Chapter 214 How Can You Say that Training Young Players Is a Slack Job? This Is Called Scientific Rotation! [Please Subscribe! ]

Li Ang was very excited, which was completely understandable.

As a midfielder, he scored his first hat trick in his career, and it was in the game against the strong rival Manchester City!

His three goals can be said to have helped Chelsea defeat Manchester City head-on, which was full of gold content, so he had reason to be excited.

At this moment, Hazard was no less excited, happily hugging Li Ang to celebrate together, with a smile on his face!

He also got two assists in this game, how could he not be happy?

Just now, he just made a simple pass to Li Ang, but he didn't expect Li Ang to break into the dragon's den and shoot again!

Before this game, you have to ask Hazard.

Does he want to shine and pass the ball to help his teammates score, or does he want to be like Busquets in the past, pass the ball to Messi and watch Messi score a goal?

He will definitely choose the former.

But making such a choice does not prevent him from saying it's really good in his heart now!

This picked up assist is so damn good!

With the two assists in this game, his six assists have tied the number of assists in the team with De Bruyne and Li Ang.

This has greatly boosted Hazard's fighting spirit.

It's not that he is comparing himself with others, but as the assist king of Chelsea last season, Hazard still has his own pride in this regard.

Maybe he will lose to De Bruyne and Li Ang in the assist data in the end, but at least he has tried hard and has kept pace with these two teammates.

Such healthy competition will undoubtedly promote the overall growth of the three of them.

The three of them are also aware of this.

So after De Bruyne celebrated with his teammates, he also smiled and looked at Hazard, and nodded to each other tacitly.

After all, passing assists is also De Bruyne's technical strength, and his competitive spirit has always been strong, so he will naturally take the initiative to participate in the assist competition with his teammates!

In comparison, Li Ang's competitive awareness in this regard is much shallower.

In other words, he does not regard the current Hazard and De Bruyne as his opponents.

His ambition is even bigger.

He chose two players who had super data in the past seasons of the Premier League as the objects he wanted to compete and surpass!

That is Lampard in the 09-10 season, and Henry in the 02-03 season!

The former scored 22 goals and 14 assists in the 09-10 Premier League, and the latter was even more exaggerated in the 02-03 season with super data of 24+20!

You know, this is the data of a single league.

Being able to score double 20 plus in a single league can only mean that this player has full dominance!

After coming to the Premier League, Li Ang set himself the goal of adding up the data of all events in a single season to double 20 plus.

But now he finds that he has a broader space for data growth, and more potential possibilities that he himself does not know!

Playing until now, the 9th round of the Premier League, after performing this hat trick.

Li Ang found that his data has reached the point of 7 goals and 6 assists in the Premier League, and 9 goals and 6 assists in three-line events!

Admittedly, his goal burst is not as strong as the data reflects.

Maybe in the following period of time, if his shooting feeling is not right, he may fall into a goal drought of three or four games, or even five or six games.

Hat tricks are not something that can be played every now and then.

But Li Ang still sees hope in himself to surpass the data of the two Premier League predecessors!

It is precisely because the data seems insurmountable that the challenge is more interesting.

At this moment, Li Ang, who completed the third celebration of the whole game with his teammates, was in a hot mood!

He was not satisfied. He wanted to climb to a higher peak and stand in the position where the two predecessors stood to appreciate the scenery with a different taste.

So after the game started again, Li Ang's offensive desire did not diminish at all.

He was like a hungry offensive beast, still looking for space to insert or pass the ball between the sad Manchester City defenders.

In the 77th minute of the second half, Li Ang's bold ground pass successfully helped Lukaku, who replaced Ibrahimovic, get a half-single opportunity!

But this time, Lukaku, who was closely guarded by Kompany, did not get any chance to switch to the goal.

And Li Ang, who saw Lukaku finally kick the ball away with his right foot in front of Manchester City's penalty area, immediately put on a mask of pain on his face.

"Damn it! This kid must practice his right foot hard in the future, practice hard!"

Knowing that he did not shoot well, Lukaku also shrank his neck and gave Li Ang a slightly apologetic thumbs up.

But at this moment, other Chelsea players and Mourinho did not care about Lukaku wasting opportunities.

After all, it was not a 1:0 or 2:1 score. Now they are leading Manchester City 3:0. Lukaku has performed well recently. Let him be happy once~

This excellent offensive opportunity was also Chelsea's last threatening attack in this game.

Li Ang and Hazard were both replaced by Mourinho in the last 10 minutes.

After enjoying the cheers and applause from the Chelsea fans alone.

Li Ang and his teammates were also laughing and joking on the bench, waiting for the whistle to end the game!

Guardiola finally took off his serious expression until the whistle sounded.

After half-kind and half-helpless greeting and hugging Mourinho, Guardiola immediately walked towards his disciples.

This defeat was not a big defeat in terms of hard power.

Manchester City lost the ball too early, and Li Ang's outbreak today was not Chelsea's normal offensive means.

So it is better to go back and review immediately to find out the shortcomings in the tactical arrangement.

Guardiola knew that his more important job at this moment was to let his disciples understand that they could afford to lose and their mentality should be calm.

Don't deny their success in the past eight league games because of this defeat.

Mourinho doesn't need to do any psychological construction for his players at all.

Because he is strict enough in his usual management and his attitude is strict enough.

So at this moment when the whole team should celebrate, he never puts on airs, but will personally participate and encourage his players to enjoy the good taste of victory!

At this moment, Mourinho is the kindest teacher in the eyes of Terry and Lampard, and a good father in the eyes of Essien.

Chelsea's young players also let go of their psychological pressure, and gathered around Mourinho to take credit and joke with him.

The picture of the Chelsea team laughing and celebrating was directly on the front page of major sports media in England the next day.

"Nine rounds unbeaten, eight wins! Mourinho's perfect answer sheet at the beginning of the season! 》

"Real Madrid lost money, Li Ang's real value should be 120 million! 》

"Abramovich laughed heartily, 80 million is also a bargain"

"The last 1 goal and 4 assists, Li Ang's season data is in double digits! 》

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On this day, all kinds of British media and newspapers were basically praising Mourinho, Li Ang and Chelsea's performance in the new season.

That was so exaggerated.

Those who didn't know thought that Chelsea had booked the Premier League championship trophy this season before the ten rounds of the league were finished.

After celebrating happily last night, Chelsea's players returned to the training base this afternoon.

No matter how exaggerated the newspapers outside are, they can hardly feel happy at this moment.

Because the damn League Cup will start tomorrow night!

Yes, after the bloody battle with Manchester City, the Chelsea team only has about a day and a half to rest.

This schedule is no longer a question of whether it is hell or not, it is obvious that they want to kill the Premier League players!

The key is that Chelsea can't complain to the FA this time.

Because Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham, the top teams in the Premier League, are all the same.

All have to rest for a day or two after the league and then have to fight in the League Cup again.

In comparison, Chelsea's opponents are pretty good.

They drew the Black Cats Sunderland in the knockout round of the League Cup 16 to 8.

Compared with the knockout rounds of Manchester United playing Arsenal and Manchester City playing Newcastle, Chelsea's round is too easy.

Sunderland currently ranks second from the bottom in the Premier League with one win, one draw and seven losses. Based on their performance, they are at best at the level of a team competing for the play-offs in the English Championship.

However, in order to enter the quarterfinals of the English League Cup more safely, Mourinho finally chose to use some rotations and leave half of the main players to challenge Sunderland away.

After 90 minutes of fierce battle, Chelsea defeated Sunderland 3:1 away with goals from Li Ang, Lukaku and Lampard, and entered the final quarterfinals of this season's English League Cup!

It was Gary Cahill's injury in the second half of the game that made Mourinho feel annoyed again.

Sunderland's tenacious hard top aggravated the physical fatigue of Chelsea's main players who insisted on playing in this game.

Even Li Ang, who had not had time to use the physical recovery potion, received a serious warning that he needed to rest during the team doctor's examination after the game.

Mourinho was at a loss now, and quickly asked Kalas, Ake, and Van Ginkel to work with the remaining Chelsea rotation players.

Three days later, it was the afternoon of November 2, when the opening match of the 10th round of the Premier League started.

Mourinho directly sent a starting lineup consisting of almost pure rotation players and young players from the youth training team to challenge the Magpies Newcastle away.

Leon, Hazard, Lampard and other Chelsea main players were in the team's 18-man roster.

But they only played the role of a pre-match smoke bomb and did not get a chance to play as a substitute.

And Chelsea finally ushered in their first defeat of the new season at St. James' Park.

1-3, even if Van Ginkel and Kalas tried their best, their current strength level is still incomparable to the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League.

Ivanovic once again successfully reversed and headed in a header, but it was of no avail.

After losing this league game, Chelsea's record became 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, exactly the same as Arsenal, which was following closely behind them before.

However, with a more solid defense, Chelsea is still ranked first in the Premier League with a larger goal difference advantage.

And Mourinho still performed exceptionally well in the post-match press conference.

"Letting go? What did I let go? You are slandering, your question is very dangerous!"

"Everyone knows that I have never been reluctant to give young players more training opportunities."

"No head coach can guarantee that when he gives young players more playing opportunities and performances, he can still maintain a stable record."

"But even if the results fluctuate, I think it is necessary and worth it, because they are the future of Chelsea, and we have high expectations for these young players."

"So please don't say this is a let-down, it's very unfair to our young guys."

"This is just a simple scientific rotation, it's reasonable!"