Football’s First Defender

Arsenal's corner kick tactics, facing Chelsea's obvious defensive number advantage in the penalty area, and the player's height advantage, still don't have much chance!

Even after it was confirmed that no tactical corner kick would be taken this time, the Arsenal players simply left two more players in the backcourt, ready to defend Chelsea's next quick counterattack!

really! Arsenal, with only 4 players competing for the top in the penalty area, did not have the luck to succeed this time!

After the corner kick was sent this time, it was pushed out firmly by Yang Feng directly at the front point!

However, because Arsenal's backcourt defenders are really enough! After receiving Yang Feng's header pass, Lampard moved forward a few steps, and found that there was no threatening opportunity to counterattack directly, so he had to choose to control the ball steadily and prepare for the next positional battle!

The paper offensive strength of Chelsea's current personnel is indeed not the strongest, but some changes can still be made, and they suddenly caught Arsenal by surprise!

For example, Essien, who has been contributing his strength on the defensive end, suddenly goes in behind, which can cause instant chaos in Arsenal's defense line marking. Moreover, Essien's offensive ability has always been underestimated! In other words, it was overshadowed by his stronger defensive strength!

"Chelsea played a lot more proactively in the second half than in the first half, although they haven't adjusted their personnel yet!"

"Now, Lampard organizes the attack with the ball, and Drogba runs without the ball in the penalty area!"

"However, Drogba, who is Chelsea's lone striker, must face the defense of at least two nearby Arsenal players at all times when facing Arsenal's positional battle. Almost in a positional battle, Drogba and Chelsea The connections of several midfielders have all been cut!"

"When Chelsea can't complete the breakthrough in the middle, can they still only continue to attack from the side?"

"After a few attempts, Lampard could only continue to choose to pass the ball to Malouda, who obviously took the offensive initiative on the left!"

"Ashley Cole, still attack directly from the back, and complete his supporting work when attacking from the wing!"

"However, during the gap period before the game, Arsenal's head coach, Professor Wenger, obviously communicated with Walcott and Sagna on the sidelines on the sidelines. Now, Arsenal's defenders on the right are obviously on the defensive end. More energy has been put into it. And in the position of central defender, while the two are guarding Drogba, they also divide part of their attention on the right side of the defense!"

"Ashley Cole, jump in suddenly, slightly closer to the middle, go forward, want to play a 2v2 tactic with Malouda?"

"But for this ball, Walcott's follow-up defense was extremely good, and Ashley Cole was not given an easy chance to get rid of it!"

"Malouda saw that Ashley Cole didn't run too many chances, and didn't take risks in choosing passes!"

"Malouda chose to break through forcibly after Walcott was clearly taken away by Ashley Cole! Do you want to break through Sarnia directly? The French national team, a direct confrontation between teammates!"

"One is the attacking position on the left side of France, and the other is the iron gate on the right side of the positive selection. I believe that these two people are in the national team, and they often discuss offensive and defensive skills in private!"

"But in this round of attack! Malouda is clearly at a disadvantage!"

"Malouda made several moves, trying to get rid of Sania, but it seemed that they were all unsuccessful! Sania didn't take Malouda's fake moves at all, and stood firm on his defensive position!"

"With no choice, in order to avoid being directly defended by Sania, Malouda counterattacked on his own side. In desperation, he had no choice but to pass back to his teammates in the middle!"

"But there was no breakthrough in the personal attack on the wing, which led to Arsenal's defense in the center, and there were no flaws. After all, Chelsea did not invest many personnel on the offensive end!"

After Ballack received the ball, because Ashley Cole got in too far, he took a long shot. It was very likely that he would be chased by Arsenal and counterattacked, posing a threat to his left!

But if you want to rely on a stable pass and find opportunities, you don't have any chances against Arsenal's two defensive midfielders who are fairly tight!

"Balack's return pass was given to Essien, who was delayed by the team!"

"Because Bendtner is still actively participating in the defense, Ballack's slightly weak return pass this time was almost intercepted by Bendtner who turned around at full speed and chased him back!"

"Fortunately, Essien has been paying attention to Bendtner's movements. Seeing Bendtner's defensive interception, Essien also directly started to go forward and meet the pass. He arrived earlier than Bendtner and received the pass. After the ball, go straight forward with the ball!"

"Essien's sudden thrust!"

If you say that Essien's attacking Arsenal did not have any expected tactics, that would be too underestimating Wenger's level! Wenger still has a fresh memory of Essien's offensive ability. In the past few seasons, he faced Mourinho many times. When Chelsea's offense failed, he either relied on set kicks or Essien's performance. Become Mourinho's key means to break the deadlock!

But Wenger may not have thought that Chelsea would invest so many people on the offensive end!

While Essien advanced, according to Chelsea's conventional offensive tactics, at least one of the two full-backs, or even both, should withdraw to stabilize the team's defense first!

You know, behind Essien, the defenders are Yang Feng and Terry's central defender partner, and Mikel is just a midfielder, but facing Arsenal's double forwards who have been pressing in the frontcourt. Turner and Arshavin!

But Chelsea is an unreasonable tactic at this time, a tactic that is extremely biased towards offense!

The two full-backs still maintain a very high forward pressure, putting pressure on Arsenal's two wing defenses!

As for the offensive threat point in the middle, Lampard, Ballack, and even Drogba, who retreated slightly to the penalty area line and was about to go forward against offside, all stretched wide. All Chelsea personnel, in Essina When the ball was advancing, no one was stagnant, and they were all running without the ball. Arsenal's defense was completely contained in the previous inherent defense. For a while, there was a lack of communication, and Arsenal, who only knew how to complete his defensive work Among the Nathan players, none of them stood up and prepared to block Essien's breakthrough at the most priority moment!

After all, the current head coach of this team is Guus Hiddink, not Mourinho before! If it is Mourinho, then even if Essien will attack sometimes, the team must have someone else who will come back to protect on the defensive end!

Hiddink has a lot of hard work, for one purpose, he can not care about rules and regulations at all!

Since I still have 3 people in defense, what's wrong with defending 2 people, it's more than enough! On the offensive end, committed people, Hiddink believes that even if the ball is switched, his own frontcourt players can still complete the defensive return task!

"Essien dribbled the ball for a long distance. For a while, Arsenal's defenders had no players to stop Essien!"

Amidst the roar of Cesc Fabregas on the field, Nasri was sent to stop Essien!

Arsenal's defense was actually well distributed before, Fabregas, Denilson, Nasri, and left back Clichy, four players, the overall defense is Chelsea midfielder Lampard, Ballack, forward The Bosingwa trio!

Then the two central defenders are responsible for marking Drogba specifically!

Of course, this is just a rough idea. After the Chelsea players change positions, or Drogba retreats to the middle, the defense between several Arsenal players will also be fine-tuned appropriately!

But Essien's sudden jump in, because Arshavin and Bendtner were still chasing after Essien and did not defend well, then Arsenal was really in the midfield position and could only defend 1v1 with all members!

Chelsea took Essien as the guideline, and the entire front, except for Arsenal's goalkeeper, created a 7-on-8 halftime situation!

Except for Drogba's position, which is a 1v2 situation, all other positions are 1v1. For Arsenal's defense, at this time, it is a matter of affecting the whole body!

If a certain point is broken by Chelsea, it is very likely to cause a huge hole in Arsenal's defense!

Of course, this situation of investing a large number of offensive personnel is also a double-edged sword, which hurts both the enemy and oneself! If Arsenal can complete the defense, as long as they push to counterattack, it is very likely that they will cause a huge threat during the counterattack. Even Arsenal's counterattack players run faster, and it is possible to form a situation of more play and less play in the frontcourt!

"Nasri against Essien!"

"Essien immediately started to slow down!"

For Essien, it is very clear where his strengths and weaknesses are!

If you compare speed and agility with Nasri, a winger, you will definitely suffer a disadvantage. However, if you compare physical strength, the entire Arsenal's backcourt players may only have two central defenders who can outperform Essien himself. !

So in the face of Nasri's defense, or even Fabregas or Denilson's forward defense, Essien's choice is to slow down, use his physical advantage, protect the ball and push straight forward!

"Essien supported Nasri with his left hand. He didn't give Nasri a chance to steal the ball from his side. He just pushed forward!"

"Nasri is very helpless. In terms of physical confrontation, the difference between the two is more than one level. Nasri has no way to stop Essien!"

"Foul! Foul!"

Seeing Essien's advancement getting closer and closer to the dangerous area, Fabregas was yelling for Nasri to foul directly! So that his forward players can quickly return to defense in the next round!

But I don't know if the noise on the scene was too loud, or he was too focused on the defensive confrontation against Essien. Nasri was a little confused at this time, and Fabregas' shouts in his ears were a little unclear. There was no foul, but Essien continued to push forward!

Perhaps this is the difference in judgment between offensive players and professional players who undertake defense at the moment of the game! In Nasri's defensive awareness, in the case of indirect danger, there is no overall awareness of fouling!

Seeing that Nasri didn't foul at the first time, but let Essien continue to advance, Fabregas felt bad at the first time!

For Xiaofa at this time, is it a risk to step forward to defend and stop Essien, or choose to do his own business, watch Lampard, and let Nasri defend Essien alone? It's your own choice!

Fabregas, decided to fulfill his defensive duties, to give priority to the team's defense!

While running in the direction of Essien, Fabregas motioned to the team's central defender Alexander Song to fill his gap!

For Xiaofa, if he gets to the position at this time, it is best to snatch the ball with Nasri in a double team. Pass the ball!

"Cesc Fabregas! He suddenly chose to let go of Lampard and ran to Essien's position at full speed. He wanted to cooperate with Nasri and end Chelsea's attack!"

"Essien! Passed the ball! Before Fabregas double-teamed, Essien directly chose to pass the ball to another midfielder of the team, Ballack who suddenly retreated!"

This pass is actually not a mistake! At least Essien himself, because he has an absolute advantage in physical confrontation, still has the energy to observe the situation on the scene during the advancement process!

So Cesc Fabregas' sudden grabbing action was really noticed by Essien!

It's just that due to the angle of the pass and the angle of Fabregas running up, Essien found that he didn't directly find Lampard's momentary opportunity!

At this time, Essien noticed Ballack on the right, and suddenly retreated, widening the distance from the defender Denilson!

Essien naturally passed the ball directly to Ballack. I hope that Ballack can also find this gap in Lampard and act as a transfer station to pass high-quality passes to Lampard!

"Barack received the ball! Without any delay, he made a direct pass to Lampard on the left!"

For a seasoned player like Ballack, the grasp of passing opportunities on the court and the detection of the court situation are absolutely world-class!

For this ball, Ballack not only saw Lampard's vacancy, but also observed Alexander Song who had rushed forward to defend Lampard. However, Robba still chose to pass the ball to Lampard. However, this pick pass did not directly find Lampard's current position, but passed behind Alexander Song!

"The amount of advance was given a lot, and this pick passed directly over the head of the forward Alexander Song. Lampard was also rushing forward quickly, and had a meeting with Song!"

"Alexander Song, turned around and chased after him, but due to the problem of inertia, he is now clearly behind!"

"Lampard unloads the ball! A one-handed goal in the penalty area!"

"The door is open!"

"Shoot directly!"

"This ball!"

"The ball is in! The ball is in! GOAL!"

"Lampard! Lampard leads again for Chelsea in the second half!"

"Lampard's shot is really pursuing the angle! Although Alexander Song behind him put a lot of pressure on this one-handed kick, the quality of Lampard's shot is undeniable!"

"Because this kick is very angled, this ball directly escaped Fabianski's save, almost sticking to the goal post and flying into the net!"

"Chelsea, in this year's FA Cup final, managed to take the lead again!"