Chapter 295: Empiricism kills people (1)

Stamford Bridge, Fulham, London, England.

In this match between Chelsea and Porto at home, it has entered the 30th minute of the first half and the score is still 1:0, with the home team in front and the away team behind.

Since the 20th minute of the game, when Didier Drogba helped Chelsea score the first goal, the two teams have been going back and forth. Porto relied on a defensive counterattack 433 tactics and was able to fight Chelsea on equal terms in these 10 minutes.

However, anchor Creed Pesvak read the data in his hand, which clearly showed the situation of the two teams in the past ten minutes: "Chelsea's possession rate was 57%, 141 passes, 16 turnovers, 3 shots, and 2 hits on the goal frame."

"…Porto had 43 percent possession, 83 passes, 12 turnovers, 1 shot, and 0 hits on the frame."

Obviously, from a scientific point of view, Chelsea still has an absolute advantage.

In fact, as the offensive core of Chelsea, Wang Li has been adapting to the playing style of the attacking midfielder position in the past 10 minutes, which has caused Chelsea's passing frequency to rise sharply. In 10 minutes, he created two shooting opportunities for his teammates. Unfortunately, the shots of Gudjohnsen and Robben were saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Baya, which also meant that neither team scored a goal in 10 minutes.

Porto's counterattack had no momentum at all. The front general Alberto was tightly guarded and he couldn't run at all. Diego's performance was also unsatisfactory. Now because Chelsea was always attacking, he even participated in the defense in the backcourt.

Porto's young player Ricardo Quaresma has been roaming around the wing, looking for a chance to score, but his eyes are always on Chelsea's No. 21, Wang Li.

Quaresma entered the Sporting Lisbon youth football school at the age of 8 and made his debut from Sporting Lisbon at the age of 18. He inherited the Portuguese style of footwork and was known as the two prides of Lisbon together with C. Ronaldo. However, compared with C. Ronaldo, whose performance was not stable at that time, Quaresma was the absolute core of Sporting Lisbon.

Such outstanding and stable performance also made Barcelona buy him after Figo left. However, in Spain, the slightly immature Quaresma still fell into a continuous slump. In the 22 league games he played for Barcelona, ​​he only scored one goal, which was far from people's expectations. For a long time afterwards, Quaresma could only watch enviously in the national youth team as his little brother Cristiano Ronaldo, who was in Lisbon at that time, went to the Premier League and rose rapidly.

Due to this ups and downs in football, Quaresma worked very hard in training, and he always dreamed of becoming a big star like Luis Figo. Then, at the age of 21, he was sent to Porto by Barcelona in exchange for Deco.

Good and bad things go hand in hand. After returning to the Portuguese league, Quaresma finally gained an absolute main position in Porto with his superior strength.

And now, this Portuguese rising star knows that the opponent's No. 21 player is the strongest in Chelsea, even stronger than his good friend C. Ronaldo in Lisbon. Thinking of this, Quaresma felt a little dissatisfied.

In the first 30 minutes, Wang Li had broken through him five times in a row, but this not only did not discourage Quaresma, but it made him excited. He was planning in his mind to use his gorgeous footwork to make Wang Li play around - if Quaresma found the opportunity, he would definitely get back at him.

On the field, Chelsea got a free kick opportunity, but Wang Li kicked the ball into the left goal post of Porto, causing the on-site commentator of the game, Creed, to exclaim: "The goal post blessed Porto today."

What followed was Porto's counterattack, but this counterattack did not pose any threat to Chelsea. Soon, the ball returned to the feet of Chelsea players.

Frank Lampard was the hub of Chelsea's entire backcourt in this game. Although he could do well in the front midfield position, Mourinho still gave up on him. The most important reason was that his personal ability was not very outstanding, such as his dribbling ability was too poor. However, despite this, in various Chelsea games, Lampard relied on the cooperation with his teammates and performed very well. It can be said that in the team, he, captain Terry, and midfielder Makelele were the most stable players - perhaps, now we can add Wang Li in the frontcourt.

After receiving the ball, Lampard passed it directly to Wang Li. He did this almost every time in this game.

Although everyone in the stadium could see that as time went on, Porto's defense against Wang Li became tighter and tighter, this tightness did not have much impact on Wang Li. After so many games, it can be said that the person Lampard trusts most on the field is the black-haired boy who just joined the team this summer, because he can do almost everything!

Wang Li had just got the ball when Quaresma pressed forward.

Looking at the kid with a Mohawk and a stubborn face in front of him, Wang Li couldn't help but admire him. In this game, he clearly remembered that he had shaken off this kid at least 4 times, and he didn't know how many times he had shaken him off when cooperating with his teammates. In this situation, the Portuguese in front of him was still able to continue to seriously participate in the defense. At least psychologically, he fully met the standards of a successful star.

This time, Wang Li did not choose to break through. He just kicked the ball to his teammate and ran towards the middle, leaving the space for Lampard who had just made a forward run.

At the moment Wang Li passed the ball, Quaresma silently determined in his heart that he must get the ball back this time, and it would be best if he could play 1v1 with the black-haired boy and use his skills to regain his "face" on the court. However, just when he started to run to catch up with Wang Li, Quaresma found that his idea was really wrong. He just took two steps and the moment he looked up, he realized that he was 3 body positions away from the black-haired boy!

Then, Quaresma saw that after the black-haired boy bumped into his teammate Jorge Costa, he did not stop running, but instead made a strange move and flashed past the latter! ! Quaresma was running fast and did not react quickly at all, and he bumped into Costa directly - so Quaresma "huggled" Jorge Costa and fell to the grass together.

This funny scene caused the Chelsea fans in the stands to burst into laughter. They were all laughing at the Porto players' arrogance and the fact that they wanted to follow the dance master's footsteps on the court.

Immediately, the Blues fans' eyes left the two Porto youngsters who had just gotten up from the grass and were spitting saliva unclearly from their mouths, because the game was not over at all. When Wang Li ran to the penalty area line, he received a through pass from Damien Duff.

"Chance!!"

Everyone in the stadium was watching the ball. The Blues fans knew that this position was within Wang Li's shooting range. As long as he found a good opportunity and shot, the possibility of scoring was very high. They were all looking forward to this scene.

However, the Porto defender next to him had the exact opposite idea in his mind.

In the first 30 minutes of the game, the black-haired boy's choice at this point was almost always to pass the ball to Lampard, Gudjohnsen or Drogba. Therefore, the moment Wang Li received the ball, all the players in Porto's backcourt except Pepe hurried to intensify the defense against other Chelsea players.

Indeed, this approach made Wang Li even dazed for a moment. He was certainly not at a loss, but he couldn't understand why these Porto players didn't come to stop him from shooting! ?

But no matter what the reason, at least he has a chance now!

Wang Li curled his lips, and moved the ball to the left with his right foot. He followed the ball and adjusted his posture. After two steps, he turned around and swung his leg to shoot! ! Pepe next to him didn't react at all. Until this moment, he was still observing other Chelsea players, wondering who Wang Li would pass the ball to! ?

I have to say, empiricism kills people! !

Under the gaze of all the fans in the stadium and the annoyed eyes of the Porto players next to them, the football almost drew a straight line in the air and flew directly into the blind corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Baya was stunned and obviously helpless. He could only jump to the left symbolically but failed to block anything.

"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!" Seeing that the black-haired boy on the field finally scored a goal, Creed couldn't help but roared wildly, and his voice was even a little hoarse at the end. After reacting, he hurriedly picked up a bottle of mineral water on the table and drank it - "...goal!! Goal!! Dance master, Alan Wang's goal!! A precise long shot, straight into the blind corner of the goal, the opponent's goalkeeper was helpless!! This is Alan, our dance master, his long shot is really a unique skill!!"

"... Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay on the big screen. Oh my god, this kick was so accurate. I don't know how Alan developed such an accurate long-range shot. This ability of his always brings goals to Chelsea."

"...In the 35th minute of the first half, Alan Wang's long-range shot scored another goal for Chelsea. The score is now 2:0. From here, I even know that today's game will definitely be a big win. Even though the great Mr. Mourinho has announced the lineup before the game, it seems that these Portuguese people are still helpless. This is the gap in strength..."

Just after Chelsea scored a goal, Mr. Fernandez heard Creed's sarcastic voice, which made him extremely unhappy. For the first time in his life, he regretted why he wanted to learn English. If he couldn't understand these words, he might just think of it as a fly buzzing in his ear. But now he could only cover his ears with his hands and endure this torment helplessly.

After scoring the goal, Wang Li ran directly to a camera near the corner flagpole without waiting for his teammates to come and celebrate. He made a kissing gesture with a smile on his face, which made all the reporters nearby excited.

Obviously, combined with what Wang Li said before the game, the meaning of his gesture is obvious.

It is said that the French are romantic, but the English are not much different. Many media reporters are already thinking about writing a romantic story about a prince and a princess tomorrow to attract the attention of fans. There is no doubt that this black-haired boy has become the prince charming in the hearts of many English girls. He is young, handsome, rich, has a bright future and is romantic. The halo that attracts many men makes many single reporters jealous of Princess Angela of the royal family.

Chelsea 2:0 Porto.

After seeing Wang Li score the second goal, Mourinho on the bench breathed a sigh of relief. Although he vowed that Chelsea would definitely win, and even declared with fanfare that this game would be an absolute victory, he was actually still a little afraid of losing the game psychologically. But now that the team is leading 2:0, he can finally put his mind at ease.

………If the Porto players were still calm when they were one goal behind, now that they were two goals behind, everyone became anxious. They flew to London from Portugal with the hope of winning, but the current score seemed to tell them that the team was about to fail.

This is certainly unacceptable to the Porto players.

Even though the head coach did not make any major changes on the spot, Porto still launched several large-scale attacks under the command of the captain on the field. Seeing this, Mr. Fernandes did not say much. In fact, in this situation, Porto could only attack. If they could score a goal in the offense, it would definitely be helpful for the second half of the game. Being behind by one goal and being behind by two goals are definitely not the same concept in their minds.

At this moment, the Spaniard was still feeling quite fortunate, this 433 formation was the formation Mourinho used in Porto last season. After the Spaniard came to Porto, he only made slight changes to it, and the results in the league also proved that it is indeed very suitable for Porto. This formation change is very diverse, it can be a zone defense-style defensive counterattack formation, or it can be changed to an offensive formation by pulling forward the midfield to form a diamond formation. In this way, there is only a small adjustment between offense and defense.

Of course, this lineup also has its disadvantages, that is, it requires very high abilities from the players. If it is an ordinary small team, it is impossible to use this formation even if the coach is very good.

After Porto started the attack, Chelsea began to defend tightly. As the captain of the team, John Terry's on-the-spot command ability is absolutely good. He hurriedly called on several midfielders to retreat to stabilize their formation.

In the 39th minute, Ricardo Quaresma cut into the wing and Sitaridis made a long pass from the backcourt. The ball flew over Wang Li's head and landed in front of Quaresma. It must be said that this long pass was very accurate. Even Wang Li couldn't help but give a thumbs up when he saw this scene.

After Quaresma got the ball, he turned around to protect it and left William Gallas who was following him behind. Facing Wayne Bridge's double-team interception, he quickly poked the ball to Leal with his heel, then turned to the left and just received the pass from Leal.

These actions were completed in one go, showing Quaresma's outstanding personal ability, which also excited the almost silent Porto fans.

However, this was not the end. After receiving the pass, Quaresma looked up at the penalty area and then made a precise pass. The Chelsea defenders in the penalty area had no time to react, which caused the ball to fly directly past Carvalho and Terry.

At this time, Postiga and Diego happened to be on the other side of the penalty area. Unfortunately, the two people who followed up did not react in time and let the ball go over the bottom line.

After seeing this scene, Mr. Fernandez on the sidelines rubbed his forehead with regret. This opportunity was really the best chance in the first half. If this ball could be scored, the rest of the game would be much easier.

'It would be nice if it was Alberto. ' The Spaniard couldn't help but think, and then turned his head to look at the bench, and a young man with brown skin and short hair came into his sight. Mr. Fernandez held his chin with one hand and thought, 'Should I give him a chance? '

………Chelsea’s counterattack failed to result in a goal, as Arjen Robben was directly intercepted by the opponent’s defender on the wing.

Areas got the ball in the middle and after several cooperations with Diego, he passed the ball to Maniche on the wing. Maniche was the hero of Porto's treble last season. His strength is unquestionable and his footwork is very precise. Facing the incoming ball, he kicked it directly into the penalty area and the football fell right towards Alberto's point.

This season, Porto's dozen games have proved that only Alberto is the most trustworthy striker.

However, this time Alberto failed to fight. He was stuck in the penalty area by Chelsea captain Terry and was completely unable to do anything with the ball. In the end, the ball was kicked out of the sideline by Bridge, resolving Chelsea's defensive crisis.

In the past few minutes of the game, two goal crises made the Blues fans nervous, but fortunately, the score has not changed much and Chelsea is still leading by two goals. Everyone knows that as long as Chelsea enters the second half with a two-goal advantage, Porto will have little hope of winning.

Fernandes was of course also very clear that it was almost an impossible task for Porto to equalize the score in the second half when they were two goals behind, after all, this was Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's territory.

So, the Spaniard stood anxiously on the sidelines, shouting and directing the team's attack. Under this command, the morale of the Porto players seemed to be somewhat boosted, and they reorganized the attack every time they failed.

But the first effort is strong, the second becomes weaker, and the third is exhausted.

The same was true for Porto's attack. When they attacked again, the ball was intercepted by Chelsea just after crossing the center line, followed by Chelsea's counterattack.

………

(To be continued)