Chapter 172: Paying the Blues the wrong way
Watching the Leicester City manager celebrating his goal, the Chelsea players were silent.
Especially since Ramirez was still in the same place and didn't move for a long time.
Before that game, Mourinho told him, begging him to stick to Xia Xing.
"Even if I didn't make any other contributions in that game, as long as I defended Xiao, I would have succeeded!"
Although Ramirez tried his best to implement Mourinho's request, he did not pay much attention to Xia Xing.
Especially in the half court, Xia Xing is nothing but a defensive midfielder.
For such a person, does he need to play man-to-man defense?
joke.
The moment Xia Xing caught the ball, Ramirez was close to him. He thought everything was safe.
But he didn't expect that Xia Xing would suddenly run with the ball horizontally in a large area!
It's as if he mistook the linesman for the goalkeeper!
By the time he reacted, Xia Xing had already turned around and sprinted forward.
By the time he got close to the defense, Xia Xing's pass had already directed towards Chelsea's penalty area.
Just a moment's loss of concentration will result in conceding the ball.
Although the assister of the goal was not Ulloa and the scorer was not James,
But the initiator of the attack is No Xia Xing.
And the biggest contributor is not him.
At this point, Ramirez felt a little regretful.
So what if I regret it?
What can be done now is to score goals as soon as possible!
Try to win East Leicester City as soon as possible!
Ramirez is quite confident!
Not only him, but others too.
Even if the score is behind now, most Chelsea players still think that winning that game is not a big problem.
The same goes for the coaching staff.
Mourinho on the sidelines is still boosting the morale of the players.
Bu Nao was next to the coaching bench on another occasion, and at this time Leicester City had already begun to change their formation.
Pearson on the sidelines waved his thigh and made a substitution!
Striker Chris Wood is on the east court, and Andy King is also on the east court.
Replaced by Schlupp and Hammond.
In that case, Leicester City's formation becomes 4-5-1.
Except for James who occasionally moved forward to assist in the attack, all the players in Chengdong went all out to defend.
Even Xia Xing is no exception.
Is that Pearson’s firm request?
Now that the team is one goal ahead, they want to hold on to that goal advantage!
Seeing the changes in Leicester City's formation, Mourinho also began to make substitution adjustments.
He traded Remy and Salah for Cesc Fabregas and Schurrle.
The team's formation changed to 4-3-3.
Felipe and Ivanovic's forward assists were very large, and their formation was once 2-5-3.
Indiscriminate bombardment in the wrong half of Leicester City.
But even so, it is difficult to break through the completely shrinking Leicester City.
Until the 80th minute of the game, Chelsea did not score a goal.
Mourinho yelled angrily on the sidelines.
"Have those turtles given up and dared not attack after scoring a goal? Isn't this really ugly football!"
Although the team is currently lagging behind, the assistant coach next to him couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard those words...
Wouldn’t that be my best way of playing football?
Chelsea continued to attack and Leicester City continued to defend.
Now Xia Xing has completely sunk into the midfield and backcourt, without considering the issue of offense at all.
Occasionally the ball would reach his feet, but he wouldn't step forward rashly, instead looking for Ulloa, who was on the striker.
Then James will step in to attack, and the two will cooperate.
The porting effect is not good.
Especially at that stage, James was already seriously ill and couldn't bear the pressure anymore.
Just leave Ulloa to run rampant occasionally.
As time passed by, Chelsea still found it difficult to score.
Fabregas, who came on as a substitute, was out of position for the summer trip.
After not seeing each other for two months, he found that Xia Xing seemed to have improved again.
In the second round of the league, Fabregas played against Xia Xing for the first time.
Although I thought the summer trip was good that time, it was not to the point where it is now.
Now ask him to control the ball and face Xia Xing, there is a feeling.
There was no way I could get past him.
That young man has a superb body, strong enough and fast enough.
And his defensive ability seems to have been greatly improved.
Especially if you make a mistake in predicting your own shot.
Not to mention passing him, he didn't even have a chance to pass the ball in front of him.
That made Fabregas very depressed.
That kind of ball speed is too exaggerated...
In the 85th minute of the game, Schuerle, who came on as a substitute, stepped forward from the edge of the penalty area and shot into the far corner.
Schmeichel stretched his body and picked the ball cleanly.
The away team fans in the stands burst into applause.
That means he will make several wonderful saves tomorrow.
The Danish goalkeeper performed superbly in that game.
In the 89th minute of the game, he once again punched out Diego Costa's forced shot.
Although he gave the wrong side a corner kick, he punched out the corner kick he took again.
Xia Xing protects the ball outside the penalty area.
Faced with Cesc Fabregas's challenge, Xia Xing was very smart when he saw many Chelsea players on both sides.
He protected the ball deftly and knocked down Fabregas' leg that was trying to steal the ball.
At that time, he had already taken a step forward with the ball, and Fabregas did not touch it.
The referee's whistle sounded, foul!
Chelsea's chance to counterattack on the spot was completely lost.
Fabregas kicked the turf angrily.
That guy is so cunning!
But Xia Xing was snickering.
Schmeichel behind him also gave him a thumbs up.
Bravo!
Make full use of the rules and buy yourself time!
At this time, three minutes of stoppage time had entered, and Xia Xing handed the ball to the 31-year-old veteran Hammond.
Hammond is very experienced, and his slow free throws delayed nearly half a minute.
James, who received the ball in the frontcourt, also used his initial physical strength to sprint.
He was knocked down again and the whistle sounded again.
Still denied Leicester City's set piece.
Ramirez, who committed the foul, was very aggrieved. Not only could he not steal the ball successfully, he also received a yellow card.
Is it really Fxxk!
Nearly two minutes of stoppage time passed, and James passed the ball to Ulloa in front.
Ulloa caught the ball and started running around in the frontcourt.
Is it a waste of time?
Previously, after a Chelsea player fouled out of impatience on the third try, the referee did not give Leicester the ball again.
He blew the whistle directly to end the game!
In the live broadcast room, Alan Shearer burst into applause!
“A game that didn’t look that exciting,
“Leicester City had the last laugh!
“They used a sharp counterattack to score the only goal of the game!
“The full defense that followed left Chelsea helpless!
"When the blue army meets the blue fox, they have been bitten by the fox before!
"Leicester City didn't play well in that game.
“But is it effective enough?
"They used wonderful defensive counterattack tactics,
"Effectively contained the powerful Chelsea!
“They’re paying the Blues the wrong way!
"The tactics were quite successful!
"Let them congratulate Leicester City,
"Successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of this season's League Cup!"
(End of chapter)
This chapter has been completed!