Southampton's three central midfielders are Chamberlain, Lambert and Schneiderlin.

The three players are positioned relatively wide, mainly to intercept Chel's two wingers, while also taking into account part of the central defense. At critical moments, Lallana will retreat to help.

The two defensive midfielders are Gu Ran and Walton.

In the last game, Gu Ran was placed in front by the defensive midfielder. Although Gu Ran greatly limited Lampard's passing efficiency, it also made Gu Ran powerless and unable to retreat in time to fill the position when he was entangled by Lampard.

You know, in other games, Gu Ran could play the role of two people, but in the last game against Chelsea, Gu Ran only played the role of one person.

So in this game, Coach Adkins let Gu Ran return to the position of defensive midfielder and increased Gu Ran's freedom of mobility. Gu Ran can transform from defensive midfielder to attacking midfielder at any time. There is also a deputy defensive midfielder in the defensive midfielder position, namely Walton. Walton can rely on his experience to perfectly fill the gap left by Gu Ran when he transforms into attacking midfielder.

Of course, Walton played today and continued to have the important mission from the last time he played against Chelsea - that is to mess with Terry's mentality.

As soon as Terry saw Walton come on the court and move forward, he couldn't help but frown.

Southampton's left back is still Hammond, who was transformed from a defensive midfielder, and the right back is Richardson.

The two central defenders are Jaidi and Fonte.

The goalkeeper is still the captain Davis.

In today's second-leg match, Chelsea's mentality was to attack at any cost. This cost even included "appropriate" physical confrontation and pressure on Gu Ran, and "appropriate" foul defense against Gu Ran - this was certainly not Ancelotti's intention, but came from Chelsea's senior management, Sister NO.

Ever since we parted at the Pan Pacific Hotel, Sister NO has become angrier and angrier the more she thinks about it, and the more she feels like she’s been wronged.

Of course, she didn't want to retaliate against Gu Ran, but after personally experiencing Gu Ran's strong power that lasted a whole day without stopping, she realized that there was absolutely no problem in giving Gu Ran the intensity he demanded.

If Gu Ran was really hurt... then she would have the opportunity to visit Gu Ran and show her concern.

The thoughts of women...

Ancelotti naturally didn't know what Sister NO was really thinking. Ancelotti just thought that Sister NO wanted to win the game, so Ancelotti thought that it was the big boss Abramovich who wanted to win the game. So in this game, Ancelotti changed his previous conservative style and played a crazy offensive game.

Southampton, on the other hand, was determined and united in their efforts to defend the game to the death.

In the 5th minute of the game, Lampard took the ball in the middle and advanced quickly.

Lallana and Lambert immediately double-teamed him, one reached out to pull the ball, and the other stepped forward to steal the ball.

Lampard was pulled to the ground after passing the ball quickly.

However, the referee indicated that the attack and defense were effective and did not blow the whistle.

Torres moved cleverly and got the ball in the frontcourt, but the linesman immediately raised his flag, indicating that Torres was offside.

Torres was immediately depressed! The referee didn't blow the whistle for Southampton's foul, but he was blown offside when he got the ball!

Chelsea's Blues fans booed the referee.

Southampton fans responded with warm applause and cheers to the referee.

After so many years, it’s time for the referee to take a side!

Although Chelsea is a newly rising power in the Premier League, it actually does not have much say in the FA. On the contrary, the veteran Southampton team has a status in the FA and can influence the referee company in key matches.

I guess the referee secretly bet on Southampton to upset Chelsea!

But no matter what, the penalty standard for this game is definitely biased towards Southampton.

The game continues.

Chelsea continued to attack under Lampard.

Just from Lampard's activeness, it is not difficult to see how successful Gu Ran was in defending Lampard in the last game.

In this game, Lampard was clearly being jointly marked by Lambert and Lallana, with the assistance of Chamberlain and Schneiderlin, but Lampard was still able to find gaps in the defense of these four people, and repeatedly create opportunities for Chelsea.

The game was in the 11th minute.

Lampard passed the ball to his own right side under the double-team of Lallana and Lambert. Ivanovic, who came in from the back, took the ball, made a slight adjustment and then sent a surgical cross into the penalty area. It was a very easy and pleasing cross.

Torres jumped high and headed the ball over Jaidi, but the next moment, Gu Ran also sprinted back with violent aesthetics, jumped up while holding Torres' body, and interfered with Torres' header.

Torres missed the target and Davis easily caught the ball.

In the 17th minute of the game, Chelsea's offensive returned.

Lampard and Ramirez cooperated with each other, and Lallana, who was retreating to defend, was knocked to the ground. Lampard took the opportunity to run out of the gap, got the ball and went straight to the top of the Southampton penalty area! At this time, Gu Ran sprinted up with violent aesthetics and directly slid to Lampard! Lampard's breakthrough route was completely blocked by Gu Ran's sprinting angle. It was too late to pass the ball, so he could only bite the bullet and shoot a world wave long shot.

Davis was in a great position, he dived sideways and blocked the ball with his arm.

Torres rushed to the front of the goal and wanted to grab a shot, but Walton, who retreated, kicked the ball out of the sideline in time.

Torres failed to score again.

But this did not affect Chelsea's offensive momentum at all.

In the 22nd minute, Lampard made a wonderful pass to Ashley Cole near the midline. Ashley Cole passed Schneiderlin at speed and quickly passed the ball back to Malouda who had already cut into the Southampton penalty area. Malouda took the ball, turned around and shot.

Gu Ran filled in the position in time and headed the ball out of the danger zone while it was in flight.

Lambert saw the ball first and immediately passed it to Schneiderlin on the right side of the left wing. Schneiderlin then accelerated and ran with the ball! Because Ashley Cole's assist was too far forward, Chelsea's ribs were left with a large empty space! The beastly midfielder Essien sprinted over quickly and made a domineering side tackle, directly shoveling the ball and the player out of the sideline.

The referee blew the whistle and showed Essien a yellow card.

In fact, although this action was fierce, the ball was indeed tackled first. It was a foul, but the yellow card was a bit too strict.

Essien did not argue with the referee. He just got up silently and ran back to his own defensive area.

It is definitely not a good thing for Chelsea that the main midfielder received a yellow card at this time. Next time when Southampton counterattacks from the flank, Essien will not be able to do the same.

Southampton got a set piece near the halfway line.

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(End of this chapter)