MM Racing Chapter 208
Chapter 208
Mourinho called Frank Lampard to the sidelines and said a few words.
It means keeping them going, at least until the end of the first half.
Frank Lampard returned to the pitch to pass Mourinho's instructions to several of his team-mates.
While Chelsea's players are still resilient, sometimes the results can't be dealt with by mental will.
The turning point of the game came in the 43rd minute of the first half.
This would have been the point in time when Chelsea could already see the light of day.
Just a few more minutes will be the end of the first half and Chelsea can make more comfortable personnel adjustments in the second half.
But in this attack, Xu Ning suddenly pulled to the right again, and after receiving a pass from Navas, he began an unreasonable breakthrough.
Frank Lampard pressed up, but Xu Ning, who was full of explosiveness, directly threw off Frank Lampard.
Frank Lampard's failure to commit a foul caused him to completely lose the opportunity to defend Xu Ning.
Next, facing Ivanovich, who looked serious and seemed to have withstood the test of life, Xu Ning's foot movements suddenly became fancy.
The left and right feet swayed continuously, and the extremely fast cycling movement made Ivanovich completely lose his judgment.
Suddenly, Xu Ning's center of gravity really changed, allowing him to calmly pass over the right side of Ivanovich's body, and then directly cut inward to kill the ribs.
Dangerous!
As long as those who are familiar with Xu Ning know that although the inner cut of the ribs on both sides is not the way Xu Ning scores the most goals, every time Xu Ning chooses this, it is insoluble for the opponent!
The moment Ivanovich was passed by Xu Ning, his pupils contracted violently, and his heart was shocked!
Turning his head, he saw that Xu Ning had already opened the fight and was ready to get up!
This goal, I'm afraid the goalkeeper can't help!
Ivanovich, who could not care so much, gritted his teeth fiercely and shoveled directly from behind.
The ball didn't catch!
Instead, it shoveled Xu Ning's feet!
Xu Ning fell directly to the ground, his expression was slightly painful, and he felt really painful while covering his ankle!
Before the players on both sides could react, the referee's whistle sounded decisively and loudly.
The referee rushed directly to Ivanovic and took out a yellow card to Ivan, and then took out another red card in Ivan's horrified expression!
Two yellows turn into one red!
Sent!
Only then did Ivanovich react, his eyes widened and he was eager to defend the referee.
"Sir, I really didn't tackle him!"
"He fell to the ground on purpose!"
"This is not a dangerous move, you shouldn't eat cards!"
"Sir, not really!"
Xu Ning fell to the ground and heard Ivanovich's protesting pleas, but his excited tone was better like he wanted to eat people.
Chestsea's players have also gathered around excitedly, and everyone knows what it means to Chelsea to send off a man at this time.
However, Manchester City players will certainly not let the referee be affected by Chelsea's protests and rush to help the referee out.
The scene was once very chaotic.
But at this time, he didn't care about Xu Ning's affairs, he was undergoing a temporary examination by the team doctor.
He is Manchester City's big treasure and if he gets injured, the consequences are unimaginable.
Eventually, when the chaos subsided, the outcome could not be changed.
Ivanovic bowed his head to the boos of the Manchester City fans.
On the pitch, it was full of Chelsea players with lost faces.
Off the pitch, Mourinho's face was serious to the extreme.
Obviously, playing one less man has created an irreparable hole in Chelsea's overall defence.
The original equal number of people to deal with Manchester City has been extremely difficult, and now there is one less fight, and the end seems to be doomed.
Sighing and shaking his head, Mourinho knew that the probability of Chelsea being able to retreat from the whole body in this game had approached zero infinitely.
At half-time, Chelsea had to take in Torres and replace him with Ashley Cole.
At the very least, the defense of the two lines must not be messed up.
As for counter-attacking, Mourinho has no more ideas!
But even so, Chelsea's goal could not withstand Manchester City's repeated bombardment.
In the 63rd minute of the second half, Xu Ning swung Ashley Cole away from the right flank and then crushed Chelsea's defence with an inner shot.
Ten minutes later, substitute Sergio Aguero took advantage of a scuffle in the Chelsea penalty area to make it 2-0.
This is also the score at the end of the game.
Although Chelsea, who played one less man in the final moments, still had the courage to attack, they could not threaten the Manchester City goal.
In this way, Manchester City beat Chelsea by two goals at home to win the top game for the fourth time this season.
In his post-match press conference, Jose Mourinho still said strongly that Chelsea should not have lost this game.
Then, there is the veiled attack on the referee on duty.
In Mourinho's view, if not for Ivanovic being sent off, then Chelsea would have been able to draw with Manchester City in this game.
And that's exactly what happened!
But the fans didn't buy it.
They admit that Chelsea's defence has worked well for Manchester City.
But Ivanovich's punishment was not wrongful either.
In this game, Chelsea players received a total of five yellow cards and one red card on Xu Ning.
Even if you watch the highlights frame by frame after the game, you won't feel that one time is wronged!
It is precisely because Ivanovic can't prevent Xu Ning that he has twice received a yellow card, which is nothing to complain about at all!
Some fans even said that if Mourinho had been more decisive and made substitutions in the first half, perhaps the game would have been different.
However, the game is over and no amount of hindsight can change the fact that Chelsea lost away from home.
Chelsea were double-killed!
In this season's two-legged Premier League meeting with Manchester City, Chelsea did not take advantage of the slightest.
While this will not affect Jose Mourinho's position, how to fight Manchester City has become a top priority for Chelsea.
If you can't overthrow Manchester City, how can Chelsea talk about reaching the top of the Premier League!
Of course, what makes Chelsea anxious will not affect Xu Ning in the slightest.
After Manchester City entered another intensive schedule, they couldn't stop moving forward!
On February 8, Manchester City beat Norwich City away, and Xu Ning scored a goal;
On February 16, Manchester City beat Chelsea by one goal at home in the FA Cup, and also reached the next round of the FA Cup while beating Chelsea three times this season;
On February 19, the Champions League knockout round officially began, and Manchester City, who went all out, easily defeated Olympiacos at home, and one foot has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League;
On February 22, Manchester City, who returned to the league, beat Stoke City at home;
On 2 March, Manchester City beat Wigan Athletic at home in the FA Cup to win the first leg of the semi-finals;
Combined with previous wins over Tottenham and Chelsea, Manchester City have played a solid record of seven consecutive wins in all competitions.
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