The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals will not be played until February 17.

Chelsea have a lot of games to play before that.

On December 29, Pan Yi led the team to travel away again to challenge Stoke City.

This season, Stoke City, under the leadership of coach Mark Hughes, who has a penchant for technical streams, have gradually moved away from the traditional style of relying solely on high play, and instead used more technical players.

For example, the former Barcelona prodigy Bojan.

Bojan, who is only 173cm tall and is good at dribbling and passing, but has no advantage in fighting for high balls, will not be able to play at all if he is placed in Stoke City, which has an average height of 190+ in the previous two years.

But now, he is at the heart of the midfield, helping the team to sort out the attack and play a fluid link-up.

Stoke City has also been more consistent after the revamp, always sitting in the middle of the 10th place in the standings.

It's just that for Chelsea, such Stoke City is not so scary.

Last season, Chelsea were "smashed" to a draw by Stoke City on the same field.

However, after switching to technical flow, Chelsea formed a kind of technical suppression against them.

After all, teams of the same type often rely on hard power.

If you play in a similar way to people, as a result, the players in each position are inferior to the opponent in terms of ability, and it is easy to fall into passivity in the game.

In Pan Yi's previous life, why could Arsenal play a bad record of 12 consecutive defeats when facing Manchester City?

It is not enough to take a weaker Premier League team out, but Arsenal, as a giant, has no way to take Manchester City.

This is because both teams play passing, both play skill, and the tactical play is similar, but Manchester City is more skillful......

Arteta also learned from Pep Guardiola, and he didn't even know how to play the bus to defend against him, so no matter how much he tossed, he couldn't escape from the palm of Guardiola's hand.

At the national team level, a prime example is Japan.

As a Japanese team that has become a second-rate team in the world, they can not fall behind when facing some European teams, such as Denmark, Sweden, and even Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany;

But if they are allowed to play their own masters, the Brazilian team, they tend to quickly disarm and surrender.

This is a kind of repression.

And now, Stoke City have gone from being a French chicken in the air to a free-rooster, and it is naturally easy for Chelsea to control the direction of the game.

It's just because Chelsea love to play in a team like this.

In the 35th minute, Romelu Lukaku burst into the box and was tripped by Shawcross, and Harry Kane converted the penalty to give Chelsea the lead.

In the 45th minute, Nemanja Matic doubled Chelsea's lead from distance and the game was largely out of suspense.

In the 78th minute of the second half, substitute Marcos Alonso found an opportunity on the left side of the penalty area and fired a trademark powerful volley to lock the score at 0:3.

In the end, Chelsea won away.

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On January 1, the winter transfer window for the season officially opened.

Unlike previous years, when teams had already made a lot of deals before the window opened, this day was actually an official announcement, and this season seemed to be much quieter.

There are no big moves from the major giants.

Liverpool spent 7 million to buy Grukic from Red Star Belgrade, but it was resold and leased to the parent team, which is equivalent to not buying anyone;

Arsenal spent 6.6 million to buy Egyptian midfielder Elneny from Basel;

These two are already the most spent among the Premier League powerhouses.

Manchester United only recalled Belgian teenager Januzayin, who was on loan at Borussia Dortmund, while Manchester City and Tottenham were all on hold.

The most expensive transfer in the entire Premier League is actually Stoke City.

They bought French midfielder Imbra from Porto, a deal that cost them €24 million.

Obviously, Stoke City's finish in the top half of the table in the first half of the table has given them more ambitions, so they will spend a lot of money to strengthen them.

And for Pan Yi, Chelsea really don't have anything to add now.

The first team has enough personnel, the players are all alive and kicking, and there is no need to make any adjustments.

If you have to buy someone in the winter window at that time, it depends on the situation, such as which player is poached at a high price......

At present, Pan Yi only needs to pay attention to the current game, and does not need to put too much thought into the transfer market.

And on this day, the most striking news was related to the coach.

Manchester City officially announced that they will change their manager in the summer of 2016!

At the end of the 2015-2016 season, Pep Guardiola, whose contract with Bayern Munich has expired, will replace Pellegrini as the new head coach of the Blue Moon.

As a result, the rumors of Manchester City's change of manager, which have been rumored since the beginning of this season, have finally come to an end.

The news at least confirms that there will be no change of manager for Manchester City this season, and Pellegrini will lead the team to the rest of the game regardless of the final result.

And Pep Guardiola, he has finally "satisfied" the wishes of many fans, and is about to come to the Premier League to prove himself!

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On the evening of January 3, in the 20th round of the Premier League, Chelsea ushered in consecutive away games, going to Shechhurst Park to challenge Crystal Palace.

The game itself was unremarkable but it was crucial for Chelsea.

As long as they remain unbeaten on the road, Chelsea can equal the 22-year unbeaten run in the top five leagues held by AC Milan at 58!

A miracle that was previously thought impossible to break, Chelsea is finally close!

Of course, their opponent today, Crystal Palace, is actually not so easy to deal with.

Since Alain Pardu's arrival, Crystal Palace's results have continued to climb.

Alan Pardew left Newcastle midway through the league last season to join Crystal Palace in the relegation zone as manager.

After confirming the promotion of high school forward Glenn Murray to the team's main line-up, Pardew's tactical system has once again come into play.

He made the most of set-piece tactics, not only making Crystal Palace the team with the most goals from set-pieces in the Premier League, but also quickly getting the team out of the relegation zone, and even in the team's four-game winning streak in March, Murray, who was entrusted by Pardew, played brilliantly, contributing three goals and three assists.

While the former club Newcastle was in turmoil and struggling to rely on Parde's "legacy" alone, Pardew's Crystal Palace team was firmly in the middle of the league, and also defeated his "old enemy" Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield, leaving an alternative mark on Gerrard's home farewell performance.

In the end, Crystal Palace suffered relegation and also achieved the second-highest Premier League ranking in team history, 10th.

And this season, after 19 rounds of the league, they have accumulated 31 points with 9 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses, ranking 5th in the standings!

Behind them, there are even big teams like Manchester United and Liverpool.

And it turns out that Alain Pardu has something.

The battle at Shehrst Park was a bit of a stunt for Chelsea.

At the end of the first half, the score was 2:0, and Crystal Palace were ahead!

Both goals came after 40 minutes.

The first goal, a breakthrough from Wilfried Zaha, was tripped by Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma's reckless tackle and the referee signalled a yellow card and a penalty.

Then, it was Crystal Palace captain who scored the ball from Australia's Jedinak.

And the second goal was scored by Bamford!

Bamford, who spent this season on loan at Crystal Palace, gradually replaced Glenn Murray and became the first-choice centre-forward for Alan Pardew in his 4-2-3-1 system.

Crystal Palace took advantage of Chelsea's mental precariousness after conceding a goal and launched a counter-attack after seeing the gap left by Joao Cancelo's forward attack.

Right winger Lee Cheong-ryong of South Korea received a ball from French international Cabaye, drove straight into the penalty area at great speed, and passed the low ball to the goal, and Bamford tackled it in front of the goal.

Suddenly, those two goals sent Chelsea in a state of dizziness, while the Shechhurst Park fans went into a long period of ecstasy.

Today's opponent is Chelsea, who are unbeaten in 58 games!

Crystal Palace actually led at half-time, and it was a two-goal lead!

This is something that no one could have imagined.

Crystal Palace's head coach, Alain Pardew, known as the "King of Dancing in the Coaching World", even showed a mechanical dance in front of the home audience, which once again triggered bursts of applause and cheers from the audience.

This distinctly ironic dance was a routine operation for Alain Pardew, who was passionate both on and off the court.

He doesn't know how much trouble he has caused in English football.

As early as 2006, Alan Pardew, who was still the manager of West Ham United at the time, just won the "Premier League Coach of the Month" for the first time, but he and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger began to fight in the air, and the fuse of the incident was that Wenger released a starting lineup without any English players in the Champions League match between Arsenal and Real Madrid.

Arsene Pardew is probably one of the many football practitioners and fans in the UK who pride themselves on being the pioneers of modern football, and Arsene Patdu is probably one of them.

So he openly "fired" at Wenger, who ridiculed Pardew as an xenophobia, but Pardew immediately denied it, citing his marriage to his Swedish wife as an example.

The conflict erupted again in November of that year, when Heywood struck Arsenal with an 88th-minute tackle and Pardew celebrated on the sidelines.

This exaggerated behavior completely angered the professor, who had always been known for his elegance, and the latter pushed Pardew on the chest, but fortunately the referee stopped it in time to prevent a farce.

And today, Alain Pardew's dance, of course, also made Chelsea's side feel gloomy.

It's just that Pan Yi has always emphasized that coaches and players, and things on the field are solved on the field, so no one is like Wenger to physically stop Alan Pardew.

In fact, at half-time, most of the Chelsea players hurried off the pitch without seeing Alain Pardew performing anything.

The end of the first half at this point gave the Blues players a chance to breathe.

When Pan Yi walked into the away team's locker room at Sheherst Park, he could clearly feel the panic of the players.

Maybe it's not just panic, it's fear!

It's an inexplicable fear of the impending historic record.

It was this fear that caused them to mess up in the final stages of the first half.

And after conceding two goals in a row, such fear is even more presumptuous in the dressing room.

Everyone began to be afraid, afraid that the records they had set along the way might be ended here!

Pan Yi understands this psychology very well.

In fact, the more often people win, the more afraid they are of losing.

And the more afraid you are, the easier it is to lose, or even the worse you lose.

That's why a lot of coaches need to lower their players' expectations, and that's to reduce the pressure on them.

And now, Pan Yi needs to do the same.

Therefore, he first grabbed Arteta, who was about to stand in front of the stage and start drawing on the whiteboard.

This passionate master of speech, if he were to talk about it, maybe today he would draw a manga of Dragon Ball Kakarot who was always flattened and then turned into a Super Saiyan to inspire everyone......

But Pan Yi knows that the current Chelsea crowd does not need motivation, they need to be calm.

"I'll talk about it today." Pan Yi said to Arteta with a confident smile.

Arteta was slightly surprised, at this time, still so confident?

But what Pan Yi said, in the Chelsea dressing room, naturally has an unquestionable authority.

Everyone believed in him!

Not to mention Arteta, who already regards Pan Yi as his idol.

"Understood, Boss." Tazige nodded, and then stood in the corner, standing with Steele Holland and the others.

Then, Pan Yi stood in the middle, in the middle of all the players.

The players looked up at Pan Yi, ready to wait to hear the leader's reprimand.

When the ball is kicked to this, Pan Yi also has a high probability of scolding.

Something like this:

"What happened? We can't go on like this! ”

"I can't accept this kick, you have to play better!"

"Didn't you have enough to eat?"

"Let the uniforms go up and play better than you!"

Maybe I'll lose a water bottle or something.

But Pan Yi didn't say anything, just stood like that.

And the locker room gradually quieted down.

The heavy wheezing sound gradually subsided.

They also gradually understood that Pan Yi did not want to scold them, but to let them calm down.

Hurry up and get out of the first half goal!

And as Pan Yi's confident eyes swept over the faces of one player after another, everyone's mentality seemed to relax a lot.

The boss has the bottom in his heart!

What's a point behind by two goals?

And Pan Yi did not get angry because of the backwardness, which also relaxed the players' originally nervous emotions.

At this time, Pan Yi stood in front of the tactical board.

He's going to start adjusting his tactics straight away.

After all, spirit is only one part of the game, and more of a part is made up of the team's tactics and the players' play.

It is impossible to become a victorious army if it has spirit but no skills and tactics, or if it has skills and tactics but no spirit.

Some pseudo-fans always emphasize too much on the power of "spirit", for example, a certain team can win stronger opponents as long as it fights, catch up with Japan and South Korea, and rush out of Asia to the world......

The problem is that mental strength can indeed make up for some of the technical and tactical disadvantages, but it must also be within a certain gap.

You let an amateur team fight for the pinnacle of Barcelona, no matter how hard you fight, you can't make up for the technical gap, and the opponent is not completely unskilled.

There is also the most common "death row" kick, which seems to be a World Cup title if you put a gun in their back.

If this trick is smart, it is not only the football World Cup, but also basketball, tennis, and sprinting by the way, and maybe you can also overcome the chip problem, immigrate to Mars and the like.

Pan Yi naturally knows the key to this, so he has always grasped it with both hands, and both hands should be hard.

'I'll make a change in midfield, Goretzka you have to go down and rest for a while, I'll send Eden Hazard in your place because we need more attacking firepower.'

Pan Yi looked at Goretzka.

Today, Pan Yi discharged the "desperate Saburo" combination of Lingard + Goretzka + Kante in the midfield, which is to compete with Crystal Palace for the midfield.

In fact, Goretzka played very well, and his role as a barrier in midfield was also obvious.

In fact, the 0-2 score is more like an accident now, from the penalty kick to the expansion of the score after the panic, it is too fast.

But now, there is no choice but to intensify the attack.

In this way, the double forward combination of Lingard + Hazard is obviously stronger in attack than Goretzka, who is currently more defensive.

Goretzka also looked at Pan Yi and nodded heavily in understanding.

When a player is substituted after only half a game, most of the time there is a bit of an opinion.

But Goretzka, who has a good professional attitude, will not.

Especially when this decision is made by an amazing coach like Pan Yi.

When everyone in the team is unconditionally obedient to their head coach, even if Pan Yi makes adjustments in the first half of the game, probably no one will have any objections......

"Very well, then you can go take a shower now." Pan Yi said to Goretzka with a smile.

The locker room burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

Goretzka also got up: "The rest of the game is up to everyone!" Although I can't help everyone on the field, my heart will always be with you! ”

Pan Yi went up and kicked Goretzka in the ass: "Who made you say so much, and you still have a lot of affection......

So, Goretzka left amid the laughter and applause of his teammates.

"Guys, I understand the desire to equalle Milan's record, but that shouldn't be a shackle to your progress."

Pan Yi began to speak officially, and at this time, the locker room also quieted down.

"I once told the media that I don't really care if I can break this record or not."

"But I told you again, we can break all sorts of records."

"You may wonder, isn't that a bit of a contradiction? Is this just a smoke bomb? ”

"No, it's not."

"I said a long time ago that whenever it's a game, I want to win, that's the most important thing, and that's why I shouted the slogan of the seven crowns early before the season."

"If I keep winning, won't I be sure I can break all the records?"

"So, I don't care about a record, I care about every game at the moment, and I prepare and work hard for it."

"I hope you can do the same. It's about putting the record behind you and focusing on every race in front of you! ”

"I know, it's hard. Since the day of football in history, no team has won all the games and won all the titles. ”

"It's impossible. All invincible divisions will always lose in the end, and they will always lose the championship. ”

"But that doesn't stop us from giving our best in every game! Our enemy will always be ourselves! ”

Pan Yi's words made everyone in the locker room nod.

Pan Yi saw that the atmosphere in the locker room was almost the same, which belonged to the right ratio between "relaxation" and "tension", which allowed the players to play at their best.

So, he continued:

"So, in the second half of the game, I need you to show your courage and determination and show your strength!"

"Last season, we proved to the whole world that we are the best team in the world. Well, a team like Crystal Palace shouldn't be an obstacle for us. ”

'In the second half, we need to press up and cause more problems for our opponents.

'Palace will definitely fight in midfield, Jedinak and Cabaye are still very good in the middle.

'What's more, because they don't have our advantage in passing possession, they have to fight to stop us from possessing the ball for long periods of time. They did it in the first half and they tasted it, and I'm sure Alain Pardew will continue to do it. ”

'And when we were pressed, we passed the ball back to Van Dijk or David Luiz to reorganise.

'The two wing-backs have to play aggressively, control the ball in the middle, Lingard and Eden Hazard have to respond aggressively, hitting the opponent's two ribs a lot, the ball on the right side and the left side on the right.

'Lingard and Eden Hazard have to get the ball and be decisive to move forward, pass forward and cause more problems for the opposition.

"The most important thing is to show our opponents our courage and determination, to make them feel dangerous, to make them afraid and afraid!"

"I have no doubt that we have the strength to reverse it, even though it is difficult, but I know that you can do it, you can!"

In the end, Pan Yi almost shouted out.

Speaking of which, the whistle has sounded to urge the field.

Pan Yi slapped his palm vigorously, "Okay, that's pretty much it." ”

The players stood up, and everyone's eyes were full of determination.

"Finally, I want to say one more word to you."

"You are Champions League winners, you are a strong team aiming for the Seventh Crown! We should not be afraid of any opponent, because you are the strongest! ”

"Didn't he, Alain Pardu, dance to humiliate us? It's time to give him a hard shot back! ”

"I'm going to keep an eye on you guys from the sidelines, and I'm sure you won't let me down!"

After finishing speaking, Pan Yi applauded vigorously to signal the disbandment and prepared to play.

And all the players also came to Pan Yi and hugged him.

When Lingard hugged Pan Yi, he put down a sentence even more fiercely:

"I want Alain Pardu to know that in London, there is only one dancing king! That's ......"