Before the battle between Manchester City and Chelsea, many media supported Chelsea's victory. 【..】
Not only the Chelsea media, but the media in various regions of England almost all expressed their support for Chelsea. In various reports, they expressed the hope of Chelsea in a direct or implicit way.
This is the atmosphere of public opinion outside.
The reason is that Manchester City's performance is too strong. The defending league champion and the unbeaten season. This kind of eye-catching performance is really gorgeous. When a team's performance is too gorgeous, the total There will be many enemies, like Manchester United who won the 'Triple Crown' in 1999. After that, for several years, all of England are very resistant to Manchester United. In addition to the media that really support Manchester United, other media hope that Manchester United loses, but when other fans watch Manchester United's game, they also hope that Manchester United will be the loser.
Now Manchester City haven't reached that level, but their achievements have begun to be jealous.
So when Manchester City are going to play against the Chelsea in the FA Cup final, many media are on Chelsea's side.
Public opinion is optimistic about Manchester City. They are the league champions. Their lineup is complete. Among the injured players, including Downing, they have resumed training. However, the mass media still hope that Chelsea will win.
Rarely, the 'Rouble Army', which has always been rejected by the English media, has received more support.
Mourinho rarely received this support, and he also expressed his confidence before the game. "This is the most important game for us. At the New Wembley Stadium, we will definitely become the ultimate winner! "
Wan Sheng said nothing about it.
The whole Manchester City has been preparing for battle. Wan Sheng told the players not to care about what the outside world said. His original words were like this, "They said that because they were afraid! They were afraid of us, so I hope someone can stop us. Our goal is to tell everyone. How strong we are! Let them be more afraid, let them feel the helplessness of failure, and then we will succeed! "
In this atmosphere. The match between the two teams started.
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Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in London, England, home to the England team, and also hosts the finals of various domestic games in England.
In the past few years, due to the old facilities, Wembley Stadium has been rebuilding. In March this year, all reconstruction work was completed and the stadium continued to open.
In the domestic competition in England, the League Cup final and the FA Cup final are all played here.
The decisive battle between Manchester City and Chelsea has attracted much attention. In the first half of the game, 90,000 tickets have been sold out. In addition to supporting the fans of the two teams, more than half are neutral fans.
With the fiery atmosphere of the stadium, the game has started.
Chelsea have done a lot of work in preparing for the battle, they lost to Manchester City in the last game. But that game was irrelevant to Chelsea. With the last experience, this time they were better prepared.
Perhaps this is why Mourinho is confident.
In the reviews of various teams by the media and professionals, Chelsea's overall strength has always been higher than that of Manchester City. In fact, both sides are very clear, but they have not been able to win Manchester City in both seasons. By the way, this seems to indicate that Mourinho's coaching ability is totally incomparable.
The Portuguese are very unwilling.
He also knows that this will be the last game he coached Chelsea, and the game is also related to the ownership of a FA Cup champion. So for half a month, Chelsea have been preparing for the game.
In terms of tactics, Mourinho used the most reasonable tactics against Manchester City-using a tough * grab to compete with Manchester City for midfield control. And constantly running, stealing, to disrupt the offensive rhythm of Manchester City.
In short, it is very important that the pace of the game cannot be controlled by Manchester City.
In addition, on the offensive, Mourinho also made full preparations. All the main players who can be sent on the team will make their debut. He hopes that such a lineup, coupled with sufficient preparation, will give the team an advantage.
But today Manchester City's play is a bit confusing.
Manchester City gives the impression of controlled offensive football. The two obvious characteristics are more control and fast attack speed. However, Manchester City today feels a little different, but it is difficult to say how different it is.
It was like the two previous offenses, Manchester City both hit the Chelsea restricted zone line.
Then, they harvested the two-legged door.
Yes, it ’s not a goal, it ’s s goal, the first time is Darren Bent came forward with a high s cannon, the second time is Morris, he seems to be unable to be robbed, in 20 meters away from the goal, I directly chose the s goal, but the distance is too far, the temporary kick is difficult to hit the strength, football was easily confiscated by Chelsea goalkeeper Cudicini.
This is true for both gates, and Manchester City is a bit confusing.
Is it just a temporary play by the players, or is Manchester City's tactics like this? Many people watching the game are a little puzzled.
Normally, Darren Bent ’s position was just right. He had a chance to pass the ball to the left or right, and then look for a better chance. Morris was the same, although Lampard followed, But he has already flowed out of the passing space and can cooperate with his teammates.
They seem to be anxious to think about the door?
can not read it.
Mourinho didn't understand it either. He saw two Manchester City offensives, and then he was a little bit puzzled, but soon he felt a little too much. After all, these two Manchester City players did not take the initiative to catch Chances are, maybe they have a problem with their mentality. In short, this is good for Chelsea.
Taking advantage of the opening time, Chelsea also found a chance. It was Drogba's draw in the penalty area. If goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei responded quickly, Chelsea had scored.
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On the court, Chelsea players are working hard in accordance with the tactics they made before the game.
Manchester City control the ball.
When football reached Ivan Kruk's feet, Lampard immediately pasted it. At the same time, Balakura was ready to support Lampard at any time, and Makelele also stared at Morris on the other side.
The three Chelsea midfielders all moved, which drove the entire Chelsea defensive rhythm.
Seeing this scene on the court, Mourinho was very pleased. This is a defensive training specifically for Manchester City. It is necessary to use tough and uninterrupted defense to compete with Manchester City for control of the midfield, so that they are not easy to put The ball passes to the front, so Manchester City will not be easy to pass the ball into the penalty area unless the pressure is very high.
As long as they can stop Manchester City's offense, they are equal to success.
Chelsea's offensive ability is still very strong, but when it comes to offense, Chelsea is not necessarily worse than Manchester City. What's more, Manchester City's defense is not solid. After all, they are a team that is good at attacking and they have not put much energy on defense.
This season, Manchester City are the team with the fewest goals conceded, but this is not to say that their defense is the best, but their tactics are to control. When the ball control rate exceeds a certain limit, the opponent will not attack at all. opportunity.
"Offense is the best defense", which is most vividly displayed in Manchester City.
To really talk about defense, Manchester City is certainly not as good as Chelsea or Manchester United. Mourinho is still very confident about this.
Therefore, the key to this game is whether they can limit Manchester City ’s possession, compete with them for midfield control, the number of possessions and the rate of possession, so that Manchester ’s advantage cannot be played and Chelsea ’s chance of winning Mostly.
On the field, Ivan Crewe felt the pressure from Lampard. He glanced around, and finally passed the ball back to Dunn with one foot.
With Dunn ’s position in the backcourt, Chelsea could n’t get through the first time *, but they did n’t care either, because they did n’t want to get down to Manchester City ’s half, and football could n’t have been at the centre back. Immediately after receiving the ball, the ball was transferred to the wing Reto Ziegler.
Ziegler took the ball quickly and took a few steps forward, and then transferred to Morris. Morris was defended by Makelele. He ran for two steps to get the ball, but Makelele was already behind him. He still had to pass the ball back to Koperer Ferreira.
After several passes from Manchester City, football returned to the backcourt.
Mourinho was even more relieved to see this scene, this is what he asked the players to do-can't let Manchester City pass easily in the midfield, as for the backcourt, that position is unlikely to pose a threat to Chelsea goal, so just Don't care too much.
Kopler Ferreira received the pass, Shepchenko also came over, Ferreira once again passed the ball back to Ziegler ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The latter then passed to Morris, This time Morris was free, he transferred the ball laterally to David Silva.
Kalau ran towards Silva, but his defense was a bit slow and gave Silva space. As a result, Silva passed the ball to David Beckham on the right.
Beckham catches the ball and hangs straight in front of the penalty area.
Darren Bent flew past to unload the ball, facing Terry's interception, he flicked the ball to the right and directly kicked the goal!
This foot is very powerful, the ball is very fast, Terry subconsciously uses the body to block but does not block, the football goes straight to the goal.
Darren Bent's goal is still too far away, and goalkeeper Cudicini has enough reaction time.
He took two steps to the left and hit the ball with both hands to the bottom line.
"It's the same again! Manchester City's third goal, the three-footer is all far away, Darren Bent, but this ball is very strong, Kudicini had to hit the ball out of the bottom line, Manchester City got Corner on the left. "(To be continued.)
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