Chapter 567: A good cook cannot cook without rice

Chapter 567: A good cook cannot cook without rice

This Bielsa is indeed a madman!

Benítez was standing in front of the visiting team's coaching booth at St. Mary's Stadium. He turned his head and glanced at Bielsa who was squatting in front of the home team's coaching booth, and sighed with a bitter smile.

If Southampton is determined to win this game, it is because they want to continue to attack Manchester United.

Chelsea also has the same belief that they must win because they want to maintain their top four position in the league.

For this game, Benítez made sufficient preparations and deployed his troops very carefully.

When taking over the Blues this season, Benítez made an agreement with Abramovich that he would only be the team's transitional coach for one year. Abramovich's real target was Mourinho of Real Madrid.

But even so, Benítez still demonstrated his coaching level.

From the 4-2-3-1 formation in Di Matteo's era to the current 4-4-1-1 formation, Benítez's team has become more stable.

Benítez is more familiar with the 4-2-3-1 than anyone else; it is his famous move.

But he knows better than anyone how high the demands of 4-2-3-1 are on wing players, especially full-backs.

The distance between the full-back and the wingers was too long, resulting in the defense of the entire wing being too weak.

Chelsea's two full-backs, Ashley Cole and Ivanovic, one is old and the other is obviously not the type to play on the wing.

In addition, in the frontcourt, whether it is Mata, Adam Lallana or Oscar, the areas in which they are accustomed to moving are very close, and their playing styles are also very similar. They are not the type of players who can play width on the wing.

This caused serious problems on the flanks of Chelsea's 4-2-3-1 tactics.

Therefore, after taking over, Benítez began to adjust the team and changed to a 4-4-1-1 tactic.

At the same time, Benítez also made some choices for the three talented players in the midfield, Mata, Adam Lallana and Oscar. At most, only two of the three players can play at the same time, or even occasionally only one.

He gave the other starting spot to young player Moses, an incredibly fast African winger.

Although the technique and awareness are a bit crude, the speed is fast and the impact is strong, that is enough.

In this game, Chelsea still adopted the 4-4-1-1 tactics.

The goalkeeper is Cech, and the defense is Ashley Cole, Benatia, David Luiz and Ivanovic.

The midfielders are Oscar, Lampard, Mikel and Ramires.

The forwards in front and behind are Demba Ba and Mata.

As for his Spanish fellow countryman Torres, he has been sidelined by Benítez.

Southampton's performance this season is getting better and better. This team is very young. As the season progresses, the players are improving rapidly. In addition, Bielsa's tactics are varied and hard to guard against.

But Benítez is also a tactical master. He thinks that although his starting lineup has obvious flaws, it is already the strongest lineup Chelsea can put together. It will be difficult for them to win against Southampton away, but they will not suffer a crushing defeat either.

But who could have thought that Bielsa would give everyone enough surprises from the very beginning.

In this battle, Bielsa made a bold change in formation and actually switched to a three-defender formation.

Nastasic, Javi Martinez and Varane, all three central defenders are on the field!

More importantly, Matic is on the defensive midfielder position!

Pogba and Modric were arranged to start in front of Matic.

The forward line is a double striker combination of Drogba and Sturridge!

Two more?

Danilo and Gareth Bale!

The two players are on the right and left respectively, acting as free men on the wing!

Faced with such tactical play, Benítez almost collapsed.

In the past two or three years, I have never seen Southampton adopt such a tactical style of play. Why did it suddenly change?

But when it comes to three defenders, Bielsa is the master. His best moments were achieved by using three central defenders.

Of course, his 3313 tactics when he was in the Argentina national team were criticized by fans.

But in the coaching circle, his tactics are still highly praised.

Now, with three defenders once again in place, who dares to be careless?

Therefore, at the beginning of the game, Benítez called on the players to be careful and to form a smaller formation.

But even so, Southampton launched a fierce bombardment of Chelsea's goal from the very beginning.

Almost from the beginning of the game, there was panic in front of Chelsea's goal, and the Saints launched wave after wave of attacks.

Especially the two free men on the wing, who are fast, have excellent running ability, strong personal abilities, can go up and down, and threaten Chelsea's penalty area again and again, helping Southampton create a large number of scoring opportunities.

Only twenty minutes into the first half, Southampton had already made ten shots, four of which were on target, and also won three corner kicks, one offside, six fouls, and no yellow cards.

From this data, you can fully imagine how intense the game was and how fast the pace was!

In this game, Bielsa clearly took advantage of the home field and launched a fierce offensive to completely defeat Chelsea!

Benítez was powerless to do anything about it.

There is a saying that goes, A good cook cannot cook without rice.

There is no one and he can't do anything!

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"Drogba, Sturridge and Matic were all very active today!"

Sitting in the chairman's stand at St. Mary's Stadium, Yang looked at Abramovich with a smile.

The Russian travelled with the team to Southampton and was invited to sit in the chairman's stand, next to Yang Huan.

At this moment, hearing Yang Huan's words, the Russian's cheeks felt burning.

These three players were given to Southampton for free by Chelsea, but now, each of them has made a name for themselves!

Abramovich even felt that Yang Huan must have done it on purpose.

In this match against Chelsea, this group of former Chelsea players were arranged to start the game in order to humiliate him!

This is really unfair to our Young Master Huan. Who has such a bad taste?

Besides, now is the crucial moment in the competition for the championship with Manchester United. We cannot afford to lose a single game. Can we play it so casually?

"What a pity, Cech performed so well!" Yang Huan shook his head and sighed.

From the opening till now, Southampton has been pressing Chelsea in the attack and created quite a few scoring opportunities, but Cech saved at least two of Southampton's sure-shot chances.

I can only say that the Czech goalkeeper was assisted by God tonight and returned to the top!

Abramovich was watching with fear and trepidation. Almost every attack by Southampton would make him break out in a cold sweat, for fear that they would be scored at any time.

The one I hate the most is Drogba.

Damn, didn’t you start playing as a substitute this season?

Why are you so excited about this game? Is there any prize money for being so active?

You are already old, don't you know how to take it easy when playing?

"Roman, I want to discuss something with you!" Yang Huan said with a smile, turning his head.

Abramovich's eyelids twitched. Whenever this guy was smiling, something bad must have happened!

"What's the matter?" He seemed very wary.

The look in his eyes seemed to be saying, you... you are not trying to poach us, are you?

Yang Huan was depressed. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I really don't care about the little property you have in Chelsea!"

This immediately made Abramovich depressed!

Don't like it?

You actually look down on Chelsea's lineup?

But looking at the field again and thinking about Southampton's lineup, Abramovich wanted to cry.

It’s no wonder people look down on it!

Which position in Southampton does not have a talented star player now?

One is too little, two is normal!

This is exactly the configuration of Real Madrid and Barcelona!

"What's that?" Abramovich asked cautiously.

Yang Huan smiled and said, "I think it's boring to just watch the game. How about we make another bet?"

"Gambling?" Abramovich is sensitive to this word and has a phobia.

"Let's bet a little smaller. I've recently taken a fancy to Suarez from Liverpool. If Chelsea loses, you pay to bring him in for me. If Southampton loses, I'll also pay to bring you a player. How about that?"

Abramovich looked down at the stadium and felt depressed.

I'm not fucking stupid, why would I bet with you?

In this situation, your team is suppressing my team, and I would be stupid enough to go and bet with you?

Is there anything wrong with my brain?

"You don't dare?" Yang Huan made an expression as if to say, you wouldn't be so cowardly.

Abramovich really wants to say, who doesn’t dare?

However, the only remaining rationality in his mind told him that now was not the time to be willful.

"Well, I'll give you a ball!" Yang Huan said confidently.

Abramovich still dared not say a word.

Looking at the situation below the field, even if Southampton concedes a goal, it is not safe.

We were completely suppressed, who knew when we would lose the ball?

"At worst, I'll give you two balls, is that okay?" Yang Huan was depressed, and he almost asked, "Are you hiding little Roman in a safe and not daring to take him out?"

I've given you two balls, and you still don't dare?

Abramovich did have a phobia for Yang Huan, so he had no choice but to smile bitterly and say, "Sorry, I cut off my finger and swear to quit gambling!"

Damn it!

Yang Huan looked at his hands. Abramovich didn't have time to hide his hands, so he saw them. All ten fingers were intact. How could he say that he cut off his fingers to quit gambling?

But having said that, he finally understood that this guy definitely didn't dare to gamble!

"Oh, forget it, if you don't want to gamble, I can't force you, right?"

Abramovich breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, Yang Huan's next sentence almost made him go crazy.

"Since you don't dare to bet, I'll just bet with my left hand and right hand!"

After saying that, Yang Huan raised his hands.

"Left hand, left hand, how many balls do you think you can win?"

"Win at least four!"

"So few? I thought I could beat five!"

"How about we make a bet?"

"Okay, whoever loses will take off all his clothes and run naked!"

"Okay, no problem!"

Abramovich felt like crying while listening to this. Isn't this too embarrassing?

Do you really think I'm dead?

Gambling with your left hand and right hand? Running naked if you lose the bet?

You tell me, how can you run with your fingers naked?

But what does Abramovich dare to say?

He was invited in person, but he still didn't dare to gamble. What could he say at this time?

But at this moment, the situation on the court suddenly changed.

After Southampton's midfielder intercepted the ball, they advanced quickly and entered Chelsea's penalty area.

Gareth Bale quickly came in from the left and rushed to the left side of the penalty area at lightning speed.

After receiving the pass from Drogba, Modric passed it across to the left. After receiving the ball, Gareth Bale took a look at the penalty area and kicked the ball with his left foot to the back post.

The ball drew an arc and fell to the back of the goal. Sturridge shook off Chelsea's defender, quickly inserted himself into the goal, and shot a powerful shot directly towards the point where the ball landed.

The ball drew an arc, brushed the right post of the goal with incredible precision, and hit Chelsea's goal.

One to zero!

Sturridge's goal completely ignited the passion at St. Mary's Stadium.

Abramovich sat in the stands, secretly wiping a cold sweat from his sweat.

Damn it, luckily I didn't agree to bet with him, otherwise...r1148

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