Chapter 424 There is only one dancing king in London, and that is...
The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals will not be played until February 17.
Before that, Chelsea still have many games to play.
On December 29, Pan Yi once again led the team away from home to challenge Stoke City.
This season, Stoke City, under the leadership of head coach Mark Hughes who advocates technical flow, has gradually got rid of the traditional style of relying entirely on high-flying games, and instead uses more technical players. p>
Just like the former Barcelona prodigy Boyan.
Bojan, who is only 173cm tall and is good at dribbling and passing, but has no advantage in fighting for aerial balls, would have been unable to play in Stoke City where the average height per capita in the previous two years was 190cm.
But now, he has become the core of the midfield, helping the team sort out the offense and provide smooth coordination.
After the transformation, Stoke City's results have also become more stable, and they have always been ranked around the middle of the standings, around 10th.
However, for Chelsea, this Stoke City is not so scary.
Last season, Chelsea was beaten to a draw by Stoke City on the same ground.
But after switching to a technical stream, Chelsea formed a kind of technical suppression on them.
After all, teams of the same type often rely on hard power.
If your playing style is similar to others, the players in each position will be inferior to your opponents in ability, and it will be easy to fall into a passive position in the game.
In Pan Yi's previous life, why could Arsenal have a terrible record of 12 consecutive losses when facing Manchester City?
It wouldn't be like this if you take out any relatively weak Premier League team, but as a wealthy Arsenal, there is nothing they can do against Manchester City.
This is because both teams play pass and control, both use skills, and their tactics are similar, but Manchester City's skills are superior...
Arteta also learned from Guardiola, and he didn't even know how to set up a bus to prevent counterattacks, so no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape the palm of Guardiola.
At the national team level, a typical example is the Japanese team.
As the Japanese team that has become one of the world's second-tier teams, they have been able to keep up when facing some European teams, such as Denmark, Sweden, and even Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany;
But if they are allowed to play against their old master, the Brazilian team, they will often surrender quickly.
This is a kind of oppression.
Now, Stoke City has changed from a soaring French chicken to a free-roaming chicken. Naturally, it is easy for Chelsea to control the direction of the game.
Just because Chelsea likes to play this kind of team.
In the 35th minute of the game, Lukaku broke into the penalty area and was tripped by Shawcross. Harry Kane took the penalty kick and Chelsea took the lead away from home.
In the 45th minute, Matic's long shot helped Chelsea expand the score, and the game basically lost its suspense.
In the 78th minute of the second half, Marcos Alonso, who came on as a substitute, found an opportunity on the left side of the penalty area and hit a trademark volley, locking the score at 0:3.
In the end, Chelsea won away from home.
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On January 1st, this season’s winter transfer window officially opened.
Unlike previous years, when teams had already made many deals before the window opened, and this day was actually just an official announcement, this season seemed much quieter.
None of the major wealthy families have made any big moves.
Liverpool spent 7 million to buy Grukic from Red Star Belgrade, but they changed the sale and rented him to the parent club, which means they didn’t buy anyone;
Arsenal spent 6.6 million to buy Egyptian midfielder Elneny from Basel;
These two transactions are already the most expensive among the top teams in the Premier League.
Manchester United only recalled the Belgian teenager Januzajin who was on loan to Dortmund, while Manchester City and Tottenham stayed put.
The most expensive transfer in the entire Premier League is actually from Stoke City.
They bought French midfielder Imbula from Porto, a deal that cost them 24 million euros.
Obviously, Stoke City's ranking in the top half of the standings in the first half gave them greater ambitions, so they spent a lot of money to strengthen.
As for Pan Yi, Chelsea really has nothing to add now.
The first team has sufficient personnel reserves, the players are all active and their morale is high, so there is no need to make any adjustments.
If you have to buy someone in the winter window, it will depend on the situation, such as which player is poached at a high price...
For now, Pan Yi only needs to pay attention to the current game and does not need to put too much thought into the transfer market.
On this day, the most eye-catching piece of news was related to the coach.
Manchester City officially announced that there will be a coaching change in the summer of 2016!
This season, that is, after the end of the 2015-2016 season, Guardiola, whose contract with Bayern Munich expires, will replace Pellegrini as the new head coach of Blue Moon.
As a result, the rumors of Manchester City's coaching change that have been circulating this season have finally come to an end.
This news at least confirms that Manchester City will not change coaches this season. No matter what the final results are, Pellegrini will lead the team to play all the remaining games.
As for Guardiola, he has finally "satisfied" the wishes of many fans and is about to come to the Premier League to prove himself!
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On the evening of January 3rd, in the 20th round of the Premier League, Chelsea ushered in consecutive away games and went to Shekhurst Park to challenge Crystal Palace.
The game itself was unremarkable, but it was still crucial for Chelsea.
As long as they remain unbeaten in the away game, Chelsea can tie AC Milan's 22-year unbeaten record in the five major leagues, which is 58 games!
This miracle, which was previously considered impossible to break, Chelsea is finally close!
Of course, today's opponent Crystal Palace is actually not that easy to deal with.
Since Alan Pardew took over, Crystal Palace's performance has been rising steadily.
Alan Pardew left Newcastle midway through the league last season and joined Crystal Palace, which was in the relegation zone, as head coach.
After confirming that high center Glenn Murray was promoted to the team's main force, Pardu's tactical system once again came into play.
He made full use of set-piece tactics. In addition to making Crystal Palace the team with the most set-piece goals in the Premier League, he also helped the team quickly escape from the relegation zone. During the team's four-game winning streak in March, he was even entrusted with the important task by Pardew.
Murray performed well and contributed 3 goals and 3 assists.
While the former club Newcastle United were in dire straits and were struggling to support themselves with only Pardew's "legacy", the Crystal Palace team under Pardew's leadership was firmly in the middle of the league and defeated its "old enemy" 3:1 at Anfield.
Liverpool, Gerrard's home farewell performance left a different mark.
In the end, Crystal Palace avoided relegation and also achieved the second-highest Premier League ranking in team history, 10th.
And this season, after 19 rounds of the league, they have accumulated 31 points with 9 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses, ranking fifth in the standings!
Behind them, there are even giant teams like Manchester United and Liverpool.
And facts have proved that Alan Pardew is something.
This attention-grabbing battle at Shelhurst Park left Chelsea in a daze.
At the end of the first half, the score was actually 2:0, with Crystal Palace leading!
Both goals came after 40 minutes.
The first goal came from a breakthrough by Zaha, but he was tripped by a reckless tackle from Chelsea defender Zouma. The referee signaled a yellow card and a penalty kick.
Then, the Crystal Palace captain, Australian Jedinak, scored a penalty.
The second goal was scored by Bamford!
Bamford, who is on loan to Crystal Palace this season, has gradually replaced Glenn Murray's position and become the "1" first-choice center in Alan Pardew's 4-2-3-1 tactical system.
Crystal Palace took advantage of Chelsea's loss of the ball and was a little unstable. After seeing the gap left by Cancelo's forward attack, it launched a counterattack along the way.
The right winger, Korean international Lee Ching-yong, received the ball from French international Cabaye and drove straight in at an extremely fast speed, cutting into the bottom line of the penalty area. The ball was passed low to the goal, and Bamford made a tackle in front of the goal.
For a moment, these two goals stunned Chelsea, and the fans at Shekhurst Park entered a long period of ecstasy.
Today’s opponent is Chelsea, who want to create a record of 58 games unbeaten!
Crystal Palace actually took the lead at halftime, and it was still a two-goal lead!
This is something that no one could have imagined.
The head coach of Crystal Palace, Alan Pardew, known as the "Dancing King of Coaches", even performed a mechanical dance in front of the home audience, which once again triggered bursts of applause and cheers from the audience.
This obviously sarcastic dance is a routine operation for Alan Pardew, who is full of passion both on and off the court.
He has caused countless troubles in English football.
As early as 2006, Alan Pardew, who was still the head coach of West Ham United at the time, had just won the "Premier League Coach of the Month" for the first time, but he and Arsenal head coach Arsene Wenger began to quarrel in the distance. The incident led to
The trigger was Wenger's decision to field a lineup without any English players in Arsenal's Champions League match against Real Madrid.
In the UK, there are many football practitioners and fans who are proud of being the pioneers of modern football. Wenger's move undoubtedly stung their nerves, and Alan Pardew is probably one of them.
So he publicly "fired" at Wenger, and Wenger ridiculed Pardew as a xenophobe, but Pardew immediately denied it and used his marriage to his Swedish wife as an example.
The conflict between the two broke out again in the match between the two teams in November of that year. Haywood's shovel shot killed Arsenal in the 88th minute. Pardew celebrated on the sidelines and released his suppressed emotions.
Such exaggerated behavior completely angered the professor, who was always known for his elegance. The latter pushed Pardew on the chest. Fortunately, the referee stopped him in time to avoid a farce.
Today, Alan Pardew's dance certainly made Chelsea feel shameless.
It's just that Pan Yi has always emphasized that coaches and players should resolve matters on the pitch, so no one like Wenger physically stopped Alan Pardew.
In fact, when the midfield whistle blew, most Chelsea players walked off the field in a hurry without even seeing Alan Pardew performing anything.
The first half of the game ended at this time, which gave the Blues players a chance to breathe.
When Pan Yi walked into the visiting team's dressing room at Shekhurst Park, he could clearly feel the panic among the players.
Perhaps it’s not just panic, but fear!
This is an inexplicable fear of the upcoming historical record.
It was this fear that caused them to be in disarray at the end of the first half.
After conceding two goals in a row, this fear spread even more unbridled in the locker room.
Everyone began to be afraid that the records they had set along the way might end here!
Pan Yi understands this mentality very well.
In fact, the more often people win, the more afraid they are of losing.
The more afraid you are of losing, the easier it is to lose, and even the more miserably you lose.
This is also the reason why many coaches need to lower their players' expectations, that is, to reduce the pressure in their hearts.
Now, Pan Yi needs to do the same.
Therefore, he first grabbed Arteta, who was about to stand in front of the stage and start drawing on the whiteboard.
If this passionate speaker were to speak for himself, he might draw a comic today of Dragon Ball Kakarot being beaten up and then turning into a Super Saiyan to inspire everyone...
But Pan Yi knows that the current Chelsea players do not need encouragement, they need calmness.
"I'll tell you today." Pan Yi said calmly to Arteta, and showed a confident smile.
Arteta was slightly surprised. He is still so confident at this time?
But what Pan Yi said naturally carries an unquestionable authority in the Chelsea dressing room.
Everyone believes in him!
Not to mention Arteta, who already regards Pan Yi as his idol.
"Understood, boss." Brother Tazi nodded, then stood in the corner, standing together with Stellan Holland and others.
Then, Pan Yi stood in the middle, in the middle of all the players.
The players looked up at Pan Yi, ready to hear the leader's scolding.
When the ball is played, there is a high probability that Pan Yi will curse.
Something like this:
"What happened? We can't continue like this!"
"I can't accept such a kick. You must perform better!"
"Have you not had enough to eat?"
"The uniform staff can play better than you!"
Maybe even throw a water bottle or something.
But Pan Yi didn't say anything, he just stood there.
The locker room gradually became quiet.
The originally heavy breathing gradually became calmer.
They also gradually understood that Pan Yi did not want to scold them, but wanted them to calm down.
We must quickly recover from the goal conceded in the first half!
And as Pan Yi's confident eyes passed over the faces of one player after another, everyone's mentality seemed to relax a lot.
The boss is confident!
What does it mean to be two goals behind?
Moreover, Pan Yi did not get angry because of lagging behind, which also relaxed the players' originally nervous mood.
At this time, Pan Yi stood in front of the tactical board.
He is going to start adjusting his tactics directly.
After all, spirit is only a part of a football game, and a larger part is made up of the team's tactics and the players' performance.
Only having spirit without techniques and tactics, or just having techniques and tactics without spirit, cannot become a victorious army.
Some pseudo-fans always place too much emphasis on the power of "spirit". For example, if a certain team just fights hard, it can win against more powerful opponents, catch up with Japan and South Korea, and break out of Asia and go to the world...
The problem is that mental strength can indeed make up for some technical and tactical disadvantages, but it must be within a certain gap.
If you ask an amateur team to compete for the top Barcelona, no matter how hard they try, they won't be able to make up for the technical gap, and it's not like their opponents don't try hard at all.
There is also the most common "death row" playing method. It seems that as long as a gun is pointed at their back, they can win the World Cup.
If this trick works, it will not only win the World Cup of football, but also win all the championships in basketball, tennis, and sprinting. Maybe it can also overcome the chip problem and immigrate to Mars.
Pan Yi naturally knows the key to this, so he always grasps it with both hands, both hands must be strong.
"I will make adjustments in the midfield. Goretzka, if you go down and rest for a while, I will send Hazard to take your place because we need stronger offensive firepower."
Pan Yi looked at Gretzka.
Today, Pan Yi lined up Lingard, Goretzka and Kante's "Desperate Saburo" combination in the midfield, which is to compete with Crystal Palace in the midfield.
In fact, Goretzka played very well, and his role as a barrier in the midfield was also very obvious.
In fact, the current score of 0 to 2 is more like an accident. From the penalty kick to the panic after the score was expanded, it was too fast.
But now, we have no choice but to strengthen our offense.
In this way, the offensive power of Lingard and Hazard's double attacking midfielder combination is obviously stronger than that of Goretzka, who is currently more defensive.
Goretzka also looked at Pan Yi and nodded heavily to express his understanding.
If a player is substituted after only playing half the game, in most cases there will be some dissatisfaction.
But Goretzka, who has a good professional attitude, will not.
Especially when this decision is made by an amazing coach like Pan Yi.
When everyone on the team obeys their head coach unconditionally, even if Pan Yi makes adjustments during the first half of the game, probably no one will have any objections...
"Very good, you can go take a shower now." Pan Yi said to Gretzka with a smile.
The locker room burst into laughter, and the atmosphere became much more relaxed.
Goretzka also stood up: "The rest of the game is up to everyone! Although I can't help you on the court, my heart will always be with you!"
Pan Yi went up and kicked Goretzka in the butt: "Who asked you to talk so much and make it look so affectionate..."
So, Goretzka left amid the laughter and applause of his teammates.
"Everyone, I understand your desire to tie Milan's record, but this should not be a shackle that hinders your progress."
Pan Yi began to speak formally, and the locker room also became quiet during training.
"I once told the media that I don't really care whether this record is broken or not."
"But I told you again, we can definitely break all kinds of records."
"Perhaps you may be wondering, isn't this a bit contradictory? Is this just a smoke bomb?"
"No, it's not."
"I have said a long time ago that as long as it is a game, I want to win. This is the most important thing. This is why I shouted the seven-time championship slogan early before the season."
"If I keep winning, wouldn't it mean that I can definitely break all records?"
"So, I don't care about a certain record, but about every current game, and make serious preparations and hard work for it."
"I hope you can do the same. That is to put the record behind you, but focus on every game in front of you!"
"I know it's difficult. Since the beginning of football history, no team has been able to win all the games and win all the championships."
"This is impossible. All invincible teams will eventually lose and lose the championship."
"But this does not prevent us from trying our best in every game! Our enemy will always be ourselves!"
Pan Yi's words made everyone in the locker room nod.
Pan Yi sees that the atmosphere in the locker room is about the same. It has the right ratio between "relaxation" and "tension", which allows the players to perform at their best.
So, he continued:
"So, in the second half of the game, I need you to show your courage and determination and show your strength!"
"Last season, we have proven to the whole world that we are the strongest team in the world. So, teams like Crystal Palace should not be an obstacle to us."
"In the second half, we need to press forward and create more trouble for our opponents."
"Crystal Palace will definitely continue to fight in the midfield. Jedinak and Cabaye are still very capable in the middle."
"More importantly, because they don't have our advantage in passing and controlling the ball, they have to fight to prevent us from holding the ball for a long time. They did this in the first half, and they also tasted the sweetness. I believe Alan
Pardew will continue to do so."
"And when we were pressed, we passed the ball back to Van Dijk or David Luiz to regroup."
"The two wing-backs must actively attack and control the ball in the middle. Lingard and Hazard must actively respond and hit the opponent's two ribs. If the ball is on the right side, we will hit the left rib. If the ball is on the left
If it's on the side, we'll hit the right rib."
"When Lingard and Hazard get the ball, they must move forward decisively and pass forward to create more trouble for their opponents."
"The most important thing is to let our opponents see our courage and determination, make them feel the danger, and make them fearful and fearful!"
"I have no doubt that we have the strength to reverse the situation. Although it is difficult, I know that you can do it, you will definitely be able to do it!"
When Pan Yi said the last word, he almost yelled it out.
At this point, the whistle has sounded to encourage the venue.
Pan Yi clapped his hands hard and said, "Okay, that's almost it."
The players stood up, and everyone's eyes were filled with determination.
"Finally, I want to say one more thing to you."
"You are the Champions League champions, a powerful team aiming to win seven championships! We should not be afraid of any opponent, because you are the strongest!"
"Didn't Alan Pardew dance to humiliate us? It's time to give him a hard fight back!"
"I will keep watching you from the sidelines. I believe you will not let me down!"
After finishing speaking, Pan Yi clapped vigorously to signal disbandment and get ready to play.
All the players also came to Pan Yi and hugged him.
Lingard even said harshly when hugging Pan Yi:
"I want Alan Pardew to know that in London, there is only one King of Dance! That is..."