"Look, Xiao Li is going to play, right? I'll just say, Mourinho last Van Ginkel, he can't hold down Oscar, these two young midfielders, when they are in rotation, you can play any of the starters, but you have to match Leon or Lampard, you have to hold them down..."

General Fan, who was a guest in the Sina Sports live broadcast room tonight and commented on the Champions League game with Zhan Jun, also patted his thigh and began to praise Mourinho's timely reaction.

"Yes, after this goal, Mourinho also reacted quickly, choosing to send on Leon first to stabilize Chelsea's tempo initiative in midfield.

I just don't know which of Chelsea's starting midfielders Mourinho will replace with Leon first? ”

Zhan Jun knew that he had consulted, and at this moment, domestic fans had already spoken out and complained about today's poor performance of Oscar.

Van Ginkel, although there was no bright performance in the first half, it was also because you Oscar snatched the ball.

At least Xiaofan is still very the defensive end, and he doesn't complain if he doesn't have the ball.

In contrast, Oscar, who currently coincides with Li Ang's position and is still playing more selfishly today, is naturally not very popular with fans in China.

A few minutes later, Chelsea took advantage of a dead-goal opportunity to make the first substitution.

Leon was called on in the 30th minute of the first half to come on as a substitute to replace Oscar, who had performed poorly.

The Stamford Bridge scene also resounded with earth-shattering cheers and applause, completely revealing the confidence of Chelsea fans in Leon at this moment.

After high-fives with his teammates along the way, Li Ang also brought Mu Shuai's latest tactical adjustment instructions.

The first is the formation, Chelsea have changed from a more attacking 433 to a more balanced 4231.

If Mourinho is going to let Leon play in the back, then 433 can continue to play.

Because Leon can do all the work of organization and defense by playing a single midfielder.

But at this moment, Mourinho is counting on Leon to seize control of the tempo of the game in the midfield and sort out the attack.

So 4231 is Chelsea's safest formation option at the moment.

Van Ginkel has the talent and potential to play as a single midfielder, but he is still young

The talent was just a talent before it was realized, and Mourinho, who made him and Essien form a two-man midfielder, was also more assured.

Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne in the forward line dropped back to the left and right wing-backs.

With Leon's reasonable scheduling and stable possession of the ball, Chelsea's attacking thinking has quickly become clear.

Compared to Oscar's words, Leon's desire to shoot is not particularly strong.

In the absence of a good starting point, he will generally prefer to split the ball in the middle, allowing his teammates on the flanks to pull or try to break down the opposition's defence.

It is only when Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne are out of form in the last league game that he will be more frequent with the ball and inserted back to be actively involved in the attack.

Of course, there is no major slippage in terms of form for Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne today.

They didn't show much performance before, also because Oscar grabbed too much of the ball in the middle today.

So with Leang's reasonable distribution of the ball, not to mention Hazard, De Bruyne today is very active in trying to make a personal breakthrough on the wing.

With Belgium's wings coming together at the same time, Basel's two-way defenders are naturally difficult to match.

And in the 36th minute of the first half, Li Ang stepped forward to receive De Bruyne's cross, and then suddenly got up and sent it over the top!

The over-the-top dangerous pass surprised all Basel defenders, but it also seemed to be slightly more than Torres had expected...

So in a rush to get over the top, Torres finally got Leon's brilliant pass wide of the goal.

Lukaku, who was sitting on the bench at the moment, hugged his head and sighed, and seemed to show a slightly disgusted expression.

It was as if he had been the striker in Torres' position just now, and he would have been able to get a header into Basel's goal.

However, at this time, Mourinho, who was also annoyed, did not think about replacing Lukaku in place of Torres.

Because at present, Chelsea's main Indian centre-forward Da Ibrahimovic has been led by assistant coach Faria to warm up on the sidelines.

Chelsea fans who watched the scene also blushed rarely.

After all, many of them made a similar joke about Ibrahimovic coming to London to retire after seeing the official announcement of Ibrahimovic's arrival at Chelsea at the beginning of the season.

Unexpectedly, Ibrahimovic can't raise himself anymore, but is being gnawed by Chelsea.

Chelsea fans will never be able to make the same joke as before.

On the contrary, they are glad that the club only spent less than 20 million on the transfer fee to buy a reliable big center forward like Ibrahimovic.

However, Mourinho did not play his second substitution in the first half.

Seeing that the team has clearly controlled the offensive initiative, and has also steadily blocked Basel's counter-attacking offensives many times.

Jose Mourinho was still satisfied and returned to the players' tunnel after half-time.

Ibrahimovic, who had fully completed the warm-up, also walked to the team's dressing room.

All Chelsea fans will know that Ibrahimovic will definitely be straight on at the start of the second half.

With the thought of both Leon and Ibrahimovic on the pitch in the second half, Chelsea fans have nothing to worry about when they are behind and the scoreline.

And the thousands of Basel fans at Stamford Bridge naturally didn't get worried about Chelsea's tactical change in the second half.

Before they arrived in London, they didn't expect their team to take the lead at the end of the game.

For them, it's the happiness of the moment that counts!

The Basel fans who cheered and sang at Stamford Bridge also passed on their support to the morale-boosting Basel players.

Salah, who scored a very beautiful deadlock-breaking goal in the first half, is also full of confidence at this time.

He firmly believes that the time for him to become famous is today!

However, when the second half came, Chelsea showed a very different defensive aggression than in the first half.

Immediately, Basel's offensive organization became scattered.

Facing Leon, who was going all out to sweep away, the ball points in the Basel midfield, Frye and Dias, were quite uncomfortable.

So much so that Salah had to start dropping back into midfield frequently to pick up his teammates and assist them with the ball.

After restricting Salah's play on Basel's wing, Chelsea also launched frequent attacks on both wings.

Cesar Azpilicueta is more defensive, so De Bruyne's forward pressure is not too great.

But on the other side, Bertrand and Eden Hazard just want to live directly in the Basel half.

With Leon's extra attention to the defensive leaning, Bertrand's forward bottom has become more and more unscrupulous.

Such a scene can easily remind Huaguo fans that when Leon was still at Real Madrid, the alternating impact of Marcelo and Ronaldo could often quickly suppress the attacking mode on the right side of the opponent.

It's hard to say whether the new left-sided corridor that Mourinho has created for the Blues is a reference to the extreme attacking combination of Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo that he tinkered with when he was at Real Madrid.

But one thing fans can be sure of is that Mourinho will only relinquish control over such an extreme wing attacking duo when Leon is on the pitch.

Bertrand and Hazard's left-sided combination is certainly not comparable to Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid corridor at the moment.

But it would not be an exaggeration to say that the former is a beggar's version of the latter.

And when Hazard is in normal condition, the impact is definitely not as good as Ronaldo.

But in this area of tearing apart the opposition's defence, Hazard's dribbling threat is no worse than Ronaldo's.

Plus it's just Basel's defensive system that we have to deal with today.

So when Bertrand and Hazard worked together on the offensive end, the right side of Basel's defense was completely a dimensionality reduction blow!

Salah was reluctant to do so, and tried to find a counter-attacking opportunity on his own under the pressure of Chelsea's stormy attack.

But when the defender he had to face changed from Essien to Leon, he quickly understood a point.

The defenders who were able to limit Messi's play one-on-one two years ago are really TMD!

In terms of steals, tackles, reactions, and explosive speed, Li Ang is not the strongest defender in today's football world.

But when he has the first-class level of today's football in these ability values, and even some of his abilities have touched the top threshold.

Coupled with the ability to pick defensive positions that can't be measured by data, he is the only and strongest single defense monster in the active service!

After Salah was taught a few times by Leon, he had to accept it even if he was not convinced.

There is only one burst speed that he can have a slight upper hand against Leon at the moment.

But how could Leon, who now has a lot of defensive experience, give him enough space to start?

As a result, Salah's performance gradually fell silent.

And in the sixty-first minute of the second half of the game, Ibrahimovic, who received a sweep pass in the penalty area after Hazard's breakthrough, also successfully completed the goal!

Ibrahimovic's goal this time fully demonstrated his physical talent and technical superiority over the Basel defenders!

And at this moment, after seeing Ibrahimovic successfully score the equalizing goal on the offensive end, Mourinho also raised his arms and shouted vigorously in front of the bench!

However, after the celebration, Mu Shuai also complained a little.

"I asked you to listen to me back then, and change the way you play football as soon as possible, but you don't want to, this has been in vain for several years, and now it's not the transformation to embark on this road..."

Faria, who heard Mu Shuai's small complaint clearly, also smiled.

When he and Mu Shuai switched to Inter Milan together, Mu Shuai was very optimistic about Ibrahimovic.

Not to mention personally formulating a transformation plan for Ibrahimovic, he also invited Ibrahimovic to stay and bring a heavyweight championship trophy to Inter Milan with him.

Of course, everyone knows what happened next.

Ibrahimovic did miss his best chance to win the Champions League trophy and squandered a few years at the peak of his career.

Of course, even if he couldn't negotiate in the end and didn't go to the end side by side with Inter Milan, Ibrahimovic had a good impression of Mourinho.

He has said more than once that he admires and likes Mourinho very much, and what he likes most is Mourinho's recognition and sincere attitude towards him.

Perhaps it is precisely because of Mourinho's sincerity.

Therefore, after Ibrahimovic received calls from Leon and Mourinho in the summer window this year, he quickly and decisively applied for a transfer to Grand Paris.

Admittedly, Ibrahimovic is now past the peak of his career compared to when he first worked with Mourinho.

But his physical and technical conditions are here after all, as long as he is willing to transform, he can make full use of his physical and height advantages.

Then Ibrahimovic in the penalty area is still dominant!

And this dominance is not something that Faria and Mourinho have made up.

It's what Ibrahimovic has played with four goals in four of his club games this season!

Looking at Ibu and Leon who were hugging each other again on the pitch and shouting to the fans, Faria's heart was full of passion!

In Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, he and Jose Mourinho have all worked together to create miracles and dynasties.

The only regret back then was that he didn't lead the iron-blooded Blues to the Champions League.

And now the opportunity to make up for their regrets is right in front of their eyes.

Faria is also extremely confident that this time he and Jose Mourinho will not leave only tears of sadness at Stamford Bridge...

After the equaliser, the morale of the Chelsea players was naturally high!

Li Ang is also over and over again at this time, shouting at the top of his voice, encouraging his teammates to keep up the good work!

Someone is yelling, someone is pulling and the young Chelsea players can see a clear direction before their eyes.

Captain John Terry, who was sitting on the bench at the moment, also nodded with satisfaction.

At one point in the first half, he feared that Chelsea, who had fallen behind, would not find a way forward and lacked the motivation to spur on.

After all, for a long time in the past, he himself, Frank Lampard or Drogba, there was always someone on the pitch to boost the morale of the whole team.

But today he and Frank Lampard are both rested, so as the veteran captain, Terry is inevitably a little worried.

However, after seeing a series of encouraging moves and performances after Leon came on the field, Terry felt that he could really rest on the bench.

Even if Chelsea only drew with Basel at the end of the game, Terry felt that the young players in the Chelsea squad had a lot to gain.

After all, the spirit of the Iron and Blood Blues can't always exist only in their old guys.

The younger generation of Chelsea players needs to be more honed by this kind of competition. It takes more mental pressure.

Of course, they also need a new, contemporaneous leader!

The spirit that Leon has shown in this regard is something that Terry is very satisfied with.

And in the eighty-second minute of the second half, when Li Ang almost carried the defensive interference of Basel defender Dias, he broke into the Basel penalty area and made a successful point.

Terry's satisfaction turned into a strong urge!

John Terry, who is about to turn 33, is like the Chelsea youngsters who are sitting on the bench with him, and he roars and celebrates passionately as soon as he rushes out of the bench!

At this moment, Leon, who was beaming with joy, was surrounded by his teammates and slapped and pulled up, but quickly hugged the football, and then stuffed it into the arms of Frank Lampard, who had only recently come on as a substitute.

"Leon, aren't you going to punish this ball?"

Frank Lampard was fully prepared to concede the penalty and let Leon enjoy the cheers of the crowd after leading his side to a successful comeback.

He really didn't expect that Li Ang would simply give up this opportunity to become the focus of the audience.

Leon just smiled and shook his head, and made a joke with Lampard.

"You were the first penalty taker on the field, Frank, besides, the boss didn't allow us to discuss who would take the penalty by ourselves~ I don't want to be caught by the boss and eat a hair dryer after getting off the field."

After listening to Leon's words, Frank Lampard also laughed, patted Leon on the back of the shoulder, and Lampard took a firm step and walked to the penalty spot with the football in his arms!

Even after coming off the bench in the 76th minute of the second half, Lampard was not less confident in his penalty at the moment.

After the referee's whistle, Frank Lampard didn't even look at Sommer's anticipatory reaction and firmly kicked his powerful volley aimed at the middle of the goal!

Sommer pounced on the left side of the goal this time and his prediction failed!

And Frank Lampard also helped Chelsea to complete the comeback at home to Basel with a crisp penalty opportunity!

The player who completed the comeback goal was Frank Lampard.

But the reporters who were at the scene at the moment once again turned their cameras on Li Ang, who was happily celebrating with his teammates.

In this Champions League group stage, Leon did not gain any individual attacking statistics.

But his important play is imprinted in the eyes and hearts of every fan watching the game!

When the referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the game, the entire Stamford Bridge burst into thunderous cheers and applause!

Salah was devastated by the loss. And when Li Ang took the initiative to find him, the camera of the live broadcast was immediately aimed at the best players of the two teams in this Champions League group stage.

After teaching a future post-90s representative star, Li Ang routinely encouraged the other party.

Salah, who was still a little depressed, suddenly became excited again at this moment, and after exchanging jerseys with Leon, the two also hugged and exchanged.

Coming back to get off to a good start to the Champions League this season is a result for the Chelsea players to celebrate.

However, before it was Leon's turn to speak in the dressing room that night, John Terry and Frank Lampard stepped forward and took the initiative to invite all the players to a dinner party in the city.

It's a lively atmosphere and a great way to bring the old and new players closer together, and Mourinho certainly doesn't take it too seriously.

The dinner party was attended by all the players in the Chelsea first team, including Branislav Ivanovic and Mikel, who are still recovering from injuries.

Since the start of the new season, Chelsea have maintained a record of winning on both fronts.

For Chelsea's veterans, it has been a few years since they had a near-perfect start to the season.

So all the Chelsea players had a smile on their faces that night.

After a night of celebration, the next afternoon, the Chelsea players were in good shape and headed to the Cobham training base for their recovery training.

It's not that Mourinho doesn't want to give his players more time to rest, it's that the Premier League schedule has become more intense.

Three days later, Chelsea face Fulham at home to the fifth round of the Premier League.

After that, there is a round of English League Cup matches.

And in the sixth round of the Premier League, Chelsea will go to Tottenham Hotspur away!

With two London derbies and a domestic cup in a row, Chelsea's first schedule test of the new season is here!

It's 10,600 words, and it's 4,400 words away, come on!

(End of chapter)