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At the beginning of the game, the commentator introduced the starting lineup of the two teams, and Chelsea lined up a standard lineup of 442. It is worth noting that Robben, who had just recovered from injury, started, that is to say, Chelsea had a wing forward in this game, and the wing forward on the other side was Mikel. ▲∴

When Benitez saw Chelsea's starting formation, his brows frowned.

Robben and Milk are both technical frontcourt players. They can provide continuous support to the frontcourt on both sides, which will continue to cause trouble for Liverpool's defense.

However, this is not a sharp threat to Liverpool. After all, Liverpool mainly focuses on defense. In terms of defense, Espanyol is still very confident in the team. In addition, Robben has just recovered from injury and Mikel has played very few times, so their performance is not certain.

What worries him the most was Zhang Tiehan.

Zhang Tiehan appeared on the front line. He and Drogba were paired with two forwards. With the support of Chelsea's two wings, Benitez was not sure that he could limit Zhang Tiehan's performance. One Zhang Tiehan is enough to be a headache. In addition, Drogba, Mr. Warcraft is still very intimidating. Such a forward combination is definitely the first in the Premier League, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the world is the first. Fortunately, Chelsea is not the kind of team that is good at playing technical cooperation. Benitez also hopes that Chelsea is not stable internally. After all, Boas has just coached Chelsea and has no fame.

However, it is still worrying that Zhang Tiehan appears on the front line.

Benitez has been the head coach of Zhang Tiehan for one season, so he naturally knows Zhang Tiehan very well. He knows very well that Zhang Tiehan is the kind of player who cannot defend himself. Before the game, he originally thought that Zhang Tiehan would appear in the midfield. In that way, try to prevent him from having a long shot. It is different to appear on the front line, which means that Zhang Tiehan will get relatively fewer times, but as long as he gets the ball, the threat will become much larger.

This was really unexpected.

Last season, Zhang Tiehan played for Liverpool, and Benitez used him more as a striker. But that's because Liverpool has Gerrard and Alonso. When he arrived at Chelsea, Zhang Tiehan was more in the middle of the midfield this season. Grant liked to play Zhang Tiehan as the core. In this way, Lampard's disadvantage of lack of skills is to make up for it, and Chelsea's overall offense will be smoother.

But Lampard's partner in this game is Barack.

Needless to say, the combination of Lampard and Barack, Boas definitely hopes that Barack can perform. The German captain has performed more in defense this season. His contribution to offense has not been much, but this is by no means that Barack is not strong in offensive ability. In fact, like Lampard, he is a versatile player, who can attack and defend. Perhaps he didn't perform much in offense before, but the more reason is that Zhang Tiehan - Zhang Tiehan, as the core partner Lampard, Barack appears. He either plays a full-back who is not very good at or plays a defensive midfielder. Naturally, he doesn't perform much in offense.

Now that Barack has become a midfielder, he will almost certainly appear in Chelsea's offense, and he will be a very critical player in Chelsea's offense.

Benitez can't grasp it now.

"How exactly will Barack perform? Can he adapt directly?" This question has been hanging in Benitez's mind, but it is useless to consider it. You can know the answer by looking at the game.

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Boas did not make any more adjustments to the team. He just arranged the starting lineup based on his own thinking. That's all.

In his opinion, Zhang Tiehan is undoubtedly the most important goal-scoring player.

Not an offense, but a goal!

Zhang Tiehan's most outstanding ability is not dribbling, not physical, nor strong physical fitness. The most intuitive ability is to score goals. His ability to seize opportunities is much stronger than other players, so Boas arranged Zhang Tiehan on the front line, and the reason is that it is that simple.

As for the combination of Lampard and Barack, Boas also considered it.

Just as Benitez thought, he also felt that Barack had no performance before, but was suppressed. Barack's strength did not need to be questioned at all. With the strong physical fitness of the German captain, he would not be too unacceptable to the Premier League. The key is whether he has received attention.

There is no doubt that when Grant coached, Barack did not receive attention. Perhaps it was because Chelsea had too many stars. The players who could play in the middle of the midfield include Zhang Tiehan, Lampard, Marklele, Essin, Mikel, Gremy, etc. These players are all very good. It is difficult for the German captain to squeeze out Lampard and Marklele's positions, not to mention Zhang Tiehan with a fixed position.

But now Boas intends to take advantage of this game and give Barack a chance.

It is gratifying that after the game started, Barack performed well. At least his passes and running proved that he was a qualified midfielder and frontcourt player. The specific role was not obvious for a while, so Boas could only watch slowly.

Ten minutes passed soon.

In the first ten minutes of the game, the two teams had offensive and defense, and Chelsea and Liverpool had many opportunities. Both sides played well in offense, but there was no real threat to the ball, which proves that both teams did a good job in defense.

Chelsea and Liverpool are these two teams.

Both teams attach great importance to defense.

In the Premier League, everyone can think of Mourinho when it comes to defense, but in fact, Benitez's defense is no worse than the Portuguese. Everyone knows that Liverpool's football is rough, and the Spanish team brought by Benitez has not changed this. Liverpool, with rough skills, relied on defense to win two consecutive Champions League trophys. Perhaps it was because of defense that their performance in the league was not good - they had too many draws.

But it is undeniable that it is also the defense that allows Liverpool to not fall behind in league points even if they are in poor condition.

Mourinho left Britain and went to Italy, while Benitez remained at Liverpool and continued to lead Liverpool in the Premier League. After Zhang Tiehan left, Benitez was still strengthening the team's defense, and the defensive ideas he brought were already deeply rooted in the team. It can be said that Liverpool is doing better in defense than Chelsea, which can be seen from Zhang Tiehan that he has basically never got any chance in ten minutes.

Liverpool's defense against Zhang Tiehan is very tight.

Carragher, Pennant, Gerald, and Zhang Tiehan always have these players around him. Their defense is very strict, and the most important thing is to use the advantage of the number of people to block the passes of other people to Zhang Tiehan, which makes Zhang Tiehan helpless and other Chelsea players helpless.

However, with such strict defense against Zhang Tiehan, Drogba was under much less defensive pressure, and he always had only one Ager around him.

Agel is a football star, currently only 22 years old. The Rabbit has joined Bonbi's Youth Army as early as 12 years old and was promoted from the Youth Army to the first team in July 2004. With the departure of Swedish defender Andreas Jakobson, he not only quickly became a regular candidate, but also became a part of the team's 2005 Danish League championship.

Half a season later, Ag was selected as the "Player of the Year" by the Danish Professional Football Association.

A season later, Agel joined Liverpool and began to show his strength. After half a season of hard work, he has become Liverpool's main central defender. He replaced Hypia's main position, and even Liverpool talks about Agel. For comparison with Zhang Tiehan, Agel is also good at long-range shooting. On August 26 last year, Agel scored his first goal since joining in a league game against West Ham United - a 32-meter long-range shot. After the game, Liverpool leader Benitez commented that he was not surprised by Agel's goal. Because he often scored such goals in training.

In this game, Agel was responsible for defending Drogba.

In the last round, Liverpool played against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, and Agel did not play, so this was his first time playing against Chelsea. The task of defending Drogba was very difficult. Benitez kept reminding him before the game, and Agel was also working hard to do it.

Now he has experienced the difficulties, especially Drogba's body and strength, which is not something that ordinary people can compete with. Ager is also very strong. He is 191 tall and weighs 80kg, and he is also a big guy, but defending Drogba still makes him feel very hard.

But the most important thing is that he has not made defensive mistakes so far, and Drogba has not found any good opportunities. Agel's defensive mission is doing well.

He was also very happy that he could defend Drogba, after all, there were few defenders in the world who could do this alone.

But Agel seemed to be a little happy too early.

This wave of Chelsea's offense is here.

After several passes, the football reached Drogba's feet, and Drogba was at the front of the penalty area. When he saw Agel coming, he took a step forward and looked at his teammate's position left and right. Agel thought Drogba was going to pass the ball, but Drogba suddenly started to accelerate and rushed over Agel. It was too late to turn around and defend when Agel reacted.

"Drogba! Drogba! He rushed past Agel!" Anfield Stadium commentator Woodgate exclaimed.

Drogba didn't stop at all, and he rushed into the penalty area in a few steps.

Carragher, who is guarding Zhang Tiehan, can only choose to give up Zhang Tiehan to defend Drogba. However, Drogba still has a chance to shoot because Carragher's position does not have a big impact on Drogba, and his shot has an angle, but just when everyone thought Drogba was going to complete the shot, he chose to pass the ball.

A horizontal push!

Everyone paid attention to Drogba, but the Liverpool players were a little bit loose against Zhang Tiehan. Coupled with Carragher's departure, there was actually only one Pennant beside Han. As a result, Zhang Tiehan rushed past Pennant and ran to the position.

The next work is simple for Zhang Tiehan.

Raise your foot.

Shoot!

The football flew into Liverpool goal without any suspense. Goalkeeper Renner didn't even do symbolic movements, just watched Zhang Tiehan kick the ball into the goal. Even after Zhang Tiehan scored, Renner showed him a helpless look, which was like remembering the scene of training with Zhang Tiehan last year - at that time, Renner had quite a few shots from the goal. With his understanding of Zhang Tiehan, it was impossible for him to not miss such a ball, so he was too lazy to pay attention to it carefully.

This may be a negative game sentiment, but it also shows Reina's helplessness in shooting against Zhang Tiehan.

But no matter what, Chelsea took the lead.

1:0.

With Zhang Tiehan's goal, they led Liverpool at Anfield Stadium. (A good event with a pie falling from the sky, a cool phone is waiting for you to get it! Follow the ~dian/public account (add friends on WeChat - add official account - enter dd), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now follow the dd WeChat official account now!) (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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