Chapter 278 Ambitious Three-Line Rush

Li Ang's hat trick dealt the heaviest psychological blow to the entire Manchester City team.

After this goal was scored, Chelsea successfully called off the game.

With a three-goal advantage in hand, Mourinho has also verified the feasibility of the team's improved tactics.

At the last moment of the game, as the leading side, it is of course necessary to replace the defensive players to consolidate the fruits of victory.

So Mourinho naturally played the third substitution card in his hand.

In the 84th minute of the second half, Mourinho replaced Li Ang, who shone all over the field today, with Mikel.

At the Etihad Stadium, Li Ang naturally would not receive applause and cheers from the audience, but at least at this moment, he could not hear the ridicule and booing.

A few minutes ago, when he scored his third goal of the game, many Manchester City fans at the scene began to leave one after another.

At this moment, the Manchester City fans who still stayed to support the team did not have much time to mock Li Ang.

After all, it was they who had the home advantage today, and Chelsea did not use any tricks.

Li Ang also scored three goals by himself.

Perhaps from the overall tactical arrangement, Manchester City's performance is still remarkable and there are no mistakes.

But losing is losing. The score of 1-4 is enough to explain many problems. If you are not as good as others, then you can review and practice hard.

It is normal to support your own team before the game and boo the opponent's core players. Fans of every club will do this.

But it is somewhat embarrassing to make such a move after a disastrous defeat.

Obviously, although Manchester City fans are eager to see the team beat Chelsea, the victim of last season, at home, they can also afford to lose.

After seeing the silence at the Etihad, Li Ang did not make any provocative moves that would easily cause controversy after the game.

After clapping and waving at the stands where Chelsea fans gathered, Li Ang smiled and hugged Mourinho on the sidelines, and then celebrated with other coaches and substitute teammates one by one.

There was little time left in the game, and at the last moment, Manchester City got a chance for a set piece in the frontcourt.

David Silva and Fabregas played a tactical set-piece cooperation, and finally Fabregas made a cross and assisted Kompany to score a header and pull one back.

But this was the last threatening opportunity Manchester City had in this game.

The referee blew the whistle to end the game directly after the game restarted again!

4-2!

Chelsea defeated Manchester City again at the Etihad Stadium with a passionate and aggressive full-court pressure and crazy running tactics!

After watching this game, many neutral fans will definitely have a passionate discussion and comparison on the performance of the two teams on the field today.

As for sports media reporters and industry insiders from various countries.

They are probably more interested in the improved new tactics shown by Manchester City and Chelsea in the game today.

Guardiola added more pass-run confrontation and pressing threats to his past passing and controlling system.

And Mourinho is even more obviously trying to learn the full-court high-pressure offensive tactics that the coach had a great success last season.

However, in the improved high-pressure tactics of the whole court, Mourinho pays more attention to the extreme pressure on the enemy's organizational space during the pressing.

If it were last season, Mourinho's tactical experiment might not be favored by many tactical analysts or even coaches in the industry.

The reason is very simple. The overall personnel composition of Chelsea last season was relatively reasonable, and the tactical integration was quite good.

But there are still many veterans in the main lineup.

Apart from anything else, it is quite difficult for Mourinho to implement this set of high-pressure tactics for all players just because Ibrahimovic has the privilege of not returning to defense.

This is not difficult to understand, because even if only one offensive player has such a privilege of not returning to defense.

Then it requires the other two or even three frontcourt players to run more and harder to make up for the loss of the defensive system caused by his lack of active pressing.

But this season, Ibrahimovic took the initiative to participate in the high-pressure of the entire Chelsea team.

It is not to occasionally cooperate with teammates to do this in a certain period of time during the game, nor to do this in one or two games occasionally.

Since the start of this season, whenever Ibrahimovic started a game, he made his defensive contribution as much as possible when the team needed it.

When Chelsea's midfield was further reorganized, Lampard returned to the bench and waited for Matic + Kroos + Leon.

Or the midfield combination of Matic + Kroos + Leon + De Bruyne appeared more in Chelsea's starting lineup.

Chelsea's midfield running ability is naturally stronger than last season.

And on both offense and defense, the current Chelsea midfield combination is obviously much more balanced than last season.

Last season, Chelsea was finally eliminated from the Champions League by Bayern, in fact, the difference was that the midfield offense and defense were too dependent on Leon.

At that time, the double defensive midfielder combination of Leon and Matic was enough to compete with Bayern's Schweinsteiger and Martinez combination.

In terms of defense alone, Chelsea's double defensive midfielder combination can even be said to be the strongest in Europe.

But once Leon retreated, Lampard, who returned to the eighth position, could no longer take on the responsibility of rushing forward and organizing the attack.

A midfield combination that only defends but not attacks, no matter how strong the defense is, it can't withstand the continuous offensive impact of the Bayern team last season.

It is absolutely unacceptable to just take a beating without fighting back.

But if Leon's position was not good at that time, Matic would be dragged behind and unable to support alone.

No matter who starts with Lampard and Ramirez, they will eventually become a "burden" on the defensive end.

There is no way. The Robben-Ribery combination, which exploded at the end of the season last season, is too strong to work alone.

People are not stupid enough to find Matic for a one-on-one breakthrough.

When Leon is not defending in the backcourt, Robben and Ribery look for opportunities to force Lampard and Ramirez, and they are accurate.

Once the rib area is lost in the first half, Chelsea's defense line is found by Muller, which is really painful!

But this season, Chelsea, who has updated the midfield configuration again, has no such problems.

In normal games, Matic and Kroos are behind Leon, responsible for defense and organizing the team, while Leon is lightly equipped and focused on attacking.

This regular combination of the three has their own duties, and their abilities are at the top level in football, so the cooperation is simply too perfect.

And when Chelsea encounters a super strong team like Bayern again, it will not be as embarrassed as last season.

Because Leon can not only press forward with all his strength to attack, but also stay back with Matic to withstand the opponent's crazy attack pressure, and let Kroos control the offensive organization.

If you want to further enhance your control over the midfield.

Then Chelsea's current midfield trio plus a retreating De Bruyne is basically the most luxurious four-midfield configuration in football.

Moreover, Chelsea can play both the diamond-shaped four-midfield position and the four-midfield position in a row.

After all, Leon proved his super adaptability in Milan.

Li Ang has played as a front midfielder and retreated to the midfield wing, whether on the left or the right, and De Bruyne can play on both sides.

So as long as Mourinho wants, he can now play with the arrangement of the starting lineup!

It's just that the new season has just begun, and Chelsea has not encountered too many challenging opponents.

Today, they also beat Manchester City strongly with a regular formation. For Mourinho, the killer of the starting arrangement that confuses the opponent can continue to be hidden.

But Chelsea, who are showing their edge, will definitely not be able to keep a low profile in this new season.

The day after the game with Manchester City, the front-page headlines of various British media were basically news reports about Chelsea's strong defense of its dominance in the Premier League.

Fans from all over the world are also constantly browsing the highlights of Chelsea's victory over Manchester City on the Internet, and commenting on Li Ang's hat trick with full gold content.

In contrast, the news that West Ham United overturned Liverpool 3-1 and the newly promoted Leicester City defeated Manchester United 5-3 by a big score was almost ignored.

Of course, for the players of Liverpool and Manchester United, it was very good news that not many fans discussed their upset defeat after the game.

Otherwise, Liverpool could find some reasons to explain to the fans when they lost to the Hammers in an away game.

But Manchester United was humiliated by Leicester City, a newly promoted team, with five goals. It was not so easy to escape the overwhelming accusations from fans and the media~

Speaking of which, Manchester United had two wins, two losses and one draw in the league last season under Moyes' leadership.

Among them, the losses were Liverpool and Manchester City, two strong teams that broke into the top four of the league after the end of the season.

As a result, the media and Manchester United fans at that time had a harsh attitude towards Moyes and shouted the slogan of letting Moyes go early.

This season is good. Manchester United invited the real famous coach Van Gaal, and the team also invested a lot of money in signings.

It can be said that during the preparation period, the various moves of Manchester United's top management made the Red Devils fans very satisfied.

As a result, Van Gaal only achieved one win, two draws and two losses in the league this season.

This result?

It was so bad that the Manchester United fans who spoke up for him before the season are now in so much pain!

As for the 3-5 loss to the newly promoted Leicester City in this round of the league, it was even more shameless...

But now Manchester United fans are also in a dilemma.

After all, they had already sprayed Moyes away last season, and the coach who came now is the one they are more satisfied with.

At least before the start of the season, a lot of Manchester United fans expressed their firm support for Van Gaal.

No matter how bad Van Gaal is now, at least he should be given a full season.

As for whether Van Gaal will bring happiness or continue to suffer to Manchester United fans in the future, we can only wait and see...

After the fifth round of the Premier League, Chelsea won all five games and ranked first in the Premier League with 15 points.

The second place in the Premier League is Arsenal, which had previously achieved an excellent record of three wins and two draws!

After the running-in last season, Cavani's speed in entering the game state this season is obviously much faster.

In the first five Premier League games, he scored in every game, and his form was simply overwhelming.

Suarez, who scored 31 league goals last season and won the Premier League Golden Boot, has been in a relatively ordinary state at the beginning of this season.

In the first five Premier League games, Suarez contributed two goals and one assist.

It's not bad that he could be slow to warm up, but Sturridge's goal efficiency has plummeted this season, and he can't help him share the burden of scoring.

In addition, Sterling's economic team and Liverpool's top management have a stalemate over the renewal of salary, and Sterling's own state has also been greatly affected.

Two members of the young forward combination that made great contributions to Liverpool's entry into the top four of the Premier League last season have been silent.

No matter how strong Suarez's personal ability is, he can only struggle to lead the team forward when he is in average form.

Liverpool's decline after a season of strength seems inevitable at present.

Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal have continued their good form last season.

Now it seems that they will basically each lock in a place in the top four of the Premier League this season.

After Liverpool fell behind, the vacant Premier League Champions League qualification spot immediately made the remaining Premier League giants jealous.

It is conceivable that in the Premier League after this season, the competition between the fourth to eighth Premier League teams will be much more intense than last season.

For these teams, getting a European qualification in the end is the ultimate goal of the season.

In order to achieve this goal, they can completely give up the two cup competitions in England in the new season.

On September 24, in the third round of the League Cup, Everton and Tottenham took the lead and sent out a pure substitute lineup to face low-level opponents.

Of course, for Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal, this season's English domestic cup competition is not a burden.

At least before the start of the FA Cup in the second half of the league, the League Cup will not affect their preparations for the league and the Champions League.

Facing the Championship team Bolton Wanderers in this round, Chelsea sat at home at Stamford Bridge and sent out an almost purely rotated starting lineup to face them.

Li Ang still started the game, and today his midfield partner became Van Ginkel and Lampard.

On the forward line, Drogba and Lukaku, the big and small monsters, started together, and Salah served as the right sharp knife.

On the defensive line, Ashley Cole, Maguire, Kalas and Ivanovic lined up.

Cech also took a rest today, and Begovic was the starting goalkeeper.

Although Chelsea nominally sent out a rotation lineup.

But when the head coach and players of Bolton Wanderers saw the starting lineup that Chelsea had announced long before the game.

They were not excited at all, but felt a lot of pressure!

And Li Ang did not mean to let the game go.

From the beginning of the game, he was very active in asking for the ball, and then cooperated with Salah to forcibly tear open Bolton's left defense line, and made offensive articles along the way!

Facts have also proved that Bolton's defense line, which Li Ang could not read the familiar name at all, is very average.

Li Ang made it clear that Salah would attack Bolton's left, but Bolton really couldn't defend it.

In the 37th minute of the first half, Chelsea took a 2-0 lead at home.

After halftime, Mourinho replaced Ashley Cole with Ake, and then replaced Van Ginkel with Mikel, allowing him to continue to find the feeling of the game.

Bolton, however, completely failed to seize the opportunity of Chelsea's substitutions to slow down the pace of the game.

It was not until Lukaku and Drogba made efforts one after another, and each of them scored a goal, changing the score to 4-0, that the Bolton team launched a desperate attack.

Mourinho did not replace the defensive players to stop Bolton's counterattack.

Li Ang finally used a straight pass that completely penetrated Bolton's half-court defense, and assisted Salah to score the final goal of the game in the 81st minute of the second half!

In the end, Chelsea won a five-goal victory at home, continuing to maintain a record of undefeated in all competitions in the new season!

And the ambitions of Chelsea players began to grow wildly with the soaring results!