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Chapter 220 You Let Me Choose?Then I want to touch Bayern in the first round of the knockout round! 【Big guys please subscribe! 】

Li Ang was indeed more active than usual in today's game.

But he didn't have the intention of teaching the young players on the opposite side as many fans thought.

It's purely because the last round of the Champions League took a break and he didn't play a game for more than a week. He just held back for a long time.

In addition, the opponents facing today are basically future Premier League stars, and the quality of the game is not low, so Li Ang is also a little excited.

But he didn't know that his activeness put psychological pressure on many young players in the Southampton team.

At this moment, Luke Shaw and Ward-Prowse, who are not yet 20 years old, look at Li Ang with something wrong.

However, apart from nervousness and a little worry, what they see more is the challenge that they are eager to try.

After all, who isn’t a young genius?

After so many years of growing up in the favor of the media and fans around him, the ambition in the heart of a young man of eighteen or nineteen should not be underestimated.

The desire to challenge after being frustrated made them not have the slightest thought of shrinking back when facing Li Ang.

In terms of scenes, this scene of young talents actively challenging their famous predecessors is naturally something fans and media reporters love to see.

But for Pochettino, he is proud of it, and the more he feels headaches for such a situation.

Training young talents, of course, requires them to maintain enough courage, pride and spirituality.

But when it is necessary to make tactical concessions, these more emotional emotions will become a destructive factor for the stability of the team's performance.

Lallana, who is a little older, is more stable at the moment. He doesn't think it is a good thing for Luke Shaw and Ward-Prowse to rush to attack.

Considering the team's overall offensive and defensive balance, Southampton at this moment should not have too many personal offensive attempts with the ball.

That will only give away the ball that was finally won back to Chelsea.

They should be more inclined to hoard defensive troops and block Li Ang's unreasonable advance in the middle.

Even Li Ang will distribute the ball in time, but as long as Li Ang's threatening advancement is limited first, then he can double-team Hazard defensively as much as possible.

Then Chelsea's offensive starting point will slowly be adjusted to the old Lampard and Ramirez, who is far less threatening than Hazard.

This is the most important thing for Southampton. Otherwise, the defensive pressure exerted by Li Ang on Schneiderlin and Wanyama will always exist.

With the entire center unable to move, no matter how sharp Southampton attacks from the wing, it will not be able to directly reach Chelsea's core.

It's a pity that Lallana can only think about it by himself. He cannot be the master of the tactical adjustment of the entire team.

His coach Pochettino can only continue to speed up the offensive end at this moment.

Li Ang saw that Pochettino did not intend to make any tactical changes, and he knew in his heart that Mourinho once again touched the opponent's seven inches.

This Southampton's current excellent results come from their sidewalk and push forward play.

And when both wings are strong offensively and weak defensively, when you encounter a team with top wingers, such as Chelsea today.

Then Southampton dared not slow down the pace and turned the game into a positional battle.

Southampton's victory mode this season is basically to let the two wings break up the opponent's defensive formation, wait for the opportunity to send a threatening pass, strive for the first goal, and then stabilize the defense and fight back.

Because there is Lambert's heavy hammer in the penalty area, and after Lambert there is Jay Rodriguez, an efficient killer, who makes up the knife.

Therefore, Southampton's return on sending threatening passes in the opponent's core is very high.

After scoring a goal, Southampton will use the defensive and control advantages of the double midfielder to continue to seduce the opponent to attack.

They themselves waited for an opportunity to fight back quickly and smoothly.

It can be seen whether Southampton can take advantage of a game or even win.

Whether their two-wing offense can overwhelm their opponents in the game is crucial.

It is precisely because Mourinho has seen through this point that he directly let the younger Bertrand and Azpilicueta start in today's starting selection.

At present, it seems that the tactical effect of his starting arrangement is quite good. Southampton's two wings are basically unable to penetrate Chelsea's defense and get in touch with their forwards.

And Pochettino doesn't want to play a positional battle with Chelsea, so Mourinho just wants to slow down the pace of today's game and put it in a positional battle to decide the victory!

This makes the game look sluggish and unsmooth, which is exactly what Mourinho wants most.

In such a stalemate situation, Li Ang's technical characteristics are very suitable for fighting tough battles.

Unless Pochettino is willing to completely overthrow his tactics, give up the advantages of the two wings, concentrate his forces and stick to the center to limit Li Ang's offensive performance.

But in that case, Hazard can easily advance solo, and the connection between him and Ibrahimovic is not scary?

So this is still a tactical multiple choice question after all.

Pochettino chose to use offense instead of defense, and continued to make a fuss on the two wings, preventing Hazard from having too much room to play.

Mourinho also simply gave Li Ang the freedom to attack in the frontcourt.

Facts have proved that Lallana's defensive interference to Ly Ang is minimal, unless he uses tactical fouls, and Schneiderlin can only double-team Ly Ang with Wanyama.

Because no matter who they are, the two midfielders can't restrain Li Ang's aggressive advance one-on-one.

Sitting at home and owning the home whistle, Chelsea really didn't hesitate to push across the middle.

Before the game, Wanyama thought that Li Ang would play technical offense with them.

After all, Li Ang had played dribbling in the previous two games, and achieved considerable tactical results.

But when Li Ang played physical confrontation with him neatly, he found sadly that he could barely keep up with Li Ang's rhythm in dynamic confrontation!
Li Ang's strength and endurance far exceeded Wanyama's estimation!
So much so that he had to lower his face, and called his partner Schneiderlin and himself to double-team Li Ang early.

With the double-teaming between the two of them, Southampton's entire center defense gradually collapsed.

Because Li Ang can always take the ball out of their double teams.

Whether it is splitting the side to Ramires, Hazard, or directly stabbing forward to Ibrahimovic, Chelsea's steady progress will not stop because of this.

Before even half an hour of the first half, Pochettino had already finished drinking two bottles of mineral water, and his heart was filled with uncontrollable anxiety.

He could once again experience Li Ang's terrifying growth ability.

After all, he is the coach who played against Real Madrid in La Liga.

How much Li Ang has improved in the past three years, Pochettino can be described as a witness of personal experience.

And looking at Li Ang's continuous destruction in the hinterland of his own half, Pochettino also has to admit that it is difficult for him to find a way to limit Li Ang's performance.

Perhaps the only way is to mobilize heavy troops to stick to the center line.

Even if Pochettino is unwilling, at this moment he must consider the necessity of implementing this tactic.

"Away, if we can score one point, then we are also lucky.

It doesn't matter if you stick to one thing occasionally..."

A voice suddenly sounded in Pochettino's mind, but what followed was his insistence on his tactical philosophy and his doubts about his own defense.

"If we only rely on a large number of people to defend, can we really defend a point? Chelsea has too many tactics to break the bus, which is very risky!"

The two voices were intertwined in Pochettino's mind at the same time, making him more and more uncertain.

In terms of on-the-spot adjustments, Pochettino and many head coaches have the same problem.

That is, they are too entangled and hesitant between being satisfied with their own tactical concepts and the reality of the game situation on the field that is not conducive to their own side.

They sometimes suspect that the players under them did not resolutely implement their tactical thinking, which led to this unfavorable situation.

For Mourinho, he often takes the player to give full play to his ability as the premise, and then considers whether there are flaws in the pre-match tactical formulation.

Which part of the tactics is used by the opponent, Mourinho will make rehearsal adjustments in his mind, if he can change the tactics, he will change the tactics, if the tactics cannot be changed, then he will directly change the players!
Of course, this is also due to the fact that Mourinho has dabbled in various tactics, even if he likes safe victories the most, but this does not prevent him from often being able to command the team to play smooth and aggressive attacks.

There are many tactics that can be played, and there are many tactical cards in hand. In addition, Mourinho only wants to win, and he doesn't care what the process of winning is.

Therefore, his on-the-spot adjustments are always particularly timely and effective.

But this is not to say that Pochettino is bad. In fact, a head coach like Mourinho who adjusts too decisively on the spot is an outlier and a minority in football.

So it is normal for Pochettino to hesitate at this moment.

Not to mention him, the vast majority of Southampton fans will hesitate for a while at this moment between whether to continue to strengthen the wing offensive and defend from the heart.

But they didn't need to worry about it anymore after No. 40 two minutes into the first half.

Because Chelsea used enough patience and tactical suppression to usher in the fruits of their deserved advantage!

Li Ang, Ibrahimovic and Ramirez patiently made a 5-foot short-distance non-stop pass from the right side of the Southampton penalty area.

And just after the football returned to Li Ang's feet again, he pointed east and west, allowing Hazard to be used as a tactical bait.

With his eyes fixed on Hazard, Li Ang knocked the ball with his heel in front of Lampard who was in the middle!

Pochettino emphasized many times before the game that Li Ang must not be given the opportunity to be unmarked in front of the penalty area.

Southampton's defenders clearly listened.

Their strict marking of Li Ang did prevent Li Ang from getting a chance to shoot in the entire first half.

So he gave this opportunity to Lampard, the big brother in the team!

And the moment he saw Lampard adjust his pace and take off calmly in front of the top of the penalty area, Pochettino went numb!

Li Ang didn't just use Hazard alone as a tactical bait this time.

He counted himself in and completely attracted the defensive attention of Schneiderlin and Wanyama!
The Polish national goalkeeper Boruc also felt very powerless at this moment.

That tmd is Lampard!

How dare his own defensive players let him play calmly in this position? !
Boruc, who gritted his teeth and made a save, could only do his best to defend the goal, while praying in his heart that Goddess of Luck would take care of Southampton again!
Unfortunately, the crisp sound of football rubbing against the net finally rang in his ears!

And Boruc had no way to keep Southampton's goal in the same way as he refused Ibrahimovic's close-range shot at the beginning of the game!

"Goal!!! Frank Lampard! Chelsea's first goal of the game with his trademark shot from the front of the box!!!

This is also Lampard's fifth goal this season!Amazing efficiency!The sword is not old! ! ! "

"Too bold! Dare to let Lampard play calmly in this position?! Southampton's defensive players are too bold!"

Zhan Jun and General Fan exclaimed again and again in the studio of Sina Sports!
On the court, Lampard, who scored a beautiful goal, also rushed to the baseline excitedly, punching and roaring to celebrate!

When Mourinho was celebrating on the sidelines, there was some surprise in his eyes.

He actually didn't expect that it would be Lampard who opened the first record for Chelsea today!

After all, today's Lampard and Matic stick to their own half, and there are not many offensive opportunities.

As a result, Li Ang was patiently laying out the bait, and once again activated Lampard, the long-range killer who scored 15 goals in the Premier League last season!

Pochettino, who was still thinking about whether to stick to it and get a point, has completely lost his troubles.

After dragging down the remaining minutes of the first half, Southampton started the second half and launched a ferocious offensive!

Pochettino knows very well that when facing Mourinho, once the score falls behind, he must strengthen the offense as soon as possible.

Don't delay!
Because Mourinho is a master of the middle.

You want to wait until after 70 minutes to fight to the death, but by that time, your players are demoralized and physically unable to sustain it.

As a result, Mourinho's team still ran quite vigorously!

Pochettino, who was hard to find a win against Mu's Real Madrid before, has suffered enough in this regard.

So he had already mobilized his players during the halftime break of the game.

Without taking chances, the desperate Southampton is still quite threatening on the offensive end.

But what Chelsea want now is that they make this aggressive decision.

Again:
You don't attack?Then how do I fight back to seal the victory!
In the second half, Chelsea stuck to the half, waiting for an opportunity to fight Southampton's counterattack.

At this moment, Li Ang also completed the swap with Lampard and retreated to a more important midfielder position.

This gave Li Ang the feeling of becoming Brother Long.

He is Chelsea's true offensive and defensive hub. In the defense, they have to constantly look for precious opportunities to counterattack and seal the victory.

It doesn't necessarily require him to directly assist the striker in the frontcourt to kill him with one blow. What he needs to do is to find the most suitable counterattack path.

And when he can accurately pass the ball to this counterattack path, he has to make sure that his teammates can advance in time and send the football into Southampton's penalty area more accurately...

Trivial defense and frequent observation did not make Li Ang feel exhausted.

On the contrary, the more he kicked, the more excited he became, and his mind became calmer.

In the 701st minute of the second half, when Southampton completed a cross from Luke Shaw, but Terry completed the challenge for the top one step ahead of Lambert, Li Ang immediately started to push forward!
Ramirez, who received the football from Terry, did not hesitate, and directly made a diagonal through in front of Li Ang!
Wanyama gritted his teeth and simply shoveled!
However, Li Ang took off flexibly after stabbing the ball, dodged Wanyama's tackle, and then stepped on the ground to accelerate and continue to advance!
But just when everyone thought he would continue to dribble forward, he adjusted his pace, and then sent a long diagonal pass straight to the right of Southampton!
Hazard also just completed an extremely fast overtaking of Chambers at this moment!
The advantage in speed made him quickly leave Chambers far behind when he was running without the ball.

Hazard, who stopped and took a trip, quickly took the ball and cut into the Southampton penalty area.

And before Southampton's two central defenders got back in place, Hazard sent an inverted triangle pass back!

At this time, Ibrahimovic, who had been following up from behind, also accelerated suddenly and completed the finishing blow in the middle of the penalty area!
Faced with such a close-range push, Boruc is possessed by the peak Cech Buffon, and it is difficult for him to make a successful save!

And as soon as the goal was scored, the game basically lost all suspense.

Because Mourinho didn't care about too much celebration, he had already called Karas and Ivanovic to warm up on the sidelines!
At the last moment, Li Ang no longer thought about continuing to counterattack, and honestly squatted in the pit with Matic in his own half, resisting Southampton's desperate counterattack!
In the second half, Osvaldo, who was doing nothing, came on the bench, but Lambert, who failed to score in the end, was very anxious.

But he still couldn't exert his 100% strength due to his injuries.

Southampton, which lacks finishing ability, sent a lot of crosses at the last moment, but the number of times it grabbed a point was really small.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee on duty directly blew the whistle for the end of the game!

Once this tough battle was won, Chelsea's advantage at the top of the table was consolidated by a few points, and Li Ang, who was in a good mood today, also accepted an interview from Sky Sports after the game.

The reporter asked a lot of questions today, about the league, about the upcoming English League Cup, and even about the UEFA Champions League.

Seeing this, Li Ang responded jokingly.

"The Champions League? Well, if I can choose myself...then I want to pick one that is strong enough to play Bayern Munich directly in the first round of the knockout round, how about it?!"

(End of this chapter)