Chapter 350 Chelsea's Attack (1)

On this day, almost all the English media gathered at Stamford Bridge, and there were also many foreign media who came to the scene to "spy on the situation" for the European Champions League. Chelsea and Manchester United are undoubtedly the teams that are likely to perform well in the Champions League. Before the start of the Champions League final, the direct collision between these two teams does have a very deep pre-war analysis reference significance for the collision between some top clubs and them.

All English media know that Chelsea has set its goal for this season on the 'quadruple crown', so it is almost impossible for them to give up the League Cup, and Manchester United will definitely strive for a useless championship like the League Cup if they have no hope of winning the league title.

Therefore, this game will almost certainly be as intense as a collision between Mars and the Earth.

Before the game, there was already enough news and information about the two teams, but as the game approached, all of this news, comments, and analysis almost disappeared. The focus of everyone's attention was no longer on gossip, but on the actual clash, such as what kind of lineups the two head coaches would arrange, whether all the main players of both teams would be able to play, etc.

At the pre-match press conference, both Mourinho and Ferguson behaved very calmly. They only participated symbolically and officially, talked about their views on the game and the current situation of the team, and then returned to the locker room to do their work with their players. From this, we can also see that these two big-name head coaches are still a little nervous about the game. Their desire for victory is unquestionable. Although this is only the first round of confrontation, both teams are still doing it very seriously.

As the game approached, Stamford Bridge was already full, most of whom were fans of the Blues, and there were more than 3,000 fans of the Red Devils. Of course, compared with the number of Blues fans, the Red Devils fans were very scarce, and they were just arranged in a corner in the northeast direction.

At this time, outside the stadium, there are still many loyal fans waiting outside the stadium, looking for any possible opportunity to buy tickets. Some fans even hold up "Buy Tickets" signs, hoping to be lucky enough to meet scalpers who have not sold their tickets or fans who have something urgent to do and want to refund their tickets.

However, this waiting is doomed to be in vain.

Tickets for this game were in such short supply that many people were unable to buy tickets a week in advance, and those tickets that were reserved for sale before the game were sold out as soon as they were released.

At 4:25 pm, players from both teams had already entered the stadium. At this time, the official commentator of Stamford Bridge, Creed Pesvak, began to introduce the players of both teams:

"John Terry"

At this time, many Blues fans in the stands had not yet entered the state of watching the game, but when they heard the name of the Chelsea captain, they all cheered in unison. This shows that Terry's pure manly fighting spirit and strength in playing in the Premier League for Chelsea over the years have won him a great reputation among the fans.

"Alan Wang"

“Ah~~~Buzz~~~~~”

However, although Terry has been at Chelsea for many years and is still the team's captain, judging from the cheers from the Blues fans, he still has some gap compared to Wang Li, who has only played for Chelsea for half a season.

It's not the fans' fault for being a little paranoid. Forwards are naturally more likely to win more reputation and fame than defenders because they can always score goals. What's more, Wang Li has scored too many goals this season, making it very difficult for him not to shine. He even has a group of extremely loyal "Ai fans" now. These fans have a deep-rooted belief that as long as Wang Li plays, the team will definitely win.

I have to say, this seems a bit paranoid, but at least until now, Chelsea has no losing record.

After the players of both teams entered the field, Chelsea captain Terry and the opposing team captain Giggs went to flip a coin. Terry guessed correctly and chose the right to pick sides, so Manchester United had the right to kick off.

In fact, the styles of Manchester United and Chelsea are not much different. Both are teams that focus more on defense than offense. Since many of the English players are physical, the two teams have more or less English style. For these teams, it doesn't make much difference who kicks off first or later.

After the coin toss was over, the players from both teams took their positions and waited for the game to begin.

As the soul of the team, no matter where Wang Li stands, he can attract most people's attention.

This is the scene on the court now. When the players of both teams took their positions on the court waiting for the kick-off, almost all the Manchester United players turned their eyes to Wang Li who was standing at the back of the center circle. Their eyes contained envy, jealousy, fighting spirit, etc., but all of them were directed at Wang Li. Undoubtedly, as the media said, if Manchester United wants to beat Chelsea, they must limit Wang Li's performance - a striker player has received 'special care' from the entire Manchester United team and also received tactical defense from the opposing head coach. This can almost be said to be an honor.

No matter what Ferguson said to the Manchester United players, it can be seen from this point that Manchester United will definitely not give up easily.

As the offensive core of the team, Wang Li's position is behind the two forwards, but this does not mean that he must be a central midfielder who is mainly responsible for passing the fatal ball, or the core responsible for organizing the offense. In fact, in Mourinho's tactics, Wang Li has been given the largest free movement area.

In this game, Manchester United lined up in a 451 formation. As the winter games progressed, Manchester United's bench depth could hardly support such consumption. So the team's most valuable young player Rooney was arranged to play on the right winger in this game. He and Cristiano Ronaldo formed a double forward to attack Chelsea's defense.

The other players in the midfield are captain Roy Keane, Scholes and Fletcher. Saha, who has just returned from injury, is the lone striker at the front of the team. The defenders are Phil Neville, Brown, Sylvester and Heinze. The goalkeeper is still the 26-year-old Howard.

At this time, French striker Louis Saha and team captain Roy Keane were standing in the center circle. Saha was standing with the football under his feet, waiting for the referee's whistle.

However, the two men's eyes were fixed on the feet of the black-haired boy on the opposite side. Before the game, Ferguson emphasized to them that they must not easily choose to force past Wang Li's defense. The old Sir studied a lot of Chelsea's game videos and finally found that although Chelsea's No. 21 rarely participated in defense, his efficiency in stealing was very high. As an experienced head coach, he would pay more attention to this, but he could not understand why Wang Li had such defensive strength but rarely participated in the team's defense---

How could he know that the reason why Wang Li did this was more because he liked to attack.

Looking at Chelsea on the other hand, they arranged a 4231 formation, and Wang Li was placed in the middle of the '3', which is a somewhat ambiguous position between the shadow striker and the attacking midfielder.

Originally, Chelsea had two left-footed players on the wing, Arjen Robben and Damien Duff, and both of them were good at cutting inside. They cooperated very well with each other. In the eyes of many people, it would be better to change this formation to 4321. Wang Li's position was even a bit redundant, and it also caused the team's defensive strength to decline.

But in fact, although Wang Li was arranged in that awkward position, generally speaking, he would always choose to stand in the front of the center circle, so this formation can be said to be a 42121 formation. As the offensive core of the team, Wang Li was truly arranged at the core of the formation. In this way, with the protection of a "circle" of teammates in the offense, Wang Li would have many more choices and naturally less pressure. This is also an improvement of Mourinho's "zone offensive tactics."

In this game, Icelander Eidur Gudjohnsson was placed on the bench and Drogba returned to the pitch. Although Drogba was at a disadvantage in the competition with Gudjohnsson in the previous game, Mourinho still chose him for this important game, which shows that his position in Chelsea is still very stable.

The second goalkeeper Thomas Clarke also stood on the court. From this we can see that the competition for Thomas among various giants in the winter transfer window did play some role in his position in Mourinho's heart. Thomas, who was pre-purchased by so many giants, has unquestionable strength. Therefore, Mourinho must also observe through major competitions to determine whether to choose Thomas or Cech.

双后腰仍然是弗兰克.兰帕德和克劳德.马克莱莱，或许在切尔西队，也只有这个位置的主力球员才是最稳固的，这两人几乎无可替代，就算有其他竞争者，也只能在主教练安排其他战术的时候，和他们并列上场而已。

最后，后卫依次是格伦.约翰逊、约翰.特里、威廉姆.加拉斯以及保罗.费雷拉。

被媒体抨击为最大‘水货’的蒂亚戈.门德斯依然没有上场机会，这场比赛里他甚至没能进去球队的大名单，而里卡多.卡瓦略也是因伤病错过了这么重要的比赛，不得不说，这绝对是有些遗憾的。

仅仅看两支球队的阵容就会知道，对这场比赛，无论是曼联还是切尔西都是势在必得的，两队都是主力尽遣，都想争取在第一轮的较量中来确定绝对的优势。

对这场比赛，东方古国的朝廷电视台也有现场直播，在遥远的东方，还是有很多曼联和切尔西的球迷的。

如果说在一年以前，由于曼联在近年来的中国计划，使得曼联球迷数量远远高于切尔西球迷的话，但现在，由于有一半儿中国血统的王利的强势表现，以及切尔西几乎无人能挡的成绩，支持切尔西的球迷数量急剧增加起来，虽然这并不能给切尔西俱乐部增加多少人气收入，但却也能体现出一种无形的人气了。

在比赛之前的20几分钟的时间里，电视机的画面就已经切换到了斯坦福桥球场，那种欧洲式球迷的疯狂，以及‘有组织、有纪律’的加油助威表现确实能给人们带来不少震撼与憧憬。而现场解说员和嘉宾章指导，也就双方的首发名单做出了分析。

章指导认为弗格森爵士排出5中场的意图很明显，就是为了遏制王利的发挥。现在王利是切尔西的进攻核心，并且也是进球最多的球员，只要想要获得比赛胜利，进军联赛杯的决赛，就必然要冻结王利的表现，这是所有足球专业人士的共识。

但说是一回事儿，做又是一回事儿。

王利的个人技术毋庸置疑，在加上随着联赛的进行，他的战术视角、比赛经验等方面能力的增加，和队友之间的配合也越来越默契，想要冻结这种从各个方面都做得非常不错，并且个人技术一流的球员，确实不是件容易的事儿。所以，曼联队只能增加中场球员的数量，以这些大牌球星的数量，来控制比赛区域，对王利进行人海般的封锁，来达到抑制他表现的目的，这也是没有选择的选择。

不过，到底有没有效果，还要真正的比赛来证明的。

在主裁判鸣哨示意开球的时候，解说员还在查阅手里两队最近相关的资料，但是章指导却已经把目光放在了屏幕上，作为一个东方古国少有的足球界专业人士，他知道比赛什么都有可能发生，千万不能因为只是刚刚开始就疏忽，那很可能错过精彩的画面。

章指导的选择是非常正确的。

开球之后，路易斯.萨哈把球推给了旁边的队长罗伊.基恩，后者用脚后跟把球传给了弗莱彻。

作为苏格兰冉冉升起的一颗新星，弗莱彻早在15岁那年就加入了曼联青年队，并且在那场和伍尔弗汉普顿青年队的较量中，他也上场了，在他的印象中，切尔西的黑发小子只是一个会‘杂耍’并且不会和队友配合的球员而已，对那场比赛的失败，弗莱彻一直耿耿于怀，并且非常不甘心。

而这位苏格兰新星几乎是和王利一起登上的英超赛场，但现在两人的身价几乎不可以道理计。

这让一直被誉为‘天才’的弗莱彻非常不甘心，每当看到王利的身影，嫉妒、不屑、不甘等情绪就充斥了他的头脑，而在赛前主教练弗格森又重点强调说‘面对艾伦的防守，最好和队友做配合，不要强过’，这使得弗莱彻有一种想要试试的冲动。

现在，他刚刚20岁出头，年轻人都是有冲动的，有这种想法确实不足为奇，而这种单对单的机会马上就来到了。

在比赛开始后，两队前锋交错往对方前场跑，由于足球控制在曼联队的脚下，切尔西也只有王利和德罗巴两人缓缓朝曼联队半场跑动而已，但这已经足够了，王利从中路的跑动路线正好经过弗莱彻身边---

“斯蒂芬传球”

当看到对方那个黑发小子就要游弋到弗莱彻身边的时候，曼联队长罗伊.基恩马上大喊的提醒他传球。

可是，弗莱彻确实想试试，这不仅仅是想要一对一的单挑，更是为自己树立信心的方法。

他先是很稳重的把球往身边拉了拉，旋即从王利跑动方向的斜侧一方急速变向，同时身体强力的一扭，想要以这种突然性的方式越过王利的防守。

如果对方是一个一般的球员，这种方式过人基本都不会反应过来，但他却用错了目标。

就在刚才，听到对方队长的喊声，王利确实以为眼前这个小子一定会传球了，于是，他只是象征性的减缓一下动作，打算吓吓他，然后就朝前场跑了，可他却没有想到对方居然没听从指挥，选择了强过。

虽然有些惊讶，但看到机会，王利还是条件发射般第一时间用出了‘如影随形腿’，这几乎是足球场上外挂般的抢断招式，直接使得他的右腿左伸，一脚把弗莱彻脚下的球踢到了旁边，而后身体有些不平衡的在原地向前跑了两下。

弗莱彻被这个抢断吓得愣住了，他转头看到对方的黑人大汉接住球后，愣了半天才反应过来自己丢球了，来不急懊恼自己不听从主教练的话而犯错，他转身就朝回跑，参与球队的防守。

是的，刚刚跑过中线的德罗巴，正好接到了球。

面对这个天降般的足球，德罗巴都有些不敢相信，不过反应过来以后，他还是一脚斜传给了后方的兰帕德。

场上局势瞬间转变，切尔西由防守一方，变成了进攻一方。

王利在断球以后，并没有去和队友要球，而是继续缓缓的朝曼联半场跑去，不时寻找着好位置接球。千万不要以为切尔西在原来的比赛里一直狂轰滥炸，就觉得切尔西是偏重于进攻的球队，事实上，切尔西的进攻打的都很稳重。

这种稳重不同于西班牙式的‘磨蹭’，也不同于阿森纳的全攻全守，而是一种阵地战式的缓缓推进，虽然有王利在的切尔西，快速反击才是最犀利的，但现在没有那支球队会傻到给切尔西这种机会。

很快，足球在切尔西后场传递几次以后，看到前场球员都跑到了自己的位置，威廉姆.加拉斯突然的一次斜传，开启了切尔西进攻的大幕。

与此同时，刚沾一次球的王利就呆在中线靠前一点儿的位置上，他并没有往回跑找队友要求，只是呆在那里，不断和贴身防守自己的球员争着位置，这种感觉就好像是在争抢头球一般，可实际上，足球还没有过中线。

当边路上的达米恩.达夫一脚把球斜传给他的时候，王利马上迈起凌波微步，在旁边菲尔.内维尔没反应过来的时候，就上前接到了传球，之后他一个变相晃开菲尔的抢断，然后抬眼看了看禁区方向，做了一个大脚抽射的姿势，吓得满脸门将霍华德紧张不已。

不过，王利并没有射门，这个点距离球门还太远，他没有把握能把球射进，所以用这个动作晃开拦截的西尔维斯特之后，他一脚长传，把球交到了左路，而后马上启动朝禁区里跑去。

左路上，罗本接球后，并没有理会迎来的曼联防守球员，而是一个大脚把球吊向了曼联大禁区。

正好跑到点上的王利，直接跃到空中，用后脑勺在球边一擦，足球准确的朝后点落去---

那里是已经蓄势待发的迪迪埃.德罗巴

这头科特迪瓦魔兽，迎着飞下来的球毫不犹豫的选择了抽射，这个动作吓得几千来到斯坦福桥的红魔球迷半数从看台上站了起来，而场边的弗格森也坐不住了，他双眼紧盯着己方的大禁区，从教练席上直接站了起来，那种干净利落的动作，实在让人很难看出这是一位60几岁的老人

“德罗巴射门?”

但这脚球没能抽中力道，足球被德罗巴踢的有些低，但还是直窜球门的左角，门将霍华德根本还站在右侧

幸好，刚刚续约的后场大将里奥.费迪南德反应迅速，他条件反射般的伸脚踢中了足球，使得球直接飞出了底线。

场边的弗格森长处了一口气，半唔着心脏缓缓坐了下去，而全场蓝军球迷的庆祝声也是噶然而止。

"Robben passed the ball, Wang Li headed it, and Drogba shot. Oops, the ball was kicked out of the baseline by Ferdinand." At the same time, Coach Zhang's voice was heard from the Chaoting Sports TV station. The commentator next to him raised his head from the information when he heard the voice. It was obvious that this commentator was a football blind man, and had reached a very unprofessional level.

"… Well… We can see that one minute into the game, Chelsea had already seized the ball, and then launched a steady offensive, which directly threatened Manchester United's goal. It can be said that Chelsea's players performed very well in the game, and Manchester United seemed to be in crisis…"

After reacting, the commentator finally started to nag non-stop, but in fact, he didn't see the shot at all.

Corner Kick

"Just over two minutes into the game, Chelsea had a very threatening shot and also got a corner kick opportunity. If the game continues like this, Manchester United will be in danger."