Chapter 206: As a Little Lion, I Love Playing Games with Old Acquaintances the Most [Please Subscribe, Big Guys! ]

"Frank, I have a question, just a simple question.

As the captain said, we can lose to Tottenham in London.

If we really lose to Arsenal later, will it be a normal result?

The captain won't be angry, right?"

After the team's mobilization speech, Li Ang asked Lampard curiously while warming up on the training ground.

When Lampard heard Li Ang's "bold" question, he raised his eyebrows, then smiled and patted Li Ang on the back of his head.

"Hehe...what do you think? How about I ask John for you?"

When Li Ang heard Lampard's tone, he understood it instantly and shook his head repeatedly!

Well, he understood that maybe Terry was sincere when he scolded Tottenham.

But that slogan was indeed a pre-war mobilization rhetoric.

Today, Terry can say that we can lose to Tottenham, and next time he can naturally say that we can lose to Arsenal.

In London, although the derby is far less concerned by the media and fans than the current Manchester derby and Merseyside derby, it still has the name of a derby. Not to mention the game against Arsenal later. Even if it is against Crystal Palace, the whole Chelsea team will have to stand up! Correspondingly, when Crystal Palace and Fulham meet Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, they will also try their best to bite off points from the three London teams. It was just that a young man in Fulham’s team in the last round annoyed Li Ang. Anyway, they didn’t fight hard in the end, and the boy was taken down by Li Ang in the first half. If the Crystal Palace players had watched the game between Chelsea and Fulham in the last round, they would not do such stupid things again. On September 24, Mourinho took a rotating lineup to challenge Swindon Club away. This is the third round of the League Cup, and the opponent Swindon is just a team in the English League One. So there are very few Chelsea main players starting today. However, after learning the lesson of the near-failure in the Champions League against Basel, Mourinho still put Li Ang in the starting lineup.

When playing against such a low-level league team, Mourinho did not choose Van Ginkel in the starting lineup, but Ake and Kalas both got the chance to start.

In the game that night, Chelsea's tactics were not refined, but rather a bit rough.

Swindon originally wanted to play with two wings flying together, penetrating the side and so on.

As a result, Chelsea's Li Ang and Oscar looked for opportunities to pass the ball behind Swindon, and Lukaku ran happily today.

Anyway, Chelsea's main striker today is Lukaku.

It's up to him whether he likes to rush in the middle or pull to the side. Mourinho has given Lukaku the most free tactical rights on the field.

Two passes and one shot, this is also the data Lukaku handed over in the end.

His impact is indeed random in the low-level league.

Li Ang went down after playing half the game and got an assist.

With Oscar's double goal in the second half, Chelsea won 4-0 away from home and successfully advanced to the next round of the League Cup.

Li Ang looked at the schedule and found that they have entered the round of 16 of the League Cup.

That is to say, if they are not unlucky enough to play overtime, they only need to play four more games (the semi-finals are two-round games) to enter the League Cup final.

And compared with the experience of playing the King's Cup, Li Ang thinks the schedule of the League Cup is not bad.

At least it is not the kind of hell schedule where you play a lot of games in the front and then have to take two or three months off to play the final.

This year's League Cup final will be held in early March, and Li Ang's mind has become active.

This season, Chelsea's basic performance goal is to steadily enter the top three in the league, and then strive to win a domestic cup championship in England.

As for the Champions League?

Both Abramovich and Mourinho attach great importance to this event, so Chelsea's goal in the Champions League is to fight to the end and go as far as they can.

In this way, the FA Cup, which will only be played by Premier League teams in winter, is not worth fighting for.

Although Premier League teams still attach great importance to the FA Cup, this event also overlaps with the Champions League.

In addition, if the FA Cup is tied in one round, they will have to play in the play-offs, and the final will not be arranged until mid-May.

Li Ang personally thinks that Chelsea should give up this cup at this stage.

He himself can survive the four-line battle, and if the young players in Chelsea are rotated properly, they may also survive.

But what do the veterans say?

Now Chelsea's defense is led by veterans.

If one or two are injured in the winter schedule, it will not be a single-line collapse.

At that time, Chelsea's results in the league and the Champions League may be greatly affected by fluctuations.

Of course, how to play in various competitions is something that the coaching staff has to arrange and decide.

However, Li Ang can also talk to the big brothers in the team privately to see what they think of this FA Cup.

If it is convenient later, he can also talk to Mourinho privately about this multi-line operation in time.

After the League Cup came to an end, the battle in the Premier League reignited.

What's more coincidental is that the London derby between Tottenham and Chelsea was placed in the only early game time of the sixth round of the Premier League.

This time period is very friendly to fans in China and even the whole of Asia.

At 12:45 pm local time in London, Tottenham and Chelsea will start a passionate battle.

So Chinese fans can watch this Premier League focus battle on time at 19:45 that night.

For fans, this is of course an excellent arrangement, but for the players of the two teams, the feeling of playing the game is not particularly comfortable.

Chelsea players began to adapt to eating earlier pre-training meals two days in advance, and the training time was directly advanced to 1 to 3 pm in the afternoon.

In order to make the body excited faster at this time point.

Tottenham's preparations are similar, and both teams attach great importance to this game.

Before the game started, fans of both teams had already started shouting and fighting outside the White Hart Lane Stadium.

Fortunately, the staff and police who maintained order nearby were quite diligent and did not let Chelsea and Tottenham fans fight outside the stadium before the game started.

Such a hot derby atmosphere made Li Ang nod with satisfaction while looking around on the bus.

Right! This is a special code to be called a derby!

The previous game between Chelsea and Fulham, wasn't it just Fulham's quarrel and Chelsea ignored it?

Listening to the constant scolding and ridicule of Tottenham fans along the way, all Chelsea players finally arrived at White Hart Lane before the expected time.

According to the plan, Chelsea players will keep their distance from Tottenham players on the field, and complete their warm-ups with caution and indifference.

But in this link, Li Ang greeted a group of "old acquaintances" in the Tottenham team first.

It's not his fault, because he really saw a lot of old acquaintances, and these players were not in Tottenham before.

Soldado, Eriksson, Paulinho and Vertonghen.

Facing Li Ang's warm and friendly greetings before the game, the four of them also responded with a smile.

Among them, Eriksson was the most touched.

After he transferred to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League this season, he thought he would have to play for two or three more seasons before he had the chance to seek a transfer to several giants in La Liga.

It doesn't have to be Barcelona and Real Madrid. Eriksson can accept Atletico Madrid, Valencia or Sevilla.

Then he will have the opportunity to play against Li Ang again. At least twice a season, right?

But he didn't expect that he came to Tottenham Hotspur and Li Ang was forced to come to London by Chelsea!

Now he doesn't have to wait for two or three years. He can be in the same league with Li Ang in advance, and now they are in the same city.

So the teams and fans they play for don't get along well, but they admire each other very much and have already followed each other on social media.

But today is one of the most popular London derby games, so the two did not greet each other after a friendly greeting before the warm-up match.

Under the sun at noon, the players of the two teams who finished the warm-up trotted back to the player tunnel.

When the players on both sides followed the referee's footsteps onto the field again, the focus of the field was no longer on them.

Instead, it was Mourinho and Villas-Boas who were hugging and greeting each other on the sidelines!

Villas-Boas, who had left Mourinho for several years, no longer had the doubts and impatience he had in previous years.

The failure of Chelsea's lineup transformation made him personally experience the difficulties of coaching in a big club and the many obstacles to realizing his own tactical ideas.

It was only after being dismissed by Chelsea that the little madman realized the correctness of Mourinho's advice to him to be more patient and always maintain a learning attitude.

Now that he has seen his mentor again, the mature Villas-Boas can only thank him.

Before the bloody battle officially started, the reminiscence of the master and apprentice of the big and small madmen was a rare warm scene.

However, the two very professional head coaches and their players quickly got into their roles after the game officially started!

"Okay, the captains of both teams have finished choosing their sides. Let's take a look at the starting players of both teams today:

Chelsea's starting goalkeeper today is Czech goalkeeper Cech.

On the defensive line, Ashley Cole, Terry, David Luiz and Ivanovic are lined up.

Matic and Lampard are double defensive midfielders, Li Ang is the attacking midfielder, and Hazard and Ramirez are on his left and right sides.

Ibrahimovic is the starting center forward."

"And for the home team Tottenham, their starting goalkeeper today is French goalkeeper Lori.

The starting players on the defensive line are:

Norton, Vertonghen, Michael Dawson and Kyle Walker.

In the midfield, Dembele and Paulinho are double defensive midfielders, Eriksson is the attacking midfielder, Sigurdsson and Townsend are on both sides of Eriksson.

Spanish center forward Soldado rushes forward..."

As soon as Zhan Jun finished speaking, Zhang Lu, who was invited by Sina Sports to be the live commentator today, smiled and analyzed the intentions of the two teams' coaches' starting arrangements.

"Today Ramires replaced De Bruyne as the right midfielder, and his main tactical task was not to actively participate in the attack.

Instead, we should keep an eye on Tottenham's left back Dembele. Ah, keep an eye on this player who may launch a forward attack at any time. This player's physique and skills are first-class in the Premier League..."

After listening to Coach Zhang's talk with doubt, the Chinese fans finally waited for the official start of the game.

Accompanied by the whistle of the referee on duty, Tottenham, who took the lead, kicked off the battle with Dembele's long offensive pass after receiving Eriksson's return pass!

Soldado, who has a more symmetrical physique, obviously couldn't take advantage in the header with Matic.

After Tottenham's offensive long pass was headed back, Li Ang and Eriksson, the old acquaintances, also staged a fierce confrontation in the center circle!

Eriksson naturally He tried his best, but he was definitely not Li Ang's opponent in physical combat.

In the end, he could only watch Li Ang take the ball and turn to advance to make an offensive attempt.

Chelsea's offensive focus today was of course on the left side.

Hazard, who has been in good form recently, and Ashley Cole, who was full of energy after taking a rest, were very active at the beginning of the game.

After attracting Paulinho's defensive attention, Li Ang also decisively passed the ball to the left side.

But before Hazard could show anything, he was directly tackled by Kyle Walker and left in place!

More importantly, Li Ang and Ashley Cole's raised hands did not receive any response from the referee.

This is not a foul?

"ctmd Atkinson!"

Lampard rarely swore at the beginning of the game, and then he could only helplessly signal his teammates to return to defense first and withstand Tottenham's attack.

"It's over, Atkinson didn't wear glasses today! "

"Alas, it's a good thing that McDean wasn't the referee for today's game, otherwise Chelsea would have been even worse."

"My poor Zaza! Damn Walker!"

When Atkinson, the referee of today's game, showed how loose he was in blowing the whistle, Premier League fans in China also posted and complained!

For the Chelsea players on the field, anger and dissatisfaction certainly filled their minds at the moment.

Li Ang was also quite angry at first, but he thought about it, Atkinson's whistle was so loose today, it's impossible for him to completely favor Tottenham, right?

Thinking of this, Li Ang did what he said, and saw that Soldado just passed the ball to Sigurdsson who was pulling to the side, and he went up and made a neat sliding tackle!

This fierce sliding tackle from the front made Sigurdsson dare not be careless.

But his reaction was still a beat slow, and when he jumped, his toes caught the sole of Li Ang's shoe, and finally he rolled and fell on the grass!

The ball was shoveled to the right by Li Ang. Now it was the turn of the Tottenham players to raise their hands and roar loudly to signal the referee Atkins:

Li Ang fouled!

But Atkinson still shook his head, signaled Sigurdsson to get up quickly, and also signaled the game to continue.

Ramirez was very smart at this moment and had already taken the ball and sent a lob pass directly to the midfield and backcourt of Tottenham!

Seeing that Ibrahimovic had already surpassed Michael Dawson to complete the header ferry.

Hazard also quickly completed a shot at the edge of the Tottenham penalty area. The Tottenham fans sitting in the stands were covering their chests and exclaiming!

Li Ang finally felt comfortable.

If the scale of the whistle is outrageous, it doesn't matter, as long as it is similar to both sides, Li Ang is completely acceptable.

After the opening After these two offensive and defensive tests, the players of Tottenham and Chelsea also let go of their courage and left no room for competition!

However, the defensive players of Tottenham were facing ruthless characters like Leon and Ibrahimovic, who would take revenge immediately and completely dominate the confrontation, and were not afraid of anything.

On the other hand, the defensive players of Chelsea had to deal with Soldado and Eriksen more.

Well...

The skills and strength of the two are definitely beyond doubt.

But in terms of playing style, Soldado from La Liga and Eriksen from the Eredivisie still need to learn a lot from their teammates.

In short, after the hard fight, the lineup was completely changed, and Tottenham, which seemed to have embarked on a technical flow, did not seem to be Chelsea's opponent.

Just as Boas was staring at him fiercely When talking to today's referee Atkinson, Mourinho had already made a minor adjustment to the offensive tactics.

The referee's whistle was very loose, and Chelsea's confrontation was just in an advantageous position, so things would be easy to handle!

A hard charge!

Li Ang inserted from the middle, Ramirez and Hazard advanced on the wings, and then exploded at a 45-degree angle!

Li Ang was still the first player to understand what his head coach meant.

And for Ibrahimovic, this familiar offensive mode did not require him to adapt.

The forwards rushed to the point in the chaos, and the midfielder rushed hard, the XJBT tactics!

Ibrahimovic looked back at the sidelines at this moment, and was not even sure whether he saw Uncle Bird or Uncle Jon.

However, with Li Ang on the court, the two of them cooperated very well.

And at this moment, the thoughts in their hearts were almost exactly the same.

"It would be better if Kevin (Big Boateng) was a meat shield!"

After sighing, Li Ang and Ibrahimovic watched Hazard finally successfully tear open Kyle Walker's single defense on the left.

They rushed into Tottenham's penalty area together in tacit understanding!

The two of them were very determined to advance, and Hazard's long arc cross was also very appropriate.

So much so that Michael Dawson and Vertonghen both reacted a beat slower!

After forming a double ghost-knocking situation, Ibrahimovic used more power to suppress Michael Dawson's jump.

He didn't jump very high at the front point, and he and Michael Dawson started to fall almost at the same time.

So Li Ang, who had a very wide field of vision, relied on his stronger air retention ability to suppress Vertonghen and completed a close-range header!

Vertonghen was also unable to use his strength at this time.

The main reason was that his position was blocked by Li Ang, and he couldn't take the initiative to compete for the header behind Li Ang!

Lori tried his best to save his team by quickly moving sideways and jumping off the ground.

But his arm span was still a little short after all.

The football almost brushed his fingertips in the end and went straight into the net at the far end of Tottenham's goal!

After landing, Li Ang confirmed that the ball had crossed the line, and then excitedly rushed to the corner flag area!

Playing against old acquaintances, Li Ang really likes it the most?

The second chapter will still be released before midnight. The foodie is working hard to adjust the biological clock and try to resume the normal update time as early as possible.