To this day, Blues fans are still haunted by Chelsea's sullen home game against Arsenal in the closing stages of last season, when Chelsea had the last chance to turn Arsenal around at the end of the season, but Chelsea did not take the risk of a home defeat at home.

In that game, Arsenal also used extreme defense tactics on the road, so that Chelsea could not get a chance to counterattack, Mourinho did not let the team press on the attack, and the two teams shook hands in a dull and slow-paced game, and Arsenal retreated and won the cup with consecutive wins in the end.

Today's game made Mourinho feel bad, because it was the beginning of the season, although the giants will be more wary of points gains and losses than the average team, but Arsenal seems to continue to use defensive counter-attacking tactics with a full away lineup.

When playing positional battles with possession, Arsenal's formation did not press forward, relying on Henry, Pire, Qin Xiong, and Ljungberg to play a controlled attack in the frontcourt, shooting when they had the opportunity, and not pursuing their best pass penetration.

The closer you get to the opponent's goal, the better your chances of success, but again, if the attack fails, it is almost impossible for the players who attack the front to be involved in the defence because Chelsea are so fast on the counter-attack! It's pointless to get to the front court and counter-rob.

Now Arsenal has set up a tight formation, and even lightly conceded the ball, handed over the initiative to Chelsea, let Chelsea attack, and Arsenal played defense, so what kind of effect can Chelsea play?

Jose Mourinho has always focused on building his team's counter-attacking tactics, and Chelsea are used to the pattern: stealing the ball. When the opponent's offense and defense switch the rhythm, he suddenly plays a quick counterattack. Let the opponent be destroyed by the counterattack storm in the context of not completing the deployment or hastily deploying!

Now Chelsea are going to play a positional battle. How do they play at Stamford Bridge?

After the attack advanced past half-time, there was no space for the wingers to sprint forward, and there was almost no space for crossing, and there was a fatal problem in Chelsea's attack: a lack of creative power!

In a counterattack attack with huge space, a precise straight plug is not called a zào force! Because even the spectators in the stands can see where there is a vacancy and where to pass the ball, and it is normal to see the vacancy. After all, the space is very vast, and whether or not you can pass the ball in place is a matter of footwork and technology, and it basically has nothing to do with the creation of zào force.

Tearing apart the opponent's defense in a tight attacking space is the main stage to test the strength of the company.

Arsenal have at least eight men in defense most of the time, with three in the middle of the midfield, Silva can help defend the left wing of the wing, and Ljungberg on the right wing of the midfield can retreat actively, on the one hand, he can flank Joe Cole, and on the other hand, he can also supplement the defensive zone of Fabregas in the middle.

Frank Lampard can't get down to the front. He is able to insert a large amount when counterattacking, in positional warfare. If he runs into the encirclement of Qinxiong-Cesc Fabregas-Silva, then his team-mates behind him will probably not be able to get the ball to his feet, after all, Essien and Makelele are still defensive-oriented, and they will not rush to go against the manager's intentions until Mourinho orders a change of stance, not to mention that Makelele is still the kind of defender who stays at the top of the box for a long time.

Chelsea's attack was terrible, with Frank Lampard lacking space in the middle and he lacking the speed to shake off Arsenal's midfield defence.

Joe Cole was more of a team than Arjen Robben, with Ljungberg and Lauren containing his play, further dampening the possibility of a successful combination in Chelsea's front line from a small area.

Robben was free on the right, but he couldn't connect with his team-mates in the middle, and after Ashley Cole's conscious abandonment of the perimeter and Silva's complementary sniping, Robben did little more than occasionally blast a less threatening long-range shot.

Drogba was isolated up front, unable to get the ball at the feet of his team-mates and had to rely on crosses to get his head into play.

In the 27th minute, Frank Lampard tried to give Drogba a through ball, Toure intercepted it with precision, Arsenal launched a counter-attack, Toure passed the ball straight ahead, and Cesc Fabregas took the ball with his back and knocked it across the wing.

Pire began to push forward on the flanks and Mourinho yelled at Robben from the sidelines, meaning to get Robben to be actively involved in defence.

Arsenal were also Chelsea's tightest defence before the dribbling was brought to Chelsea's danger zone, with a back four and three midfielders, and Frank Lampard coming straight back after an unsuccessful pass made Chelsea's defence look seamless.

Pire passed the ball to Qin Xiong in the middle, and Qin Xiong took the initiative to run to pick it up, and he was likely to compete with Essien.

In a short period of time, Qin Xiong felt the toughness of Essien, he was more confrontational than Thiago, the main midfielder of Chelsea in the past, and his defense was also better, he was simply an African rhinoceros!

Essien had never played against Qin Xiong, but his teammates had reminded him: Don't underestimate Qin Xiong!

This ball, he was slower than Qin Xiong, he calmly did not speed up to grab it, worried that Qin Xiong would stop and throw him off.

Qin Xiong made a gesture in the face of the incoming ball and broke through directly, but the raised left foot stopped above the football, and he didn't touch the ball!

The football was missed by him.

Essien was suddenly startled, and sighed in his heart: perfect feint!

At that moment, he already believed that Qin Xiong would break through him!

Frank Lampard, who was on Qin Xiong's right, was also shaken by Qin Xiong, and the football rolled a metre in front of him.

Qin Xiong immediately inserted diagonally after leaking the ball, and the missed football was inserted and stopped by Ljungberg, and then Ljungberg plugged in the direction of Qin Xiong's running.

Qin Xiong would soon encounter Makelele as the ball rolled from behind him, and before that, he knocked the ball straight to the front of the penalty area without stopping, and then quickly rushed past Makelele's right side.

His movement in this attack was explosive, otherwise he would not have been able to shake off the Chelsea defenders and capture the fleeting attacking space.

The Chelsea players remained so calm that they didn't rush forward in a panic, with Gallas in the box, Carvalho relieved and Ferreira in the box to compress Henry's breakaway.

Henry knew that he had no chance to break through or shoot directly when he touched the ball in front of the penalty area, and he knocked the ball directly sideways to complete a one-two with Qin Xiong.

It's like Arsenal sending out a death squad to find almost no space to attack under Chelsea's heavy siege.

Qin Xiong's mood is a little heavy, Chelsea's defense is protected layer by layer, he has no room to break through, Carvalho is on top, Makelele will also cut off the pass between him and Henry, and at the same time block his breakthrough space to the middle of the penalty area, the only thing he can break through is Carvalho, but the breakthrough is to accelerate, Gallas is waiting for the opportunity behind Carvalho.

In desperation, Qin Xiong directly chose to shoot from a distance!

The ball deflected wide of the goal and rolled off the line less than a metre from just outside the right post. (To be continued......)