Chapter 253 I Don’t Want to Say that Chelsea Will Win the Championship in Advance, but This Is the Fact [Please Subscribe! ]

"Here it comes! Hazard passes the ball after the breakthrough! Ibrahimovic didn't shoot directly... pass it again! Li Ang-!!! The ball is in!

In the 13th minute of the first half! Li Ang helped Chelsea score the first goal! The iconic shot in the penalty area! A veritable bottle opener in a tough battle!"

In the studio of Sina Sports, as Li Ang's goal that broke the deadlock was born, the enthusiasm of Zhan Jun and Coach Zhang was completely ignited!

"Still can't keep up. Toulalan didn't make any defensive mistakes, but he was completely left behind by Li Ang in terms of speed!

Hey! Li Ang is so smart. When he met Fernandinho, he fought against him, and when he met Toulalan, he competed in speed!"

"So Mourinho now dares to let Li Ang have enough power to make a late run. Li Ang has also learned very quickly this season with Lampard. When it comes to the ability of midfielders to make late runs and score goals, Lampard is a leader."

"Hehe~ Anyway, Li Ang has never lacked excellent teachers on his way to growth. Look at this, Xabi Alonso, Pirlo, and now Lampard. Anyway, Li Ang can learn some skills from them..."

The two talked in the studio, and the fans in China began to look forward to Li Ang's final number of goals this season.

As for the Chelsea fans at Stamford Bridge, they are more looking forward to waiting for better news from Manchester City after successfully defeating Arsenal in this round.

Liverpool, currently ranked third in the Premier League, has played one more round and is 10 points behind Chelsea.

In the eyes of Chelsea fans, there is not much difference between Liverpool and Arsenal, and neither of them can pose much threat to Chelsea's championship this season.

So the most important thing now is to see when Manchester City, which has played one less round like Chelsea and is eight points behind Chelsea, will fall behind.

It has been almost four years since Chelsea won the Premier League championship, and Chelsea fans are still eager to use a Premier League championship trophy to announce the team's resurgence.

Not only them, but every coach and player of Chelsea can't hide their excitement at this moment.

It's still early to the final victory of the season.

But in the final sprint, removing a tough roadblock first will bring you one step closer to the championship trophy.

Not to mention more, even if Manchester City draws one more game!

As long as Manchester City and Chelsea's points are pulled to 10 points, Chelsea only needs to grit their teeth and win 4 more games after winning Arsenal in this round to win the championship in advance!

This is a real and tangible goal. How can Chelsea fans not be excited at this moment?

As for Arsenal, who just lost a goal, they have been ignored by most Chelsea fans.

The fanatical atmosphere at Stamford Bridge also further affected Chelsea's players on the field.

However, Li Ang, who had just finished listening to the celebration with a swagger, turned around and hugged his teammates, but once again took the initiative to ring the alarm bell for them.

"Keep your head clear, brothers, we just scored the first goal of this game. Arsenal is fully capable of returning this ball in the next game. We have to continue to suppress them while the momentum is still there!"

Li Ang's speech made many Chelsea players on the field sober up a little.

And the tactical gestures made by Mourinho next made the entire Chelsea team quickly unify their tactical thinking.

Wenger did not lose his composure at this moment. He originally planned to try to lure the enemy deep into the field and then play a tactic of quick counterattack on the wing.

After all, the main player on the front line was absent due to injury today, and Giroud's presence made Arsenal very suitable for long-pass counterattacks, so he took out a formation of five midfielders.

But at least at this moment, Li Ang's goal made Wenger sober up. Simply piling up the number of midfielders cannot improve the quality of central defense accordingly.

Even if Podolski and Chamberlain are more active in returning to defense, they are not full-time defensive midfielders after all, and they are good at playing offense.

Or what Arsenal is good at is to suppress the opponent on the offensive end to get more offensive rounds.

Forcing defense and counterattack is not Arsenal's specialty.

This is determined by the tactical tone of the entire team.

After all, the tactical drills you usually do and the cooperation between players are all based on the tactical tone of smooth offense.

It is basically unrealistic to suddenly change the style of play and require it to be effective.

So the professor who figured it out soon realized that he was hesitant in his pre-match tactical arrangements.

They were going to fight hard in this game, so they didn't need to think too much. After all, if they had to fight to the death, they should at least compete with their opponents in the field they are most familiar with.

Sometimes thinking too much will only add to the constraints of handcuffs and ankle chains.

So after the game resumed, Chelsea's players on the field and Mourinho off the field quickly discovered the tactical changes of the entire Arsenal team.

It is unlikely that the tactical thinking was completely reversed in an instant and the momentum of the entire team changed drastically.

After all, the professor is not Uncle Jon and later Qi Xuanzong, he does not play metaphysics.

But there is no doubt that after Wenger learned his lesson and made up his mind to attack Chelsea, the overall morale of his players really improved!

Mourinho's tactical change was to shift from seizing the initiative to attack to actively disrupt Arsenal's counterattack rhythm.

Li Ang originally planned to command his teammates to press Arsenal in a short period of time.

But after seeing the momentum of Arsenal's midfield and frontcourt pressing together after the restart, he did not take it too seriously.

After a little thought, Li Ang directly gave up the idea of ​​high pressure to interrupt Arsenal's offensive rhythm.

Chelsea still contracted the formation, and under Li Ang's command, Hazard and De Bruyne also returned to the center line. Lampard returned to the top of the arc in the middle circle of his own half.

Li Ang himself returned directly to the defensive midfielder position, Matic was on the left and he was on the right.

The whole Chelsea team changed the formation smoothly and changed to the classic 4231 formation.

Hazard, Lampard and De Bruyne directly formed Chelsea's first interception line.

Behind them, Matic and Li Ang firmly locked the flank area of ​​their own half.

For Arsenal, who likes to use the opponent's flank space to play pass-cut cooperation, this can no longer be simply described as uncomfortable.

You should know that Li Ang is less and less likely to appear in the defensive midfielder position for pure defense.

Generally, if he does not play as a defensive midfielder, then Matic is the first defensive midfielder in the Premier League.

If he takes the initiative to play as a defensive midfielder, he is the first, and Matic is the second.

So now Arsenal's offense can be seen as forcing the top two defensive midfielders in the Premier League to work together.

Looking at this scene in the live camera, the Gunners fans don't know whether they should feel uncomfortable or proud.

There are Premier League teams that are worthy of Li Ang's active defense, and they are becoming less and less.

But Chelsea was forced to play in the strongest defensive form, and Arsenal looked like they would not have a good chance to attack in the first half.

In the first half of the league, Arsenal, who fought Chelsea with all their main players, could not do anything to Chelsea who defended stubbornly.

Now Arsenal has also given up a main center forward.

If Giroud could successfully pry open Chelsea's defensive gate, then Giroud would not be playing for Arsenal now, and the team that would be more suitable for him should be Bayern or Real Madrid.

Li Ang and Matic made the wall of sighs in front of Chelsea's penalty area reappear.

That is, Lampard is not at his peak, otherwise Chelsea would not only have defense at this time.

Even if Lampard returns to the level of four years ago, Chelsea can directly open Arsenal in the counterattack!

Or in the defensive midfielder position, if Chelsea still has an 80% peak Essien, Li Ang can now break through Arsenal's central defense line by replacing Lampard's position and role.

Unfortunately, such a midfield combination may be too abnormal, and even God can't stand it.

So it makes the peak periods of Leon, Matic, Lampard and Essien staggered.

Just like when Leon was in Real Madrid and Milan, his partners were both past their peak, Long Ge and Master Pi.

Mourinho was sitting in the coaching seat at this moment, watching the two teams on the field fiercely competing in the rhythm of offense and defense, his eyes were focused, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Compared with his calmness, Mr. Wenger stood on the sidelines with his hands folded, looking a little anxious.

In the 23rd minute of the first half, Chamberlain received a through ball from Cazorla after dribbling and breaking through, and successfully went to the bottom, sending Arsenal's first threatening cross in the first half.

Giroud gritted his teeth to withstand Terry's confrontation and interference, and barely shook his head to touch the football.

Unfortunately, under Cech's focused save, Giroud's shot was still lifted out of the bottom line with one hand.

All the Arsenal fans at the scene sighed in frustration. Wenger also closed his eyes and frowned, clenched his fists, and then shook his head and slowly loosened them.

Five minutes later, Podolski received Giroud's header on the penalty area line, and after a slight adjustment, he shot directly from a distance and hit the goal!

Unfortunately, the football slightly rotated inward and missed the near corner post of the goal. Podolski roared to the sky unwillingly, and the Gunners fans sighed again.

After these two unsuccessful attacks, Arsenal fell into a repeated rhythm of horizontal passes and back passes.

The occasional passes that could be sent to the wing could only be converted into Terry and Gary Cahill's clearance data, because it was too difficult to penetrate into the Chelsea penalty area from the front.

In just ten minutes after retreating, Li Ang had already achieved 3 successful steals and two successful headers.

Matic's defensive efficiency on his side was similar.

Now Arsenal only has one player who is in decent form, Cazorla, who can be called a dribbler.

For players like Chamberlain and Podolski, if there is no space for them to rush, their threats will be greatly reduced.

The key is that the threat level of their attack on the wing is far less than that of Walcott, but the frequent injuries of the little tiger make it difficult for him to play a full season.

Speaking of it, after entering 2010, Wenger and Arsenal's luck has been surprisingly bad every year.

After Fabregas and Van Persie played their peak season performances, they broke up with the team one after another and left the team to pursue the dream of winning the championship.

Wenger patched up, although he was still able to lead Arsenal into the top four of the Premier League and qualify for the Champions League, but the Champions League knockout draw in recent years was extremely unfavorable to Arsenal.

You said to compete in the league, but the injuries in the Arsenal team every year are the most serious among the Premier League giants.

So sometimes you can't really say that Wenger and Arsenal are at this level.

With a large number of young players who are talented but full of injuries.

It is really not easy for Mr. Wenger to stay up until now.

Li Ang was deeply sympathetic to this, but when it was time to take strong measures, he would not be soft-hearted at all.

Arsenal kept trying and making mistakes on the wing, looking for the possibility of threatening the attack, but also constantly giving Chelsea opportunities to let Chelsea find out their offensive trump card.

Previously, Chelsea's two wings gave opportunities, and most of them were Bertrand's side that missed people, allowing Chamberlain to successfully pass the ball from the bottom.

But Li Ang knew that although Bertrand usually preferred to play on the offensive end, once he got serious, his single defense ability was also ranked among the top in the entire Premier League left-back group.

And who could make him nervous and serious all of a sudden?

That was of course Mourinho, the iron-blooded head of Chelsea who was standing on the sidelines and had already begun to stare at him!

Li Ang was waiting to see the show, and Bertrand, after being named and yelled at by Mourinho twice, really didn't dare to waste anymore.

In the 34th minute of the first half, Cazorla wanted to replicate the previous tacit passing and running cooperation with Chamberlain and force the attack on Bertrand's side.

As a result, this time Chamberlain just started to move, Bertrand blocked the position in advance, turned around and ran wildly, and shoveled the ball before the ball passed him, and shoveled the ball to Terry who came to meet him!

Li Ang and Matic immediately pulled away and turned around and raised their hands.

Terry passed the ball to Matic who was closer to him first, and Li Ang immediately started to move forward tacitly.

Matic did not force Li Ang this time, because he saw that at the moment when Li Ang moved forward, Arsenal's Toulalan and Arteta standing on the center line immediately moved closer to Li Ang.

So this time he passed the ball directly to Lampard who was near the center line.

After the genie turned around with the ball, he did not carry it for a long time. Seeing that Hazard had already arrived and started to speed up, he directly passed the ball.

Hazard, who was galloping on the left side, was quite confident when facing Sagna again.

As the English dribbler so far this season, Hazard also has corresponding tactical privileges in Chelsea.

When he is not too sticky to the ball, his breakthrough attempts are allowed by the Chelsea team and Mourinho.

After all, no matter how strict the tactical design is, it also needs the flash of inspiration of a talented player to add uncertainty threats.

And this time Hazard did not disappoint his teammates.

From slowing down from the outside to changing direction and accelerating after dribbling, Hazard only took less than two seconds to pass Sagna again!

However, in the rib area about 5 meters away from the Arsenal penalty area, Hazard once again chose a decisive cross pass.

The football passed Lampard who followed up in the middle and also passed Toulalan who returned to defense.

Li Ang was in the best position to receive the ball.

However, at this moment, there was a Gibbs who was eyeing him from the inside position in front of him, so the other Arsenal defenders were still relatively relieved.

At least Leon would not be able to shoot directly, and Gibbs had enough time to commit a tactical foul.

But when they saw Leon's next move, countless Gunners fans in front of the TV couldn't help but exclaimed!

Leon faced Hazard's quick pass without stopping the ball or adjusting.

After he got in, he quickly swung his right calf, tightened his arch, and pushed the ball into the Arsenal penalty area!

Koscielny was still directing the positions of his teammates on the back line. Gibbs, who was guarding Leon, and he had never expected that Leon would dare to pass the ball so boldly!

Another thing was that Leon's ground pass was too powerful.

While quickly penetrating the Arsenal defense interception, it also made it difficult for Ibrahimovic in the penalty area to reach the pass.

Of course, Leon dared to pass like this, and there were reasons for him.

In order not to delay the momentum of the counterattack, sometimes necessary risky attempts can be made.

Moreover, Li Ang has done this kind of pass-and-run cooperation with Ibrahimovic or Lukaku more than once in normal training.

Lukaku will most likely miss Li Ang's strong through pass, after all, there will always be some problems with his position in the middle.

Ibrahimovic was unable to adjust the ball most of the time because his burst speed had dropped a lot compared to when he was young.

But Ibrahimovic had a good sense of position, and he was tall and had long legs. Although he couldn't get the ball off, he could always complete unexpected forced shots.

At this moment, Ibrahimovic took the tall Mertesacker from the left side of the penalty area to complete a diagonal insertion to the middle of the penalty area at the moment when Li Ang sent a strong straight pass.

Ibrahimovic was not panicked at all when he was about to fail to keep up with the speed of the football.

He suddenly threw himself out while running, and then he stretched out his body as much as possible and stretched out his right leg. Try to poke the ball with your toes!

Mertesacker was numb at this moment!

Don't say whether his reaction was faster than Ibrahimovic. Even if he could react, his body flexibility and agility were not as exaggerated as Ibrahimovic!

Szczesny rushed to the far corner of the goal in a flash, but after he jumped out, he was horrified to find that Ibrahimovic had directly poked the ball to the middle of the goal!

When the ball hit the net behind Szczesny again without any suspense, the Polish goalkeeper angrily slapped the grass!

And in their penalty area, Ibrahimovic had already hugged Li Ang who rushed up and roared happily!

2-0!

For other teams, this is not a safe enough score.

But for Chelsea, such a score is enough for them to win this game.

After seeing Ibrahimovic score Chelsea's second goal with his own eyes, Wenger sat on the coaching bench without looking back, and looked much more relaxed.

Arsenal did not make any tactical adjustments until the halftime break.

Mourinho did not make any tactical adjustments until the second half of the game started.

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea replaced Lampard with Ramirez, further strengthening the midfield's strangling and intercepting ability.

In the 56th minute of the second half, Wenger also made a substitution adjustment. He replaced Podolski, who performed mediocre today, with the young winger Gnabry.

But just three minutes after he made the substitution, Mourinho replaced Hazard, who played very well today, with Kalas who had just finished warming up.

Azpilicueta moved inwards and formed a three-man central defense with Terry and Gary Cahill.

The newly-appeared Kalas was matched up with Gnabry, who was just sent on by Wenger. Mourinho did not hide his intention to make the substitution.

At this moment, De Bruyne also retreated to the midfield. Chelsea, whose formation changed to 541, was full of defensive players in their own half.

After another ten minutes, the professor could not sit still and replaced his last offensive trump card on the bench, the young center forward Sanogo.

In this way, Arsenal had two tall center forwards over 1.9 meters tall on the field, but the price was that their midfield defense was further weakened.

Turan left the field, and Wenger, who was desperate, almost let Mertesacker play as a center forward, wanting to use three battering rams to directly hit Chelsea's defense system.

At this time, Mourinho did not hesitate to let David Luiz, who had returned from injury, warm up fully and go on the field!

De Bruyne was finally replaced. At this moment, Chelsea, which had four central defenders in the penalty area, also surprised countless neutral fans!

But this is also Mourinho!

In order to win the victory safely, he can withstand the pressure of public opinion and defend at the last moment.

Even Ibrahimovic actively ran back to his own half to assist in defense in the last game time!

This crazy scene made countless Gunners fans exhausted.

When the referee finally blew the whistle to end the game, Arsenal's players on the field and Gunners fans in front of the TV even felt relieved.

This defensive torture battle that Chelsea had against them was finally over!

Well, their hope of making a final effort to win the Premier League championship was also wiped out by Chelsea.

But after trying their best, facing the reality of the absence of the main center forward, the Arsenal team had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of failure.

After the game, the Chelsea team celebrated for a long time at home.

In response to the interview request from Sky Sports reporters, Li Ang also made a confident statement that was destined to stir up the Premier League public opinion.

"This season is not easy. We have many opponents. You have also seen that compared with Manchester United's easy championship last year, the competitors we have to face this season are obviously stronger.

Guardiola's Manchester City is not easy to deal with. They are still biting us.

But fortunately, after winning this game, we already have the foundation to win the championship in advance!

Yes, although I don't want to arrogantly say that Chelsea will win the championship in advance...

But this is already a fact!"

Have a meal, and come back to code the third update of the day.