Chapter 398 The Outcome Has Been Decided!

In the summer, Anelka joined Chelsea, definitely the most important transfer in the Premier League.

Anelka was the top scorer in the Premier League last season and almost won the European Golden Boot Award. In the highly competitive Premier League, to obtain this honor can definitely be regarded as the top striker in the world.

After 2000, this honor has been monopolized by top superstars.

Hasselbaink, Henry, Van Nistelrooy, Van der Vaart, until last season's Anelka, there are only a few players who have won the Premier League's top scorer. You can know from these names that the Premier League The honor of the top scorer is so amazing that when Anelka joined Chelsea, almost everyone was concerned about the transfer.

This heavyweight transfer also made Chelsea fans look forward to Anelka's performance.

It is a pity that they have been a little disappointed so far, because Anelka has performed well after arriving at Chelsea, but he has not shown the strength of Manchester City.

In fact, Anelka himself was troubled.

When he left Manchester City to join Chelsea, he was a little hesitant, but in the end his brother Claude convinced him that in order to get a higher and bigger salary contract, he still chose to leave Manchester City. After that, he also felt that with his own ability , no matter in any team can be successful.

But now, more than four months later, Anelka has some regrets.

One of them is that he didn't think it would be so difficult to adjust to a team.

Chelsea does not have the environment of Manchester City. The play styles and habits of the two teams are different. When he played the game according to the running style of Manchester City for two years, he found that his teammates couldn't keep up at all. Many times he ran in front. If there is an empty seat, the football will not be passed in the first time.

The reason. Or Chelsea and Manchester City, the difference in technical strength in midfield.

Chelsea's midfield core player is Lampard, and others include Essien, Ballack and others. These players are not technical and do not have the world's top passing ability. Manchester City is the exact opposite. Morris, Silva, and Ivan Crewe are all very good at passing, and the tactical system of the entire team is also constructed with passing.

But no matter the reason, Anelka feels that the way he is used to running has no effect at Chelsea. So he knew one thing - he needed to relearn the 'Chelsea way'.

He needs to get used to running again. Or re-adapting tactics, the most important thing, he needs to re-adapt to his teammates.

Chelsea's offensive has no fixed initiator. The frontcourt, midfield, and backcourt are all adaptive running, so many times, as a striker, you need to rely on your own performance and tacit understanding with your teammates. Or often more important than the former, and have a tacit understanding with teammates. So football is easy to pass.

This is the complete opposite of Manchester City.

Manchester City's tactical play is completely "formatted". The passing is to the right position and the wrong person. As long as the running follows the rhythm, the football can be passed.

All in all, Chelsea is a completely different team from Manchester City.

In addition, the competition for Chelsea's strikers is also fierce. An important reason for Anelka's departure from Manchester City is that Darren Bent is gradually able to compete with him for the main position. He does not even have the confidence to compete with Darren Bent. After arriving at Chelsea, he found that the competition was more intense.

Needless to say, Drogba, the best performer, can't even compete with Kalu at the next level. After all, Kalu is also an excellent player, and he played for Chelsea for a season. He is not comparable in all aspects. In addition, with him on the bench, there is also a world-class striker like Shevchenko.

In this competitive environment, Anelka feels much more difficult.

At the same time, Anelka felt that he did not have the trust of the head coach. The new Israeli head coach did not value him very much. Even if he was a starter, as long as he performed poorly, he would face the result of being substituted.

Taking the above factors into account, Anelka has a feeling that if he wants to perform well at Chelsea, he will need to adapt to the environment here at least half a year later. Only when he is fully adapted can he find the best game feeling.

Now it is the match against Manchester City. Anelka's feelings are very complicated. He doesn't know how he feels when facing his former coach and teammates.

Anelka has played for Manchester City for five years, and five years are enough to make anyone feel emotional, so he still has deep feelings for Manchester City. At the same time, no one of the current teammates knows better than him the strength of Manchester City's tactics. .

The head coach let him warm up and get ready to play?

Can you do it yourself?

What Anelka didn't realize was that he not only lost the familiar environment, but also lost confidence in the face of his former team and teammates.

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Wan Sheng sat in his seat and turned his head to look at the sidelines.

Anelka is ready to play.

At this time, there must be many people who are paying attention to Chelsea's substitution, and many people are commenting on the substitution. Is Anelka replacing Kalu? Wan Sheng raised the corners of his mouth. In his opinion, this was a very unsuccessful adjustment.

Anelka is very capable and knows Manchester City well, but also Manchester City know him very well.

Wansheng also generally knows Anelka's personal attribute data, which means that Anelka's strengths and weaknesses are on the surface, so it's easy to defend him.

Wan Sheng went to the sidelines, called Morris, and roughly explained his defense against Anelka.

Basically, let the players block the passing route with running and force Anelka to fight like Drogba. A striker who plays technically.

If he plays like Didier Drogba, he becomes very uncomfortable.

After Chelsea completed the substitution, the game between the two teams resumed. Many people paid attention to Anelka's performance. Even the Sky Sports TV screen frequently switched to Anelka. However, for a long time, Anelka didn't do much well.

In the next ten minutes, Anelka only touched the ball three times and did not pose any threat to Manchester City's goal.

If Anelka hadn't paid special attention and didn't even know he touched the ball, he would have just disappeared from the game.

"Anelka's performance is a bit bad!"

"Kalou will still have some passing and shooting, and he does a good job with his teammates, but the Frenchman did nothing..."

"Chelsea made a losing deal!"

It was Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate who made a rational analysis, "Anelka hasn't been in Chelsea for a long time and has not fully integrated into the team. We can see that he is actually working hard to move, but even if he runs It doesn't help to play open spaces, he's used to running at Manchester City, but Manchester City and Chelsea are two teams."

"In addition, Manchester City's players know Anelka too well. Many times their defense will make Anelka very helpless..."

Anelka did not perform at all, much to the disappointment of Chelsea boss Grant.

The Israelis also expected the team to equalize, but ten minutes later, Chelsea did not equalize, but the situation gradually lost its advantage.

In fact, Chelsea swooped on Manchester City after Morris scored.

They have to do it.

From 1:3 in the first half, to 3:3, and then to 4:3 now, Manchester City has gone from two goals behind to one goal ahead, and they have also become the trailing party.

They were thinking about winning Manchester City before, but they fell behind again. They were very unwilling to lose the game, so they launched a tough attack on Manchester City at halftime, which made Manchester City breathless for a while, but ten minutes passed. Manchester City also gradually began to counterattack.

Chelsea can suppress Manchester City with one breath, but Manchester City is no worse than them, so it is impossible for them to suppress continuously. When Manchester City recovers, Chelsea will face defensive pressure.

In the 84th minute of the game, Chelsea was eager to score, resulting in an unstable defensive formation. David Silva made a sudden forward move and completely collapsed their defensive line.

This time it's Ozil's attack!

After receiving a pass from Morris in the midfield, Ozil dribbled the ball forward without waiting for Morris to catch up. Facing Lampard's interception, Ozil used a small change of direction, followed by After rushing forward, Lampard failed to keep up for a while. After Ozil took more than five meters forward, he passed the ball to Ivan Crewe who was quickly inserted on the wing.

Ivan Crewe received the pass and immediately attracted the attention of the defense. Chelsea's defensive formation immediately tilted to the right. At this moment, Ivan Crewe did not hesitate, and suddenly hoisted the ball to the right of the penalty area. side.

There, Silva followed!

Silva's forward move was very decisive. He took advantage of the space on the left side of Chelsea's penalty area and received a pass from Ivan Crewe. When the Chelsea defender wanted to stop it, it was too late. Carvalho rushed over and the only thing he could do. What's more, he used his body to block between Silva and the goal, but Silva didn't make any stopping action. He chose to directly stab the ball to the right.

The camera turns to the past, there is Ozil!

"Ozil! Ozil!"

The live broadcaster shouted in shock, and the Chelsea fans in the stands also exclaimed.

Their voices did not affect the game, Ozil was running, with no defenders beside him, he waved his right foot to meet the ball without hesitation.

"Bang!"

The right foot came into contact with the football, and the grass immediately flew.

Shoot!

The goalkeeper Cech made a save, but only seeing the Czech's action, the football flew into the net without any suspense.

“Goooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!”

Along with the goal, George Woodgate shouted, "3:5!"

"The outcome is decided!!" (To be continued ~^~)