Sarri was still sitting in the stands with the best view as usual, surrounded by Napoli fans.
He is not an experienced member of the coaching staff, and the seats in the coaching bench are limited and cannot be allocated.
But that didn't stop him from watching mesmerized in the stands.
It has only been half a year since he came to Naples. Like all coaches who came to Naples to study, he feels incredible.
Because in the blink of an eye, Napoli actually suppressed a wealthy team like Chelsea in the Champions League knockout round.
Premier League teams have always been good at fast-paced offense and defense, with full impact. However, after encountering Naples, they found that their pace was not as fast as Naples, and their impact was not as strong as Naples. Even their foot skills were played by Naples.
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It's not that Hiddink didn't arrange targeted tactics. On the contrary, the reason why he used Essien and chose the 442 small diamond position may not be because he wanted to strengthen the running of the team's midfield to suppress Naples' midfield.
Then contain Naples through pressing and pressing in the midfield and frontcourt.
Whenever faced with such an opponent and tactics, the average team will basically just pass the ball forward.
Why?
Because the ball is passed and controlled in the midfield and backcourt, once it is intercepted, the risk is too great.
Hiddink is also convinced of this, so he wants to force Naples to take action.
Drogba, Anelka, and even Ballack were all actively applying pressure in the frontcourt, sometimes forcing them directly in front of goalkeeper Handanovic. Once, they even forced Handanovic into a bit of a panic.
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But Naples is still passing the ball and will never take a blind shot.
Naples only knows how to pass the ball long and does not take big shots.
As a result, in the game, you can often see that Naples players pass the ball continuously, beating Chelsea players. Sometimes even Sarri is terrified in the stands, but Naples players still do not change.
If it were before, would Sarri feel that this was too risky?
But now, Sarri has been following Naples for half a year, and he knows that this is not a risk, but a confidence!
Gao Shen has such confidence, and Naples also has such confidence!
Almost every day's training sessions are spent practicing passing and controlling the ball, and every Naples player's foot skills are quite good, even a rough guy like Cannavaro, who has practiced in the Naples team for three years.
Years ago, he also practiced passing the ball very skillfully, let alone others?
On the other hand, Chelsea, after the pace increased, inevitably suffered from the shortcomings of many Premier League teams, which is an increase in passing errors.
This is actually quite normal.
Anyone who knows a little about football knows that the faster the ball, the greater the force, and the farther the distance, the weaker the player's control over the ball.
There is a very famous rumor in the coaching circle that Wenger emphasizes distance the most in every training session.
He requires that there should be at least two or three contact points within ten meters of the player holding the ball.
In other words, he controlled the player's passing distance to ten meters.
This is a safe passing distance that all players who can play in the top European leagues can skillfully control the success rate.
Therefore, Arsenal can play such skillful passing and controlling in the Premier League and Champions League.
But the cost is also very obvious, that is, everyone has to run around the ten-meter receiving distance, and the running will be greatly increased, and the players' physical fitness and consumption will be very high. Arsenal collapses every time in the second half of the season, which may not necessarily
There is no reason for this.
Hiddink also wants to adopt this style of play, but firstly, Chelsea's players are aging, and secondly, the players' technical characteristics are insufficient, which leads to Chelsea players making many mistakes in passing and receiving in this fast-paced offense and defense.
Everyone knows that once errors in passing and receiving increase, the consequences will be very serious.
Either they are quickly counterattacked by Naples just like they did just now; or they are quickly engaged in counterattacks after losing the ball, but this requires the players to put in more running and energy, and it also consumes the players' willpower and fighting spirit.
What's even more terrible is that many of Chelsea's passing and receiving errors were not caused by Napoli's pressing pressure.
What does that mean?
Even before Naples pressed the ball, they made a mistake in passing the ball.
Sarri was filled with admiration.
Because he discovered that all the preparations and predictions Gao Shen had made before the game actually became reality.
Gao Shen said that Naples has two greatest strengths: physical fitness and technology.
"If Chelsea attack at the beginning, that would be great. We will attack with the opponent, or even force the opponent to play against each other. We will exhaust the opponent's energy because they are down and we can continue to attack."
ball."
"Chelsea is a very brave team, but their skills are not good. No matter how Hiddink arranges, they will make a lot of passing and receiving errors, but in this regard, we also have an advantage."
"He who wins the midfield wins the world!"
"A super center like Drogba can only contain our defense at best, or add a deep-lying midfielder, but we can control the entire midfield. We have enough physical fitness and technology to
Slowly consume it with your opponent."
"In this kind of game, no matter what tactics we adopt, I can't imagine that we will lose!"
"So, this is a show, a show to please our 55,000 fans!"
Before the game, Sarri heard Gao Shen's words in the locker room. What he felt most was Gao Shen's confidence and domineeringness.
But now, he is really impressed with his admiration.
Because Gao Shen almost completely nailed the key points of the match between the two teams.
How could such a game be lost?
No, after playing for about ten minutes and scoring two goals by Napoli, Hiddink began to feel a little unbearable.
Not retreating?
If they continue to work hard like this, Chelsea's physical fitness will be considered outstanding if they can last until the second half.
But what about Naples?
It is estimated that he can play for at least seventy or eighty minutes with full blood. Chelsea does not want the rest of the time?
But is it safe to withdraw?
Innocent!
Naples picked up the pace and didn't give Chelsea a chance to slow down.
As soon as the ball is lost, he rushes for it, when he seizes the ball, he goes on a fast break. If he can't make a fast break, he passes back to reorganize. He controls the ball slowly, forcing Chelsea to grab it, but can't grab it...
In fact, Sarri felt that Chelsea's physical fitness and condition tonight were significantly better than the first leg two weeks ago, but they couldn't stand it at Naples' home court.
Thinking of this, Sarri couldn't help but look towards the coaching bench.
Hiddink in front of the away team was obviously anxious and kept directing the team.
Gao Shen, who was in front of the home team's coach's bench, looked very calm.
Which of these two looks more like the world's top coach?
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Just when Sarri was filled with emotion, something happened again on the court.
Chelsea seized an opportunity, tried to launch a wave of offense, and advanced to the outside of Naples' penalty area.
Lampard distributed the ball to the right and handed it to Beretti who came in from the back row.
Beretti still wanted to pass the ball directly into the penalty area to find Drogba as he did just now, but David Luiz saw through it in advance and took the lead and pushed the ball out of the penalty area.
Under Cavani's interference, Mikel passed the ball to Alex behind.
Alex stopped the ball, took a step forward, and passed it to Essien.
As soon as the Ghanaian Buffaloes stopped the ball, they were about to send a direct pass to Anelka in front, but the passing line was too obvious. As soon as the ball was passed halfway, Rakitic blocked it with his foot.
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Lichtsteiner quickly stepped forward and tipped the ball to Thiago Motta in the gap.
The Brazilian midfielder can always appear in unguarded areas to catch the ball, which is also his greatest ability.
Thiago Motta turned his back to the direction of the attack. After stopping the ball with his chest, he picked up the ball with his right foot and passed the ball to Biglia. The latter then distributed it to the left. Vargas quickly advanced with the ball and passed directly
center line.
Naples' counterattack suddenly accelerated.
But this time Chelsea's reaction was fast enough and they returned to their own half in time. Naples' quick counterattack failed and even almost trapped Vargas and Sanchez on the left.
Cavani came over in time to respond and passed the ball back to the defense.
After Chelsea stabilized their defense, they began to apply pressure from the front, but Napoli passed the ball continuously and played very patiently, slowly and step by step pushing the ball possession area forward from the midline.
The players in front also arrived one after another.
During this period, Drogba, Anelka and Ballack all pressed and pressed Naples' two central defenders and Thiago Motta, forcing Naples to pass back to the goalkeeper three times.
On one occasion, Drogba even forced himself in front of Handanovic, but Lichtsteiner came back in time to respond. Handanovic decisively distributed the ball to the right wing, avoiding Drogba's entanglement.
"Naples's skillful passing and cutting coordination left Chelsea's pressing players really helpless."
"This feeling of powerlessness is very destructive to the team's morale, because they ran, forced, and grabbed the ball, but they just couldn't touch the ball."
"Look at this time, Rakitic returned to the right back in time to take over after Lichtsteiner broke forward."
"Chelsea haven't touched the ball for nearly two minutes."
"Naples still passes the ball back to the goalkeeper, and then passes it to the right, Rakitic..."
"pretty!"
"Napoli's continuous passes, Rakitic, Bonucci, Lichtsteiner and Thiago Motta..."
"Several Napoli players took the ball out of Chelsea's pressing area through this continuous rapid passing."
"After bringing the ball out, Naples speeded up and Chelsea was a bit dangerous."
"Passed to the right and passed to Di Maria."
After Di Maria got the ball, he decisively cut inside and quickly passed the ball along the outside of the penalty area to Sanchez on the left side of the top of the arc.
The Chilean winger was marked by Beretti, stopped the ball, turned to the left, and quickly distributed the ball.
I saw Vargas move forward quickly again, and without any defense, he drove Sanchez's ball into the left rib of the penalty area, and before Beretti could reach his position, he made another pass with his left foot.
The ball did not go to Cavani in the middle, because the latter was surrounded by Terry and Alex, but at the back point, Di Maria, who quickly inserted in from behind, was missed and left unguarded!
Vargas' pass was just right in front of Di Maria. The Argentine stood up and stopped the ball behind him, raised his left foot, and fired a volley.
The ball was kicked by the Argentine winger and quickly flew into the right side of Chelsea's goal.
