The Premier League has completely become Pan Yi's one-man show!

If there were people who didn't want to believe it before, now they have to admit it.

This match in the 11th round of the Premier League at Anfield proved that once again.

Liverpool lost 3-1 at home to Chelsea.

Although Pan Yi's side did not continue the attacking storm of previous goals, they still did not panic when they were behind against Liverpool, and finally scored three goals in a row to retreat from Anfield.

Even Liverpool legend Carragher admitted: 'Chelsea deserved the three points tonight, they were even better. ”

'The composure and steadiness they showed when they were behind is something that you don't see in most teams.

"If you don't look at the scoreline, you can't even see that they're a team that's behind most of the time!"

'That confidence and temperament also makes Chelsea even more unstoppable. I really don't think the suspense of winning the Premier League this season is completely gone......"

Carragher said this, partly because Chelsea's performance was really good, and partly because the powerhouses continued to collapse.

The best performer in this round was Manchester United, who beat Crystal Palace 1-0 at home, with Juan Mata scoring the only goal of the game in the 67th minute.

Manchester City was held to a 2-2 draw away from home by Queens Park Rangers, and Arsenal lost 1-2 to Swansea City away!

Arsenal's north London neighbours Tottenham Hotspur were not far-fetched, having lost 2-1 at home to Stoke City.

On the contrary, Southampton's performance is still solid, and after winning 2-0 at Ryrcester City, they are still in second place behind Chelsea.

In fact, if you don't count Chelsea, the situation in the Premier League this season can be said to be extremely chaotic, and it can also be called the "Premier League troubled times", whether it is the championship or the fourth, or even the relegation battle, it is very interesting.

But now with this invincible Chelsea team, it has suddenly weakened the suspense of one of the most gimmicks in the league, that is, winning the championship.

Eleven wins in a row at the beginning!

No. 1 in the Premier League in terms of goals scored and least goals conceded in the Premier League!

This is not a dimensionality reduction strike, what is a dimensionality reduction strike?

And in the process of winning 11 in a row, Chelsea have not encountered troubles or challenges, but Pan Yi always has a way to solve it.

"Chelsea after 70 minutes is not easy to mess with" and "Pan Yi time" have become the distinctive labels of this Chelsea team.

Under the control of Pan Yi, this team, which seemed to be a little too young, staged a drama that was at the peak of its debut, seizing the position of the leader of the Premier League standings from the first round, and then refusing to move its nest again.

This is equivalent to saying: I will take the championship, you can grab the rest!

Although there are still a few media who are still nagging about the miracle of "Manchester United overtaking Newcastle" back then, many people know that the miracle is called a miracle because it does not happen often.

With Chelsea's current momentum, four of the big6 have been wiped out, can we still count on Tottenham Hotspur, who are relatively weak and now only 12th in the table?

Now no matter which Premier League team, when facing Chelsea with the temperament of a king, the body will involuntarily be three inches shorter, the momentum is much worse, and it is even more difficult to win.

And, what if Chelsea lose a game or two if they are negligent?

The winning streak was only ended, but their advantage in the standings was unassailable.

Therefore, many people think that other strong teams should calm down and fight for the fourth.

After all, the competition for a Champions League place this year is predictably fiercer than in previous years!

Not to mention the traditional big6, at least two of them will be squeezed out of the top four;

And this season, Southampton, West Ham United, including Swansea, Newcastle United, are in good shape, and they have been constantly interspersed in the big6 queue, and they have also pulled the big6 down from time to time.

If the strong teams can't get back to form in time, this season's British land will really be a mess!

The Times also mentioned that it was originally thought that Chelsea's form would be up and down by the time the Christmas schedule approached.

However, Chelsea's elimination from York City in the Carabao Cup now looks like a big positive.

As the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup, including the home-and-away semi-finals, take place in December and January, they form an important part of the Christmas Devil's schedule.

But after Chelsea were eliminated, it was equivalent to playing three fewer games at once!

For strong teams, due to the national team competition and European competitions, there are already many competitions, and the players are more likely to get tired.

Fatigue and injuries caused by playing on multiple fronts, including inconsistent form, can often be the beginning of a team's collapse.

For example, in these rounds, big6 have lost one after another, is it really because their strength is not as good as those small and medium-sized teams? This is of course impossible.

In many cases, it is due to the sequelae of multi-front operations.

So why hasn't Chelsea been affected?

No more wasting time in the Carabao Cup is important.

Between the League Cup and the league leaders, I believe everyone will not hesitate to choose the latter.

And although everyone doesn't know what kind of mentality Pan Yi had when he lost to York City, it is clear that such a loss seems to have more advantages than disadvantages at present.

There is, of course, another reason.

That is, Chelsea also won the Champions League group stage easily!

They secured top spot in the group early on, so they didn't have to fight like other teams.

Send some young players to rotate, play happily and come home safely.

– Of course, it's another story to play in the Champions League with a relaxed mindset and win with a rotating squad.

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Chelsea's dominance in the Premier League was once again on display against West Bromwich Albion in the round of 12.

It's not about how dominant Chelsea were in the game, how amazing the final score was 6-0;

But West Bromwich Albion's head coach Aaron Owen actually sent most of the substitutes in this away game, and even the youth players to respond, which was clearly a strategic abandonment!

Such a relatively negative attitude towards the game naturally caused a lot of controversy after the game.

But Aaron Owen said very calmly:

'We are a team fighting for relegation and I know very well who our real opponents are.

"We just have to focus on beating Queens Park Rangers, beating Burnley or Crystal Palace."

'Beat Chelsea? At Stamford Bridge? are you kidding me？ This is something that even teams like Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool can't do. ”

'I can apologise for the fans who bought tickets and didn't see the good game, and I can apologise for the West Bromwich Albion fans who saw the heavy defeat, but I still don't think there's anything wrong with my attitude towards this game.'

"I still say what I said just now, I won't fight to the death with such a near-invincible team, I have to save my strength and fight for those games that can be won by fighting."

"Seriously, if you want to blame, you can only blame Pan Yi. This Chelsea side of his is really strong......"

'You also saw how we played against Tottenham, against Manchester United, we were really trying to win and we really drew with Manchester United and won against Tottenham. But this Chelsea team, sorry, I don't really see any hope of beating them. ”

"Give it your all every game? Hehe, if I get out of class because of a relegation failure, you support me? ……”

After the game, the British media also uncharacteristically did not study how Pan Yi arranged his troops in this 6:0 victory, but discussed whether West Bromwich Albion's approach was right.

Opponents argue that if every team is like West Bromwich Albion and surrenders when they see Chelsea, wouldn't the Premier League, which has been advertised as "the most competitive" and "not easy to mess with", live up to its name.

It's understandable to strategically abandon relatively frivolous competitions such as the League Cup and FA Cup, but it would be a bit too much to abandon the Premier League.

And it's also a bit of a feeling of winning the title all the way to Chelsea.

However, those who support it say that Aaron Owen also has a point, West Bromwich Albion can't beat Chelsea even if he tries his best, and it may even be 6-0, so why not maintain his strength and fight for a more worthy opponent?

After all, before them, Manchester United and Arsenal were indeed fighting Chelsea with all their might, right? They all lost as well.

Even a lineup like Manchester United lost 0:5.

West Bromwich Albion is a relegation team, and it is a bit difficult for you to let them go to Chelsea away to get points.

The two sides are in dispute, the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and no one can convince anyone.

Such a dispute even exceeded the heat of a key battle in this round, Arsenal's home game against Manchester United.

In this game, Van Gaal did not use the big circle tactic, but sacrificed a 3-4-3 that seemed to be a bit similar to Pan Yi's formation.

Di Maria, Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney became the three arrows, while Luke Shaw and Valencia came to play the role of wing-back, and the double midfielders were Ferini + Carrick.

Such a change of formation also made Professor Arsene Wenger a little uncomfortable, and as a result, he lost 1-2 at home.

United forced Arsenal defender Gibbs into an own goal before Wayne Rooney sealed the win with an 85-minute goal.

Arsenal only managed to score a goal on 90 minutes through substitute Olivier Giroud, but to no avail.

The win also put United back in the top six of the table, and they are only one point away from fourth place.

Of course, Van Gaal does not admit that his formation was born from Pan Yi:

'I've said before that I used the 3-4-3 formation at Ajax 20 years ago. If you talk about who learns whom, I think Pan Yi used my ideas. ”

'What, Manchester United's cross-cutting and wing-backs today really have a Chelsea shadow? All I can say is that you reporters don't know much about the ball, don't you all play like this 3-4-3? ”

"What do you think about West Bromwich Albion's strategic abandonment of the game? I'm sorry, Aaron Owen is his business what he thinks, but I'm definitely going to fight for every game......"

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In Germany, there is one more person who needs to fight every game.

That's Borussia Dortmund's manager, Jurgen Klopp.

Because now they are in a 100 times worse situation than Manchester United or even West Bromwich Albion!

What's a bad law?

Now that the Bundesliga has played 12 rounds, what is Dortmund's result?

3 wins, 2 draws, 7 losses, only 11 points!

This result can only be ranked 16th among the 18 Bundesliga teams, that is, the third from the bottom.

In other words, Dortmund is now in the relegation zone!

It's just incredible.

After all, just a year ago, Dortmund was still a team in the Champions League zone!

Even Hamburg, which suffered heavy blood loss in the summer window this season, is still in the middle of the standings.

Dortmund's results have kept Klopp in the forefront of public opinion, and he is even about to leave class.

If he hadn't worked hard at Dortmund for many years and had "hard currency" such as the Bundesliga champion and the Champions League runner-up, he would have been ousted by the fans long ago.

The main reason for the current situation is Dortmund's transfer this summer;

And the most important reason for this, of course, is that the leading goalscorer Robert Lewandowski has joined Bayern Munich for free when his contract expires.

The subsequent introduction of the Serie A Golden Boot to Immobile has now proven to be a failure.

Because of Mobi, it is estimated that it belongs to the kind of player with an "adaptability" attribute of 1, and it can only be mixed in Serie A, and it will not work once it is outside.

At this time, Klopp had no way to change his thinking in time to adjust, which led to Dortmund losing consecutive games and diving all the way into the relegation zone.

The only consolation now is that Borussia Dortmund's performance in the Champions League is "okay".

While Chelsea have been on a winning streak in Group G, it has also led to a difficult time for Borussia Dortmund's other rivals.

Borussia Dortmund have a record of one win and one draw in the two-legged tie with Sporting after a 3-0 defeat to Chelsea, which also puts them in second place after four rounds with one win, two draws and one defeat.

Yes, Chelsea finished first in this group with 12 points, while Borussia Dortmund finished second with five points.

Roma and Sporting are two teams, both with 2 draws and 2 losses, with only 2 points, ranking third and fourth.

But Dortmund is actually a bit dangerous.

With Roma already playing their two games against Chelsea, they will have a good chance of overtaking them if they can win head-to-head with the other two teams in the group, especially against Borussia Dortmund.

And Dortmund's remaining two games are one against Chelsea and one against Roma.

Jurgen Klopp is now facing a somewhat similar selection as coach of West Bbrovic.

Will you fight Chelsea, or will you stay for Roma?

The problem is that if you can take at least one point against Chelsea on the advantage of home stadium, you can occupy a very strong position in this group.

Because if Roma can't win against Sporting de Portugal in this round, even if Dortmund loses to Roma in the final round of the group stage, they can still qualify from the group!

But if we lose to Chelsea, the final round against Roma will be a do-or-die battle and we must not afford to lose.

"I still have to fight." Klopp gritted his teeth.

He can't leave his fate to others, and he can't just give up an opportunity to fully control his own destiny.

And if you can get points from Chelsea now, it's not just about qualifying for the Champions League.

His side are now in the Bundesliga relegation zone and they need a win to give the whole team a shot in the arm!

Besides, Chelsea have now firmly qualified as the top of the group, and with Pan Yi's urine, they will inevitably rotate on a large scale in such a game that does not matter to them, and even experiment with new formations and new ways of playing.

This is Dortmund's chance!

To be honest, the current Klopp has recognized the gap between himself and Pan Yi, if he still uses Dortmund's existing squad and Chelsea's main lineup, he really doesn't expect a victory;

But now Pan Yi is likely to only send a substitute lineup, so it's really possible!

If you can win, maybe you can also drive your own results in the Bundesliga.

Otherwise, I will have to take the blame and resign.

Even if the fans don't drive him, he brings Dortmund like this, and he really doesn't have the face to stay any longer!

Therefore, Klopp has already made up his mind.

"Attack him, maybe you can steal three points, and the qualification will be more stable!"

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November 26, Westphalian Stadium.

The breathtaking yellow waves of the South Stand are dancing again, and the fifth round of Group G matches between Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea in the Champions League group stage has begun.

When the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, Borussia Dortmund, who were playing at home, took the lead in attacking Chelsea.

Just 30 seconds into the game, Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa fired a shot from the edge of the box, but it was saved by Cech.

Today, Klopp's starting lineup is still a 4231, except for the midfield and backfield, which are the regular main forces, mainly in the front of the four people have slight changes.

That was to put Aubameyang as a lone arrow in the centre-forward position, then Shinji Kagawa behind him, flanked by Roins and Mkhitaryan.

With Aubameyang, of course, because Klopp is now completely disappointed with Immobile.

Although Aubameyang's tactical discipline is poor, after all, he has speed and impact, which is still compatible with Dortmund's overall style.

And the use of Shinji Kagawa is a special feature today.

Due to his relatively thin body and relatively weak confrontation, Shinji Kagawa has not been able to fully reuse Klopp since his unsuccessful return to Dortmund in the Premier League.

But Shinji Kagawa's offensive characteristics are still very distinct.

He's actually a very modern attacking midfielder.

His specialty is not to follow the "possession-observation-lethal delivery" routine, that is, he does not need to have a lot of possession at his feet, but simplifies complex offensive problems through precise passing, breakthroughs and running.

In other words, he is constantly moving and cooperating to find fighters, especially in the process of switching from defense to attack, using the most reasonable and efficient way to lead the attack.

This style of football, which is based on solid fundamentals, has always made Shinji Kagawa very comfortable playing at Dortmund.

Because under Klopp, Dortmund's players have both physicality, technique and speed, and pay attention to fast-paced mid-pass and small coordination, which is very compatible with Kagawa Shinji's style.

It was in this environment that Shinji Kagawa grew into one of the best strikers in the Bundesliga, and he also won the honor of MVP in the halfway game.

Although his form has declined now, he can still play an important role in the current Dortmund squad.

Klopp asked him to play the main team today, just to ignore Kagawa's defensive disadvantages for the time being, and let him try his best to display his offensive talent, so that Dortmund can completely play the attack today!

And the Dortmund players did the same.

From the first shot on goal after the opening kick-off, to their aggressive pressure on Chelsea, while also actively looking for opportunities to counter-attack, it was clear that Jurgen Klopp's intentions were intended.

And today's Chelsea, as Klopp expected, sent a rotating lineup.

After all, Chelsea's last few games, from West Bromwich Albion to Borussia Dortmund today, to Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle, have only been played three or four days apart.

Although winning West Bromwich Albion is a bit of an invincible and bloodless victory, Pan Yi still doesn't want his players to work too hard.

So today, players like Andreas Christensen, Mikel, Loftus-Cheek, Bamford, including goalkeeper Petr Cech, who usually play relatively little, all started the game.

The body is the capital of the revolution, and only by staying healthy can we maintain the team's lasting combat effectiveness!

It's just that these players don't spend as much time together as the main players, and it was indeed a bit difficult to be rushed by Dortmund at the beginning.

"Collect a little, don't worry, stabilize the defense first!"

Pan Yi naturally saw this, so he stood up and shouted a few times on the field.

Even if it is the same lineup, it takes time to run in on the field when facing different tactics of different opponents.

That's why a lot of games have a "tentative" phase at the beginning, which is to adapt to the opponent and also to the teammates.

The last time we played Liverpool, Chelsea were solid in the first half, and it was much the same thing.

Today, Chelsea's squad is relatively "raw", and it will take more time to adapt to the impact of Dortmund.

"Klopp feels like he's trying to break us down all at once."

When Pan Yi sat back in the coach's seat, Scaloni said a little disdainfully: "That is, we dare to do this because we are rotating the lineup today, right?" There are really not many teams in European football that dare to do this......"

Steve Holland said: "Jurgen Klopp is under so much pressure right now, understandably so. ”

Pan Yi also nodded lightly.

Everyone knows that Dortmund are in a worrying situation in the Bundesliga.

It's good to be third from the bottom now, if it weren't for the fact that they have won one and drawn one in the last two rounds, they would still be at the bottom of the standings!

Although a squad like Dortmund is not very good, but the team with Royins, Mkhitaryan, and Aubameyang is the last in the league, and no one believes it.

The pressure on Klopp is really understandable.

Under this intense pressure, it is entirely possible that Klopp will want to give it a go.

If we can win Chelsea, we may be able to release a lot of that pressure.

"That's right, we also practice defensive counterattacks." Pan Yi smiled, "There is no better practice material than Klopp's attack." ”

Chelsea's strength this season has caused many teams to shrink their heads as soon as they meet the Blues, and Chelsea have basically pressed heavily to besiege their opponents, and there are really not many counter-attacks.

Today is just right, and it is time to rehearse the lineup and tactics at the same time.

After all, at a high level of play, it's almost impossible to keep the opponent pressed and score.

In many cases, it is necessary to rely on fast and flexible counterattacks to instantly break through the opponent's city.

In the 2022 World Cup, why can't you score in the first half of many, many games?

Why are teams like Germany and Spain, which are mainly passing, playing more and more difficult?

It is because under the now more and more mature defensive system, in the oppressive atmosphere of more and more attention to the full-court pressing, it is really difficult to find the opponent's gap in the positional attack, especially without the battering ram.

In the second half, when the players' stamina dropped, and the ability to switch to attacking players after five changes to keep the pressure on (teams often don't leave substitutions to defenders), it is time to take advantage of the weakness of the opponent's position when attacking quickly to create more scoring opportunities.

At this point, perhaps Japan's head coach Hoichi Moriyasu did the best.

He always used a bald Taijun like Dairan Maeda as a "consumable" in the first half, running desperately to wear down the opponent, and then switching to a real attacker in the second half to win.

From Sen Hi to Sen Sheng, to capable and famous generals, he only took three games.

Of course, at this point in time, there is still a three-change rule, and there is no way to win the game in such a "Tian Ji horse race" way, but it is the same in terms of focusing on counterattacks.

Therefore, Pan Yi will also cherish this rare opportunity to train and let his disciples practice well.

Of course, he also wants Klopp to see that his group of rotation players are not soft persimmons, they can be pinched as you want!

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ps: Thanks to the 500 tip that salted fish don't want to work hard!