Chapter 270 Rotation? Chelsea, Which Rotates, Is Also a Strong Team at the European Level

Roberto Martinez is not a coach who can make decisive adjustments on the spot.

To put it nicely, his tactical command is stable, he likes to use a fixed lineup and doesn't like too many variables.

To put it bluntly, it is difficult for him to make a desperate tactical change.

Unless he is at the end of his rope, he will not consider changing the formation to try his luck.

After the game entered the halftime break, Mourinho was mentally prepared for Everton to replace Adebayor with Eto'o in the second half.

After spending a total of 11 million pounds to introduce Eto'o and Adebayor in the winter window last season, Roberto Martinez used these two forwards to rotate.

Even though Adebayor broke out in the second half of the league, Eto'o still got a lot of opportunities to play, and the data of 6 goals in 13 league appearances is not bad.

Even though Eto'o is now 33 years old, he is no longer the dangerous cheetah who won the La Liga Golden Boot in Barcelona in the past.

But his rich experience and agile ability to grab points are still useful in the Premier League.

At least now, Adebayo was restricted by Mourinho's use of Maguire.

Eto'o's change of the main rhythm and method of attack basically became Martinez's only choice in tactical adjustment.

But what surprised all Chelsea players and Mourinho was that.

After the start of the second half, Martinez still chose not to make any adjustments to the starting lineup.

He continued to use Adebayo as the team's bridgehead, and Mourinho was naturally happy to slow down his substitution plan.

Maguire became the biggest beneficiary. Mourinho had already prepared him to leave the court early during the halftime break.

Now that the opposing coach is stubborn and does not make substitutions, he can naturally continue to stay on the court to limit the opponent's center forward.

Li Ando looked at Martinez's shiny bald head a few times, and could only silently bless the three Belgian brothers Hazard, De Bruyne and Lukaku in his heart.

In the future, he will be able to withstand the pressure under Martinez's coaching and strive to achieve better national team results than he remembered.

As long as Martinez continues to coach Everton according to his current philosophy, it is conceivable that Everton will still fire him after one or two seasons when the results cannot achieve a breakthrough.

This guy focuses on offense blindly. Not only is his offensive routine rigid, but his ability to coach the team's defense is really average.

And a team only has an offensive routine that is not good at changing, and the defense depends purely on the players' performance. It is difficult to reach the end whether it is playing in the league or the cup.

After basically understanding Martinez's tactical adjustment ability and playing routine.

In the second half, Mourinho was not in a hurry for his disciples to score the third goal early and completely kill the game.

After the 60th minute of the second half, Mourinho replaced Thiago Silva and Bertrand with Kalas and Ake one after another, and directly used Everton's offense to train his soldiers.

Martinez was furious when he saw this. At this time, he finally couldn't help it and replaced the offensive force to fight Chelsea.

But facing Chelsea, which had changed its formation to 4231 at this moment, the offensive players replaced by Martinez could not even break through the combination of Liang and Matic.

Not to mention further threatening Chelsea's defense.

Besides, the central defender combination of Maguire and Carras, one is almost invincible in defending high-altitude balls, and the other is fierce in grabbing and alert in filling positions.

The combination of the two just formed a complementary tactical characteristics.

Whether it is Adebayor or Eto'o, they can't take advantage of Chelsea's young central defender combination now.

A big win is important, but it is even more rare to be able to use a mid-to-upper-level Premier League team like Everton to help train their troops.

The final score was fixed at 0-2, and Mourinho was very satisfied with the process and results of the game.

But the extremely dissatisfied boos of Everton fans still resounded throughout Goodison Park after the game.

Martinez felt humiliated by Mourinho and chose to ignore Mourinho's initiative to shake hands after the game, but Mourinho didn't mind.

After getting the desired result, Mourinho was full of smiles at the post-match press conference, and he didn't mind suffering some losses in language.

Li Ang and his team celebrated at Goodison Park.

After winning three consecutive games at the start of the new season, in the next international match day.

Chelsea players with national team competition tasks can devote themselves to national team competitions without the burden of league results.

And players like Li Ang who don't have national team competition tasks now can rest comfortably for at least a week.

Of course, Li Ang will definitely not waste precious extra training time like this.

It just so happens that Anastasia is handling studying abroad in China recently, and she can't return to London for a while.

So Li Ang simply rested at home for one day and started extra training directly.

However, in September this year, he was not alone in the Cobham training base for extra training.

Maguire and Ake, two young men, will start additional moderate training with him during the international match day.

This is not a request made by Li Ang or the Chelsea coaching staff, but they took the initiative to ask Li Ang to lead them to improve their strength.

Li Ang's own plan for extra training on international match days has been made long ago.

The training team hired by Mendes is almost the same whether it is responsible for training him alone or for training three people.

Anyway, when Li Ang took the initiative to increase the money, his training team had no objection at all.

Needless to say, Ake's talent is naturally not much to say, but his desire to advance is still a little too strong at this stage.

Li Ang's suggestion to him is not new, just to let him pay attention to strengthening his ability in one-on-one defense.

Mourinho has been personally checking the daily defense training. Ake is not a rebellious boy. He has honestly completed the training tasks assigned by the head coach.

He also seriously considered Li Ang's suggestion.

After all, in Chelsea, at least in the left back position, Bertrand and Ashley Cole are not lacking in offensive ability.

In terms of offense, let alone Bertrand who is in his prime, even the old Ashley Cole can blow him to pieces.

"What you need most now is more playing time. If the head coach chooses you to play, there must be a reason, right?

What are you good at? Why did the coaching staff let you start instead of your teammates because of your expertise in this area? You have to think about this clearly..."

Li Ang said it very bluntly.

And he was able to get enough playing opportunities in Real Madrid that year because he deeply understood this truth.

Whether he was loaned out for training or returned to the Real Madrid first team, he was conscientious on the defensive end and showed defensive skills that other midfield competitors did not have at the time.

Canales and Granero were much stronger than him in terms of comprehensive strength at the time.

Not to mention that he got the league assists king in the first season when he first arrived at Real Madrid with 272.

In terms of value, he was far inferior to these competitors at the time.

But in the end, he still had the last laugh and won the main defensive midfielder position of Real Madrid's first team.

It is indeed very convincing that he encouraged Ake with his own growth story.

At the age of 19, he was able to play in the Real Madrid first team, and at the age of 20, he won the league championship and the Italian Cup double championship in AC Milan as a main player.

It can be said that Li Ang's growth story has encouraged many younger football rookies.

Young people like Ake who are now in the same team with Li Ang are even more fantasizing that they can become the "new little lion" one day.

In the next week, Ake worked hard on one-on-one defense like a chicken blood.

Maguire's situation is a little special, because Mourinho asked Li Ang to help Maguire lose weight first.

It is definitely unrealistic to let Maguire lose weight easily during the long game, which will affect Maguire's preparation and training.

However, during this international match day rest period, it is very suitable for Maguire to seize the time to lose weight again.

Li Ang does think that Maguire is a little heavy.

A height of 1.94 meters and a weight of 95 kilograms are really awesome, which can give Maguire a great advantage in confrontation.

However, one thing to know is that the number of heavy center forwards in football is getting smaller and smaller.

Among the European teams in the four major leagues, except for Llorente and Ibrahimovic, there is not even a center forward who can compete with Maguire in terms of physical confrontation.

So it is really unnecessary for Maguire to continue to maintain such a large weight. It is better to control the weight to less than 92 kilograms and increase the flexibility of defensive lateral movement and turning.

After adjusting the diet plan and combining it with scientific training, Maguire has lost more than one kilogram in the past 10 days.

Not to mention that the flexibility of the body has been improved to a higher level immediately, at least Maguire now obviously feels that his body is lighter.

Li Ang suddenly had a hunch that Maguire might be selected to lead the British national team before the end of this season, and he would have the opportunity to fight for a starting position.

The European Cup two years later should be the best stage for Maguire to play and become famous in an international competition for the first time.

At that time, with Kane, whose growth is likely to accelerate...

"Will England be able to enter the finals and beat France? The butterfly effect I fanned out directly fanned out the new generation of golden England in advance?"

Li Ang made a hypothesis in his mind with some evil taste.

But when he thought about the fact that he couldn't even play in the national team games now, he immediately lost interest in continuing to fantasize.

After the national team game day, the Chelsea players who had played in the international games returned to the Cobham training base one after another.

Terry recovered from his injury during this period, which was an important good news for Mourinho.

But looking at the large number of Chelsea main players who were tired and obviously needed to rest after returning to the training base.

Mourinho could only sigh in his heart and began to make rotation arrangements.

After the fourth round of the Premier League, Chelsea can only get three and a half days of rest before starting the new season of the Champions League group stage.

So most of the first-team players who had played in the national team games, especially the veterans, will basically take turns to rest in the fourth round of the Premier League.

Fortunately, Chelsea's league opponent in the fourth round is Swansea, and they are at home, so they can still have the upper hand with a rotating lineup.

Swansea's new head coach Garry Monk has led the team to a luxurious record of 4 consecutive wins at the start of the season.

This includes three consecutive wins in the Premier League and a victory in the League Cup.

The result of the 2-1 victory over Manchester United in the first league match of the new season quickly won Garry Monk the praise and recognition of all Swansea fans.

With such a luxurious start, Garry Monk naturally had more ambitions.

This round happened to be when Chelsea made a large rotation of main players, and he felt that his team might have a chance to continue to win unexpectedly.

On the afternoon of September 13, Mourinho released his starting lineup for today an hour before the game.

He let Drogba and Torres start together, contrary to the expectations of all media, and directly used the 442 formation that had not been played for a long time.

Garry Monk did not expect Mourinho to directly use a set of "retro" gameplay today.

In the midfield, Li Ang and Van Ginkel sat in the middle, Ramires and Salah were on the left and right sides.

Today Azpilicueta played as a left back. Terry and Gary Cahill started as central defenders, and Ivanovic started on the right.

The starting goalkeeper is Begovic, who transferred to Chelsea before the summer transfer window closed some time ago.

Although he was introduced as a substitute for Cech, Begovic also received a promise from the Chelsea coaching staff that he would be given sufficient playing time.

In order to get the main goalkeeper of the Sky City, Chelsea paid Stoke City a premium transfer fee of 12 million pounds at the end of the summer transfer window.

Speaking of which, Courtois was supposed to return to Chelsea this season, and the strength he showed in Atletico Madrid was enough to replace Cech.

But because of the well-known disagreement between him and De Bruyne, Mourinho chose to continue to rent him to Atletico Madrid for another season.

And Courtois may not be able to return to Chelsea next season.

With this kind of cuckold incident, Chelsea can basically only choose 1 between Courtois and De Bruyne.

With the strength and talent shown by De Bruyne now, it is normal for Mourinho to choose him and give up Courtois, who may grow into a new generation of goalkeeper.

But now Cech is old, Begovic is very qualified as a substitute, and his age is also suitable.

Chelsea still has to find a younger and more talented new main goalkeeper in the future...

Chelsea's rotation starting lineup does not look weak at all.

At least Garry Monk's tactical calculation of wanting to seize the initiative in the attack at the beginning of the game failed.

After all, even if De Bruyne and Kroos are rested, Li Ang is still on the court, and his midfield combination with Van Ginkel is enough to seize control of the game.

Just when Swansea's players wanted to take advantage of their numerical advantage in the midfield to regain the initiative of the game.

Chelsea decisively avoided too much entanglement with Swansea in the middle, and directly played a simple and rough two-wing flying tactic!

Ramirez feinted on the left, and Azpilicueta who inserted was the killer move at the bottom.

And Salah on the right got Hazard's tactical privilege today, and got enough opportunities to hold the ball

What's more fatal is that Chelsea seems to have only two forwards in the middle.

But in fact, Li Ang's back-up attack allowed Chelsea to easily achieve three-point outflanking and grabbing points every time.

Azpilicueta and Ivanovic's bottom crosses from the two sides can provide Chelsea's offensive cluster with enough bombing shells.

And Salah's smooth shot after cutting inside further enriched Chelsea's right-wing offensive mode.

Today, Swansea's defenders re-experienced the uncomfortable feeling of the Premier League defenders being ravaged by Drogba on their heads.

And Li Ang also took advantage of the gap where Drogba disrupted the deployment of Swansea's back line.

In the 22nd minute of the first half, he inserted from behind and headed to knock on the Swansea gate guarded by Fabianski!

After scoring this goal, Chelsea leisurely launched a counterattack against Swansea.

In the first half stoppage time, Torres missed a half-single opportunity sent by Drogba's header.

However, in the 59th minute of the second half, facing the inverted triangle pass sent by Ramirez after he broke into the bottom line of Swansea, Torres finally seized the opportunity!

After pushing the ball into the near corner of Swansea's goal and scoring his first official goal of the new season, Torres happily hugged and celebrated with his teammates amid the huge cheers at Stamford Bridge.

And Swansea's head coach Garry Monk also completely recognized the reality at this moment.

It is ridiculous to compare Chelsea with the teams they have defeated before.

Chelsea is not Manchester United, and it is still rebuilding a tactical system.

Manchester United's style of play has not been fixed yet. Although there are many stars in the starting lineup, the middle and lower teams do have the opportunity to exploit their tactical loopholes.

After a full season of tactical construction by Mourinho, Chelsea can completely grasp the middle and lower teams in the Premier League.

And the strength of Chelsea's rotation lineup cannot be underestimated.

Rotation?

Chelsea, which rotates, is at least a strong team at the European level.

Not only Swansea, but all the mid- and lower-level Premier League teams will be treated well by Chelsea's rotation lineup this season.