Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 299 The Helpless Villas-Boas
The game resumed.

Encouraged by the goal, Chelsea continued to press Manchester City with high spirits, while Shan Yongzhuo's performance was rather lackluster, lacking the dominance he displayed at the start of the game.

This is due to the impact of Manchester City's suppression.

However, Terry still dared not relax in the slightest, and Chelsea did not dare to loosen their defense against him either, based on experience gained from many encounters.

Although Manchester City were under pressure, they weren't without any chances; they were still able to launch some decent counter-attacks from time to time.

Meanwhile, Shan Yongzhuo gradually retreated, and the opportunity shifted back to the vicinity of midfield.

This time, Manchester City's counterattack gave Shan Yongzhuo an opportunity.

In the 39th minute, Shan Yongzhuo received the ball 40 meters from the goal in the halfway line and immediately unleashed a powerful ground kick to shake off Ramirez.

That was a teammate's cross-country run.

Ramirez ran over, not intending to actually steal the ball, but to use his body to block the position, trying to affect Shan Yongzhuo's ball control or force him to pass the ball to a teammate.

Shan Yongzhuo neither stopped the ball nor passed it; instead, he dribbled forward directly.

When he was about a meter away from the ball, he unleashed a whirlwind ground kick, dribbling past Ramirez from the side with his head down. Ramirez just happened to see Shan Yongzhuo sprinting, and with a quick dribble, the ball was right in front of him. Then the opponent accelerated, the movement was seamless.

Ball control is merely an additional action to accelerating the run.

"His ball control is amazing!" Ramirez stared at the ground for a long time, his movements slowed down by half a beat.

Terry immediately followed. He hadn't been closely marking Ramirez, but after Ramirez quickly covered for him, Terry didn't think much of it.

As a result, Ramirez was beaten in one step, which made Terry's scalp tingle.

He immediately followed, not intending to steal the ball, but instead using his body to push and shove Shan Yongzhuo, preparing to position himself and disrupt the opponent's ball control.

However, Shan Yongzhuo showed no intention of slowing down. The whirlwind kick had a six-second effect, and he kicked the ball forward, then bypassed Terry and continued to accelerate.

He tried to push with his body, but he didn't expect the other party to not slow down at all. He pushed but missed and was directly pushed by Shan Yongzhuo.

"This……"

Terry felt a wave of embarrassment.

Shan Yongzhuo had already dribbled the ball to a position 25 meters away from the goal. Apart from Ivanovic running in this direction, there were no other defenders around.

For Shan Yongzhuo, calmly taking a shot from this position was almost a sure thing. Even without the power of a strong kick, he was fully confident that he could hit the ball into the corner.

He did the same.

The football soared high, arcing through the air, and nestled into the top left corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Cech was on high alert, cursing Ramirez and Terry as useless players, while also realizing that Shan Yongzhuo was definitely going to shoot.

At the moment Shan Yongzhuo took the shot, Cech made a judgment, but the angle of the ball was too tricky. By the time he successfully got into position, the ball had already rushed past him.

"The ball is in!"

"Shan Yongzhuo! A signature shot from outside the penalty area finds the back of the net! He successfully beat Ramirez and Terry, dribbling the ball to the edge of the box. Chelsea's defense was completely ineffective!" the commentator said helplessly as he watched the goal.

"Chelsea have been very careful in their defense against him, but they still can't find a way to overcome him. He remains an unsolvable problem for Chelsea. As long as he's there, it seems like Chelsea will never be able to get past Manchester City."

"This is Shan Yongzhuo's 28th goal of the season. Hearing this number, many people might mistakenly think that the league is over, but in fact, this match is only the 15th round of the league, not even halfway over yet!"

“联赛才进行了15轮，他就已经打进了28球，或许他会自己打破上赛季他创造的66球英超单赛季进球记录!”单永卓的进球帮助曼城3比1在客场再次2球领先切尔西。

Chelsea are extremely frustrated.

They managed to pull one back, but the opponent burst out of the box, leaving Ramirez and Terry behind, and put the ball directly into the goal.

1 is better than 3!

They are now down by two goals again.

Chelsea could only continue their attack, frustrated, hoping to score another goal in the final moments of the first half and go into the second half trailing by one goal.

6 minutes.

In the final six minutes of the first half, Chelsea maintained possession and launched relentless attacks, bombarding Manchester City's half as if they wouldn't retreat until they scored.

The match then became Chelsea time, with Chelsea fans cheering for their team from the stands, and the team indeed put on some brilliant attacks.

But they just couldn't score.

Even though Manchester City's defense still needs improvement, when they retreat to a defensive position, they can create an impenetrable wall of defense. This is Chelsea's forte, which is known for its defensive style, but now they must break through such a defense.

This is not an easy task for them either.

Time was being consumed second by second.

1-3. Chelsea failed to score another goal until the end of the first half, and had to accept a two-goal deficit going into the second half.

Both sides entered the locker room.

Perhaps because they were down by two goals, Chelsea's morale was low, and almost no one in the room spoke.

Villas-Boas pushed open the door, stood in the middle looking at each player, and finally said, "There's nothing wrong with our style of play. We'll continue to play like this in the second half."

"They can't defend the goal, so what we need to do is score more goals than them!"

The players glanced at him, but no one paid him any attention, which made Villas-Boas feel embarrassed.

In fact, the dressing room has always been a big problem for Chelsea. Their players are all very arrogant and often ignore the manager.

Aside from coaches like Mourinho who can control their players, even renowned managers like Ancelotti struggle to truly manage Chelsea's dressing room.

Even Mourinho, in the later stages of his tenure at Chelsea, actually lost control of the dressing room.

Moreover, Villas-Boas...

Villas-Boas is a very young coach who caught Abramovich's eye last season by leading Porto to the Europa League final and winning the league title.

However, he still falls short in terms of having an impressive resume that overshadows these arrogant Chelsea bigwigs.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, Villas-Boas could only sigh helplessly.

Big-name teams are really hard to manage!
He was somewhat envious of Mancini, who had Shan Yongzhuo under his command. As long as he could get Shan Yongzhuo under control, he wouldn't have to worry about achieving results.

This is such an easy job!

(End of this chapter)