Chapter 191 The Most Useless Person in the Whole Scene

In this derby, Crystal Palace lined up in a 541 formation, an obvious defensive counterattack formation, which was indeed a bit shrunk. Most of the media reporting on the game couldn't help but make a few sarcastic remarks about Dowie during the broadcast. However, it must be said that reason told everyone that Dowie's choice was undoubtedly correct. Even Mourinho, who always thinks highly of himself, couldn't help but praise him in his heart.

Football is a competitive sport. Offense can only bring splendor, while defense can win victory. For the sake of victory, the new coach even put aside the face of the team in the same city. I don't know whether we should praise him for his wisdom or scold him for being old-fashioned.

But no matter how the Crystal Palace fans react or what other people think, Dawes will never change his tactics temporarily.

For the league points, he has done everything he can... At the beginning of the game, when Chelsea players saw the opponent lined up in this formation, they first had enough confidence to attack. After all, Crystal Palace's Rodriguez is only a second-rate striker in the Premier League. He does not have such a high dribbling speed and technology. It is not easy to use him alone to break through Chelsea's entire defense line!

But if the Crystal Palace midfielder comes up to support, then there will inevitably be loopholes in their defensive formation, and Chelsea is eager for this to happen.

Although the opponent's defensive players are almost unknown, it has to be admitted that Crystal Palace's defense line, which relies on numbers, does have some strength. At least in the first few minutes of the game, Chelsea did not get any good opportunities.

There are very few teams in the Premier League that are good at short passes, and Chelsea is no exception. At the beginning of the game, due to the large number of players in the opponent's half, short passes were constantly wrong, resulting in frequent loss of offensive opportunities, and even allowing Crystal Palace to successfully counterattack. Rodriguez also completed a shot outside the penalty area.

Of course the result was predictable, the football was easily caught in the arms of goalkeeper Cech.

From the start, Wang Li found that there were two "tail-chasers" around him. As soon as he crossed the center line, the two Crystal Palace defenders would stick to him, as steadfast as the bodyguards of Zhongnanhai. In the past, this kind of defense was always what Wang Li hated the most.

However, ever since Xiao Wuxiang Gong broke through the bottleneck, his internal strength has almost undergone a qualitative improvement. On the football field, his overall view and eyesight are completely different from before. Coupled with his unparalleled Lingbo Microwave body skills, how easy is it to cut off his route to receive the ball?

Unfortunately, Chelsea's teammates did not know this. Every time they wanted to pass the ball to Wang Li, they would be blocked by the figure of an opposing player. So in the first few minutes of the game, Wang Li did not receive many passes, which made him a little depressed.

"Frank, pass the ball to me when you have a chance. It doesn't matter if someone is blocking it. Believe me, I will catch it." After this went on for a long time, Wang Li finally couldn't hold it in anymore and said directly to Lampard.

"Is this kid going to mess up again?" Lampard looked at him suspiciously. Wang Li's words reminded him of the big guy who was kicked on the grass in the last game. He thought to himself: "Is he going to kick both defenders off the field?"

Imagining this possibility, the 'upright' Lampard immediately nodded with interest. He was looking forward to what was going to happen next... Bridge kicked the ball from the center line to the left side. After Robben got the ball, he dribbled directly to the middle. After dribbling past two defensive players, he touched the right side of the ball with his left foot. The ball passed through two opposing defenders and rolled towards Drogba. Drogba didn't even stop the ball, he turned around and shot hard. Unfortunately, the ball went directly into the arms of goalkeeper Speroni.

Speroni waved his hand and the ball was snatched by Crystal Palace midfielder Korca, who then kicked it directly towards Rodriguez in the frontcourt.

During the scramble, Makelele kicked the ball forward again. After being passed several times by Chelsea players, the ball was delivered to Lampard's feet.

After Lampard received the ball, he looked up at the situation in the frontcourt. Drogba was still struggling for position with two defenders in the penalty area. Joe Cole was too far away from him on the left side, so it was easy to make mistakes when he passed the ball with a long pass. The remaining teammates were not in a good position. He was about to dribble the ball forward, but he saw Wang Li looking at him from the right corner of the penalty area, but there was a Crystal Palace defender standing in front of him.

Lampard's heart moved, and he thought of what Wang Li had just said to him, so he tentatively passed the ball in that direction.

At this time, Hudson and Popovich stood beside Wang Li. They followed the coach's instructions and followed the black-haired boy from the beginning to now. Just as expected before the game, this boy really didn't know how to run, and because of the two people's defense, he didn't get any good opportunities until now. Thinking of this, the two of them felt a little happy, 'What kind of super star and dance master in England is this? He is so expensive, but he is still being watched closely? '

When Lampard passed the ball to Wang Li, except for him and Wang Li, almost everyone else in the stadium thought it was a mistake. The ball was about to change hands and England's attack would come to an abrupt end. Of course, this also included Popovich who was standing in front of Wang Li. He watched the ball rolling towards him quickly. Even at this time, he was still thinking: "This black-haired boy is doing really well in Chelsea. Even though we have defended so tightly, the opponent's players still trust him and pass the ball directly to me. They are so stupid!"

However, under the gazes of everyone in the stadium, just when the ball had rolled to within one meter in front of Popovich and he had even made a move to stretch his foot to stop the ball, the black-haired boy on the court suddenly appeared between Popovich and the football and intercepted the ball!

The ball was about to reach his feet, but it was intercepted midway. This feeling of gaining and losing made Popovich very depressed. He patted his forehead in annoyance. He felt that he was careless just now and should have run forward to meet the ball. Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world... After Wang Li took the footwork of "Kun" and "Kan" in Lingbo Weibu, he turned from behind Popovich to in front of him and easily received Lampard's pass. At this time, he was already in a position slightly outside the right corner of the penalty area, which was within his shooting range!

However, Wang Li immediately abandoned this idea. Now the two defenders of the opponent were between him and the goal. Even if he dribbled out of the shooting space, a blind shot would only waste the hard-earned offensive opportunity and the efficiency of scoring was not high.

So Wang Li half-turned and knocked the ball to the left, stepped on the ball with his legs several times, passed Popovich, and moved from the right sideline to the bottom line. But at this time, he saw a gap between himself and the small penalty area line, and Drogba was in the large penalty area!

It happened in a flash. While dribbling the ball, Wang Li changed his mind in an instant. He swung his right foot slightly and pushed the ball to the right side. With this force, the ball passed between the legs of Hudson who was defending closely, and then brushed past two Crystal Palace defenders and rolled towards the small penalty area.

'That was a great pass!'

At the same time, all the professional fans in the stadium had this thought in their minds!!

Dawe was so scared that he sat up directly from the bench. He couldn't understand how Chelsea's No. 21, who was not good at "positioning and passing", could kick such a penetrating pass?

It's a bit regrettable that Drogba and Wang Li didn't have a tacit understanding between them. After all, he was not Harrison, and he had very little time to cooperate with Wang Li. He never expected that Wang Li would pass the ball to the front of the goal so suddenly. By the time he reacted, it was too late. The opponent's defender kicked the ball out of the baseline with a big foot.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the team was preparing to take a corner kick, Drogba gave Wang Li a thumbs up, indicating that it was a good ball.

"What a pity, this pass was such a beautiful one." On the Chelsea bench, assistant coach Clark said regretfully.

Mourinho crossed his legs and put his hands together on his knees. After listening to Clark's words, he looked at the black-haired boy who was looking at the corner kick in the penalty area and smiled with satisfaction. "It doesn't matter. The game has just started. There are still many opportunities."

"Jose, how long do you think it will take us to break the deadlock?"

"Maybe soon." Even though Mourinho is very confident in his tactics, scoring goals on the football field is not something that can be achieved with strength and tactics alone. A lot of luck is also required. Even he cannot guarantee that he will score in the first half of the game.

At this time, the big screen in the stadium also cut to the two head coaches on the sidelines. Mourinho's expression seemed to make people feel that victory was in their grasp, which formed a sharp contrast with Dawes anxious expression shouting on the sidelines, making the Crystal Palace fans depressed, thinking, "That coach is worthy of being the most expensive coach in the world. Judging from his performance, he is much better than this 'parallel import'..." It seems that their opinion of Dawes is getting worse and worse.

Mourinho's statement seemed to become the trend of the next game. As the game progressed, Chelsea players gradually regained their form, which made Crystal Palace's defensive task more difficult.

As for Wang Li himself, he also got more opportunities, because after Lampard's pass, his teammates found that Wang Li would always receive the pass unexpectedly, so Wang Li got the ball more and more frequently. Although most of the time, he was just a transit station, but this also made Popovich and Hudson very depressed. Under the defense of the two, this kid was almost not affected at all, and he kept cooperating with his teammates, constantly threatening the Crystal Palace goal.

So what did they do!!!?

What's the point of their close defense from the beginning till now?

The two even felt that they were the most useless people in the room...

(To be continued)