Soccer Super Marksman

To this day, Blues fans are still brooding over Chelsea’s home match against Manchester United at the end of last season. It was Chelsea’s last chance to comeback against Manchester United at the end of the season, but Chelsea did not grasp it at home, or Chelsea did not Take a risk, take the risk of losing at home, and fight Manchester United to the death.

In that game, Manchester United also used the ultimate anti-reverse tactics in the away game, so that Chelsea could not get a chance to counterattack. Antonio Conte did not let the team press heavily on the attack, resulting in the two teams shaking hands in a dull and slow-paced game. And, while Manchester United retreated unscathed, they also won the championship with a winning streak at the end.

Today's game made Antonio Conte feel bad. The reason is that this is the beginning of the season. Although the giants are more vigilant than the average team to gain or lose points, Manchester United seems to continue to use defensive counterattacks when the away lineup is neat. tactics.

When playing positional battles with the possession of the ball, Manchester United's formation does not press forward, relying on Lukaku, Herrera, Cui Zhen, and Mata to attack in a controlled manner in the frontcourt, shoot when they have the opportunity, and They don't pursue the pass, cut, penetration and cooperation that they are best at.

Passing and cutting penetration requires running forward. The closer to the opponent's goal, the greater the chance of success. But similarly, if the attack fails, it is almost impossible for the players who attack the frontcourt to participate in the defense, because Chelsea's counterattack is too fast. up!It is meaningless to rush to the frontcourt to counter-robbery.

Now that Manchester United have set up a tight formation, even easily give up the ball, hand over the initiative to Chelsea, let Chelsea attack, and Manchester United play defense, so what kind of effect can Chelsea play?

Antonio Conte has always focused on building the team's counter-defense tactics. Chelsea's accustomed mode is: grab the ball.When the rhythm of the opponent's offensive and defensive transition changes, he suddenly hits a quick counterattack.Let the opponent be destroyed by the counterattack storm without completing the deployment or hastily deploying the defense!

Now that Chelsea are going to play positional battles, how should they play at Stamford Bridge?
After the offense advanced past halftime, there was no room for their wingers to sprint forward, and there was almost no space for passing and cutting. Chelsea's offense had a fatal problem: lack of creativity!

In a counter attack with huge space, a precise through ball is not creativity!Because even the spectators in the stands can see where there is space and where to pass the ball. It is normal to see space.After all, the space is very wide. Whether the ball can be passed in place is a question of footwork and technology, and basically has nothing to do with creativity.

Tear-breaking the opponent's defense line in a small offensive space is the main stage for testing creativity.

Most of the time, Manchester United have at least 8 people defending, three in the middle of the midfield, Pogba can help defend the left wing of the wing, and Mata on the right wing of the midfield actively retreats. Defense zone against Lingard in the middle.

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas couldn't get deep into the front line.He can make a big breakthrough when counterattacking. In a positional battle, if he runs into the encirclement circle of Cui Zhen, Lingard and Pogba, then the teammates behind him may not be able to deliver the ball to his feet.

After all, Drinkwater and Kanter are still focused on defense. Before Antonio Conte ordered a change of posture, they will not rashly violate the intention of the head coach, not to mention that Kanter still stays at the top of the penalty area for a long time. defensive player.

Chelsea's attack was poor, midfielder Cesc Fabregas didn't have space to break through in the middle, and he didn't have the absolute speed to get rid of Manchester United's midfield defense.

Hazard on the front line has more team attributes than Morata. Mata and Phil Jones restrained his performance, further suppressing the possibility of Chelsea's small-scale successful cooperation in the frontcourt.

Although forward Morata played very freely on the right, he could not connect with his teammates in the center. After Valencia consciously gave up the outside line and Pogba defended the sniper, Morata Except for occasionally blasting a long-range shot that is not very threatening, there is no other action.

Diego Costa fell into a state of isolation and helplessness on the front line. He couldn't get the ball from his teammates. Only by passing the ball to compete for the header can he play his role.

In the 27th minute of the game, Cesc Fabregas tried to pass the ball to Diego Costa. Defender Bayi successfully intercepted it. Manchester United launched a counterattack. Bayi directly passed the ball forward. The ball hits the sidewalk.

Herrera began to push forward on the wing, and Antonio Conte yelled at Morata from the sidelines, meaning that Morata should actively participate in the defense.

Herrera brought the ball to Chelsea's dangerous zone, and in front of Manchester United was also Chelsea's tightest defense line, with four backs and three midfielders, and midfielder Fabregas returned directly to the defense after an unsuccessful pass. Chelsea's defense looked tight.

Herrera passed the ball to Cui Zhen in the middle, and Cui Zhen took the initiative to run to meet him. He is likely to compete with Drinkwater.

In a short period of time, Cui Zhen felt the power of Drinkwater. He is stronger than the former Chelsea midfielder Bakayoko and defends better. He is simply an African rhinoceros!
Drinkwater has never played against Cui Zhen, but his teammates reminded him: Never underestimate Cui Zhen!
For this ball, Drinkwater was slower than Cui Zhen. He calmly did not speed up to grab the ball, worried that Cui Zhen would stop him and throw him off.

Cui Zhen faced the incoming ball and directly knocked the ball to break through, but his raised left foot stagnated above the football, and he did not touch the ball!

Football was missed by Cui Zhen.Drinkwater was startled suddenly, and sighed in his heart: Perfect fake action!
At that moment, he already believed that Cui Zhen would break through him!And Fabregas, the midfielder on the right side of Cui Zhen, was also shaken by Cui Zhen, and the football rolled over one meter in front of him.

After Cui Zhen missed the ball, he immediately went in diagonally. The missed football was inserted and stopped by Mata, and then Mata went straight in the direction of Cui Zhen's running position.

When the football rolls from behind, Cui Zhen will soon encounter Kanter. Before that, he does not stop the ball and knocks the ball directly to the front of the penalty area, and then quickly rushes across Kanter's right.

Cui Chen's movement in this attack was explosive, otherwise he would not be able to get rid of Chelsea's defenders at all, nor would he be able to capture the fleeting offensive space.

The Chelsea players were still very calm and did not swarm up in a panic. Defender Rudiger was in the penalty area, Gary Cahill was relieved, and Alonso was also in the penalty area to reduce the space for Lukaku to break through.

When Lukaku touched the ball in front of the penalty area, he knew that he had no chance to break through or shoot directly. He knocked the ball horizontally and completed a two-for-one with Cui Zhen.

At the moment, this scene is like Manchester United sending out death squads, looking for the almost non-existent attacking space under the siege of Chelsea.

Cui Zhen's heart is a little heavy, Chelsea's defense is protected by layers, he has no room to break through, Gary Cahill is coming up, Kanter will also cut off the pass between him and Lukaku, and at the same time block him from going to the goal. In the breakthrough space in the middle of the penalty area, the only thing he can break through is Gary Cahill, but the breakthrough must be accelerated. Defender Rudiger is waiting for an opportunity behind Gary Cahill.

In desperation, Cui Zhen directly chose to take a long shot!The football went wide of goal and rolled off the baseline less than a meter from the right post.

Mourinho remained expressionless as he stood on the sidelines, unable to say whether he was dissatisfied with the team's performance.It can only be said that the current Manchester United is not the dream team he is pursuing to build.

But looking at the reality, it is normal for the team to go through one or two periods of excessive adjustment when a mainstay player leaves and the team does not introduce a new player of equal strength.

If it weren't for Chelsea's strength, Manchester United might not be forced to this point.Even if he knows that he needs to adjust too much, Mourinho may still go his own way.

Can take more risks, so that Manchester United may lose more!The future of Lukaku and Cui Zhen is still up in the air, and Mourinho must use his record to retain the players.

Now he can only face this game with a very rare sense of guilt-pleasure-pleasure: Antonio Conte, defense?It's Manchester United playing the rest!
Manchester United's defense once overturned the arsenal and became the basis for Mourinho to become the master at Old Trafford.

Now that Manchester United has formulated a strategy of attacking and countering, Mourinho regards this as a slight "regression", so he cannot be happy.

This anti-anti-overrunning war is very unreasonable, and the public has a great sense of loss in anticipation of strong dialogue.

The combined value of the two teams exceeds 5 million pounds, and then they are playing defense instead of pursuing the more beautiful side of football, presenting a classic offensive feast to the outside world, which is unreasonable in the eyes of outsiders.

When Manchester United did not give Chelsea room to counterattack and Chelsea did not take the initiative to attack, it was difficult for the two teams to shoot high-quality shots in the offense. The most typical phenomenon is that the two teams did not shoot in the penalty area.Shots from outside the penalty area also faced numerous obstacles.It is enough to reflect the characteristics of this game on both offense and defense.

The first half ended with 0:0.The Chelsea generals looked helpless as they walked into the player tunnel.

Before the game, I was very ambitious to overthrow Manchester United.But in the competition, they have all kinds of strength but can't use it!

Although this is not Manchester United in the Community Shield game, as long as Manchester United challenges Chelsea according to the tactical play on the Community Shield, Chelsea will definitely have a chance to destroy the Red Devils!

The mentality of Manchester United players is very calm.It can be said that because of the departure of Rooney, Schneiderlin and others, they were able to let go of their high profile in the strong dialogue, accept the reality, and strive to win the maximum benefit in a pragmatic way.

Mourinho also had nothing to adjust at half-time, nothing more than the emphasis on some small details.For example, paying more attention to the personal breakthrough of Chelsea wingers and so on.