Chapter 299 What Conspiracy? This Is Mutual Respect

Chapter 299 What conspiracy? This is mutual respect~

After a 5-0 victory, the controversy surrounding Chelsea and Li Ang disappeared without a trace on the Internet.

While Chelsea fans were taking advantage of the victory to seize the high ground of public opinion, Li Ang also gave a frank answer in the interview.

"Of course, fans will have their own criteria for judging. It is their freedom to like or dislike a player.

However, I have no desire to explain some stupid arguments.

After all, many fans know that I have a good relationship with Frank, Thomas, Xavi, Arjen... We have played against each other many times in the Champions League, and many players in Bayern are my friends.

If they ignore the facts and speak out simply because they hate me or my team, I will not have any bad feelings towards these fans. This is their freedom.

As for my answer? Then you can see how I perform on the field. I only focus on the field. This is my answer!"

Li Ang's speech in an interview after the game was equivalent to standing up and responding to this storm of public opinion.

Without any intention of provoking a fight, Li Ang's frankness and open-mindedness naturally won him the favor of most neutral fans.

Which star is stronger or weaker has always been a hot topic of discussion within the fan group.

It is of course normal for fans to have their own subjective tendencies.

But it is rare for a superstar like Li Ang, who has already won the Silver Ball, to remain sober amidst the thousands of praises and focus on the game without being affected by the tide of public opinion.

And he is not just talking nonsense.

He just performed a hat trick of assists in a single game. Isn't this a display of strength stronger than just a few big words?

Before the Premier League is about to enter a half-month rest period, Chelsea ended with a beautiful 5-0 victory and won the 21st league victory of the season.

Li Ang also further consolidated his ranking first in the league assists list, continuing to dominate the scorer list and assists list.

But other Premier League teams will basically have a big rest, and at most they will only play a FA Cup in late January.

Chelsea still can't relax.

Because they are about to face Liverpool in a short two-round English League Cup semi-final.

The first League Cup semi-final was arranged by the English Football Association on the third night after the end of the 22nd round of the Premier League.

The schedule was so well arranged that the coaches of both Liverpool and Chelsea were cursing.

Although Mourinho cursed at Chelsea, he still had players to use, and the main players were in good physical condition.

Rogers was in a bad situation. After being skinned by the winter devil schedule, Liverpool now has main players missing from the front court to the back court.

So much so that when Sky Sports predicted before the game, they didn't know what kind of starting lineup Rogers could arrange to prevent Chelsea from taking the victory from Anfield.

But there are always more solutions than difficulties.

Rogers fiddled with it for a while, and really brought a big "surprise" to the entire Chelsea team and the reporters on the sidelines on the day of the game.

"Is this... 3421, or 352? Damn, Rogers knows how to play, he really deserves to be a tactical genius!"

Of course, Li Ang knew the starting 11 list announced by Liverpool today before the game started.

But he never expected that the position and formation of the starting 11 would be like this now.

Skrtel, Sakho and Emre Can formed a three-man central defense.

Henderson and Lucas, who had just returned from injury, were in the middle of the midfield.

Moreno was the left wingback, and Markovic, Johnson's substitute, was the right wingback.

Gerrard and Coutinho seemed to form a double central midfielder, dragging behind Suarez.

Of course, this lineup seems to allow Gerrard to retreat when necessary.

Liverpool's 3421 can then be seamlessly transformed into 352...

Don't worry about whether Rogers' tactics are reliable, at least he still put together a complete starting lineup.

After Sterling was injured, Rogers barely made up for Liverpool's lack of wing advancement.

Whether such a lineup can be played, Liverpool fans may have to put a question mark in their hearts.

But at least it seems that the offensive ability is not weak.

After Gerrard was pushed to the central midfielder, he could also devote as much energy as possible to the offensive end.

If he and Suarez can connect successfully, the offensive power is still considerable. At least Chelsea will not recklessly attack Liverpool.

After the game officially started, commentators from various countries watched the performance of Liverpool players on the field with scrutiny.

As Liverpool's opponent today, the Chelsea team was also cautious enough to respect Liverpool at the beginning of the game.

After all, at first glance, Liverpool's midfield can concentrate 5 or even 6 players at any time to compete with Chelsea.

In addition, Mourinho has not yet told them to attack boldly.

So it is safer to test Liverpool's offensive strength first, which has become the first choice for Li Ang and Kroos, the two brain players on the Chelsea field.

In the mutual offensive and defensive probing, Li Ang soon discovered the hesitation of Liverpool's two wing players in the choice of forward attack.

Moreno on the left side is better in comparison.

Behind him is the left center back Sakho. When he presses forward to participate in the attack, Liverpool's left defense is still slightly guaranteed.

But Liverpool's right wing back Markovic basically rarely takes the ball forward.

At first, Li Ang didn't know what he was hesitating about, but when he saw Emre Can, who played as a right center back behind him today, Li Ang suddenly understood.

If there were not many people available in the team, Li Ang believed that Rogers would not put Emre Can, the big baby, in such an important position in the back line.

Emre Can, who randomly switches between the two completely different forms of "miserable brother" and "capable brother", may play steadily today, which may depend entirely on whether he is happy or not.

If he is in a good mood, he will honestly squat in the pit to defend, relying on his solid physical fitness and active fighting, which can indeed help Scott stabilize the back line.

But if he is unhappy in the game and directly turns on the frequent back-insertion mode, Liverpool's three central defenders may directly become two central defenders.

Li Ang's understanding of Emre Can is relatively thorough.

So after feeling the intensity of Liverpool's attack for a while, he gradually took control of the midfield ball and began to mobilize his teammates on the right to collectively put pressure on Liverpool's left defense line.

The commentator of Sky Sports was a little confused when he saw this scene.

He even bluntly said that it would be a better choice for Chelsea to attack Liverpool's right after getting the ball.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the side defense combination of Markovic and Emre Can is full of more instability.

But Li Ang was determined to attack Liverpool's left side, where the defense was stronger.

Of course, after concentrating offensive resources and pressing hard, Chelsea still achieved a lot of offensive results.

Li Ang cooperated with De Bruyne, and Ibrahimovic who retreated, and they could still tear Liverpool's left defense line tacitly.

In the seventh minute of the first half, under the cover of De Bruyne's running position, Azpilicueta, who received Li Ang's through pass, successfully went to the bottom and sent a threatening cross from Liverpool's left defense area!

Ibrahimovic's header was slightly off under the defense of Skrtel.

This attack did not pose much threat to Liverpool's goal.

But there is no doubt that Chelsea has proved their strong offensive strength, and Liverpool has to pay more attention to the stability of their left defense line.

When Chelsea was playing hard on Liverpool's left, Emre Can, who did not have much defensive pressure on the right, was ready to move.

In addition, his teammate Markovic in front of him had been timid before and did not dare to move forward boldly.

Emre Can naturally thought of taking the initiative to attack and dribbling the ball to counterattack Chelsea.

Rogers had told him many times before the game that he must defend well today, and he agreed very happily at that time.

But now the game did not go as their tactical predictions before the game, so why not make appropriate changes based on the situation on the field?

Emre Can felt that his idea was fine. He regarded the current situation of the game as an opportunity to take advantage of, and he acted in this way.

In the 16th minute of the first half, Lucas and Moreno finally snatched the ball from De Bruyne.

As a result, before the two of them could stabilize the rhythm, Emre Can on their right side decisively buried his head and moved forward!

During the sprint, he shouted as if he was afraid that they could not see it.

With Emre Can's move, Markovic could only rush forward with him.

Henderson saw that Emre Can was almost rushing to the top of the arc in the center circle, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he pushed the ball over directly!

Emre Can was overjoyed after getting the ball, and a sense of pride surged in his heart.

He led Markovic forward all the way, and Li Ang also "cooperated" to direct Matic to retreat quickly.

It was not until Emre Can almost brought all the defenders on the right side of Liverpool across the center line that Li Ang showed his defensive fangs!

Bertrand and Matic suddenly pressed towards Markovic, who had just received the ball from Emre Can.

Markovic was a little panicked when he saw the two men with a fierce momentum, and quickly pulled the ball back.

But before that, after Emre Can passed the ball to him, he rushed forward very actively into Chelsea's penalty area.

So at this moment, Markovic's return pass target can only be Henderson, who is farther away from him.

So the crisis and opportunity appeared together!

While Henderson felt something was wrong and actively ran towards Markovic, Li Ang also moved forward faster and more fiercely towards the passing route between Markovic and Henderson!

The two people who ran towards the football at the same time soon had a tough confrontation on the court.

Li Ang kicked faster and did not protect the ball. He chose to dribble the ball and then accelerate to chase.

Henderson was bounced away and lost his position almost at the moment of confrontation with Li Ang!

But Li Ang, who was running, only slightly tilted his body, and then accelerated to chase the football with all his strength!

The sudden attack and defense transition made the cheers at Anfield suddenly stop.

And with the reappearance of Li Ang's familiar long pass posture, a smooth and extremely deadly beautiful arc quickly cut through the sky above Anfield!

"Li Ang sent a through pass! Hazard passed! Not offside!!! Hazard singled out!!!"

I don't know how many commentators shouted excitedly at this moment, cheering for Li Ang's surgically precise long pass!

Hazard, who had just entered Liverpool's defensive hinterland through the gap in the defense line left by Emre Can's forward run, calmly unloaded the ball and advanced at this moment.

Scott was still a long distance away from him, so he was not panicked.

After entering the shooting area where he was best at, Hazard just observed Mignolet's position for a moment, then decisively cut inside to adjust his pace, and then kicked the ball!

A clean and neat shot!

Hazard did not pretend to shoot at the near corner of the goal, he aimed at the far corner of the goal.

The feeling and timing of the shot were just right.

Mignolet pushed the ground with all his strength while moving quickly, and he stretched out his long arms, seemingly carrying the hopes of all Liverpool fans.

But the football finally spun around his fingertips, and then headed for the upper right corner of the goal behind him!

For a moment, there was no other noise at Anfield except the cheers of thousands of Chelsea fans.

However, the brief silence was only one or two seconds. When Leon and Hazard excitedly rushed to the corner flag area, the boos that swept the whole stadium arrived as expected!

Hazard scored this precious away goal, but tens of thousands of Liverpool fans at the scene booed Leon, who they hated even more!

Rogers stood on the sidelines with his hands covering his head, looking at Emre Can who was at a loss, and his lips trembled with anger!

Mourinho, who was not far from him, laughed and patted his head.

"I bet you, Steve, Leon thought of using the reckless boy on the opposite side at least ten minutes ago!"

Mourinho said this very confidently, and Holland also smiled and shrugged without comment.

After the celebration, Mourinho took the tactical board from the coaching bench, and then made simple and quick on-the-spot adjustments.

Chelsea, who had taken the lead, didn't care about the boos and shouts at Anfield.

Liverpool was forced to take the risk of forcing the attack early in the first half.

Chelsea shrank their formation and began to play their best defensive counterattack.

However, in the second half of the first half, Chelsea's luck in scoring was still a little worse.

Ibrahimovic and Kroos hit the post in the counterattack and missed the goal.

De Bruyne's long shot in the first half stoppage time was also a little short and missed the goal frame.

Such a game process made Liverpool fans feel uncomfortable, but they were still quite glad to accept the final result of the first half.

However, in the second half of the game, before Liverpool could regain their momentum, they continued to launch a fierce offensive.

Chelsea successfully knocked on the goal guarded by Mignolet in a set-piece opportunity, and once again expanded their lead!

Li Ang, who successfully headed the goal, slid on his knees passionately near the bottom line.

He naturally turned a blind eye to the overwhelming boos.

He also successfully led Chelsea to an important away victory from Anfield with his excellent performance in passing and shooting!

After the game, Li Ang once again communicated with Suarez on the court with his mouth covered mysteriously.

However, when facing the reporters' post-match interview questions, Li Ang "corrected" righteously:

"What conspiracy? How can there be a conspiracy?

We just respect each other~"