Chapter 268: The First Premier League Match of the "British Aircraft Carrier", The Outstanding Marquez

After the game, as expected, Li Ang once again won the best player award officially selected by the Premier League.

Shot 3 times in the game, 2 shots on goal, 2 threatening passes, scored 1 goal, and received 1 assist.

There were 85 passes in the game, 78 of which were successful. The passing success rate was close to 92%. All 6 pass attempts were successful, 6 steals, 4 effective interceptions, and 4 aerial duels were all successful...

When his game data appeared in front of many fans, countless praises and exclamations followed.

Almighty, Almighty, or TMD!

Almighty!

If Li Ang's data is broken down and only looked at offense and defense, it can be called luxurious.

And when put together, it seems that his current ability is even more abnormal.

However, in the face of the constant compliments and praises from the reporters at the scene, Li Ang did not take any credit, but directly grabbed Cross who was arranging his hair after the game.

Two handsome men suddenly appeared in the live broadcast after the Premier League game. Not to mention the girls watching the Premier League game, even pure men felt their eyes lit up.

“Let’s interview TK more, he is the key to our big victory today.

Look at this guy's passing success rate, I swear, he's definitely the best passer I've ever seen in terms of pass consistency!

And today he also helped Nemanja (Matic) a lot on the defensive end. He is our midfield magician. To be honest, I have to share this bottle of champagne with TK! "

After Li Ang finished speaking, he opened his hand-made champagne, and the sprayed champagne splashed all over himself and Cross.

Cross, who was originally a little shy after being praised by Li Ang in public, now smiled and wiped his face, completely relaxed mentally.

Holding Li Ang's shoulders, Cross answered reporters' questions in English more confidently on the sidelines.

And the reporters at the scene had to admit that Li Ang's ability to praise people was really getting deeper and deeper.

After the game, they shared the best player award and praised their new teammates for their more important contributions in defense and organization. Which player can withstand this!

After the interview, the reporters quickly compiled the interview content and sent it to the press.

There are so many things worth talking about in today's game.

Chelsea's big victory, Mourinho's new offensive tactics, Li Ang's near-perfect performance, the outstanding performances of new aid Kroos and Silva, and veteran Drogba's first goal after returning...

It is foreseeable that after this game is over and until the next round of the league starts, they will have no shortage of reporting topics that can attract the attention of fans.

But just as Chelsea fans were celebrating the team's first win of the new season.

In Munich, 1,000 kilometers away from London, a large number of Bayern fans watched with mixed emotions as Kroos successfully started his career with the new team.

To be honest about the contract extension, any fan with a normal outlook will understand that Bayern's senior management has really gone too far with Kroos this time.

But no matter what, Bayern's senior management has definitely contributed to the team's overall development direction over the years.

There is no point in speaking ill of one's famous senior management for a player who has left the team.

Maybe it's just too reluctant to let go of a team-building core like Kroos, so until now, many Bayern fans can't accept the fact that he leaves the team easily.

It is precisely because of such complicated feelings that Bayern fans always feel a little uncomfortable when they see Kroos having a smooth life at Chelsea.

But no matter how awkward they feel, Kroos has now left Bayern Munich.

It may be the best outcome for both of you to let go of the matter completely.

Of course, for German team and non-Bayern fans, Kroos's good performance at Chelsea will only make them happy.

Chelsea is also very strong now. Kroos is not happy enough at Bayern. It would be good to go to another top European team to maintain his form.

Now the fans of the German team are focused on the European Cup two years later.

Whether the Bundesliga club can win another Champions League trophy in the past two years is important, but the German team's results in the competition two years later are more worthy of attention for them.

It is difficult for fans of the German team to predict with certainty Kroos' development at Chelsea in the next three or four seasons.

But at least now it seems that as Chelsea's new organizational core, Cross will not lack the training and tough tests of top competitions.

The fans of the German team are also very satisfied with Kroos' current midfield partner Li Ang.

Being able to train and play with the top all-around midfielder in football today, Kroos may be able to make great progress.

When I think about the all-around midfielder composed of Kroos, Khedira and Bastian Schweinsteiger who will complete the transformation again two years later.

The fans of the German team fell directly into the dream of replicating Spain's consecutive championships in international competitions.

Now they are extremely convinced that the German team will have a beautiful future with fantastic prospects...

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After the big win over Burnley in the first game, the morale of the Chelsea team was extremely high.

Thinking that the second round will be played against newly promoted Leicester City, the young players in the Chelsea team are eager to give it a try. The attitude on the training ground is also extremely positive.

This is certainly a good thing. Mourinho and Holland also encouraged Kalas and Salah who performed well in training many times.

However, I don’t know if this encouragement from the coaching staff gave the young guys in Chelsea too much chicken blood.

On August 21, in the afternoon training session, Van Ginkel moved too much in an offensive confrontation and directly stepped on Terry’s foot.

This can be regarded as a tragedy after joy. The old captain Terry was directly sent to the medical room in the training ground.

Mourinho had to patiently comfort the guilty Van Ginkel before checking Terry’s injury.

Fortunately, the injury caused to Terry by such an accidental confrontation was not serious. No bones were injured. There was some bruise on the big toe of his right foot. He should be able to fully recover after a week or two of rest.

After getting such a result, Mourinho was relieved.

There was also Gary Cahill on the bench. In the next round against the newly promoted Leicester City, the central defender combination of Cahill, Gatiago and Silva was completely enough.

However, due to Terry's injury, Maguire was selected for the league's 18-man squad for the first time in the new season.

For the young Maguire, this was a complete surprise.

On August 22, at the pre-match press conference, when Chelsea released the 18-man squad for the second round of the Premier League.

Maguire, the 21-year-old young central defender, also quickly gained the attention of a large number of fans and industry insiders in the English football world.

Although Maguire was no longer an unknown player after transferring to Chelsea in the winter window last year and playing for Chelsea in the FA Cup.

But now he is likely to have a chance to play for Chelsea in the Premier League.

The meaning is very different, and you know, the current England national team is in an awkward period of talent shortage.

Terry and Ferdinand have successively withdrawn from the England national team, resulting in the current England national team coach Hodgson can only use Gary Cahill and Jagielka to support the beam.

It's not that these two central defenders are bad, but the star-studded English national team can only use this set of defense configuration now, which seems too civilian.

The promotion of public opinion has made more English fans place their hopes on the new generation of young English players.

But they soon found helplessly that in the central axis of front, middle and back, England today really can't find any talented young talents who are famous in Europe.

So now, young English players with a little fame can get a lot of attention from English fans and media.

And Maguire, who has won the attention and favor of Mourinho, has gradually entered the sight of the majority of English fans under the demand of this public opinion.

To be honest, Maguire's performance in the English Championship last season was quite good.

After returning to Barnsley, he quickly became the main force of the team and almost played all the English Championship games in the second half of the season.

When Maguire and Ake first arrived at Barnsley, Barnsley only won 3 of 24 league games and lost 42 goals, ranking last in the English Championship.

But at the end of the season, Barnsley climbed directly to the 17th place in the Championship.

In the second half of the Championship, Barnsley only lost 26 goals in 23 games!

This improvement in defense is immediate.

Among them, Maguire's frontal interception and high-altitude ball defense ability are the important magic weapons for Barnsley to greatly improve its defensive efficiency in the second half of the Championship.

The technical and tactical play of the Championship emphasizes long passes and header bombing.

In terms of confrontation, the strength of the Championship seems to be no less than that of the Premier League.

Such events are just conducive to Maguire's defensive strengths.

After half a season, Barnsley even directly thought of buying out Maguire.

However, under the buyout conditions of 20 million pounds offered by Chelsea, Barnsley was directly scared off.

Fans who follow the Championship can hardly ignore Maguire's outstanding performance last season.

His big head and top air defense ability have also made a name for himself in the Championship.

Now he has returned to Chelsea and entered the starting lineup in the second round of the Premier League.

Whether Maguire can get the chance to make his Premier League debut in this round of the league soon aroused widespread discussion among English fans.

At the age of 21, he is young enough for the position of central defender and is valued by famous coaches. His development potential seems to be very good.

Today's Maguire, even if he can't be called a star of England, can at least be called a rising star of England.

However, in the face of exaggerated praise and attention from the outside world, Maguire himself can still keep a stable mentality. After all, he is a top student and his brain is not easy to be stubborn.

After rejecting all media interview invitations before the game, Maguire honestly completed the pre-match preparation training.

On August 23, he sat on the bench and welcomed the challenge of Leicester City at home with his teammates.

For Leicester City, a newly promoted team, most of the players in the Chelsea team can't be said to despise it, but they will not pay too much attention to it.

Li Ang was relieved when he saw that Vardy would not be included in Leicester City's 18-man squad due to injury before the game.

The current newly promoted Leicester City is still very different from the Leicester City that Li Ang remembered miraculously winning the Premier League.

Drinkwater and Mahrez are still adapting to the intensity of the Premier League, and Kante, Huth, Fuchs and Shinji Okazaki have not yet joined.

So now Leicester City is indeed a newly promoted team with clear goals for the new season and a Premier League relegation team.

After the game started that day, Li Ang only observed the midfield and frontcourt for a while before he saw many loopholes in Leicester City's current midfield and backcourt defense.

After seeing Mahrez's struggling offensive performance, Li Ang no longer had unnecessary defensive worries and devoted all his energy to launching the offense.

If we compare the strength of Burnley and Leicester City, which Chelsea defeated by a big score in the first round.

Then Li Ang can only say that Burnley is worse than Leicester City in terms of offensive routine and quality of forwards.

In terms of defense and midfield strength, the two newly promoted teams are actually very similar.

Leicester City's offensive ability is better than Burnley's, and it will not cause too much trouble for Chelsea's defensive system.

Because from the beginning of the game, Chelsea directly suppressed Leicester City's midfielder.

Leicester City's sporadic counterattacks seemed quite organized, but the number of counterattacks was too few.

Often when Chelsea actively defended across the board, Fox City's counterattack stopped outside Chelsea's defensive third zone.

The central defensive combination of Gary Cahill and Silva was not tested by Leicester City's offense throughout the first half.

On the offensive end, Li Ang and Ibrahimovic, who were more patient today, played a delicate and involved style in front of Leicester City's defense.

The two of them pose a great offensive threat and are equivalent to two natural defensive firepower attractions.

Whoever gets the ball will be double-teamed and defended by Leicester City.

It just so happens that both of them are very capable of picking up and distributing the ball.

So when they used themselves as tactical bait, they constantly attracted defensive double-teams and then fed the ball to other offensive teammates.

Leicester City's entire defensive system was immediately involved.

Li Ang did not score any goals or assists in the first half, but De Bruyne and Ivan who came in from behind scored goals one after another.

Chelsea didn't seem to have much power on the offensive end, so they directly dismantled Leicester City's two lines of defense and easily took a two-goal lead at halftime.

But after all, it was only a newly promoted team, and the rest of the neutral Premier League fans also felt that Chelsea's easy victory was natural.

In the 63rd minute of the second half, when Li Ang broke forward and scored, the moment that countless English fans were looking forward to came.

Maguire, wearing the No. 5 jersey, stood on the sidelines after warming up, waiting with anticipation and excitement for his appearance.

Mourinho made decisive substitutions after the game basically entered garbage time, two ups and two downs.

Gary Cahill and Matic come off, Maguire and Van Ginkel come on.

After scoring the third goal in the second half, Chelsea slowed down its offensive pace.

Leicester City was suppressed for most of the game and finally got the opportunity to take the initiative to attack.

When they were three goals behind, they naturally could only choose a simple tactical play method of attacking as many rounds as possible.

Like Burnley, Leicester City, which continued to focus on 442 after being promoted to the Premier League, picked up their familiar style of flying high balls and crosses from both wings.

But under Chelsea's defensive system, such crude high ball bombing tactics can easily be ineffective.

Maguire may not have imagined that he would have so much room to play today.

Thiago Silva has initially figured out the defensive strength and defensive skills of several of his partners on the training ground.

So after seeing that Leicester City chose to focus on high-ball bombing at this moment, he directly encouraged Maguire to bravely go up.

As for Leicester City's forwards, whether it is Argentine center Ulloa who is 1.85 meters tall, or forward Nugent who is just 1.8 meters tall.

The two of them paired up with Maguire, and his body looked like he was half a circle smaller!

Maguire also has excellent judgment on the placement of high balls.

Maintaining a sense of position, and Silva can wipe the butt, Maguire is like a god coming down to fight for such a header, and he is so accurate!

The Sky Sports commentator was extremely excited watching Maguire's defensive performance in the last half hour of the second half.

He bluntly said that another defensive supernova has emerged in English football.

The English fans watching this game may also have been affected by the exaggerated reports in the English media.

They were not embarrassed by the commentator's exaggerated words, but actually agreed with them from the bottom of their hearts.

Seeing that Li Ang even ran back from midfield to encourage Maguire passionately on the court, the fans in the UK were even more happy and excited.

In the end, Chelsea sat at home and easily defeated newly promoted Leicester City 3-0, achieving their second league victory of the season.

After the last league game, Li Ang highly praised Kroos' performance.

This time, he deliberately called Maguire and Van Ginkel to his side after the game and brought them together for an interview.

Li Ang did not favor one over the other. He praised both young teammates vigorously in front of the camera.

However, the English reporters present today are obviously only interested in Maguire.

Li Ang can understand, after all, the British team and the fans are really in need of encouragement from young talents.

Maguire did show top-notch aerial defense in his Premier League debut today.

As for his further growth space and requirements for tactical systems, the excited British reporters will not explore and analyze too much.

"Excellent Maguire" meets the expectations of all British fans and media.

A new British star has risen at Stamford Bridge.