Chapter 267: A Great Victory in the First Battle, the Road to the Formation of the Space Car

If Li Ang positioned himself as a midfield nanny last season, and he had to play one-on-two on both ends of the offense and defense.

Then this season, at least in the pre-season training and warm-up matches, Li Ang has fully enjoyed the joy of being a midfield core who only needs to take the ball to attack.

If it were another core player, when Kroos had just joined the team, he would definitely have to observe him again and would not easily give up the dominance of organizing the team.

But Li Ang is completely different. He is so confident in Kroos that Mourinho was surprised.

However, Li Ang's generous concession of power made it much easier for Mourinho to transform Kroos' position.

Although Kroos played in multiple midfield positions in Bayern in the previous few seasons, he was mainly active in the number 10 position.

On the stage of this summer's World Cup, Kroos showed a very solid and outstanding organizational skills in the number 8 position.

His ability to pass threatening balls forward is quite outstanding.

But Mourinho is more concerned about his almost abnormal passing success rate and outstanding overall vision in the midfield and backcourt organization.

If we simply look at the organizational skills, Li Ang is still a little behind Kroos in long passes and field vision, but the gap between the two in short passes is not too big.

The areas where Li Ang is far ahead of Kroos are the mobility of running positions, confrontation ability and forward attacking methods in the game.

If Lampard had not reached the first-class level in football in terms of backward organization last season, Mourinho would not have let Li Ang organize the offense from both ends.

Kroos is one of the best midfield organizers in today's football. Although he is young, he is already the core of the world champion's midfield.

So it is completely feasible to fix Kroos at the No. 8 position in the new season and let him be mainly responsible for Chelsea's midfield and backcourt pass scheduling to further liberate Li Ang.

And Kroos is also quite able to run. His playing style is chic and calm, but not weak.

On the defensive end, his running coverage is enough to relieve Matic's defensive pressure.

At least compared to the aging Lampard, Kroos can make a greater contribution on the defensive end.

For Kroos, it is not difficult to change from the 10th position to the fixed 8th position.

It is not difficult for Mourinho to ask him to focus more on defense than in the past in the new tactics.

On the one hand, he is capable enough to undertake these tactical tasks, and Mourinho has not made unrealistic demands.

In the final analysis, he saw the ambition to pursue honor in the Chelsea team, and the club and new teammates did give him enough care and respect.

As soon as he came, Li Ang gave him the position of the core of the organization, and the young teammates in the team were also easy to talk to.

There are many team-building activities. Li Ang often organizes the whole team to have dinner or leisure and entertainment activities together. Everyone has a share. Li Ang speaks well and he likes the atmosphere in the Chelsea team very much!

At least compared to the situation in the Bayern team before, except for Erwa, there were basically few old teammates who liked to take him out to play. Chelsea really gave him the feeling of a big family.

Now, when it comes to honors, Kroos has everything. He has won the Grand Slam of club honors and the World Cup at the national team level.

Kroos is already quite satisfied with the training and competition life without discrimination at Chelsea.

Of course, Kroos is not completely optimistic about his new career at Chelsea.

The competition in the Premier League is very fierce, and Kroos has made mental preparations. He does not think he can adapt perfectly to an unfamiliar league at the beginning of the season.

He has always been very cautious, so before the official start of the new season, he has made plans and decided to be conservative and do his own organizational work.

And his midfield partner in the new season, Li Ang, has never thought about what to do if Kroos is not adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League.

After all, the two have played against each other many times, and Li Ang is very clear about Kroos's hard power.

The Premier League focuses on confrontation, but in the Premier League, confrontation is not the most important part.

It mainly depends on the adaptation to the offensive and defensive rhythm.

Last season, Kroos played the fastest offensive and defensive football in Europe with Bayern.

They have played enough Premier League teams in the past few years, and Kroos has rich experience in playing against Premier League teams.

Coupled with Li Ang's understanding and filter of Kroos in his memory, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Ang may trust him more than Kroos himself now.

Regardless of whether the players are anxiously looking forward to it or full of confidence, as time goes by, the new Premier League season has quietly arrived again.

On the afternoon of August 17, Manchester United, which decisively dismissed Moyes and hired the famous coach Van Gaal in the summer window, opened the curtain of the 2014-2015 Premier League with Swansea.

Before the start of this league, not only Manchester United fans, but also most of the neutral Premier League fans thought that Manchester United would easily win Swansea.

After all, in the recent summer transfer window, Manchester United spent 150 million pounds to introduce many young talents and well-known stars in the football world.

It has to be said that the support for Van Gaal by Manchester United's senior management this summer is still in place.

The successive joining of Luke Shaw, Herrera, Di Maria and Falcao also made Manchester United look much stronger.

Except for the goalkeeper position, Manchester United introduced new players in the three central lines of the team this summer.

In terms of value, Manchester United beat Swansea in seconds.

But it was at this time when the public opinion before the game was one-sided and Manchester United fans were very confident.

Swansea used two beautiful goals at Old Trafford to directly give Manchester United a black start in the new season!

Well, Di Maria and Van Persie are injured and cannot play for Manchester United for the time being. It can barely be regarded as a legitimate reason for Manchester United fans to lose.

The two more important players on the team's offensive line are not there.

But the key is on the defensive end. How can Manchester United always let Swansea find opportunities to counterattack?

Van Gaal's three-center-back formation in the game was obviously a failed experiment.

And his tactical intentions are not very clear.

Is it to focus on Manchester United's traditional two-wing offensive football, or to play a big pass and control?

Anyway, the fans who watched this game and a group of Premier League players and coaches can't see it clearly.

Of course, the Premier League season has just begun, and it is normal to have some tactical surprises occasionally.

Premier League fans may laugh, but few of them assert that Manchester United will not be able to enter the top six of the Premier League this season, just like last season.

What a huge sum of money is the transfer fee of 150 million pounds!

And Van Gaal is several levels higher than Moyes in terms of reputation, and he is recognized as one of the top coaches in the football world.

Not to mention that he has led Manchester United to rebuild and win the Premier League championship in the past two seasons, at least entering the top four of the Premier League is still stable.

After Manchester United's opening black upset game, there are 5 more Premier League first round games to start on August 17.

Everton challenged the newly promoted Leicester City away, but was tied 2-2 at home.

Tottenham fought for 90 minutes away and finally won the Hammers West Ham United by one goal.

Arsenal only won Crystal Palace 2-1.

The remaining three Premier League powerhouses will have to wait until August 18 to appear.

Chelsea's first Premier League match this year was very comfortable. Although they had to play away, their opponent was the newly promoted Burnley.

On the afternoon of August 18, Liverpool and Manchester City took the lead and finally achieved a 1-0 result.

This is a good start, but it is not too thorough.

Up to now, in the first round of the Premier League, the winning team has only won by one goal.

And Chelsea, who played the last game, naturally received the scrutiny and wait-and-see of almost all Premier League fans.

Chelsea played many big scores in the pre-season warm-up matches, and it seems that the offensive firepower is much stronger than last season.

But the warm-up match is just a warm-up match. It has reference value for the performance of the main game, but it cannot be trusted too much.

Now most Premier League fans are also very curious.

If Chelsea can win in the final game of the first round of the Premier League, can they break the strange phenomenon that the winning teams in the first round of the Premier League are all one-goal wins?

Under the expectant gaze of countless fans around the world, Chelsea's main players completed the pre-match parade ceremony with Burnley at Turf Moor Stadium.

At 3 pm local time, the final match of the first round of the Premier League officially started.

Burnley, who kicked off first, launched their best 442 starting formation and launched the first offensive test against Chelsea.

From this, it can be seen that Burnley's playing style is still relatively unrestrained. As a newly promoted team, they are not afraid of Chelsea, the Premier League champion last season.

It can be said that courage is commendable.

But after facing Chelsea, who started with a 433 formation today, the midfield advantage that the Burnley team imagined before the game did not play out at all.

In other words, when Hazard and De Bruyne took the initiative to shrink back to both sides of the center line at the beginning of the game, Burnley did not face Chelsea's three midfielders, but five midfielders!

With enough substitutes this season, Ibrahimovic's attitude in returning to defense is also more positive.

Compared with the quality of personal data, the fact that he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Champions League again last season is more concerning to Ibrahimovic.

Although his game state is still very good, as he gets older, Ibrahimovic's desire for the Champions League title is getting stronger.

After all, no one can say whether Ibrahimovic will still have the strength to start at Chelsea in one or two seasons.

So while he is still in good shape, Ibrahimovic also wants to win at least one Champions League title as a starting main force.

Compared with when he was young, Ibrahimovic's arrogance has been reduced a lot. Now Ibrahimovic doesn't care about making more changes to further integrate into Mourinho's tactical system.

Mourinho and all Chelsea players have seen his changes.

Li Ang is absolutely satisfied with this. After all, Ibrahimovic has taken the lead in defense in the team, and the other younger Chelsea offensive players will only work harder.

Now Chelsea can also participate in pressure defense and ball possession like Bayern Munich last season!

Burnley's players were a little slow to react, and they only felt that Chelsea's midfield, which had a similar number of players, quickly overwhelmed them!

Whether attacking or defending, Chelsea always had a numerical advantage over them in local areas.

Offensive transfers always hit Chelsea's strong defensive side, and when Chelsea counterattacked, their defensive players could never stop Chelsea's smooth forward passes!

Neutral fans watching the game on TV soon discovered that Li Ang was now in an aggressive position.

In other words, compared to last season's slightly cautious forward attack, Li Ang is now in a completely unrestrained and passionate state on the offensive end.

His super running and frontcourt passing ability have been amplified by Mourinho's new tactics.

Whether it is Hazard's running diagonal insertion or Ibrahimovic's direct shot after getting the ball inside and outside the penalty area, they are more threatening.

And De Bruyne ambushed on the right side of the midfield, and the variation of the straight pass sent forward from time to time also caused Li Ang's back-insertion attack to cause Burnley fans to scream in fear!

Kroos's cautious and safe organization of the kick helped Matic reduce more pressure on the defensive end.

If this game was played against a strong team at the top of the Premier League, Li Ang would also retreat more actively to defend.

But it was just a game against a newly promoted team, and Li Ang's more energy on the offensive end was the more correct way to win.

Chelsea's first goal in the first half came quickly.

After testing Burnley's defensive strength today, in the 18th minute of the first half, Li Ang decisively dribbled the ball and disrupted Burnley's defensive deployment.

After dribbling past Burnley's central defender Shaker, Li Ang passed the ball to Ibrahimovic, who was already unguarded at the back of the penalty area, and the latter shot directly into the far corner!

After breaking the deadlock in the game, Chelsea continued to exert its strength steadily on the offensive end.

Burnley, who lost the initiative in rhythm, had to continue to speed up.

But the facts soon proved that passively speeding up and attacking with the opponent without the strength to control the ball in the midfield was not a good tactical choice.

After losing the ball, facing Chelsea's quick counterattack, Burnley's defense collapsed after pressing forward.

With Li Ang and Hazard as the counterattack spearheads, the two led other Chelsea offensive players to quickly break down Burnley's back line!

This time, after Li Ang accelerated past Burnley's midfielder David Jones, he did not choose to pass the ball to his teammates.

He made a slight adjustment and then shot a powerful shot half a step in front of the penalty area of ​​Burnley!

Burnley goalkeeper Heaton reacted well, but the speed was a bit slow. In the end, he could only watch the football shot by Li Ang brushed his fingertips and went into the upper right corner of the goal!

In the 31st minute of the first half, Chelsea had already taken a two-goal lead. Li Ang scored a goal with a pass and shot, and directly dominated the game today on the offensive end!

And Burnley, who was hit hard, was honest now.

What kind of attack is still there? !

If they want to avoid being killed today, they have to work harder on the defensive end.

Mourinho looked at the score of 2-0, and today it was rare that he did not directly signal the players to stop while they were ahead.

So with a wave of continuous and uninterrupted offensive momentum, Chelsea scored their third goal of the game in the first half stoppage time!

Lukaku and Salah, who replaced Ibrahimovic and De Bruyne in the second half, were quite active on the offensive end.

Neither of them scored a goal.

However, after Lukaku broke into Burnley's penalty area, he assisted Hazard with a back pass and scored his first official goal of the season.

Salah even broke through the Burnley penalty area and successfully made a penalty.

However, Li Ang, who has become Chelsea's first penalty taker this season, did not take the penalty this time.

He gave the penalty opportunity to Drogba, who replaced Hazard in the 80th minute of the second half.

After two years, Drogba returned to the familiar Premier League and put on his No. 11 jersey.

When standing in front of the penalty spot, Drogba was full of emotion, but his eyes were as firm and confident as ever.

Two seconds later, Drogba took the penalty and scored his first goal after officially returning to Chelsea!

Chelsea's young players smiled and ran towards Drogba, patted his shoulders and gave him a hug.

At the first moment, Drogba pointed to Li Ang who gave him the penalty, with gratitude in his eyes.

The photo of the two hugging each other warmly near the corner flag area was also recorded by reporters on the scene.

This is a moment of inheritance within the Chelsea team.

From Cech, Terry, Lampard to Drogba now, the meritorious giants in the Chelsea team now recognize Li Ang's leadership of the new generation of Chelsea.

And through this big victory in the first game of the new season, Chelsea also announced to the world their further transformation after this summer window!

The road to the formation of the universe car has begun!