On March 20, in the 30th round of the Premier League, Manchester City visited Stamford Bridge.
Ancelotti's team's performance improved after the winter break and quickly rushed back to the top four in the league. This slightly eased Ancelotti's coaching crisis and also boosted Chelsea's morale.
Manchester City, on the other hand, has three lines moving forward simultaneously, and now is the time when they are exhausted both physically and mentally.
As an Italian coach, Ancelotti is very practical. He doesn't care about the home situation at all. Instead, he speeds up the game as fast as possible from the beginning, hoping to use a fast pace to overwhelm Manchester City and further consume Manchester City's physical energy.
Guardiola has rotated the team's lineup, including Leighton Baines, David Luiz and other players.
The two sides fought hard in the first half, but no one was able to score.
In the second half, Manchester City still couldn't defeat their opponents.
Chelsea's center forward is Torres, who was brought in with a lot of money, but the Spanish forward's performance is average.
So far, Torres has not scored a goal for Chelsea, which has to be said to be very surprising.
This also indirectly confirms the predictions of Sudong, Nuno Cruz and Begiristain on Torres' transfer. The Spaniard's injury is really not optimistic. Going to Chelsea at this time is equivalent to re-signing Sheffield.
Cenko's footprints.
The Ukrainian nuclear warhead had just told Soviet Union personally that his career plan was a failure.
The two sides were fighting hard for nearly 60 minutes when Manchester City made an attack and David Luiz suddenly dribbled the ball forward.
The Brazilian central defender has good footwork. He rushed with the ball like a tank, rushing directly into Chelsea's defensive formation and causing Ivanovic to foul on the right side of the penalty area.
Chelsea's right back is really unstoppable!
Damn it, no wonder I got an afro haircut, it’s so explosive!
Leighton Baines quickly took the free kick and accurately landed on the front line.
Chelsea's penalty area was full of people, but no one could stop David Luiz. He jumped up and hit the far corner with his pompadour, heading the ball into Chelsea's goal.
After the Brazilian central defender scored a goal, he cheered loudly and ran wildly.
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Players such as Su Dong and Pepe who were sitting on the bench also stood up excitedly after seeing David Luiz score and applauded him vigorously.
"Haha, Pepe, you have met your match!" Su Dong laughed.
Peipei scratched his head and smiled, as if to say, this kid has the same style as I did back then.
In fact, Pepe's footwork is also very good.
"I really wonder if this kid has taken drugs recently?" Pepe asked with a wry smile.
David Luiz's recent performance is indeed quite good. The most important thing is that he quickly adapted to Manchester City's tactics. Not only did he shine in the defense, he also showed his own advantages.
Just like just now, the sudden plug-in was really eye-catching.
Of course, this also depends on the person. Some head coaches definitely don’t like their central defenders to press forward like this.
Just like in Bayern, many people don't like Lucio, mainly because Lucio loves to press forward.
So much so that when Bayern created the central defender combination of Lucio and Pepe, many people suspected that such a style of play would definitely be defeated by opponents, but in the end Bayern's defense also achieved success.
Of course, when Pepe was sold later, it was probably because of the consideration of supporting the more stable Hummels, Badstuber and others to take over. These own youth trainings are more cost-effective and more obedient.
The same goes for David Luiz.
"His physical fitness, explosive power, speed, and passion for the game... Such defenders are extremely rare!" Su Dong said this, patted Pepe on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "If you don't work harder, I'm afraid.
This main position is about to be lost."
Peipei glanced at Su Dong disdainfully and swatted away his hand on her shoulder, as if to say: Who do you look down on?
While the two were chatting, Chelsea launched a fierce attack after losing the ball.
Kalou broke through Jerome Boateng on the wing and tried to pass the ball into the Manchester City penalty area, but David Luiz fell down to block the ball and intercepted the ball.
But just as Manchester City was instigating a counterattack, the pass in the middle was intercepted, and Chelsea quickly played a long overhead pass.
It was David Luiz chasing all the way back again.
Torres took the lead, stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area, and dribbled the ball into the penalty area.
Two people one on one!
While David Luiz was constantly retreating, he suddenly made a move and took a step when Torres tried to get past him, successfully intercepting the ball.
Torres passed by, but the ball was lost.
After successfully stealing the ball, David Luiz chased the ball out of the penalty area and stopped the ball.
Lampard pressed immediately.
Good guy!
I saw that after David Luiz stopped the ball, he did not pass it out immediately. Instead, he passed the ball towards Lampard, poked the ball behind Lampard, and deflected Lampard's back.
, caught up and passed the ball to Gareth Barry in midfield.
"Wow! Xiu'er!!"
Su Dong stood up from the bench, cheered loudly, and applauded David Luiz's performance.
Coach Guardiola on the sidelines also applauded.
"Pei Pei, do you have this footwork?" Su Dong asked with a smile.
Pepe is very depressed. If you don't hit me, will you die?
Are you my brother? Or his brother?
"I'm taking a steady route now. You see, I have very few cards this season, so I won't use this kind of show-off footwork." Pepe said confidently.
Who says it's not?
The central defender just defends obediently and passes the ball when he intercepts it. What kind of skills are you showing off?
Is the backcourt a place where you show off your skills?
But I have to say, this kick is really cool!
Damn it, you are a central defender and the ball passes through the midfield. Lampard probably cried!
It's a pity that I don't do any footwork these days, and I'm embarrassed to play football.
Goalkeepers need to be like Neuer, and now central defenders need to be like David Luiz. Is there any way for us players from the British Empire to survive?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Su Dong looked at Pepe and wanted to ask him, where did you have the shame to say such a thing?
Isn't that what you said before?
"To be honest, this kid is really at the level of a first-tier central defender in the Premier League. It can even be said that he is one of the best central defenders," Pepe said frankly.
Su Dong was not joking and nodded. Manchester City made a lot of money from this deal.
Not to mention anything else, David Luiz's defense, footwork, and physical confrontation are really rare in the Premier League.
As for him showing off his skills or being reckless, it still depends on the head coach's choice.
Pass-and-control head coaches like Guardiola like this type of central defender.
Chelsea once again wanted to pass the ball to Torres, but David Luiz suddenly rushed out of the penalty area, got ahead of Torres, and poked the ball away.
Thiago stopped the ball with his back and returned to the wing. David Luiz stopped the ball and rushed forward with great strides. It seemed that he was really using himself as a full-back, while Torres was chasing after him all the way.
Directly passed the center line, as if turning into a full-back.
"Torres must have been pushed into a panic!" Su Dong sympathized with Torres.
He didn't perform very well at Liverpool in the first half. After arriving at Chelsea for 50 million pounds, he still didn't improve. Now he met David Luiz. Both of them were introduced during the winter break. As a result, David Luiz
Completely crushed him.
Who can bear to be crushed by someone whose worth is half of his own?
"Don't tell me, I really think Torres still has some potential as a full-back." Pepe said with a smile, "At least this position is good."
Bamboo shoots!
Too crazy!
Su Dong laughed.
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Chelsea made substitutions quickly.
Ancelotti obviously realized that the team could not continue like this.
Especially Torres, his performance is really not worthy of his worth.
So, he replaced Torres and Kalou with Drogba and Anelka.
This is a strong signal to strengthen the attack.
After the substitution, Chelsea's offense suddenly changed.
Soon, during a frontcourt attack, Drogba grabbed the ball and passed it to Essien, who then passed it to Ramirez. The Brazilian midfielder broke into the penalty area and passed the ball after stopping it.
Pani hit a powerful volley to equalize the score for Chelsea.
One to one!
The entire Stamford Bridge stadium suddenly went crazy.
Manchester City looked helpless.
After Chelsea's substitutions, the offense obviously improved a lot, especially with Drogba coming on.
Facts also prove that what Su Dong and Begiristain and others said before is right. What Chelsea needs is a center like Drogba who can feed the midfielder, not a center like Torres or Shevchenko who needs a midfielder.
Go support the center forward.
In the final analysis, Chelsea's midfielder did not provide enough support to the frontcourt.
This is actually a question of choice!
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Su Dong sat on the bench and watched Chelsea successfully equalize the score. At this time, there were still about ten minutes left in the game, so he immediately stood up from the bench.
"I'm going to warm up."
Pepe nodded and said yes.
According to Manchester City's pre-game plan, if the team leads all the way, Su Dong will not be scheduled to play, but will be given a rest.
But not anymore.
Dzeko obviously couldn't handle Terry, and the Bosnia and Herzegovina center's movement frequency was really a bit slow and he couldn't hold the ball.
There is no problem with his ability, but he encountered John Terry, one of the strongest central defenders in the Premier League, which curbed him.
Manchester City's frontcourt attack was not smooth, which led to the team's weak attack, too many passes in the midfield, and the opponent seized the opportunity to counterattack, which formed a vicious cycle.
Therefore, Guardiola will definitely make substitutions next, and replacing Su Dong is a high probability event.
Unless he doesn't want to win this game, otherwise, letting Su Dong go up is Guardiola's best choice.
When the game was about to enter the 80th minute, assistant coach Estiarte ran to the bench and called out to Su Dong who was warming up.
Guardiola and Su Dong chatted for a while in the command area in front of the visiting team's coaching bench, mainly arranging the team's next task arrangements, especially the tactical adjustments after Su Dong came on the field.
To kill Terry, we still need Su Dong!
During a dead ball opportunity in the 80th minute, Manchester City made substitutions.
Su Dong replaced Dzeko and came on as a substitute!
