Middlesbrough fans celebrated the goal wildly. For them, the goal came too suddenly. It was so wonderful because of the suddenness. They were like they were in a miracle, and the sound of cheering filled the entire riverside stadium.

Chelsea was a little depressed.

They had the advantage on the field, but the advantage did not turn into a goal. As a result, the opponent took advantage of a counterattack opportunity and scored a goal for the first time in the game. In this way, Chelsea's ability to capture opportunities in the frontcourt is too poor.

So many fans looked at Zhang Tiehan.

When it comes to the ability to capture opportunities, they immediately thought of Zhang Tiehan. Zhang Tiehan's personal ability is quite strong. If he is allowed to find an opportunity in front of the goal, it would almost be a goal. In comparison, Shepchenko and Drogba are much worse.

However, Zhang Tiehan is now working as a wing forward. With him on the right, he can always create threatening passes. If he goes to grab the spot, then Chelsea's offense can only be taught to others. That will definitely not be possible with such a suppressed scene now.

At this time, many Blues fans were thinking... Why don't there be two Zhang Tiehan in the team?

One can create opportunities and the other can score goals, which is really perfect.

Zhang Tiehan didn't know what the fans were thinking. Even if he knew, he wouldn't have the ability to clone. After the game started again, he was still working as a right forward, constantly breaking through and bringing the ball to a dangerous position, and then passing the ball to create opportunities for his teammates.

Such a performance is quite eye-catching!

Even if Middlesbrough scored a goal, it would not prevent the media cameras from pointing at Zhang Tiehan, while other Chelsea players rushed forward and looked for opportunities to score in front of the goal.

Obviously, Chelsea players still have certain abilities. After all, many big-name stars have to compete with Middlesbrough for their personal and overall abilities.

After falling behind by one goal, Chelsea's offense became even more violent!

The live commentator had no time to talk about the game scene. He was worried about the Middlesbrough goal. At this time, the Middlesbrough goal was only more dangerous than before. Football was almost always running around the Middlesbrough penalty area. Middlesbrough fans watched the game without blinking, as if they were afraid that the football could fly directly into the goal in the blink time.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan was also defended very closely.

Middlesbrough could not allow the right side to be attacked like this. They sent one more defensive player to make up for defense. In this way, Zhang Tiehan thought of dribbling the ball into the right side of the penalty area and had to face at least two players. If he reached the bottom line, he would have to face or even three players. Such a defensive pressure was still very high. After all, three people would have to defend themselves, and space alone took up a lot of space. Zhang Tiehan could not pass three people... Even if he had the ability, he would not have room.

However, Zhang Tiehan quickly found a solution, which was to retreat slightly, give himself enough starting and running space. In many cases, he retreated slightly to the pass position to the penalty area, and he would choose to cooperate with his teammates in the middle in a good position instead of dribbling the ball to the bottom line. As it turned out, the pass effect was not good. After all, he was not Beckham and could not control such a long distance. His long pass can only be said to be good, but it is not very accurate. In comparison, at a far position from the goal, Zhang Tiehan's direct shot is much better than a long pass.

Despite this, Zhang Tiehan continued to set off an offensive storm on the right.

His speed, his footwork skills, and his fierceness when he dribbled the ball with his body. The scenes that he repeatedly made Middlesbrough defenders helpless, all of these made him the focus of the whole game. Even when the other Chelsea shot in the goal direction, Zhang Tiehan seemed a bit boring compared to Zhang Tiehan's dribbles. Although it might be possible to rewrite the score, Zhang Tiehan faced two and three people to control the ball and continued to dribble forward, which attracted more attention.

Speed, speed!

With imagination under your feet!

This is the impression that Zhang Tiehan left on all the fans of the court. Even the Middlesbrough fans who occupy the majority have to admit that although Zhang Tiehan is a Chelsea player and their enemy, his football is very good-looking. Sometimes when he sees Zhang Tiehan passing their own players, many Middlesbrough fans can't help but shout "Okay".

No one was dissatisfied with them because everyone in the audience thought so.

"...It's hard to imagine a player who is 1.9 meters tall, with such outstanding skills under his feet. His feet are like embroidered, which makes Middlesbrough defenders have no choice but to do anything. So far, they have only faced Zhang's successful defense twice. At other times, they are all following Zhang and watching him pass the ball."

"Perhaps for Zhang's opponents, the most terrifying thing is that Zhang can combine his technology with his physical advantages. When the technology can work, he uses technology; when the body can work, he uses his body. Most of the time, his technology is combined with the body... His football is full of practicality!"

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With Zhang Tiehan's performance, Chelsea has a very big advantage.

Middlesbrough seemed to feel powerless to resist. They made several counterattacks and several push-out attacks, but football could not reach the Chelsea penalty area. It was even very difficult to pass the half. Chelsea completely suppressed the situation.

This suppression allows Chelsea players to continuously gain opportunities, and opportunities can easily be translated into goals.

In the 41st minute of the game, Zhang Tiehan dribbled the ball and broke through from the right. He and Lampard made two consecutive passes and receiving matches, easily crossing the two defensive players and rushed to the right bottom line. The opponent's full-back Andre Taylor followed. He and central defender Rigot double-teamed Zhang Tiehan one by one, but this time Zhang Tiehan did not continue to run forward.

Facing the defense of the two, Zhang Tiehan suddenly turned to the left and dribbled the ball horizontally along the penalty area.

This incisive cut made both of them unresponsive!

When they wanted to chase back, they could no longer keep up, but they were not in a hurry, because at this time, there were many players in the penalty area. Due to Chelsea's massive suppressive attack, Middlesbrough could hardly tell what a midfielder was and what a backfield player was. Their three fronts were suppressed very far behind. When Chelsea attacked, the penalty area was even more crowded.

In this way, even if the defense is not done well, you can use the human-sea tactics to deal with the offense.

Zhang Tiehan dribbled the ball horizontally, and naturally knew the situation in the penalty area. Not only that, he followed three players next to him. None of them rushed over to grab the ball, but ran horizontally, blocking the space and not giving him a chance to shoot.

Panabie, Andre Davis, Pogatez...

Zhang Tiehan couldn't name these three people, but he still felt very stressed. Three tall players were guarding the way to shoot, and it was unlikely that he wanted to raise his foot to shoot.

Another person rushed over behind him. It was Middlesbrough's forward Yakub.

Yakub is a talented player in Nigeria and is only 24 years old. When playing for the Israeli team Maccabi Haifa, Yakub became famous and borrowed from other clubs for one season. After returning to Maccabi Haifa, he won two league titles and set an astonishing goal record, breaking the club's record in domestic and European competitions. Between he also performed a hat trick in the European Football Federation Champions League against Greek team Olympiagaus.

In January 2003, Yakub left Maccabee, Haifa and moved to England club Portsmouth. The team even won the English League One (now known as the English Champions League) championship in that season and was promoted to the Premier League for competition.

In 2005, Yakub left Portsmouth and joined Middlesbrough for a transfer fee of £7.5 million. The most impressive impression he had in Middlesbrough was that he scored the third goal for the team at the Riverside Stadium and helped the team break Chelsea 3-0, which gave Mourinho's Chelsea the second defeat of the season.

In addition, in the matches between Middlesbrough defeating Manchester United 4-1 and Arsenal 2-1, Yakub also scored goals.

So when facing Chelsea, Yakub actually has some psychological advantages. Middlesbrough has a lot of experience in defeating the giants. Their most important experience is defense. As long as they can defend well, they can guarantee a draw even if they cannot score a goal.

Middlesbrough's entire team, even the only striker, Yakub, has good defensive capabilities.

Now when he saw three teams defending Zhang Tiehan in close combat, Yakub was not sure when he retreated to defend together. At this time, he believed that he would definitely be able to grab the ball from the opponent's No. 9 superstar.

Four-player defense, steal...

Even Zhang Tiehan rarely faces such great pressure. There are opponents in front, back, left and right. The only thing he can do is to use his body to protect one side, and then use his foot skills to prevent the opponent from stepping on the ball easily. In such a small space, being attacked by four opponents from front and back, but it is not easy to protect the ball. Zhang Tiehan was also a little anxious for a moment. This position cannot be stolen. Not to mention the offensive opportunity, the opponent is likely to use this opportunity to fight a threatening counterattack, not to mention such a good opportunity, not to mention such a good opportunity.

He gritted his teeth and kept controlling the ball.

At this time, almost everyone in the game thought that Zhang Tiehan would definitely lose the ball this time. Even head coach Grant on the coach's bench could not help but cover his eyes. He could not imagine what else Zhang Tiehan could do to avoid being stolen under such circumstances. He covered his face and seemed to be unable to bear to watch anymore. Chelsea's teammates also stopped for a moment, and they also felt that Zhang Tiehan would be stolen this time.

"It should have passed the ball early." Many people thought so.

But Zhang Tiehan is impossible to pass the ball now. He has been controlling the ball continuously, "control" helping him know the movements of his teammates and opponents around him, and "see through" allows him to see clearly Yakubu's movements in front of him. His only hope is that Yakubu can't help but stretch his foot to grab the ball. If the opponent does not do this, it will be almost impossible for him to continue rushing forward.

This is a psychological warfare.

Yakub didn't know what Zhang Tiehan was thinking. In fact, it only took two or three seconds since he came to defend. However, one player on the opponent was still controlling the ball at the front of the penalty area, facing four players including himself. This is really unwilling tolerant!

Two or three seconds, it sounds short, but Yakub can't tolerate it. This is an insult to Middlesbrough, an insult to his and his teammates' defensive ability! Now he feels that the opponent has no choice, so he calmly stretches over and wants to make a clean steal.

At this moment, Yakub saw Zhang Tiehan's curled lips.

He felt something was wrong, and he couldn't imagine something was wrong, but he had already stepped on his feet and couldn't stop moving. Then, he saw Zhang Tiehan's right foot suddenly changed his movements when controlling the ball, and gently pulled the ball to the left and pushed it continuously. The movement was extremely gorgeous. On weekdays, when Yakubu saw this movement, he would definitely say something disdainfully, "Flower and Fighting". Even if it wasn't these words, the meaning would not be much different.

But now he doesn't think so.

These two movements were coherent, making him realize that he could no longer defend the opponent. The opponent pushed the ball forward and the football went directly over him. Then he watched the opponent's waist almost twisted a ninety-degree angle, shook past him, and rushed out of the encirclement of four people.

"How is this possible..." It was not seen with your own eyes. I personally experienced it, Yakubu would definitely not believe it.

I was actually shook by?

Yakub widened his eyes and turned his head subconsciously. Then he saw the other party passing him, and suddenly stepped on the ball hard with his feet and fixed it in place... The movement was really rough. He couldn't believe that this was the same person as the guy who was extremely gorgeous and skilled under his feet just now, but he couldn't do anything now, so he could only helplessly, and his body could not even control himself and almost fell to the ground.

The other party made another move.

That was a direct answer after stopping the body!

The football flew high and flew lightly over the heads of several people and hung into the penalty area. Yakubu didn't know what the result was because he could no longer control himself and fell to the ground.

Middlesbrough’s penalty area.

Zhang Tiehan has attracted the attention of almost all Middlesbrough players before, and four people have come to defend Zhang Tiehan, especially just now, they thought Zhang Tiehan would definitely concede the ball. Middlesbrough's defense against other Chelsea players was a little loose.

Neither Drogba nor Lampard were defending.

But when the football was hanging towards the penalty area, the Middlesbrough player reacted and hurried to defend again, but it was too late. Drogba had already run to the point and kicked it directly on the falling football.

There was only a dull sound of "dong" and the football flew towards the Middlesbrough goal.

Middlesbrough goalkeeper Schwarzer never expected that Zhang Tiehan could pass the ball, and the pass was so beautiful. When Drogba shot, he was a little panicked. Although the shooting angle was not tricky, the distance was very close and the speed was quite fast. He didn't react at all, so he could only watch the football fly into the goal.

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When the referee signaled that the goal was effective and pointed to the middle circle, everyone in the audience realized that they had to sigh that the football game was really ever-changing. Zhang Tiehan had to concede the ball the moment before. Many Middlesbrough fans were looking forward to the team's previous counterattack, but the next moment the football flew into the Middlesbrough goal.

"gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!" Sky Sports TV commentator Alfei finally reacted and let out a loud and long roar.

"The ball went in! Chelsea equalized the score! Drogba! He received a pass from Zhang and scored the ball!"

The acceptance of Drogba's goal is limited to this. What everyone is even more surprised is that Zhang Tiehan's wonderful performance when he snatched the ball by four people and passed Yakubu.

Sure enough, Alfi talked about Zhang Tiehan next, "Let's look at the big screen replay. Zhang, facing the wall of four people, he calmly controlled the ball under his feet, and shook past Yakubu, turned around and passed the ball into the penalty area!"

“Unbelievable!”

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really wouldn't believe that this was a big man over 1.9 meters tall. His feet were too flexible, and Yakub was deceived by him... Looking at his waist, it was twisted in a bad state. I think many fans are worried that he would be injured now..."

The large screen shot switched to Zhang Tiehan at the right time, and he was talking to Drogba who scored the goal, and then Lampard and Drogba who rushed over came to hug him.

The three of them were talking and laughing, and it seemed very relaxed.

In fact, this is the case. Zhang Tiehan didn't feel anything about his performance just now. He calmly faced the defense of four people, accurately hanged the ball into the penalty area, a perfect assist, etc., Zhang Tiehan didn't care at all. After all, he faced too many defenses for several people. This was just one time when he performed well on the court.

What he cares more about is goals.

Once the goal is scored, the team tied the score and the game will be even better.

Even Zhang Tiehan must admit that Middlesbrough's defense is indeed doing well. The team's fierce attack has only scored a goal until now. Even if he cuts into the middle on the wing, the opponent did not give him even a chance to shoot directly.

He can only rely on passing the ball to find opportunities for his teammates.

Now that the score is tied, the advantage is back to the team, this is the most important thing. The team's overall strength is strong, but what the football game depends on is the result not strength, as long as the goal is the most important thing.

Drogba is quite grateful to Zhang Tiehan for his assist. This is his first goal this season. "Your pass is so beautiful!" After hugging and celebrating with his teammates, Drogba expressed his gratitude to Zhang Tiehan.

In fact, after Zhang Tiehan came to the team, Drogba was under a lot of pressure.
To be continued...