Chapter 307 Chelsea's New Tactics (2)

After the team's head coach, Mr. Jose Mourinho, pointed and explained carefully on the tactical board, all the players in the team roughly understood the purpose of this tactic, and then turned to look at Wang Li at the same time.

'This kid is really lucky.' Almost everyone had this thought.

This offensive tactic was completely built around Wang Li. It could almost be said that it was a tactic specially tailored for Wang Li by Mr. Mourinho.

In a football match, the defense at the back must be comprehensive so that there are no loopholes in the team's defense. In other words, the range reached by the players of the defending side should preferably cover the entire back half. At this time, zone defense is needed. As the name suggests, zone defense means that A is responsible for area A, B is responsible for area B, and so on.

This is just zone defense, but no team dares to say that they can do zone offense.

After all, the frontcourt is the opponent's territory. Even if you launch a large-scale attack, you must ensure that there are defensive players staying in the backcourt. In this way, the number of troops deployed will not be too large, and it will not be easy to carry out a good regional offense.

Mr. Mourinho's so-called "zone attack tactics" is to let two or three Chelsea attacking players pay attention to the position changes between them and Wang Li when they are running, and to ensure that their positions are not too far away or too close. In this way, every time Chelsea attacks, they can cover a large area, and the football will be passed back and forth in it, but the center is always Wang Li.

As long as the players' positioning is correct, Wang Li will have many options when dribbling the ball, making Chelsea's offense more diverse and maximizing Wang Li's role in the offense.

Of course, this offensive method sounds intimidating, but in fact there is nothing surprising about it. If Wang Li makes a mistake, such as being intercepted, then Chelsea's offense will completely fail, and it will be difficult to get the ball back. Obviously, in this offense, Wang Li plays a very important role.

However, no matter how many loopholes there are, this tactic maximizes the reduction of the opponent's defensive players' restrictions on Wang Li. This is the most important thing, and this is also the purpose of Mr. Mourinho's painstaking efforts to create this tactic.

During the attack, if 2 or 3 players can keep up with the rhythm and maintain a certain distance from Wang Li's position, then Wang Li's options will increase a lot. When the attack is blocked, the players can also choose to pass the ball back. According to Mr. Mourinho's long-term observation, he found that even if these passes are a little deviated, this black-haired boy can always receive the ball in a strange way. If this premise is established, then the probability of Chelsea losing the ball becomes very small.

In the eyes of this Portuguese, the black-haired boy in the team is not only a highly skilled player, but also almost an iron man, because he never gets injured. For example, in the last game against Manchester United, it was obviously a serious foul by Van Nistelrooy, but the final result was that the Dutchman was admitted to the hospital and has not recovered until now.

Therefore, if this tactic is really successful, it will be more difficult for the opponent to restrict his performance. As long as Wang Li plays in the game without more restrictions, he can score 3 or even more goals. How can the opponent win? ---

Chelsea's defensive ability is not for show

Thinking of this, Mourinho became a little happy. In his opinion, using this tactic as Chelsea's secret weapon, when playing against Arsenal, relying on Wang Li's own performance, he could score three or even more goals against them. In the end, with the result of N:0, which other team in London could compete with Chelsea?

Thinking about the expression of that annoying Frenchman after the game, Mourinho felt refreshed.

It has to be said that Mourinho, who usually looks serious, also has some evil tastes in his heart. For example, when it comes to his rival Mr. Wenger, he always tries his best to embarrass him. Perhaps this is also a hobby.

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Many players still have complaints about this tactic.

But the head coach arranged tactical training, so even if they don't want to, they have to train hard. What's more, Wang Li has good interpersonal relationships in the team. Even if we don't talk about this, no one dares to question his strength---

Because Wang Li scored more goals than the rest of the team combined

"Damien, move a little further to the right, pay attention to your running, and don't waste time with the defenders."

"Frank, when you make a run, be careful about your positioning. Don't just run forward blindly, or you won't be able to catch the ball."

"Alan, be careful not to dribble the ball too much, otherwise your passing route may be blocked"

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In the new tactical training, Mr. Mourinho personally supervised it. As a result, the training ground of Chelsea Club's first team was constantly filled with such shouting and scolding, which made the Chelsea players on the field feel helpless.

It was the first time they discovered that the training supervised by the head coach himself was the most terrifying.

Because Mr. Mourinho wanted to try out the results of the new tactics in the game on the 17th, Chelsea players have been adapting to this offensive method in the next two days. However, this tactic is simple to say, but the difficulty lies in the running positions of the players around Wang Li.

There is no doubt about Wang Li's speed. Even if you want to keep up with his dribbling speed, you have to keep running. This makes it difficult for Frank Lampard, Arkin Robben, Damien Duff, Joe Cole and others. Obviously, they are the most suitable tactical candidates in Chelsea, so they are exhausted every time they train.

Wang Li felt a little embarrassed about this. As the main figure in tactics, his job was actually the easiest.

In this situation, after the training ended the next afternoon, Wang Li invited the entire team to a big dinner for the first time, which eased the anger of his teammates.

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On the afternoon of November 16, the Chelsea team took Mr. Abramovich's private Boeing 747 to fly to the Russian capital Moscow. Tomorrow they will challenge CSKA Moscow away at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Moscow. This is the fourth round of the Champions League Group H group stage.

It is worth mentioning that yesterday UEFA intervened in an investigation into reports that Mr. Abramovich may have a controlling stake in CSKA.

In March this year, Russia's Sibneft, of which Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is the largest shareholder, signed a three-year sponsorship contract with CSKA for a total of 30 million pounds (54 million U.S. dollars). The Sibneft logo is prominently displayed on the front of CSKA's jersey.

There are also reports that when CSKA eliminated Glasgow Rangers in the third qualifying round, Abramovich, who was at the scene, even ran into the team's locker room to celebrate with the players and coaches.

Therefore, the investigation launched by UEFA is to find evidence that Mr. Abramovich controls the CSKA Club. If there is evidence that Mr. Abramovich really controls the CSKA Club, then one of the two teams must automatically withdraw from the Champions League.

But at least, UEFA has not found any relevant evidence yet, which means that the game can still proceed as normal.

Now, many foreign media have sourly called CSKA Moscow Chelsea's "little brother", no matter home or away games, the "little brother" can never beat the big brother. For these foreign media, they don't care about Chelsea's strength this season, as long as there is doubt, they will ridicule without hesitation.

However, these obviously cannot affect Chelsea's normal games, and in terms of the media, at least the English media support Chelsea.

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After arriving in Moscow, head coach Mourinho immediately told the players to get dressed and return to the hotel. After putting away their luggage, they went directly to the stadium for adaptive training.

The weather in Moscow is very different from that in London. The ground is covered with heavy snow in almost December. If targeted measures are not taken, the players will easily catch a cold due to the sudden change in environment. This is also what Mr. Mourinho is most worried about.

After doing all this, Mourinho accepted interviews from team reporters and foreign reporters.

In the interview, Mourinho revealed that Duff might move to the center when talking about tomorrow's game. On the one hand, he might reconsider the possibility of Joe Cole cooperating with the former. On the other hand, this is also a necessary preparation for the team's 433 formation of all-out attack and defense to be more reasonable.

Of course, these words are completely smokescreens released by Mr. Mourinho. The more important reason why Duff wants to move closer to the center is that Mourinho wants to use this game to practice new tactics, and he doesn't attach much importance to the outcome of this game. In Group H, Chelsea has accumulated 9 points, which can almost guarantee qualification. What's more, even if it is an away game, he doesn't think CSKA Moscow can cause any trouble to Chelsea.

This is actually true. In the second day's game, although CSKA Moscow performed very steadily at the Lokomotiv Stadium, their offense and defense were very good, but even though Chelsea's overall performance was not very good, when the game reached the 28th minute of the first half, Eidur Gudjohnsen, who started the game, used a through pass from Wang Li to score the first goal for Chelsea.

This attack really made the players of CSKA Moscow feel the gap between the two teams.

Before the game, many players were somewhat indignant about the reports of foreign media. In fact, they believed that there was no inside story between CSKA Moscow and Chelsea, at least they had not received any strange requests.

However, even if they wanted to win this game, the team is still behind.

After that, in the 43rd minute of the first half, the CSKA Moscow defender collided and fouled in front of the penalty area, and Chelsea got a free kick in an excellent position.

The main free kick taker this time is still Wang Li. In recent games, he has undoubtedly replaced Lampard and become Chelsea's first free kick taker.

And Wang Li's efficiency is indeed very high. Up to now, he has only made one mistake in his free kick, in the match against Everton - of course, in reality he has not been able to kick it many times.

The position of the ball was very good, and Wang Li did not disappoint the expectations of the whole team. Amid the expectant eyes of his teammates and the desperate gaze of the opposing players, he made a beautiful arc kick and directly sent the ball into the blind corner of the goal.

"Gooooooooooooooooal" shouted Longtaojia, the commentator of the British BBC TV station.

"Allen's fantastic curve. After David Beckham, England has another excellent free kicker. This kick is so beautiful. Now many English fans think Wang Li's free kicks are more accurate than David's. If there is a chance, I really want to see who is better between the two of them."

After the first half, in the visiting team's locker room, Mr. Mourinho began to arrange the tactics for the second half. Obviously, after scoring two goals, he planned to let the team practice the new tactics.

In this game, CSKA Moscow sent a defender to guard Wang Li throughout the court, but in the first half, the role of this player was not reflected at all, so head coach Gazzaev directly replaced a defensive player this time and asked another defensive player to pay attention to the backup defense. In his opinion, this can at least suppress the performance of this black-haired boy and prevent the game from being lost too badly.

But obviously, his idea was directly destroyed by Mourinho's new tactics.

Since the start of the second half, Chelsea started to attack with a new tactic. In the beginning, the players were a little uncomfortable, which caused frequent mistakes in the frontcourt. Chelsea's offense seemed to be in chaos. Even the commentator on the scene said: "These friends from London seem to be out of shape. Since the start of the second half, they have made frequent mistakes, even that black-haired boy. It's really strange. Maybe it's because of the climate? However, our chance has come. Look, it's another chance for the Reds."

Unfortunately, Chelsea's defense was very solid, and even if CSKA Moscow found an opportunity, it would be difficult to break through Chelsea's triangle defense line.

After more than 10 minutes of adaptation, the offensive players slowly found their training state, and the zone attack tactics slowly showed their power. At this time, the two defensive players who were specifically guarding Wang Li found that their defensive effect was getting worse and worse, because the black-haired boy could not only choose to break through with the ball, but also choose to easily cooperate with his teammates and directly leave them behind.

At the beginning, they thought it was just a defensive mistake, but gradually, they found that the defensive effect of the two was getting smaller and smaller, and sometimes they couldn't even cause any hindrance to the black-haired boy's offense. This made CSKA Moscow seem to be in a 9VS11 situation and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Finally, in the 75th minute of the game, taking advantage of a good passing opportunity, Arkin Robben kicked the ball to Wang Li at the front of the penalty area. The latter ran quickly and kicked the ball directly into the opponent's goal, changing the score to 0:3.

Just three minutes later, CSKA Moscow's attack was intercepted. After receiving the ball, Wang Li made three consecutive short-distance passes with Frank Lampard, and then passed it directly to Gudjansen in the penalty area. The latter's shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and Joe Cole made a follow-up shot and the score became 0:4.

Seeing this situation, Mr. Jose Mourinho on the Chelsea coaching bench nodded with satisfaction, then walked to the sidelines and raised his hand to signal a change in tactics. The reporters present were a little confused by Mourinho's gesture. It was indeed a bit strange to suddenly change tactics when they were in an advantageous position.

However, how could they know that Mourinho wanted to officially use this tactic for the first time in the match against Arsenal. If the opponent knew about it so early and found a way to crack it, then Chelsea's training would be in vain.

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PS: I was very tired after updating 10,000 words last month. I originally wanted to update 6K this month, but now I think I should write more...