Chapter 340: Dribbling and Shooting Skills Have Been Greatly Upgraded. Don't Be Surprised. Li Ang Is Still Growing.

In the afternoon, Wembley Stadium was sprinkled with fine yellow sunlight from the roof.

Today was a good day for watching football. In addition to the supporters of Chelsea and Manchester City, there were also a large number of tourists and spectators gathered in the stands of Wembley Stadium today.

They came from all over the world and wanted to take this opportunity to see the style of the new Champions League champion.

There is no doubt that Chelsea is the absolute protagonist and focus in today's Community Shield match.

Before the game, a large number of European sports media were more optimistic about Chelsea winning their fifth championship trophy of the year!

After all, in the past half season, Chelsea has won three cup championships in this stadium.

As long as they reach the cup final, there is no record of failure.

Today's Wembley Stadium is also ridiculed by many Premier League fans as Chelsea's "lucky stadium".

Whether it is looking at the winning rate of the cup final or the record of Chelsea and Manchester City in the past two seasons.

Reporters and fans have no reason not to believe that Chelsea will continue to be the final winner.

Manchester City still plays the role of a challenger.

Even though they have been strengthened this summer, they are getting closer to Chelsea in terms of team value.

But before they really beat Chelsea and regained their dominance in the Premier League, they were always the weaker party in the public opinion field.

Before the game officially started, the new players who joined Manchester City - whether they were starting or sitting on the bench - were almost all looking at Li Ang, who wore the captain's armband for the first time.

Li Ang was actually observing them.

Sterling, Gundogan, Bravo, Sane, Otamendi...

There are players he has played against before, and there are also players he met on the field for the first time.

But without exception, he is very "familiar" with these new players in Manchester City.

After taking over Manchester City for two seasons, Guardiola has taken his biggest step in recruiting players and building a team.

This Manchester City is also very different from last season.

Li Ang is familiar with these players, but his teammates are not very familiar.

After getting Manchester City's starting 11 before the game, Mourinho even doubted in the locker room whether Guardiola wanted to give up the Community Shield.

After all, Guardiola boldly used many newcomers in the starting lineup today.

In contrast, Mourinho only made adjustments to two starting players in the forward and back lines.

In order to ensure the team's stable performance, he did not dare to let Oblak start directly in the Community Shield, but still reused Cech.

Guardiola had tried and failed to use Valdes to the same effect as before in Barcelona, ​​and now he has dug up a goalkeeper Bravo from La Liga.

Joe Hart was once again pressed on the bench by Guardiola after being bought and used.

Regardless of whether this substitution is effective, Guardiola is really bold anyway!

Mourinho shook his head as soon as he saw Manchester City's starting 11.

He did not expect that his old friend would start to make things happen so early in the new season.

At this time, the live commentators from various countries were also very eager to introduce the new faces of Manchester City's first team to the fans.

Although Guardiola was very bold in using people today, he still did not directly reproduce the 433 formation that he used most smoothly in Barcelona.

Facing the rising Chelsea, Guardiola still adopted the 4231 starting formation that focuses on midfield control.

The starting goalkeeper is Bravo.

Kolarov, Otamendi, Kompany and Jesus Navas form Manchester City's new defense line.

In the midfield, Fernandinho and Gundogan fell back to form a double defensive midfielder, Fabregas served as the attacking midfielder, and Sterling and Silva were on his left and right sides.

Aguero rushed forward to serve as the starting center forward.

Chelsea changed its offensive and defensive posture and actively adopted the 433 starting formation today.

The starting goalkeeper is still the old goalkeeper Cech.

Bertrand, Maguire, Thiago Silva and Azpilicueta line up from left to right in the back line.

In the midfield, Matic is behind, while Kroos and Li Ang play as double central midfielders.

Hazard is the left winger, Suarez is the center forward, and De Bruyne is the right winger.

Chelsea's starting lineup has not changed much, but too many old faces have left the bench.

Now the two players who are still the younger brothers of the team last season, Salah and Kalas, are leading the bench.

The rest of the young players such as Oblak, Trippier, Gnabry and Zouma are even more unfamiliar to the fans who follow Chelsea.

Many British media have already published articles predicting that Chelsea's performance in the new season will decline a lot.

But in the main battlefields of the Premier League and the Champions League, Chelsea is still very competitive with its still strong main lineup.

This Community Shield match may not be particularly important for Chelsea's players and Mourinho.

But in the eyes of the outside media, this is the first important test Chelsea faces in the new season.

Countless pairs of scrutinizing eyes were focused on the entire Chelsea team at this moment, trying to find evidence of their declining strength in the new season.

After Li Ang finished selecting the side on behalf of the team, he shook hands with Kompany and the referee team again, handed the exchanged team flags to the staff on the sidelines, and then trotted to his own half.

As the captain of the team for the first time on the court, his expression couldn't help but become more serious.

However, he had made sufficient preparations before the game, and at this moment, he successfully led his teammates on the court to complete the last cheer before the game.

Terry was not selected for the 18-man roster for the Community Shield due to calf discomfort caused by physical training before the game.

At this moment, he and Abramovich and other Chelsea management were sitting in the box. Seeing that Li Ang had completed his previous work well, he smiled and nodded.

Now he and Lampard are not on the court, but he has great trust in Li Ang's leadership.

He also believes that Li Ang can well assume the responsibility of captain on the field.

This is not because of intuition, but because Li Ang has used his on-field performance and mental toughness to win the recognition of the veterans in the Chelsea team in the past two seasons.

Just as Mourinho praised Li Ang in previous interviews with the media:

"He is a natural leader, and he has proven it on the court. As long as the team needs him, as long as his teammates need him, he will be the most trustworthy player on the court..."

At this moment, other Chelsea players on the field have absolute trust in Li Ang.

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Li Ang, who received the return pass from his teammates, immediately made a tactical gesture to signal his teammates to start their formation.

Chelsea's midfielder also launched a fierce battle for the ball around Li Ang and Manchester City.

Guardiola's team is still growing and evolving.

They failed to win any direct talks with Chelsea last season, but there is no doubt that they have learned enough lessons from their defeats.

Just as Chelsea will steal some practical tactics from Manchester City from time to time.

Today's Manchester City is obviously much tougher in midfield confrontation than last season.

Li Ang was very surprised when he felt this.

Guardiola's team no longer pursues technology as much as before.

In other words, Guardiola has now been awakened by the wave of crazy running tactics, and he has also begun to pay attention to physical confrontation and the use of space.

Judging from the team's overall confrontation ability, Manchester City is still not Chelsea's opponent at the same level.

But football has never been a sport about which team's players are stronger and can run better.

There are many factors that affect victory or defeat, such as the design of the technical and tactical framework, the restraint ability in tactical selection, the gap in players' mental strength, etc.

Manchester City is still essentially a technical offensive team.

Chelsea have encountered too many teams like this in the past two seasons, and it will not be too difficult to defeat them.

But when such a team has the courage and confidence to dare to show its sword to its opponents in confrontation, and can also play "barbaric" football that disrupts the rhythm of the opponent's organization, they become a big trouble!

"Hey! It's interesting... We are educated hooligans. Now Manchester City wants to become hooligans and become educated people. We really have the same goal by different paths!"

Li Ang complained in his heart.

It seems that after being disgusted by Lao Mu's backhand for many years, Guardi has thought it through and wants to stop being a human being!

With skills on the forehand and confrontation on the backhand, coupled with abundant physical fitness and tenacious team spirit, Manchester City may not be able to walk the same path that Chelsea has gone through!

The difference may be that Chelsea advocates confrontation and running more, while Manchester City advocates technical containment.

If they are on the right track, Manchester City will be able to catch up and compete with Chelsea sooner or later.

It can only be said that Guashuai's ability to study tactics and self-adjust is still strong!

It's a pity...

"Without Messi and De Bruyne, no matter how good your tactical ideas are, it will be difficult to find a strong enough frontcourt core to support this strategy and compete with us!"

Li Ang felt a little sorry for Guardiola from the bottom of his heart.

It is difficult for Manchester City to find a strong core that can suit their tactics in today's football world.

In the Chelsea team that dominates the Premier League, his little lion has not stopped transforming yet. He is still evolving and getting stronger!

Manchester City's crazy running and high-pressing style at the beginning made many neutral fans watching the game shine.

Chelsea and Manchester City also fought hard for the ball in the first 10 minutes of the game.

It seems that the two teams will not decide the final midfield winner in a short time.

But just after Li Ang almost figured out the intensity of Manchester City's midfielder fighting now.

He changed from his previous style of sitting steadily in the middle and cooperating with Cross's organization style of holding the ball, and suddenly began to try to push forward with the ball!

This is nothing like Li Ang's previous style of play.

In the past, his ability to push forward with the ball was strong, but he basically took advantage of opportunities in transition between offense and defense to dribble the ball.

Taking advantage of the critical moment when the opponent was still attacking a second ago and the defense was unstable, his ability to advance quickly with the ball can often catch the opponent off guard.

He still rarely makes such an attempt to rush forward against the opponent's complete defense line.

But this is exactly what Li Ang did at this moment!

Manchester City's midfield defense was very complete. Seeing Li Ang burst over with the ball, Fabregas directly told Fernandinho and Gundogan not to move lightly.

He and Silva, who retreated to help defend, double-teamed first.

According to Fabregas' understanding of Li Ang, in this case Li Ang can only try to protect the ball. If that doesn't work, he will immediately choose to distribute the ball or even pass it back.

It is too difficult to steal the ball from Li Ang and counterattack. After all, Li Ang is famous in football for his stability.

Fabregas was sure of his judgment, but just when he made up his mind to get close to Li Ang and interfere with his dribbling.

However, Li Ang broke through Xiaofa's defense with a smart crotch-piercing move that was completely inconsistent with Xiaofa's inherent impression of him!

At this moment, Silva had not had time to complete the closed defense against Li Ang with Xiaofa. Seeing that Xiaofa was turned into a "wooden stake", Silva was also anxious and quickly returned to the defense!

Fabregas subconsciously kept up with Silva's return to defense.

But in his heart, he was still shocked by the crotch penetration move that Li Ang confidently broke through him just now!

"Could this be an extraordinary move performed by Li Ang?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"

Not to mention that Xiaofa was still confused at this moment, the countless fans in front of the TV were also wide-eyed at this moment, looking suspiciously at Li Ang who was taking the ball and advancing quickly in the live broadcast footage.

After all, Li Ang has never been a midfielder known for breakthroughs.

Even though his dribbling ability has indeed improved a lot compared to when he debuted in La Liga, and his ball control level is also quite good, he has never shown off his skills!

Many fans in front of the TV were still wondering whether Li Ang's extraordinary agility just now was due to bad luck.

But the tens of thousands of Chelsea fans at Wembley and the lively audience were screaming and cheering for Li Ang's wonderful performance!

After increasing the speed, Li Ang's dribbling still had no stumbling. On the contrary, the football seemed to be connected to his feet at this time, which made his ball control and advancement look quite smooth.

Li Ang did not suddenly want to test the upper limit of his dribbling abilities on a whim.

It's because now his dribbling and ball-controlling abilities have indeed grown to a level that allows him to take the initiative to tear apart the opponent's defense!

After last season's game and the first round of additional training in the offseason, his dribbling ability value has reached 89.

After that, he took stock of his season points income and found that he had exceeded 3,600 points, which was enough to lock in the ability value and open three diamond-level talent fragment cards.

So he extracted three diamond-level talent fragment cards for bounce, balance and ball control based on his current shortcomings.

Among them, he got the peak ability value of "Ice Prince" Bergkamp for balance, and he got the peak ability value of Ronaldinho for ball control. The upper limit of both talent values ​​is 98!

Although his additional training time during the offseason this year was not very long, he also took the time to improve his abilities during pre-season training.

So now his ball control ability value has also successfully increased by two points, and has also reached the threshold of 89!

In terms of balance attributes, after he raised the upper limit of his talent ability value, his growth rate was very fast.

Maybe this is related to the fact that he has been focusing on this aspect of training before.

After returning from training in the United States, his balance ability value successfully exceeded the 90 mark from 87 at the end of last season.

In other words, the three most important physical and technical attributes related to his ability to dribble and break through threats have now risen to 89, 89 and 90 ability values ​​respectively!

This balanced and first-class dribbling threat ability value is combined with his speed of 89 and acceleration of 91.

At this moment, he considers himself to be one of the first-class and top goalkeeper attackers in today's football world. Is there any big problem?

Li Ang feels that he has the ability to try more active long-distance runs on the field, and does not necessarily have to seize counterattack opportunities.

Mourinho has discovered Li Ang's great progress in previous training and encouraged him to make more such attempts.

Now Li Ang is using Manchester City as his test stone.

Li Ang's ability to change his style of painting can be regarded as Mourinho's trump card in tactical arrangements today!

Guardiola looked at Li Ang rushing towards Manchester City's midfield defense, and for some reason, his heart suddenly beat violently.

His reason told him that Li Ang was playing with fire and he didn't need to worry too much.

But the experience of losing too many games in the past told him that Li Ang, this bastard, would definitely have to deal with things again today!

Suddenly standing up from the coaching bench, Guardiola stared at the two midfielders in his backcourt, hoping that they could gain some energy and not give Li Ang a chance to continue to advance!

Fernandinho was not ambiguous, and Gundogan and Gundogan pressed towards Li Ang one after another!

They learned their lesson this time and did not double-team Li Ang from the left and right sides, fearing that Li Ang would suddenly speed up the ball again.

It would be much safer to force Li Ang to the sideline one after the other.

No matter who is broken through by Li Ang first, the other one of them will be able to make up the defense immediately.

And there is Kolarov behind them. No matter how you look at it, the advantage in this offensive and defensive battle is on their side!

"superior!"

Fernandinho looked at Li Ang who took the initiative to slow down and seemed to really want to compete with the two of them. He was also a little annoyed in his heart. He gritted his teeth and gave Gundogan a defensive order!

At this moment, Li Ang had already got the ball near the sideline. Seeing Gundogan being the first to pounce and intercept, he didn't panic at all.

Neither speeding up to continue to go down the bottom, nor protecting the ball and waiting for teammates to go around the side, but choosing to lead the ball decisively and cut inside!

The moment he led the ball to the inside line with his left foot, his whole body also completed the center of gravity deflection very flexibly!

He doesn't look like a player who is right-footed at all!

Fernandinho and Gundogan maintained a relatively safe standing distance, but at this moment this small space was used by Li Ang.

The football and most of Li Ang's body have already entered the right sideline of Manchester City's penalty area.

Gundogan turned slowly and could no longer restrict Li Ang on defense at this moment, but Fernandinho was quick to fight against Li Ang with his body!

Li Ang's physical advantage was fully revealed at this time, and he had already entered Manchester City's penalty area, and Fernandinho did not dare to make tactical fouls against him!

The confrontation between the two seemed to have a one-sided trend, and Kolarov saw this and quickly joined the chaotic battle.

At this time, Li Ang dribbled the ball with his left foot at a low speed and went to the outside line again.

Kolarov hurriedly shifted his center of gravity to defend against Li Ang's cross from the bottom.

But in the next moment, Li Ang made a fake pass!

With his fast pace and familiar dribbling rhythm, he almost instantly dribbled past Kolarov and Fernandinho who was pressing him again!

Chelsea fans who witnessed Li Ang's passing of several Manchester City defenders at Wembley were so excited at this moment!

After winning enough space for himself, Li Ang calmly shot a left-footed shot!

Bravo stood in the middle of the goal ready to block the far corner at any time, but Li Ang's shot was unconventional and hit the bottom of the near corner of Manchester City's goal!

At the moment when the football was spinning and hitting the net, Li Ang also clenched his right fist and ran towards the bottom line with a passionate roar!

At this moment, he was greeted by the equally crazy and passionate cheers of the fans on the scene!

Guardiola felt dizzy!

Li Ang's run and goal was very exciting!

But what Guardiola cares more about is that Li Ang cuts in from the right and then shoots the ball into the near corner of the goal, which is so similar to Messi a few years ago!

At one moment, Guardiola even thought he really saw an "enlarged version" of Messi scoring goals at Wembley Stadium!

Countless neutral fans in front of the TV were either excited and exclaimed at this moment, or watched the live broadcast in silence.

They never expected that in this Community Shield match, they would see a Li Ang with a big upgrade in dribbling and shooting skills!

In the past, when Li Ang was fixed in the position of defensive midfielder, he constantly improved his arsenal, but his growth path was relatively normal at that time.

Learning organization, improving long and short pass techniques, and gradually gaining a certain ability to assist from behind.

But now seeing that Li Ang can pass several people like a winger and then score, many fans can't accept it!

Because they have never seen such an outrageous growth-oriented talented player before!

At this moment, Li Ang, who finished celebrating with his teammates in the live broadcast and spread his hands to the camera, seemed to be responding to these fans.

"Don't be surprised, because I will continue to grow! I will become stronger!"