Chapter 279 It’s Not that We Played Well, It’s that Our Opponents Were Too Bad.

Winning streaks can always inspire the confidence of professional players and their ambition to pursue championship honors.

After Chelsea won seven consecutive victories in three events in the new season, the players in the team will naturally enter a state of training and competition with full confidence.

This is not an inflated mentality, but a winner's mentality.

If they keep winning, the victory will naturally bring the players a happy mood and the motivation to keep striving for a longer winning streak.

Moreover, with Mourinho and the coaching staff constantly reminding them, it is not easy for the players in the Chelsea team to have an inflated mentality now.

Last season, Hazard and Bertrand just got inflated, but they were caught by Mourinho and Li Ang and taught them a lesson in turn.

Mourinho's temporary preaching and ridicule can be tolerated by the young players in the Chelsea team now.

But Li Ang's "mental bombardment" and his terrifying requirements for extra training and sparring directly hold the life gates of these young guys.

Anyway, Hazard and Bertrand, who were tortured by Li Ang's extra training last season, were finally made obedient.

The other young Chelsea players who watched Li Ang and the two crying and shouting in training never dared to have any idea of ​​swell mentality since then.

So now, no matter how nice or disgusting the outside world's praise is.

The preparation atmosphere in Chelsea is always positive and upbeat, and there is no arrogance.

And Li Ang and Kroos stand together. The club's honor grand slam and the World Cup champion are all collected.

Neither of them was lazy in training because of this, and asked the coaching staff for privileges, so the other young Chelsea players naturally dared not get angry and cause trouble.

Mourinho is very satisfied with the current enthusiastic training and fighting mood of the internal players.

But considering that after the next round of the league, Chelsea will go away to play the second round of the Champions League group to challenge Sporting Lisbon.

Mourinho still has to make the starting arrangements for the next two rounds of the game according to the physical condition and age of each main player.

After playing the third round of the League Cup against Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea got two and a half days of rest.

On the afternoon of September 27, Chelsea once again played at home and faced the challenge of Aston Villa, the opponent in the sixth round of the Premier League.

In this round of the league, Mourinho simply continued to let Ibrahimovic and Terry, two veterans in the main lineup, rest.

In terms of the choice of the starting lineup, he also directly arranged a variant of the 442 formation.

That is, in the position of the fixed 433 formation, the right winger De Bruyne was taken out alone and placed in the position of the wing front midfielder.

In such a formation, De Bruyne can be on the wing or in the middle, and his position is very flexible, and his ability to pass the threatening ball forward will be further released.

And he can swap with Li Ang in the central midfielder position at any time.

At that time, De Bruyne retreated and played back to the orthodox No. 8 position, and controlled the midfield rhythm with Kroos.

Li Ang rushed forward and ambushed behind the center forward, participating in the attack as a front midfielder or even a second striker.

In terms of formation changes and on-the-spot adjustments of tactics, Chelsea, which started with this set, is undoubtedly very flexible.

Aston Villa obviously didn't expect Chelsea to prepare such a tactical package for them at home today before the game.

So much so that at the beginning of the game, Aston Villa's defensive midfielder and left back were a little confused.

What kind of defensive strength should be used to target De Bruyne and Li Ang who kept changing positions.

After all, Chelsea no longer has a traditional "right winger" in this game.

Then De Bruyne, or Li Ang, who is active in Villa's flank area.

When the two of them did not pull the side to receive the ball, but kept retreating to receive the ball and organize, should Villa's midfielder and full-back follow them to press out to do defensive restrictions?

Such tactical problems were directly thrown to Aston Villa's head coach by Mourinho.

And Chelsea players, who have long been accustomed to such a new set of tactical play, quickly used the advantage of the number of midfielders to penetrate Villa's back line!

In the 19th minute of the first half, Li Ang received a through ball from Kroos at the moment of changing positions with De Bruyne, and forced to accelerate past Villa's midfielder Westwood.

At the moment when Villa's right midfielder, Cleverley, who was loaned to Villa from Manchester United this summer, rushed to defend.

Li Ang sent a diagonal over-the-top pass without hesitation!

Lukaku, who started with Drogba again today, suddenly accelerated on the left, then stopped and took the ball, violently breaking through the defense of Villa's right back Hutton!

Chelsea's sudden attack this time completely disrupted Aston Villa's backcourt defense.

Although the quality of Lukaku's cross after going down the bottom was somewhat average.

But Drogba finally overpowered the opponent's central defender, who was also his old friend, Senderos, on the right side of Villa's penalty area, and successfully grabbed a point!

The African Warcraft successfully headed the ball back and headed the ball to the middle of Aston Villa's penalty area.

Before Nathan Baker, another central defender of Villa, made up for the defense.

A figure wearing a blue No. 10 jersey rushed over, took the ball one step forward, and then pushed the ball into the far corner of Aston Villa's goal with his left foot!

This was a very light and decisive shot from the far corner.

When the Aston Villa penalty area was in chaos, such a clever shot was indeed beyond the expectations of the Aston Villa defenders!

Villa goalkeeper Guzan made a slightly panicked save.

His huge body, which was 1.93 meters tall and weighed 94 kilograms, seemed a little bulky when he got off the ground.

But these are not the main factors that affect his fighting mentality.

What finally made him despair was the extremely tricky angle of Li Ang's kick!

Guzan couldn't believe that Li Ang possessed such shooting skills? !

After the football finally hit the inside of the upright in the far corner of Villa's goal, it slowly rubbed the side netting and rolled into the net.

Commentators from various countries also held the commentary scripts in their hands and exclaimed in disbelief!

"The goal is in! A tricky shot from Li Ang! This is an extremely wonderful push from the far corner! But now I would rather believe that such a shot came from Messi or Robin van Persie!"

God...Leon is already showing us another shooting skill he has learned! "

"Incredible shooting accuracy! This is Li Ang's terrifying growth talent. Are there any skills on the field that he can't learn?! Today's young forwards should really take a look at the quality of Li Ang's shot!"

"Leon is such a scary guy! His talent is the best in football. Maybe one day we can see him stand on the front line to compete with Melo!"

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Li Ang couldn't hear the exaggerated exclamations of commentators from various countries at this moment.

He was actually also surprised that he could shoot such a high-quality shot.

Recently, he has practiced a lot of conventional shooting skills, and his shooting ability value has gradually approached 82, and he is about to make a breakthrough.

This value is actually quite good when compared to the four major leagues. It can at least match the goal shooting skills of the main shooters of the relegation teams in the four major leagues.

But when it comes to stably producing the same level of shooting as before, he is still far from it now.

There was an element of luck in this goal, but it can also be seen as a reward for his recent hard work on shooting skills.

After all, now he can occasionally hit such a magical shot.

After going to the corner flag area with his teammates to celebrate happily, Li Ang carefully recalled the feeling of completing the shot before, and then suppressed the idea of ​​trying more shots.

"The feeling of scoring a beautiful goal is so easy to get addicted to..."

Li Ang feels that sometimes if he acts willfully, his teammates won't blame him.

But as the core of the current team, he still feels that he must focus more on his tactical responsibilities.

After the game restarted, Liang began to retreat more and sit in the midfield, partnering with Matic to defend first, and then seize the opportunity of Villa's aggressive attack to pass forward for a quick counterattack.

Today, De Bruyne was the one making the final pass, so Li Ang no longer had to worry about finding a way to send a threatening through ball.

In the 53rd minute of the second half, De Bruyne assisted Drogba with a direct pass and scored the second goal of the game.

The game situation was basically completely in the hands of Chelsea's midfield combination.

Aston Villa's subsequent long passes posed little threat to Chelsea's defense.

However, today the little monster Lukaku also switched to happy mode and spit out the two big pies that Kroos and Li Ang gave him in the second half.

Seeing this, Mourinho could only withdraw his troops early and replaced Gary Cahill and Ramirez to consolidate the defense.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Aston Villa 2-0 without any blood and won another victory at home.

At the same time, it also increased their winning streak in all competitions since the start of this season to eight!

This has greatly enhanced Chelsea fans' confidence in winning the next Champions League group stage.

Just two days after Chelsea defeated Aston Villa, Mourinho led the team to Lisbon, Portugal.

Today's Sporting Lisbon is actually not weak based on its paper strength.

Patricio, Mauricio, Joao Mario, William Carvalho, Nani…

Taken together, these players almost form half of the Portuguese national team.

However, Sporting Lisbon suffered an embarrassing draw with the Slovenian team Maribor in the first round of the group stage.

It really makes it difficult for the Chelsea team to pay more attention to them.

In the Champions League group match that day, Li Ang also kept in mind the tactical tasks assigned to him by the coaching staff before the game.

He did not tangle too much with the players on the wings of Sporting Lisbon's midfield, but directly went one-on-one to beat Sporting Lisbon's single midfielder William Carvalho!

This guy has a good physique and outstanding skills, but his speed is really slow.

Li Ang directly penetrated Sporting Lisbon's weak midfield defense with almost incomprehensible acceleration time and time again.

If William Carvalho can be paired with a defensive midfielder partner who is strong enough in running ability and flexible enough in defense, then his organizational performance will be even higher.

But Sporting Lisbon can't get such a defensive player now, so it can only let William Carvalho stay behind and play as a defensive midfielder.

Sporting Lisbon's coaching staff can only withstand the huge tactical pressure brought to them by this tactical shortcoming.

Li Ang finally achieved another outstanding personal record in passing and shooting in this Champions League group match.

William Carvalho was completely unable to limit his strong breakthrough performance. He received his second personal yellow card early in the 63rd minute of the second half and was sent off directly.

Sporting Lisbon, which had lost its midfield barrier, conceded two goals in a row in the last thirty minutes of the game, and eventually lost 1-4 at the feet of Chelsea.

At the same time, in another competition venue, Schalke 04 and Maribor finished their group matches at almost the same time.

Schalke 04, like Sporting Lisbon in the first round, was tied by Maribor and only got one point!

So after the first two rounds of the Champions League group stage, Chelsea topped the Champions League Group G, but Maribor ranked second!

Schalke 04 and Sporting Lisbon only scored one point after two rounds, and their performance was really bad!

In an interview with Sky Sports reporters after the game, Li Ang bluntly said:

"Maybe, it's not that we played too well, but that they played too badly. Well, their performance this season is really a bit rubbish..."