Chapter 789

Azpilicueta felt a headache when he thought of Chalobah's defense just now. He had been concentrating on defending Diaz so that Chalobah could focus on defending Lin Chen.

But when he turned around, he saw that Chalobah was staring at Diaz with his bright eyes just like himself, and he didn't care about Lin Chen at all.

It seemed that Lin Chen saw Chalobah's weakness in defense, so after the game started, he continued to look for opportunities around Chalobah, and as the number of attacks increased, Lin Chen always found that Chalobah seemed to have problems with marking.

Being young and playing in the League Cup final seemed to make Chalobah very nervous. The more nervous Chalobah became, the less able he was to keep a close eye on his opponent.

Soboslai also began to interfere with Chalobah, and Liverpool tacitly set Chalobah as their main offensive target.

Conte has been telling all the players on the sidelines to help Chalobah as much as possible, but in the three-center-back system, if one center-back has a problem, the other two center-backs will definitely be affected.

Thiago Silva now doesn't know whether he should help Chalobah.

It is already very stressful for him to defend Lin Chen alone. If Chalobah is added to defend Lin Chen, the pressure will be even greater.

Edouard Mendy was even more nervous. Now he not only had to be careful of Lin Chen's shots, but also of the threat that Chalobah might bring to his own goal.

This kind of moment is a test for a player. If Chalobah can adapt and improve in this game, he will become a very good central defender next!

But if he fails to adapt, Chalobah will most likely continue to perform poorly for a long time, and even some of his potential will disappear!

The 26th minute of the game!

Lin Chen ran towards Chalobah with a smile. Kante kept interfering with Lin Chen and didn't want him to run towards Chalobah.

But as long as Kante leans back, McAllister will move forward with the ball, and when Kante wants to go back to defend McAllister, the ball will be passed to Rodri, who will continue to move forward with the ball.

Liverpool pushed the ball forward very far in this way, and until Kovacic found himself retreating to the penalty area line, the space left for Chalobah and Kante was very small.

Defensive players also need space, just like offensive players. If you don’t have defensive space, you can’t play good defense.

Kante was smart and had great defensive experience, starting to run at McAllister and leaving Kovacic to defend Rodri.

The best way is for Azpilicueta to retreat to the midfield and defend Lin Chen together with Alonso.

But Rodri passed the ball to the wing at this time. Without Alonso's restraint, Salah could face Rudiger alone.

This time, Rudiger didn't dare to rush forward, and Thiago Silva didn't dare to help Rudiger, so the two of them were in a stalemate on the wing.

Salah tried to break through, but Rudiger headbutted Salah!

Salah looked at the middle twice but didn't see Lin Chen. He already knew where Lin Chen would appear at this moment.

So Salah chose to break through!

Rudiger leaned his head on him, and Salah leaned his back back, squeezing Rudiger's head and turning him backwards!

With his head squeezed, Rudiger could only step back!

After retreating two steps, Rudiger could not retreat any further. The dangerous area was right behind him, so Rudiger started to rush forward!

He stretched his legs first, but not completely. Relying on the length of his legs, Rudiger moved his legs forward little by little, as if he wanted to block Salah!

Although his legs are not long, Salah is more flexible. He controls the ball with his left foot and looks at Rudiger's outstretched legs. Salah suddenly pushes the ball past Rudiger's back and then sprints in front of Rudiger!