In the summer, Nicolas Anelka joined Chelsea, arguably the most important transfer in the Premier League.

Anelka was the Premier League's top scorer last season, almost winning the European Golden Boot, and in the highly competitive Premier League, he can definitely be called the world's top striker to achieve this honor.

Since 2000, this honor has been monopolized by top superstars.

Hasselbaink, Thierry Henry, Van Nistel, Van der Vaart, and even Nicolas Anelka last season, there are only a few players who have won the Premier League's top scorer, and you can know from these names how great the Premier League's top scorer honor is, so when Anelka joined Chelsea, almost everyone was concerned about transfers.

This heavyweight transfer has also made Chelsea fans look forward to Anelka's performance.

It's a pity that they have been a little disappointed until now, because Anelka has been performing well since he arrived at Chelsea, but he has not shown the strength he was at Manchester City.

In fact, Anelka himself was troubled.

He was a little hesitant to leave Manchester City to join Chelsea, but eventually his brother Claude convinced him to leave City in order to get a higher and bigger salary contract, and he felt that he could succeed in any team with his ability.

But now, more than four months later, Anelka regrets it.

One thing is that he didn't expect it to be so difficult for him to readjust to a team.

Chelsea don't have a Manchester City environment, and the two teams have different styles of play and habits. When he played the way he had run for two years at Manchester City, he found that his team-mates couldn't keep up at all. A lot of times he runs out of space in front of him and the football doesn't come to him in the first place.

The reason for this is the difference in technical strength between Chelsea and Manchester City in terms of midfield.

Chelsea's central midfield player is Frank Lampard, but the likes of Essien and Ballack are not technical players who don't have world-class passing combinations. Manchester City are the opposite, with Morris, Silva and Ivan Crewe. They are all very good at passing, and the tactical system of the whole team is also built with passing.

But whatever the reason, Anelka felt the way he was used to running. It didn't work at all at Chelsea. It became clear to him that he needed to relearn the 'Chelsea way of playing'.

He needs to re-adapt to his movements, or tactics, and most importantly, he needs to re-adapt to his team-mates.

Chelsea's attack does not have a fixed initiator, the front, midfield and back are all adaptive running, so many times, as a striker, you need to rely on your own performance. It also relies on tacit understanding with teammates, or often more important than the former. If you have a tacit understanding with your teammates, then the football will be easy to pass through.

This is the polar opposite of Manchester City.

Manchester City's tactical style of play is completely 'formatted', passing the ball to the right position and not the person, as long as you run and follow the rhythm, then the football can be passed.

In short, Chelsea are a completely different team from Manchester City.

In addition, the competition for Chelsea's forward line is also fierce, and a big reason for Anelka's departure from Manchester City is that Darren Bent is gradually able to compete with him for the main position, he is not even confident that he can compete with Darren Bent, but after coming to Chelsea, he found that the competition is even more fierce.

Needless to say, Drogba, who is the best performer, is not even able to compete with the second-class Kalou, who is also a good player, and has been at Chelsea for a season, which is not comparable to him in all aspects, and in addition, he is also on the bench with a world-class striker like Shepchenko.

In this competitive environment, Anelka feels much tougher.

At the same time, Anelka does not feel that he has the trust of the manager, and the new Israeli coach does not value him very much, and even if he starts the game, if he does not perform well, he will face the result of being substituted.

Combining the above factors, Anelka has a feeling that if he wants to perform well at Chelsea, he will need to adapt to the environment before he is at least six months from now, and only when he is fully adapted will he be able to find the best feeling for the game.

It's a game against Manchester City and Anelka has mixed feelings, he doesn't know what it's like to face his former coach and team-mates.

Anelka has been with Manchester City for five years, five years is enough time to make anyone feel emotional, so his feelings for Manchester City are still very deep, and at the same time, no one among his current team-mates knows the strength of Manchester City's tactics better than him.

The manager warmed him up and was ready to play?

Can I do it myself?

What Anelka didn't realise was that he had not only lost his familiar surroundings, but also his confidence in the face of his former team and team-mates.

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Wan Sheng sat in his position and turned his head to look at the sidelines.

Anelka is ready to play.

At this time, there must be a lot of people who are paying attention to Chelsea's substitutions, and there are also many people commenting on the substitutions, is it Anelka replacing Kalu? The corners of Wan Sheng's mouth curled, in his opinion, this was a very failed adjustment.

Anelka has great quality and knows City well, but City also know him very well.

Wan Sheng also generally knows Anelka's personal attribute data, which means that Anelka's strengths and weaknesses are all on the surface, so it will be easy to defend him.

Wan Sheng walked to the sidelines, called Morris, and gave a general explanation of Anelka's defense.

Basically, it is about letting players block the passing route with their runs and forcing Anelka to fight like Drogba, which Anelka is not good at, and he is also physically strong, but in fact he is a striker who is good at playing with technique.

If he plays like Drogba, he's going to be very uncomfortable.

After Chelsea made a substitution, the game between the two teams resumed, and many people paid attention to Anelka's performance, and even the Sky Sports TV screen screen frequently switched to Anelka, but for a long time, Anelka did not have a good performance.

In the next ten minutes, Anelka only touched the ball three times and did not pose any threat to the City goal.

If it weren't for Anelka, who didn't even know he had a touch, it was as if he had disappeared from the playing field.

"Anelka's performance is a bit poor!"

'Kalou will have some passes and shots and will work well with his team-mates, but the Frenchman has done nothing......

'Chelsea made a loss-making deal!'

It was Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate who made a rational analysis, "Anelka has not been at Chelsea for a long time, he has not fully integrated into the team, we can see that he is actually trying to run, but even if he runs out of empty places, it is useless, he is still used to running in Manchester City, but Manchester City and Chelsea are two teams. ”

"In addition, the Manchester City players know Anelka too well, and many times their defense will make Anelka very helpless......"

Nicolas Anelka's lack of performance left Chelsea boss Grant disappointed.

The Israelis were counting on an equaliser, but after 10 minutes, Chelsea did not equalise and gradually lost their advantage.

In fact, after Maurice's goal, Chelsea launched an onslaught on Manchester City.

They had to.

From 1:3 in the first half, to 3:3, and now to 4:3, Manchester City has gone from being two goals behind to one goal ahead, and they have also become the side behind them.

Before, they still wanted to win Manchester City, but the score fell behind again, and they were very unwilling to lose the game, so they launched a tough offensive against Manchester City in the half, which made Manchester City a little breathless for a while, but ten minutes passed, and Manchester City gradually began to counterattack.

Chelsea can suppress Manchester City in one breath, but Manchester City are no worse than them, so they can't press continuously, and when Manchester City recovers, Chelsea will have to face defensive pressure.

In the 84th minute, Chelsea's rush to score led to an unstable defensive formation and a sudden forward by David Silva completely crumbled their defensive line.

This time it's Ozil's offensive!

After receiving Morris's stabbing pass in the midfield, without waiting for Morris to follow, Ozil moved forward with the ball, in the face of Lampard's interception, Ozil used a small change of direction, followed by a rush forward, Lampard failed to keep up for a while, Ozil took more than five meters forward, and passed the ball to Ivan Crewe, who was quickly inserted on the side.

Ivan Crewe received a pass and immediately attracted the attention of the defence, Chelsea's defensive formation, immediately tilted to the right, and at this time, Ivan Crewe did not hesitate and suddenly hoisted the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

There, Silva followed!

Silva was very decisive in getting forward, he took advantage of the gap on the left side of the Chelsea penalty area, received a pass from Ivan Crewe with a large shift, and when it was too late for the Chelsea defenders to try to stop it, the only thing Carvalho could do to rush over was to block Silva and the goal with his body, but Silva did not do anything to stop the ball, he chose to poke the ball directly to the right.

The camera turns, and it's Ozil who is following there!

"Ozil! Ozil! ”

The announcer shouted in shock, as did the Chelsea fans in the stands.

Their voices didn't affect the game, Ozil was running, there were no defenders around, and he didn't hesitate to wave his right foot at the ball.

"Bang!"

The right foot came into contact with the football, and the grass clippings flew all the time.

Shot!

Goalkeeper Petr Cech made a save, but only the Czech's action was seen, and the ball flew into the net without any suspense.

“Gooooooooooooooooooooooal！！！！！”

With the goal accomplished, George Woodgate shouted, "3:5! ”

"The winner is decided!!" (To be continued.) )