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To this day, Blues fans are still brooding over Chelsea’s home defeat against Arsenal at the end of last season. It was Chelsea’s last chance to comeback against Arsenal at the end of the season, but Chelsea did not grasp it at home, or Chelsea did not take the risk of taking the risk of losing at home and fighting Arsenal to the death.

In that game, Arsenal also used the ultimate anti-counterattack tactics in the away game, which prevented Chelsea from getting a chance to counterattack. Mourinho did not let the team aggressively attack, resulting in the two teams shaking hands in a dull and slow-paced game. In peace, while Arsenal retreated unscathed, they also won the championship with a winning streak at the end.

Today's game made Mourinho 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, Arsenal seem to continue to use defense when the away lineup is neat. counterattack tactics.

When playing positional battles with the possession of the ball, Arsenal's formation does not press forward, relying on Henry, Pires, Qin Xiong, and Ljungberg to attack in a controlled manner in the frontcourt, and shoot when they have the opportunity. 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 Arsenal have set up a tight formation, even easily give up the ball, hand over the initiative to Chelsea, let Chelsea attack, and Arsenal play defense, so what kind of effect can Chelsea play?

Mourinho has always focused on building the team's anti-reverse tactics.The pattern that Chelsea is used to is: grab the ball, and suddenly hit a quick counterattack when the rhythm of the opponent's offense and defense changes, so that the opponent is destroyed by the counterattack storm without completing the defense 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 spaces.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 down the opponent's defense in a small attacking space.This is the main arena where creativity is tested.

Arsenal have at least 8 people in defense most of the time.There are three players in the middle of the midfield, Silva can help defend the left wing of the wing, and Ljungberg, who is on the right wing of the midfield, retreats actively. On the one hand, he can pinch Joe Cole, and on the other hand, he can also defend the defense zone of Cesc Fabregas in the middle.

Lampard can't go deep into the front line. He can penetrate a lot when counterattacking.Then the teammates behind him may not be able to deliver the ball to his feet. After all, Essien and Makelele are still mainly defensive. Before Mourinho orders a change of posture, they will not rashly violate the intention of the coach, let alone Makelele is still the kind of defensive player who stays in front of the top of the penalty area for a long time.

Chelsea's attack was poor, Lampard didn't have space to break through in the middle, and he didn't have the absolute speed to get rid of Arsenal's midfield defense.

Joe Cole has more team attributes than Robben. Ljungberg and Lauren restrained his performance, further suppressing the possibility of Chelsea's small-scale successful cooperation in the frontcourt.

Although Robben played very freely on the right.But he couldn't connect with his teammates in the middle, and the inside-cut style of play was followed by Ashley Cole consciously giving up the outside line.And after Silva defended against the sniper, Robben occasionally blasted a low-threatening long-range shot.And nothing else.

Drogba 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, Lampard tried to pass the ball to Drogba. Toure successfully intercepted it accurately. Arsenal launched a counterattack. Toure directly passed the ball forward. Fabregas took the ball with his back and crossed it. Knock on the sidewalk.

Pires began to push forward on the wing, and Mourinho yelled at Robben from the sidelines, meaning that Robben should actively participate in the defense.

Pires brought the ball to Chelsea's dangerous zone, and in front of Arsenal was Chelsea's tightest line of defense, with four defenders and three midfielders. Lampard returned to the defense directly after the pass was unsuccessful, which made Chelsea's defense Looks like a perfect fit.

Pires passed the ball to Qin Xiong in the middle, and Qin Xiong took the initiative to run to meet him. He may compete with Essien.

In a short period of time, Qin Xiong felt the strength of Essien. He was stronger than Thiago, the former Chelsea midfielder, and his defense was better. He was like an African rhinoceros!

Essien has never played against Qin Xiong, but his teammates reminded him: Never underestimate Qin Xiong!

For this ball, he was slower than Qin Xiong. He calmly did not speed up to grab the ball, fearing that Qin Xiong would stop him and throw him off.

Facing the incoming ball, Qin Xiong directly knocked the ball and made a breakthrough, but his raised left foot stagnated above the football, and he did not touch the ball!

Football was missed by him.

Essien was startled suddenly, and sighed in his heart: Perfect feint!

At that moment, he already believed that Qin Xiong would break through him!

And Lampard, who was on the right side of Qin Xiong, was also shaken by Qin Xiong, and the football rolled over one meter in front of him.

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

When the football rolled from behind, Qin Xiong would soon encounter Makelele. Before that, he didn't stop the ball and knocked the ball directly to the front of the penalty area, and then quickly rushed across the right side of Makelele.

His running position in this attack was explosive, otherwise he would not be able to get rid of Chelsea's defensive players 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. Gallas was in the penalty area, Carvalho was relieved, and Ferreira was also in the penalty area to reduce the space for Henry to break through.

When Henry 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 across and completed a one-two with Qin Xiong.

The scene at the moment is like Arsenal sending out death squads, looking for the almost non-existent attacking space under the siege of Chelsea.

Qin Xiong's heart is a little heavy, Chelsea's defensive line is protected by layers, he has no room to break through, Carvalho is coming up, Makelele will also cut off the pass between him and Henry, and at the same time block his path to the middle of the penalty area To break through the space, the only thing he can break through is Carvalho, but the breakthrough must be accelerated, and Gallas is waiting for the opportunity behind Carvalho.

In desperation, Qin Xiong 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. (to be continued~^~)