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4Chapter 16: "[-]"

The height of the Pole helped him, and his height of a little over two meters made his defensive area much larger.Facing Schurrle's shot, his limbs were stretched to the maximum.

Just when the ball was about to enter the goal line, Szczesny's hand had already touched the ball.

"Szczesny!! Very nice save, he made Schurrle's long shot helpless!"

Although the ball was saved, Schurrle's shooting power is not small, so Szczesny did not confiscate the ball directly, and the ball was hit out of the small penalty area by his palms.

"Szczesny out of danger!!"

Hazard suddenly appeared at the ball's landing point at this time. He didn't wait for the ball to fall, or unload the ball from his chest.Instead, he directly stretched out his dominant foot and kicked the ball towards the ball.

"Azar!! Volley shot!!"

The ball ran to the goal behind Szczesny for the second time in three seconds, but this time Szczesny, who was already on the ground, could do nothing.

The ball flew into the goal behind him before his eyes, and then plunged into the net.

"The goal is in!!! Hazard's supplementary shot!!!"

"Well done, the volley from Eden Hazard!! The Belgian took his chance in front of the goal!!"

"Azar!!!!!!!!! In just 1 minute of the game, the home team scored a goal!! Now Chelsea leads Arsenal 1-[-]. In the first minute of the game, the home team's first attack, the first kick. Eh , scored with the second shot. Chelsea had a fantastic start!"

"A goal!!! It was Eden who scored the goal for us—" the live commentator at Stamford Bridge gave full play to his nature of being a fan of the Blues, and interacted with the fans on the scene after praising Chelsea.

"Hazard!!!!" Chelsea supporters at the scene responded enthusiastically to the host's voice.

When Szczesny had saved Schurrle's shot, Mourinho hugged his head with both hands that he wanted to celebrate.

But before he hugged it, he saw Hazard's supplementary shot and scored.So he immediately punched with both hands again, and ran excitedly for two meters in front of his coach's bench.Immediately, the Portuguese seemed to have remembered something, put his hands in his trouser pockets with a calm expression, and walked straight to his seat.

"Oh, this is the true nature of a madman. After entering Chelsea for the second time, Mourinho's personality has changed a lot. After several years of experience in Inter Milan and Real Madrid, he has become calm. And shrunk his edge, but... the 'madman' nature in his bones is real!! Look at him vigorously raising his arms, is this demonstrating like Wenger next door?"

The broadcaster also moved the close-up shots from Mourinho's body to Wenger's face in a very "humane" way. The professor's expression was really ugly.

As for whether it's because of Mourinho's celebration or if your team's performance is not good, then rely on the people in front of the screen to make up for it.

Chelsea's goal celebration lasted for a long time. They scored the goal in the first minute, but when the ball was re-opened by Arsenal from the center circle, it was already the first minute and 1 seconds.

It is obviously not good news for Arsenal to concede the ball in just 1 minute of the start.Chelsea is a team that is good at playing tailwinds and defensive counterattacks, especially Chelsea under Mourinho.

Therefore, Arsenal is very eager to equalize the score while the opponent's excitement has not subsided, otherwise it will be difficult to score goals after relying on the defense of the "Chelsea bus".

So later on Arsenal started to attack. Whether it was morale or tactics, they all hoped to equalize the score immediately and bring the two sides back to the same starting line.

Facing Arsenal's offense, Chelsea, as always, put on the bus tactics they are proud of, without the slightest awareness of pressing out to attack because they are at home.

Schurrle, Oscar and others all returned to the front of their own penalty area, and Torres also retreated to help defend. He kept pressing the ball at the feet of the Arsenal players, without the slightest awareness of conserving energy.

This is why Torres is often blacked out as one of the central defenders. Of course, to be honest, Torres is indeed the best defender among forwards.
Hazard did not return to the defense, he stayed in front of Chelsea.Playing the role of counterattack, it stands to reason that this should be the task of center Torres, but he himself does not like to retreat and defend, and then Torres is loyal to retreat and defend, so the two simply changed jobs.

Torres retreated to help Hazard defend, and Hazard stayed in the frontcourt to respond to his teammates' counterattacks, and Hazard still had speed, so it was more than enough for counterattacks.

When Chelsea decided to retreat, Arsenal didn't have much to do.When Li Zihan got the ball, there were people around him and in the frontcourt, including opponent players in blue jerseys and his own team in red jerseys.

The core area of ​​Chelsea's backcourt is just that big, but it is densely packed with people.How do you tell him to break through?When his speed is not up, he is entangled with the opponent's defensive player, and when he wants to cut inside, he is even more cheating
There are at least five Chelsea players standing in front of the 30-meter area. Not to mention they are defensive players. Even if they are immobile stakes, it will take some time for Li Zihan to get the ball around these stakes.

And don't think it's over. After Li Zihan, Ozil and others cooperate, people and the ball finally enter the penalty area, but there are still about three or four people waiting for him in the penalty area.
With such a dense defense, no matter how good Li Zihan's shooting skills are, he doesn't need Chelsea's defensive players to have a good defense. They only need to move the ball by the way, and the ball will hit him. pop out.
It was hard to find the neutral position to hit the goal, but it was on the other side of the neutral position.Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has been waiting to see through - people are almost bored to death.

"Although Chelsea scored an advanced goal, Chelsea is still the same Chelsea we are familiar with. They play ugly football and are too timid to attack. There is no point in winning a game like this. The '[-]' tactic Not only the neutral fans, but also their own fans must be very dissatisfied, this is not football!!" Arsenal's commentator complained.

But he was wrong about one thing, Chelsea supporters didn't boo their team just because the team set up a bus at home.they cheered very enthusiastically
Especially after seeing Arsenal's frontcourt core Li Zihan take the ball, there was not much to do. Either the shot hit the defender and was cleared, or the siege was cleared before he even made a shot.This is very cool for Chelsea supporters! ! ——Damn, even if you can smash the goals of Manchester City, Liverpool and Bayern Munich several times in 10 minutes, so what?In the end, isn't it impossible to open the goal of our Blues?No matter how you kick or how you rush, the ball will eventually roll to the feet of our players anyway.

Seeing that the core of the opponent's goal is suddenly unable to score, Chelsea fans feel very refreshed.What's even cooler than this is that the goal that the opponent can't score is our own. What's even cooler than this is that we are already leading [-]-[-]! !

As for "[-]", it is not an era, it is a formation on a football field.This is a "non-mainstream" formation. You will not find this formation in the formation templates in various football games, but such formations are commonplace in small and medium teams.Especially in the away game, when facing strong teams and giants.

"One" refers to the last goalkeeper, "Nine" refers to the nine defenders in front of the goalkeeper, "Zero" refers to the zero midfielder in front of the defender, and the second "one" refers to the front striker.
This kind of tactics is very practical for defensive counterattacks, and if your side scores a goal, or if you simply want to keep an average, then such a tactical system will be even more powerful.

Generally, this kind of formation will not appear in the giants, because the giants play this formation, not to mention being called a beast by the big bricks and the media and newspapers, and their own fans will complain.If this happened to Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​then after the game the players will be scolded, and the head coach should quickly find another home, otherwise he will face the risk of being unemployed at home.
But what happened to Chelsea, especially to the team coached by Mourinho. It seems that there is no sense of "violation".
Mourinho is a "pragmatic", and he is not blindly advocating defensive counterattacks.When he thinks that offense can help him win the championship, he waved his hand and the team started to attack.When he thinks that defense can help him win, he also waved his hand. But before he swung his hand forward, this time he waved his hand backward.So the famous "bus" stopped at the "parking lot".

Now this Chelsea team does not have the capital to attack, so naturally they can only play defensive counterattacks. They mainly lack a reliable center forward
Li Zihan did not complain about Chelsea's tactics. After all, this is also part of football and one of its charms.

Well, to be honest, Li Zihan doesn't have time to complain about these things now, he is all focused on scoring goals now.

What to do to get the ball into Chelsea's gate?Li Zihan frowned and thought.

This is a question worth thinking about!