Chapter 271 Copy Kaka's Performance in 2007? Why Not!

After the 60th minute of the second half, Swansea changed its previous more active offensive style and tried to counterattack Chelsea.

It can be seen that although Garry Monk, a young coach who is only 35 years old this year, is ambitious, he is still more pragmatic.

When the score is behind, he can see the current situation on the field clearly and patiently adjust the tactics quickly to counterattack Chelsea.

Garry Monk's decisive decision made Li Ang look at him with a new look.

However, such awakening came too late after all, and Li Ang did not think that his coach would continue to give Swansea a chance to catch up at this time.

As expected, Mourinho saw that Garry Monk did not choose to strengthen the forward pressure tactics, so he simply signaled the Chelsea players on the field not to fight against Swansea.

Anyway, today's lineup is also a rotation, and it is safest to stop when you are ahead.

Mourinho waved his hand, and the entire Chelsea team quickly switched to the half-court defense mode.

In the 70th minute of the second half, Drogba was replaced by Matic.

At the same time, Maguire, Kalas and Lampard were also warming up on the sidelines.

Chelsea's tactical intentions were laid out.

Seeing that Mourinho was unwilling to give him a chance to equalize the score, Garry Monk could only helplessly replace the offensive players and prepare for the last fight.

Gomi, a well-known center forward in Ligue 1 who was signed by Swansea from Lyon in the summer window this season, does not seem to be very adaptable to the rhythm of the Premier League game.

In the last 20 minutes of the game, Garry Monk replaced Bony, a striker who scored 17 Premier League goals for Swansea last season.

But the combination of Bony and Gomi obviously did not have the slightest advantage in grabbing points and competing for high balls when facing the double central defenders of Tri and Maguire.

Li Ang was replaced by Lampard in the 87th minute of the second half, and enjoyed the applause and cheers of the Chelsea fans in advance.

In today's fourth round of the Premier League, Li Ang also scored his fourth Premier League goal since the start of the new season.

Scoring one goal per game, although Li Ang did take advantage of the schedule, so far only Everton is a strong opponent.

But don't forget that he is not a striker. As a midfielder, he can score four goals in four games. This performance is amazing and amazing.

And Li Ang's more stable performance now naturally makes other Premier League teams more anxious.

In today's football world, there are actually many stars who can perform outstandingly in a certain period of time and have explosive growth in data.

But the superstars who can achieve stable output in every game and always stand out in tough battles are only Melo and Li Ang.

Expert coaches and players know how strong a sense of oppression a star who can stably create a goal in every game can bring to his opponents.

Now Li Ang may still not be comparable to Melo in terms of scoring explosiveness, but his ability to forcibly change the situation of the game is already in the top three in the world.

Yes, it is the top three in the world, not the third behind Melo!

Because his ability in attack is not as good as that of Melo, he made up for it in organization and defense.

Watching Li Ang leading his teammates to thank the home fans in the live broadcast, the Sky Sports commentator had to sigh:

"Chelsea has found the new leader who suits them best. Li Ang is not only an excellent team core, but also an excellent team leader!

We have every reason to believe that Chelsea this season will be more mature and more threatening than last season, and defending the Premier League title will not be the end of their goal.

The regret of last season's Champions League will become their best motivation for progress. I believe that this Chelsea will bring us more surprises in the Champions League..."

Chelsea, which won 4 consecutive victories at the start of the new Premier League season, was in the limelight for a while.

Swansea lost, and Chelsea broke their unbeaten record since the start of the new season.

Manchester City also ended their winning streak after this round of away challenge to Arsenal.

Arsenal defended their dignity at home, 2-1 Manchester City, and quietly climbed back to their most familiar fourth place in the Premier League.

Liverpool is still in a slow-heating state, and lost to Aston Villa 0-1 in this round.

Manchester United, on the other hand, finally swept away the slump and ushered in their first league victory of the new season.

After sweeping the newly promoted Queens Park Rangers 4-0, Van Gaal was more confident in accepting media interviews.

For Manchester United, the greater benefit is that they have another week-long rest period after this round of games.

Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal. All will face the challenge of the Champions League in the new season.

At that time, it will inevitably divert a lot of energy from the Champions League.

Manchester United ranked only seventh in the Premier League last season, so let alone the Champions League, they can't even play in the Europa League this season.

But everything has two sides. If Manchester United, who does not play in the European war, can be ruthless and let go of the two domestic cup competitions in England this season.

It is still easy to achieve results if you only focus on the league.

At least now many optimistic Manchester United fans are calling on the club officials to let go of the League Cup and FA Cup as soon as possible on the Internet.

Or, just give up the more useless League Cup and concentrate on preparing for the league and the FA Cup later.

Manchester United's current lineup is still good. It is not good at fighting on three fronts, but it can still fight on two fronts in England.

When Li Ang is free now, he likes to look through the various suggestions and messages from Manchester United fans to the Manchester United club on the Internet.

To put it bluntly, if the current Manchester United executives can screen the suggestions of Manchester United fans and analyze and implement the constructive messages one by one.

Then Manchester United's future development prospects may really return to the "right path" in advance.

Unfortunately, the opinions of these Manchester United fans are ultimately wishful thinking. Now Manchester United's executives are mainly not listening to advice.

Li Ang deeply sympathizes with Manchester United's diehard fans, but he is still very happy to see this scene happen as Manchester United is gradually falling into a quagmire and vortex.

There is no way. He is a Chelsea player now. From the perspective of Chelsea Club, a Manchester United with no problems in the management is much more terrible than Manchester City.

Manchester City is very rich, but Manchester United can definitely spend more money than Manchester City in the transfer market.

Considering Manchester United's huge reputation in the Premier League and their current attraction to world-class superstars.

Of course, Li Ang will only think that the more wrong paths Manchester United takes, the longer the decline period, the better.

As for Manchester United's failure to fall behind, is the Premier League team's performance in the Champions League guaranteed?

It doesn't matter. Now he is in Chelsea, so Manchester United's players don't have to worry about the Champions League results~

Last season, Chelsea has regained its reputation as the iron-blooded blue army in the Champions League.

At least after the results of this season's Champions League group draw came out, the fans of Schalke 04 and Sporting Lisbon, who were assigned to the same group as Chelsea, cried out that they were really unlucky!

Of course, for Chelsea fans, this year's Champions League group draw is very comfortable.

They should also be regarded as the best seeded team this year.

Arsenal and Chelsea are also in the same seeded team, and their group opponents are Dortmund, Anderlecht and Galatasaray.

The game is not easy to play, but basically there is no problem in qualifying.

As a third-tier team in this year's Champions League, Liverpool drew Real Madrid and Basel. Even if they can't beat Real Madrid, it is not difficult to take advantage of Basel.

On the contrary, Manchester City, as a second-tier team, was very unlucky to be drawn into the same group with Bayern again this year, and the group they are in is also the well-deserved "group of death"!

Bayern, Manchester City, Roma and CSKA Moscow will fight in the same group. Their Champions League Group E is also the most watched Champions League group by fans this year.

Li Ang is very satisfied with his team's luck in the draw this year.

Compared with being watched by the whole of Europe since the group stage, the whole team of players bears unnecessary pressure to play in the Champions League.

He still prefers the development and promotion mode of making a fortune in silence.

On September 16, the games of the first four groups of the Champions League started at the same time node that night.

In the first round of the Champions League group stage, except for the strong dialogue between Dortmund and Arsenal, there were basically no focus games that attracted fans.

Dortmund and Arsenal finally tied 2-2 at the Westfalenstadion.

Aubameyang and Cavani both scored in the game, and Arsenal fans were very satisfied with the draw. They had already met their psychological expectations before the game by getting one point.

Real Madrid beat Basel 5-1 at home, with Ronaldo scoring two goals and assisting one, taking the lead in opening his data-surge in the Champions League this season.

Juventus defeated Malmö 3-0, with Tevez also scoring twice, and he seemed to be in a position to have a second spring in his career with the Zebras.

But Atletico Madrid, which was in the same group as Juventus and was highly favored by countless fans and media reporters before the game, turned over on the road.

Losing 2-3 to Olympiacos, Atletico Madrid became the first European powerhouse team to be upset in the first round of the Champions League group stage so far.

This also sounded the alarm for the other powerhouse teams that will play on the evening of September 17.

Mourinho is still very confident in the strength of his team.

But before the first Champions League match of the new season, he had to carefully remind his disciples several times not to be careless.

Chelsea played the first Champions League match of the new season at home, so the worst result would be a draw with Schalke 04.

If they lost the Champions League at home, Mourinho would have to accompany his players to apologize to the home fans in person.

On the evening of September 17, Chelsea, with all the main players in the Champions League, sat at Stamford Bridge and welcomed the challenge of Schalke 04, who ranked third in the Bundesliga last season.

As opponents in the Champions League group stage last season, Chelsea and Schalke 04 have a better understanding of each other's strength.

This season, they were assigned to the same Champions League group and competed on the same field. Li Ang had to sigh "fate".

Before the game, he was thinking about continuing to entertain Draxler and Maxmayer in today's game.

As a result, after the game officially started that day, Li Ang was surprised to see Draxler who took the initiative to bypass him to get the ball and pull to the side.

"This kid has matured... He's not so stubborn today!"

Leon would not continue to bully Draxler who ran to the wing to play.

But Leon was not polite to Max Meyer who was organizing the ball in the middle.

Now that Kroos was organizing the ball in the team, Leon could free up his hands to personally fight against Meyer.

After a year, Meyer, who was still only 1.73 meters tall and weighed less than 70 kilograms, was bullied by Leon at the beginning.

In desperation, Schalke 04 could only choose to move the organization point back and let Ogo and Boateng control the distribution of ball rights.

The main offensive mode was basically changed to flying on both wings.

Meyer was suppressed by Leon, and Huntelaar, who was waiting for a pass at the front of Chelsea's penalty area, was very uncomfortable.

His independent offensive ability was not strong to begin with. As he got older, he became more and more dependent on the high-quality passes delivered by his teammates on the front line.

So when he couldn't get any shots, he could only retreat and serve as a tactical fulcrum for his teammates.

There was nothing wrong with his choice.

As a center forward, when he couldn't get the ball, he could only retreat more to help the midfielder pass the ball and use his fulcrum ability to create more offensive space for his teammates.

But the problem is that the two wingers of Schalke 04 now, whether it is Draxler or Sam, are not the kind of fast and technical dribblers.

Even if Huntelaar gave up his tactical weight and offensive opportunities, his two wing teammates couldn't do a one-on-one to penetrate Chelsea's wing defense.

However, Schalke 04's left back Fuchs and Boateng, who has rich experience in attacking from behind, performed well today.

Fuchs played very smartly. He used Draxler's defensive interference on Azpilicueta to successfully overlap the side many times and sent some good quality crosses.

And Boateng, who came in from behind, completed several headers with the help of Huntelaar's cover.

Li Ang is very familiar with such offensive routines.

Of course, for Chelsea today, Boateng's back-up attack only caused some trouble to the back line.

After Schalke 04's three-pronged attack, Chelsea directly counterattacked and immediately made Schalke 04's back line panic!

Compared with Schalke 04's incongruous two-wing attack tactics, Chelsea's Hazard and Salah really achieved "flying on both wings".

Fuchs can still help his team on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, he was very embarrassed by Salah's strong breakthrough!

Schalke 04's full-back Heger on the other side was even more miserable by Hazard!

That was purely a crushing of personal strength!

Hazard can't be as violent as Salah in terms of speed, but in terms of technology, he is much stronger than Salah now.

And behind him, there are always support from Leon and Azpilicueta.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Hegel received a yellow card for a tactical foul against Hazard.

Now Hegel dared not to do anything extraordinary on defense against Hazard.

Boateng, who had just played with momentum on the offensive end, had to return to defense in advance to help him stabilize Schalke 04's defense on the right side.

Li Ang naturally played the excellent style of "taking advantage of his illness to kill him", and helped Hazard to blast Schalke 04's right side more unscrupulously.

In the 32nd minute of the first half, Hazard also successfully received Li Ang's through ball, broke into the Schalke 04 penalty area and shot into the goal!

As soon as the ball went in, Chelsea's offensive routines were launched one after another, and they had success no matter how they played!

Schalke 04 was originally inferior to Chelsea in terms of hard power, and now it was forced to have an offensive decisive battle with Chelsea in the second half, and the loopholes in the backcourt defense were immediately visible!

In the 56th and 69th minutes of the second half, Li Ang received Ibrahimovic's pass and shot into the goal.

Then he assisted Salah to cut inside and shoot, breaking Schalke 04's goal and scoring his first goal for Chelsea in the Champions League!

After taking a 3-0 lead, Li Ang was also full of pride!

In 2007, Kaka was able to lead AC Milan as a midfielder to win the Champions League.

Today, Chelsea is at its peak, and he is confident that his ability has surpassed Kaka.

So, this season, copy Kaka's achievements in 2007, or even go further?

Why not!