naruto-story Chapter 760 Muddy
Chapter 760 Muddy
Chapter 760 Muddy
As the home team, Chelsea players, led by captain John Terry, shook hands with the Newcastle players standing beside them one by one.
This scene looks very friendly, but for the players on both sides, there is nothing friendly between them.
This game is already the third time they have played against each other this season, and after only ten days, they will complete the last battle in the league at St. James' Park.
This game, and the one ten days later, will most likely decide whether the kings of the Premier League and Europe this season will be Newcastle or Chelsea-no one wants to lose all the hard work of a season like this.
At this moment, they completely forgot that even if they can win the game, they still have to pass AC Milan in the final, and AC Milan's rich experience in the Champions League is only slightly inferior to the best club in Europe in the twentieth century real Madrid.
Now they only have opponents in their eyes.This opponent who has been entangled with himself in the league and the Champions League until now.
After today's game, the competition between the two teams in the Champions League will come to an end, and the competition in the league will continue until the end of this season-in the next season, this competition will continue until the end of the season. One of the two sides began to sink.
This is the charm of the professional league. Any great team, any great player must have at least one great opponent in order to show their greatness more.
Just as Arsenal is to Manchester United, Celtic is to Rangers, Milan is to Juventus, Barcelona is to Real Madrid, Maradona is to Matthaus, and the Dutch Three Musketeers are to the German Three. drive a carriage.
If there is no equally great opponent, even if an extremely brilliant record has been achieved, it will always make people feel that something is missing.
Nie Fei and Deke held hands tightly.
Deke is a rookie specially introduced by Pei Wei to make up for his position after Nie Fei left Yunjiatianyu. Soon, he integrated into the team and became a side-by-side teammate in the national team. Now, in the Premier League In the league, they became rivals again.
The charm of the professional league also lies in this point.
Opponents who have just fought to the death in the Champions League final may be fighting for their homeland in the World Cup in a few days.
In the eyes of the coach, Deke is more comprehensive than Nie Fei, but Nie Fei is more trustworthy than Deke.
In terms of technical characteristics, perhaps Deco is more like a Chinese player, while Nie Fei is more like an authentic Brazilian player.
"Today's venue is very beneficial to me." At the moment of shaking hands, Deco said with a smile.
"It's okay, I can run very well." Nie Fei shrugged and said indifferently.
The players on the field were tit-for-tat, and the coaches off the field didn't have a good look at each other. In the routine handshake before the game, Mourinho and Benitez just touched their fingers and then separated. up.
The friendship established in the 02 World Cup finally ceases to exist—at least in the game, it no longer exists. Maybe there will be a chance for the two to have a drink and talk after they retire in the future, but at least for now, this scene is impossible to repeat Appear.
The two sat down separately on their coach benches. Mourinho took out a piece of gum and threw it into his mouth, chewing slowly, while Benitez took out a cigar and rubbed it under his nose. , but did not ignite it.
"Beep—" The referee Mitchell from Slovakia blew the whistle to start the game.
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Young people's game - this is the slogan set by the major European media for this game.
Among the players on both sides, the oldest is Makelele from Newcastle. The other players are all under 30 years old. The head coaches of both sides are 44 years old and 42 years old. They are absolute young coaches. The two bosses are Pei Wei and Beni. Tess was 44 years old in the same year, and Abu was six years younger than Pei Wei, which is extremely rare among the chairmen of European clubs. Even Mitchell, the referee of this game, was only 39 years old!
Youth represents passion, but in all the media's predictions before the game, no one would think that this will be a passionate game.
Mourinho won the Champions League by scoring only nine goals in seven games in the knockout stage of the Champions League last season. The Portuguese coach made the most of the Italian's one-to-zero winning policy. And Benitez has made Valencia, a La Liga team, like an Italian team. After coming to Chelsea, Chelsea's conceded goals have been greatly reduced. The teams led by these two men collided Together, you don't need to think about it, and it's probably impossible to see a wonderful game.
And what happened after the start of the game seems to be foreshadowing this.
Chelsea, who kicked off first, did not launch a fierce attack at the beginning of the game, but reversed their feet in the midfield. Newcastle's players were well prepared for this and did not play in the middle The field launched a close press, but put on a defensive posture.
In such a slippery field where a puddle of water may be stepped on at any time, any violent fight will greatly consume the physical energy of the players, which is unbearable for the players on both sides who have been exhausted for nearly a season loss.
And this kind of field may cause unexpected mistakes for the offense and defense of either side. Maybe the speed of passing the ball will suddenly increase due to the wet and slippery field during the offense, or the ball will suddenly stop in the middle of rolling. It is also possible to give the opponent an opportunity when he slips and falls to the ground when defending.
Therefore, for both sides, how to minimize their own mistakes caused by field factors in this game, it is possible to grab the upper hand in the final victory.
This is why Benitez used it first-hand. For Chelsea players who are very familiar with Stamford Bridge, the possibility of making mistakes on this field is undoubtedly much smaller than that of the visiting team Newcastle.
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Chelsea fell in the backcourt, and only Ibrahimovic and Drogba two forwards forced them up. Knowing that Chelsea was trying to lure Newcastle into making a big tackle, the Newcastle players would not be so stupid as to be fooled like this. Just let the two forwards harass the frontcourt, and the other players are waiting in their positions.
Seeing Ibrahimovic rushing towards him, Carvalho, who took the ball, did not give him a chance to come up, and immediately made a diagonal pass, intending to pass the ball to Gremi on the right.
The reason why he didn't pass the ball to Terry, who was closer to him, was because Drogba was not far from Terry, and if he passed the ball rashly, it would probably cause a mistake.
But he did everything he could, and still made a mistake—the ball flew two meters in the air and then fell. It was supposed to bounce off the ground and continue flying towards Gremi, but it spun around on the spot after it bounced off the ground. Just stopped!
Everyone was stunned.
Ibrahimovic was the first to react, and took two steps forward with two long legs. After catching up with the ball, he made a trip to the Chelsea goal, single-handedly!
Terry and Carvalho reacted at the same time, and quickly chased back.
Ibrahimovic's speed is not too fast, and the slippery lawn makes it more difficult to dribble, so Carvalho has already caught up with him when he dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area.
Ibrahimovic made a decisive decision, made an emergency stop, and then passed the ball horizontally to Drogba who had already followed. Drogba did not stop the ball, and directly raised his foot to pump the ball!
Terry fell to the ground and shoveled desperately, regardless of the mud on his jersey.
The ball hit Terry's outstretched leg and bounced upwards, drawing a graceful arc in the air, passing over the head of Reina who had fallen to the ground at the same time, and flew towards the goal at a slow speed but without hindrance.
"We can't be so lucky?" Pei Wei had already stood up, looking at the ball falling into the goal with his mouth open.
Now the Chelsea player closest to the goal and not yet on the ground is Gallas, but he is still about ten meters away from the goal, and he has no time to block the ball.
If this goal is scored, it will be the third time Newcastle has opened the scoring for the team in this way after the two rounds against Bayern!
If this is the case, then no one can deny that Newcastle's luck in the Champions League is really extremely good!
For a moment, all eyes on the scene were focused on the ball that had fallen downwards.
With a soft "poof", the ball just landed on the goal line. With the angle and strength of the ball falling downward, it will bounce upward in the next moment, and then fall into the goal.
Chelsea fans are all ashamed.
At this moment, something unexpected happened. The ball that landed on the goal line did not bounce up as everyone expected, but stopped on the goal line, motionless.
At this time, everyone discovered that there was almost no green in a place in front of Chelsea's goal, and it was like a piece of mud.
The ball was firmly stuck to the soil and never moved again.
Galla's heart almost jumped out of his cavity. In order to return to the defense, he had already run at his top speed just now. If he hit the ball, even just a little, the ball might roll into the goal .
It was too late for Gala to stop, he jumped up with an idea, then stretched out his right foot and tapped on the ball desperately, and at the moment of touching the ball, he pushed the ball back with his toe!
"Crack!" Galla slammed into the goal hard, his face covered in mud, but the ball rolled out of the goal with his flick.
Carvalho strode to catch up and kicked the ball far ahead of Ibrahimovic.
At this time, everyone came back to their senses and let out a sigh of relief involuntarily.
(End of this chapter)