When the 70 minutes of the game came, when we saw that Chelsea chose to replace Frank Lampard with Oscar, the faces of Wolfsburg players were all full of smiles: Although the other side's replacement was not entirely within their expectation, but in the face of the backward score, the other side replaced veteran Frank Lampard. What's the purpose of this approach? What are the Wolfsburg players I can guess a few points.
In 70 minutes, the team fell behind and replaced with a front court player. As long as it's not a fool, everyone knows that the opponent wants to strengthen the attack. Look at the way that Chelsea played in the beginning. Look at the 70 minutes that they have been forced to attack wave and wave. This one ball, the mussinio has been forced by Wolfsburg to be disorderly. Compared with last year's battle with Real Madrid, Wolfsburg obviously played better in this match against Chelsea when they faced Jose. Think about last year's painful experience, and now they have broken the overall strategy of Chelsea. All the players at Wolfsburg are happy about it.
In fact, after 70 minutes, when Jose chose to replace Oscar and Lampard, the overall arrangement of this game, Chelsea can be said to have lost. Originally, in the game, their hope of winning with all-round defending has been dashed. From the overall planning, they have lost to Wolfsburg, which is inevitable.
No matter how the game develops, on the whole, the original plan of Jose has gone bankrupt. He wants to win through the tactics of defensive counterattack and obscene stealing chicken, which is a complete failure in front of Wolfsburg's two attacks. Two away goals, which is quite good away results, back at home, Wolfsburg can make a lot of choices. In any case, he needs to use more brains in the second round to win the final victory. The overall situation of the game, for Chelsea, has gone to a disadvantageous side.
All of these principles are well understood by Jose. Even if his team didn't win, he knows better than anyone why. Lampard is a temporary replacement, not to mention that the veteran is likely to leave after the end of this year's contract. His appearance is not good for the development of the team. That is to say, with 20 minutes left, it is difficult for Chelsie to reverse the game. It is not good for the attacking helper to replace him with a middle back at this time Especially big, the replacement is likely to be meaningless, these reasons, Jose also all know.
However, the truth is very clear to him, which does not mean that he has other ways. At present, there is really no one for Chelsea: they want to strengthen their attack, but there is almost no reliable substitute in front of them.
It is reasonable to say that if you want to score, you'd better change the striker, but Eto'o has been injured recently, and denbaba's strength is not suitable for playing in the Champions League. Although there is still one Torres, you can replace him when the attack is not good This way of doing things is really nothing to look for.
Compared with him, Lampard is more reliable after all. Although his physical strength is insufficient, but there are still 20 minutes left. It is not necessary for him to have good physical strength. As long as he can provide offensive skills, it is enough. 1-2 score, Jose is absolutely unacceptable, with such a result to play away, it is too passive. Therefore, no matter what, he has to give it a try and make a final struggle.
It's the last struggle for Chelsea. It's a matter of success or failure. Although before the game, he praised Wolfsburg very much, but Wolfsburg's position in his mind has never been a particularly powerful team. His team can lose to Barcelona, to Bayern, to Real Madrid, he is not without an excuse, but in the face of Wolfsburg such a weak team, he is in any case refused to admit defeat.
Even if it's gambling, he's going to gamble.
The temperament of Jose is always a little extreme. He would not accept some failures which he thought were very humiliating. Even if he knew that it was not meaningful to set off a counterattack at the end of the game, he would not accept the result of defeat. As long as the game is not over, he wants to fight to the end, even the smallest hope, he is not willing to give up.
This kind of character, sometimes brought him a lot of trouble. Because he is too extreme, he has caused a lot of trouble in La Liga, Serie A and even the Premier League. For example, last year, he refused to resign, which made people ridicule him for trying to cheat the liquidated damages. But this kind of character may have a big problem in other things, but in the ball game, it is never a bad thing. Ken insisted to the end, willing to believe that there is a miracle, in the game, sometimes is the most fundamental reason for the miracle.
In the past many years of coaching experience, in addition to the defensive ability recognized by all people, many times he has created miracles in coaching. These miracles are often attributed to his bad luck, but if you think about it, it has something to do with his persistence.
This game, he also chose to adhere to the game, although time is running out, he still wants to use persistence for Chelsea in exchange for a miracle.However, such an idea is not so easy to achieve. Even if Lampard is replaced, for a while, it is still difficult for Chelsea to get the upper hand. Originally, there were only 20 minutes left in the game, and Wolfsburg side clearly knew what Chelsea thought. In the game, they had improved their defensive strength through adjustment. It was almost impossible to score in such a situation.
After all, their players are not gods. After more than ten minutes of playing for Lampard, there is still no improvement in their attack. Although they launched a full-scale attack, they still had no effect.
On the pitch, Azar kickback with the ball in the front court, trying to pass the opponent, but Wolfsburg seems to have learned the skills of Chelsea in the first half, sticking to the back court and refusing to come out. Helpless, Azar can only one foot long-range shot, kicked the ball out, benalio's a timely fly, directly saved the ball out of the bottom line.
Seeing that the game is close to the end, Wolfsburg are still not willing to give them any chance. They also play the same way as Chelsea, and start to defend after leading. In the sports war, it's too difficult for Chelsea to score - looking at the embarrassment of his team, Azar can only reluctantly accept this reality. However, if you look at your team, you can still win the corner at the last moment. He also thinks that at least there is no chance for Chelsea. At least, they can try the set pieces.
Against Bayern, Chelsea won the Champions League with set pieces. For set pieces, they also have a good standard.
Football was opened out, Wolfsburg's penalty area, which is immediately a head stirring. The game has not a few minutes to end, at this time, both sides have exhausted their efforts in the final competition, how many skills, they have all used out.
But this one ball, overall speaking, Wolfsburg is more polished: if Wolfsburg met with a few years ago, maybe the header to win the top, Wolfsburg will not be too dominant. In the team led by Drogba, it was very difficult for Wolfsburg to fight for the header. At that time, Chelsea had too many choices on the high points. They could choose a lot of fancy attacks. Even Wolfsburg was difficult to defend.
And now Chelsea, has long been no longer the same. After the replacement of the lineup, they are very different from before. Now, when they head the ball, they can make use of their position advantage to fight against Wolfsburg. But when they attack, it's too difficult to score in this way. Their tactics are still quite good, but because there are not as many excellent head kickers in the front court as before, when attacking, the power of Chelsea's head kick is not as good as before.
This time, the attack of Chelsea was just like this. Tactically, they did a very good job. The football was kicked up by William and fell directly into it. Terry, who was originally in the front, chose to strike forward when the football fell. His movement made the whole back line of Wolfsburg have a loophole. Ivan, who was originally behind him, inserted it in time and headed the ball to the goal.
Tactically speaking, they finished an excellent attack. In the past two years, Terry is responsible for diverting opponents because of the decline of physical fitness. Ivan, who has a very good heading level, is responsible for the top attack and finishing the shooting. In this process of cooperation, Chelsea has done quite well.
However, Wolfsburg's defense did not let him get what he wanted after all. Although Ivan's header was played out, the position where he could take off was not good. After benalio jumped up, he also sealed the goal with one hand. And the football fell in the penalty area, although Azar got the ball for the first time, but this time, two Wolfsburg players around him also immediately surrounded, forcing him to turn back.
What did Chelsea do to Wolfsburg just now, and Wolfsburg are also doing to them now - no one will be able to put a net in the penalty area.
In the face of such a defense, even if Azar is called the king of the ball by the British media, it is also at a loss. He was only able to protect the ball from Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg just depressed, he now fully experienced, and he now needs, is also a high Shun Yao.
However, there is no Gao shunyao in Chelsea - however, at this time, Azar saw Lampard running up from the edge of the penalty area.