Chapter 249: UEFA Champions League

The winner of the last European Cup in the 08/09 season was the Shakhtar Donetsk team from Ukraine, which only re-emerged in the 21st century.
Since entering the 21st century, Shakhtar Donetsk has attracted a large number of strong Ukrainian players with strong financial resources, and has also introduced outstanding midfield players from Brazil, which has made the overall strength of the team increasingly improved. In 2009, in the final of the last European Cup, he defeated the Bundesliga powerhouse Bremen through an extra time goal and won the European Cup champion trophy.
Now they will play the UEFA Super Cup with the Champions League champion, Chelsea, at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco!
The Principality of Monaco, which has an area of ​​only 400 football fields, has a football stadium with a high reputation in Europe, the Louis II Stadium.
This stadium has always hosted the European Super Cup games. Although the 18,000 spectator seats are not too many, the surrounding facilities of the stadium are pretty good, which can meet the consumption needs of the fans of the two teams.
However, as a football venue with many years of history, coupled with the fact that the home game of the Monaco club has just been completed, the quality of the turf of the Louis II Stadium is obviously inferior to its own Stamford Bridge for Chelsea, and even There are not enough home games for these teams than Fulham.
Ancelotti himself was very disappointed with such a stadium. The uneven turf was very unfriendly to Ancelotti's tactical play that he wanted to control the midfield at the beginning.
On the contrary, for Shakhtar Donetsk, their style of play was originally relatively simple and rough, relying on the body, and the speed and explosiveness of Brazilian foreign aid. Although the stadium turf affects the speed of the players, it depends on the overall tactics of the team. In other words, the impact will not be that big.
Chelsea's scouting department has done a lot to understand the strength of this Shakhtar Donetsk.
Shakhtar Donetsk, who is not bad for money, almost retained the team’s main lineup during the summer transfer window. The only important player to lose may be Ziglinski, who is preparing for a transfer fee of 20 million euros to join Barcelona. However, due to preparations for this UEFA Super Cup game, Ziglinski's transfer is still short of the final step. It will not go to Barcelona to report until the UEFA Cup game is over.
The team's style is tough, offensive and defensive are excellent, especially the three foreign players from Brazil, all of which are the best fighters.
Yang Feng is too familiar with the three Brazilian foreign aid of Shakhtar Donetsk.
The miners’ main striker Luis Adriano, perhaps in Yang Feng’s memory, did not get a place in the rich team like other Brazilian foreign aids who left from the miners. However, he played for the miners for many years because he played in the Champions League. In a rogue goal, everyone knows.
In one year’s Champions League group stage, after a North Sealand player fell to the ground due to an injury, the referee directly stopped the game, but when the game restarted and the referee completed the throw, the miner player passed the ball back in accordance with sportsmanship For the North Sealand goalkeeper, everything was normal, but Adriano on the other side suddenly accelerated. Taking advantage of the North Sealand defender not paying attention, he stopped the ball directly, passed the defender, drove the ball past the goalkeeper, and scored the goal. After the game, the phrase "forward instinct" caused an uproar in European football! The UEFA Disciplinary Committee even sued his personal conduct...
Unlike Adriano, the other two Brazilian players will leave their mark in the Premier League in the future.
At this time, the miner winger William, will join Yang Feng’s blue team Chelsea soon, and in a certain period of the car’s artificially depressed state, using various set-pieces to score for the team to attack the city and become the team Thigh level figure.
And another midfielder, Fernandinho, of course, needless to say, for a long time after that, he will be the only "waist" of Manchester City. Anyone can be injured, but Fei Bird can't afford it. The absolute "core" in Manchester City's lineup!
Others are mostly Ukrainian players or players from other Eastern European countries. Most of these players will complete their entire careers in Eastern European countries. They have no chance or adapt to the way of playing in major Western European leagues.
Even the miner center Zigrinski, who was the focus of the scouts for the Chelsea forwards before the game, was paid a large transfer fee by Barcelona, ​​but in Yang Feng’s impression, Barcelona does not seem to be such a number one. It will be the ending for everyone.
In the early morning of August 29th, Beijing time, the European Super Cup started on time!
Chelsea captain Terry and Shakhtar Donetsk’s old captain Srner held the Champions League trophy and the European Cup trophy respectively, leading the team to the field, and the two teams competed in the middle of the channel. Goal, the European Super Cup trophy!
In view of the nature of the stadium, Ancelotti put away his diamond midfield tactics in this game and chose a more practical and safer Champions League ceremony lineup.
Essien returned to his most familiar defensive midfielder position to help the team limit the two outstanding Brazilian frontcourt players from the miners.
It's just that the miners who know how many catties they are, did not risk continuing their offensive play in the Ukrainian League, but rather decisively chose to "counsel" it!
The coach of the sideline miners, Romanian Lucescu, although his face was pale and haggard, he knew in his heart that his team's strength was too far behind Chelsea and he could only choose a safe defensive counterattack.
As the meritorious coach who led the miners to win the European Cup last season, Lucescu has contributed a lot to this team. Even in July, because of a heart attack, he had just received heart surgery, but Lucescu still Resolutely and quickly recovered, he returned to the coaching bench. He wanted to lead the miners to take one step further and win the European Super Cup trophy!
At the beginning of the game, Chelsea was under the miners' retracted defense and occupied the possession of the ball.
Although the Eastern European teams are seriously out of touch with world football in terms of skills and tactics, the excellent physical quality of the miners has also caused tremendous pressure on Chelsea's midfield!
Although he was not flexible enough, he ran hard and directly slammed into his body. Under the slightly loose whistle of the referee, Chelsea's offense did not have much way to make a breakthrough throughout the first half.
Unlike Chelsea's offense that has stalled, the miners' defensive counterattack has played vigorously since the opening.
Especially William at the winger position can always use his personal speed and excellent personal ability to create excellent counterattacks on the wing.
Throughout the first half, William alone created no fewer than three counterattacks on the wing.
The miners are fully prepared for this game. Aiming at Yang Feng’s strong defensive interception ability in the backcourt, when the miners consciously counterattack, all of them are through through on the ground, and most of them are close to the two sides. Position, increase Yang Feng's running distance. And there was almost no pass, it went straight to Chelsea's hinterland, pass near the big penalty area, it can be said that Yang Feng did not give Yang Feng any opportunity to easily complete the defense in his own defense area!
Although this way of directly looking for a pass from the side, there is no way to directly threaten Chelsea's defense at the first time, but it is more suitable for the miners to play at will in the vast space of the side.
William showed his personal technical ability very comprehensively on the wing. Ancelotti on the sidelines saw that he wanted to apply for transfer funds from boss Abramovich after the game, and try to quote William!
Ashley Cole is also involved in the offense, so although he can barely return to defense most of the time, facing William's breakthrough on the wing, it is difficult for him to conduct a 1v1 personal defense. Terry, although the speed of the grab is not slow, but facing William, who has extremely strong personal technical ability, it is difficult to take advantage of the defense when making up.
Three threatening offensive opportunities, one was a very threatening cross from the wing after forcibly breaking through Ashley Cole. As a result, Yang Feng, who was waiting in the penalty area, directly took the lead. Before the miner followed up with a header and hit the goal, Completed the rescue.
The remaining two times were to get rid of Ashley Cole, and even shook Terry away, finishing the cut inside.
Once the anti-aircraft gun was released, it was slightly higher than the beam, and the remaining kick was very tricky. Fortunately, Cech saved it bravely!
Compared with the brave play on William’s side, Adriano’s performance in the first half was a little flat. For one thing, most of the miners’ counter-attacks were directly looking for the side, and occasionally passing to the middle Adriano’s pass. Was intercepted by Yang Feng. Secondly, Yang Feng’s defensive task includes watching Adriano, so Adriano’s running position is somewhat useless in front of Yang Feng’s huge body. Yang Feng always uses his strong body in a timely manner to directly block The best forward position to live in Adriano!
At the end of the game, Chelsea accounted for more than 60% of the ball possession, but the number of shots between the two sides was 6 to 5, which was not much different. In terms of the degree of threat, the miners were more threatened.
During the intermission, Ancelotti made an exciting "combat mobilization"! After all, the pressure on An Pang to take over Chelsea is really not small. After all, his predecessor’s half-year coaching and winning the Champions League are too dazzling. This also makes Ancelotti desperately need some champions to prove himself, the Community Shield. The European Super Cup, the champions of these two seasons at the beginning of the season, are naturally Ancelotti’s pre-determined things, especially the European Super Cup, the two-level cup championship matchup. If this fails to win the championship, then after that day How can I have the authority of a coach to deter players when I meet resistance in my own tactical reform? How can I get the support of fans and team management.
In the second half of the game, Chelsea's offense began to improve, especially after the physical consumption on the defensive end of the first half, as the game progressed in the second half, the miners' defense began to loosen.
As for the miners’ threat of counterattack, Yang Feng and Terry made a transition in the second half, allowing Yang Feng to assist in the nearby defense to help Ashley Cole, effectively limiting William’s doing whatever he wants on this side.
Yang Feng’s world-class central defender’s attributes began to be gradually revealed. His excellent predictive ability enabled him to always fill the position at the most critical moment of William’s breakthrough. After William exhausted his energy, he rarely had a chance to obtain. Further breakthrough.
And Terry, who is experienced, faced Adriano as well. Adriano is indeed a fairly good forward, but his playing style is too obvious. When facing a good central defender, his ability to play is extremely limited.
With no worries about the Chelsea team, they began to invest more energy on the offensive end. Through constant forwarding and scheduling in the frontcourt, while Chelsea is constantly increasing the ball possession rate, they are also exhausting the miners' defense.
The final collapse of the miners’ defense line was due to Chelsea’s wing attack.
As always, the left wing is Chelsea's main offensive starting point. Malouda and Ashley Cole's two-man combination firmly pinned the Miners' defensive attention on this side.
As Drogba and Anelka also moved closer to the left, putting a lot of pressure on the miners' defense, other players also had to retract to Drogba's side.
At this time, Ashley Cole's direct long pass to transfer the ball was a little bit awkward.
Bosingwa on the right had already waited at the center line~EbookFREE.me~ to see the ball transferred out, and naturally moved forward quickly.
Although the miner's left back has been vigilant, due to physical exhaustion, he suffered a direct physical loss with Bosingwa. Bosingwa relied on his physical superiority and forcibly ran over.
As Bosingwa slid into the penalty area directly, the miners' defense line was in chaos for a while, the central defender Ziglinski had to come out quickly to make up the defense, but Bosingwa also directly rubbed the ball and passed the ball to Ziglinski. The defensive area just now!
Anelka, who came back from the center, jumped into the forward spot and hit the goalkeeper with a shake of his head. Chelsea took the lead in the 73rd minute of the game.
As the game progressed, the players from both sides stepped on the Louis II Stadium, which was originally like a vegetable field, but it turned into a vegetable field, a bumpy lawn. Nowadays, it is huge for both technical players and speed players. With Chelsea’s lead, although the miners want to counterattack at the end, the field conditions have also become the limiting conditions for the miners to play.
The most obvious is that William, who performed extremely well before, is now not an easy task to break through Ashley Cole's defense, let alone Yang Feng who is ready to make up for defense.
Under Chelsea's conscious control of the rhythm, the miners did not get too many offensive opportunities. The score of the game was finally fixed at 1-0, and Chelsea successfully won the second trophy at the beginning of the season.
Although this kind of cup is a bit tasteless, it is still a championship trophy after all. Chelsea players still smiled and accepted the cheers of the Chelsea audience. Under the leadership of captain Terry, they raised the European Super Cup trophy...
The second crown of the new season is so easy!