Chapter 446: Fight the League Again
Four days after the match with Leicester City, Chelsea also ushered in the 31st round of the Premier League against Burnley.
Because it was a back-to-back away game, the team was a little tired, and it was a team like Burnley, Kodic made a big rotation, except for Jones and Costa in the front court, in addition to N'Golo Kante in the midfield, and the defenders except for Azpilicueta who did not rotate, all of them were rotated.
In the away team's dressing room, Kodic sighed with emotion: "Although I made a big rotation in this game, it shouldn't be difficult for us to win, but don't underestimate Burnley, they can be ranked 7th in the league this season, don't capsize here!" ”
Jones stood up and said, "No, no matter what team it is, we can win!" Isn't it? ”
Costa has no problem with the question: "Yes, it's good for them to be in seventh place, but now that they meet us, it's their problem. ”
"The real big question is how to help Jones play well." Azpilicueta said: "The media are all on him now, and if he doesn't behave well, the media will have to change the direction." ”
"So what do we do? How many more passes to Jones will allow him to shoot a few more times? Kante asked.
Jones shook his head and said: "Don't talk nonsense, I don't need that kind of help, you just run as usual, play as usual, win, better than my personal performance, no matter how good I play, I will be scolded if I lose." ”
Kante said: "But you should also cut forward a little bit and try to score goals, and I'll make the ball for you." ”
Jones nodded, but there was another thought in his heart, everyone's mentality is a little wrong, a little too underestimated, and they are a little too strong in the game, the overall situation of the team is more important, and they can't ignore the overall situation for their own affairs.
In this game, let's shoot less and make more balls for Costa, anyway, in the face of weak teams, there is not much pressure to win at all, just let me brush up on the assist.
"On March 25, 2018, the 31st round of the Premier League Burnley vs Chelsea match will start immediately, and the currently ranked 7th Burnley will face the 1st-ranked Chelsea at home.
Burnley are currently seventh in the Premier League this season, and if Southampton are unable to win the FA Cup this season, then Burnley can reach Europa League qualification, and they are currently only two points clear of Arsenal in front of them, and Dyche's side look so close to the Europa League.
Against Chelsea, who have been in supernatural form of late, it looks like Burnley have no chance of winning, but anything can happen in football, and Burnley have been excellent defensively at home in the league this season, conceding 13 goals at home behind Manchester United.
Burnley have been in excellent form this season, with manager Dyche having just been voted Premier League Manager of the Month for March, winning their last five games and now unbeaten in six games.
If they can win this game against Chelsea, Burnley will overtake Arsenal in the standings and enter the European places, and I believe that the whole Burnley team will do their best to play a good game for this goal!
Can they pull off an upset at home to Chelsea and continue their journey towards their first Europa League campaign in their history? ”
Players from both sides started to play, Burnley played in the line-up, formation 442: goalkeeper: No. 29 Nick Pope, defenders: No. 5 Tarkovski, No. 28 Lang, No. 23 Ward, No. 2 Lowton
Midfielders: No. 18 Westwood, No. 25 Lennon, No. 4 Koke, No. 17 Gudmundsson
Forwards: No. 10 Barnes, No. 11 Wood
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Chelsea formation: 3421, goalkeeper: Courtois 13, defenders: Rudiger 2, 24 Cahill, 28 Azpilicueta
Midfielders: No. 33 Emerson, No. 7 Kante, No. 14 Bakayoko, No. 15 Willian
Forwards: No. 11 Pedro, No. 19 Costa, No. 9 Jones
There were no upsets at the start of the game, the rhythm of the game was always at the feet of Chelsea, and in the eighth minute of the game, Jones took the ball and made a long pass directly into the box in the middle, which was flicked by Costa and scored the goal.
'In the first eight minutes, Chelsea scored away from home! Costa's header is beautiful, Jones's long pass, the pass is beautiful! It didn't seem like there was much suspense in this game, and Chelsea took the lead after less than 10 minutes! ”
"This is Costa's second goal after recovering from injury, this goal is an assist from Jones, Costa's two goals, the assists are Jones's, Jones can not only score, but also assist, his goal has already won the Golden Boot, Jones still wants to win the assist king?"
With the game on 17 minutes, Jones broke down the middle with the ball, and after a simple lateral flick dodged the defender, he gave the ball to Costa, who retreated in front of him.
Costa tried to turn but failed and knocked the ball to Jones, who slotted the ball straight to the right and into the box.
Pedro stopped the ball with his left foot, then took a step to the left, and with his right foot, he kicked the ball towards the goal, and the ball was kicked by him in an arc, Burnley goalkeeper Pope was helpless, and the ball fell into the goal again.
'Chelsea's second goal! It's coming so fast! Chelsea have mastered the game and there is no suspense about them winning the game!
Although before the game, everyone already knew that Chelsea had no problem winning the game, but they did not expect it to be so easy, this game more intuitively let everyone see the strength of Chelsea, this game saw the game less than 20 minutes, Chelsea led Burnley 2-0.
And at this time, Jones was also a lot more relieved, and began to think about something different, Jones really wanted to get the assist king, after all, no one could catch up with him in the number of goals he scored, and if he got the assist king again, it would be even more perfect.
How can I make Costa play better? Just to let him score a header is to ignore his role too much, Costa is also very good at his feet, and his running ability and anticipation are also very good, if you don't use it, it's really a waste.
Jones then began to press forward with the ball, squeezing Burnley's back line even more and allowing Costa to return to a shorter distance, Jones broke through on the edge of the box and involved the Burnley backfielder, allowing Costa to run more in the area.
Jones just kept smashing the ball, pulling the ball, turning around, and resisting the opposing defenders, and this way of pressing forward with the ball made the whole Burnley team start to retreat, and the whole back line began to retreat.
However, in doing so, there are more people in the Burnley penalty area, which means that there is less space, and in such a space, if Jones can't shoot directly, he will probably let the opportunity run away.
Jones took a sharp step to the right with the ball, and then immediately was blocked to the left, and the two defenders blocked in front of Jones, trying to block Jones's pass and breakthrough, Jones knew that it was impossible to move forward, he took a step back and ran backwards again, this time, the opponent's defense was more chaotic by him, and Costa also ran with Jones, trying to meet Jones.