Chapter 67: The Situation Is Not Quite Right

Chapter 67 is not quite right

The lights of the stadium shone on Li Qingshan's face.

The game had just begun, and there was no sweat on his face, and his bronzed skin seemed to absorb the light from Stamford Bridge, which is the color of ultraviolet rays that have been exposed to the outdoors for a long time.

As soon as the game started, he conceded a goal before he could touch the ball, and the expression on Li Qingshan's face was naturally not too good, he had a gloomy face, and looked coldly at the Chelsea players who high-fived each other and celebrated returning to his half.

"Li Qingshan looks very unhappy, indeed, if you lose the ball at the beginning, you won't be happy with anyone."

Li Qingshan is indeed a little unhappy, this is a very coarse goal, it is completely the carelessness of the back line to give the opponent a chance. The game started from behind, which put United on the back footing from the start.

Antonio Conte was dancing on the sidelines, and a goal was clearly not reassuring to Chelsea, but until then, they had to be wary of United's attack.

Despite playing at home, Conte did not dare to slack off against a team like Manchester United.

Although United played a Champions League game three days ago, and Li Qingshan played the whole game in that game, he only scored a late goal to help United get through the danger.

But Conte can't guarantee that Li Qingshan is not in good shape in this game.

Especially in the last round of the Premier League, Manchester United swept Liverpool away with a score of 8-1, which made almost all the teams in the Premier League look sideways.

Against a team like Liverpool, scoring eight goals, although this game can be analyzed after the game, Liverpool's many mistakes in tactical selection and personnel arrangement, but in any case, scoring eight goals in a game against Liverpool, such a record is still quite terrifying.

In the pre-match preparations, Conte continued to emphasize the importance of defending Li Qingshan to the Chelsea players, and he listed Li Qingshan as the player who needs to be taken care of the most by Manchester United, and raised the outcome of this game to whether he can prevent Li Qingshan.

"As long as we can contain Li Qingshan's play, we have a chance to win this game!"

Speaking before the game, Conte said.

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After conceding the goal, United did not press hard at the beginning, and they tentatively controlled the football on the perimeter. The tactics used by this Chelsea team are clearly completely different from last season. Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho are two managers with different styles.

However, in terms of overall tactics, Chelsea are still in a defensive counter-attacking posture.

Conte's 343 formation can become 541 in defensive. Chelsea's three centre-backs Cesar Azpilicueta, David Luiz and Gary Cahill occupied positions in the box, while the next two wing-backs Moses and Marcos Alonso returned to occupy the left and right wing-back positions, and then two wingers, Eden Hazard and Pedro, returned to midfield, with Nemanja Matic and N'Golo Kante in the middle of the line-up.

In particular, N'Golo Kante, the powerful midfielder that Chelsea snatched from the mouths of the major giants, has still performed quite well this season, with super tackling ability and large defensive coverage, making the diminutive French midfielder an insurmountable barrier in front of Chelsea's defence. Some media have even praised Kante as a strengthened version of Makelele.

For more than ten minutes since the game, the shadow of the French midfielder can be seen on the left, middle and right lines of the midfield.

Carlo Ancelotti looked at N'Golo Kante's performance with some envy, and if he could have snatched him in the transfer window, United's midfield would have improved defensively several notches this season. It's a pity that Chelsea started early, and Manchester United is still a step late after all.

Faced with Chelsea's turtle-like defence, United struggled to get the ball into the opposition penalty area for a while.

'Nemanja Matic and N'Golo Kante have a strong defensive combination of interceptions and defences, two of the two gates that have been set up in front of the Chelsea defence, and it will not be easy for United to find crosses or through balls through through the ball. Scholes said.

Li Qingshan also felt the defensive ability of the opponent's two backs.

In the eighteenth minute of the game, Li Qingshan retreated to the midfield to get the ball.

Matic stepped up as soon as possible, so that Li Qingshan couldn't turn around.

However, it was not easy for Matic to carry Li Qingshan, Li Qingshan did not shake Matic in two consecutive feints, and finally simply relied on his strong body to force him around.

However, at the moment when Li Qingshan finished turning, Kante suddenly came out of nowhere, stretched out his foot, and snatched the ball from Li Qingshan's feet.

"Li Qingshan was robbed !!"

'Chelsea's counter-attacking !!'

Stamford Bridge was instantly enthusiastic, and Chelsea's counter-attack was very fast!!

Hazard took the ball and cut inside, took a few steps forward and shot straight at goal!

De Gea did not dare to slack off in the face of Hazard's powerful shot, and he made a sideways save to save the ball off the line.

Ancelotti stood on the sidelines with a frown.

It's hard to get back into the attack, but the counter-attack is so sharp, it's a pretty tough test for United.

Li Qingshan rushed back to the penalty area to participate in the defense, and Matic and Kante teamed up to defend so that Li Qingshan also felt a lot of pressure.

However, for Li Qingshan, in the face of all kinds of opponents over the years, he has long developed a big heart that is not shocked.

And the stronger the other party, the more excited Li Qingshan became.

However, Chelsea's luck was a little too good in this game...

A Chelsea corner kick was headed off the touchline by Li Qingshan, and then Chelsea sent a quick sideline ball.

Nemanja Matic received the ball in the middle and moved to the right, where Pedro picked up the ball and crossed it immediately before the ball was cleared by Hummels and fell right to Matic.

There wasn't much defense around Matic at this point, so he adjusted a little and then picked up his right foot on the perimeter!

"It's to... Shot? ”

There was surprise in the commentary seat. After all, this is more than 30 meters away from the goal, and the probability of shooting at this distance is not very high - after all, it is Matic who is ready to shoot now, not Li Qingshan.

But if the commentators had seen it from De Gea's point of view, they wouldn't have thought so.

Due to the previous Chelsea corner kick attack, there are still a lot of personnel in the front field at Chelsea, and Manchester United has relatively all returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, at this time the penalty area is densely populated, De Gea did not see Matic shoot at all!

Knowing that the ball was halfway through, De Gea discovered the trajectory of the football.

To add insult to injury, Herrera tried to head Matic's shot out of the box on the edge of the box, only to have the ball hit his head with a slight deflection that prevented De Gea, who had already reacted, from making a second save immediately.

This is how the football flew into the Manchester United goal.

Manchester United are 2-0 down at Chelsea...