When Pan Yi arrived at the home team's locker room, everyone was already waiting for him.

"Everyone performed well in the first half. Although we failed to score, I am very satisfied with the performance of each of you."

Pan Yi's words made every player present feel relieved and a big stone fell to the ground.

In the second half of the first half today, Pan Yi asked everyone to use a "pseudo center back + pseudo full back" tactic, with the intention of targeting Manchester City's overload tactics on the left.

This is similar to Carragher's analysis in the live broadcast room, which is to return Marcos Alonso and Azpilicueta, who are more offensive, to the defense line, forming a position somewhat similar to the previous "four-wing back" formation. , then attack Manchester City from the left;

Correspondingly, Terry and Gary Cahill, who are more defensively capable, were concentrated on the right side to resist Manchester City's attacking firepower.

Such adjustments have obviously had a significant effect.

However, because this kind of dislocation tactic is not used very often, especially on the right side where Terry and Gary Cahill are located, their cooperation with the attackers in front is a bit unfamiliar, which also leads to the failure to achieve substantial progress. ——It’s a goal.

"However, our team has also exposed some problems, Bernardo."

"Boss." Seat B stood up immediately after being called.

Seat B performed well in the first half and worked very hard. Pan Yi knew this very well, but he was just unlucky and failed to score.

"For today's game, Manchester City's preparations were not inadequate. They even used a move they had never used before to win by surprise. Who would have thought that Pellegrini would suddenly use a 3-4- that Pan Yi is most familiar with? 3 formation? This time also gave Manchester City an advantage on the field."

Double-teamed by Kompany, Demichelis and Mangala, the Belgian center used his strong body to suppress his opponent, moved around to protect the ball, and passed it back to the outside of the penalty area. Hazard ran out of space.

"Haha, have you ever considered my feelings?" Bamford, who was sitting next to Lingard, sneered. "The key to these two goals just now was Lukaku, right? This guy's physical fitness is too abnormal. With height, weight, explosiveness, and feet, he is simply a nightmare for any central defender."

He felt that Pan Yi had some special thoughts, but he couldn't tell what the specific thoughts were. It was just a feeling.

Like... right now.

In this moment of pause, Seat B relied on his excellent starting speed to put some distance between him and Demichelis, and passed the ball to the small penalty area with a low ball with his right foot.

Sometimes, in order to further open up the space in the backcourt, Terry will go back, thus forming a back four.

Yes, in the 72nd minute, Bamford was replaced by Pan Yi along with Gnabry and Lingard.

Lineker lamented:

"And Pan Yi once again taught us a unique tactical lesson in today's game."

"Whether it is the competition for key areas or the development of players' personal abilities, Pan Yi has the upper hand. This is why Chelsea can beat Manchester City today."

In contrast to David Silva, the left winger who is given a relatively high degree of freedom in Manchester City's tactical system, Pan Yi also chose to liberate the nominal right back Cahill so that he could specifically mark the big player in defense. David Silva, and promptly cut off the connection between him and Aguero.

But since Pellegrini himself is not too familiar with the 3-4-3 formation he used today, he is even less familiar with the targeted formation used by Pan Yi, and he really cannot come up with it.

What response plan.

This will put more defensive pressure on Chelsea on this side, but at the same time there will be more opportunities.

At this time, his teammates also joined in. Some "played the guitar" and some "beat the drums." They formed a band with Lingard and held a band celebration.

All the players immediately looked at the coach.

In general, the 3-back system used by Chelsea today will not change to five-backs as is common this season in defense, but will return to four-backs and use 4-4-2 and 4-2-4.

Switch between.

During Chelsea's advance with the ball, facing Manchester City's not very strong high pressure, Alonso boldly attacked from the left center back position and attracted the opponent Zabaleta's defense, thus setting the stage for Hazard's breakthrough.

Created space.

"Of course, Pan Yi's timely changes in on-the-spot command are also breathtaking."

Therefore, players often joke about this topic of the main substitute.

Near Cahill, Terry was also ready to make up for any leaks.

And soon, the teammates also swarmed up, knocked them all to the ground, and hugged them in various ways.

"But to truly win the game, it is not enough to do this. Coaches must put the right players in the right positions and then use their personal abilities to create advantages in local areas and then single-handedly

Points drive the overall situation and change the situation of the game."

"I hope you can be more aggressive, even at the front of the penalty area. As long as you are sure, I will allow you to hit the goal at any time. Sometimes you don't have to pass the ball, do you understand what I mean?"

When Kompany got the ball in the middle and the two central defenders were preparing to receive the ball on both sides of the small penalty area, many Chelsea offensive players swarmed forward and blocked Kompany's possible ball routes.

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't let them hear you."

Seat B, who was ready to go, quickly jumped in from behind like a bolt of lightning and chased the ball.

Your King Lin, King of Dance of the Blues!

The cheers at Stamford Bridge were even louder.

And players like Lukaku are not surprised by this after having accepted so many strange requests from Pan Yi.

In fact, this can also be understood as a "redemption" tactic.

But in this way, the situation on the field continued as it was in the first half, and Chelsea continued to occupy the advantage on the field.

But as soon as he stopped, Seat B suddenly started again, dribbling the ball towards the baseline.

The goal came very timely.

2:0!

This left the Manchester City players, the fans in the visiting team's stands, and even Pellegrini in the coaching booth dumbfounded.

As for Azar...

Seat B nodded in agreement.

Chelsea's advance and attack in the 53rd minute further demonstrated the ingenuity of Pan Yi's tactics.

After Pan Yi nodded affirmatively towards Hazard, he looked around at the players around him and said, "Okay, guys."

In fact, from the second half of the first half, he felt something was wrong.

"I found that you often lean towards the center, which is not a good sign. Their center was very dense today. On the contrary, due to the strong desire of left back Clichy to attack today, the distance between him and Kompany was widened.

It’s a bit long, you should take advantage of that.”

Under pressure, David Silva made a dribbling error. Chelsea intercepted the ball in the frontcourt. Hazard, who was originally on the first line, advanced into the penalty area, but his shot was blocked by Joe Hart.

If Pellegrini looked at the real-time tactical board at this time, he could see that against Manchester City's rough 4-3-3 formation when playing the ball, Pan Yi adjusted the pressing structure to 3-3-4, ensuring that

Overall, it's almost man-to-man.

"Undoubtedly, Pan Yi is the one I have seen so far who does the best job of combining the whole and the parts."

He understood what Pan Yi meant.

Chelsea fans can start celebrating their goals again!

The three young players who came on the bench were even more excited and hugged each other, jumping and screaming.

Demichelis was also well prepared, and he also stopped suddenly and quickly stabilized his body.

At this time, Lukaku rushed in from behind, blocked his fellow countryman Kompany on the left with his body, faced the ball from the right, didn't even jump, and just headed the ball.

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After making a slight adjustment, he passed the ball directly to the penalty area without waiting for the opponent's Aguero to come forward.

After scoring the goal, Lukaku rushed out of the small penalty area with joy, ran all the way to the right, and excitedly picked up seat B from the waist.

The greatest significance of the dynamic transformation of this formation is to limit the performance of Manchester City's left wing in defense, and to find ways to disrupt Manchester City's 5-4-1 defensive system in their own offense, allowing Hazard or B seat to get the ball on the wing.

One-on-one opportunities.

"It was another complete victory for Chelsea today."

But sitting on the coaching bench, Pellegrini was always a little uneasy.

"What are you three talking about so happily? Go warm up, it's almost 70 minutes, it's your turn to perform!"

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84 minutes.

After hearing this, Azar nodded heavily, "Understood."

In just five minutes, Chelsea scored two consecutive attacks against Manchester City's goal.

Lingard instantly threw away Gnabry and Bamford and rushed to the north stand where Chelsea's die-hard fans are, which is the Matthew Harding Stand - this is to commemorate the club's vice-president who died in a plane crash in 1996.

Named after Matthew Harding.

"Don't give Manchester City any chance. Use our offense and our passing and control advantage to defeat them. Do you have the confidence?"

Moreover, even though they are all young and some have just arrived, Pan Yi will still give them the opportunity to perform on the court.

As the saying goes, everything changes without departing from its roots. Although the changes in tactics this time are relatively large, many things are the same.

After receiving the clear instructions from Pan Yi, Hazard became more courageous and volleyed with his right foot, hitting a curve ball that hit the upper right corner of the goal.

In other words, the frontcourt is now two against two!

Seat B + Lukaku, VS Kompany + Demichelis!

At this time, Seat B got up very quickly, dribbling the ball and getting ready to enter the penalty area.

"I only have one request for you, Hazard." Pan Yi feels that Burger King is Chelsea's best and most critical player this season, but he believes that Hazard should be able to do better.

However, this time Hazard made a pass after the breakthrough, but Lukaku's shot failed to hit the target and was confiscated by Joe Hart again.

In the 65th minute, Hazard took the ball from the left and passed the defensive player before cutting inside and passing the ball to Lukaku's feet.

He was also very satisfied with the performance of the Belgian center and his attitude was so sincere that he had nothing to say.

As a defensive midfielder, Matic will also retreat according to regular routines to help the ball out of the backcourt.

Then Lingard started his own celebration - playing the flute!

The opponent might just make an inconspicuous attack and score a goal instead.

After all, no matter what team it is, it is difficult to ensure that the defense is 100% solid when attacking aggressively!
To be continued...