After losing the first goal, Chelsea immediately organized a counterattack.
Just a minute later, Ashley Cole left forward to the left side of the penalty area, in Milner's interference, direct foot cross.
In the penalty area, Falcao snatched the first landing point and dived to head the goal.
However, this shot was not comfortable, it was a little far from the goal, and it didn't have much strength. It landed lightly in Cech's arms, which was directly equivalent to giving the ball to Manchester City.
After getting the ball right, Manchester City began to control the ball consciously in their own half, slowing down the pace of the game.
Xabi Alonso has taken on the responsibility of the manager of the team and kept shouting to his teammates. He knows the manager's cold strategy better than anyone else. He is also a professional player. He also knows the mood of Chelsea at this moment.
With five wins in a row in the first half of the league, all of the top and bottom of the team have confidence. Before the game, the comments of the head coach Scolari, Gao Han and Ferguson have more or less interfered with them, and their expectations for the game have also begun to rise.
If it used to be a draw, then now it is at least a draw.
To the game, they suddenly found that their opponents even seem to be afraid of their own heart, put it away to fight, where do not let them take the initiative to attack? Let them have the idea of scoring?
Can be suddenly hit a counterattack, lost the ball, they can not rush it?
Essien, Ramirez and Lampard are all excellent midfielders in terms of strangling ability, but they are not good at organizing, combing and controlling. They don't have the midfield scheduling ability of Xabi Alonso.
So, as soon as the brain was hot, Chelsea went crazy.
Xabi Alonso knows this very well, so he plays pass control and slows down the pace of the game. On the one hand, he consumes the physical strength of Chelsea, on the other hand, he wears away their spirit and makes them restless because they can't get the ball, and then show their flaws again.
The change of Manchester City makes the whole team feel very depressed.
Ramirez was very calm in this game, but at this time, he began to become a little calm.
After a long pass from Harvey Martinez, he flew to David Silva. It was a threatening shovel that knocked down David Silva and was criticized by all the players in Manchester City.
The referee also gave Ramirez a yellow card under the pressure of Captain Xabi Alonso.
In less than 20 minutes, two yellow cards were given to Chelsea.
But four minutes later, Lampard on the left came back to defend, tripped Sanchez again and got a yellow card again. At the same time, he gave Manchester City a good free kick. Cristiano Ronaldo took the penalty himself, hit the wall and was released by Alex.
Three minutes later, Manchester City hit back from the right, Terry forced Benzema to head the ball to get out. In the restricted area, Mikel had an obvious handball action under the interference of Kaka, but he escaped the referee's eye and missed a penalty.
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Scolari couldn't stand on the sidelines at all.
Phil was on the sidelines, shouting to the players all the time. He was calling on them to keep calm and don't worry, but the players on the court didn't seem to hear him at all.
Here, they nodded to him, but when they turned around and entered the game, everything was the same.
In contrast to Manchester City, under the control of Xabi Alonso and other players, not only the game is organized and the thinking is very clear, but also the rhythm control ability is very strong, fast and slow, always in the very awkward rhythm of Chelsea.
"Now we are worried after losing the ball. The more anxious we are, the harder it is to grab the ball. The more unable we are to grab the ball, the more anxious we are..."
The assistant coach next to him shook his head and sighed, "this is really depressing."
If it's in a basketball game, a pause should be called at this time.
At least let both sides calm down, the coach can also quickly pour cold water on the players, let them sober, don't fall into the trap of the opponent, but this is a football game, there is no so-called pause at all.
Unless Scolari makes a change now.
But now it's just half an hour. Is it meaningful to change players at this time?
What's more, no matter who is replaced at this time, it will irritate the players.
This is basically the default unspoken rule in football matches. Unless the players perform very badly, the manager will not change in the first half unless he has to.
"We need a player like Xabi Alonso Scolari said enviously.
But in fact, he knows that the current Chelsea will not give him the chance to buy people.
Last season, he was able to stay in office. The most important thing is that Abramovich has just been taught the lesson of Rijkaard incident, so he is merciful. But if he still fails to perform this season, he will be dismissed.
Think of here, Scolari left hand gently covered his chest, feel that because of the pressure and stimulation become intense heartbeat, he seems to be able to feel the blood running in his body.
This is the European top league!
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In the 37th minute, Chelsea made another mistake.
After a half-time break, Chelsea launched a counterattack. Anelka took the ball and rushed forward quickly, but they almost collided with Falcao. Obviously, the running routes overlapped.
All of a sudden, Anelka had to slow down immediately to avoid Falcao and let the Colombian center rush forward quickly.
But it was this pause that Milner came up from behind and snatched the ball. When Anelka stopped the ball, he poked and kicked the ball to Kaka in front. The two actions were almost completed in an instant. When Anelka reacted and wanted to fight back, the ball had already reached Kaka's feet.
As soon as the Brazilian stopped the ball, he turned around and immediately moved forward to fight back from Chelsea.
Four against four!
The whole city stadium was boiling and all the City fans were chanting Kaka's name.
Benzema is in the center to the right, Sanchez is firmly on the right, Kaka is from the middle to the left with the ball, the whole attack is very open, although the back line of Chelsea is in place in time, it is directly opened.
As everyone knows, it's easier to form a one-on-one relationship and give full play to the personal abilities of Manchester City stars.
Sure enough, Kaka continued to drive the ball forward, closer and closer to the penalty area, and Alex finally couldn't help grabbing.
As soon as Alex is up, right back Ivanovic has to go to the middle and be ready to make up for him.
And fatefully, Kaka seems to be ready for this, right foot a point, the ball to the left side.
Cristiano Ronaldo received the ball in the left corner of the penalty area and went into the area. Facing Ivanovic, the Portuguese was very calm and calm. He kept changing his fake moves when dribbling.
Suddenly a posture to the bottom, and then buckle to cut in, a start, pulled out the distance, the right foot directly hit a curve ball.
Only to see Terry and Ashley Cole in the Chelsea penalty area looking up at the ball across an arc, almost wiping the top right corner of the goal and crashing into the goal, Hilario can do nothing about it.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!”
"In the 37th minute, Manchester City broke the goal of Chelsea again
"It's a consequence of a mistake by Chelsea themselves
"Cristiano Ronaldo once again continued his amazing goal state of this season and scored twice again. God, Ivanovic is like a wooden stake in his eyes
"It's too easy. No one can prevent this terrible Portuguese when one on one!"
"This is a very high quality arc shot, we can see that Hilario is beyond reach
"At 2-0, Chelsea had to swallow the bitter fruit for their mistakes in the counterattack
"Now Scolari should reconsider the team's technique and tactics. If he continues to do so, it may be another disastrous defeat."
"Now, we have to admit that Gao and Ferguson's doubts about Chelsea before the game have become a reality
"The five consecutive wins are too dazzling to cover up a lot of problems in attack and defense, especially in the face of Manchester City, a team with superior midfield suppression ability, it is difficult for Chelsea to organize an effective attack."
"The match of Falcao, Robinho and Anelka was cut off by the defense of Manchester City, and they were fighting in their own ways. However, the midfield of Chelsea failed to support the front court, which made the attack of the blues seem to have an advantage at the beginning, but in fact there was no threat."
"Maybe at this time, the fans of Chelsea will miss Drogba very much
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It turns out that it's not just the fans who miss Drogba, it's Scolari.
The first half ended with a 2-0 lead for Manchester City. Cristiano Ronaldo continued his amazing goal scoring style in recent years, scoring twice again, which made everyone convinced.
After the half-time break, the second half of the game started again, and it was obvious that Chelsea were much more restrained. They were not as active as they were in the first half, and they played more conservatively. They basically withdrew to their own half.
Falcao should be the most depressed player in the front line. This season, he has killed all sides of the Colombian center. In this game, he didn't have any threatening shooting opportunities against Manchester City, but obviously he can't be blamed.
The main reason is that the layout of Chelsea's platoon is suppressed by Manchester City, especially in the midfield. It is very difficult to pass the threat ball to the front court. Falcao has few chances to get the ball in the threat area, let alone create a threat.
The turning point of the game was in the 70th minute, when Chelsea finally lost their composure and replaced Falcao and Drogba. At the same time, Malouda and Robinho, who had a poor performance in the game, came down.
Scolari's strategy began to become clear, focusing on Drogba.
After Warcraft Ivory Coast came on, the attack of Chelsea became more threatening, especially in the first five minutes, he finished two wonderful performances.
One was a cross from Malouda's side. He carried Harvey Martinez with his body and headed directly.
It was the most dangerous attack of the game for Chelsea, but Cech's save was very steady at the crucial moment. He didn't let Drogba score and kept the goal of Manchester City.
There was another time when he took back the big foot pass from the back court and made the ball for Anelka, but the Frenchman didn't deal with it well after he got the ball and couldn't take advantage of it to form a single shot, and was released by kompani.
It can be said that both performances were quite wonderful.
But very soon, alpine also readjusted the defense, Manchester City once again stabilized the position, coupled with the whole second half, Chelsea are defensive, Manchester City will play the Champions League again in the middle of the week, so did not do their best.
In the end, the game ended 2-0 and Manchester City defeated Chelsea at home.
Only after this match, the main force competition between Falcao and Drogba was once again in uproar.