Chapter 186: In the game
After the first eight games of the Premier League, the Blues have won seven and drawn one, taking 22 points and sitting first in the table, while Watford have won four, drawn three and lost one, and have 15 points to sit fourth in the table.
No amount of defence can stop Chelsea's attack, but Watford are not easy to win, although they have lost a lot of games this season and won a lot, but in other games they have performed well, and they are now in fourth place in points.
Before the start of this game, Kodic did not make any special tactical adjustments, but the players who were rested in the last game returned to the main lineup, although it was the League Cup game three days later, but in this game, Kodic still played the main team, because the main team can rest in the next game.
Chelsea and Watford have met 31 times, with the Blues winning 16, drawing six and losing nine, with the last time the two sides met was in the 28th round of last season's Premier League, when Chelsea won 4-3.
As the Chelsea players celebrated, Watford manager Marco Silva had only one question on his mind, as he couldn't figure out how to deal with Jones' attacking style if he dropped back to get the ball and then took the ball forward himself.
How many people go up at the same time to grab it? One person is definitely not good, and two people are enough, but if there are three people up, how many people are there in the midfield? If it were Jones who was pre-game, it would have been nice for the player who only knew how to dribble the ball.
But today's game can be seen, this guy's passing ability is not bad at all, one by one is just Jones's breakthrough, together with this guy will pass the ball after pulling the defensive force, close to the guard to prevent him from taking the ball, he will take the initiative to retreat to get the ball, if he doesn't keep up, he will watch him get the ball successfully, and if you keep up, the defensive force in the backcourt will be empty again.
Marco Silva also didn't figure out how to prevent Chelsea's attack, in fact, Chelsea's tactics seem very simple, but in fact it is also difficult, he first has a player like Jones, already a striker like Eden Hazard Costa, and a striker like Cesc Fabregas, when the team is new, the current Premier League teams will basically not be Chelsea's opponents.
It wasn't until a few rounds later that someone could figure out how to deal with their attacking style, and then everyone else did the same, and Marco Silva knew that if you want to contain Chelsea's attack, you must first contain Jones, the core of Chelsea's frontcourt.
In fact, all players have completed the prerequisites of staring Jones first before they can effectively deal with Jones's attack, but now, he can't think of how to deal with a striker who is willing to drop back to get the ball, break through well, and be willing to pass the ball.
If there is a top back, you can use the simplest way to deal with Jones, one-on-one marking becomes, but such a back, looking at the entire Premier League, can not find one, defending such a player, but it does not mean that one does not achieve two, two people to defend one person together, in fact, it is a great waste.
After all, the cooperation between the two people cannot be as perfect as only one person, not to mention that the two of them can fight together, even if they can block Jones's breakthrough to a certain extent, but they can't stop Jones's direct pass to attack, and even if they defend Jones, they still have Fabregas, the core of the midfield.
Just when he couldn't think of a way to deal with Jones, the game on the field had restarted, although Watford did not hear the manager's command, but everyone understands the principle of counterattacking after conceding the goal, so after the restart, the Watford players immediately launched an attack, wanting to equalize as soon as possible.
The football was immediately passed to the feet of Jones, because he was attacking just now, so there were a lot of Wadford players in Chelsea's half, and they immediately started to press Jones, Jones did not choose to break through or launch a counterattack with a long pass, he controlled the ball in place for a while before passing the ball out, and Chelsea's line began to push forward steadily.
When Jones gets the ball near the center circle, he is facing a full backline, but for this situation, Jones is not worried at all, what happened to the complete backline? When you don't move, it looks flawless, but when you move, it's different, dribble forward and break through!
Swartford, who suffered a loss, saw Jones break forward with the ball again, and immediately two players flanked at the same time, while one player was a little behind, hoping to block his pass.
There are four people in the midfield, and now there are three in front of them, and in other places, will there be no gaps, Jones sneered in his heart, but he did not pass the ball, but rushed forward directly, Watford's players fought and retreated, they were not afraid of retreating, after retreating, the number of defenders in the penalty area would be more dense!
After pressing the opposition defensive formation into the 30-metre zone, Jones opted to pass, but this time he did not pass forward, nor to the sides, but directly passed back to Hazard, who came up behind him.
'Eden Hazard, get the ball to the right!' Jones shouted after the pass and immediately distributed the ball to the right wing, where Costa had already cut in from behind.
Because most of the defenders are concentrating on the offensive players of Jones and Azar, Costa's receiving the ball is quite easy, Costa's recent performance has not been good, and has been ignored by many people, and now he has shown his strength, after getting rid of a defender who came up to defend, Costa took advantage of the situation and rushed into the penalty area! After cutting into the penalty area, Costa got up and stabbed the ball straight towards the goal!
“goooooooooooooal! Two to zero! Twenty-seven minutes, Jones! Jones! Costa! After helping the team attack with passes in this game, both goals in this game were assisted by Jones, with Eden Hazard and Costa scoring one each! ”
Silva slapped the turf hard and conceded a second goal! He called over to the player closest to him and said to the player, who was already a little overwhelmed: "Tell everyone, attack!" Press on the offense! Don't rush back to defend after losing the ball, and start pressing in the frontcourt! Grab them in the front court! Especially that kid named Jones! ”
"Got it!" The player nodded and ran onto the pitch.
Silva looked at Jones, who was surrounded by people, and thought to himself, "Even if you lose this game, I won't let you have a good time, boy!" 'After Chelsea took a two-goal lead, Chelsea fans thought the game was a foregone conclusion.
After all, Chelsea has not had a precedent of being overturned by an opponent at home with a two-goal lead, and there has never been a situation in recent years, often after falling behind by two goals in the game, the opponent will give up the game, but in the next ten minutes and nearly twenty minutes of the first half, Watford launched a ferocious attack!