Volume 1 Chapter 287 Black Killer
In fact, for Porto, the change of tactics is not very difficult to guess.
If it is difficult to open up the situation in the middle, then Mourinho's most likely choice is to take Carlos Alberto and replace Alenichev, but the 3l-year-old Russian, although he has good skills and awareness, has obviously lost the speed and assault ability of the year, otherwise, he would not be unable to play in Rome and Perugia.
But the Russian, who has good left and right foot ability, and can play both left and right wings and the middle should really pay attention to it.
"I don't know if Mourinho will make a substitution at half-time, but if there is a substitution, I am very sure that it will be the Russian player Alenichev, and Mourinho has two options, one is to take Thiago and the other is to take Alberto
Alenichev played as a forward midfielder before Porto, his passing and skills were good, and his speed was okay, but Mourinho let him play on the wing, and the effect was also ideal, so what would he choose, Ye Qiu really didn't know how to do it, and he could only improvise.
However, if Thiago is won, there will be two skilled players in the frontcourt, Alenichev and Alberto, which means that Porto is determined to counterattack, Ye Qiu has always refused to come to this kind of counteroffensive, the more the merrier, but also have to carefully arrange defensive tactics and intercept them in a targeted manner.
Mourinho's Porto is actually a top team in the Portuguese Super League, even in Europe, because of the quality of the players, not as good as the top team, but definitely not weak, not to mention the defense, when it comes to attack, when Alenichev and Alberto start at the same time, this team's creativity is still very strong.
However, at this time, Porto play 44 tactics, and usually use it when facing a weaker team than them, playing a strong team, usually Alenichev and Alberto only choose one of the two, this is also to ensure the defensive strength of the team.
As for Cardoso Mendes Thiago, who Mourinho has relied on and brought in this season, this game was obviously under the mark of Chelsea's Claude Makelele, and completely lost the performance it should have, and this game did not help the team much.
Ye Qiu focused on telling the players in the locker room to pay attention to the possible substitutions in the second half of Porto, as well as the series of changes that followed, especially to remind the players that Porto may counterattack in the second half.
If Ye Qiu is now the head coach of Porto, he will also try his best to counterattack when he is 0l behind, the reason is very simple, there is not much time left for him, and if he continues to drag on, the more bad it will be for Porto.
And Mourinho still has to be wary of one point, that is, if it continues to drag on like this, it will also weaken and hit the team's morale to a certain extent, and when he wants to counterattack, maybe the players will become more than capable and insufficient.
Ye Qiu dared to let Chelsea stabilize for 35 minutes before counterattacking, a very important reason is that many players in the Chelsea team are very experienced, especially the experience of the competition, and the other players have also experienced years of professional competition, and they are all relatively mature and stable.
If it is a team like Joe Cole and Ribery, Ye Qiu will choose to attack, because this type of young player is obviously unable to hold his breath, and if Ye Qiu presses it, it will form a heavy blow to the team's morale.
After conceding the goal in the first half, and being beaten so embarrassed by Chelsea in the latter stages, if Mourinho didn't hurry up to get back a city and save morale, then he probably didn't have to continue to play this game, Chelsea didn't counterattack, and they themselves died down.
It is important to know that when the head coach is arranging tactics, he must not only judge the situation, but also consider the psychological changes and morale of the players.
With this layer of thoughts, Ye Qiu also knew very well how he should choose.
While this may make Mourinho hate himself even more, who makes each other undying rivals?
We Chinese have a saying that is right, facing the opponent is to do everything, because kindness to the opponent is cruelty to oneself, and Ye Qiu is already very gentlemanly without unscrupulous means.
When the second half was restarted, everyone found that Porto had reversed the situation in the first half and took the initiative to attack.
But there is one aspect of Porto's attack that makes it clear that they are inadequate, and that is their lack of wings.
Chelsea's wide players are McCone and Patrice Evra, and although they are full-backs, they are often used as wing-backs or even wingers, and the way they play in the back makes their role in the team's attack more subtle and threatening.
can look at Porto's entire lineup, Ferreira and Valente's speed is on the slow side, among them, Ferreira is obviously unable to deal with Ronaldinho, if you want him to attack again, forget it.
There wasn't much immediate threat from Valente's side, but that damn Drogba always avoided Jorge Costa to find Carvalho, and Valente had to stick to the defense and prepare to help defend whenever and wherever he could.
Originally, if you play 44, Maniche is playing left midfielder, the Portuguese midfielder is both offensive and defensive, and he is also a good player in playing fullback, but now Chelsea's midfield pressure is so strong, Maniche is a little apprehensive even to help defend Costinha, and the offensive investment is not large.
At the end of the day, everyone, even Mourinho, had to admit that if they wanted to play a threatening attack, they had to make substitutions.
If you want to make substitutions, Alenichev is the best choice, because his play can create opportunities on the wing, and who can be replaced is a question, if Thiago is replaced, the team will change to 44 Relying on Mendes and Costinha to protect both the defense and the ribs, it is indeed uncertain.
Ronaldinho cut inside with the ball and then found team-mates to cooperate, which was a big win for Chelsea, and the goal conceded in the first half was actually also caused by a mistake caused by Frank Lampard inserting into the right rib of the defence.
It's not time to fight hard and break the boat, there is still so much time, and if there is a bad omission again, and Chelsea will seize the opportunity again, it will be really over.
In his previous life, some people commented on Mourinho's lack of astute tactical sense, and one of the important points is that his on-the-spot substitutions often did not actually achieve the desired effect, but were somewhat willful.
For example, replacing three players in one go, or replacing a defender and replacing an attacking player, or Yu Crisp directly pushing a central defender to the front to make a cameo, these are not strictly speaking, these are not very commendable tactical changes, the reason is very simple, not targeted, very blind, with a bit of gambling.
And the most commendable game in Mourinho's life was the first leg of the semi-final against Barcelona at Inter Milan, which can be said to be the pinnacle of Mourinho's tactical level as a manager.
Of course, it is undeniable that Mourinho is a very good and successful manager, there is no doubt about that, but his specialty is not in the pre-match arrangement, or the mastery of on-the-spot command, let alone in the formation of the tactical system, but in the motivation he has for the players and the control of the dressing room.
It has been said that Mourinho's success in charge lies in finding ways to lead a team to the best of its ability, remember, the method, not the tactical philosophy.
And in Mourinho's method of winning the championship, psychological motivation, strict control of the dressing room with an iron fist, and the formation of a strong team are undoubtedly the key factors.
In professional football, who can go to the bottom and succeed will make sense, and there is no need to divide a superior, it can only be said that each other has taken different routes and different trade-offs, but it is obvious that now, when Mourinho's motivation has played a certain effect, allowing Porto's players to muster up the courage to counterattack in the second half, he can't find a place to start.
In other words, they had the courage and determination to counterattack, but they did not know where to attack from the road
Chelsea have no obvious weakness, the two wings are weak and can be exploited, but now Mourinho does not have a good wing player to take advantage of this, Alberto is more likely to take the route of retreating to get the ball.
So, after weighing it up, Mourinho finally replaced Alberto with Alenichev in the 56th minute, letting Alenichev go back to play on the right, Maniche on the left, Thiago dropping back to play a back three, and the team's tactics immediately became 45
This was not unexpected by Ye Qiu, because he had already taken into account all the possible variables of Porto before the game, Mourinho's substitution was not too surprising, and even he had used it many times in the past season, the one against Manchester United was also the same, and the same was true for Deportivo La Coruna.
After Ye Qiu made a substitution in Porto, he immediately walked to the sidelines and made a forward pressure towards the player.
There is only one Del Lai left in the front court, although this player has good speed, but a single striker, Ye Qiu does not need to be afraid of him, and he let Davis and Deco both press the positions of Porto, directly suppress Porto's three backs, let McCone and Evra both suppress Porto's wings, and completely isolate Del Lai in the front court.
Whether it is Maniche or Alenichev, the speed is far inferior to McCone and Evra, especially for the 3l-year-old Russian veteran Alenichev, Ye Qiu recorded a video for the players to study before the game, and made great efforts to this point.
In the first minute, Porto played a quick attack, Delle won the ball in the middle and distributed it to Alenichev on the right side, and when the latter won the ball, Evra decisively chose to cut into close range and support Alenichev with his body.
The Russian is 3l years old, and he is not a strong player, he looks like a weak Arshavin at a height of l meters, and he was close to Evra, and the ball at his feet stumbled and almost lost, but his technical ability and ball sense are really good, and he soon made an adjustment and wanted to pass the ball diagonally into the penalty area.
But at this time, Cannavaro had blocked the position, and after winning the ball, he quickly passed to Davies, who rushed back in front, Davis turned his back to the direction of the attack, and quickly passed the ball to Evra, who wanted to step forward to participate in the attack after completing the defensive task.
The French left-back broke through on the left after winning the ball, and Chelsea's entire formation advanced rapidly, ready to play a counter-attack, while Porto's defence was retreating quickly, especially Carvalho, who kept speeding up and retreating when he saw Drogba running behind him.
Evra crossed the halfway line, looked up, and saw that Drogba was already raising his hand, he directly picked up his left foot and played a long-distance diagonal pass, the destination was the back post in the right corner of the small penalty area, looking for Drogba, who was quickly inserting.
I have to say that Evra's long-distance pass was very fast, which caught Porto off guard, but the landing point was much worse and a little off, causing Drogba to have to accommodate his landing point and was entangled by Carvalho.
The height of the Portuguese central defender is indeed not very good, but the kung fu of the entanglement is enough to ⊥ people to have a headache and even collapse, Rao is a tough guy like Drogba, who was entangled by him, and it almost beat him.
However, Drogba has the advantage in height and confrontation, and since he can't choose to hit the goal himself, he chooses to make the ball.
As soon as the Ivorian rushed into the penalty area, he immediately stood in his position, jumped high, and headed Evra's long diagonal pass to the left side of the goal, hoping that a player could catch up and make up for it directly.
As it turned out, the decisions made in such confusion often did not end well, so Drogba's header was ferried, no one answered, and it was not until the ball was out of the left side of the penalty area that Ronaldinho caught up with the ball, and Ferreira also approached to defend for the first time.
After Ronaldinho got the ball, he made a fake stop and deceived Ferreira, although he lost the angle of cutting inside into the penalty area, he successfully avoided being blocked in the corner of the corner area, and chose to retreat to the left side of the penalty area to dribble the ball.
At this point, Chelsea's second echelon of attack also came up, Davies and Frank Lampard rushed up at the same time, and Ronaldinho also saw the moment to dig a half-high ball with his right foot before Ferreira got close again.
The ball arced quickly past Jorge Costa in the box and fell in front of Carvalho.
But just when the Portuguese central defender wanted to rush up quickly to clear the siege, he found that a figure in a blue jersey was faster than him, even if he entered the big penalty area, he did not slow down at all, and flew directly to the top of the ball.
The ball hit the man's head accurately, turned in a direction, and went straight to the right post and into the goal.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
'Counter-attack, Chelsea played a very dangerous counter-attack against Porto, a curling pass from Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard, who came in from behind, leapt over the top and headed home to score the second goal of the game for Chelsea'
Frank Lampard tried to get up from the ground quickly, but soon he felt a Tarzan gravity, and it turned out that Drogba, who was nearby, pounced on him and threw him down again on the turf of the Schalke stadium, which made the eyes of everyone around him, including Porto's players, visibly widen.
Being overwhelmed by such a stout stupid elephant makes people worry about whether their ribs have been crushed
But the crazy players didn't pay attention to it, Lampard got up from the ground, quickly rushed to the sideline, and Ronaldinho held his hands together, and the crazy Blues vice-captain kissed Ronaldinho's sweaty forehead directly, and the two shouted in celebration to the camera on the sidelines.
Chelsea players came to the sidelines one after another, and there was not much suspense in this game
"Ronaldinho's performance in this game was really outstanding, his first goal was full of his magical individual skills, he completely played Patrick Ferreira, the best right-back in Europe, into a stake, and the second goal showed his team awareness and very keen tactical sense."
"At that time, if Davies was chosen, the Dutch boar would definitely hit the goal directly, there was still a threat, but the success rate was not large, but the success rate of choosing Lampard was greater, but the risk was also great, if Lampard did not understand, the ball would have been defused by Carvalho, so to speak, this is a very bold choice."
"Mourinho paid a terrible price for his greed, perhaps Ye Qiu and his Chelsea have been patiently waiting for Porto to press out to play, and the first half of the deficit forced the equalizer Porto to have to counterattack in the second half, which directly fell into Chelsea's trap."
"It has to be said that it is very interesting to use counterattacks to break the goal of the team that is best at counterattacking, and from this game to now, in more than an hour, it is not difficult for us to see that Ye Qiu and his Chelsea have firmly controlled the initiative both on the field and at the tactical level, and Porto does not have the dark horse temperament that the outside world guesses."
"This can't help but remind us of what Bobby Harms, the assistant coach of Eredivisie giants Ajax and an old friend of Ye Qiu, said not long ago, that the final would definitely end in a Chelsea victory, because Ye Qiu is a black mark through and through"
As if hit by the second goal, Mourinho and Porto are obviously demoralized, behind the ball, and behind the L goal are two completely different situations, now even Mourinho is not absolutely sure that he can recover these two goals, let alone the players.
But in the end, Mourinho made a substitution, replacing Thiago, who had a poor performance in the game, with Emmanuel, and then replacing Delle with McCarthy, who didn't get many chances in this game and was also sluggish, without the slightest bit of the spirit of beating Manchester United and Deportivo La Coruna.
Seeing that Porto made a substitution, Ye Qiu also followed suit.