Chapter 379 No Jack, No Attack 2

On April 28, the game at Stamford Bridge Stadium began.

This is the third time in the history of the Champions League and the first time that there is an England derby in the semi-finals, with players or coaches from 18 countries in the two sides. A year ago, the two coaches who shared the honors of the European game met on a narrow road. Mourinho ended two bans and sat on the sidelines again.

In the Champions League knockout stage, Chelsea eliminated the rulers of La Liga and Bundesliga successively. Liverpool and Don Jack did not play, so Chelsea naturally became the favorite to win the game.

However, Chelsea conceded nine goals in the first four games of the knockout stage. The defense was not strict. In this game, their cosmetic surgery was not neat. The main full-backs Bridge and Paul. Ferreira continued to be absent due to injury, replaced by Johnson and Garras. Neither of the two wingers started. Robben, who came back last weekend, sat on the bench, Damien. Duff was absent due to a tendon injury and arranged for Joe, who scored two goals in the Champions League to eliminate Bayern Munich. Cole served as the right winger, while the Icelander Good Johansen switched to the left winger.

For Liverpool, this is the twelfth time that Liverpool has participated in the European semi-finals.

Benitez is in short of a striker. Baroche was injured in the league with four stitches in his knee, but he still started as a single striker. The injured Cise and Cowell were sitting on the bench.

Harvey, who was hidden in the league last weekend. Alonso, Rise, Biscayne, Louis. Garcia returned to the starting lineup. This battle was rendered as Alonso's "revenge battle". It was Lampard's tackle that made him injured for a long time. The continuous injury originated from Lampard, but in fact, Alonso did not blame Lampard, and the latter had taken the initiative to apologize after the game.

After the opening, just like media analysis, both teams played cautiously.

The seventh minute, Joe. Cole's long pass from the right side to the back post was inserted into Good Johnson, but Liverpool defender Troyre took the lead in the header.

In the eleventh minute, Lampard made a 60-meter long pass in the backcourt, Joe. Cole got rid of Haipia's entanglement on the right side and cut into the middle. After the right foot kickback dodged Troure, he made a low shot with his left foot at a small angle eight meters in front of the goal. Dudek, who started, guarded the near the corner of the goal and confiscated the ball.

In the twelfth minute, 'Warcraft' Drogba received a long pass from the left side of the penalty area and fell to the ground in the confrontation with Haipia. Drogba immediately applied for a penalty, but the French referee Sal ignored it. Liverpool took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. As a result, the small angle on the left side seemed to pass and missed the far post.

In the thirteenth minute, Chelsea missed a great opportunity to open the first record.

Joe again. Cole picked up the ball with his left foot on the right side. Drogbali headed the ball to the ball, and then his big foot crossed Fennan. Drogba did not shoot directly on the left side of the penalty area, but passed it to Good Johnson at the other end. The Icelanders shoveled with his right foot five meters in front of the goal but failed to touch the ball.

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In the first 20 minutes, half of the first half can be said. The game was completely in a "mofy" state. Chelsea's attack was very stable, but because it was too stable, the threat of attack was not great. Liverpool have been doing defense. Their defense is indeed very solid and there is almost no leakage, but Liverpool's only shot in 20 minutes came from the referee who did not have a penalty kick.

You can imagine how passive Liverpool is!

It was not until the 23rd minute that Liverpool got a good opportunity. Troure passed the ball on the left, and Alonso passed the header 30 meters. Riese did not make the ball for Gerrard. Instead, he unloaded the ball with his left foot in the penalty area to get rid of Johnson, and then smashed Carvalho, who was blocked in front of him, and pushed with his right foot nine meters in front of the goal. He shot, but the angle of the ball was too correct, and it was easily confiscated by Chelsea goalkeeper Cech.

In the next time, the two teams began to grab the ball in the middle. No team got a good opportunity. Such a game was extremely fierce for the players, but the audience was drowsy.

In a football match, goal is the biggest attraction!

But I really don't...

Soon in the second half, Chelsea's 'left-footed prince' Dutch genius Robben began to warm up on the sidelines. Chelsea fans gave applause. As a result, the Dutch boy lived up to expectations after coming on the court and kept holding the breakthrough he was good at, attacking Liverpool's left side again and again, making Liverpool's defense precarious.

In the 20-minute game, Liverpool's defense seems to have been making up for it.

Seeing that Chelsea's offensive completely prevailed, Benitez was anxious. He quickly made a response and rested for half a year after recovering from his injury. The French striker Cice, who had just returned, replaced the mediocre performance of Baroche.

After Cise came on the field, Liverpool's attack finally improved.

In the 79th minute, Liverpool's middle continued to cooperate. After Gerrard and Biscan passed, Garcia passed directly to the right side of the penalty area, and Cisse directly volleyed the crossbar with his right foot at a small angle.

This is also the best opportunity for Liverpool in the second half.

At other times, Liverpool have been defending, defending and defending. The 'guiding idea' of Benitez' game is obviously defensive, just like media reports. At Stamford Bridge Stadium, the Red Army without Don Jack has no offensive ability at all. If you want to eliminate Chelsea, you must do a good job of defense first.

Liverpool succeeded!

It should be said that Benitez succeeded!

At the end of the game, the score on the scoreboard of Stamford Bridge Stadium was '0:0'. This is a score that disappointed the Blues fans very much, and it is also a very exciting game for Liverpool fans, because they are not as the media said and have no way to fight back, although the game is ugly. But the team left the suspense at Anfield and obviously had a better chance to decide the winner at home.

After the game, The Sun said: "Two young commanders from the European continent directed the last English civil war in the Champions League according to the rules of the European. If the two sides are still Holli and Ranieri, the score is not believed to be 0-0. However, Benitez and Mourinho, a pair of cup experts from the Iberian Peninsula, know best the importance of not losing in the first round of the European game, which directly leads to the stability of both sides.

"The whole game makes people sleepy. Liverpool seems to be the winner. Chelsea is too conservative at home."

Mourinho said before the game: "Liverpool's performance against Juventus clearly showed the English team how to be well organized to achieve the desired results in the European game."

After fighting with each other three times, the two coaches "already familiarize themselves with each other's weaknesses and strengths like Prime Minister Blair and Opposition Leader Howard in next week's British general election."

Benitez said before the game that football was not a "blackboard sand table deduction" in the classroom. Although he found Chelsea's "one or two" tactical weaknesses through three contacts, it was actually not so easy to win the game.

Fortunately, Dav's injury was absent before the game and gave Benitez an early International Labor Day gift: the Blues, which lacked strategic width, could only launch an attack through the middle, which made the Spanish young commander's chess pieces such as Alonso, Biscayne, Haipia and Carragher in the middle.

Judging from the game, the gap between the two teams is not as exaggerated as the media described before the game.

Mourinho's deployment means that it is very difficult for Chelsea to launch an attack through the sideline. Good Johnson is a middle player and is not suitable for a winger at all. In the game, the right foot will often swim and cut by himself, and Gala behind him is not a left foot player. The low-bottom pass on the left side is basically invalid. On the right, Joe. Cole himself also switched to the wing forward, and Johnson behind him has been in a stable state in the European game. Before the game, it was considered to be the weak point of Liverpool's assault, so the edge on the right side also became a fantasy.

When the two wings could not take off, Chelsea's play unconsciously became a dense middle road. The excellent midfielder "cleaner" Makelele has made many accurate long passes to find striker Drogba, but Liverpool is not Bayern. Central defenders Haipia and Carrag have considerable experience in the long-pass of traditional British play, which will not let Drogba play the role of "gunst". The media praise them as "flashing lighthouse". Just as excellent.

Moreover, there was a barrier of Alonso, Gerard and Biscayne in front of the guard line, and the middle of the Red Army almost became a copper wall.

Mourinho's pursuit of stability also enables Chelsea to lead to a fast pace from the beginning of the game, as they did when they beat Barcelona and Bayern 2-4 at home. When they changed players frequently in the second half and were ready to kill, the physical strength of the main players who had been fighting on multiple lines had declined, and the stable Liverpool would no longer give them a chance.

Mourinho's tactics can be said to be a mistake. Chelsea was too conservative in the first half.

La Gazzetta dello Sport believes that 'Chelsea is too cautious'.

"The Portuguese style is too cautious. If it is AC Milan, it will definitely attack. Liverpool without Jack is like a tiger without eyes. There is not much attack power at all. The attack is completely chaotic. There is no sense of rhythm and no lethality, but the Portuguese directed a somewhat tragic game. Chelsea did not score a goal at home, such as When it comes to the away game, why did the Blues win? In case, the 'stupid' Spaniard thinks about it, and Jack suddenly appears in the starting lineup. How can Liverpool, with its home advantage, be afraid of Chelsea!?"

The statement of "Milan Sport" made the Blues fans a little disappointed. Think about this game with a chance to gain an advantage of zero to zero. In case, the threatening brunette boy comes out. With the home advantage, as long as Liverpool chooses to defend, the brunette boy uses his strong personal ability to play. With a goal, Chelsea's Champions League journey this season is over.

They will receive a 'return ticket' at Anfield, which is extremely fast.

Of course, there are also praises for the game, and the praise is naturally the defense of the two teams.

The Guardian commented: "Although neither Chelsea nor Liverpool have scored, this is not a boring game. It can only be said that the defense of both sides is excellent. If Liverpool, who retreated away from home, would like to thank the defense general Carragher, then Chelsea's greatest contributor to this game is undoubtedly the goalkeeper Cech, the Czech goalkeeper, who solved the dangerous situation again and again with his steady hands.