After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 312 Didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at this time

On the evening of September 9, Manchester City, Etihad Stadium.

The focus of Manchester City's home game against Chelsea has entered the halftime break.

The scoreboard shows the score of the two teams at this moment: 1:1.

In the 25th minute of the first half, Chelsea caught Yaya Toure's midfield dribbling error, and Hazard dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored a shot to help Chelsea lead the away game.

But the Chelsea fans' celebrations didn't last long.

Only 5 minutes later, Kante also made a pass error and was seized by Manchester City. Nasri broke through and crossed the middle. Aguero stopped the ball and turned around. With a precise shot, the ball was sent into Chelsea. dead corner of the goal.

"Just as Pan Yi hoped in the pre-match press conference, the confrontation between the two sides in the first half of today was really exciting."

In the studio hall of Sky Sports, host Lineker praised.

In this game, Pellegrini sent his strongest attacking lineup:

Forward: Aguero.

Frontcourt: Nasri, Silva, Keylor Navas.

Back midfielder: Fernandinho, Yaya Toure.

Defenders: Kolarov, Kompany, Demichelis, Zabaleta.

Goalkeeper: Joe Hart.

And Chelsea is similar, Pan Yi also has the strongest lineup to fight:

Forwards: Hazard, Lukaku, seat B.

Midfield: Marcos Alonso, Matic, Kante, Azpilicueta.

Defenders: Terry, David Luiz, Gary Cahill.

Goalkeeper: Courtois.

After the opening, Manchester City took advantage of the home court and launched a fierce attack on Chelsea.

But Chelsea is not at all cowardly, and has launched a fierce midfield competition with Manchester City, and has been using sharp assaults from the two wings to harass Manchester City's defense.

Although the two sides only scored one goal each in the first half, there were still exciting scenes.

The goalkeepers of both sides also became the busiest people on the field, Joe Hart made four excellent saves, and Courtois also made three.

However, after Lineker began to summarize the first half, Sky Sports' regular guests Gary Neville and Carragher kept silent.

The reason is simple. In the two Premier League games that just ended, their home teams both lost!

Liverpool was defeated by West Ham United 3:1 away, while Manchester United played a goal battle with Leicester City, and Leicester City won 5:3.

This made this pair of "brothers" who have been in love and killing each other lose their interest in talking for a while, and even lost their interest in commenting on the match between Chelsea and Manchester City.

Especially Gary Neville.

After all, Leicester City is the team that was scored four goals by Chelsea!

And now they turn around and bite Manchester United hard.

Moreover, in this game, Manchester United was the main force. Van Persie, Falcao, Rooney, Di Maria and other stars appeared one after another, but they still lost to the newly promoted.

For Leicester City, Vardy performed a hat-trick with great prowess, and Cambiasso and Hammond also scored goals.

In other words, these "yes" players when they played against Chelsea, they punched hard when they faced Manchester United, as if Leicester City was the real strong team.

With such a comparison, Gary Neville is even more ashamed to dictate to Chelsea.

In fact, it is not only the "double red club" of Manchester United and Liverpool that capsized in this round of competition.

Tottenham even lost to West Bromwich Albion 0:1 at home!
Only Arsenal passed. They beat Aston Villa 3-0 in the away game and continued to become the only team to remain unbeaten in the Premier League this season together with Chelsea.

The result of this round also led to Liverpool and Manchester United being next to each other in the standings, one 11th and the other 12th, it is really good brothers.

Of course, Lineker understands the paddling behavior of Carragher and Neville.

This is not the first time he has seen this situation!

So, he turned his face to another guest:
"So, Sun, how do you think this game will develop in the second half?"

This guest is none other than Sun Jihai, a famous Manchester City player and Dragon Country player!
In 2002, he transferred from Dalian Shide to Manchester City with a transfer of 200 million pounds and played here for seven seasons.

During this period, he mostly played as the main force or the main rotation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is "famous".

Manchester City fans also affectionately call it the "Dragon Kingdom Sun"!
In fact, he later became the image ambassador of Manchester City in Longguo and was selected into the English Football Hall of Fame, which also proves the affirmation of English football and Manchester City to him.

At the age of 37, he has not retired yet, but he still took the time to be invited to participate in the game watching program of Sky Sports.

After all, this match between Manchester City and Chelsea has a lot to do with Sun Jihai.

On one side is the team that he has played for, and on the other side is the team led by coach Long Guo.

"Well... hehe, the game was very interesting. Of course I hope that the two sides can play more excitingly in the second half and score some beautiful goals. But I also hope that the two sides can draw." Sun Jihai laughed.

Due to his long-term performance in the Premier League, Sun Jihai's English level is still very good.

"Indeed, it's hard to predict the direction of the game now." Chelsea star Zola also said, "Both sides are attacking fiercely, and it feels like a goal can be scored at any time. It depends on the ability of the forwards on both sides to seize the opportunity."

Lineker said with a smile: "Pan Yi's team played fairly well today. The starting lineup is nothing special. It is quite surprising that there are no special adjustments in tactics."

Indeed, for many ordinary coaches, the lineup and style of play of the game generally do not change too much, which is the normal state.

But it was different for Pan Yi.

In almost every game, he will have some special tactical play against the opponent, which is hard to guard against.

In other words, if Pan Yi's formation and style of play were not accidental, it would have become an accident instead.

"Maybe in the second half of the game we will see the effective adjustments he made." Zola said confidently, "He is a coach who will never disappoint."
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The second half of the game has gone to 60 minutes.

Pellegrini stood on the sidelines, turning his head to look at the visiting team Chelsea's bench from time to time.

Over there, there are often players running out to warm up, but they have never been replaced.

Pellegrini still couldn't see through what Pan Yi was thinking.

But he firmly believed that Pan Yi must be planning something!
This is not his worry.

After all, he is a man who suffered twice under Pan Yi's hands!
But the problem is, it has been 60 minutes now, and when the scene is still stalemate, Pan Yi can still sit still?

Could it be that he really brought Chelsea to play a beautiful match against Manchester City to please the fans, and didn't care much about the outcome of the game?

Or is he in awe of the Etihad Stadium, just thinking about taking a point and getting out?

"No, this is not something Pan Yi would do."

Pellegrini shook his head, his brows furrowed uncontrollably.

The more silent Pan Yi was, the more uncertain he was.

After all, in such a high-level game, the head coaches of the two teams are actually calculating each other, and if one of them makes a wrong move, the ending may not be very good.

After another 2 minutes, Pellegrini gritted his teeth: "No matter what he thinks, we must take away a victory at home tonight!"

Thinking of this, Pellegrini turned his head to look at the bench and called out "Frank".

Then Frank Lampard got up from his seat, got up and ran to warm up.

To use Lampard is to use his powerful long-range shooting ability to blast Chelsea's goal.

Now the competition between the two sides on the field is getting more and more intense, and it is difficult for both sides to hit the ball into the penalty area, whether it is the center or the wing.

At this time, if you have a heavy artillery, it is an additional means of scoring.

Originally, Yaya Toure in Manchester City actually had such ability, but today his state is obviously not good. The goal conceded in the first half was due to his dribbling error.

So let's replace him first.

Pellegrini also wanted to change another person, that is, left back Kolarov, and let Clichy play.

Clichy's speed is faster, so he may be able to deal with Chelsea's B seat and Azpilicueta's raid on the wing, and find opportunities to insert assists.

In short, through such adjustments, Manchester City's offensive firepower can be enhanced, and they will strive to score at least one more goal and take all three points at the Etihad Stadium! ——
"Hey, Pei Gong has finally changed?"

Pan Yi, who was on the coaching bench of the visiting team, looked towards the halfway line.

With applause from the stands at the Etihad Stadium, Lampard joined Clichy on the pitch, replacing Yaya Toure and Kolarov.

This applause is mainly dedicated to Lampard.

Because not only Manchester City fans, but even Chelsea fans of the visiting team gave their applause to the club's meritorious player!

And this applause is more like a "starting gun" to Pan Yi.

This means that he can also start to unleash the real killing move of this game!

"It's about the same. Their physical strength has begun to decline, and the high point has dropped by two more." Pan Yi turned to Scaloni and said, "Let them come over and prepare for substitutions."

Scaloni responded and went.

He didn't ask who "they are" because Pan Yi had already given him instructions.

That is to play until six or seven 10 minutes, and when Manchester City's physical strength tends to decline, they will directly change to three high points to bomb the opponent!
What Pan Yi and others didn't expect was that Pellegrini also "assisted" over there.

Let alone Lampard's replacement of Yaya Toure, his physical fitness has dropped a lot.

And Chrissy's speed is faster than Kolarov's, which means that his height and weight are all lower.

Although Kolarov is a full-back, he is 187cm tall and weighs 83kg. His jumping and heading abilities are also very good, at least much stronger than the standard full-back attributes of Clichy.

In this way, Chelsea's "Plan B" seems to be easier to implement!
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"City seem to be stepping up their shots from outside the box after Lampard came on."

"Look at the attack. Keylor got the ball wide and played a two-on-one with David Silva and went down the line."

"But instead of sweeping across the penalty area like before, he kicked the ball to the top of the penalty area."

"At this time, Lampard also arrived flatteringly, and swung a heavy cannon with his right foot!"

"But Courtois reacted very quickly and his body was very stretched. He threw his arms and saved the ball over the baseline."

"It's City's corner. David Silva goes towards the corner flag and he's City's main penalty taker."

"Oh, now the referee signaled not to take the free throw, because Chelsea will make a substitution."

"We saw... ah, Chelsea just changed three people at once?"

"Bamford, Chike and Ivanovic are coming, ready to replace Bernardo Silva, Kante and Azpilicueta."

"This is really a strange substitution. Bamford and Bernardo Silva are not in a match-up relationship, and Kanter has always been the midfield machine that Pan Yi relies on most, and he should also be physically fit. no problem……"

After the three entered the field, they also brought the latest instructions from head coach Pan Yi.

That is to start giving up the entanglement with Manchester City's midfield and directly initiate forward high-altitude passes from the wing or backcourt.

When attacking in the frontcourt, if you can create a set kick opportunity, whether it is a corner kick or a free kick, try to create it!
This is the trump card that Pan Yi has been preparing for before the game.

Chelsea's players on the field now can be said to be full of grown-ups!

Matic, 194cm, 86kg.

Lukaku, 191cm, 97kg.

Gary Cahill, 190cm, 88kg.

Cheek, 189cm, 79kg.

Bamford, 189cm, 81kg.

David Luiz, 188cm, 84kg.

Arcos Alonso, 188cm, 85kg.

Terry, 187cm, 91kg.

Ivanovic, 185cm, 89kg.

This is not counting the goalkeeper Courtois, 199cm, 87kg.

That is to say, the current players on the Chelsea field, except for the poor Hazard who is 172cm and 74kg "little cutie", are all strong men around 190cm!
In fact, Hazard is the second or third lowest-latitude player in the Chelsea team, only a little higher than Kanter, who was just replaced, and about the same as the B seat.

But the problem is that most of the players facing Manchester City are of the same size as Hazard.

What Navas, David Silva, Aguero, Clichy, Zabaleta, Nasri...

There is no one above 180cm!

So the question is, why didn't Pan Yi replace Hazard?

For example, put on Mikel who is 188cm tall and weighs 85kg...

But with so many big men, someone has to pass the ball over their heads!

Whether it is a corner kick, a free kick, or a cross from the wing, Hazard is still very useful.

At this time, Chelsea's formation has also become a formation that is a bit unclear.

Lukaku and Bamford are at the top, and Hazard is behind them, but he does not fix his position, but often cruises to the two wings to support Marcos Alonso and Ivanovic breakthroughs and crosses.

There is no structural change in the midfield. Cheek and Matic play double midfielders, Marcos Alonso and Ivanovic are two wingbacks, Terry, David Luiz, Gary · Cahill three central defenders.

This may be regarded as a 3412 formation.

At this time, Pellegrini has not realized the seriousness of the problem...
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After the substitution, Chelsea quickly launched an attack.

Eden Hazard and Marcos Alonso combined on the left side of Chelsea's half.

Marcos Alonso handed the ball to Eden Hazard, who did not choose to dribble in the first half, but took a look in the penalty area and kicked a cross.

At this time, in Manchester City's penalty area, Lukaku was at the front point, Bamford was at the back point, and the ball was passed to the back point.

Since it was the same thin Chrissy who was watching the defense of the B seat, but now it suddenly became Bamford, and he couldn't adapt for a while, and even stretched out his hand to pull Bamford but didn't stop him.

Bamford grabbed the point and hit the goal with a head shake!

But Joe Hart was very focused, jumped up, and threw the ball flying to the upper right dead corner!
Although they didn't score, Chelsea's offense still shocked all the Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium into a cold sweat.

Then there was the Chelsea corner.

Hazard ran towards the corner flag as the rest of Chelsea's players moved too, entering City's penalty area one by one.

Near the small penalty area, Lukaku points forward, Bamford points behind, and David Luiz interferes with the goalkeeper in the middle.

Near the penalty spot, there are two central defenders, Gary Cahill and Terry.

Flanking them was Marcos Alonso on one side and Ivanovic on the other.

At the top of the arc in the penalty area, Matic and Chick stared at each other, ready to rush into the penalty area at any time.

At the same time, they will also pay attention to if the first point is topped by Manchester City players, then they will take on the responsibility of defense and destroy Manchester City's counterattack.

This is the corner kick tactics that Chelsea have practiced before.

Although it is not the kind of more subtle tactics to use coordination to fight, but so many "experts" are put out and squeezed in the penalty area, the feeling of oppression is full!

As a result, Manchester City is a bit at a loss as to how to deal with it.

First of all, they can only withdraw everyone into the penalty area to help defend, but like 170cm Navas and David Silva standing in front of opponents around 190cm, they really feel that they have no sense of existence.

At this time Hazard raised his right hand high, which also represented a kind of Chelsea corner kick tactics.

Then, under the gaze of all the fans, the ball was delivered!
Is looking for the front point!I'm looking for Lukaku!

It was Lampard who defended Lukaku.

Although Lampard's height is not as good as Lukaku's, he is 184cm after all, so he can barely guard against it.

At this time, Lukaku didn't look back, his back was facing the goal, and he used his body to suppress Lampard behind him.

Lampard desperately held Lukaku from behind to prevent him from jumping and threatening the goal.

After seeing that the ball was flying forward, Demichelis, who was defending at the back, also hurried forward to assist Lampard against Lukaku.

After all, one more person, one more strength!
But Lukaku's strong body still has a very obvious advantage at this time.

After he squeezed Lampard behind him, he saw the ball flying over. He counted the timing, and suddenly took a step forward, and the whole person jumped high.

Lampard and Demichelis were also taken aback, and rushed forward, and Lampard even jumped up.

But Lukaku didn't think about heading the goal, but pushed Hazard's pass to the other side of the small penalty area.

It is the position of the latter point!

Another Chelsea striker, Bamford, is standing there!

And because Demichelis has lost his position to help defend Lukaku, there is no corresponding marker beside him!

After Lukaku's header was ferried, Demichelis realized the danger, turned around quickly, rushed towards Bamford, and jumped directly to block Bamford's attack.

But it's too late.

Faced with this opportunity that was close at hand, Bamford just stood there and hit it hard, and the ball flew directly above Manchester City's goal.

Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe Hart has also been focusing on Lukaku at the front point when the corner kick is taken. When the ball flies to the back point, how can he react in time?
You can only watch the ball go into the goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

With a long sound from the commentator, the Chelsea fans' stands were boiling!

They were all cheering wildly for the goal.

"Bamford!!!"

"In the 68th minute, Bamford scored a goal for Chelsea, rewriting the score to 1:2! The visiting team leads!"

"This is Bamford's second goal for Chelsea this season, but it's also the most crucial one!"

"This is a connection between two Chelsea center forwards. Lukaku grabbed a header from the front and then ferried it to Bamford from the back. Then Bamford, who came off the bench, scored with a header!"

"This ball broke the deadlock on the field. After both sides made substitutions and adjustments, it seems that Pan Yi's adjustments had a better effect."

"So, can Chelsea really take all three points at the Etihad Stadium? Can City fight back, as they did in the first half?"

After Bamford scored the goal, he also quickly rushed to the coach's bench of the home team, met the coach Pan Yi, and rushed to hug him by the waist.

This action startled Pan Yi.

"Let it go, let it go, don't get excited, it's still early." Pan Yi quickly reminded Bamford.

Of course, more importantly, he was really afraid of being thrown to the ground again.

This old waist really can't stand the toss!
Bamford put Pan Yi down obediently, and at this time the Chelsea players on the field rushed over to celebrate together.

Pan Yi took the opportunity to order again: "Continue to play like this. Make more crosses, make more use of the opportunity of set kicks, let us smash them to death!"

When saying this, Pan Yi made a movement of hitting his palm with a fist.

Chelsea players responded in unison: "Good!"

Such a neat voice was also captured by the TV camera, so that all fans watching the live broadcast of this game can feel the unity and fighting spirit of this team!

And Pan Yi's actions were also seen by Pellegrini on the coaching bench of the home team.

Coupled with the goal just now, including the whole process of creating this corner kick, he finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

But now, Pellegrini finally understood what Pan Yi had been planning...

Feeling like Chelsea is going to be "Laputa in the Sky No. [-]" now?

Hit us with a high-altitude ball like Stoke?
No, with the comprehensive ability of Chelsea players, this is the "Sky City plus version"!

What about the ability to compete with the ball?

Pan Yi, you don't talk about Wude!
(End of this chapter)