Chapter 254: Unexpected first loss of the season

The Premier League has one less game, but still relying on the strong performance of the opening five consecutive victories, Chelsea firmly occupy the top position.
In the new season, Chelsea, who has won 8 consecutive victories in all competitions, won two championships, and performed extremely well on both offensive and defensive ends, has already made many people exclaimed whether this Chelsea, which has been running for many years, can do this in the new season. This excellent game state is maintained, and it has an impact on the Premier League and the Champions League at the same time.
In the middle of the week, Chelsea need to play in the third round of the English League Cup.
In the third lap of the game, Chelsea were drawn to qualify for the home game and the opponent was the Queen's Park Rangers from the British crown team.
Because in the second half of the last league game against Tottenham, Ballack suffered a muscle strain. Ancelotti also knows that the players have been fighting in a row recently and their bodies are already very exhausted. The double matches will go on in another week. There may be a wave of injuries in the first half of the season.
Among the two England Cups, the most gold-rich game is the FA Cup. Therefore, Chelsea’s players are not very cold in the English League Cup knock-outs held in the early stages of the league. Like many giants, no matter who the opponent is, In the first few rounds, substitute players and youth training players were mixed and matched. If you win, you will win. If you reach the quarterfinals, you will consider sending the main team to win the championship. If you lose, there is nothing to be distressed.
An Ancelotti, who was not willing to be a major player, still relied on his rich experience in cup competitions and deployed a tactic that can maximize the characteristics of these players for the improvised team.
The final result is still good. I understand that I am a Queen's Park Ranger who accompanies the Prince to study, and I also think that the English League Cup matches are meaningless. As a team with the goal of promotion, 46 games in a season in the English Champions League are enough. It's denser. For them, "strength out" in the English League Cup as early as possible is the most in line with the team's interests.
In the end, under the mutual "humility" of the two teams, Chelsea, who was clearly superior in skill, won the game, 1-0, the most affordable score. Chelsea won the game and won the new season. 9 consecutive victories in the event!
As for who can stop Chelsea, the English media have also made predictions. Everyone hopes that when Chelsea face the Reds Liverpool in the 8th round of the league, Liverpool may be able to threaten Chelsea to the greatest extent.
As for Chelsea's opponent at the weekend, Wigan Athletic was ignored by most people. After all, the team that fell into the relegation zone at the beginning of the game, Wigan Athletic's strength is just like that.
What's more, what is needed to create the cold is the team's defensive ability. Wigan Athletic, averaging 2 goals per game, is really unsightly. Moreover, against the two giants, they lost to Manchester United 0-5 at home and 4-0. Was bloodbathed by Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
When facing a giant team, Wigan Athletic’s defense problem will always be magnified, and 6 league games only scored 4 goals in offensive level. It seems that facing Chelsea’s top European defensive line, there will be no Any opportunity.
Even if Wigan Athletic is at home, everyone is unanimously optimistic about Chelsea before the game. Even the Chelsea players themselves, with the red streak of record, have a little contempt for this game. After all, the hard power is there. No matter how you look at it, Chelsea have huge advantages on both ends of the offense and defense, which can ensure that they can easily win.
In the weekend of the league, Ancelotti continued to play the world with his main lineup. Due to Ballack’s injury, in the away game, Ancelotti chose to play Mikel to play with Essien’s double midfielder. , The other personnel positions remain unchanged, the right back is still Bosingwa, but this time, because of Ballack’s absence, Bosingwa has to move forward more bravely on the offensive end to ensure Chelsea’s wing attack and can create the greatest Threatening.
At home, Wigan Athletic has decisively sent a 532 lineup. Although the team will probably lose, after all, at home, it is still necessary to try.
Chelsea still showed the repressive power of the team from the beginning. Although Chelsea does not have too many offensive players, the overall offense of the team largely depends on the large advance of the two full-backs, but Wigan Athletic At the beginning of the game, he paid great attention to the team’s overall defense. Instead of blindly defending the two sides of Chelsea at the beginning of the game, he was very cautious and recovered the position where the team can form a defense line. The strength of the whole team to conduct a more effective defense.
Wigan Athletic players are mostly black players. They have strong physique and enough athletic talent to ensure that they will not suffer a loss in physical confrontation in defense of the position.
Of course, like the previous Stoke City faced by Chelsea, its team members may not have such high tactical skills when facing some delicate running tactics, and they have always maintained their attention to complete the attacking players. Follow the defense.
But now, after Chelsea’s injury to Ballack, the passer in the mid lane is tightly left with Lampard alone. Lampard is alone. Although the pass is excellent, it gives Wigan Athletic players a guide. Beacon.
Instead of struggling to defend against Drogba and Anelka, it is better to gather the strength of the whole team to limit Lampard firmly, instead of allowing him to complete the pass freely and easily.
The opponent's two black and hard-court midfielders began to focus on Lampard and continued to fight against each other physically. No matter whether there was a ball under Lampard's feet, Lampard was constantly harassed by the opposing player's small movements and quarter of an hour The scale of physical confrontation has made Lampard extremely exhausted.
Although Essien and Mikel started to participate in the attack because the team occupies an absolute advantage, the two defensive players, even if they opened up the space in the center, but when the ball appeared in Essien there was still Mike When you are at your feet, it is always impossible to complete the ball in the first time, and the accuracy of the pass needs to be improved.
At the end of the ball, most of the time, when the ball can only be clearly handed over to the side to attack, Wigan Athletic’s defense has also begun to increase defensive strength to the side, and the rope is tied to Chelsea’s head little by little. .
Rarely, while Chelsea has a high-altitude ball rate, they really don’t have too many shot opportunities. Long shots from the center should have been opened long ago, but Essien and Mikel are still far behind. , And when there is no conventional long-range weapon, he loses Barak’s Lampard, and he can’t get enough attacking space in the middle.
Although Chelsea's ball possession rate is high, it is only true possession and there is not much substantial progress.
In the first 15 minutes of the game, Chelsea only contributed 1 kick, which is very inconsistent with Chelsea's previous offensive data when playing with pressure.
Wigan Athletic's defense is getting better and better. While enhancing their team's defensive confidence, it also brings more and more trouble to Chelsea's offense!
For the Chelsea players, to be the main players of the European giants, everyone's tactical skills are extremely good. Everyone understands that the crux of Chelsea's offense is not smooth passing of the ball in the middle.
Perhaps for Ancelotti, he still has enough cards in his hand to make substitution adjustments in the second half of the game to strengthen the offense. But for the players on the field, you don't want to simply consume yourself and the opponent's physical stamina on the field and give substitute players to the field as a wedding dress.
Especially for players like Mikel who are floating between the main force and the bench, although the performance has always been a defensive player, privately, he and Essien have not practiced passing.
After all, when facing the opponent's barrel formation, a midfielder who can pass the ball will greatly supplement the team's offense.
However, no matter how well you train on the training ground, you may not be able to perform at a normal level in the actual game.
Without confrontation, no matter how good the pass is, there will be huge deviations in the actual game.
Mikel tried to send a pass to the penalty area from a distance, but under the fierce confrontation of the game, Mikel's pass realized, but the effort at his feet still appeared to be biased, and this time, Mikel's passing error was directly caught by the home team Wigan Athletic.
You know, Mikel's pass was directed to Drogba in the penalty area, but the angle was slightly deviated. After the ball moved, it passed directly to the Wigan Athletic defender near Drogba.
After receiving Mikel's "assist" pass, Brambles didn't think much about it, and it was a big kick to Chelsea's halftime.
It can only be said that Wigan Athletic, after experiencing successive defeats, the character of this game is really good.
Bramble's "clearing the ball" turned directly into a long pass, or a very threatening long pass.
Football, which was not deliberately controlled, fell into the worst place for Chelsea at the final point.
The ball hit directly outside the vast defensive area formed by Yang Feng and Terry, and after the ball hits the ground, it still bounced to the side, giving Wigan Athletic winger Thomas enough space to start, but Yang Feng was the first time. , Unable to move forward to complete effective patch defense.
Thomas was extremely fast and didn't have any extra thoughts. He was just advancing in a straight line, and Yang Feng, who came to defend, could only follow closely at a position close to the inside, but far away from Thomas.
It’s just that Yang Feng’s follow is destined to be futile in the end. Thomas has no idea of ​​cutting into the penalty area and trying to create a direct scoring opportunity by himself. Thomas has only one thought in his mind, that is, starting from the side, and then Complete the cross.
As for things after the cross, it is not the responsibility of Thomas.
Thomas's straight-forward approach made Yang Feng's defense empty, because the long pass from the backcourt just now gave Thomas a large enough position advantage close to the side.
On Yang Feng's road, it was not easy to keep following him. It was no easy task not to be thrown away by Thomas by speed.
Thomas made the final kick and passed it from the side without much interference.
After Essien and Mikel took the time to retreat, partner Terry, the three defended their opponents and two forwards who barely kept up.
However, it may be that he blamed his previous passing mistakes, or it may be that the game state has not been adjusted to the best, or the mentality has gone wrong.
This time, Mikel wanted to show himself too much, but he was in the penalty area again. A fatal defensive error caused Chelsea’s defense to have a huge loophole in an instant, and the Wei who was not far behind Mikel Gang Athletic striker, Hugo Rodagas, faced the gift that Mikel had missed, and smiled directly and unceremoniously.
In the absence of other interference, after Hugo Rodagas unloaded the ball directly, fully adjusted, pushed and shot the goal, Wigan Athletic scored a goal in the first half!
Chelsea were in a lagging position again on the road, and the good news is that the game time only reached the 19th minute and there was still enough time for Chelsea to make adjustments.
Ancelotti kept instructing the players from the sidelines that they must calm down at this time and must not panic. Chelsea players must believe in their own strength.
In the following game, Chelsea seized the initiative in a short period of time and started to attack Wigan Athletic again.
However, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. In the absence of enough offensive players, Chelsea's offensive strength cannot create too good opportunities.
In the first half of the game, Chelsea did not make any gains on the offensive end this time. Halftime 0 to 1, Chelsea entered the halftime with a lagging score.
At the beginning of the second half, Ancelotti directly used his substitutions. Deco replaced Mikel to increase Chelsea’s offensive ability on the field. Offensive players such as Kallu and Zhirkov, At the beginning of the second half, he came to the sidelines for warm-up exercises to ensure that Ancelotti can add offensive players to the court at any time depending on the situation.
Deco's appearance is immediate and it is also Wigan Athletic's defense, and has not yet entered the game state.
Chelsea completed the counterattack at the beginning of the second half.
Lampard this time ~EbookFREE.me~ taking advantage of the gap where the opponent's back waist is not tightly guarded, he directly takes the ball to open the space and completes a long shot.
A high-quality long shot directly hit a diagonal corner and hit the top left corner of the goal. Wigan Athletic's goalkeeper couldn't make a save. Chelsea leveled the score in the 47th minute.
However, in today's game, Chelsea was doomed to go wrong. Soon after the equalizer, Deco was knocked to the ground by the opponent's forward before the ball, but the referee did not penalize the Wigan Athletic player for a foul. Hu Ge, who came with the ball, directly launched a counterattack on the spot.
The oblique through ball for Thomas was also accurately passed in front of Thomas, giving Thomas a room to accelerate.
Thomas directly relied on speed to force a single-handed effect, while Cech naturally attacked quickly, trying to block the football.
Thomas’ lap was a bit too big and gave Cech a chance to hold the ball. However, before Cech received the ball, Thomas forced to adjust and complete the spiking change direction, and Cech’s center of gravity had already moved forward and stopped. Not too late, he rushed directly to Thomas.
For the red dot package, Cech was shown a red card in the 52nd minute and was given a penalty to Wigan Athletic. Chelsea faced a huge crisis.
The penalty kick was accurately scored, and Chelsea, who played one less person, naturally did not have a good way to achieve success on the offensive end.
On the contrary, Wigan Athletic relied on the large number of people, and even began to vigorously try to attack.
Before the end of the game, Wigan Athletic chased the ball, and the number of shots was the same on both sides. Chelsea's final fight in the final stage was only in vain. Instead, the home team counterattacked again and scored a goal.
With a score of 3 to 1, Wigan Athletic ended Chelsea's winning streak and gave Chelsea its first defeat in the new season!