Frost Shooter of Greenery

Chapter 706

The two-day vacation is fleeting. In the next four days, Chelsea will prepare for the four-day final at the Cobham training base. Hiddink has also told the players that the two-day vacation is mainly to make adjustments and not to have a party. , Don't drink too much, don't overwork, keep in good shape, and play whatever you want after the Champions League final.

Nothing else, just don't know if today's state is considered overworked...

It seems that Erin's joke yesterday was not entirely a joke. After all, she is not the only one, and Qi Ce has to face the exciting wheel battle!

However, Qi Ce was in a good state yesterday, and it is estimated that he has enough ammunition after a long time!
Even after sleeping until noon the next day, the good work and rest habits developed during the athlete period were also broken...

I only stayed in Dortmund for another day, and I will return to London in the afternoon. At the latest, tomorrow morning, the Cobham training base will start intense preparations for the final. Fortunately, the venue for the final is London, which can basically be said to be a home game. , Chelsea can rush to the stadium without leaving too long in advance, so the preparation plan for this time is only four days, and we will go to Wembley at noon on the day of the final.

Cobham training base the next day.

The venue was full of tension. Not many people in this Chelsea team had experience in the Champions League final. Even after defeating strong teams like Bayern and Real Madrid, many people were still nervous in the final.

In the Champions League final five years ago, only a few veterans of Chelsea, including Terry, Petr Cech, Lampard, and Ashley Cole, had experienced it, and one person had been sent to the reserve team, that is, the Frenchman Malouda. In addition, the two substitutes, Ferreira and Hilario, also watched the game on the spot, but failed to get the chance to play.

Among other players, only Qi Ce has experienced the Champions League final. When it comes to the Champions League, only Qi Ce has won it.

The big brother in this regard, Qi Ce, came to the training ground, and he also shouldered an important task, which is to cool down for the Champions League final, at least not to make the players too nervous.

After all, this Chelsea team is still quite young. If the starting striker is not Torres and Hiddink chooses Zize to play, his partners are generally Schurrle and Hazard, and the midfielders will be Ramirez, Mikel and Mikel. Well, Lampard is also an option. In key games, there is an experienced veteran who can live in the field.

The defense line will be relatively older. Terry and Ashley Cole are both veterans over 30 years old. The other two options should be Azpilicueta and David Luiz.

If you don't start Lampard, then the midfielders are basically young people no older than 26 years old, and it is also a very important job to appease their nervousness.

In the first two days of training to prepare for the final, Hiddink arranged mainly for the final tactical drill. After the last on-site inspection, Hiddink believes that facing Klopp’s crazy run, there should be two game plans. The first is to attack .

Dortmund's style of play is to make you get up quickly, open up the space on the field through a lot of running, let the opponent also run, and then drag the opponent to death. This kind of play is difficult to slow down, unless you have Barcelona Such a midfield configuration can pass the ball steadily in the midfield and let the opponent consume physical energy in the fight.

At this stage, Chelsea does not have this ability to control the ball, so one solution is to play counterattacks, like Manchester United playing Chelsea, to send the ball forward as soon as possible, and do not stay in the backcourt for too long to avoid being mad by Dortmund Running steals.

Another solution is still to defend and counterattack.

In the face of Dortmund's high-pressure style of play, the best thing to do is to give up the ball and let Dortmund take possession of the ball. Chelsea will focus on counterattacks. Passing the ball forward can be aggressive, but it must be passed to the empty space.

It doesn't matter even if you can't get it in front, because this kind of defensive counterattack doesn't need the ball, as long as you send the ball out and let the striker perform, if you can get the ball and hit the counterattack, it will be considered a success.

The rest of the time is in the backcourt. When you get the ball, you can either move it in a wide range, or pass the ball forward to counterattack. game scene.

Fortunately, these two styles of play do not require much adaptation. The former can be regarded as Chelsea's consistent style of play against strong teams this season, while the latter is the DNA of the team.

When training tactics, Hiddink arranged several small-scale confrontation games, selected a group of good physical fitness from the huge reserve team system of the Cobham training base to imitate Dortmund's rushing style of play, and focused on the frontcourt. .

This kind of training is still effective. This is a test in an extreme state. It tests the quality of the players' passing in the face of absolute high pressure, the handling after being intercepted, and so on.

The two-day simulation also allowed Hiddink to basically determine the candidates for the starting lineup. To face high pressure, the defense line is very important. Other positions are easy to talk about. Hiddink is hesitant about the position of David Luiz.

The Brazilian always feels a little aggressive and needs his teammates to help him wipe his ass, but in fact, in the face of real high-pressure pressing, David Luiz's pass is the most stable, whether it is a long pass for a defensive counterattack or a short pass for high pressure. Pass, his turnovers turned out to be the fewest among defenders.

This also made Hiddink no longer hesitate whether to play the more stable Cahill or the more aggressive David Luiz. The other three midfielders have also been finalized. Lampard, Ramirez and Meyer will start!

Mikel, the regular main force in the starting lineup, has been removed, and Ramirez can run. In the face of the Hornets' crazy running style, they need a midfielder with a large coverage area instead of a midfield engineer. In addition, they need to be safe. For the ball, the experienced Lampard and the young but energetic Meyer are better choices.

The forward candidates are Torres, Zize and Hazard.

Schurrle may not have much speed advantage in front of the two full-backs of Dortmund. Piszczek and Schmelzer are not slow, and as teammates of the German national team, they should be familiar with Schurrle's routines In fact, Schurle's personal ability is not strong, and his running position and last shot are his characteristics, but this technical characteristic is easy to be defended by familiar people.

Hazard does not have this problem. His personal ability is very strong, and he rarely loses the ball in dribbling. If the counterattack cannot be played, it needs a positional battle. It is a good strategy to give the ball to Hazard to protect the ball and advance.

Center Torres is still a tactical need. The best partner to open up space for Zitzer is Torres. Although Schurrle has many partners, after all, Schurrle is not a center forward and does not have the strong physical fitness of Torres.

As for Qi Ce's starting lineup, what's the point?
If Qi Ce does not start in the final without injuries and other factors, Hiddink should also check whether he has dementia. As far as the final is concerned, Cech can be replaced, but Qi Ce cannot be replaced.

After the two-day mock battle, the next two days will be some additional training on details, mainly set kicks and penalties.

Hiddink also found a very interesting thing.

Zize's free kick scoring rate in training is not high. Although it is not a day or two, it is actually more obvious when he really stares at the set kick and starts training. In the game, Zize basically every three One direct goal out of four chances, and about five or six goals a season come from direct free kicks.

But during the training, Zize's shooting rate dropped by more than half, and he might not be able to score a goal seven or eight times, which also made Hiddink a little confused.

Zize told Hiddink that free kicks only feel when many fans are watching him.

Hiddink is very skeptical about this statement. Most people come in the opposite direction. After all, there is no chance of a replay of the game. So many people should be nervous. There is no pressure in training, even if the kick is not kicked. The ball is at most just being laughed at by teammates twice, and it should have a higher hit rate.

Why is this kid doing the opposite?
However, in the game, Qi Ce is still the first free kick shooter, and this will not change. After all, Qi Ce has high efficiency in scoring free kicks, which is also an indisputable fact.

The other is penalty kicks.

The penalty shootout has maintained a consistent high level. Basically, it depends on whether there is actually a penalty kick in the game. However, Chelsea still included the penalty shootout into the scope of extra training.

In addition, corner kicks or free kicks that are difficult to directly form a goal are also the magic weapon for scoring in the final. Dortmund's defense of set kicks is relatively stretched. I don't know if Klopp is not good at it or doesn't pay attention. Ce rarely practiced set kicks at the Brackler training ground during Dortmund, especially corner kicks.

Qi Ce also told Hiddink this information, and Hiddink also decided to practice set-pieces. If he can make a fuss through set-pieces in the game, Qi Ce has made a contribution.

(End of this chapter)