Chapter 409 Can’t you succeed without talent?

Author: Ant who loves watching football

There is a very hot focus game in the seventh round of the Premier League, but it is not the game between Newcastle United and Chelsea.

Tottenham beat Manchester City 4:1 at home in this round, but they were not the most watched in this round.

It's Leicester City's home game against Arsenal!

This was all thanks to Pan Yi. Who told him that Leicester City would be the most difficult team to deal with this season and the most threatening team to Chelsea?

Leicester City is indeed on track, winning three times and drawing three in six rounds, remaining undefeated.

But many people also believe that Leicester City's results are justified.

The reason is simple. In the first six rounds, they defeated mid-to-lower teams like Sunderland, West Ham United, and Aston Villa. However, when facing Bournemouth and Stoke City

, especially against Tottenham, they did not take any advantage and ended in a draw.

Today, Arsenal can test the quality of Leicester City and see if they are as good as Pan Yi said?

The final result of the game seems to prove that the Premier League is still the world of BIG6!

Although Vardy scored twice in the game, Sanchez scored a hat trick for Arsenal. Walcott and Giroud also scored one goal each. Arsenal ended up with 5 in this goal battle:

2 away wins.

As a result, Leicester City suddenly dropped to 9th place in the standings.

Although it is already a very good position compared to last season, there is still a big gap between it and the "big dark horse" predicted by Pan Yi.

In this regard, more and more people believe that Pan Yi brought up Leicester City just to show his contempt for BIG6.

How could a team like this, which had just reached the Premier League last season and was almost relegated, suddenly become a Champions League berth or even a contender for the Premier League title?

Compared with BIG6's investment, a small team like Leicester City that invested 20 to 30 million in the transfer market is really child's play.

The current Premier League standings also illustrate this point: BIG6 are all ranked in the top six, followed by West Ham United and Everton, who also performed well, and then Leicester City.

But regarding this statement, Pan Yi said:

"It's normal for the team's performance to have ups and downs, but I still think Ranieri's team still has great potential. Let me put it here. If any team underestimates them, they will definitely suffer a big loss!"

The main reason is that Leicester City's performance this season is really good, at least not much different from Pan Yi's previous life.

This also shows that although Kante is missing from Leicester City's lineup, after adding Mikel, Ranieri also made fine-tuning according to the actual situation of the players, allowing him to quickly integrate into Leicester City's tactical system.

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In terms of a player's personal ability, Kante is certainly better than Mikel, but in his previous life, Leicester City's Kante was only an engineering type after all, and Mikel can also perform relatively well.

If you have to pick the most important person from the "Leicester City Miracle", head coach Ranieri must be the first, then Vardy should be next, and then Mahrez.

Of these three people, one is the best manager in the Premier League, one is the Premier League Golden Boot, and the other is the best player in the Premier League.

Then, it may be Kante's turn, and this "fourth most important person" has goalkeeper Schmeichel competing with him.

In short, the core of the current Leicester City has not changed much. Ranieri has used the team's tactics very well, so the overall results will definitely not be much different from the previous life.

This is the "fact" that Pan Yi, as a time traveler and a master tactician, can predict.

As for whether others believe it or not...he believes it anyway.

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Three days after playing Newcastle United, Chelsea ushered in the second round of the Champions League group stage.

The whole team set off for Porto, Portugal, to visit the Dragon Stadium.

Porto's head coach is Spaniard Lopetegui, who deployed a -1 formation to face Chelsea.

Obviously, as Chelsea has become more and more popular in the past two years, coaches all over Europe are also studying how to restrain Chelsea.

For many weaker teams, obviously adopting a set of defensive tactics is the most likely way to score points against Chelsea.

At the forefront is Cameroon forward Aboubakar, and Porto uses his speed to counterattack.

After the game started, Chelsea's attack was blocked by Porto.

It is obvious that Lopetegui has made a very detailed study of Chelsea's offensive methods and has also done an excellent job in setting up targeted defense.

The protection of almost four defensive midfielders, coupled with the defense line and the active support of the frontcourt offensive players, all caused Chelsea's offense to run into trouble, and it could be considered that it once again hit the wall.

The first half ended with a score of 0-0.

Chelsea controlled the ball and rhythm, also took advantage of the field, and frequently created shooting opportunities, but they were unable to break the deadlock and take the lead.

This disappoints everyone at Chelsea.

Pan Yi was mentally prepared for this situation.

There is no way, when you become a strong person, everyone will use the same methods to deal with strong people, instead of letting you use your offensive strength wantonly.

At halftime, he asked Hazard to switch positions with Seat B. Seat B moved to the left and Hazard moved to the right.

The same is true for the forwards.

Pan Yi told Harry Kane and Lukaku to keep running, both vertically and horizontally, in order to create space.

"The tighter the opponent's defense is, the more we have to keep pulling at it and creating more loopholes."

Pan Yi also asked everyone to be patient and not to rush under any circumstances.

And such midfield adjustments obviously had an effect.

After changing sides in the second half, Chelsea's offense was still pursued and intercepted by Porto, but it improved significantly, and the number of threatening shots began to increase.

In the 61st minute of the game, Hazard and Seat B suddenly appeared on the left wing at the same time. The two played a tacit one-on-one coordination, allowing Hazard to dribble the ball along the left wing and quickly attack.

Although the opponent's defender Pereira was chasing after him all the way, Hazard suddenly stopped when he rushed to the left side of the penalty area and dunked the ball back, causing Pereira to lose his center of gravity and slip to the ground.

Then Hazard took the lead and passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area.

At this moment, Lukaku was already standing near the penalty spot, blocking the opponent's central defender Marcano with his body and stopping Hazard's pass.

But Marcano's defense was also in place, preventing Lukaku from turning around. In addition, players such as Neves and Layun returned to defend, forcing Lukaku to use his body to protect the ball before quickly returning.

To Harry Kane.

Harry Kane didn't stop the ball and hit the goal directly with his right foot.

"Harry Kane shoots, but Porto goalkeeper Casillas makes a crucial save!"

"This Spanish goalkeeper moved to Porto from Real Madrid, where he had played for more than ten years, and he still performed very steadily!"

"Harry Kane's right foot hit the goal very suddenly, but Casillas saved the ball."

"What a great save!"

"However, after the ball was saved, it landed...at the feet of the Chelsea players!"

"Bernardo Silva is very fast. He poked the ball before Ruben Neves tried to break the ball out of the danger zone, then quickly followed up with a volley.

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"The ball went in!!! The score was rewritten!"

"Bernardo Silva scored this key goal. The distance of this shot was too close. Even Casillas, who reacted quickly, could not save the ball again!"

"Oh my god, Chelsea's attack is really amazing! In my football watching career, I have rarely seen players on both sides squeeze to the side and then cooperate."

"After the cooperation between Seat B and Hazard, they quickly entered the penalty area, diagonally from the right rib to the right side of the goal, and then they missed the goal!"

"Of course, Lukaku and Harry Kane also played an important role in this process. The cooperation of this attacking four is very beautiful!"

"Tonight, at the Dragon Stadium, facing Porto's tight defense, Chelsea still seized an opportunity."

"Next, it depends on whether Porto wants to counterattack."

"Chelsea is one goal ahead, and Pan Yi is already preparing to make substitutions. I believe he will better control the situation on the field after gaining the score advantage."

"Porto also have to think about, should they try to score goals?"

"Three days ago in the Premier League, Newcastle United took the initiative to counterattack after conceding a goal, but soon conceded a second goal."

"Lopetegui must think clearly now, should Porto press forward and give it a try?"

After all, Lopetegui is not McLaren, and he is more cautious.

He just made a matchup substitution, replacing Aboubakar with Italian forward Osvaldo, hoping to change to a more direct way of starting from the backcourt to find the forward to break through Chelsea's defense.

But in this way, it is really difficult to find any opportunities in front of Chelsea's three central defenders who are very stable in defense.

In the end, Chelsea relied on a golden goal from Sea B to defeat Porto 1:0 away from home and win two consecutive group stage victories.

Pan Yi also breathed a heavy sigh of relief, high-fiving and hugging all the Chelsea players who came off the field.

Although we only won one goal, it was enough.

A 7-0 win in one game is not as good as a 1-0 win in seven games. Getting three points is the most important thing.

(Liverpool under Klopp will definitely know this in the future.)——

Returning to London from Porto, Pan Yi will soon prepare for two consecutive home games in the Premier League.
To be continued...