Chapter 195 The Calm Little Lion and the Beast Zlatan [Please Subscribe! ]

De Bruyne was very happy after seeing Li Ang successfully score a goal that broke the drought!

Not only because he also got an assist and gave a relatively eye-catching performance.

He was happy more because Li Ang and he had the same tacit understanding in the game thinking!

That is what is commonly known in football: two people can think of playing together.

Don’t look at the fact that De Bruyne, Hazard and Lukaku have already cooperated in the national team.

But Lukaku can’t run to the position, Hazard can run, but his desire to attack with the ball is too strong, and he is a little slow to stick to the ball, so the cooperation of the three is always a little lacking.

If Oscar is still in the attacking midfielder position today, De Bruyne, Hazard and Lukaku will still not be able to establish a good connection.

Because Oscar is essentially an attacking midfielder.

He prefers to insert from behind to complete the goal, or to attack and threaten the opponent’s defense line, rather than organizing and connecting the entire frontcourt offense.

This is not to say that Oscar is not good, but Chelsea's frontcourt is full of offensive talents, and what is lacking is the connection point that integrates these talents and integrates them into an overall system.

And what Li Ang is doing at this moment is such a connection work.

He took advantage of Lukakula's deterrent power to temporarily ignore Hazard, let him clear his mind, and speed up Chelsea's frontcourt offense as a whole.

Finally, let De Bruyne try his best to play his passing talent under Mourinho's tactical framework.

After all this series of work was laid out, Chelsea launched this crisp attack.

Of course, now only Li Ang dares not to give Hazard the ball at all in Chelsea, so that he can reflect more on what changes he should make on the offensive end.

Mourinho's knocking work was taken over by Li Ang himself.

And Li Ang also changed his previous easy-going training and used his own goal to tell Hazard strongly:

You must change yourself and obey the collective!

Or to be more straightforward.

Li Ang is using this method to tell Hazard who is the real core of Chelsea on the field and who he should listen to!

Hazard, who has never been ambitious and has a bad temper, just feels very wronged at this moment.

He thinks that he has shown the greatest goodwill since Li Ang joined the team.

He has no objection to Li Ang being the core of the team and the dominant person in charge of the team's offense and defense.

All he wants is a starting position in Chelsea and to continue to improve and play better offensive performance.

But now he can hardly touch the ball on the court!

Yes, this is just a warm-up match, but Hazard has really felt that Li Ang is dissatisfied or distrustful of himself on the offensive end.

This made his mood, which was quite good recently, fall into a trough at this moment.

When celebrating the goal with his teammates, the smile on his face was a bit too far-fetched.

Li Ang seemed to have not noticed Hazard's unusual behavior. After clapping and hugging Hazard as usual, he turned around and clapped his hands to signal his teammates to keep working hard and perform better.

Li Ang's strong hug made Hazard feel confused again.

But after the game resumed, Li Ang still maintained contact with De Bruyne and even Lukaku on the offensive end.

Only for Hazard, Li Ang gave relatively few ball possession opportunities directly.

Throughout the first half, the one who cooperated with Hazard the most was Ashley Cole, who occasionally launched attacks from the backcourt.

Terry and Lampard, who was now lagging behind, saw Li Ang's offensive choice tendencies throughout the first half.

However, neither of them said anything, but just looked at the coaching bench thoughtfully.

At the halftime break, the score was still 1:0.

Chelsea's players generally returned to the locker room in a relaxed mood.

Mourinho did not praise Li Ang's performance in the first half, nor did he make any suggestions for improvement. Instead, he made a brief summary of the team's performance.

However, just when Mourinho made some fine-tuning to the offensive tactics in the second half, and asked Li Ang to cooperate with Lukaku to try more cooperation in the middle.

Li Ang unexpectedly expressed a different opinion.

"Let Eden try to advance on the left in the second half. We need to have the ability to stably tear open the opponent's defense on at least one side, so that everyone can play more comfortably on the offensive end..."

Hazard was obviously the most surprised person in the locker room at this moment.

Li Ang, who had deliberately given up his offensive all the way in the first half, now spoke for him and helped him to gain the tactical weight of the offense?

Hazard could not understand Li Ang's intention.

But facing Mourinho's scrutiny, he subconsciously straightened his chest and nodded, indicating that Mourinho could shoulder the offensive responsibility.

After the start of the second half, the situation that Hazard was worried about, Li Ang's hypocrisy, did not occur.

Chelsea's offensive rhythm then became the same as last season.

Several young offensive players in the frontcourt showed their talents, and the scene they played seemed to be quite good.

Without Mata holding the ball on the right, Hazard controlled more offensive ball rights.

His beautiful dribbling and excellent skills made the American audience at the scene very satisfied and cheered!

However, as time gradually came to the 70th minute of the second half, Hazard looked at the Inter Milan double-teaming defense in front of him, which was still difficult to penetrate, and his mood was not good.

In the less than half an hour of the second half, he had made many strong breakthrough attempts.

But for the Inter Milan players who were fully prepared before the game, Hazard's stubborn behavior was tantamount to being an undercover and giving away the ball.

At first, Cambiasso was very worried that Hazard would pass the ball to create danger after attracting many defensive players of Inter Milan.

But as time went on, he was not so afraid of Hazard using his breakthrough dribbling to cause damage.

Everything is afraid of comparison. Hazard himself certainly knew how Chelsea's overall offensive was carried out when Li Ang dominated the offensive possession in the first half.

Looking at his somewhat angry offensive method and the situation at this moment, Hazard's grievances gradually subsided.

He is also a smart man.

In the first half, he was suddenly ignored by Li Ang on purpose, so he seemed to be covered with a layer of fog.

He could not understand Li Ang's intention, nor could he see the difference between Chelsea's offensive development in the first half and usual.

Now he only needs to think carefully, and Hazard will understand.

After his several procrastinating dribblings in the first half delayed the offensive opportunity, Li Ang began to deliberately ignore the offensive possession on his side.

What else is there to say? Facts speak louder than words.

Hazard had to admit that compared to the private communication and admonition, the gap he experienced on the field was more impressive.

It was not a lesson, but Hazard knew that if he wanted to keep up with Mourinho's tactical thinking and Chelsea's growth, he had to start to change himself...

Li Ang was relieved when he saw Hazard starting to give the ball to him.

Regardless of whether Hazard really understood his intentions or felt the urgency to change his bad habit of sticking to the ball.

At least at this time, Hazard's actions revealed his willingness to change for the team.

This was enough for Li Ang, and there was still a long time for Chelsea to run in.

As long as Hazard was willing to change, Chelsea's left-wing offensive blade would only become sharper and sharper.

Standing on the sidelines and watching the situation on the field, Mourinho also smiled.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Inter Milan 2:0 in the first round of the International Champions Cup.

In the 86th minute of the second half, Lampard assisted Lukaku with a long pass to score Chelsea's second goal.

After the game, Li Ang took the initiative to reach out to Hazard.

After the two high-fived and hugged, Li Ang also said something in Hazard's ear, and then the two smiled and walked towards the fans together to thank the fans after the game.

This is a pretty good result.

Chelsea's players may not know, but Chelsea's coaching staff members know it very well.

If Hazard chose another rebellious path today, what kind of conversation would he face.

Mourinho naturally has the same patience for Hazard as for other young Chelsea players, but in the process of training, it is inevitable to say some serious and unpleasant words.

Fortunately, Li Ang and Hazard dealt with this problem on the court first.

Chelsea, which had won its first warm-up match, also rushed to New York with high morale.

On the afternoon of August 3, all Chelsea players met up with Ibrahimovic, who had completed the physical examination, at the hotel where they were staying in New York.

Chelsea's old players were fine, such as Essien Terry and Lampard, who were actually not much different from Ibrahimovic in football.

After becoming teammates, they can greet each other easily and happily and get familiar with each other first.

Most of Chelsea's young players naturally have to look up to Ibrahimovic, the top center forward who is very popular in football.

Of course, Li Ang is an exception.

He and Ibrahimovic tacitly bumped fists, slapped hands and hugged, which made other young Chelsea players envious.

But there is no way, Li Ang and Ibrahimovic are old teammates who have won the double championship in Serie A together.

Although they were teammates for only more than half a year before, the relationship between Ibrahimovic and Li Ang is also well-known in the football world.

Even Ibrahimovic's quick transfer to Chelsea this time is said to be due to Li Ang's persuasion.

The rumors are a bit exaggerated, but they are not groundless. At least now other Chelsea players believe in the authenticity of these rumors.

Ibrahimovic has also participated in Paris Saint-Germain's pre-season training and warm-up matches before, so his physical condition and game feeling are very good.

On the afternoon of August 3, Ibrahimovic started his first formal training after transferring to Chelsea.

It will naturally take a long time to understand the tactics and get along with his teammates.

But because he has worked with Mourinho and Li Ang before, when they got together again, Ibrahimovic understood his tactical positioning quite quickly and thoroughly.

With the game against Milan about to start, Chelsea's running-in has only three training sessions.

Therefore, many media outside speculated that in the next round of the International Champions Cup between Chelsea and Milan, Mourinho would let Ibrahimovic play again in the second half to find the feeling of cooperation with his new teammates.

Even Allegri thinks so.

Like Inter Milan's lineup, John also used more young players in this International Champions Cup.

The most eye-catching one is naturally the young player El Shaarawy who became famous last season.

However, when Chelsea's starting lineup was revealed before the game, all the media and fans who followed the game were surprised.

Because Ibrahimovic appeared directly in the starting lineup of this round of Chelsea and Milan warm-up matches!

The long-awaited greeting of old friends before the game by Milan fans finally came out.

Ibrahimovic, Leon, Abate, Abbiati, Boateng, Kaka...

Tears!

If it weren't for the damn financial crisis now, Milan's lineup should have been more luxurious!

Ibrahimovic and Leon would probably be one of them, and Pirlo would not leave...

All kinds of feelings and regrets eventually turned into a sigh from the Milan fans.

But in terms of the complexity of emotions, the emotions of all Milan fans now are more complicated than Allegri.

"These should have been my center forward and my defensive midfielder, they belong to me!"

When greeting and hugging Ibrahimovic and Li Ang, Allegri couldn't help but roar in his heart.

In other words, Mourinho didn't know what was in Uncle Jon's mind at the moment. If he knew, he might have said directly:

"Sorry, I was the first to cooperate and train these two~"

That would have been a direct lore.

Unfortunately, there is no such a live show effect in reality.

However, in this friendly match that day, the two teams directly opened up to attack each other.

The American fans at the scene saw an offensive battle at the upper and middle levels of the top European leagues!

The cheers at the scene lasted from the 6th minute of the game to the 80th minute of the second half, and there was almost no pause during the period.

Ibrahimovic and Li Ang directly became the focus of today's friendly match, because the two of them teamed up to create a total of five non-repetitive goals!

Li Ang contributed one goal and two assists, and Ibrahimovic performed a hat trick!

De Bruyne and Hazard, who were working with a center forward of Ibrahimovic's level for the first time, fully felt the joy of having a big brother to eat the ball steadily.

When Chelsea narrowly defeated AC Milan 5-4 and won the warm-up match again, the sports media in New York directly sent Li Ang and Ibrahimovic to the pages of major sports newspapers!

They called Li Ang the calmest and strongest midfield commander among the new generation of players.

Ibrahimovic was compared to a hungry beast.

Compared with the previous two or three seasons, Ibrahimovic, who now prefers to use his physical fitness to tear open the opponent's defense, is more violent and aggressive!

When Li Ang sat behind him and Hazard and De Bruyne were on the wings.

A new offensive combination with extremely destructive power and unlimited possibilities was born in Mourinho's hands!