Chapter 273 Guardiola, I Am Your Defense Breaker!

Li Ang is still looking forward to the first showdown with Manchester City this season.

Not only because only Manchester City's hard power is closest to Chelsea's in the Premier League, but it also brings him a lot of competition pressure.

Also because he sees more and more "old friends" in the Manchester City team.

Villa, Rakitic, these are all opponents he has dealt with in La Liga.

Being able to reunite with these old friends who had played against each other in La Liga in the Premier League, Li Ang felt a natural sense of intimacy towards them.

Of course, during the warm-up before the game, Li Ang did not take the initiative to go over and say hello to these former opponents.

Reminiscing about old times and communicating can be left to the post-match process, but before the match, we face Chelsea’s strongest opponent in the Premier League.

Li Ang still maintained the greatest respect for his club and his fans.

No greetings, no reminiscences or jokes.

At this time, the players of Chelsea and Manchester City need to forget their private friendship with each other.

They have the first-class salaries in the Premier League, and they are also well-deserved fighters in the professional arena.

No need for tenderness or unnecessary explanations, they are each other's most powerful and best opponents and enemies in the league!

When huge boos erupted at the Etihad Stadium, Li Ang raised his head in enjoyment.

After scanning and staring, the faint smile that reporters and fans are most familiar with showed on his lips.

In an instant, the resentment of tens of thousands of Manchester City fans at the Etihad seemed to reach the sky!

Many reporters at the scene even felt their eardrums aching.

Even though Li Ang only moved to Chelsea last season, there is no doubt that he has now become one of the most hated players by all Manchester City fans.

Perhaps, this one can also be removed.

After all, Manchester United no longer poses much of a threat to Manchester City. Rooney, as the core of Manchester United, is not performing as well as he did year after year.

And Li Ang is young, and he led the rising Chelsea to a miserable defeat against Manchester City last season.

Even Guardiola had to use tactical concessions again to help Manchester City obtain a draw with Chelsea.

However, Li Ang performed exceptionally well in tough battles. In the showdown with Manchester City last season, Li Ang basically made a decisive contribution to Chelsea's victory.

Memories of failed duels last season came to mind. How could Manchester City fans restrain themselves from booing Li Ang, who was warming up confidently on the court at this moment?

Li Ang still looked normal. After smiling, he continued to engage in the pre-match warm-up session with his teammates seriously.

Salah looked at Li Ang's extremely calm appearance in the team, his eyes full of yearning and admiration. He subconsciously imitated Li Ang's slight raising of his head and continued to do warm-up movements meticulously.

Finally, when the players from both teams completed their final warm-up preparations and returned to the tunnel, the atmosphere became restless and excited!

After Li Ang returned to the locker room, he took out the clean towel prepared by the staff in advance and lightly wiped the sweat on his forehead and corners of his mouth.

Mourinho silently watched the Chelsea players enter the locker room one by one, and took the time to complete the last tactical reminder before the game.

He will adopt more aggressive offensive tactics in today's game than he has in previous matches against Guardiola.

To be honest, he no longer had the calm predictions he had in the past about the final outcome.

Because he was taking risks and no longer used his best method to drag Guardiola's team into a tactical quagmire.

Because of this risk, he is likely to consume part of the huge reputation he has accumulated in recent years in this game.

But he didn't care, even if Chelsea ended up losing this Premier League matchup.

As long as in this game, Chelsea's main players did show their training results during this period.

Then Mourinho will only think that such a failure is also an extremely valuable wealth of experience.

Of course, he would definitely not mention the worst-case scenario in his mind to the players.

After clearing his throat, Mourinho showed off his seemingly innate confidence and charm.

He doesn't like to use long speeches or violent physical and vocal methods to encourage morale in front of his players in the locker room before games.

He has done too many of these motivational methods in ordinary training grounds.

He has always believed that at the last moment before the game, time needs to be given back to the players who are ready to fight.

So after mentioning some tactical requirements and giving some simple encouragement.

Mourinho handed the locker room to Terry and Leon standing next to Terry.

The old captain Terry's encouragement method is very mature. The Chelsea locker room led by him has always completed these pre-match mobilization meetings relatively smoothly.

So today Li Ang is going to use a different way of encouragement...

When Li Ang stood in the center of the Chelsea locker room, many young players in the Chelsea team looked at him expectantly.

And Li Ang did not let his little brothers wait too long. He put his right arm on his chest, clenched it into a fist, and made his speech powerfully and confidently:

“Before the game, a reporter wanted to interview me and asked me what I thought of this first match with Manchester City in the new Premier League season.

I didn't answer him directly at that time, because the boss specifically told me before the game to keep a low profile this time, because we have to change the tactics. If we lose, it will be too embarrassing..."

When Li Ang said this, the Chelsea players around him laughed at the same time.

Mourinho's mouth also curved up, with his hands folded in front of his chest, looking at Li Ang calmly, as if he wanted to see what else he could do.

"But what I thought in my heart at that time was not that we would definitely beat Manchester City and would definitely continue to defend the new order we established in the Premier League.

Brothers, what I want to tell that reporter the most is: 'We will use this game to tell the whole of Europe that Chelsea is going to take the honor that should have belonged to it long ago'!

Our eyes will not only be on the Premier League, but on the whole of Europe and world football! ”

Leon’s voice of encouragement became louder and firmer, and it echoed in the away team’s locker room at the Etihad Stadium.

It also stirred the hearts of all Chelsea players and coaches at the scene!

“I have accomplished a miracle that I, or many professional players including you, thought was impossible to happen in contemporary football.

In two seasons, I have achieved the Grand Slam of club honors in Real Madrid!

I have six championships and the achievement of defending the Champions League after the reform.

I have achieved honorary goals that I can’t believe myself, so I deeply know that all the heavyweight championship titles actually come from our imaginations!

If our goal is just like Manchester City’s desire to defeat us at the moment, and we are always limited to the Premier League, then we will never be a great team.

So, let’s open our eyes and improve our confidence!

There will be Manchester City among our opponents, but not just Manchester City. We don’t need to use the victory of this game to demonstrate our advantage over Manchester City and our dominance over the Premier League.

Because we have already done this.

We should have greater aspirations and ambitions. This is a battle for us to prove ourselves to the whole of Europe again.

At the same time, I also hope that this is a battle to open the eyes of all members of our team and pursue their goals!

Some honors are destined to be won only on a road full of thorns and countless difficulties.

And I feel very fortunate today.

Because of me, you and me.

We have already come to this road! "

As soon as Li Ang finished speaking, the Chelsea locker room suddenly rang with the excited roars and thunderous applause of his teammates!

Even Terry, a veteran superstar who has been through many battles, was overwhelmed by Li Ang's passionate speech at this moment, and it was difficult for him to control himself!

He looked Li Ang up and down, applauding and thinking.

"Wouldn't this kid have rehearsed his speech in advance? "

Li Ang returned to the team amid the excited cheers of his teammates.

Such a long and inspiring speech, of course he would prepare in advance.

But it was not just to cheer up his teammates, so he had to spend so much effort to encourage them.

What Li Ang said was actually what he really thought, but he exaggerated a little in the choice of words.

After all, he transferred from Real Madrid to Chelsea in order to prove that he had the hard power to lead the team to the top of the football world.

If he didn't have this ambition, he would just stay in Real Madrid and wait until Ronaldo left the team in the future before officially becoming the only head of Real Madrid. The core of the brand, isn't that great?

It is not necessary to lead Chelsea to win three consecutive Champions League titles, surpassing Real Madrid, to be considered successful.

There are consecutive league titles, all domestic cups, and at least one Champions League trophy to lay the foundation for Chelsea to become a giant.

Then Li Ang's career experience in Chelsea is already as successful as it can be.

This is a basic and real requirement for Li Ang in his heart.

But Mourinho has done it easily in the past few seasons, and Li Ang has naturally learned a lot.

Aim for the best and get the middle.

This principle is actually very easy Understand.

Li Ang implicitly proposed that he wanted to lead Chelsea to achieve honors comparable to his time at Real Madrid.

He dared to think and speak.

And for the current group of young players in Chelsea.

Such lofty ambitions coming from the mouth of Li Ang, a superstar who has already been extremely successful, are naturally very convincing.

With a seemingly unattainable goal of honor to pursue, their motivation and fighting spirit will also be correspondingly improved.

Want to achieve the same achievements of defending the Champions League and winning six championships?

If you don't work hard and don't suffer too much, you can't even beat Manchester City now, Why do you dare to have such a dream?

Li Ang used Manchester City as a shield.

But it must be said that he did successfully boost the morale of the entire Chelsea team to its peak before the big game with Manchester City!

Mourinho was stunned watching from the side.

It was not until Terry roared and took the lead to walk out of the locker room that he reacted.

Li Ang's chicken blood speech seemed to really add BUFF to the entire Chelsea team!

The players of the two teams finally appeared in front of the camera with the referee team after much anticipation.

The commentators from various countries also became excited at this moment.

They took the time to quickly introduce the starting lineups and players of the two teams before the game started.

For Chelsea, the starting players were not much different from their previous arrangements in the Premier League.

The starting trident of Ibrahimovic, Hazard and De Bruyne made their collective debut.

Leon and Kroos controlled both sides of the midfield, and Matic fell back.

On the back line, Bertrand, Terry, Thiago Silva and Azpilicueta lined up from left to right.

Starting goalkeeper Cech.

As for Manchester City, Guardiola, who also played the 433 formation this season, also arranged his strongest starting lineup at the moment.

The forward trident was Navas, Aguero and Silva.

In the midfield, Fabregas, Rakitic and Fernandinho all played.

On the back line, Kolarov, Mangala, Kompany and Zabaleta lined up.

As for the starting goalkeeper, Valdes, who transferred to Manchester City in the last transfer window of the summer window, has gained more trust from Guardiola.

In terms of goal-line technology, Valdes may not be Joe Hart's opponent now, but his ball-passing technology is better and more in line with Guardiola's tactical requirements.

Guardiola seems to have created a set of formations and tactics he wants in Manchester City.

The new Manchester City, which has been blowing the passing and controlling whirlwind in the Premier League in the new season, is also constantly harvesting the favor of neutral fans.

Guardiola has been forbearing for a year, and now he is standing in front of Chelsea with full confidence.

The time before the game passed quickly, and soon it was time for the game to officially start.

Guardiola put his hands in his pockets, looking elegant, and his eyes were more confident than before.

Manchester City, who took the lead in kicking off, quickly deployed the formation after the referee blew the whistle, and took over the control of the game in the midfield with great strength.

But Chelsea was not willing to give in at all. They also played the 433 formation and quickly launched a high-pressure campaign against Manchester City throughout the game!

If Manchester City's main high-pressure campaign is to form a threat to the opponent's hinterland and quickly penetrate the attack, it is a dangerous and lingering offensive method.

Then Chelsea's high-pressure campaign is pure storm!

Chelsea, who has seized the ball, must quickly launch at least one complete attack.

Either quickly score the ball into the opponent's penalty area, or lose the ball during the attack, and then form a pressure counterattack in the frontcourt again!

Such a fierce confrontation made the competition between the two sides in the midfield enter an absolutely anxious and white-hot state from the beginning.

Manchester City's technical advantage is visible to the naked eye, but facing Chelsea's completely energy-saving crazy running and pressing, Manchester City's midfield and backcourt players will inevitably make some ball control errors.

Generally speaking, at this time, Manchester City only needs to maintain the integrity and stability of the back line, and there is no need to be too nervous.

After all, although Joe Hart sometimes gets sick and makes some small mistakes in saving, in most cases, he is a trustworthy defensive gate on Manchester City's back line.

Li Ang usually does not make aggressive offensive attempts at the beginning of such an important game.

But after seeing that the goalkeeper guarding Manchester City's goal today is Valdes, he changed his mind.

Because he knows how bad Valdes' performance will be after leaving Barcelona!

In the 14th minute of the first half, Li Ang took the initiative to move forward and cooperated with Ibrahimovic who was retreating to complete a positional interception of Fabregas.

Just as Fabregas was about to call his teammates to help him regain the ball, Li Ang had already transferred the ball to the right side!

De Bruyne, who got the ball, almost sent a straight pass to the right half of Manchester City's rib area at the moment of stopping the ball!

Ibrahimovic, who had retreated and pressed, turned and moved forward to get the ball. After attracting Fernandinho to make up for the defense, he knocked the ball horizontally in the middle.

At this moment, the live camera was also closely focused on Li Ang who inserted into the middle of the midfield!

Guardiola was nervous at that moment.

But when he thought that it was Valdes instead of Joe Hart who was in charge of the goal today, he was relieved.

But in the next moment, Li Ang decisively kicked a long-range shot in the area two steps away from Manchester City's penalty area!

The football hardly spun in the air, and went straight to the upper right corner of Manchester City's goal!

Valdes made a very brave save!

His left palm had reached the football, but at the moment when Manchester City fans felt ecstatic, he showed his devilish side.

"Butter hands! God! Valdes failed to save Li Ang's long shot! He had butter hands! The football crossed the line and hit the net, my God!

Li Ang helped Chelsea take a 1-0 lead early in the first half!"

After watching the football really hit the net, Li Ang also excitedly stuck out his tongue at the live camera!

Then he opened his arms, shouted wildly and rushed to the bottom line of Manchester City's half to celebrate!

Facing a different goalkeeper, Li Ang knocked on Manchester City's door in the same way!

At this moment, he seemed to be silently telling Guardiola, who was covering his face with his hands, with the excited smile on his face:

"Guardiola, I am your defense breaker!"