After the second round of the Premier League, the teams basically ushered in a week-long break.

After the first two rounds of games, the Premier League teams can be described as a few happy and a few worried.

Including some of the top teams in the league, facing a not-so-stellar opening record in the new season, are now seizing the time to make positive tactical adjustments.

For example, last season was very good, breaking into the European zone Liverpool and Everton.

Another example is Manchester United, who finished seventh in the Premier League last season, and Southampton, who finished eighth.

Although the new season has just begun, and the results have to be looked at slowly, these teams have basically suffered big losses from the relegation team or the middle and lower teams in the league.

The slow pace of the players on these teams is indeed a source of anxiety for their supporters.

In contrast, Chelsea and Manchester City, the two Premier League champions and runners-up teams last season, have been much more consistent.

Chelsea started the new season with two promoted teams, scoring eight goals and conceding zero goals, the statistics are good, but they have not been tested in a tough battle for the time being.

Manchester City played Newcastle at the beginning of the game, and beat Liverpool 3-1 at home in the second round, and the gold content of two consecutive wins is still much higher than that of Chelsea.

There may be little time available for analysis in the two games, but Chelsea and Manchester City have at least shown that they have an advantage over the rest of the Premier League's top teams.

Chelsea is as steady as an old dog.

Manchester City's players are in fast form in the new season, and they can also achieve tactical suppression when playing against strong teams within the Premier League.

Both of these traits are essential for teams that want to win the top flight.

After the end of the second round of the Premier League, various British media immediately hyped up this season's "double blue war".

A large number of Premier League fans have also expressed their opinions, believing that the final Premier League title this season will basically be produced by Manchester City and Chelsea.

Last season, Chelsea had a league record of 30 wins, four draws and four defeats, accumulating 94 points and winning the title four rounds ahead of schedule.

Manchester City ended up with 89 points in the league.

Although the final points of the two teams are close to the drawn, there is a factor that Chelsea no longer cares about the results of the last four league games after winning the title early.

But in terms of results, last season's Manchester City did come closest to Chelsea in terms of quality.

Both Liverpool and Arsenal ended up with double-digit points separating Chelsea.

To be conservative, these two teams were not in a bad position for Chelsea last season.

So for the new season, if you want to hope that the foundation of Chelsea's dominance in the Premier League will be shaken.

Most Premier League fans can only hope that Manchester City will give more force.

It just so happened that the first meeting between Chelsea and Manchester City in the league this season came quickly.

In the fifth round of the Premier League, in late September, Chelsea will take on Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

It is foreseeable that this Premier League highlight will definitely attract a huge number of fans to watch.

And the sumptuous main course at the beginning of this Premier League season was served to the fans' "table".

In the third round of the Premier League, the match between Chelsea and Everton can be seen as an appetizer.

Everton finished sixth in the league last season under new manager Robert Martinez.

At least after Moyes' departure, Roberto Martinez stabilized Everton's standings.

Three days ago, Everton defeated their opponents in the Europa League play-offs at home to officially enter the main stage of this season's Europa League.

It may have been more distracted to devote himself to the two-legged play-offs in the Europa League.

Therefore, Everton only drew with their opponents in the first two rounds of the new season.

However, now that Everton have successfully passed the play-offs, they will not be dragged down by the Europa League for the time being, and morale is also high.

As a Premier League powerhouse in Europe, Everton are Chelsea's first challenge this season.

Everton have been in the top six since buying out in-form Bam Adebayo from Tottenham Hotspur last winter window and reactivating him.

This can be regarded as one of the butterfly effects caused by Leon.

After suffering a lack of strikers at the start of the season last season, Everton, who were originally on the historical line, will look to Chelsea for the possibility of Lukaku on loan.

It was also with Lukaku's explosion that Everton qualified for European competition at the end of last season, and even almost finished in the top four of the Premier League.

However, last season Chelsea were very interested in Lukaku and preferred to keep him in the team.

So Martinez doesn't have a lot of striker options.

In the first half of the season, in addition to continuing to rely on the magical absent point-grabbing striker Jelavic, he could only further tap the goalscoring ability of the team's wingers and midfielders.

After the winter window opened, Martinez named out another "little monster" Adebayo from Tottenham, who has a lot of experience in the game but looks to have dropped his form significantly.

As a result, Bam Adebayo, who made 11 appearances at Tottenham in the first half of the season and scored only two goals.

In the second half of the season, he recovered his form at Everton, scoring 10 goals and 4 assists in 18 league games, successfully supporting Everton's attacking system and scoring responsibilities.

This can make Levy angry, because in order to stop the loss in time in the winter window, he directly agreed to Everton's buyout offer of about 4 million pounds for Adeba.

Judging by Adebayo's performances in the second half of the season, even if the little monster has reached the age of 30, Levy is still sure to sell him for 10 million pounds younger.

The gap between 4 million and 10 million is huge.

Especially with Levy's temperament, seeing Everton pick up such a big bargain for no reason makes him feel more uncomfortable than Tottenham losing money.

Of course, Bam Adebayor's departure forced Tottenham to tap into the squad early, eventually reaping Kane's potential centre-forward, who scored eight goals in the league last season.

Levi selectively forgot.

Bam Adebayo's outstanding performances in the second half of last season earned him the praise of many "celebrities" in English football.

For the current Everton, Adebayor undoubtedly has a very important offensive and tactical role.

Even he had a very sluggish performance last season, losing his place in the starting line-up for Tottenham.

However, Mourinho, who is good at using a big center forward, still formulated an exclusive tactical restriction package for the little monster before the game.

On the afternoon of August 30, Goodison Park was already full early.

Everton and Chelsea players have returned to the dressing room, having completed their warm-up preparations.

An hour ago, when Jose Mourinho finally released his starting 11 for today's game.

The whole of English football was destined to have a lively discussion around their match with Everton.

Because Mourinho chose to let Maguire, who played well as a substitute in the last game, start directly in this game!

Fans who don't know Mourinho may have a bad guess.

Jose Mourinho, or Chelsea, wants to eat this wave of discussion about Maguire in English football.

But in fact, although Mourinho also likes Maguire more, he has not yet reached the point of directly rewarding him as a starter in order to encourage him.

As for saying that the popularity is just the right flow, it is even more impossible.

Because Mourinho himself is already the most trafficked manager in football, does he want heat?

It's no exaggeration to say that he just gave a casual interview.

The reason why Maguire started this game was that Mourinho took a fancy to his super head-on defensive ability.

In other words, Mourinho wants Maguire to do the tactical trick, directly hold down Adebayo's play, and let Everton lose the tactical fulcrum in the attacking end.

It's as simple as that.

However, at this time, Everton's manager Martinez did not expect this.

He also holds Chelsea's starting 11 and wonders what Mourinho wants to make today by partnering Leon and De Bruyne in the middle of midfield.

Kroos, who had played very well in the first two rounds of the league, was on the bench in this round.

Martinez doesn't think Mourinho is looking down on him.

He was just wondering if Mourinho wanted to learn from Pep Guardiola for some kind of tactical experimentation on the spot.

If that's the case, then Martinez feels his side even has a good chance of beating Chelsea in today's game.

But when he thinks of Mourinho's stability in tactical selection and the cunning of the tactical psychological game before the game, Martinez feels that Mourinho's survival is unlikely.

"They must have done a well-established tactical drill in the off-season, so today's game was the organisation of Kevin De Bruyne in charge of the midfield, and Mourinho is still choosing the best midfield partner for Leon?"

After thinking for a while, Martinez came up with an "answer" that he thought was most likely to be close to the truth.

After all, De Bruyne also tried to play in the number eight position a few times last season, and the effect of partnering with Leon was also good.

Compared to Kroos's solid organization, De Bruyne's advantage is naturally that he can give a dangerous forward pass no matter where he is on the pitch.

Thinking of this, Martinez couldn't help but feel envious of Mourinho again.

This midfield partner who picked a Leon is about to pick out the flowers.

Kroos and De Bruyne go to other teams, even the big teams, and they are basically regarded as the core of the midfield organization.

Now Mourinho wants to put the two of them in the starting line-up?

Martinez thinks it's a terrible way of using players!

Wait until the players from both sides follow the referee team onto the court.

Mourinho felt the slightly resentful gaze of Martinez next door looking at him, and he only felt uncomfortable.

"He's not going to guess our defensive tactics today, is he?"

Mourinho pulled Holland over with some uncertainty and covered his mouth and asked.

Holland looked at the Everton dugout suspiciously, but shook his head repeatedly.

"How can Martinez have this ability, if he has such a keen tactical insight, he has been poached by the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League long ago, how can he lead the team to relegation at Wigan Athletic?"

Holland doesn't believe Martinez will be able to see Chelsea's defensive tactical intentions directly within an hour of getting his hands on Chelsea's starting line-up.

Mourinho felt that Holland had a point, but he was still mentally prepared for his defensive tactics to be seen through by Martinez in advance.

After taking over Everton last season, he was able to lead the team to the top six of the Premier League, although there was an element of luck with Adebayo's outbreak, but Martinez also had two brushes to some extent... Right?

Jose Mourinho has never liked to make the mistake of underestimating his opponents.

He feels that his opponent today is more or less a capable young coach, and even if there is a gap between him and Pochettino, who switched to Tottenham this season, it should not be much different.

So after the game officially started, Mourinho looked at Adebayor's running and holding the ball on the pitch with a serious face.

If Adebayor pulls out of the box more often to get the ball back, then Mourinho will have to make timely adjustments to his defensive tactics...

However, as the two teams tried to attack each other at the beginning of the game, Mourinho's worst tactics were cracked.

Bam Adebayo is still playing in the same style as usual.

From the start, he wanted to try to have the upper hand in one-on-one confrontations with Harry Maguire or Silva and use the ball to create space for his team-mates to attack.

But it's clear that Adebayo is underestimating Maguire's countervailing power and his terrifying power in the drag to the top!

The 1.92m Adebayo weighs around 80 kilograms all year round, which allows him to have a good confrontation ability and a movement agility that is not common with other big center forwards.

As a young man, Bam Adebayo was also obsessed with his footwork, and to a certain extent, he should not be called a little monster by fans.

If he had been a little younger, in a different era from Ibrahimovic, he would have been more appropriately called "Ibrahimovic Jr."

So he's not a regular type of pillar center.

When he played at Arsenal, he actually liked to play mismatched.

At that time, the defenders in the Premier League were stronger than him, not as fast as him, not as agile as him.

And the defenders who are more flexible than him are easily suppressed by him in terms of strength.

Now that he is older, Adebayo is just like Ibrahimovic.

Both of them have slowly learned to use their bodies and fulcrums more reasonably to create offensive space for the team.

But the biggest difference between Adebayo and Ibrahimovic is that Ibrahimovic thinks more clearly and walks more smoothly on the road of weight gain.

Therefore, Ibrahimovic, who transferred to the Premier League last season, did not suffer at all in terms of confrontation, and I did not see any Premier League centre-back restricting Ibrahimovic's performance one-on-one.

Bam Adebayo is still somewhat immersed in his past Premier League years.

It's impossible to gain a lot of weight, and the tall star centre-backs in the Premier League are getting old anyway.

The new generation of centre-backs has generally increased their mobility and reduced size, and in terms of power confrontation, Adebayor feels that he can still take advantage of it.

But today he met a freak heavy centre-back in the new generation!

Maguire's height of 1.94 meters plus a weight of 95 kilograms is really terrifying.

The key is that this kid always has a ruthlessness that likes to fight, and his bounce ability is relatively good.

So after being forced to fight one-on-one and fighting head-to-head for a few high-altitude balls, Adebayo felt that his brain was buzzing all the time!

Leon felt a dull pain in his head after seeing Maguire suppress Adebayor's defensive duel in the frontcourt.

Good guy, it seems that this little monster who moves the Premier League has met the "British aircraft carrier", so he should kneel and kneel!

As long as he's not forced to turn around and risk up without the defensive protection of the midfielder, Maguire is a top-class frontal defender.

It has nothing to do with how old he is or whether he has a lot of defensive experience.

The main reason is that his body talent is too outstanding, and the big head is too advantageous to compete for high-altitude balls!

Jose Mourinho probably didn't expect him to have such a striking defensive effect by starting Harry Maguire today.

Then I turned my head to look at Martinez, who was still fidgeting, as if he didn't know how to deal with this tactical dilemma.

Mourinho also decisively changed his previous opinion of his colleague.

Well, this guy took Everton to European qualification last season, and it seems that he really took shit luck and ate the dividends of Adebayo's explosive play.

Now that Adebayo has no room to play, Mourinho is relieved to sit in the coach's seat and enjoy the attacking performances of his disciples.

I don't know if it's because of the home game today, Martinez's opening tactics are still relatively active.

Not to mention the frequent offensive temptations, it seems that there is no intention of counterattacking at all.

And in the face of Everton's aggressive attacking tactical set-up, it would be a waste for Chelsea not to play their counter-attack.

It just so happened that Leon was partnered with De Bruyne in midfield today, and the two of them transferred the ball diagonally at 45 degrees, and one was more dangerous than the other.

Chelsea played relatively well at both ends of the pitch today.

In the first few counter-attacking opportunities, Hazard and Salah, who started the game, failed to grasp them, and lacked a certain crosshairs in terms of shooting.

But in the 28th minute of the first half, when Leon sent a counter-attacking long ball from De Bruyne, he suddenly followed up and stepped forward to attack.

The sloping pitch situation was suddenly completely pressed on Chelsea's side!

Salah has a strong impact on the ball on the pitch, but his desire to perform today was a bit excessive.

In the previous two counter-attack opportunities, the ball was given to his side, and he missed the best time to share the ball.

Leon didn't reprimand him loudly on the court.

This time, Leon stepped forward to attack, and Leon directly signaled Salah, who had broken through to Everton's bottom line, at the most opportune time, to pass the ball back to him.

If other Chelsea midfielders were to ask Salah for the ball now, Salah wouldn't have given it.

But seeing that it was Li Ang who raised his hand, Salah didn't say a word, and directly returned the ball to Li Ang's feet honestly.

Before picking up the ball, Leon had already observed the movement of his other attacking teammates in and out of the Everton penalty area.

So after receiving Salah's pass, he only adjusted slightly, and then tucked the ball with his left foot into the open area on the left side of the Everton penalty area!

Ibrahimovic's running in the middle and Leon's pass once again formed a wordless tacit pull and pull together.

When Everton's defenders were almost caught up in the passing moves of Leon and Ibrahimovic, they caught the attention of the defence.

On the left side of the Everton penalty area, the unmarked Hazard stopped and shot in one go!

His powerful volley, aimed at the far corner of the Everton goal, was very decisive.

Everton's veteran goalkeeper Howard had even just made a save when the ball rolled straight into the far corner of the Everton goal!

Eden Hazard was delighted after the goal and rushed to Everton's bottom line to the cheers of the Chelsea fans in attendance.

Leon deliberately waited for a while, then took Salah by the shoulder and took him with him to celebrate with his teammates.

There's no need to preach anything, Salah is smart, just like Kevin De Bruyne last season.

They already have their own habitual habits, but when they get to the top league, they need a process of adaptation.

After they tried to play with the same core style of play and couldn't play with efficient statistics and performances, they themselves will understand that there is something wrong with this style of play.

There are many players who don't change when they encounter problems.

Many so-called talented players who used to dominate in the minor leagues were ignored after arriving in the top leagues, basically because they refused to take the initiative to change, so they were ruthlessly eliminated by strong teams in the end.

But here at Leon, Salah, like De Bruyne, has no chance of not being able to play in the Premier League.

Some young players may need to be more tightly controlled, such as Romelu Lukaku, who just needs a guide to teach him how to make the most of his abilities.

But young talents like Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah just need a little more tolerance and adaptation...

In the 42nd minute of the first half, Salah broke through Baines's mark with the ball again, and finally passed the ball to Ibrahimovic in the middle of the penalty area before Distin's defense was in place.

Ibrahimovic made a quick move and pushed a shot into the middle of the goal, and this time Howard made a timely save to block Ibrahimovic's shot in the first place.

But in the face of Leon, who stepped forward into the Everton penalty area to shoot a follow-up shot, Howard was powerless.

Mohamed Salah didn't score any personal data in the scoring process, but his performance was recognised by all Chelsea players.

Ibrahimovic laughed affectionately and rubbed Salah's curly hair.

After Leon and Hazard celebrated, they also smiled and high-fived Salah and hugged him.

Mourinho, who was standing on the sidelines, was in a good mood, and he only felt that he had made Leon find a way to integrate Salah into the team's tactical system as soon as possible.

As long as Salah continues to improve like this, he will be able to play as a killer on Chelsea's right flank in the second half of the season, ready to take on the pitch and upset the balance.

At that time, in the Champions League, Mourinho will have more confidence to fight with any team without falling behind!

As for the new season of the Premier League?

Mourinho just wants to say.

Including Manchester City.

Hmph, there is no one who can fight!

(End of chapter)