Chapter Thirty-Four: The Wonderful Continues
Before the game, Chelsea's most watched news is undoubtedly Liu Neng, Chelsea's hottest player at the moment, his performance in two games has attracted most of the attention, he has become the focus of attention of both sides before the game, although he has only played 2 Premier League games, there are already a lot of British media attention on him.
Before the game, the British media believed that there was no suspense about Chelsea's main team at this time, because Torres will miss the last two games, and the most likely thing is to let Costa and Segura be around, Jones is at the front, the defenders have been thunderous, and the midfielder does not need to think about being the main force last season.
Either way, though, Chelsea's attacking power will not be reduced, as Jones and Costa have teamed up well so far this season, with both strikers scoring and Segura scoring after less than 30 minutes as a substitute.
In fact, without the analysis of professional media, Chelsea fans of this squad can guess that Chelsea has too few options to make, with only two players recruited this season and three reserve team promoted, this option is the best right now, unless Kodic has any strange ideas.
Kodic is not an aggressive and adventurous coach, especially when he first became the coach of the Premier League giants, it is naturally impossible to boldly come to the trick or anything, Kodic's tactics in this game are very simple, or the lineup of the first two games, that is, Segura replaced Torres.
The forward line is to start with the relatively familiar Segura and Jonesla, these two are already tacit partners in the reserve team, and in addition to Costa, who has a good understanding with Jones, this choice is the most reliable.
Chelsea has a good sense of technical awareness of the central organization talents, so Kodic will build a team around Fabregas in the midfield and Liu Neng in the front, Kodic uses Jones or Costa to rotate to play forwards, the speed, body, and breakthrough ability of the two are excellent, and the two of them play forwards It is easy to attract defense, and as long as the ball can be passed on the side, it can form a chance to score.
Kodic is worried about the position of the forward line, and Liu Neng has not had a headache about which position he plays these days, and he has played all the positions in the front court during this time.
Liu Neng, who can score goals and assist, has performed brilliantly in several games, scoring goals like numbness, Kodic is also relieved, he is under pressure to let Liu Neng play the main position, but now the pressure is less, but he can't fix his position, can't waste his talent, Kodic is really painful and happy.
Liu Neng also added his attributes before this game, adding 10 points to [Long Pass] to 80 points, [Corner Kick] to add 10 points to 80, [Dribbling] to add 10 points to 80 points, [Header] to add 60 points to 80 points, and there are 980 ability points left.
In the end, it was decided to add the shortcomings of the header, and now the Premier League teams are not very familiar with themselves, and the header attribute can have a surprising effect, and a striker who is good at all kinds of goals is invincible.
Jonathan Kodic: "Jones, let's keep working hard and try to bring victory to the team for the sake of our dreams." β
"I'll do my best, coach."
Kodic smiled, 'As long as you do this, I'm sure you have the ability and you'll continue to lead Chelsea to victory.' β
Amid the enthusiastic applause and cheers of the fans, the players from both teams began to take out one after another, and the voices of the fans were undoubtedly a big help for the players, and the on-site commentator explained: "The Chelsea stadium has been full this season and it seems that the team's wonderful performance has attracted the attention of the fans. β
Seeing Chelsea's starting line-up, the Everton manager was sure that he predicted before the game that Kodic would continue to use the line-up for the first two games, and the truth was no different from what he had guessed, without Torres as a wing, he believed that Segura was a big weakness for Chelsea now.
Although Jones and Costa are very powerful, but with a weak team, there is always a breakthrough, and the plan always can't catch up with the rapid change, after the game starts, Ronald Koeman is not happy soon, Segura's speed and breakthrough ability are not weak, Ronald Koeman is puzzled, Segura's strength is much stronger than the preparatory round, Ronald Koeman doesn't know, Segura has the blessing of Liu Neng's partner skills.
Everton's strength this season is not weak, especially in the two major reinforcements this season, they also have confidence in their own strength, there is no cowardly idea because the opponent is strong, their style of play is also very open, although it is mainly defense-oriented, but they have Rooney in the front, and they have the opportunity to counterattack, this trick is not new at all, but it is very effective, Rooney's threat is still great.
Everton's manager, Ronald Koeman, is a Dutch football coach, and his free-kick talent as a player was not inferior to Mihajlovic's, and BarΓ§a's first European Cup in history was won by his free-kick.
Koeman's attacking talent is far more than that, his long shots, headers and long balls are also world-class, it can be said that he is the best interpreter and the most faithful executor of the concept of all-attack and all-defense in Dutch football.
But as a coach, he has also achieved good results, he has been mixed in Serie A and Serie B for many years, and he has experienced all kinds of play, and he knows how to break their defense, but the key is that he has no players, there are no players who are suitable for his own tactics, and no matter how good the tactics are, they can't play their power.
Within five minutes, Chelsea had a header and a long-range shot, with Costa assisting Liu Neng and a long-range shot from outside the Segura box, but neither of them could score, but it put a lot of pressure on Everton, and then their attack began to retract and it looked like they were about to fight back.
In the 19th minute of the game, Cesc Fabregas vigorously pumped the ball into the penalty area in the penalty area, and Liu Neng, who is one meter eight tall, jumped high in the crowd, grabbed the landing point of the ball, and played a beautiful lion shake his head, but the ball was thrown too right, and the ball was held by Pickford.
After watching Liu Neng's two shots, both were headers, Kodic on the sidelines was also surprised, obviously not knowing that Liu Neng still has such a good header ability, in the whole Chelsea, headers are Chelsea's shortcomings, during training, corner kicks, cross from the bottom, looking for Costa, but ignored Jones, so that they don't know Liu Neng's header level, but they don't know that Liu Neng's header ability was added before the game.
In the 25th minute of the game, Costa received a pass from Cesc Fabregas, shook off the opponent's defender, and passed a curve ball near the bottom line.
However, Keane's explosiveness is good, but the header is average, he and Liu Neng ran to the front point together, Liu Neng saw the trajectory of the ball's flight and jumped up, Keane followed the jump, Liu Neng faced the ball is a top, came to a fish leap to the top, the ball was changed direction when it flew rapidly, and flew directly to the upper left corner of the goal.
Pickford stood in the middle, when Liu Neng ran to fight for the header, he also moved two steps forward, blocking his angle, Liu Neng came to a far corner, Pickford quickly flew to reach, but did not reach the ball, can only watch the ball rub against the crossbar and fly into the net.
'GoalGoal, Jones, this is Jones' fourth Premier League goal, four goals in the first three rounds and two assists, it's really jealous, every game is a goal and it's not over yet.
After the goal, Liu Neng raised his arms and rushed to the stands, swung his fist vigorously in that direction, and then was hugged tightly by Segura and Costa who rushed over.