Chapter 359 Keep it simple, keep the way of playing football simple
"This is a disappointing game, but I admit that they did better than us." State
At the post-match press conference, Pellegrini made no secret of his disappointment.
"We made a lot of mistakes, which punished us. Especially in the second half, they were able to create a threat almost every time they got the ball, and they took advantage of our mistakes again and again."
"I am responsible for this defeat. Chelsea was very well organized both offensively and defensively, which caused us a lot of trouble."
"The score of zero to three is a painful blow to us, but it is also a fair score. Chelsea deserves such a victory."
"Why do we have to change the 343 formation today? This is not a problem. In fact, we have an advantage in the opening stage, but..."
"I must say that Pan Yi's reaction was really fast, so fast that I couldn't react at all... In other words, our initial tactics were effective, but his countermeasures were also effective. So we lost.
, it’s that simple.”
Compared with Pellegrini's disappointment, Pan Yi, who won the three-goal victory, seemed very happy.zhou
He opened his mouth and said:
"I admit that I am gambling."
"Because of this kind of pseudo-center back and pseudo-full-back style of play, I have never used it in previous games, and I have rarely used it even in training."
"But since Manchester City can boldly use 343 which they have never used before, why can't I give it a try in the game?"
"In fact, from the beginning, their performance proved that this was a difficult game. As the last champion, Manchester City has an almost perfect and balanced lineup. Such a team often does not give its opponents too much pressure.
Space."
"They did bring us huge trouble throughout the first half and made our offense come back without success again and again. Therefore, I think it might not be so easy to reverse the situation without some special tricks.
So I used it."
"I'm very pleased that my players quickly understood my tactical intentions. Their performance was great!" State
"Today I saw a truly powerful Chelsea team at Stamford Bridge. Every player's performance was almost perfect, and every line was kept very compact. The order and discipline they showed left no chance for their opponents. This
Let us win the game in the end."
"Here, I want to tell my players and fans that as long as we continue to perform like this, any championship will be ours! Including the Champions League!"
All the media reporters at the scene clearly felt the strong confidence revealed in Pan Yi's words. Everyone can feel the confidence that winning this game brought to him.
But obviously, this is not just about defeating Manchester City and getting three points.
Not even because of the three-goal win against Manchester City.
The main reason is that Pan Yi's change of formation was so sudden, and it was a kind of strange asymmetrical change of positions. It can be said that it was Pan Yi's flash of inspiration that created the trick to deal with Manchester City.
However, the Chelsea players who had been "tortured" by Pan Yi did not show any resistance or discomfort, but successfully completed the tactical goals and achieved the ideal results. State
This is more exciting than a victory!
For a football coach, what could be happier than seeing his players being able to express their tactical intentions as they please?
So there is nothing to say. After this game, all players will have three days off, and they can do whatever they want!
Chelsea's 3-0 victory over Manchester City naturally aroused the admiration of media around the world.
When the British Guardian described the 3-0 score, its front page headline used the word "unbelievable".
"This nominally direct showdown between the top and second place Premier League players is also a nominal battle at Tianwang Mountain. No one would have thought that it would end with such a disparity in the score." Zhou
"What's even more incredible is the control Chelsea showed throughout the game. Perhaps the gap between them is indeed not the gap between first and second place, but the gap between 67 points and 47 points
!"
"The point difference of 20 points is no longer one or two points. You know, so far this season, that is, after 23 rounds, the point difference between the European League and the relegation zone is only 20 points.
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"In the past, we have always said that Manchester City is a top-notch Premier League team. Pellegrini's team advocates technology and coordination, which has made them the most admired team in the Premier League in the past two or three seasons.
A unique team and one of the strongest teams."
"But in this game, Chelsea showed all of us what true strength means. They have better foot skills, better speed and impact, and more perfect teamwork." "Look at Terry and Cahill, these two traditional English central defenders seem to have become much more refined in this Chelsea team. Of course, the more significant change in them is that the players have become more diverse.
Well, Terry often stood in the full-back position in this game, and sometimes even played as a wing-back. Can you believe it?"
"As for Pan Yi's tactical innovation, we don't need to say more. Anyone who has watched Chelsea games this season will understand it. This is something you can't find in football textbooks!"
"This newspaper strongly recommends that FIFA include the games coached by Pan Yi as reference subjects, so that everyone who is interested in coaching can study hard, and it can even be used as the content of the exam!" Zhou
"Of course, this may lead to more people failing to pass the certificate, and then complaining that the test is difficult for advanced mathematics..."
"So we are just making a suggestion here. Because if a person is required to learn Pan Yi's tactics before he can coach, then it will actually be difficult for quantum mechanics!"
In addition, the Guardian also published an interview with Lingard after the game.
Lin Huang was extremely happy that he could score a goal in the game, but in his words, he expressed more gratitude to head coach Pan Yi.
"I am very happy to score a goal, and I hope to use it to repay the manager's trust in me. It was him who brought me to Chelsea, and it was he who still trusted me unconditionally when I was under great pressure and controversy." "So, I hope to dedicate this goal to our boss! I can also guarantee to the boss that whether I am the main player or a substitute, whether I play for the full 90 minutes or come on in the 90th minute, I will give my best!"<
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"My celebration during the game? Yes, I usually think of little things like this because it makes our fans happier." State
"Obviously, my teammates also support me in doing this, so they cooperate with me very well on the court. We really act like a band!"
"How can I put it...I love this team to death!"
At the same time, Lukaku, who contributed one pass and one shot in this game and won the best player of the match, also accepted the interview.
"This is a wonderful victory. I hope to dedicate the goal to our head coach. He has always supported me and trusted me. I hope to score more goals for him."
"To be honest, when I first heard the boss asking me to retreat more to get the ball, I was a little doubtful. How can the forward score a goal if he is far away from the goal?"
"But the reality hit me hard in the face. I retreated, but I scored more goals!"
"I understand now. As long as everyone on the court works hard to pass the ball to each other and fight for the team, the team will score more and more goals. And the team will score more goals. As a forward, I will score more goals.
Of course there will be no shortage of numbers!" Zhou
"I will always play football for Pan Yi! Don't ask me to retreat, even if you ask me to play as a defender!"
But at the end of the interview, Lukaku still cautiously added: "It's better not to report what I just said. After all, with the level of my boss's work, it is really possible for me to play as a defender one day..."<
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After this round, the pattern of the Premier League is relatively clear.
The championship will undoubtedly belong to Chelsea, it is really only a matter of time.
Manchester City, Manchester United, Southampton, Arsenal, Tottenham, and Liverpool ranked second to seventh will compete for European qualifications, especially the remaining three Champions League seats among the top four.
It can also be seen here that there is a reason why bg6 can be called bg.zhou
No matter how unfavorable their start is, no matter what difficulties they encounter, when the league progress reaches a certain level, their overall strength will still play a decisive role and push their rankings to slowly climb up, and then reach their
Where it should be.
Swansea City, which performed relatively well at the beginning of the league, and West Ham United have now fallen to the middle of the pack. It is estimated that they can only fight for a Europa League seat at most.
And Southampton, which is still in the European theater, actually shows a certain decline.
In the 23rd round that just passed, they actually lost to Swansea 0:1 at home!
This also allowed their ranking to be once again surpassed by Manchester United, which defeated Leicester City, and dropped to fourth.
Arsenal still has the same points as Southampton, both with 42 points, tied for fourth, and they are about to surpass them.
This has actually become a norm in the Premier League in the past ten years. State
Often the top spots every year are bg6 with one or two dark horses of the season, but more often than not, bg6 completely occupies the top six positions.
There is no way, no matter how round football is, it is still a sport that depends on the ability of players and coaches.
In a long schedule like the league, you may be able to upset one or two games, or even more, but it is obviously unrealistic to be upset for an entire season.
——Of course, with the exception of Leicester City in the normal timeline, they really went dark all the way.
But it is precisely because of this that their victory is called a miracle!
One week after the match between Chelsea and Manchester City, the Premier League ushered in the 24th round of the league. Aston Villa faced the Blues Chelsea at home.
In this game, Aston Villa's head coach Paul Lambert arranged a 433 formation to fight against Chelsea.
However, although Aston Villa's pressing tactics after the opening, especially the frontcourt pressure of the three forwards composed of Weiman, Agbonlahor, and Gill, brought a lot of trouble to Chelsea, they eventually failed.
It only lasted for half an hour.
In the 31st minute, Lukaku received a fatal through ball from Matic and volleyed into the penalty area, opening the scoring for Chelsea.
After changing sides in the second half, Chelsea continued their efforts and took advantage of the opportunity to attack from the kick-off to create a wave of success.
Hazard and B-seat made contributions respectively, further extending the score to 3:0 for Chelsea.
After that, Aston Villa launched a counterattack and once posed a considerable threat, but Courtois performed well and kept the goal.
In the 87th minute of the second half, Aston Villa used a corner kick to create chaos in the Chelsea penalty area. As a result, Delph grabbed the spot and shot from close range, helping the home team get a goal back. State
The final score was 1:3, and the Blues once again won an away game!
Five days later, on February 12, in the 25th round of the Premier League, Chelsea faced Everton at home.
The game itself is nothing, except that Chelsea’s upcoming schedule is a bit dense, and they are all strong opponents.
First, they will challenge Arsenal away from home in the fifth round of the FA Cup on February 15th, and then the more important game will be against Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 on February 18th!
So Pan Yi, after careful consideration, sent out a semi-rotation lineup in this game so that he can attack with the best lineup and condition when facing Paris.
After all, the Premier League championship is basically in hand this season, and the FA Cup is optional. The club’s top priority is the Champions League! State
In order to win the Champions League, other competitions can be put aside.
Today's opponent, Everton, is one of the teams that caused the biggest trouble to Chelsea in the first half of the schedule.
Although this time it was an away game, the 4231 defensive formation deployed by head coach Robert Martinez once again stubbornly withstood Chelsea's offensive.
Because his formation nominally has three attacking midfielders, but in fact, in addition to the double midfielders Barry and Besic when defending, Naismith, Barkley, Lennon and others in front also often retreat.
Go to the center circle to participate in the defense, leaving center Cone swimming in front.
This almost iron-barrel defensive formation, coupled with the defensive players led by central defenders Stones and Gilka, has relatively simple and crude defensive actions, which makes Chelsea, who are mainly young players, feel very uncomfortable, and the passing and control system is very difficult.
Difficult to operate smoothly.
The stalemate between the two sides lasted for seventy minutes, but the situation of the game still did not change.
At this time, Robert Martinez saw that his side seemed to really hope to take away a point at Stamford Bridge, and immediately asked the players to increase their defensive efforts. Even center Cone had to return to defense in depth. State p>
But Pan Yi obviously doesn’t think so.
After 70 minutes, Chelsea is completely complete!
So, he quickly called Hazard over after returning from warm-up.
Since the young generals can't handle it, let the "veterans" do it!
Yes, this "veteran" needs to be enclosed in quotation marks.
Although Hazard is considered the number one star in the current Chelsea team, although it seems that he has been famous for a long time and has experienced hundreds of battles, in fact, he was born in January 1991 and is only 24 years old now... It's just that he is indeed considered older in the team currently built by Pan Yi, which is mostly composed of young guys in their early 20s or even less than 20 years old. Zhou
This actually includes Oscar and Schürrle, who have just left the team. They are also "veterans" around 24 years old.
But in any case, stars like Hazard are indeed able to use their advantages more calmly than young people at critical moments.
"You don't have any special instructions today. You only have one task when you go up, and that is to break through. Keep breaking through!"
Pan Yi ordered.
Hazard didn't quite understand and looked sideways at the coach.
Pan Yi pulled Hazard one step closer and pointed at Everton's right back Coleman.
"Have you seen that No. 23? He is very aggressive in fighting, but he also makes a lot of mistakes. The important thing is that he is not fast, and it should be difficult to keep up with you. So when you go up, just kick his side and try your best to get past him.
"State
Azar understands this time.
He also became excited.
Breakthrough? Breakthrough is his favorite and he is the best at it!
"Go!" Pan Yi patted Hazard hard on the shoulder and sent him on the field. Finally, he warned, "It's still the same. After the breakthrough, pass the ball when you need to, and shoot when you need to shoot. Don't hesitate. Simply put, kick."
The ball is simpler..."
Chelsea's substitution naturally aroused cheers from all the fans at Stamford Bridge.
Although only one person has been changed, this person is Hazard! The darling of Stamford Bridge and the only scoring champion in London!
As long as he plays, he will be the king of scoring with outstanding performance! Zhouzhou
Hazard was replaced by Gnabry.
The German black guy played today, but his condition was a bit unstable. He tried to break through several times but was destroyed by the opponent.
This is actually a common problem among young players.
Sometimes when you are excited, you can just hit whatever you want. Sometimes if one or two hits go wrong, the whole game will go wrong.
Some young players always perform miraculously when they come off the bench, but once they do, they fall into a slump.
This requires long-term game accumulation, not only to accumulate game experience, but also to accumulate state adjustment ability in long-term games.
And now, Hazard, who already has this ability, is on the court! State
The Belgian took his first touch of the ball less than ten seconds after coming on the field. Cancelo passed the ball directly to Hazard from the left sideline.
Everton's right back Seamus Coleman immediately rushed towards him, trying to give him a blow.
Unexpectedly, Hazard faced the incoming ball and turned around to avoid Coleman, then accelerated to catch up.
This time the ball came from the left wing and everyone in the audience immediately said "Oh", followed by a burst of warm applause.
This extraordinary person is so beautiful, so Azar!
Seeing such beautiful moves on the court always makes all fans excited.
However, this time Hazard chose to cross the ball after breaking through to the baseline, and the first hit was grabbed and cleared by Everton defender Stones. State
However, after only three minutes, Chelsea made a comeback and still passed the ball to the left to find Hazard.
After receiving the ball, Hazard rushed forward without thinking and went directly towards Coleman.
Before the unlucky Irish right back could fully recover, Hazard flicked him past him!
This simple, direct, rough, and even unreasonable forced breakthrough made Everton's head coach Robert Martinez furious when he saw it on the sidelines.
He kept yelling at the players, asking them to be careful and watch out for Hazard's breakthrough!
But this kind of technologically overwhelming thing can't be solved by being "careful"?
Hazard's substitution completely changed the situation on the court. He forced breakthroughs on the left again and again, giving Everton a headache. State
Not to mention that Coleman had been struggling for most of the game. Even if he was fully charged, it would be difficult to guard against the fast-moving Belgian. He could only watch the opponent break through his position again and again.
Therefore, Robert Martinez could only fine-tune his tactics and let more players help defend in order to prevent Hazard from rushing to the end.
But this caused more holes in Everton's defensive formation.
After all, the number of people in each team is fixed. If there are more people in a certain area, the number of people in other areas will decrease.
Chelsea, on the other hand, is becoming more and more courageous as they fight.
Finally, in the 85th minute, Hazard once again relied on lightning speed to get rid of Coleman and Stones and passed into the penalty area.
Bamford deliberately missed the ball in the front, and Lingard from the back followed up and hit the goal! State
Lingard scores again!
American goalkeeper Howard was helpless against this shot.
One to zero!
Lingard once again staged a unique celebration, of course, without repeating it.
This time, he really did a little dance!
This also ignited the entire Stamford Bridge stadium.
Your Lin Huang, London Dance King! State
In the end, Chelsea defeated Everton 1:0 with Lingard's winning goal.
"Awesome! Pan Yi is really great!"
In the Millennium Box at Stamford Bridge, a young Russian man was dancing with excitement and kept shouting.
Beside him, a middle-aged Russian man was smiling without saying a word.
They are Chelsea owner Abramovich and his son, 20-year-old Arkady.
"Boy, this is just a 1:0 game, and the opponent is only Everton, so there is nothing to be excited about." Abramovich smiled and said to his son. State
"But his substitutions are really amazing." Arkadi is obviously one of Pan Yi's admirers. "Every time when the deadlock cannot be broken, just one substitution will have an effect! And daddy
..."
Arkady paused and then said: "He hasn't lost in the Premier League yet! This is simply a miracle! The Premier League championship will soon belong to us!"
Abu still has a slight smile.
Of course he agreed with Arkady.
He even believed that Pan Yi was the smartest investment he made after coming to the UK and acquiring Chelsea.
What is the world’s highest annual salary? What is 20 million euros a year? What is giving Pan Yi the highest club authority?
The rewards given by Pan Yi are simply worth it. Zhou
But Abramovich still patted Arkadi's head gently: "Of course we want the Premier League championship, but we already had it 10 years ago. Do you remember, you were still a child, but you were also in the stands
Witnessed the team’s championship victory.”
"What I want more now is the Champions League title! During the season, we were very close to this trophy, but we were defeated by AC Milan."
"Now we all know that the person who played a decisive role in Milan's tactics was our head coach Pan Yi today."
"So, I hope he can lead today's Chelsea to get back that damn big-eared trophy!"
Arkady looked up at his father: "So, aren't we going to play in the Champions League on February 18th? The opponent is Paris Saint-Germain!"
"Yes." Abu also looked into the field.
At this time, Pan Yi was taking all the Chelsea players and coaches to bid farewell to the fans at Stamford Bridge.zhou
There were constant cheers on the court.
"The opponents are very strong." Abramovich stared at the high-spirited Pan Yi and said softly, "Even in their formation, there are Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva who were in Milan when they eliminated us.
People."
"Yin Bu also scored several goals for us." Arkadi added.
"Yes." Abramovich finally said, "Now it depends on whether Pan Yi can help us win Paris and win the Champions League!"