Chapter 285: Scored Double-Digit Goals in the League, First in the Premier League Scorer List!

"Leon scored his ninth goal in the Premier League this season! His goal felt so hot!

So far, Leon, who has scored nine league goals, has caught up with Cavani, and he and Cavani have successfully shared the top spot in the Premier League scorer list!

Perhaps the regret that he was only one goal away from achieving the double 20 achievements in a single Premier League season last season further motivated him.

After becoming a superstar, Leon is still evolving and growing!

I think many fans are looking forward to it. After the end of this season, Leon will break the record set by Henry and set up a more shocking data monument for the later generations!

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After Leon successfully scored his ninth league goal this season, the Sky Sports commentator also celebrated excitedly!

Nine goals in nine rounds since the start of the new season, plus four assists!

Leon not only continued his hot performance last season, but his offensive performance has also become more and more stable.

This stable and efficient offense may make Leon have fewer single-game performances with explosive data compared to last season.

But coaches and professional players in the industry understand how terrifying it is to have an offensive player who can steadily output one goal per game.

Not to mention that Li Ang's current average number of goals per game has already reached the terrifying concept of "two"!

If the data of a League Cup and three rounds of the Champions League group stage are also added.

Not counting this Premier League game that has not yet been played, Li Ang has already played 13 goals and 11 assists in 12 games!

You know, the season is not even a quarter of the way through.

Li Ang, who has played double-ten data and averaged two goals per game, is already a presence that other Premier League stars need to look up to.

Li Ang's heart is not so inflated that he thinks he can maintain this offensive efficiency for a whole season.

He has been in good shape recently, and it is right for him to perform well, but objectively speaking, he has also taken advantage of the recent schedule.

Take the last Champions League group match as an example. If it were not against a weak team like Maribor, Li Ang would not have easily brushed out three goals and two assists.

Li Ang feels that among the characteristics that can be regarded as advantages, the one that makes him most satisfied is self-knowledge.

If the game is played well, he will be crazy, but he will never overestimate his ability because he has squeezed too many soft persimmons.

His temperament is the same as Mourinho. From the bottom of his heart, he prefers to pursue a steady victory, so he has always seen his own abilities very clearly.

Only when you know yourself clearly can you be more confident in targeting the enemy.

Just like today's match against Manchester United, Chelsea's coaching staff and Li Ang have already completed the preparations very confidently before the game.

It was within their expectations to score the first goal.

In the subsequent game process, Li Ang does not want to, and will not give Manchester United the opportunity to pry the situation because of carelessness and arrogance.

Against the current Premier League top teams, Chelsea may need to work harder on the offensive end.

Because these strong teams generally advocate offensive football, after they press out, their own half will always leave Chelsea with enough counterattack space to use.

But facing Manchester United, who can already put down their face and focus on defensive counterattacks, it is at Old Trafford, where Manchester United players are likely to get a psychological boost.

Chelsea had planned to prioritize solid defense from the beginning of the game.

At this moment, Li Ang decisively returned to the defensive midfielder position after scoring a goal.

Before, his position was almost the same as Kroos, but he would retreat more to assist Ashley Cole in defense.

Now he simply played back to his old position, and Kroos also played back to his familiar number ten position for the first time in Chelsea.

In this way, Chelsea's defensive strength to contain Manchester United's counterattack in their own half has been greatly strengthened.

However, the tactical feast prepared by the Chelsea coaching staff for Manchester United is more than just this.

Perhaps many Manchester United fans have not yet seen the tactical changes after Chelsea's slight adjustment.

They only saw that after the game resumed, Manchester United's players seemed to press into Chelsea's half more than before to press Chelsea's backcourt ball holders.

Under the illusion that "the rhythm of the game will eventually be snatched by Manchester United", many Red Devils fans are slowly getting better.

But Van Gaal is a famous coach in football after all, and his ability to read the situation of the game has always been one of the best in football.

Watching Matic and Li Ang as part-time defenders and ball organizers, they almost became Chelsea's third and fourth central defenders.

He quickly recalled the scene of Manchester City using backcourt ball control to break Chelsea's crazy pressing!

Compared to the tactics of Manchester City piling up technical players in the backcourt at that time, enhancing the control of the ball and the ability to conduct to break the high-pressure pressing.

Mourinho's set of full-backs moving inward and forward and the midfielder sinking to the bottom of the ball control tactics today is equivalent to adding an extra safety lock to his own defense line!

After all, no matter how you look at it, once the back midfielder combination of Fabregas and Fernandinho faces the situation of losing the ball due to a backcourt pass and control error.

Their ability to counter-grab and intercept opponents is definitely not as good as the combination of Li Ang and Matic.

And the back midfielder sinking tactics arranged by Mourinho today are also more interesting.

Li Ang and Matic did not retreat to the central defender line together without thinking.

Instead, they took turns to retreat, forming a three-center-back insurance line with Maguire and Thiago Silva.

In terms of the ability to pass the ball backward, Li Ang and Matic can be said to be among the best in the defensive midfielder position.

Therefore, no matter which of them is delayed, they can ensure that Chelsea's last line of defense has a stable point to pass the ball.

At this moment, Chelsea's pseudo three-center-back formation can protect its own penalty area quite tightly.

The two full-backs moved forward and inward, and together with another defensive midfielder with a large running range and Kroos who often retreated, they formed a ball-control group.

Moreover, the two full-backs were active in the rib area, which basically blocked the possibility of Manchester United's threatening through pass after grabbing the ball in Chelsea's half.

They couldn't penetrate the ribs and kicked high balls, but Chelsea's defenders were not afraid.

In this case, even if Manchester United was lucky enough to steal the ball, they could only give the ball to the wing first.

This also gave Chelsea time to quickly adjust the formation and consolidate the defense.

Of course, this kind of tactical play is only applicable when the opponent is pressing at a high position at all costs.

If the opponent is holding the ball and attacking, then the gaps on Chelsea's two sides will be too big.

Mourinho used this backcourt ball control tactic against Manchester United today, and he also had some thoughts of experimenting.

Manchester City used this trick to deal with Chelsea's high pressure before, and the effect was still very good.

Mourinho does not have as many tactical ideas as Guardiola, but he can still copy the ready-made homework and flexibly apply it to his own tactical framework.

After using this set of tactics, watching Manchester United's players on the field consuming their physical energy in vain, it was difficult to grab the ball from Chelsea's half.

Mourinho sat in the coaching seat and also showed a relieved smile.

But he could sit still, but Van Gaal next door could not sit still for a moment.

There were no small and agile defensive players available. Van Gaal watched the tall Fellaini slip away in Chelsea's half and had no temper, and he was also anxious.

Three minutes later, Rooney, who had finished warming up, stood on the sidelines.

Soon, Van Persie, who had made no achievements on the field today, was reminded by the referee to speed up his pace.

During the World Cup this summer, Van Gaal and Van Persie, who had staged a scene of deep affection between master and apprentice, passed by each other like strangers at this time!

Neither of them greeted each other or made any tactical communication.

Van Gaal looked expressionlessly at Rooney, who kept explaining his tactical intentions after coming on the field.

And Van Persie covered his face with a towel directly after sitting on the bench.

It seems that no matter what the result of today's game is, there will be no shortage of news reports about "the master-apprentice split in the Manchester United team" tomorrow.

After all, he was rudely replaced by his former national team mentor before the half-time game was even finished.

As the top star in today's football world, Van Persie must be embarrassed and it is impossible for him to continue to show his goodwill to Van Gaal in a servile manner.

However, let’s not talk about the subsequent impact for now. After Rooney replaced Van Persie, Manchester United’s overall pressure on Chelsea has indeed reached a new level.

Rooney is indeed too versatile.

It seems that he must play as a center forward to replace Van Persie, but in fact, Van Gaal’s move at this time is to further strengthen Manchester United’s frontcourt pressing.

Rooney’s range of activities in the frontcourt is naturally incomparable to Van Persie.

Rooney, who participated in the full-court pressing of Chelsea, is more like a midfielder than a forward at this moment.

Chelsea’s ball possession formation in the backcourt was inevitably scattered by Manchester United’s speed increase.

Fortunately, Li Ang took the ball from Matic in time, used a few 360-degree flexible turns to avoid the close pressing of Manchester United players, and stabilized the situation.

Then Li Ang found an opportunity to push the ball to Ashley Cole who suddenly accelerated forward.

Just when all Manchester United players thought Ashley Cole would continue to advance along the wing.

This experienced former Premier League No. 1 left-back used a long diagonal pass to directly launch Chelsea's second attack!

Controlling the ball in the backcourt to break the defense, the full-back took the ball inward and assumed the responsibility of the midfield, and launched a long pass counterattack after advancing!

Such a tactical concept was completely ahead of its time in the football world in 2014.

If we have to say that it has formed a prototype, we have to look at Guardiola's flexible use of Alves when he was coaching Barcelona.

Ashley Cole in his prime was more balanced in both offense and defense than Alves.

If we look at the offensive skills and aggressiveness of the back insertion, Ashley Cole may not be as good as Alves.

But in terms of reading the rhythm of the game and the ability to speed up and send a long pass for counterattacks, Ashley Cole is getting better and better with age, and is not worse than Alves at all.

Salah, who accelerated on the right side of the frontcourt, once again unloaded the ball and shook off Luke Shaw.

But this time Van Gaal couldn't blame Luke Shaw for his poor defense.

Because in the tactical adjustment that he brought Rooney to the field, there was an instruction to let Luke Shaw participate more in the counterattack in the front position.

So it's not that Luke Shaw doesn't want to retreat and defend actively, but he can't do it now.

Once he retreats, Di Maria can't carry the team alone, and Manchester United's left wing, which could have played a little bit of offense, can only be extinguished like the right wing.

At this moment, Manchester United is taking the unavoidable risks in Van Gaal's forward pressing tactical layout.

But this time they didn't expect that Chelsea didn't pass the ball to the winger through the back-up of the central player.

Ashley Cole's sudden forward pass directly disrupted Manchester United's defensive deployment.

And Salah, who had already shaken off Luke Shaw, was even more far away on the right, holding the ball and going into Manchester United's defensive hinterland!

Ibrahimovic did not immediately respond to Salah, but instead widened the gap between him and Salah and rushed forward on his own.

However, his offensive choice also directly took away Manchester United's left center back Rojo, and also involved some of Carrick's defensive energy.

After all, there is an offensive killer like Ibrahimovic running without the ball behind him. No matter which midfielder, it is impossible to focus only on the ball holder at this moment.

So Carrick inevitably made a defensive mistake. He did not resolutely stop Salah outside Manchester United's defensive third zone at the first time.

He is old and his burst speed is slower.

Facing a fast winger like Salah, his first step did not get stuck, and his ending is self-evident.

After forcibly changing direction and overtaking Carrick, Salah quickly cut inside to the right edge of Manchester United's penalty area.

He even had time to calmly switch the ball to his left foot, and then made a well-prepared and accurate cross!

Finding the landing point of the high-altitude ball is not difficult for Ibrahimovic now.

However, Salah's ball was not directly aimed at him, and Ibrahimovic, who saw that the ball would fall to the back point, also made a tactical bait for Lukaku.

Smalling was disturbed by Ibrahimovic's decisive forward movement.

So after seeing the landing point of the ball, it was too late for him to rush to the back point to defend.

Lukaku's huge figure in the air was immediately imprinted in the eyes of countless fans in front of the TV.

The little monster shook his head confidently, and the ball hit the right spot, and the power of this header was also full.

But the angle of the ball he headed was too straight, so even if the distance was very close, De Gea still used his brave hands to block the ball!

But before the Manchester United fans at the scene could cheer in surprise, a figure rushed into the Manchester United penalty area and hit the ball that De Gea had saved with an unconventional knee header!

Even if De Gea, who had just landed, reacted quickly, it was difficult for him to make a second save at this time!

And when they saw the face of the figure who made the supplementary shot, all Manchester United fans subconsciously let out a wail!

"Li Ang! Li Ang completed the supplementary shot! This ball was picked up! The tenth goal in the league! Li Ang is the top scorer in the Premier League!!!"

Zhan Jun opened his throat and celebrated with Zhang Lu in the studio with great excitement!

Although Li Ang scored a lot of goals last season, he didn't have such a historic moment of dominating the league's top scorer list!

As a midfielder, he was able to defeat a group of star shooters and top the scorer list at the beginning of the second season after the real transformation!

Even if it is only temporary, such a result is enough to make countless Chinese fans and industry insiders proud!

At this moment, the Premier League scorer list quickly changed on the software that records the mainstream league data in various countries.

Li Ang surpassed Cavani with ten goals and topped the Premier League scorer list!

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