Starting with Real Madrid kicking the midfielder

Chapter 222 The first match of the knockout round in Paris, Li Ang wants to make 272 feel hopeless!
Chelsea's No.306 goal in the first half caused boos in the Stadium of Light!

But the Chelsea players, who are immersed in the joy of equalizing the score at the moment, don't care about the dissatisfaction of the Sunderland fans.

Ibrahimovic roared and rushed to the bottom line, jumped high and turned around with a punch!
It was his seventh goal in the Premier League.

It is also his 12th goal scored on behalf of Chelsea this season!
Facing a completely unfamiliar league, Ibrahimovic passed the adaptation period at the beginning of the season with a stable enough performance.

And excluding his rest games in the previous rounds of the league, only the playing time is counted.

Then his scoring efficiency is actually not much different from Cavani, who is currently the top scorer in the Premier League.
Second only to Suarez, who is now crazy.

That was 8 goals scored in 11 rounds of the league, and it has already strongly tied Cavani's super goal machine!
Even as proud as Ibrahimovic, now he has to admit that Suarez is currently the best striker in the entire Premier League.

But that was Suarez at the age of 26 at his prime.

Ibrahimovic, who is now 32 years old, can still compete with young strikers in their 20s in scoring efficiency.

This is already an incredible thing in the eyes of countless Premier League fans!

After venting his excitement, Ibrahimovic also laughed and hugged Li Ang who opened his arms to him.

"What a boy! You reached the double ten so quickly?! You are really going to go for 20+20 this season, remember to pass me some more good balls in the future!"

Li Ang laughed from ear to ear when he heard this, and other Chelsea players also gave Li Ang hugs and congratulations.

However, this kind of celebration did not last too long. After all, Chelsea have just equalized the score now, and they are not leading.

After Li Ang sorted out his emotions, he encouraged his teammates to make persistent efforts and strive to complete the overtake goal against Sunderland earlier!

It's a pity that Sunderland coach Di Canio quickly recognized the reality at this moment.

He hurriedly asked Sunderland's players to retreat for half the field and shrink the formation, just wanting to hold on to the balance of this point in the first half.

Seeing this, Mourinho had a brief discussion with Holland, and then quickly made tactical adjustments, so that his disciples did not have to rush to attack and slowed down the pace.

So when the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of halftime.

Chelsea and Sunderland only played a 1-1 draw at the Stadium of Light, and neither of them could further break the balance of the game.

Li Ang, who returned to the locker room, was hugged and encouraged by Mourinho and assistant coach Holland.

Obviously they also know that Li Ang just got his tenth assist this season.

As for his direct disciples and the core of the team, Mourinho will naturally not be stingy with encouragement and praise.

A player with ability and stronger ability can actually get a lot of tactical privileges in his team.

From Chelsea's Lampard in Mu's first period to Sneijder in the Inter Milan era, and then to Ronaldo in Mu's Real Madrid.

These stars have received enough attention and tactical care from Mourinho.

Now it's Li Ang's turn. He can change positions flexibly on the court and has the right to fine-tune the team's offensive and defensive tactics on the spot.

In fact, it is the tactical privilege given to him by Mourinho.

As long as he does not frequently make big tactical mistakes, Mourinho will basically not deprive him of this tactical privilege.

In the first half, Li Ang improved Chelsea's passivity on the defensive end through timely position changes.

Mourinho is of course very satisfied with this. After all, no matter from the scene or the result, Li Ang's tactical fine-tuning can't find any faults.

So in the second half of the game, Mourinho would not stop Li Ang from using his tactical privilege.

He will also encourage Li Ang to find more opportunities to change the situation of the battle.

For Sunderland, in fact, Chelsea's coaching staff did not continue to make any tactical targets.

The Chelsea players who replaced the spikes in time only need to adapt to today's relatively slippery turf, and then they can suppress Sunderland step by step.

The only thing to focus on is Sunderland's long-range shooting style for set-piece opportunities.

In the case of needing to strengthen the offense in the second half, Mourinho is not in a hurry to make a substitution immediately.

He just asked De Bruyne, who had returned from injury, to go to the side of the court to do a few more warm-ups.

Van Ginkel's performance on the court today is not bad. Whether it is organization or defense, he can help Li Ang and Matic.

As a reward, Mourinho intends to let this guy play today's game.

So if there are substitutions and adjustments to be made later, Mourinho will basically only let De Bruyne match up and replace Ramirez.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Chelsea players who changed their sneakers were obviously more adapted to the slippery field than in the first half.

Chelsea, who changed their offensive style in the first half and played more direct long passes using their own advantage, quickly took the initiative in the game.

After all, compared to the ability to control the high ball in the front and back courts, Chelsea is far above Sunderland.

Ibrahimovic, who is becoming more and more proficient in headers, aside from his height of 1 meters, is a huge natural advantage!
Using Ibrahimovic as the offensive axis to radiate the two wings, the continuous ball possession allowed Chelsea to play smoothly on the offensive end.

Li Ang came up with another trick at this moment. He asked Matic to follow him forward, and let Van Ginkel kick back to his best single midfielder position.

In this way, Li Ang directly combined with Matic to form a super interception line in Sunderland's half!

This shit is simply trying to block other people's doors, grab the ball from others, and further feed back their own offense!
And when this position is changed, Chelsea's three midfielders are not unaccustomed to it.

Matic was originally a central midfielder, but he changed to a midfielder after he transferred to Benfica and became famous in one fell swoop.

Van Ginkel is also very used to playing a single midfielder. He plays a single midfielder in the Eredivisie, which is all-round offensive and defensive.

Not to mention Li Ang, from the back midfielder to the front midfielder, he has played in every position, and there is no such thing as strangeness at all!
So Chelsea suddenly changed to 433.

Li Ang and Matic's defensive oppression ability against Sunderland's half is simply full.

In short, one sentence stands out:

It is to suppress the opponent to fight!
Di Canio was also stunned at this moment. He had no idea that Chelsea, who had simplified their tactics, would just hold Sunderland down and beat them on the ground!

What's up with this?
They just play long pass with you, relying on their personal strength to overwhelm you!

If you want to go out, you can't go out!

Putting the interception line in the opponent's half and pressing it is too ruthless!
Di Canio watched his team being beaten helplessly by Chelsea, and he was helpless standing in the light rain, looking extremely pitiful.

Mourinho is very sympathetic to his colleague.

But he was sitting on the coach's bench, but he didn't have the slightest intention to stop Li Ang from leading other Chelsea players to attack Sunderland.

At this moment, he was also interested in observing the defensive effect of Li Ang and Matic pressing together in the opponent's half.

Many neutral fans watching this game were completely unaware of this moment.The positioning of Chelsea's three midfielders was created by Li Ang.

They thought it was a new method developed by Mourinho to torment other teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.

After seeing the result of Ramirez and Ibrahimovic scoring two goals in a row within 10 minutes after the opening of the second half.

Many Premier League neutral fans chose to turn off the TV directly.

Because watching the scene where Sunderland was pushed to the ground by Chelsea, it was so heart-wrenching!
This can't help but remind them of the subsequent scene where their team met Chelsea.

Being blocked by Li Ang and Matic in the middle line and hitting his head?

Is this more than cruel?It was brutal!
In the end, the brutal Chelsea took away a 4-1 victory at the Stadium of Light with satisfaction.

Except for Petr Cech, who didn't get the zero seal bonus again, was a little bit worried about luck, the rest of the Chelsea players were quite satisfied with the result of the game.

De Bruyne, who came off the bench in No.704 minutes of the second half, also assisted Ibrahimovic to score his third goal in this game.

Ibrahimovic, who successfully staged a hat-trick, will invite all his teammates back to London for dinner tonight as soon as he returns to the locker room.

Although the recent schedule is relatively tight, seeing the high morale of the whole team, Mourinho did not disappoint.

With a big wave of his hand, he gave the whole team a half-day vacation, and immediately made the visiting team's locker room cry and howl!

The Chelsea team, which returned to London that night, turned into a mighty city.

Li Ang used to treat guests to French food before, and everyone was a bit tired of eating. Today, Ibrahimovic specially picked a delicious Italian private restaurant.

Don't ask why you don't eat British food when you eat French food and Italian food in London.

The question is that even Terry and Lampard don't usually touch the local dishes in London.

Let all the players in the Chelsea team who came to London from abroad eat British food?

Then it's not a dinner party reward, then tmd is a punishment!

After eating and being happy for a while, the Chelsea players didn't dare to spend too long in the gold-selling caves in London.

Before two o'clock in the morning, they said their goodbyes and went home to rest.

Li Ang couldn't refuse the kind invitation of his teammates today, so he went out with him and gained a lot of knowledge.

However, while other teammates were hugging left and right and chatting with beautiful girls, he was dozing off in the noisy nightclub box wearing silent headphones.

Unsurprisingly, the Sun newspaper reported the news that seven or eight first-team players from Chelsea were in a nightclub in downtown London the next day.

To the surprise of a large number of fans, Li Ang appeared on the front page of the Sun newspaper.

But after reading the detailed lace report, they were not surprised.

Well, the behavior of wearing silent headphones in a nightclub to seize the time to sleep is very Leon!

Mourinho has not been too strict about the players' private entertainment.

After recovery training started the next afternoon, he only looked at the training status and quality of each player.

Fortunately, the players who went to the nightclub last night knew it well. They just relaxed for a while, but no one completely loosened their belts.

This still makes Mourinho very satisfied.

Mourinho even had a leisurely heart, and made fun of Li Ang with the lace news released by The Sun today.

But this is just a little seasoning in the tedious and repetitive training life.

Maintaining the rhythm of double matches a week, all Chelsea members rushed to Stoke City three days later.

This Premier League No.15 round of the league can also be regarded as a preview of the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup between Chelsea and Stoke City.

Both teams are well aware of the huge gap in strength between each other.

So at the beginning of the game, Stoke City put on a very pragmatic attitude at home to defend the whole game!

Stoke City's half-time shrinkage and defensive determination are quite a problem for Chelsea, who have to rotate some of their main veterans.

After considering that the team in front of us has a strong high-altitude bombing ability and the ability to find threatening opportunities in set balls.

Mourinho also didn't dare to let his own players aggressively press on, giving Stoke City too many opportunities to counterattack and set the ball.

Li Ang glanced at the past on the court, and was also very moved by the height of the players in the Stoke City team.

"This is a tough guy in the league who relies on defense and high-altitude balls..."

If Chelsea is also in its prime at the moment, without the influence of schedule fatigue, neither Mourinho nor Chelsea's players on the field will think too much.

But when encountering such a tough league in the tight schedule, Mourinho has to consider the consequences of being unable to attack.

After the two teams were very cautious offensive and defensive probes in the first half, Mourinho also made his own tactical decision.

"Hit steadily."

Hearing what Mourinho said, Holland immediately understood.

Therefore, a conventional style of play was adopted, and Chelsea and Stoke City, who were more inclined to protect the safety of their own penalty area, drew 0-0 at the Britannia Stadium.

This is Chelsea's second draw of the season.

After the game, Mourinho and Stoke City coach Mark Hughes also shook hands very friendly.

After this round of competition, Chelsea can be regarded as ushering in a precious one-week rest period in the Premier League.

It is more troublesome for the rest of the Premier League teams. The last round of the Champions League group stage is just a formality here at Chelsea.

On December 12th, Chelsea sat at home and ushered in the challenge of Steaua Bucharest.

The hope of qualifying is close at hand, and the overlord of the Romanian League is also desperately trying to create a miracle at Stamford Bridge.

But Mourinho didn't want to let his home golden statue be broken.

If this game is played at the home court of Steaua Bucharest, then Mourinho will also do a favor.

But at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho doesn't want to lose anyway, and the draw is just the bottom line.

With the tactical task of "at least not to lose", Chelsea's young players are very resolute in defending at home.

Kalas was once again Chelsea's best defender.

With the explosive performance of the Czech teenager, Steaua Bucharest didn't get a chance to shoot in Chelsea's penalty area in the first half.

The second half of the game was equally boring for the neutral fans. Chelsea's resolute defensive will forced Star Bucharest to fight ahead of time.

But in the No.708 minute of the second half, De Bruyne assisted Lukaku and scored a deadly counterattack goal.

The Steaua Bucharest players were also discouraged.

In the end, Chelsea beat Steaua Bucharest 1-0 at home.

And in tonight's proud trip to Schalke, Schalke 04 also grasped their own destiny, defeated Basel 3:1 at home, successfully reversed and won another qualifying place in the Champions League Group E!
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Because Bayern Munich defeated Manchester City before and won the first place in the group, they will not directly meet Chelsea in the first knockout round.

But they still drew an opponent from London.

Arsenal!
For several years in a row, they have played against super teams in the first round of the Champions League knockout round, and Arsenal fans are completely speechless.

And Chelsea's Champions League signing this year is not too good, but it is not too bad.

They will face Paris Saint-Germain in the first round.

Such a contest is quite interesting.

After watching the lottery ceremony, Li Ang showed an inexplicable smile on his mouth.

He can finally make some trash feel the despair on the court himself!

(End of this chapter)