Chapter 358: Liverpool will usher in their new era
'Chelsea are still very resilient! Not long into the 30th minute of the first half, Leon scored a goal to help Chelsea equalise!
Now the time has come to test the mentality of the players on the field, I wonder if the players of West Ham United can stabilize the game situation in this situation? ”
After finishing the celebration of Leon's crucial goal in the studio, Zhan Jun also "thought" about the players on the field of West Ham United.
However, it was West Ham United manager Bilic who showed more impatience at the moment.
He seemed very unreceptive to the fact that his team had been equalised so early, which completely disrupted his tactical set-up.
After urgent discussions, he and the assistant coach finally decided not to continue to attack with Chelsea hard, but to hold on to the game and drag the game into the half-time break.
But when he gave such tactical instructions, he was happy with the Chelsea coaching staff.
Now that Chelsea are in full swing, West Ham will still cause a lot of problems for Chelsea's pressing attack if they choose to continue to resist stubbornly.
But if they chose to continue to be shrunken turtles, they simply handed the knife into the hands of the Chelsea players.
Such a "docile" opponent, Chelsea who has played smoothly really likes it too much!
West Ham opted to continue to shrink their formation and stick to the final 10 minutes of the first half.
Seeing this, Li Ang was not polite at all, and when the game restarted, he directly pressed the offensive organization line to West Ham United half with Kroos!
Shrink formation, huh?
You want to stick to it, don't you?
Playing this game in front of Chelsea, who are the best at setting up buses and also the best at breaking buses, Leon can only say that the coaching staff of West Ham United is also big enough.
With him and Kroos calmly organised, all three of Chelsea's strikers were pulled out of the West Ham penalty area, taking turns to catch the ball and find opportunities to shoot from distance.
In order to make it easier for Salah to cut inside, he also deliberately switched wing positions with De Bruyne.
Suarez also has a very good long-range shooting skills, and his shooting skills are outstanding, and he is a great threat when he takes the ball in the right position!
What's more important is that behind the three of them, there is also the existence of Leon, a human cannon.
As soon as Leon plugs in and gets the ball, he can surprise the West Ham defenders!
However, Chelsea's long-range approach is not to force a break from West Ham, but to find more set-piece opportunities.
This is a tactic that is familiar to Chelsea's players on the pitch, including Luis Suarez, who only joined this summer, after all, they have already practised many times on the training ground.
The long-range shot should be full of momentum, and the angle should be as tricky as possible, that is, to force the opponent's goalkeeper to choose as much as possible to save the football from the bottom line!
And when there are enough corners, Maguire's head-to-head monster will shine all over the field.
In fact, West Ham United's center-back combination is already at the forefront of the Premier League in terms of confrontation, Collins and Tomkins are both tall central defenders, and their air defense capabilities are not weak.
However, these two superheroes still look a little smaller in front of Maguire, a humanoid monster who is 1.95 meters tall and weighs 95 kilograms~
And Chelsea have a lot of headers in the team, and with Maguire's deterrent at the top, they can get enough chances to get to the top.
West Ham United defended well, but after all, they couldn't withstand Chelsea's high-frequency header bombardment.
In the 44th minute of the first half, Kalas took advantage of the deterrent cover of Maguire and Leon in the middle of the penalty area, and successfully rushed to the back of the West Ham United goal!
Bilic seemed to have really broken the defence at this moment, and his scolding in front of the dugout made the West Ham players feel a lot of pressure.
Chelsea, on the other hand, are completely relaxed and celebrating.
After the break, Chelsea put on a decisive counter-attacking posture. Bilic felt that Mourinho was disgusting him, but he could not find evidence and could only continue to put pressure on his disciples.
But the truth is that he thinks too much about himself.
Chelsea's bench depth this season is not enough, so the Chelsea coaching staff has set up a tactical style of play with a lot of counter-attack.
In the first two seasons, Chelsea also played a lot of defensive counter-attacks, but when it was time to attack, they would also attack wildly, and sometimes they couldn't stop it, and it was okay to play five or six goals in the middle and lower teams.
But this season, Chelsea have played against weaker teams, and it is very economical to win, so don't waste more physical energy.
It's the same thing with West Ham now.
Chelsea could have pressed each other from start to finish, but it wasn't necessary, especially with the recent tight schedule.
Mourinho gave up directly in the next round of the League Cup, and the energy saved will of course be used in the subsequent league and Champions League tough battles.
So a slightly obscene Chelsea with a slightly obscene style of play could not be more reluctant appeared at Upton Park.
Leon was also bent on Payet in the second half, and he didn't play more in attack, but correspondingly, Payet, the engine of West Ham United's front court also stalled.
After their "lose-lose", Chelsea were able to defend patiently with a one-goal lead, but West Ham United were more and more anxious, and they still wanted to fight for points at home.
Bilic made an early substitution in the 60th minute of the second half.
He first replaced Sako, who was not playing well today, with former Liverpool centre-forward Carroll, and then replaced Zarate with another striker, Antonio, and switched to 442.
Such a retro adjustment made Mourinho shake his head on the sidelines.
After all, it's about to enter 2016, and there are still managers of top league teams who believe that the 442 formation can change their lives?
Mourinho himself wouldn't play 442 anyway, so it's really better to change 4231 to 433, which shows that Bilic is indeed a little up.
But it's good news for Chelsea.
West Ham United changed to 442, and Chelsea's side further shrank the formation to block the middle, and let West Ham United play the bottom cross.
Carroll's real strength is clear to old Premier League fans anyway, and he and Antonio can't compete with Maguire together.
Not to mention that Ma Datou also has a big brother Thiago Silva by his side.
The final 30 minutes of the second half were almost a rehearsal between Chelsea and West Ham.
However, it was Chelsea who were on the defensive, who were in complete control of the tempo.
Because they have guided almost all of West Ham's attacking directions.
And Chelsea, who defended with all their might, finally succeeded in letting more than 30,000 hammers at Upton Park help fans break the defense!
Zhan Jun uttered the classic quote from Mourinho at the end of the game:
"This is Mourinho's team! As long as he doesn't want to attack anymore or he doesn't want to win games, he will never lose! ”
This evaluation is very suitable for Mourinho, and the final score of this game is fixed at 2-1, Chelsea once again tortured the opponent to the point of exploding!
So much so that after the game, Bilic directly ignored Mourinho's active handshake and walked directly into the player's tunnel with a calm face.
Mourinho didn't mind either, though, as he shrugged his shoulders at the camera before joining his players in the celebrations.
In his post-match press conference, Bilic fired straight at him, saying that Mourinho had used ugly football to win the matchup.
"The team that played better and was more eager to win didn't win!"
After learning that Bilic made such an offensive statement in the post-match press conference, Mourinho was also happy.
"He's right, we're playing more ugly and utilitarian, and we're not very good at playing so-called beautiful football, but today we took three points away from Upton Park, and that's true~"
Mourinho's self-deprecating answer has earned him and Chelsea the respect of more neutral fans.
But with the media, Chelsea don't get much to like.
Because Mourinho then decisively gave up the League Cup and sent an almost pure youth squad to face Stoke City's choice, he was questioned by the British media.
Thankfully, however, there has been little disagreement within Chelsea on the matter.
Chelsea have already won two EFL Cups in their previous two seasons, so what do they need to prove in this competition?
Last season, Chelsea won the quadruple in one go, and that feeling of winning everything was really nice and very happy!
But at the same time, Chelsea's main players are feeling very tired after the season is really over.
A physical monster like Leon is the only one in football.
If the Chelsea coaching staff are to try to win the quadruple again this season, there will inevitably be dissenting voices within the Chelsea squad.
Reducing the burden and reducing pressure is what most of Chelsea's main players are most eager for right now.
What is the League Cup? If they could, they would even like to suggest that Lao Mu directly give up the FA Cup counting!
Only play the league and the Champions League, the rotation will be rotated, and it will be nice to rest for a few more days!
So no matter how noisy the media and public opinion outside are, the Chelsea team is calm anyway, and the years are quiet.
In the 1/8 final of the EFL Cup on 27 October, Chelsea simply lost 1-3 away from home, ushering in the first defeat of the season and losing the possibility of three consecutive EFL Cup titles.
However, the main players of Chelsea's first team enjoyed a two-day holiday comfortably, and then calmly rested and trained for five days before ushering in the 11th round of the Premier League against Liverpool.
At this time, Liverpool can be described as turbulent, and Rodgers did not even make it to Christmas in the new season, and was eliminated by Liverpool's management.
Speaking of which, Rogers is also quite wronged.
After all, the two big players on his front line in the new season have been poached one after another, and the team's reinforcements are not very strong.
In this case, he led the team to a record of 3 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, and there were not many losses, and the team's defense was okay, but the offense was always a little bit of luck.
There were two or three games that he should have won, and if two or three of those five draws had turned into wins, he wouldn't have left Anfield so early.
Maybe it's because he didn't lead the team to the Champions League last season, which made him lose a lot of points from the management.
In addition, Liverpool's top management has already contacted Klopp, who has resigned from Dortmund, so the official announcement of Rodgers' dismissal came quickly.
On the evening after the 10th round of the English Premier League, Liverpool officially announced the two news of Rodgers' resignation and the search for a new manager, which was also a small shock to the Premier League circle.
It's just that their search is a bit fast, and they were still saying that they were going to choose someone the night before, but on the afternoon of the second day, they directly announced that Klopp was coming to Anfield!
Being able to find Klopp, who led Dortmund to a storm of youth in previous seasons, Liverpool fans are still very satisfied with the actions of the top.
is that at this stage, he has missed the summer window recruitment period, and the first thing Klopp has to do after he arrives is to maintain stability and watch the food, and stabilize the record first.
If you want to rebuild the new signings according to his tactical ideas, you will need at least two transfer windows.
It is unrealistic for Jurgen Klopp to take over Rodgers' mess this season and lead the team directly to the top four of the Premier League.
At least from the perspective of public opinion, Klopp has been given a more relaxed coaching environment, and he can use most of the Premier League season to make initial changes to this Liverpool team.
It's just that he has to lead the team to fight hard against Chelsea immediately after taking office, which is really a bit unlucky.
On the afternoon of October 31, Mourinho played Klopp for the first time in the Premier League, and the two had a good conversation during the pre-match exchange, and Klopp also greeted Leon very warmly.
They are also old rivals in the Champions League, and Real Madrid's two seasons of success in the Champions League were not without meeting the Bundesliga giants.
However, the pre-match greetings did not affect Mourinho and Leon in the slightest to be ruthless against Liverpool.
Jurgen Klopp's tactical concept is still very good, he only has a short five or six days to transform after taking office, but it is very good to give this Liverpool team a new tactical style.
More runs, more aggressive pressing defenses, more efficient counter-attack pushes.
Leon could easily get a sense on the pitch of the new tactical style of play that Liverpool are looking for.
They haven't been able to mature all the new tactics that Klopp has instilled in them in a short period of time.
But at least they're already changing, with running and defensive pressing being the most noticeable improvements.
However, this small change for Liverpool only adds some problems to the current Chelsea.
In the first half, Chelsea's side scored through Mohamed Salah and Luis Suarez.
Salah celebrated passionately, while Suarez chose not to do anything at Anfield.
Liverpool pulled a goal back in the second half through Philippe Coutinho, but Chelsea's side were soon awarded a penalty after returning from injury, Eden Hazard.
Hazard's ability to break through was undiminished, and it took just 14 minutes to score a penalty after coming on.
And it is still the familiar man who makes the mistake on the Liverpool side.
Dejan Lovren!
After Klopp saw Lovren recklessly tripped Hazard in his own penalty area, he covered his eyes and sat back in the dugout, seemingly a little blind.
And Li Ang faced this penalty opportunity in one fell swoop!
In the end, Chelsea beat Liverpool for the first time in the 3-1 season at Anfield.
Such a result was expected by all the media before the game.
However, Leon gave Liverpool great praise in his post-match interview.
'Jurgen Klopp has done a fantastic job and I think the Liverpool fans just have to believe in him.
Liverpool will usher in a new era under his leadership! ”
(End of chapter)