Chapter 362 The Swedish Tower
"Two to zero! Chelsea's situation has become very dangerous now!" Seeing Howard Webber signaling Drogba's goal to be effective, Andy Gray couldn't help but exclaim. Obviously, Chelsea, known for its steady defense, fell behind two goals ten minutes before the end of the first half, surprised the ace commentator. "Coach Mourinho must come up with countermeasures as soon as possible to solve the team's ineffective offense in positional battles, otherwise Chelsea would not be able to win today's game!"
Under George's control, Chelsea's overall strength in this life is similar to that in previous life. In terms of football talent alone, they even have a better advantage. But the problem is that the attack line led by Ibrahimovic is a major loss of standard against Tottenham today and does not pose much threat to the goal defended by Cech. It is precisely because of Chelsea's sluggish and disrestrained on the offensive end that Tottenham, which has little defensive pressure, can invest more troops in the offensive attack, thus causing the Blues to fall into a vicious cycle of "its own offense is not strong - the defensive pressure is greater - the offensive support is reduced - the threat to the offensive end is further reduced"!
"From the current situation, coach Mourinho is a little too hasty. He should not hand over all the team's organizational tasks to a young man like Ibrahimovic." In the live broadcast room, Martin Taylor was also giving advice for Chelsea in trouble. "If Lampard and Ribery share the organizational work and use Ibrahimovic as a tactical fulcrum for the frontcourt, and wait until the Swede learns how to handle the ball more efficiently before giving him power in this regard, then Chelsea's offense can become much smoother. It will not be like now, as the ball will stagnate as soon as it reaches Ibrahimovic's feet, giving the opponent time to re-arrange the defense in vain."
The mature Ibrahimovic is indeed a center forward who can support an offensive system with one person, but now he is just a newcomer who likes to show off his skills, and is still immature in grasping the timing and handling the ball. Moreover, the most important thing is that Ibrahimovic, who has been named a genius since childhood, cannot complete every task assigned by the coach as Drogba, who has worked hard for many years and has experienced bitterness, and always wants to add his own things to it. These factors together make Chelsea's performance on the offensive end far less stable than in the same period in his previous life!
It is not surprising that this situation will occur. You should know that during his previous life, Ibrahimovic was often labeled as a Champions League soft-legged crab by fans and media, in order to mock him for not scoring goals once he entered the Champions League knockout stage. This situation was not relieved until the Swede transferred to AC Milan. When Ibrahimovic was in Paris Saint-Germain, Ibrahimovic transformed and became the top hero for the team to reach the Champions League quarterfinals for three consecutive years! Therefore, Ibrahimovic now has such high requirements for Ibrahimovic who is under the age of 24. It is really hard to let him organize and drive the attack of the entire team with his own strength!
In this game, since George only arranged for Ridley King to guard Ibrahimovic alone, it successfully aroused the Swedish's competitive mentality, was addicted to the one-on-one challenge with the Tottenham captain and forgot the organizational tasks he shouldered, Chelsea's offense would end up in such a difficult situation - if Ibrahimovic could make good use of his body and footwork and timely allocate the ball to the most threatening position, then Chelsea would not fall into the current situation!
"Damn it! If I had known this, I wouldn't have sent Gala, a cheater, to play with John (Terry) as a central defender!" At the same time, seeing Gala's top protrusion caused Drogba to expand the score to 2-0, Mourinho was furious and stomped the ground hard to vent his displeasure and depression. He thought to himself, "Although Robert (Hut) was a little frizzy in the game and turned slowly, his frontal defense ability was not problematic, and his level was enough to be the main player of the English middle-level team. Unlike Gala, it usually looks reliable, and he will lose the chain when it comes to a critical moment!"
Although Gala had a problem of overshot in the game before, Mourinho always thought it was just a coincidence. After all, even Cannavaro, who is now the pillar of the back defense of Juventus and the Italian national team, had many overshots back then, such as the one that overshots when Italy was tied by France at the last minute in the 2Ooo European Cup final. Judging from the current situation, Gala's air defense ability is obviously more unreliable than Cannavaro! At least Cannavaro is a reassuring existence in most of the time, and only in a few occasions will he steal his teammates once, and Gala's overshot has become a normal state, and it will appear almost every game!
It was not until this time that Mourinho finally made up his mind that no matter what, Gala would no longer be allowed to appear in the central defender position. Otherwise, Chelsea would not know how many points he would lose this season because of his mistakes!
However, just as Mourinho was thinking hard and thinking about how to adjust the team during the halftime break, Ibrahimovic, who had not performed well in almost the entire first half, suddenly found the feeling!
Facing the defense of Ribery King, Ibrahimovic, who received the pass from Ribery, first made a ball with his left foot outside his instep, and then forced Ridery King to follow him, and then he cleverly knocked his left heel near the penalty area line, allowing the ball to pass between the Tottenham captain's legs. He turned around on the spot, speeding past the left hand of Ridery King, who was not in a position to close, and single-handedly!
The heel passes through the crotch, and the human ball is divided! At this moment, Ibrahimovic's high personal skills, outstanding imagination and excellent physical flexibility are fully exposed!
Although there are still some shortcomings in other aspects, as a striker who can already be ranked among the top players, Ibrahimovic naturally cannot grasp such a single shot opportunity. With a shot like a slight shot, Ibrahimovic shot lightly crossed Cech's interception and flew into Tottenham's goal before Vidic broke the ball!
"Beautiful!" Seeing this scene, Mourinho waved his fist excitedly. After hard waiting, he finally waited for this moment!
The reason why Mourinho, who has always been extremely strict with players, can tolerate Ibrahimovic's willful actions on the court is that the Swedes can always bring him satisfactory returns with practical actions!
One to two! Before the end of the first half, with Ibrahimovic's wonderful solo performance, Chelsea successfully narrowed the gap to one goal!
Chapter completed!