087: Anticipate the enemy’s advantage and make clever calculations
Selhurst Park Stadium, South London, England, sunny weather!
Today’s starting lineups for both sides are as follows:
Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213
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The back four from left to right Robertson, Laporte, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng
Double defensive midfielder Paulinho and Kante
Single attacking midfielder Goretzka
The front three from left to right Salah, Ignacio and Mane
Visiting team Chelsea, head coach Mourinho, formation 4231
Courtois
Back four from left to right Azpilicueta, Cahill, Terry and Ivanovic
Double defensive midfielder Cesc Fabregas and Matic
Three midfielders from left to right: Hazard, Oscar and Willian
Lone forward Royko Remy
Yes, Chelsea did not send Costa on the striker today, and Costa was not even included in the squad for this game. It is said that before this game, Costa caught a cold and could not play in this game. Then the Frenchman Remy was allowed to start, and Drogba sat on the bench.
Seeing Chelsea's lineup, Tong Yi knew that Chelsea still wanted to fight back!
What Mourinho valued in letting Remy start was Remy's speed, flexibility and ability to attack with the ball. He is a sharp knife for counterattacks. Neither Costa nor Drogba is, so Remy starts this game.
It seems that Mourinho feels that Laporte and Van Dijk's turning speed and tracking speed are not good enough?
Or do you think you don't like the one-on-one defensive abilities of these two people?
To be honest, watching Chelsea play Remy, Tong Yi knew that Crystal Palace had a good chance in this game.
Of course, it’s not that Tong Yi doesn’t like Remy!
To be honest, this guy still has some strength, and some French fans even call him the new Henry.
Moreover, this player still performed well after moving to Chelsea for 10.5 million pounds. In the game against Chelsea on September 13, 2014, he came on as a substitute for Diego Costa, who scored a hat trick in the 72nd minute of the game, and then he scored the icing on the cake, helping the team win 4-2. Swansea.
Asia scored the first goal in his debut on behalf of Chelsea. This guy has had a dream start at Chelsea!
At this time, Mourinho is not wrong to value Remy.
However, Tong Yi knows very well that Remy has only scored a total of 7 goals at Chelsea this season.
And later on, this guy naturally did not meet the expectations of French fans. His future achievements were far behind Henry. Even in Tong Yi's memory, this buddy was later loaned to Crystal Palace by Chelsea for a season. Here, he only got 5 game opportunities, and he came off the bench without scoring any goals.
Now that Tong Yi is in charge of Crystal Palace, he will definitely not introduce this guy.
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Today, it is impossible for this guy to score a goal under the defense of Laporte and Van Dijk, and he may not even get a chance to score.
Tong Yi is so confident in Laporte and Van Dijk!
Especially Van Dijk!
Now Van Dijk has matured. Tong Yi is sure that Van Dijk is now one of the best central defenders in the Premier League, and can even be said to be the number one central defender in the Premier League!
After all, Terry and the others are already old and can no longer survive!
Looking at Chelsea's starting lineup, Tong Yi felt that Crystal Palace had a great chance of winning this game!
beep!
At this time, the referee Mark Clattenberg blew the whistle to start the game.
As soon as the game started, Crystal Palace launched a ferocious attack and pressed forward from all fronts!
Chelsea's head coach Mourinho had expected this!
Is Crystal Palace's tactics nothing more than high pressure?
Of course we at Chelsea know that and we are not afraid at all. When we play against Chelsea, we are not afraid that you will press us, but we are afraid that you will not press us! If you don't press forward, how will Hazard, Oscar, William and Remy in our frontcourt get more space for offensive breakthroughs?
Press on, you Crystal Palace must press on!
We at Chelsea are really not afraid of your high-position pressing. Our defense is very good. Moreover, the core midfielder's ability to control the ball at his feet is pretty good, and he is very good at throwing the football out quickly and continuously.
Chelsea must win this game!
With a bang, after passing the ball back and forth, the football came to Goretzka's feet.
Goretzka clearly discovered that the focus of Chelsea's defense was on Ignacio, and seemed to want to cut off the connection between Ignacio and other Crystal Palace teammates. The passing and receiving lines around Ignacio They were all blocked by the positioning of Chelsea players.
Seeing this, Gretzka was very happy!
Because their head coach, Mr. Tong Yi, guessed it right before the game. Chelsea people really have such a defensive strategy. Our head coach is really amazing. He has completely planned Mourinho!
Chance!
Goretzka immediately forced his way out, trying to clear the line and create an opportunity to pass the football to Ignacio. Chelsea's players defended very successfully and did not give Goretzka any chance at all!
This makes Mourinho, Faria and others on the sidelines very satisfied!
However, the next moment he couldn't be happy anymore!
Because Goretzka is just pretending, it's all an illusion, he doesn't really
There was no intention of passing the football to Ignacio. Second, he opened the space and directly passed the football to the feet of Mane who crossed into the penalty area with a diagonal kick.
Because at this time, Zhang Linpeng had already stepped in and was ready to meet Goretzka!
Chelsea's wing defenders all thought of head coach Mourinho's reminder to guard against Crystal Palace's two full-backs and not give them the opportunity to directly find Ignacio, a high point in the penalty area.
If it were in the past, Chelsea people would not have to care about Crystal Palace's crosses from the wing, because they were very confident in the prevention and control abilities of Terry and Cahill. But now that Terry is old and Cahill also has old injuries, his ability to prevent and control has obviously declined, so he must use the defense of the wing to solve the problem of crosses from the opponent's wing directly from the source.
Therefore, Chelsea's full-back Azpilicueta went directly to the wing to target Zhang Linpeng!
Mane seized this opportunity and quickly penetrated from the inside of Azpilicueta's body, directly into Chelsea's penalty area.
At the same time, Goretzka's diagonal ball also came!
The ball has arrived and the people have arrived!
hiss!
Mourinho and others on the sidelines gasped!
Goretzka's pass is so comfortable, very accurate, even Mane's steps are calculated, no more one step, no less, just right!
This makes both Azpilicueta and Cahill very uncomfortable!
Especially Cahill was even more uncomfortable. He couldn't go up or back down. It was very embarrassing!
At this moment, Mane dribbled the ball directly in front of Cahill and suddenly changed direction to the left. Cahill immediately took a small half-step back to the right, preparing to block Mane's changing lane. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Mane suddenly made a lateral dunk and changed direction to the right again, just to catch Cahill's momentary change of direction when he stepped back.
Danger!
Cahill realized the danger and immediately tried his best to speed up and move sideways, quickly moving parallel to the left side of his body to intercept Mane who was changing direction.
Mourinho on the sidelines was very excited when he saw this. Cahill was very relaxed and worked hard. He was able to keep up with Mane and did not let Mane get away. This is the embodiment of will and ability!
But the next second, his smile froze on his face.
Because, just when Cahill desperately moved sideways to intercept, Mane seemed to have expected it and was waiting!
Waiting for Cahill to move laterally, he changed direction laterally and in the opposite direction again, directly to the left again.
At this time, Cahill had no way to change direction!
If it comes to the first shot, Cahill still had some reservations and retained his strength. So this time, Cahill threw all his weight out. If he didn't throw it out with all his strength, he wouldn't be able to stop him at all.
Mane's second change of direction.
In the second time, Cahill had tried his best and he had full information. He stopped Mane!
Little did he know that all this was expected and calculated by Mane!
In fact, what Mane deceived was not Cahill's first move, but Cahill's second move that lost his focus. Because he lost his center of gravity, the inertia of his body was no longer able to allow Cahill to make the next reaction. Even if his brain can keep up, his body can't, so Mane can easily get past Cahill and go straight to the meeting alone!
Sure enough, the ball changed direction laterally to the left again, and Mane easily passed Cahill!
Cahill's mind did catch up, and he wanted to change direction again. But his body couldn't keep up. He twisted his feet and fell hard into the Chelsea penalty area.
In fact, Cahill didn't even have the chance to foul!
On the sidelines, Mourinho and others' faces were ashen. They didn't expect that the game would suddenly turn out like this.
Danger!
The Chelsea fans in front of the TV screamed in horror!
No! We at Chelsea are not finished yet, we still have our amazing goalkeeper Courtois, and Courtois is not afraid of anyone!
And Chelsea fans also know that Tong Yi was also very optimistic about Courtois. Unfortunately, Courtois did not agree to go with Tong Yi, but went directly to Chelsea.
With such an excellent goalkeeper, you Crystal Palace can't score a goal, absolutely not!
Mourinho has also put all his hopes on Courtois. Courtois is now up to you!
Because Mane has penetrated Chelsea's defense and faced Courtois!
Courtois immediately chose to attack, and while meeting him, he blocked the near corner and tempted Mane to shoot into the far corner!
This way he will have the confidence to save the football!
But at this moment, Mane suddenly shot into the far corner. Courtois in front of the goal suddenly flashed to the far end. The moment he was about to pounce out, his pupils dilated and he was filled with horror!
This is a fake move!
Mane has no intention of shooting into the far corner!
so close!
Fortunately, I endured it for a while and didn't save the football without seeing it fly out.
He immediately pulled his body back and prepared to pounce on the near corner.
Because in his opinion, Mane's fake move was to trick himself into rushing to the far corner, and then shoot the near corner himself.
But when he pulled his body back, Mane's right corner that had just fallen suddenly lifted up like lightning and volleyed hard towards the far corner. The football flew past Courtois like lightning and flew into the far corner of the goal. horn.
Courtois is stunned!
