Chapter 458 Red and Blue Distress

The home game against Liverpool is Chelsea's first game after the international game break. But in front of the Reds, Chelsea's home record is not ideal. In the past four seasons, the Blues have only won one game in the 2009-2010 season. In the previous and subsequent seasons, it was Liverpool who won. I remember that in the 2008-2009 season, Liverpool's 1-0 away victory made Chelsea unbeaten in 86 league games at Stamford Bridge. But today, facing this opponent again, the Blues lost for the third time in four years.

Chelsea's first goal loss seemed to be an accident: in the 33rd minute of the game, Mikkel took the ball in the middle of the backcourt and grabbed it. Charlie Adam behind him, the Nigerian hesitated a little and fell to the ground. Adam broke the ball and passed it to Bellamy next to him, who assisted Maxi Rowe. Driggs broke through the goal guarded by Cech and gave the Reds the Reds take the lead at Stamford Bridge.

However, this ball seems to be accidental, but it is actually a necessity. As the last barrier in front of the defense line, Mickel's holding the ball always looks big. In the Premier League, no matter which team plays against Chelsea, robbing Meeker has become a common tactic. Under the close pressure of two or even three opponents, it is inevitable to lose the ball.

In Chelsea's three midfield system, Mikkel is the only player who devotes his main energy to defense.

However, today, he also participated in an attack: in the 11th minute of the game, Drogba and Lampard tackled in the front court, and the ball rolled to the foot of Mikkel. The Nigerian swung his thigh 35 yards away from the goal and shot, and the ball was slightly higher than the frame. However, this is the only time that Mikkel has participated in the attack. And his signs of omission in defense came earlier: in the 9th minute of the game, Suarez broke through Meeker in the front court, thanks to two defenders, Louis and Ivanovic, to steal the ball. After the first half, Mikkel returned to the lounge, but since then, he has never returned to the court.

As we all know, Mickel was originally born with a front waist. In the 2006 World Youth Championship, he followed Messi and won the Silver Ball Award, but it became the only glory in his career.

After that, at Chelsea, Mourinho transformed him into a complete back. Mickel, who hit the back, was also angry for a while, but soon became flat. In the second half of last season, Mikkel rarely got a chance, and even the media reported that he would leave Hamburg with Arneson. However, in the end, Arneson took away Mancini, who had been selected for England. By this season, Meeker has become the team's biggest weakness.

In fact, for Chelsea's three-middle-field system, each team has made it clear how to grab the back.

However, before Mikkel, it was Macleley who played this position. But he wanted to grab his ball, and the French even turned this position into a "Maclelai position". After Maclelei left Chelsea, the Blues have not been able to find a stable midfielder that can reach the same height. In fact, Essien was originally the successor of Maclelele, but in the last three seasons, Ghanaians have been frequently plagued by injuries. This season, they have suffered serious injuries in the summer, and it is expected that they will not play until next year at the earliest.

For Chelsea's back position, both Boaz and his predecessor Ancelotti have thought of a way. For example, both of them chose Ramirez with better technical skills.

With Ramirez, the defensive effect is indeed better, but in this way, the Brazilian's forward attack is sacrificed. Therefore, Ramirez is still not the ideal fixed candidate. Merelles, who has joined this season, is more willing to attack. Today, in this crucial red and blue war, Mikkel is still the starting midfielder, but Boaz's decision has been a big mistake.

Another tragic figure is naturally Torres, the focus of media attention. "T9" was not sharp in the Red Army, but the Blue Army fell into a low point. Now with a counterattack, can he take this to get out of the haze?

The starting list was announced, and many people were surprised. Torres sat on the bench! Are you afraid that the Liverpool defender is too familiar with him? Or for next week's Champions League? On the bench, Torres sat almost in a game. It was not until the 84th minute that he was replaced by the starting center Drogba.

In fact, Torres has been on the sidelines since the 63rd minute. When he is together, the decibels of Stamford Bridge are immediately higher, and the camp is clear. The Blues fans naturally applauded and sang "Song of Torres", but this could not hide the harsh boos, and the visiting Liverpool fans made a lot of noise at T9.

84 minutes to debut, 93 minutes to the end of the game, just 9 minutes, Torres is difficult to make a difference. For a famous striker like him, he is the focus of the media in the face of his old club. He only plays for 9 minutes at the end, which is almost a humiliating arrangement. Of course, Torres is a professional player, and he will follow the coach. Arrange it, and it won't be as angry and open as Tevez.

In 9 minutes, Torres passed the ball 4 times, made 2 mistakes, and lost 3 times. There were no shots, no breakthroughs, and no threats. Of course, this is not his problem. Any world-class striker may not be able to make a difference in 9 minutes. Sky Sports gave the Spaniard 5 points, but also admitted that he "had no time".

Sitting on the bench in such a key battle, Torres obviously did not reach the state of being fully trusted by the head coach. In fact, after he came to Chelsea, the performance gap was very obvious. At Chelsea, he scored 1 goal every 425 minutes, while playing for Liverpool, it was 1 goal in 121 minutes. The accuracy of shooting in the two periods was also 38% to 49%, and the chances were 10% and 22%.

Someone threw the topic of whether Torres was still worth 50 million pounds to Boas, but the Portuguese young commander continued to support T9: "Is he still worth that much? Will I pay 50 million for him? Of course I will. Torres' best time so far is in Liverpool, but it doesn't mean that he can't reach the peak again at Chelsea, and now he plays well for the team.

I'm afraid that Boaz's words are half encouraging, but when Torres will reach the peak again, no one can guarantee the ticket. After the game, Torres smiled with a gloomy face, but it was when he was greeting Liverpool's former teammates. The Spaniard once said that although Liverpool was smaller than London, his life was more comfortable. He felt that it was easier to adapt. Now he saw those acquaintances in the past. In his heart, did he also miss that beauty? The time?

Chelsea lost to Liverpool 1-2 at home. Boas's position has become a topic of public discussion. The odds after class soared from 33/1 before the game to 8/1, and the Mirror even commented, "Abu's easy-to-itch fingers are on the trigger again"... ...

Boas himself did not think he would be fired early. He said, "The boss paid 15 million euros to dig me up from Porto, not to give me another termination fee and send me away early. We need to build something new and future-oriented in Chelsea."

Having said that, the top score in football today is a "hard injury" since Boaz joined Chelsea. The 12 rounds of the Premier League have lost 4 games, with only two rounds of zero goals conceded, 12 points away from Manchester City (Weibo), which is at the top of the list. Although the Blues are temporarily fourth, Tottenham Hotspur, who has missed two games less, may surpass them at any time, and Liverpool and Arsenal (Weibo) have also equaled the points. The most terrible thing is that in the strong dialogue, Boas has been completely defeated so far, losing 1-3 to Manchester United (Weibo) away, which is a little bloody on the scene, but it is somewhat difficult to explain the 3-5 loss to Arsenal at home and now two consecutive losses to Liverpool at home.

History proves that Abu has never been patient. Ranieri took Chelsea to the Premier League runner-up and Arsenal, which was knocked down in the Champions League, entered the top four, but he still left at the end of the season. Mourinho won six championships in three years, but missed the Champions League several times. In the third season, he lost the Premier League trophy. Although he won the FA Cup, he was still dismissed after a little turbulence at the beginning of the fourth season. Grant led the team. Shisheng entered the Champions League final, only one penalty away from winning the championship, and was still fired in summer; Scolari left as soon as he came, and Ancelotti, who won a championship, was also expelled in the second year...

According to the Sunday Express, Abu has had a showdown with Boas. The Russians met with the Portuguese coach a few days ago, saying that they were worried about Chelsea's results at the beginning of the season, especially the 3-5 loss to Arsenal at home. Obviously, the boss conveyed the meaning to Boas very clearly. If you don't win like this, it's up to you.

A difficult problem was put in front of the 34-year-old young marshal. Chelsea wants to transform and change their style, but at the same time, they have to continue to win, which is difficult to imagine.

Sometimes, there is a price to pay for changing the team's playing style. For example, today's Blues use high-pressure play, the formation is very close to it, and the back line also needs to be near the middle circle. This kind of oppressive play requires a mobile defender, but most of the Chelsea defenders influenced by the Mourinho 433 system, Getting used to shrinking defense, once the space becomes bigger, it is easy to be overwhelmed. This may explain why the Blues defenders suddenly become unable to defend this season. The system has changed. They have more opportunities to be exposed to the firepower of the forward, and it is naturally easy to make mistakes.

It takes time to adapt to the new system and playing style, but it is a luxury for Boas. On the one hand, it is an ideal that needs to pay time and price to pursue, and on the other hand, the boss is looking for achievements. The young marshal has encountered the biggest problem in his coaching career. For Boas, the next away game of Leverkusen may be the key battle to determine life and death. If he loses again, Abu may really lose his limited patience.

In fact, a name has hung high above Boaz's head and may be cut down to replace him at any time. The name is Hiddink.

The famous Dutch coach was fired by the Turkish Football Association and has become a complete freedom, and his relationship with Abu is well known. In the 2008-09 season, after Scolari was fired, Hiddink took office as a part-time job. His performance of leading the team also left a good impression on Abu (He was eliminated by Barcelona in the FA Cup championship and the controversial Champions League, but he played very bloody. Once he decided to take Boaz, Hiddink was an emergency replacement. Two people.

The Portuguese actually know that Abu left Hiddink's trick. Hiddink is one of the best coaches in the world," Boas said. "There is no vacancy at present. If so, I'm sure he will be one of the top candidates. Hiddink was a good time for the club to coach Chelsea, but this does not mean that he will always succeed at such a level of club. From Boas's cautious praise, we can hear some caution. The example of Scolari was yesterday. Once the young coach's Chelsea continues to hover in the trough, the "vacant coach position" that does not exist at present will probably be vacated by Abu's order!

Chelsea, which has been changing coaches, has not had a good record this year. Manchester United, which has also changed coaches, has been at the top of the table this season.

In this round of the Premier League, Manchester United will finally bring back another 3 points with a goal advantage in the away game!

Li Yu scored the only goal in the game and continued to be in her good state. Under his combing, the offensive and defensive ends of Manchester United have gradually taken shape. It is said that Ancelotti is conservative, but now it seems that it is not risky to use Li Yu to comb the whole team and practice with the league. Fortunately, Li Yu's The performance has lived up to the trust of the coach.

Five consecutive wins! Don't lose a goal! After experiencing the nightmare of a 1-6 home defeat to Manchester City's sworn enemy in the same city last month, Manchester United's whole team was "shameful and brave", buffering the low morale in time with a wave of victories and did not let the team continue to sink. However, behind such deceptive data, how much persuasive performance has Manchester United really taken? People who have watched these games will also ask: Where is the former Manchester United, which has been able to firmly control the game?

In the last two games, Manchester United's victory has always been accompanied by a record-breaking one: Manchester United has scored in the midfield of the 19 games at the beginning of the season, surpassing 18 consecutive goals at the beginning of the 2001-02 season. However, despite this, Manchester United, which played away from home against the upgraded Maswansea, continued their recent bad state, giving the fans a slightly depressing weekend with a "win but not happy" game.

As a Premier League team from Wales, Swansea does not stick to the simple and rough British style of play.

Under the ** of head coach Rogers, the team attaches importance to passing the ball on the ground, pays attention to passing and running without the ball, and gives full play to the player's strengths, and adopts the "combination of side and middle" to use the speed advantage to hit the opponent. Therefore, it is nicknamed "British Barcelona" by the local media.

Obviously, Manchester United, who lost to Barcelona twice in the Champions League final, also suffered a lot of losses against "copycat Barcelona" in this game: in the second minute, Swansea counterattacked from the right and passed to the back point, and Phil Jones almost gave Sinclair a chance to shoot; in the 23rd minute, Vidic's pass error triggered a ban. The area was chaotic, and Carrick's siege was broken, causing the opponent to pass into the penalty area. The unguarded Sinclair volleyed crookedly at the first time on the edge of the small penalty area.

In the 49th minute, Joe Allen, who came on as a substitute, passed the ball, and Sinclair's small angle shot from the left side of the penalty area was saved by De Gea; in the 56th minute, Gore made a corner kick, and Monk's header from 8 yards away was headed by Vidic; in the 67th minute, Swansea's left side In the cross, Fabio, the little man on the bench, competed with his opponent for the header and cleared the ball with his big foot after the ball landed. The Brazilian young player, who was extremely dissatisfied with his teammates, roared loudly in front of him and scolded his teammates for their lax defense, which led to his opponent's easy cross.

In the final stage of the game, the home team even formed a siege against Manchester United, which made the latter quite embarrassed, but unfortunately, they were unlucky and failed to score.

Although football is a sport that uses scores to speak, the post-match data completely makes Manchester United unhappy: 10 shots from the home team and 13 from the visiting team; 6 to 2 corners; the possession rate of the whole game is equal, and in the first 30 minutes of the first half and the first 10 minutes of the second half, Swansea The possession rate of 53% to 47% and 66% to 34% has a strong advantage; in terms of passing success rate, Manchester United is only 0.5 percentage points higher than their opponents.

As a British reporter said on Twitter: "What's wrong with Manchester United players? It's hard for me to imagine such a bad way of playing football to keep them second in the standings. All this points to a conclusion: Manchester United has no advantage in the face of the promotion, and the victory is not convincing. In terms of Manchester United's performance in previous games, we can't help but ask: Is this still Manchester United? What is the problem with the team?

Before this game, Manchester United shot 168 times in the Premier League, ranking 9th, not even as weaker than Wolves and Queens Park Rangers; 196 shots, ranking 2nd, only 2 less than Bolton in the first place; 55.15% possession rate, ranking 6th, less than the other three giants, to And this game's opponent Swansea and the same city's sworn enemy Manchester City; he passed the ball 127 times, ranking seventh, still less than the three giants and Manchester City.

In terms of goalkeeper saves, De Gea ranked 4th with 45 times, only twice less than the first place. On the other hand, Manchester United is the only team in the Premier League that does not have players to play all the leagues. Everyone is being rotated, and the lineup is subject to frequent changes. From the above data, we can see that Manchester United now lacks three abilities: the ability to control the game, the ability to create opportunities, and the ability to protect the backcourt.

As the saying goes: Manchester United, which has just scored five consecutive clean sheets, seems to have lost its super attack power at the beginning of the season. It only scored 8 goals, and lacked absolute initiative on the scene, and was even besieged by opponents at some times.

The lack of control of the game and the ability to create opportunities is closely related to the lack of organizational core in the midfield: as a nearly 40-year-old veteran, it is impossible for Giggs to support him to play for a long time, but more as a substitute to change the situation on the field; after the surprise at the beginning of the season, Cleverley was injured. I was knocked down, and it was difficult to participate in the game before Christmas.

So we can see that when it was difficult for the two midfield organizers, Cleveley and Giggs, it was difficult to play, Li Yu, who was a striker, had to retreat and organize attacks frequently, thus weakening the power on the front line and leading to a sharp decrease in the number of goals. Nani, Mata and others, who live on the two wings, have encountered a variety of problems such as bottoming out, injuries and so on respectively, and have not been able to show a bright performance recently.

The midfield and penalty area are frequently visited by opponents because there are too many unstable factors in the position of the midfield and central defender: it is difficult to return to the peak after Fletcher's serious illness; Pogba is still young and lacks experience in front-line competition; Carrick's fighting ability and coverage The relatively limited, resulting in Ferdinand and Vidic and others often have to face the opposing offensive players directly. Of course, we must not forget the "time bomb" Evans, who may hurt the team at any time... In the face of various problems, scoring 19 consecutive games may only give people a little comfort in terms of data.

Objectively speaking, the existing lineup has made it difficult for Manchester United to maintain sufficient competitiveness in both the league and the Champions League. Therefore, the right signing is imperative, and the top priority is to improve the team's creativity. According to the news from the Mirror, Manchester United intends to introduce the midfielder of the Brazilian Sao Paulo club, Lucas Jr., who is known as an offensive genius, and São Paulo also said that he hoped to receive a satisfactory offer that they would consider the transfer deal.

In any case, in the face of the 11-12 season with unprecedentedly fierce competition, there is not much time left for the new coach Ancelotti to reincarn Manchester United.

Whether Ancelotti is changing Manchester United's playing style or not, it is difficult to satisfy the fans. The recent victory can't demonstrate Manchester United's recent attack power. Some people will ask why the Mata, who has been introduced with a lot of money, was put on the sidelines and let the attacker Li Yu comb the team's attack.

Ancelotti also knows that Mata needs to adapt and run in when he first comes to the Premier League, and there is no game for Manchester United that allows An Shuai to establish the core. Li Yu is ready-made, which is much more beneficial than Mata, a newcomer. With Manchester United No. 9 as the core, no one will say anything. The same position is changed to Mata, asking There will definitely be no fewer questions.

The new coach adopts a seemingly adventurous but safe method. Under the premise of slowly transforming the team and ensuring the record, Ancelotti has done everything he can do and come up with a set of compromise methods, which is also very in line with Ancelotti's character.