132 Head-to-head
132 Trouble
The match was scheduled to be held at the Lassonda Stadium in Solna, the northern satellite city of Stockholm, at night.
Although it is early summer, the climate here is still a bit cold, because the temperature difference between day and night in summer is relatively large, which was discovered only after Yang Cheng and his team arrived in Stockholm.
In addition, the night is very bright here. I heard that even at around 10 o'clock in the evening, you can still see the afterglow of the sun in the sky, and the whole sky is still very eye-catching. Therefore, many people call Stockholm a city that does not set.
Yang Cheng stood in front of the visiting team coach's seat at Lassonda Stadium, raised his head and looked at the sky. Under the bright lights of the stadium, the sky seemed dim. I believe that if it was outside, it would be equivalent to the time when the sun had just set in other places.
Since UEFA expanded its Champions League, the influence of the Winners Cup has been declining day by day, and it has recovered last season. After all, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool and other giants have participated, so their influence has been pushed up again, but this season has declined a lot.
Kaiserslautern has reached the finals without any danger!
However, Viali's Chelsea team is not weak. Although Yang Cheng is well prepared, he is still a little nervous. The reason is that the guy who looks fierce in the opponent's team.
Dennis Wise!
English football has always advocated tenacious fighting spirit and bloody confrontation, so what is most lacking in this country are those players with tenacious style and even fierce and dirty style, and Dennis Wise is the best among them.
The three evil men who helped Wimbledon back then, Dennis Wise, Winnie Jones and John Fasanu, were all famous human weapons in the Premier League, but now they all have their own things. Dennis Wise has become the captain of Chelsea and is also known as the core figure of this Chelsea team.
Although Dennis Wise is only 1.68 meters tall and is a small player, he is a not simple little man. If he is not careful, he may even be eaten alive by him.
But Yang Cheng is still very confident in this game, because since Chelsea suddenly announced that Gulite was dismissed in February and Viali served as the player and head coach, the team has never won a goal outside the Stamford Bridge Stadium. What does this prove?
Also, in the starting lineup of this game, Viali and Flo form a double striker!
The Chelsea team seems to have an obsession element of players and coaches. The previous Gulit to Viali are all from the path of players and head coaches.
The biggest limitation of a player and coach is his control over the situation. There is a saying that he doesn’t know the true face of Mount Lu because he is here!
The authorities are so enchanted!
"This game will be a midfielder vs. midfielder!" Yang Cheng said with great certainty.
Gulite advocates sexy football. Viali inherited this after taking office. After all, the time is still very short, and he suddenly took over the middle and couldn't change anything for him.
However, Chelsea's midfielders are all good at attacking and defending, including Petrascu, Di Matteo, Dennis Wise and Poyette. Among them, Petrascu is a full-back, but this season is always used as a wing forward, which is to use his defensive ability on the wing.
"It's probably going to be very difficult!" Paul Bayer also said with a serious look on his face.
If we look at it simply by abilities, Kaiserslautern will definitely beat his opponents except for the defense, but Chelsea's midfield is not just about strength, but also their style.
After Yang Cheng came to this world, after these years, he had already understood one thing, that is, some of the judgments in 2011 were inaccurate.
For example, in this Chelsea team, everyone says that Gulit's Chelsea plays very sexy, but in fact, there are many violent players like Dennis Wise, and players like Petrascu, Di Matteo and others are also very active.
Also, many people think of Arsenal in Wenger, who will say that they are unrestrained, fluent and elegant. In fact, that is one of them. On the other hand, Wenger's team has been criticized by Premier League media as a red card team all day long. From the time they entered Arsenal in October 1996 to the present, Wenger's team has won a total of 13 red cards.
As the head coach of a team, Yang Cheng cannot only look at Arsenal's offense and not their red cards. The same is true for Chelsea. He not only needs to see Chelsea's smooth offense, but also see their roughness in defense.
"Don't worry, Paul, we have never been the kind of soft persimmon that cannot withstand the toss and troubles!" Yang Cheng looked confident.
Nedved, Barack, and Gattuso, with these three strong midfielders present, Chelsea's midfielder will definitely not get any advantage. On the other hand, Yang Cheng's tactics are very clear, he will fight head-on and swallow Chelsea directly!
Capital TV received the live broadcast signal late, so they specially inserted a short section of Stockholm scenery, some beautiful scenes that made people pleasing to the eye.
When the screen appears, the players on both sides have already appeared in the court, lined up and ready to kick off.
"I will first introduce the starting lineups of both sides in this game. First, the starting lineup from Kaiserslautern, the goalkeeper is Reinke, the defense line is Lucio, Kyle and Kosch, the midfield is Peron and Gattuso playing the drag-back center forward, Nedved playing the left winger, Barack playing the front midfielder, Schneider playing the right winger, and Fanny and Denilson on the forward line are."
"The referee blew the whistle of the game, and Kaiserslautern was the first to serve. They immediately organized a wave of attacks... Hey, the foul was made, the referee blew the whistle, the foul!"
"It's Chelsea's No. 2, called...Petrascu, who fouled Schneider. This was a tackle with a relatively large action. Schneider was directly tackled to the ground, but the referee only awarded Kaiserslautern an indirect free kick without playing."
"This should be considered a test of Chelsea's law enforcement standards for the referees in this game!" Huang Jianxiang, responsible for commentator, is a football commentator who has shown many faces on Capital TV. He is a fan and has rich experience.
"Kaisslautern's free kick was directly sent to the penalty area. Lucio inserted it in the back row and headed the ball, which was tilted under the interference of Leboff!"
"De Huye sent the goal, and Kyle stopped the ball steadily and passed it to Bellon. The latter passed the ball back and forth several times on the left and handed it to Barack. The foul was Dennis Wise's obvious pull-up move. Kaiserslautern missed an offensive opportunity, but got a free kick opportunity about 40 meters away!"
"It's obvious that Chelsea's tactic is to use fouls to disrupt Kaiserslautern's offense. In addition, the referee's law enforcement standards are a little soft, so their movements are a bit big. It is obviously to scare Kaiserslautern's players so that they can't play their strength. This is a common trick in professional games. I hope Kaiserslautern will not be fooled by them!"
Yang Cheng also noticed this on the sidelines. When he saw Chelsea's defensive moves being applied to his players again and again, he shook his head and sighed: "This referee is relatively soft!"
Paul Bayer also realized this. If the law enforcement standards are too soft, it will be more beneficial to Chelsea's tactics.
After thinking about it, Yang Cheng walked directly to the sidelines and made a series of command actions towards the players on the field, especially against captain Barack, which made him more tough.
Sure enough, when Chelsea fouls next time, Barack rushed up as the captain and directly put pressure on the referee, believing that Chelsea's foul tactics should be punished, but Chelsea's players are not to be outdone, especially Dennis Wise, who even went forward and angrily accused Barack of misleading the referee.
Both captains were a little angry and stared at each other disliked each other, but the referee was obviously aware of Chelsea's problems. Although they did not have too many fouls, they kept making small moves, and some tackles and steals were indeed too big, so he showed a yellow card to Di Matteo, who committed this foul.
Dennis Wise looked indignant and stared at Barack. The latter stared at him without being outdone. Then he saw the shorter Wise pointing at Barack intimidatingly, as if warning the Germans to be careful.
When Yang Cheng saw this scene, he was secretly annoyed. If the most troublesome thing on the football field is, in addition to the Iron Barrel Formation, he is just a stubborn style, or even a dirty team.
"Press up!" Yang Cheng thought for a while, and put aside other issues and scored first. After all, 20 minutes have passed, so it is not a solution to continue to drag on it.
With the command of the head coach, Kaiserslautern's offensive gradually became fierce. Although Chelsea had good control skills, it was in the Premier League. Facing Kaiserslautern, facing Peilon, Schneider, the midfield ball control combination, plus Nedved, Barack and Gattuso, Denilson in front and Kyle in the back, they had no hope at all.
After Kaiserslautern's offensive started, Chelsea's defense suddenly became twilight.
But just when Kaiserslautern attacked, the ball was passed to Schneider, who pulled out of the gap on the right, and the Germans were ready to get the ball, but at this moment, Dennis Wise rushed directly to Schneider with a sliding tackle that showed the soles of the feet.
"Oh, it's dangerous!" Even the commentator Huang Jianxiang, who was watching the live broadcast, was shocked.
"Denis Wise's shoveling action this time was too big. Fortunately, Schneider reacted quickly enough and turned around to avoid it in time. Although he lost the ball, he was not injured. This should be an action to give the card!"
Yang Cheng was also very annoyed when he watched the game and rushed to the sidelines, "Hey, sir, is it dangerous for you to see his movements? Do you think this movement should appear on the court?"
"I'm sorry, sir, the referee thinks it's okay!" said the lineman perfunctorily.
"Is this a football game? Or a wrestling field?" Yang Cheng complained and walked back.
As if stimulated by Dennis Wise, Chelsea's players also increased their movements in the following directions, especially when facing some 50-5-point balls, almost every one was fighting like a chicken blood, and they were having a lot of fun. Every time, it seemed like they wanted to knock the Kaiserslautern's players to the ground.
Seeing the opponent's fierce behavior, Kaiserslautern's players were really frightened at this time. The offensive stopped, which made Yang Cheng feel very angry on the sidelines.
"Since you are going to be tough, then come!" Yang Cheng made up his mind and made a gesture to the players on the court.
"What are you looking at, Italian?"
After tackled Denilson's dribbling ball with a dangerous release, even knocking the Brazilian over to the ground, Dennis Wise walked back proudly and shouted arrogantly as he passed by Gattuso.
To put it nicely, this little man's performance on the court is tenacious, and to put it badly, it is violence.
It’s not that he injured anyone, but that almost every move he made had a very obvious intention to hurt people, especially in defense and scramble, elbows, pulling, hooking their feet... Not only him, but also Chelsea’s movements are emerging one after another.
This is because they are not as skilled as others, so they have to use this method!
Gattuso noticed Yang Cheng's gesture and knew that the head coach had already tolerated it, so he became gloomy, with his wolf-like eyes looking for opportunities everywhere.
Not only him, but the entire Kaiserslautern!
Soon, Gattuso found the target, Boyet, the Chelsea's offensive core. As soon as he got the ball, Gattuso immediately broke the ball from his feet with a dangerous slip. If he hadn't reacted quickly and jumped up, this kick could almost be said to be a slippery shovel that chased his ankle and would definitely not have fallen to the ground.
After getting the ball, he quickly handed it to Perron, who launched a counterattack.
The sudden counterattack was the most test. Kaiserslautern's counterattack was very fast. He passed two or three passes to Chelsea's penalty area. Denilson retreated to get the ball and faced Dennis Wise directly. A retaliatory fancy bicycle-taking action directly shook the opponent away and sent the ball into the penalty area. Fanny stabbed the ball into the goal guarded by Dehuye before Dubery and Leboff.
0:1!
"The ball has entered! Dutch center Van Nistruy scored the first record for Kaiserslautern in the 33rd minute!"
"This is a sharp and precise counterattack. From Gattuso's interception, to Belon's pass, to Barack's oblique knock, the whole process was very fast and it was completed almost in the blink of an eye. Chelsea's defense was not organized at all."
"Vialy seemed very upset. She kept saying something to her teammates and players. She should be warning them not to always consider fouls, which would distract them because Chelsea had a lot of fouls throughout the first half, and they almost used fouls to stop Kaiserslautern from attacking!"
Huang Jianxiang's jokes were aligned with the cheers of the Kaiserslautern fans at the scene, and the players celebrated Fanny's goal.
Not only the goal-scoring hero Fanny, but also all Kaiserslautern players such as Gattuso, Peron, Nedved, Barack, etc. joined the goal celebration, and even carried a little provocation.
"This goal has a huge blow to Chelsea's morale, because they were passive throughout the game, but at least they did not concede the ball. But now Fanny's goal has allowed Kaiserslautern to take the lead, which seems to be a slap in the face, making them understand that even if they use foul tactics, they still cannot stop Kaiserslautern!"
Looking at the teammates beside him pulling their heads one by one, Kaiserslautern seemed to be full of morale. Dennis Wise felt a lot of fire in his heart. He was absolutely unwilling to fail like this. He hated and hated failure!
But Dennis Wise is not the kind of guy who roars at his teammates at any time. He likes to take practical actions.
So he quickly found an opportunity. Seeing that the opponent's core organization Bellon was getting the ball and was about to go forward, he went straight to meet him. Bellon obviously did not expect the opponent to use this head-on defense method. He was shocked, but he could no longer hold it back.
When Dennis Wise deliberately met Veron who was running forward at high speed, he turned his back to Peron, and then knocked the Argentinian to the ground. He was knocked to death and fell to the ground and screamed.
"Hey, stop pretending!" Dennis Wise looked innocent and opened his arms, as if telling everyone that he was fine, how could he be fine?
Barack and Nedved, not far away, reacted immediately. The two rushed forward immediately, pulled away Dennis Wise who wanted to get close to Perron, and pointed at each other hard, "Don't pretend, you bastard!"
"What did you say?" Dennis Wise was also angry.
Barack pushed up without any hesitation. Almost both of them kowtowed and shouted word by word: "You are just a bastard!"
Dennis Wise was furious and wanted to take action, but Nedved, who was standing beside him, rushed forward and directly knocked away Dennis Wise, "Do you want to take action?"
Seeing two burly men stopping him, Dennis Wise shrugged and made a face. His purpose has been achieved, and it doesn't matter!
Yang Cheng was so angry that he watched on the sidelines. He could understand Chelsea's desire to win, and he also understood that if he was not as good as others, he had to use fighting spirit to make up for it, but he should not use this kind of barbaric and rough style, which was a destruction of football!
Just like Gattuso, although he is known as a butcher and is very tough and entangled, he almost never uses the kind of foul action that aims to hurt people. Therefore, although he has many yellow cards, he has not been directly sent off with a red card so far.
Veron was not injured, but was hit very hard. After the team doctor's diagnosis and help, he recovered soon. However, the players on both sides of the game obviously began to become full of gunpowder, especially in the midfield, Barack, Nedved and Gattuso frequently knocked over Chelsea players in order to retaliate, and the Chelsea players were not to be outdone, especially Dennis Wise. Even though he had knocked over Veron before, he was lucky enough to escape, he is now even more serious.
For this reason, the referee had to play cards frequently, including Gattuso, Barack, Petrascu, Flo and others who received a yellow card one after another.
Everyone was disappointed to see this chaos because it didn't look like a football game at all, but a wrestling.
Chapter completed!