Chapter 168: League round off the UEFA Champions League deadlock

After the two-week national team match day, Chelsea are going to challenge Newcastle, who is third to last in the league!
After experiencing the fatigue schedule of the national team match day, all of Chelsea's international footballers dragged their tired bodies to the away game. They simply couldn't take all their mental attention to deal with the opponents in this league!
And because in the middle of next week, the Champions League knockout matches will continue, the opponent Chelsea encountered in the quarter-final draw this year is the "Red Army" Liverpool team in the same league. So when the competition in the league standings is no longer too suspenseful, and there are also reasons for the players' national team to be too tired during the game day, Chelsea's away lineup selection has been greatly adjusted!
In the goalkeeper position, Cech still started, there are not too many surprises!
In terms of the backcourt defense, Bosingwa got the opportunity to take a break this time. After all, Bosingwa has always maintained full attendance in the previous league. He was still in the national team game in the past two weeks and played two full courts. The physical problem is definitely Is a huge problem! Hiddink simply gave Bosingwa a holiday, so that he could cultivate enough energy to wait for the Champions League in midweek to perform well! In this game, he was replaced by Ivanovic, who has obvious technical characteristics!
Compared to Bosingwa’s offensive and defensive performance on the right, Ivanovic may be good offensively and has the strength to be competent for a giant team, but on the defensive end, Ivanovic’s turn is really good. Too slow, often unable to limit the opponent's breakthrough, almost by the tactics of all teams!
When playing against Liverpool in the middle of the week, you must be careful about Liverpool’s wing attack, so Bosingwa, who also played two games on the national team match day, didn’t even enter the big squad this round. He just watched and recuperated. Waiting for the UEFA Champions League midweek!
In midfield, Mikel and Essien partnered with double midfielders. The two top midfield defenders in the world and the strongest midfield interception ability can also make up for Ivanovic's defensive problems! Lampard and Malouda are two of them. One is responsible for dispatching and organizing the offense in the midfield, and the other is responsible for breaking through the wing, passing the ball, and delivering ammunition for the top double forward!
As for Drogba on the front line, Hiddink was also suspended for this game. Everything is for the Champions League, preparing for the UEFA Champions League!
At the top is the combination of double forward Anelka and Kalu! In the absence of Drogba, both Anelka and Kalu wanted to better play their offensive strength in front of Hiddink without affecting the team's outcome!
Chelsea’s three-tier team has core players in rotation for the Champions League, but with this Chelsea’s starting combat power, it’s actually pretty good!
Even if it is away, it is only facing the Newcastle team in the relegation zone. The overall strength of the Chelsea team is still full of repressive power!
Although the relegation teams in the second half of the Premier League game are not easy to provoke, these weak teams can always exert their strength in the final stage to complete the weak victory! But in this game, Chelsea, who is obviously more powerful, holds the initiative and has a better on-site performance!
In the first half of the game, both sides invested a lot of energy on the defensive end, making the attack of both sides extremely slow and extremely difficult!
The two teams were in the penalty area and the thickness of the defensive staff in front of the large penalty area made the two teams only choose long shots most of the time to end an offense. The 0-0 goal of a goalless score was maintained until the end of the game!
In the second half, Chelsea still had the advantage on the field and created a few more opportunities than the home team Newcastle. This time, Goddess of Luck was clearly on Chelsea's side!
In the 56th minute of the game, Lampard suddenly completed a long shot while dribbling the ball, and hit the Newcastle goalkeeper by surprise! It was with this iconic long shot that Lampard was the first to break the opponent's goal for Chelsea! Chelsea lead the score 1 to 0!
In his home court, after the iron bucket array with his full strength was knocked out first, Newcastle, who was in desperate need of relegation scores, was naturally unwilling to lose at his home court so easily!
The coach of Newcastle can only choose to take a risk at this point in the game, switch offensive players, and change the team’s iron barrel tactics, hoping to use the momentum of the home court to tie the score amidst the cheering of the home fans. !
It's just a pity that for this Chelsea team, after taking the lead, few teams can easily let Chelsea spit out their own victory!
This Newcastle does not have that strength!
Essien and Mikel, two of the best defensive midfielders in the world, formed the most difficult midfield defense line to be broken. Newcastle, the offensive conduction ball in the center, was destroyed countless times by the two!
However, he was forced to change his offensive method from two wing lanes, but he happened to be surrounded by Chelsea, who had piled up players on the wing lanes!
It can be said that it is precisely because Newcastle does not have the kind of superstar players who can make a final decision and can change the opponent's defense line alone. Chelsea's defense can unscrupulously rely on the strength of the center to complete all aspects of defensive concentration!
In this situation of breaking a little defense, it is possible to destroy Chelsea's defense in an instant, Newcastle does not have the kind of players who can make people shine!
Newcastle’s offense, even if there are more offensive players, there is still no chance! Chelsea's iron-and-blood defense is well-deserved!
Even if Newcastle sometimes encounters dead mice, and occasionally a through ball or a long pass happens to break through Chelsea's defense, Yang Feng stays at the end of the defense and is ready to make up for it. For Newcastle's offensive players, it is Intercepting Chelsea players layer by layer, without any chance, appeared in the penalty area!
Chelsea's defensive defense made Newcastle even look forward to playing high ball from the side in the game. For Yang Feng and Terry, there is not much that can be done in this game!
The defensive line composed of midfielders and full-backs makes most of Newcastle's offenses unable to pose risks to the Chelsea centre-back combination!
But Newcastle suffered a heavy blow on the defensive end when the offense did not improve!
After the continuous offensive was disadvantageous and Chelsea seized the opportunity to fight back, although Chelsea's counterattacks were several times in a row, they were all destroyed by Newcastle's remaining defenders!
But you can't point to a defender of a relegation team that can accomplish tasks that many giants can't do. After successfully completing several defenses, Newcastle's goal was once again penetrated by Chelsea!
This time it was Chelsea's only orthodox winger Malouda who scored the goal!
This time the counterattack originated from the opponent's attack in the middle. In the process of trying to force a breakthrough, the man passed, but the ball was directly blocked by Essien. Essien completed the interception, and Chelsea converted the ball on the spot. , And strive to complete the counterattack quickly!
The ball was passed directly to Lampard by Essien, who was dispatched and directed by Lampard in the midfield to transfer the ball!
Then Lampard passed the ball directly to Kalu who ran to the left side empty! After unloading the football, Kalu directly accelerated on the left, and Chelsea’s other forward Anelka, and Malouda on the right, quickly inserted into the penalty area of ​​Newcastle, ready to respond. Kalu's possible pass!
Since the conversion of the ball is a momentary matter, so when Chelsea's counterattack has already started quickly, Newcastle's players are too slow to return to defense!
In the case of 1v1 on the wing, Kalu has no chance to cut into the penalty area and hit the goal directly because the opponent's central defender firmly occupies the inside position!
But in the same way, while defending the inside line, the opponent can no longer come out to interfere with Kalu's full sprint, and interfere with Kalu's wing directly to the middle!
Kalu has plenty of time. When dribbling, he still looks up to watch the running situation of his teammates!
Anelka jumped directly and quickly, attracting another Newcastle central defender to mark him, while Malouda quietly ambushed at the back point, and the player who followed him was still behind him. Came here and completely lost his defensive position!
Kalu had enough adjustment time to pass the ball directly to the back point!
Malouda directly completed a wonderful volley shot without interference from the defender, which was very simple!
The goalkeeper of Newcastle had not had time to make any response. The ball had already flown into the net. Chelsea had a 2-0 lead away!
With Chelsea's second goal, the Newcastle players also directly gave up their thoughts of resistance. The players of both sides began to control and pass the ball in the midfield, which turned the game into a so-called "trash time"!
There is no hope for Newcastle on the weak side. Chelsea said that although three main players have been suspended, most of the players on the field will actually start in the Champions League, so there is no need to expend too much physical energy. Play meaningless matches!
In the end, Chelsea won another victory after the national team game day, 2-over Newcastle, and made a good start for the mid-week Champions League game!
After the match, the Chelsea team returned to London overnight to fix up! Since the first leg of the UEFA Champions League game is to go to the away field and challenge Liverpool at Anfield, Chelsea will also understand that this will be an extremely difficult battle! They need to recharge their energy, adjust their best state, and present their best performance on the big stage of the Champions League!
In the Champions League, the Premier League has definitely been in its prime in recent years. Although the Premier League mode is no different from other leagues at this time! Almost all are a super team (Manchester United), a few other weaker giants are putting pressure on the standings, and then other big-bodied teams will find ways to block in the league to see if they can be lucky enough to succeed once. !
It's just that the investment level of the Premier League giants is the first level in the entire Europe, which also makes the Premier League team extremely competitive in the European arena!
In the past few years of the Champions League games, the Premier League team, with the support of huge broadcast income, bought a large number of players and suddenly emerged. After the four majors of the Premier League last season, they took the top eight and joined the finals of the season. The giants once again broke into the quarterfinals, occupying half of the quarterfinals! Chelsea and Liverpool met during the draw. The two Premier League giants will meet directly in the quarter-finals!
The result of the quarter draw allowed Chelsea and Liverpool, the old enemies of the UEFA Champions League, to meet again in the UEFA Champions League. Perhaps this group of duels has caused a lot of viewers' visual fatigue!
This is the third consecutive year that Chelsea and Liverpool have faced each other in the knockout stage of the Champions League!
In the semi-finals of the previous year, Liverpool stepped on Chelsea in the semi-finals and advanced to the final, but in the final, AC Milan successfully completed the revenge, washing away the shame of Istanbul night!
In last year's semi-finals, it was Chelsea's turn to take advantage ~EbookFREE.me~ and complete the promotion! It's just a pity that in the rainy battle in Moscow, Chelsea lost to their home league rival Manchester United, becoming the backdrop behind Manchester United's glory!
In this year’s UEFA Champions League, although the duel between the two teams was advanced to the quarter-finals, since the two teams in the domestic league and Manchester United seem to have little hope of competing for the title, they naturally aim for the Champions League trophy. ! Hope that we can use a better performance to win the honor for the team in the Champions League!
In the Premier League that has been completed this season, Liverpool has doubled Chelsea this season and can be called the nemesis of Chelsea!
It's just that these two victories were due to Scolari's tenure, and Chelsea is not suitable for a duel! For Hiddink and the Chelsea players, the current Chelsea may be very different from the Chelsea under Scolari! At least all the players felt that their defense should be much stronger than the defense at the time!
During the period after Hiddink came to Chelsea, Yang Feng used his excellent defensive judgment, replenishment ability, and always high attitude towards the game, which made the team members slowly accept Yang Feng and adapt to Yang Feng. On the field, I appreciate his contribution to the team!
Compared with the previous two league games, Yang Feng will make this Champions League quarter-final full of more variables and uncertainty!
Anyway, for this UEFA Champions League knockout match, both players are fully prepared, hoping to play their best strength, stepping on the opponent's corpse and entering the semi-finals!
Not only does Chelsea have a rotation in the league, Liverpool's rotation is even greater, but the team still maintains offensive firepower and takes Fulham away!
The two teams that have been doing very well in the recent past have a direct confrontation!