Looking at Robben who was celebrating his goal with his team-mates on the sidelines, the Chelsea players' expressions at this time can be said to be quite ugly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info because Robben's goal broke the deadlock between the two teams on the field after the opening, making them in an extremely passive position in this crucial battle for the championship of the competition!

With Arjen Robben scoring the first goal for Tottenham, Mourinho's pre-match deployments became a mess of paper. Chelsea, who were trailing in the scoreline, had to take the initiative and do everything they could to equalise the scores. However, in this way, Chelsea's defence is bound to expose more holes, which will give Tottenham more opportunities to counterattack quickly!

Crucially, a final defeat to Tottenham in this game would leave Chelsea four points behind the leaders. Although this may not seem like a big difference, let's not forget that the Blues' rivals have been unbeaten in the league since the start of the season, and Tottenham Hotspur has been extremely consistent.

So, at this moment, the psychological pressure on the Chelsea players can be quite high. Because if they lose in this round of the league, then the difference between these four points is really likely to determine the final winner of the Premier League title this season!

Alger Robben...... It seems that I still underestimated him. I thought he was just another traditional winger in the style of Overmars and Ryan Giggs, but I didn't expect his scoring ability to be so strong. At the same time, Mourinho, who commanded on the sidelines, was thinking about the next game countermeasures, and secretly reflected on the football ideas and playing styles he has adhered to since becoming the head coach, and whether there are some deficiencies and omissions!

If Robben's goal brought more nervousness and psychological pressure to the Chelsea players, then what he brought to Mourinho was an out-and-out shock. The Portuguese, who have always been about football as a whole and putting the team first, are starting to realise that sometimes it is not entirely a bad thing to have a star in the team who has the best individual quality and give him a certain degree of freedom.

While it is true that the future of modern football is moving towards overall football and team football, and it is no longer feasible to rely solely on the individual performance of a single star as in the past, it is true that having a star with individual ability on the basis of sticking to a team style of play can make many complex problems easier to solve.

For example, this time, if it is not Robben who breaks through with the ball, but Ljungberg or Joaquín, who are one level worse than the Dutch Peter Pan, then the likelihood of them choosing to cut inside in this situation can be said to be slim. And even if they did, the shot would never have been as decisive and unobtrusive as the former, and it would never have dealt such a blow to Chelsea!

Shakespeare said that there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers. And now, what Mourinho saw from Arjen Robben's goal is exactly what a first-class star can bring to the team at a tactical level!

After figuring this out, Mourinho waved his hand and began to give instructions to the Chelsea players on the pitch - continue to stick to the previous tactics, that is, focus on defensive counterattacks, and never easily invest too many troops in the attacking end!

What shocked the Chelsea players the most was Mourinho's next order: "Zlatan [Ibrahimovic], I will allow you to play freely in attack as you wish, and I hope you will not let me down." ”

As one of the recognized top managers in European football, Mourinho's vision is naturally extremely vicious. He can see that although Chelsea's book strength is quite strong, like Robben, only Ibrahimovic can bring change to the team by himself!

Although Joe Cole and Duff are also full of aura, they are obviously inferior in ability and talent compared to Eevee. For Jose Mourinho, allowing Ibrahimovic to play freely outside the team's tactical framework is already the limit of what he can tolerate, and it is impossible to have more players with similar powers.

"No problem, boss! it's all on me!" The Swedish Divine Tower nodded happily to Mourinho's order - absolute autonomy on the offensive end, something that Ibrahimovic had always dreamed of!

I have to say that the Chelsea players at this time have a strong execution of orders from Mourinho, the champion coach, due to the lack of heavyweight honors, and there are no signs of daring to play big names with the manager after becoming famous. Therefore, after the resumption of the game, Chelsea did not rush to launch a counterattack, but took the initiative to give the ball to the opponent, and they began to deploy layers of defense in the midfield again, leaving only Ibrahimovic and Duff to roam in the front!

However, Jose Mourinho's intention to use this trick could not hide Xavi Alonso's eyes - under the command and management of the Spanish midfield, the Tottenham players did not choose to take advantage of the victory to chase down the Chelsea defensive trap, nor did they carelessly give the Blues the opportunity to sneak up on their own side, but took advantage of the numerical advantage and began to constantly fall in their own half!

Aren't you in a hurry to equalize? So let's just consume it and see who can't hold it first!

In this way, there was a very strange scene on the pitch for a while - the Tottenham players played a passing game at the back and had no intention of attacking at all, while the Chelsea players who had laid down heavy troops in their own half to play Tottenham's counterattack watched in a daze as their opponents fell to the back.

Seeing the game develop to this point, the Chelsea players couldn't help but sit still because they felt that with the current momentum, Tottenham would have a good chance of keeping the score 1-0 until the end of the game. And Mourinho on the sidelines was also a little dumbfounded at this time, because he found that he still overestimated his junior brother's discipline - one goal ahead and began to shrink the defense, George, did you kid worship Capello as a teacher? !

In the 45th minute, Joe Cole took a tactical corner from the right and Frank Lampard's burst of effort hit Nemanja Vidic and bounced off the box. Mascherano didn't wait for the Chelsea players to surround him and quickly handed the ball to Xavi Alonso in front of the right!

Alonso, who had already watched his team-mates' positions, did not choose to stop the ball because doing so would only give the Chelsea players time to return and intercept themselves. The Spanish midfielder spun straight to the trajectory of the ball and sent a long pass over the top in the direction of Robben's direction!

After almost fifteen minutes of hiding, Tottenham finally seized their chance before the end of the first half and showed their sharp fangs once again!

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