Now Chelsea emphasizes layer by layer and last pass. Drogba's role is similar to Klose's role in the penalty area. Drogba is not Klose after all, the most important thing is that the two people's support methods are different. Drogba has always been accustomed to using his body to carry his opponents, win the ball, and is used to head-on battles in the Premier League.

Kloze is used to the ball under his feet. He heads the ball because he is very good at attacking. When he is used as a fulcrum, his body and heading are currently in the past 80% of the time.

But what is Chelsea walking now? It's the ground.

Drogba is not used to Boas's playing style, so since the beginning of the game, his position is basically centered on the post.

He is older and can still be between 50 and 50 in the past duel with Benatia. Now he is almost completely below and doesn't get too many shots.

Wen Sheng was also particularly wary of him going outside the penalty area, because Drogba's long shot at his feet was also awesome.

So although Chelsea's offensive was fierce in the first ten minutes, it actually did not have much threat to Crystal Palace.

Ten minutes later, Crystal Palace adapted to Chelsea's play, and the midfield advantage began to become obvious. Boas's Chelsea problem was the biggest issue in the midfield.

Young player Romeu debuted from Lamacia and has good skills. When he was in Barcelona, ​​the outside media gave him the title of "Busquets II", but in fact he was not a little different from Busquets.

Let's not discuss his future for now. What he has the worst Busquets now is his experience. Busquets firmly settled in the starting position of the main player after Guardiola came on stage. Yaya Toure was sold to Manchester City because of Busquets' existence. Romeu didn't play a few games in Barcelona. After this transfer to Chelsea, Boas was immediately entrusted with important tasks.

The old players in Chelsea team are not satisfied. The pace of his own matchmaking is not very good, and they are far behind Busquets in terms of ball handling ability and defensive position.

The other two players, Ramirez and Merreles, are not the top midfielders themselves, and their division of labor is almost a mess.

Unlike Crystal Palace, the division of labor is relatively clear, so it is normal for them to be unable to control the midfield.

The formation of Crystal Palace gradually pushed upward, defending at high positions and attacking at a fast pace suppressed Chelsea.

From the 18th to 24th minutes, Crystal Palace used the change of offensive and defensive momentum between the two sides to create a climax of attack, and Chelsea was full of dangers in front of the goal.

Boas was anxious on the sidelines. He and Crystal Palace had already fought once in the Europa League final. That time, the two sides fought equally. This time, when he saw Crystal Palace again, he had already felt that Crystal Palace was stronger.

The midfield loss was obvious. The only time he was relieved that his defense line was relatively reliable, he did not make any mistakes, and he had several quick attack opportunities to destroy Crystal Palace.

Once this time period passes, Crystal Palace's offensive slows down, and Chelsea has strength. After this dangerous period, they have adapted to the Crystal Palace's style of playing. The two sides fought fiercely in various positions on the stadium, and the intensity of the game is also increasing.

Before we knew it, the halftime ended, and both sides attacked and defended each other, and the momentum was evenly matched. Crystal Palace had a slight advantage.

"Ian, the first half is over. What do you think of the performance of both sides?!" Martin Taylor and Ian Wright discussed the first half game in the commentary seat.

"I think Crystal Palace performs better in the away game! Although Chelsea is at home, they fall below in the midfield control and fail to control the midfield well! I think Crystal Palace should play more patiently. They are not investing too much in offense! In addition, their wings are not able to fully defend Chelsea's wings, allowing their opponents to create some opportunities!" Ian Wright commented.

Martin Taylor nodded. Crystal Palace's advantage lies in its strong steals and interception ability and excellent control, but Chelsea is not very bad either. Their threat on the wing always exists.

Mata, a midfielder, has not done a good job in defending against him. He has made good passes several times, and it is wrong that he has not had enough tacit understanding between him and Drogba, so Chelsea may be able to score.

On the other side, Sturridge beat the character who rushed hard and attacked Marjo several times, and Marjo was really embarrassed.

"We need to be patient!" Wensheng was not a fool. His sense of smell on the spot was his talent. He quickly found the problem. He also emphasized patience when explaining the tactics of the second half to his players in the locker room.

In the first half, because he was afraid of the opponent's threat on the wing, he adopted a fast attack strategy, and the full-back did not push too much. As a result, the team played in a miserable manner. Larson and Marjo were not satisfied with the opportunity to push, and they were wasted a lot of physical fitness, and some mistakes were made in defense.

The attack line's troops seemed to be insufficient, and gave the other party a chance to stare at them.

"We have to control the ball in the second half, from here..." Wen Sheng pointed to the tactical board and talked. He asked the players to gradually control the ball from the backcourt, advance slowly, keep the formation compact, and put pressure on the opponent collectively.

"We must play success rate! Try not to lose the ball in the frontcourt, use your brain when passing the ball, and don't easily put our defense in a dangerous situation!"

At the same time, in Chelsea's locker room, Boas was also explaining his requirements. He was determined to make a substitution. He wanted to replace the young player Romeu.

Romeu has started in the last three games, but the results are not ideal.

On the court, he seemed to run actively and play decisively, but he lost his position in his defensive position and also caused the team to lose the ball.

But he was unwilling to let him change to Lampard. Of course, Lampard had experience, but his running ability was not as good as before, and he was worried that it would be worse, not to mention that this went against his idea of ​​vigorously supporting newcomers and building his own direct line.

Another problem with Lampard is that his ability to control the ball is not strong. This does not mean that Lampard's foot skills are really bad, on the contrary, his foot skills are very good.

Lampard and Gerrard have the same problems. They have good skills under their feet, but their style of playing in their respective teams is completely different from the way they play in the organization-based midfielders. They are used to being natural, so they are completely incomparable to the ability of technical midfielders such as Pirlo and Xavi to get rid of their position.

In the early years, they developed in that direction, but it was not ruled out that they could become a midfielder like Pirlo and Xavi, but now it is definitely impossible.

Lampard's most outstanding is his ability to score forward shots. His scoring ability has declined in recent years. The coaches of the Mourinho era have not found Lampard's new life. Perhaps Lampard himself does not want to change. In short, Boas believes that using Lampard is not necessarily better than Romeu.

After thinking about it, Boas finally let go of this question and continued to let Romeu try it. Lampard can wait and then go on.

The midfielder was unable to compete with the opponent in the first half, which was a question that he could not refuse, but I'm sorry that his subordinates really had no reliable candidate for the midfielder.

Essin is certainly the best candidate for the head waist, but in August, Essin was injured due to cruciate ligament surgery and has not yet made a comeback.

Another midfielder Mikel, Boas, also missed the game due to injury.

So in this game, Boas was actually quite unlucky. He was not hard on his waist, so he could only cruelly send a low-end combination like Ramirez, Mereles and Romeu.
Chapter completed!