With 25 minutes left in the game, Leeds United replaced Button and replaced him with Pedersen.
The team now hands over the defense to the defenders, and the three midfielders become midfielder Barry, central midfielder Pedersen, and Kuyt who retreats to the midfielder.
Even though 10 men responded, Leeds United did not hold back, but played more proactively, trying to rewrite the score again.
"Gareth, Gareth!"
Both Bell and Barry turned back and looked at Leeds United's captain Edwin van der Sar today.
Van der Sar realized that there was something wrong with what he shouted, but he didn't care so much. He first said in the direction of Barry: "Gareth, don't be too far behind, move forward, move forward."
Then, he also said in the direction of Bell: "Same to you, little Barres."
Van der Sar has just received instructions from the team's head coach to let the team take the initiative to attack. If Chelsea cannot be suppressed, the team will only be slowly beaten to death by their opponents. The more Chelsea shrink their defense, the harder Leeds United will have to attack, and they will still have to press forward completely.
Now the team's defense is basically handed over to the two central defenders.
Fortunately, Chelsea's two full-backs had no intention of intervening, and the offensive players on the two wings were not the type to hug the wings, otherwise the two center backs might be exhausted from running.
But even so, Leeds United was still a little helpless in the face of Chelsea's defense.
After Pedersen came on the field, he had very few chances to get the ball. Even if he got the ball, he couldn't organize the offense very well, because as soon as he got the ball, he would be immediately surrounded by Chelsea's midfield.
In the 72nd minute of the game, Pedersen was defeated in a confrontation with Makelele, and the ball was snatched away by the Frenchman.
After getting the ball, Makelele chose to continue to advance, because Ballack and Lampard were still a little distance away from him, and Leeds United's midfield defense dropped a lot because of Parker's dismissal.
No one expected Makelele to be so confident in choosing to break through with the ball. By the time the Leeds United players discovered it, he was already taken not far from the Leeds United penalty area by the French midfielder.
Albucheson looked at Drogba next to him and saw that his teammate Granqvist had begun to come towards the African forward before going to defend Makelele.
But Makelele also knows his shooting level, and being able to bring the ball here is his limit.
So after making a shooting move, Makelele passed the ball directly to Ballack who was running up from the left.
When Albchisson saw Makelele passing the ball, he secretly said "No", and whether the ball was passed to Ballack or Lampard, the threat would definitely be greater than the threat from himself.
It's just that Ballack didn't stop the ball properly, and the ball stopped a little forward.
It was this action that caused Leeds United's defense to immediately make up for it.
In order to cooperate with Pederson in getting the ball, Black moved forward. Later, after discovering that the ball had been intercepted by Chelsea, he immediately ran back along the right and waited until Makelele was about to shoot, and then he finally ran near the team's defense line.
Then the ball was passed to Ballack in front of him. Because the stop was too large, Black was given the final opportunity to defend.
A tackle behind Ballack.
Miraculously, the leg did not touch Ballack's leg, but hit the football in front of Ballack.
After encountering the football and successfully making a tackle, the German was brought down by the inertia of the tackle.
"NICE!"
"yeah!"
This successful defense detonated the audience. No one would have thought that someone would chase him all the way to complete this key defense.
After falling to the ground, Ballack immediately stood up and looked at the young player in surprise who had just destroyed his offense.
He clearly remembered that when he switched from defense to offense, Blake was still far away from him, so why did he come back after a while?
"Are you okay?"
Lampard ran over and asked Ballack, who came over to pick up the ball from the sideline.
"It's okay, it's a good shot."
Ballack didn't say much. A person like him would not fall to the ground to commit a foul. The German captain disdained such a thing.
Then Lampard also glanced at Blake, who had just gotten up from the ground and was brushing off the grass clippings from his pants.
He ran on the other side, always paying attention to Makelele and Ballack on the left. He saw with his own eyes how Blake "squeaked" from the frontcourt back to a place deep in his own half. . That speed is simply indescribable. This speed should not be slower than Robben at all.
Lampard turned his head and looked behind again, and Robben also came back to help participate in the team's defense. This former teammate played very well today and scored a wonderful goal in the first half.
Therefore, Robben was also heavily targeted in the second half.
"Huhuhu~"
Robben was gasping for air. After he was taken care of in the second half, although he had many opportunities to get the ball, he was always in a tough fight and would be double-teamed as soon as he started. Even if he can still use his footsteps and movements to escape, he won't be able to find the opponent's gap when there are more people.
^^^
Off the field, George Lee was also very anxious. Although Leeds United did not have the numerical advantage, they were still taking the initiative to attack, which would increase the team's physical consumption. This situation is not obvious offensively, but defensively the team needs to increase running to make up for the dilemma of missing one person.
Just like Blake's defense just now, although the process was exciting, it was still very tiring for Blake. It works once or twice, but what if there is a third time?
Otherwise, it will be an effective counterattack by Chelsea.
George Lee also noticed Robben's breathing, and not once saw "Peter Pan" holding his knees with his hands during the game.
Not only Robben, but also other Leeds United and Chelsea players on the field were in a dead ball state and took the time to rest.
"This can't continue like this. Someone still needs to stand up." George Li thought.
This is the disadvantage of the team's captain being the goalkeeper. As the captain, the goalkeeper cannot encourage and infect other teammates through his performance unless he makes a wonderful save.
If it's Smith, he can boost the morale of his teammates with one fight and one shot.
But if Van der Sar has a wonderful performance, it will prove that Leeds United's other defenses have loopholes. His performance is risky. No one dares to take this risk at this time.
In the next ten minutes of the game, the offense of both teams could no longer pick up the speed. Even if both teams made substitutions, the huge amount of physical exertion made it impossible for the players who had played for almost a whole game to keep up. The rhythm of the players who just came on.
In order to avoid being out of touch, or even a mistake in the backcourt directly leading to a loss of the ball, the passing of the ball on both sides is now mainly based on the foot, and there is no such threatening through ball.
Everything seemed to follow the script that ended with a score of 1-1.
Even though everyone on the field was dissatisfied with the score, they could no longer run.
Terry received the ball from Bridge, made a slight adjustment and kicked the ball forward, trying to find Drogba in front. This is a good choice not only to get the ball out of the dangerous area, but also to try to make an attack.
The ball was hit a bit too wide by Terry. Drogba watched the ball fly over his head and gave up after taking two steps.
The ball was directly taken by Van der Sar who came near the penalty area. Van der Sar was just about to take two shots to delay the time.
However, a man in white clothes was waving to him.
