As Klose smashed the ball into Bilbao's goal with a powerful header, the entire stadium fell silent - their team also performed very tenaciously, but this time after taking a two-goal lead The second half was like a nightmare. Mallorca's substitutes completed an epic comeback, scoring three goals in a row after falling behind by two goals, and continued to chase behind Barcelona with a one-point disadvantage. Mallorca has scored 77 points in nine rounds of the league, but under such circumstances, it is still one point behind Barcelona. You must know that in many seasons in the past, such points were enough to win the league championship!
The fierce competition for the La Liga title this season is evident.
After winning this round of the league, Mallorca's winning streak in the league reached fourteen times - the same as Barcelona's previous winning streak - which made Real Madrid fans feel panic again. Barcelona was close to The winning streak only made them panic once. Fortunately, Mallorca stepped forward and stopped Barcelona's winning streak. Real Madrid fans breathed a sigh of relief and began to praise Mallorca loudly
It's enough to make them unhappy if their record is hit once in a season. Who knew that the tiger would come in through the front door and through the back door? After Mallorca stopped Barcelona's winning streak, they started to win consecutively in the league. After one round of league games and two rounds of make-up games, they have won fourteen consecutive games in the league, and are once again infinitely close to the La Liga winning streak set by their team!
Damn it, when will this kind of life end
Real Madrid fans couldn't help but lament, especially at this time - Mallorca had blocked Barcelona's winning streak before, but who now? In the next round of the league, Mallorca's Almeria, can they stop Mallorca from tying the record?
It¡¯s okay to just tie. The problem is that Mallorca¡¯s opponent after Almeria is Malaga. It¡¯s easy for them to create a new winning streak. How much of Real Madrid¡¯s pride can still exist?
The only thing that can be prayed for is that before these two rounds of the league, Mallorca will face Chelsea at home and away. With their main focus on the Champions League, maybe they will not perform too well in the league. Excellent Real Madrid fans can only count on this.
Mallorca will next face Chelsea at home in midweek, while Barcelona will also face Bayern at home. These two opponents are very strong opponents. It is for this reason that Barcelona and Mallorca will play in the previous games. The league sends out a substitute lineup and lets the main lineup who have played for the national team rest at home. Even if they compete for the league again, they cannot ignore the Champions League.
Chelsea's performance this season is quite stable. Scolari brought Deco and Ballack, plus Bosingwa, which made up for Chelsea's lineup to a large extent. Their performance at the beginning of the season was quite outstanding. Once ranked first in the standings, they also easily qualified for the Champions League group stage. However, midway through the season, they have slowly begun to fall behind. They are now ranked third in the league, three points behind second-placed Liverpool. , seven points behind Manchester United at the top of the list. If this continues, they are likely to gain nothing again
Scolari has good results in the national team and leads the club, but he may not be considered a top head coach.
So shortly after the New Year, Scolari was fired by Abramovich - Abramovich was not very patient, and then he used his own face to invite Hiddink, the head coach of the Russian national team, as a temporary replacement.
Hiddink is now focusing more on the Champions League. If he can achieve a breakthrough in the Champions League, his performance in leading the team will be considered excellent. He has not thought about continuing to work at Chelsea. He is not too good now. He wants to be the head coach of a club. The head coach of the national team is his main job. It is difficult to compete with the veteran Ferguson in the league, but it is still possible to compete in the Champions League.
However, Chelsea's grouping in the Champions League has never been easy - what Platini hates most is clubs like the Premier League that rely on large amounts of investment to destroy players. Chelsea can be said to be the current leader of large-scale foreign capital entering European football. They made the entire European football transfer market chaotic and caused players' income to rapidly expand to an uncontrollable level. It's strange that Platini liked them. So in those years, even though Chelsea won the Champions League The results are also quite outstanding, but every time they are faced with difficulties such as the schedule and referees. Even though they won a Champions League championship, they still played extremely hard.
Now they are divided into such a terrifying half zone - Chelsea, Mallorca, Barcelona, ??Bayern and the half zone where Manchester United and Arsenal are located are simply worlds apart.
On this point, Hiding?It was very clear, so he didn't want to stay at Chelsea for long. He was just here to put out the fire. After this season, he would return to the position of head coach of the Russian national team. In fact, if it weren't for Abramovich's position in Russia, If he has great potential, he may not take up the position of Chelsea head coach.
In this case, all Hiddink can do is to let the players display their due abilities
Ballack returned to the Conch Stadium and was warmly welcomed by the Mallorca fans. The Mallorca fans thanked Ballack for bringing eight championships in the two years he played for Mallorca - Ballack was also very grateful to Mallorca. Lorca, the championships he won in the two years in Mallorca are almost more than all the championships he won in the previous ten years of his career. In the past two years in Mallorca, he has completely eliminated the "runner-up professional" hat, although he had won a lot of championships before, the most impressive ones were the runner-up ones he won. It¡¯s different now
Ballack frequently waved to the stands and thanked the Mallorca fans for their love for him.
Then after the game started, the two sides immediately began to compete with real swords and guns.
Chelsea's current midfielder is stronger than in the past two years. Although Makelele has retired, the addition of Ballack and Deco, and the addition of Bosingwa have liberated Essien from the full-back position. The midfield of Luck, Deco and Lampard is indeed scary, their running and power are more powerful than before.
However, such a powerful force has encountered a ball of cotton - the hardness of Mallorca's current midfield has begun to decline with the departure of Ballack and the switch to a three-man midfield. However, the technical level is more delicate, Silva and Although Iniesta is nominally two wingers, they can both play in the organizing midfield. Their 433 tactics sometimes become 442, with Kak¨¢ playing forward, Silva and I Nesta recycling - this is also the biggest reason why Henry has gradually been reduced to a substitute since the beginning of this season. It is not just because Henry's injuries have gradually increased this season - he cannot withdraw to play midfielder, technically Although delicate, he could not coordinate better with other Mallorca players. Silva began to gradually become Mallorca's main force.
In such tactics, Chelsea's running and collision are somewhat powerful and cannot be used. Mallorca's continuous passing and interspersed running make Chelsea's strong frontal defense completely useless, replacing Carvalho as the Alex, Chelsea's main central defender, originally performed quite well. However, facing Mallorca's constant attacks from the side, Alex was quite embarrassed. He had to constantly twist his body to deal with the defender who broke through aggressively from the side. , not to mention how awkward the kick was
Seventeen minutes into the first half, it was Silva who dribbled the ball from the left and made Alex dizzy before passing the ball to the center. Torres, who followed up, took the lead with his toe before Terry could make a clearance. The ball came from Cech flew under his arm and then into the goal!
After opening the scoring, Mallorca played more confidently. They have practiced this tactic for a long time - when all the substitutes were allowed to play in the last round of the league, Mallorca's main players were practicing this tactic - Perhaps these Spanish players are born with the ability to play this tactic. After practicing for more than a week, they were able to master the essence of this tactic!
This tactic of passing back and forth and pressing is actually the tactic that debuted in Barcelona later and was well transplanted to the Spanish national team. Now Jose has taken the lead in using it, and his players have also They are all players with strong foot skills and strong passing skills. In addition, most of the players have played together for a long time, and they have a good understanding of each other. Naturally, they are very easy to play
After taking the lead, Mallorca continued to firmly control the ball at their feet, using constant passes back and forth to tire out the opponent's defenders, and then seized an opportunity to launch an attack - this kind of candy-like play made Chelsea The defenders are quite uncomfortable. They have never faced such a style of play. They have all their strength, but there is no room for them to perform.
This tactic actually works better against a team like Chelsea, but it won't be of much use against a team like Barcelona - otherwise Jose would have stayed to deal with Barcelona. Now facing Chelsea, suddenly If you use it, as long as you have a head start at home, this cup match will be easier.
??And it would be better to lead by two goals in the first half, so that Chelsea would have no room to adjust.
After the next attack, Mallorca once again seized an opportunity. First, Alonso passed the ball to Iniesta on the right. Iniesta then passed it back to Alonso, and Alonso handed it over. To Kaka, Kaka split the wing to Silva. Silva suddenly moved to the right in a wide range, and Ivanovic inserted from the wing.The ball was passed to the center, and Kak¨¢, who followed up, grabbed the first spot under the cover of Torres. He met the ball and shot directly into the far corner to expand the lead to two goals!
After leading by two goals into the second half, there was not much suspense in the next game. Although Chelsea launched a desperate attack in the second half and got a point with Kalou's supplementary shot in the penalty area, Mallorca relied on two big shots. A shift in scope, Iniesta scored twice, swept Chelsea 4-1 at home, and stepped into the top four with one foot!
Barcelona also achieved brilliant results - they used a wave of offensive at home to defeat the powerful Bayern. They even won one more goal than Mallorca - the score of 4 to 0 at home allowed the Bundesliga hegemon to start to take a deep dive. While feeling the gap between them and the top teams, Barcelona also almost entered the semi-finals early!
The meeting between Mallorca and Barcelona in the semi-finals is almost irreversible!
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