Chapter 106
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Seeing Chelsea falling behind at the end of the first half, Abramovich, who appeared in the VIP box at the White Hart Lane Stadium, looked very bad. Although the Russian tycoon was just a layman in the football field, he could also see that Ranieri had some reservations in this game with Tottenham. Or, for some reasons, the Tuber did not let Chelsea play with the strongest lineup in this game, but instead gave up the confrontation with Tottenham!
This made Abu feel a little unbearable. Although Chelsea has a good relationship with Tottenham now, Abu even reached an agreement with George to fight against Arsenal, but in the same way, Abu did not want Tottenham to beat Chelsea's head and replace Arsenal as the new boss of London City. Therefore, Abu naturally cannot tolerate Ranieri's intentional move in a direct confrontation with Tottenham. After all, fans and media do not care whether Chelsea has reservations in the game with Tottenham. They will only care about the final result. Therefore, if Chelsea can never defeat Tottenham on the front battlefield, how could the Blues achieve this goal of Abramovich?
This is also why, although Arsenal is ahead of the English field this season, the Gunners are still difficult to get recognition from people. The reason is that Arsenal has never won four direct confrontations with Tottenham this season. This fact seriously hit the Gunners' prestige among the fans!
How dare you say that even the mortal enemies in the city cannot win? It's funny!
However, after thinking about it for a while, Abram finally chose to hold back this breath and did not make the decision to fire Ranieri directly after the game. After all, although Chelsea, who was 12 points behind Arsenal in the standings, can basically miss the English championship this season, in the European arena, Chelsea, who has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, is still very likely to bring the Big Ear Cup back to Stamford Bridge. You should know that now that traditional giants are out of the surprise, Chelsea can be said to be the team with the strongest bench depth on the Champions League and the strongest book strength.
Therefore, at this time, there are naturally many people who are optimistic about Chelsea’s final return in the Champions League. Many people even believe that this is definitely the best opportunity for Chelsea to win the Champions League trophy!
It is precisely because Chelsea handed over a fairly reasonable report card in the Champions League that Abram did not take any action against Ranieri after the team completely lost hope of winning the league. After all, although they don’t really like this pot-maker who has no temperament at all, the Russian tycoon has to admit that now is not a good time to change the head coach. Since that is the case, it’s better to wait until the end of the season and decide on Ranieri’s final stay based on the team’s overall performance.
Not to mention Abramovich, who is considering how to treat Ranieli in the box, at this moment, the pot maker who has returned to the away team's locker room with Chelsea player Yi is also struggling with how to deal with Tottenham in the second half. After all, although he has decided to strategically give up this game before, as a head coach, Ranieli will never show this emotion in front of the players, because this will only lead to the team's complete defeat at the White Hart Lane Stadium. What's more, the so-called strategic abandonment is just to hide most of the main players for some reasons, which does not mean that Ranieli really wants to lose to Tottenham.
Logically speaking, there is no problem with Ranieri's pre-match arrangement. In Tottenham's home game and the configuration and overall strength of the lineup are not as good as the opponent, it is indeed a very reasonable decision to let the players adopt defensive counterattack tactics. After all, although the growth of Ronaldo and others has made Tottenham's offensive ability continue to increase, how to solve dense defense is a global problem. Even those who are powerful, such as AC Milan and Real Madrid, they have to scratch their heads when encountering dense defense, not to mention that their strength is not as good as those of these top giants.
Therefore, before the start of this game, Ranieri's plan is to let the team shrink its defense line and defend the 30-meter area in front of the goal, and then take advantage of Tottenham's large-scale attack and the opportunity of the defense being empty will move and counterattack quickly, thereby increasing the chance of Chelsea winning this game.
Ranieri still grasped George's idea quite accurately. The maker knew in his heart that although Tottenham had basically secured a place in the Champions League next season, George had no intention of stopping. Because of his understanding of Ferguson, the young coach could not give up the opportunity to compete with Manchester United on the league battlefield!
For a young coach like George, how can we prove that he is already out of the blue? Beating Manchester United, coached by Ferguson in a head-on confrontation is indeed a very effective method, and another method is to let Tottenham beat Manchester United in the league standings!
Therefore, Ranieri concluded that if there is hope to tie the scoreboard or even counter Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur will definitely strive to win in this game. Therefore, the Italian coach will make such a arrangement before the game.
However, Ranieri finally missed the yi point, that is, he overestimated Deselli's current competitive state and the ability limit of Hutt, the star of hope, which led to Chelsea, who had a defensive counterattack stance, unable to withstand Tottenham's fierce offensive. As a result, Drogba broke the goal in the first half, making the situation on Chelsea extremely passive!
At his peak, Deselli was indeed the world's most powerful central defender and defensive midfielder, but now the Frenchman, who is 35 years old, is no longer as brave as he used to be. As he grows older, Deselli relies more and more on the court to make up for the various shortcomings and defects caused by the decline in physical fitness.
Even so, it is an indisputable fact that Deselli's condition has declined. After all, at his peak, he was not known for his superb defensive skills, but more relying on his outstanding physical fitness to complete wonderful defenses. Therefore, facing Drogba, who has basically matured his body and his skills and consciousness are constantly improving under the guidance of Tottenham coaching staff, Deselli, who is on a downward stairs, naturally finds it difficult to defend this powerful center from Côte d'Ivoire against Yi!
Just like six years ago, Vieri, who played for Juventus at the time, dribbled the ball and strode away Franco Barreci, who was once the world's No. 1 central defender, and then shot through the goal guarded by Rossi with his angrily shot, ringing the death knell for the invincible Milan Dynasty. In this game, Drogba also used a crushing breakthrough to throw away the staggering Deselli, using this method to declare that the French central defender is no longer the reassuring stabilizing needle on the defense line!
As for Hut, who is on the other side, although this young German central defender has received praise from many professionals, believing that he is capable of becoming the representative of the new generation of German central defenders with Metzeld, compared to Borussia Dortmund's absolute main force, Metzeld, who proved his strength at the South Korean and Japanese World Cup two years ago, is still the fourth choice for Hut at Chelsea. It is obviously an unrealistic thing to defend Drogba, the soon-to-be-mature "Warcraft".
Since Deselli and Hut had no choice but to do anything to Drogba, Ranieri thought for a long time and could only arrange for Gremy, Scott Parker and others to strengthen their protection of the defense in the second half, and at the same time pay attention to assisting Deselli and others to attack Drogba. As for things like letting Gala or Terry come on as a substitute to deal with Drogba, Ranieri doesn't think about it at all. If Terry and the others come on the court, then what's the point of putting them out of the roster before the game?
Despite the corresponding adjustments, Ranieri didn't think he could defend Drogba in this way. Because the tumbler could see that Drogba's playing style was completely different from most power centers. He didn't like to stay in the penalty area and wait for his teammates to pass the ball, and he had a huge range of movement on the court. The most important thing is that Drogba also has a different defensive enthusiasm than a forward!
Especially when Ranieri saw that Drogba actually chased back to Tottenham's half to intercept Lampard who was dribbling the ball, and the one who was heading in front turned into Villa, the nominal left winger, the tumbler was even more envious of George, thinking, why haven't I ever encountered a center who is so active in defense?
Although the erratic movement of Tottenham players has always kept their turnover rate in the game, it also puts extremely tremendous pressure on the defense of Chelsea players. Because Chelsea players don’t know how these people in the frontcourt will run next, and which players should they defend below!
Perhaps Tottenham's attack was that Drogba retreated to the midfield defense, Basturk pulled to the right to break through, Ronaldo moved to the left, and Villa charged in the front; and when Tottenham made a comeback, the one who grabbed the point in the middle became Ronaldo again, and the one who pulled the space on the left and the one who pulled the space on the side was replaced by Drogba and Basturk, which allowed Chelsea players to make targeted defense!
Chapter completed!