Chapter 164: Commentary

Chelsea have won five league games in a row since the start of the Premier League season, and Chelsea have won all competitions in all competitions, and Chelsea have become the most fearsome presence in England after being beaten by Manchester City in the Charity Shield.

The biggest topic in English football right now is who can stop the horror of Chelsea, but it has also been pointed out that Chelsea have not faced a real strong team so far, and the next thing they will face is the real test, not only the away game of Arsenal is imminent, but also the challenge of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and other teams.

Of course, the study of Chelsea has not stopped, and various experts have written various articles commenting and detailing Chelsea, hoping to help their favorite team win against their opponents, but the problem is that they are just talking about Chelsea's tactics.

The London Evening Standard, which has always been a staunch Arsenal supporter, devoted a large section to a report on Chelsea, which detailed Chelsea's tactics.

When it comes to tactics, the first thing that comes to mind is attacking and defending with set-pieces, but in fact, there are so many complete sets of tactics that we throw out a well-known tactical controversy: should we build tactics according to players or change players according to tactics? A good coach designs the most reasonable tactics based on the existing players, and then supplements individual players for the deficiencies of the designed tactics, and now we think that both teams have a good coach.

The first thing mentioned is the tactical assistance, the reason why a successful tactic can succeed is not only the running and passing and personnel requirements on the surface, the so-called ten minutes on the stage and ten years of work off the stage is reasonable, so for the offensive and defensive settings, what kind of tactical assistance is needed This is the key. We all know that one is physical fitness, the tactic of full-court suppression is very physical, so we must strengthen physical training; the other is short-distance passing and receiving, in order to do a good job of full-court suppression, we must have short-distance passing and receiving under pressure, stopping, carrying, and passing functions must be linked; as for what is important about running, in order to achieve suppression tactics, we must have a very suitable space for the ball, so the running position without players is even more precious.

However, Chelsea actually did not do a good job of running without the ball, most of their players seemed a little aimless, which was undoubtedly evident in the game against Stoke City, when Hazard or Juan Mata attacked, the other players did not run actively, which also led to many times although the attacking players have found a position, but no one responds to it, which naturally loses the best opportunity.

Defensively, Chelsea are not doing a good job. Some people say that attack is the soul of the team, and some people say that defense is the most important thing, but I think whether it is attack or seems to be defense is determined by the intensity of each position of a team, for example, the current Chelsea staffing, it is clear that attack is greater than defense, so since defense is not reliable, do they still need to make defense a top priority?

Chelsea still have a pretty good back-up and goalkeeper configuration, but the backline does not reflect their value at all, and the midfield position is even more useless, and there is often a disposition at the back, exposing their own backline to the opposition's attack.

Mourinho has always been on the overall defense, but the overall defense must first control the rhythm, strengthen the number of midfielders and interceptions, and replace defense with offense, and secondly, let the back line press forward appropriately, maintain the compactness of the formation, and replace the traditional interception defense with a pressing attack. At the same time, let the full-backs defend with peace of mind and appropriate insertion, not to attack with all their might, the attack will be handed over to the midfielder and forwards, so as to reduce the embarrassment of being beaten by various backs because of the pressure of the defensive line, because the speed of Chelsea's back line is not slow, so it is difficult to rely on speed forwards to penetrate this kind of high-pressure defensive line.

And when it comes to offense, I really don't know where to start. You must know that Ferguson can be used for more than 20 years with simple side tactics and can maintain strong combat effectiveness and survivability, then at least it shows how important the role of wing attack is in offensive tactics, that is, it is as strong as Barcelona's peak TIKA tactics, and it is also very demanding on the side, although it is not a traditional winger tactic, but it has extremely high requirements for fullbacks.

It's clear that Jose Mourinho is getting closer to this tactic right now, but we don't think it suits Chelsea very well, as Chelsea have been a bit weak this year and the attacking players haven't shown what they should be capable of. In particular, Hazard, Juan Mata and Oscar are not enough to take the lead, and Torres's form is too low, which is also an indisputable fact. If it weren't for that terrifying crane, Chelsea would have been an ordinary team this year.

But it is because of the existence of Ai Huan that they can achieve their current results, and all the tactics embodied in front of them seem to be useless at all, which is the most unsolvable topic now.

Last season, we were killed by him, and even in one of the games, he was injured and only scored a free kick on the field, which directly destroyed our morale, can we really use general tactical comments to explain this kind of player? Anyway, I have been in this business for 30 years, but it is the first time I have seen such a person, I have nothing to do, only a sentence to Arsenal - 120 million is not a lot, and to be able to buy an Ai Fan is equivalent to having a terrifying nuclear weapon, why can't our club take the lead in taking it out? Who doesn't know the relationship between Anderson and our Arsenal, as long as we are willing, not only can we come up with this money, but we can also impress Ai Fan in various ways, but we still didn't do anything in the end.

Think about it, what would it be like if Eva was in our team right now, but now we can only pray that Eva is not willing to play, or that Chelsea go crazy and hide him, but is it possible?

Finally, I would like to say that what Allen wrote after the Chelsea press conference makes sense, what kind of defense does it take to have a player like Illusory, and what kind of midfield playmaking does he need, he will always score one more goal than others.