128: Top-heavy Blues Chelsea

On the evening of January 9, 2013, Selhurst Park Stadium, Croydon, London.

What will be played here today is the first leg of the 2012-2013 English League Cup semi-finals. The two sides are the home team Crystal Palace and the visiting team Chelsea. Today’s starting lineups are as follows

Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213

edouard

The back four from left to right Robertson, Delaney, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng

Double defensive midfielder Jedinak and Kanter??

Single attacking midfielder Pogba

The front three from left to right Zaha, Murray and Mane

Visiting team Chelsea, head coach Benitez, formation 433

goalkeeper ross turnbull

Back four from left to right Ashley Cole, Cahill, Ivanovic and Azpilicueta

The three midfielders from left to right Ramirez, David Luiz, Oscar

Front three from left to right Hazard, Torres and Juan Mata

Sitting on the coaching bench, Tong Yi was really envious when he looked at Chelsea's starting lineup. These Chelsea players are also very good, envious!

However, another characteristic of Chelsea's lineup is that it is strong in offense and weak in defense.

The Chelsea in the hands of Benitez and the Chelsea in the hands of Mourinho are completely different. Everyone knows that Mourinho is all about defensive counterattacks. After all, this is the Mourinho bus and the Mourinho iron bucket. statement. More importantly, Mourinho's team pays attention to efficiency and pursues a one-to-zero policy.

Relatively speaking, Mourinho's Chelsea is very conservative.

Benitez's Chelsea is completely opposite to Mourinho's. His Chelsea advocates more. attack.

And after Benitez accepted Chelsea, he often scored three goals and lost two goals, or even scored two goals and lost three goals. Of course there are scores like eight to zero and five to one.

Therefore, the current Chelsea fans are very dissatisfied with Benitez.

Because they are used to Mourinho's model. When they see Benitez scoring two goals and conceding three goals in a game, scoring three goals and conceding two goals, they are very uncomfortable and feel that this is too inappropriate. Stable.

In particular, Benitez's tactics can often lead to bloody massacres when facing weak teams, but they are useless when facing strong teams. It is difficult to even score goals, and even the defense line will be reduced to rubbish in seconds.

In the last round of the league, Chelsea lost 0-1 at home to the inferior Queens Park Rangers. This was even more unacceptable to Chelsea fans.

In that game, Chelsea created many opportunities, but the forwards could not seize the opportunities.

On the contrary, a lot of problems were exposed at the rear. If it weren't for the lack of strength of Queens Park Rangers and the decline in forward ability, Chelsea's goal would have been smashed into pieces in that game.

No wonder Chelsea fans don't like Benitez very much.

When Tong Yi saw Chelsea's starting lineup, he also felt a little top-heavy.

light.

Because except David Luiz, the only player in the midfield and frontcourt is a defensive player, and the other players are all offensive players.

Of course, maybe Ramirez can be considered a half-defensive player.

Other offensive players basically do not defend. Even if these guys retreat to defend, they will not have a big effect.

More importantly, Tong Yi knows very well that David Luiz can indeed play as a defensive midfielder. But he is not a real defensive midfielder, he is a central defender.

Lewis's frontal interception ability in the defensive midfielder position may be good.

But his turning speed is slow, his movement speed is also very full, and his pursuit speed is also very slow. What's more important is that his positional sense in the midfielder position is very poor, and problems often occur.

Maybe this problem won't be too obvious when he plays against some weak teams, but when he encounters a slightly stronger team, Louis will have a big problem.

In fact, in the last Premier League game against Queens Park Rangers, it was because of Louis' poor positional sense that he conceded the ball.

I didn't expect that Benitez would let Luis play this unknown in this game.

This is a bit like seeking death!

Moreover, Chelsea’s goalkeeper position has great hidden dangers this season. Their main goalkeeper Cech was seriously injured and now Chelsea’s goalkeeper is the substitute goalkeeper. Even the second substitute goalkeeper Hilario is slightly injured. So the starting player for this game is No. 3 goalkeeper Turnbull.

However, Hilario was also slightly injured and could not get out of the firing line, and is now sitting on the bench.

In fact, these two goalkeepers are not particularly strong. Although they occasionally have amazing performances, they are very unstable and often make mistakes, especially the second goalkeeper Hilario.

Therefore, as far as Chelsea's current lineup is concerned, Tong Yi feels that their Crystal Palace chances of winning are still very high.

Of course, the current priority of the Crystal Palace people is defense.

After all, Chelsea's defense does have problems, but their offense is also really powerful.

Otherwise, Benitez would not have fielded such a top-heavy starting lineup.

Not long after the game started, the Chelsea people pressed forward crazily, frantically attacking the Crystal Palace defense.

Hazard on the wing received the football. It was really amazing that this guy was able to pick the football out despite the astonishing high pressure intensity of the Crystal Palace people.

Tong Yi's eyes tightened.

This Azar’s ability is really good!

"His! This Hazard's breakthrough ability is really too strong!" Campbell immediately exclaimed.

Cut inside!

Hazard, who stood out from the encirclement, directly dribbled the ball inward.

, heading towards the penalty area of ​​the Crystal Palace.

In the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace, center back Van Dijk immediately came up to him.

Seeing this "big parallel import" approaching, Azar smiled contemptuously, "You want to stop me?" funny!

There was a snap, just when Azar was about to make a fake move to change direction. Van Dijk suddenly stretched out his kick like lightning and poked the football out of Hazard's feet.

Azar was shocked!

"How did someone discover this guy? How could he judge so accurately? Isn't this guy a parallel import?" Hazard was confused, then immediately turned to look at Van Dijk, and then turned directly to the next attack.

Neither the fans nor the commentators at the scene paid much attention to this offense.

This is so commonplace that there’s nothing to say about it.

They all felt that Hazard made a mistake this time!

The sideline ball was quickly thrown out, and Ashley Cole from the wing directly passed the ball diagonally and moved the football to the other side. After Oscar received the ball, he immediately wanted to break through with the ball. However, he was immediately pressured by the Crystal Palace defensive players. What made Oscar even more uncomfortable was that other Crystal Palace defensive players actually blocked his passing line. ??

feeling bad!

hiss!

Oscar was also shocked, "These guys' defense is so good!"

There was no other way. Oscar, who failed to make a strong breakthrough, had to quickly pull the football back and then chose to pass it back.

Chelsea fans who came from afar frowned when they saw this place. What the hell is this?

Benitez on the sidelines was also nervous. As expected, Crystal Palace's pressing defense is really powerful. Oscar's ability to break through and push forward with the ball is very good, and his ability to organize and pass is very strong, but even Oscar can only choose to pass back under this pressure and defense, which shows that the opponent The defense is awesome.

Watertight!

He couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Tong Yi, and thought to himself, "This Chinese guy really has two skills!"

However, Benitez is not anxious or worried at all.

After all, the game has just begun at this time, and the players' physical condition, mental state, etc. are all in optimal condition. As long as the game time progresses, he does not believe that the Crystal Palace players can maintain such a high level all the time. There will definitely be loopholes later after mental fatigue and physical fatigue.

Therefore, he is not in a hurry now.

Now it is about slowly grinding down the opponent, wearing down the opponent's patience and toughness, etc., and making the opponent tired.

Then came their Chelsea chance.

With a wave of his hand, he let the Chelsea players take over and attack like crazy. The two wingers took turns attacking the Crystal Palace defense. He didn't believe that the Crystal Palace people's high-intensity pressure could last a whole game.

Moreover, he is very confident in his team's offensive strength.

Chelsea should be able to win this game easily.

Benitez turned to look at Tong Yi on the other side and sighed to himself, "You're still too young!"

At this moment, Ramirez in the middle suddenly moved forward at high speed with the ball, tearing apart Crystal Palace's defense.

Chance!

With a bang, the football at Ramirez's feet was violently scooped out of the baseline.

Ramirez fell down in response, and he fell to the ground!

Ramirez was shocked and immediately turned to look at the person who tackled him. Is it the opponent's small defensive midfielder Kanter?

Seeing this, his heart tightened. This boy came up too fast, and his judgment was very accurate, which was a bit powerful.

Benitez also tightened his eyes, but did not express too much.

Chelsea continued to press and attack, and they did bring great trouble to the Crystal Palace people, especially the impact of the rotation of the two wingers. Hazard, Oscar, Juan Mata and Ramirez were attacking like crazy, and Crystal Palace still had a lot of problems on the wing.

Especially Robertson.

Robertson is still too young, and his body looks relatively strong, but he is still not fully developed.

Crystal Palace has encountered a very big threat along the way.

Even when Delaney comes to help defend, it is very dangerous. When Delaney faces powerful players like Chelsea, his lack of ability is also revealed.

Tong Yi frowned slightly. Sure enough, there was still a big problem with his Crystal Palace.

Robertson and the others are still too young. If they were allowed to grow up for another two years, they would never play in such an awkward manner against Chelsea.

Suddenly, Hazard, who had switched positions with Oscar, passed Robertson directly. Facing Delaney who came up to defend, Hazard quickly made a fried ball, broke through horizontally, and directly passed Delaney's defense. Then he met the ball with a furious shot. The football roared out and shot towards the Crystal Palace goal.

The ball speed is very fast!

Danger!

This is also the best chance for both teams at the beginning of this game.

Benitez on the sidelines stood up directly, very excited, staring closely at the football flying in the stadium.

He felt that this goal would definitely be scored!

But at this moment, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Edouard came in first, flying out sideways and pushing the football over the baseline with one palm.

All the Chelsea fans felt regretful.

such a pity!

What a great opportunity!

Benitez on the coaching bench was also very sorry to see this, but when he looked at Crystal Palace goalkeeper Edouard, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes. I wonder what he was thinking?

Corner kick!

Chelsea gets a corner kick!