127: Crystal Palace coaching staff meeting against Chelsea
In the evening of January 9, 2013, Selhurst Park Stadium, Croydon, London.
What is going to be played here today is the first leg of the 2012-2013 English League Cup semi-finals. The two sides are the home team Crystal Palace and the visiting team Chelsea. Today’s starting lineups are as follows
Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213
edouard
The back four from left to right Robertson, Delaney, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng
Double defensive midfielder Jedinak and Kanter??
Single attacking midfielder Pogba
The front three from left to right Zaha, Murray and Mane
Visiting team Chelsea, head coach Benitez, formation 433
goalkeeper ross turnbull
Back four from left to right Ashley Cole, Cahill, Ivanovic and Azpilicueta
Midfield three from left to right: Ramirez, David Luiz, Oscar
Front three from left to right Hazard, Torres and Juan Mata
Sitting on the coach's bench, Tong Yi was really envious when he looked at Chelsea's starting lineup. These Chelsea players are also very good, I'm envious!
However, another characteristic of Chelsea's lineup is that it is strong in offense and weak in defense.
The Chelsea in the hands of Benitez and the Chelsea in the hands of Mourinho are completely different. Everyone knows that Mourinho is all about defensive counterattacks. After all, this is where the Mourinho bus and the Mourinho iron barrel are similar.
Statement. More importantly, Mourinho's team pays attention to efficiency and pursues a one-to-zero policy.
Relatively speaking, Mourinho's Chelsea is very conservative.
Benitez's Chelsea is completely opposite to Mourinho's. His Chelsea advocates more.
attack.
Moreover, after Benitez accepted Chelsea, he often scored three goals and conceded two goals, or even scored two goals and conceded three goals. Of course, there were also scores like 8-0 and 5-1.
Therefore, current Chelsea fans are very dissatisfied with Benitez.
Because they are used to Mourinho's model. When they see Benitez scoring two goals and conceding three goals in a game, scoring three goals and conceding two goals, they are very uncomfortable and feel that this is too inappropriate.
Stable.
In particular, Benitez's tactics can often lead to bloody massacres when facing weak teams, but they are useless when facing strong teams. It is difficult to even score goals, and even the defense line will be reduced to rubbish in seconds.
In the last round of the league, Chelsea lost 0-1 at home to the inferior Queens Park Rangers. This was even more unacceptable to Chelsea fans.
In that game, Chelsea created many opportunities, but the forwards could not seize the opportunities.
On the contrary, a lot of problems were exposed at the rear. If it weren't for the weakness of Queens Park Rangers and the decline in forward ability, Chelsea's goal would have been smashed into pieces in that game.
No wonder Chelsea fans don't like Benitez very much.
When Tong Yi saw Chelsea's starting lineup, he also felt a little top-heavy. light.
Because except for David Luiz, who is a defensive player in the midfield and frontcourt, all other players are offensive players.
Of course, maybe Ramirez can be considered a half-defensive player.
The other offensive players basically don't defend. Even if these guys retreat to defend, they won't be able to play a big role.
More importantly, Tong Yi knows very well that David Luiz can indeed play as a defensive midfielder. But he is not a real defensive midfielder, he is a central defender.
Lewis's frontal interception ability in the defensive midfielder position may be good.
However, his turning speed is slow, his movement speed is also very full, and his pursuit speed is also very slow. More importantly, his positional sense in the midfielder position is very poor, which often causes problems.
Maybe this problem won't be too obvious when he plays against weaker teams, but when he encounters a slightly stronger team, Louis will have big problems.
In fact, in the last Premier League game against Queens Park Rangers, it was because of Luiz's poor positional sense that he conceded the goal.
I didn't expect that Benitez would let Luis play this unknown player in this game.
This is a bit like seeking death!
Moreover, Chelsea’s goalkeeper position has great hidden dangers this season. Their main goalkeeper Cech was seriously injured and now Chelsea’s goalkeeper is the substitute goalkeeper. Even the second substitute goalkeeper Hilario is slightly injured.
Therefore, the starting number three goalkeeper in this game is Turnbull.
However, Hilario was also slightly injured and could not leave the firing line, and is now sitting on the bench.
In fact, these two goalkeepers are not particularly strong. Although they occasionally have amazing performances, they are very unstable and often make mistakes, especially the second goalkeeper Hilario.
Therefore, with regard to Chelsea's current lineup, Tong Yi feels that their Crystal Palace chances of winning are still very high.
Of course, the current priority of the Crystal Palace players is defense.
After all, Chelsea's defense does have problems, but their offense is also really powerful.
Otherwise, Benitez would not have fielded such a top-heavy starting lineup.
Not long after the game started, Chelsea pressed forward crazily and frantically attacked the Crystal Palace defense.
Hazard on the wing received the ball, and this guy was able to pick it out despite the astonishing intensity of the Crystal Palace's high-position pressure. This is really amazing.
Tong Yi's eyes tightened.
This Azar’s ability is really good!
"Hiss! This Hazard's breakthrough ability is really too strong!" Campbell immediately exclaimed.
Cut inside!
Hazard, who stood out from the encirclement, directly dribbled the ball inward.
, and headed towards the restricted area of the Crystal Palace.
In the Crystal Palace penalty area, center back Van Dijk immediately came up to him.
Seeing this "big parallel importer" approaching, Azar smiled contemptuously. You want to stop me? Funny!
There was a snap, just when Hazard was about to make a fake move to change direction, Van Dijk suddenly stretched out his foot like lightning and poked the football out of Hazard's feet.
Azar was shocked!
"How did someone discover this guy? How could he judge so accurately? Isn't this guy a parallel import?" Hazard was confused, then immediately turned to look at Van Dijk, and then turned directly to the next attack.
Neither the fans nor the commentators at the scene paid much attention to this attack.
This is so commonplace that there's nothing to say about it.
They all felt that Hazard made a mistake this time!
The sideline ball was quickly thrown out, and Ashley Cole on the wing directly passed the ball to the other side. After Oscar received the ball, he immediately wanted to break through with the ball. However, he was instantly suppressed by the Crystal Palace defensive players.
Coming up, what made Oscar even more uncomfortable was that other Crystal Palace defensive players actually blocked his passing route. ??
feeling bad!
hiss!
Oscar was also shocked, "These guys' defense is so good!"
There was no other way. Oscar, who failed to make a strong breakthrough, had to quickly pull the football back and then chose to pass it back.
Chelsea fans who came from afar frowned when they saw this place. What the hell is this?
Benitez on the sidelines was also nervous. Sure enough, the pressure and defense of Crystal Palace is really good. Oscar, this guy's ability to break through and push forward with the ball is very good, and his ability to organize and pass the ball is very good.
It is very strong, but even Oscar can only choose to pass back under this pressing defense, which shows how powerful the opponent's defense is.
Watertight!
He couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Tong Yi, thinking to himself, "This Chinese guy really has two skills!"
However, Benitez is not anxious or worried at all.
After all, the game has just begun at this time, and the players' physical condition, mental state, etc. are all in the best condition. As long as the game time progresses, he does not believe that the Crystal Palace players can maintain such a high level.
Vulnerabilities will definitely appear later after mental fatigue and physical fatigue.
So, he is not in a hurry now.
Now it is about slowly grinding down the opponent, wearing down the opponent's patience and toughness, etc., so that the opponent tires down.
Then came their Chelsea chance.
With a wave of his hand, he let the Chelsea players press forward and attack like crazy. The two wingers took turns attacking the Crystal Palace defense. He did not believe that the high-intensity pressure of the Crystal Palace players could last for a whole game.
Moreover, he is very confident in his team's offensive strength. Chelsea should be able to win this game easily.
Benitez turned to look at Tong Yi on the other side and sighed to himself, "You're still too young!"
At this moment, Ramirez in the middle suddenly moved forward at high speed with the ball, tearing apart Crystal Palace's defense.
Chance!
With a bang, the football at Ramirez's feet was violently shoved out of the baseline.
Ramirez fell down at the sound and fell to the ground!
Ramirez was shocked and immediately turned to look at the person who tackled him. Is it the opponent's small defensive midfielder Kanter?
Seeing this, his heart tightened. This guy came up too fast, and his judgment was very accurate, which was a bit powerful.
Benitez also tightened his eyes, but did not express too much.
Chelsea continued to press and attack, and they really caused a lot of trouble for the Crystal Palace people, especially the impact of the two wing rotations. Hazard, Oscar, Juan Mata and Ramirez were attacking like crazy,
Crystal Palace still has a lot of problems on the wing.
Especially Robertson.
Robertson is still too young, and his body looks relatively strong, but he is still not fully developed.
Crystal Palace has encountered great threats along the way.
Even when Delaney comes to help defend, it is very dangerous. When Delaney faces powerful players like Chelsea, his lack of ability is also revealed.
Tong Yi frowned slightly. Sure enough, there was still a big problem with his Crystal Palace.
Robertson and the others are still too young. If they were allowed to grow up for another two years, they would never play in such an awkward manner against Chelsea.
Suddenly, Hazard, who had switched positions with Oscar, passed Robertson directly. Facing Delaney who came up to defend, Hazard quickly made a fried ball, broke through horizontally, and directly passed Delaney's defense.
Then he met the ball with a furious shot. The football roared out and shot towards the Crystal Palace goal.
The ball speed is very fast!
Danger!
This is also the best chance for both teams at the beginning of this game.
Benitez on the sidelines stood up directly, very excited, staring closely at the football flying in the stadium.
He felt that this goal would definitely be scored!
But at this moment, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Edouard came in first, flying out sideways and pushing the football over the baseline with one palm.
All the Chelsea fans in the audience were filled with regret and regret.
such a pity!
What a great opportunity!
Benitez on the coaching bench was also very sorry to see this, but when he looked at Crystal Palace goalkeeper Edouard, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes. I wonder what he was thinking?