It turned out that Li Feng had been plugged in from behind at the moment, although there were Ramirez, Mikel and even Lampard by his side, but among the three, except for Ramirez, who could barely keep up with Li Feng, the other two couldn't catch up with Li Feng at all, one was over thirty years old, and the other was not good at all.

Explosiveness~~~ Simple and rough, at the moment of Aguero's pass, Li Feng used his excellent explosiveness to shake off Ramires beside him, and then directly shot a long shot without making adjustments.

In Li's original vision, the ball crossed past Cahill, because Cahill might have blocked Cech's view, but Cahill's knee-jerk move just happened to stop the ball, and he was finally stopped, and Luiz immediately followed to clear the ball.

Chelsea took advantage of the situation on a quick counter-attack when Juan Mata broke through and Fernando Torres had the first Chelsea strike of the second half, but his powerful shot from inside the box line was denied by Joe Hart.

In the 56th minute, Manchester City almost broke the deadlock, two Argentines on the right side played Ashley Cole, and Aguero played a kick on the right side that seemed to be a pass, a shot but not a strange shot.

However, it was Cech who came out of the way, with an incredible turn and a flying to, and the ball eventually hit the crossbar and bounced back into the box, Dzeko, but Dzeko's header didn't put the ball in the back of the net.

"It's a pity~~~ It's a pity, Dzeko almost pushed the ball out of the bottom line in the face of an empty goal, but I have to say that in this game, Cech's performance was too exciting, and the turn just now was definitely the most exciting save in this round, and there was even a chance to compete for the best save of the season."

As the saying goes, if you don't die, there will be a blessing, and everyone didn't expect that the first to break the deadlock in this game would be Chelsea, which has been passive.

It was also the two centre-backs who made the difference, and in the 59th minute, Ramirez's long-range shot from outside the box was blocked by Joe Hart and Chelsea were awarded a corner.

Juan Mata sent the ball into the Manchester City penalty area, but it was Manchester City who fought for the first spot, Yaya Toure, and the Manchester City midfielder's header cleared the ball and landed at the feet of De Jong outside the country.

But before De Jong could pass the ball, Luis had already rushed out of the big penalty area, directly glued to De Jong, and after Ivanovic stepped forward to scramble, De Jong was suddenly caught in front and back.

De Jong is not Li Feng, under the attack of the two, Manchester City's midfielder did not even have a chance to clear the siege, and the ball accumulated Ivanovic stabbed back into the penalty area, just falling at the feet of Cahill who retreated.

Turning around and shooting, those who don't know still think that Cahill is a striker, and his movements are so smooth that he can compare to a real striker.

"goal~~~Goal~~~Goal~~Cahill~~No~~No~~No, it's not Cahill, it's an own goal, it's not~~ The goal should be counted on Cahill, his shot hit Yaya Toure's leg, and then changed the line and rushed into the Manchester City goal, but Yaya Toure didn't raise his leg at all, and it was the ball that loaded Yaya Toure on its own."

'The surprise was in the 60th minute when Chelsea broke the deadlock first, with three defenders making meritorious contributions, Luiz and Branislav Ivanovic forcing De Jong to concede the ball, and Cahill possessing the ball and turning and shooting at a standard comparable to that of a striker.

When Chelsea scored, Manchester City fans didn't even react, after all, it was too unexpected to come in, you know, for the whole 60 minutes, it was their own team who had the advantage.

It wasn't until the Chelsea fans celebrated wildly that the City fans reacted, and a huge boo followed, of course, not for the Manchester City players, but for the opponents, and this is the Etihad, where there is no place to go wild.

The fans in the stands, the players on the pitch competed, and seeing the opponent score ahead of him, the Manchester City players said that it must be a lie if they were not depressed, and at the same time, Van Basten's face on the sidelines became extremely ugly.

Now that Chelsea scored first, Manchester City will be completely passive in the next game, which also indicates that Manchester City has no way back in this game, because as early as two days ago, Manchester United bloodied Wolves away from home, if Manchester City cannot win this game, then the difference between the two sides is only 1 point. (To be continued.) )