Football’s First Defender

For Liverpool, in the last round of the league, the first half performance against West Bromwich Albion was definitely not the best.

The delay in breaking the deadlock on the offensive end is unacceptable for Liverpool.

However, the good news may be that in another venue, Leicester City is also caught in an anxious match with Chelsea, which keeps the suspense of the Premier League champions.

Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, in the last round of the season, did not have any plans to let the water go, but amidst the cheers of the home fans, they played inextricably against Leicester City.

Some people imagined that Chelsea would release water to Leicester City at home in order to avenge their previous loss to Liverpool, at least it did not show it in the first half.

In the last round of Chelsea's game at home, they still played with all the main players.

What training, how to train young players are all excuses.

For Chelsea, their young players don't need meaningless playing time in the Premier League at all. Their game is their game.

As for the attitude of the game, especially the home game, Chelsea is very correct.

Even if the results of this season are not good, not only all four fronts are empty.

And this season, due to ranking issues, they are still unable to qualify for the Champions League.

However, it is because of this problem that when facing the last home game, Chelsea wants to make up for their home team fans, so that they can happily spend the last game of the season with the team at home Contest.

Then forget all the unhappiness of this season and let them look forward to the new season.

Of course, there is another very important reason, that is, Chelsea does not want to be the background board of Leicester City.

You know, if Leicester City really won the championship, unless it was because Liverpool, which was playing next door, lost the chain in the last round of the game and failed to win the game.

Otherwise, if Leicester City wins the championship, then the key victory Leicester City achieved in the last round, this victory at Stamford Bridge Stadium, may really be frozen in the history of the Premier League.

The coronation of the new king still won the championship in the league, surrounded by 6 rich teams. The birth of the miracle of Leicester City will inevitably be mentioned repeatedly in the years to come.

And time is something that people forget.

With the passage of time, people will gradually not talk about Manchester United's release of water at Old Trafford, or Everton's away points. Everyone will only see Leicester City's championship highlights from Leicester City Chester City, in the scene of defeating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, will only see blue Chelsea, and blue Stamford Bridge, easily broken by the new champion Leicester City.

This is unacceptable for Chelsea.

Nobody wants to be the backdrop for someone else winning.

From all aspects, Chelsea will not release water in this game.

They will all show their best strength to complete the final result of the game.

In this game, Chelsea played with all the main players. In the last game at home, they still showed a strong fighting spirit and a full game state.

For the entire Chelsea team, if they cannot achieve a better record in the game, they will be sorry for the fans who have always supported them.

The fanaticism of British fans is the focus of the world.

Chelsea's poor record this season can be said to be caused by civil strife.

It is true that Chelsea fans are divided because of Mourinho's fate.

Some people support iron-blooded coaches like Mourinho, some people support the players, and some people only care about whether the team will change next season.

But surely every fan who likes Chelsea hopes that the team can get better.

In the previous game between Chelsea and Liverpool, although they lost the game, Chelsea's outstanding performance in the game was still impressive.

The excellent competitive state, the display and performance of personal abilities, and the spirit of the players in the team all made the fans feel gratified.

Although this season has been useless, but looking forward to the new season, there can still be a lot of expectations.

Chelsea continued to play without a striker in this game.

In the absence of forward players, Chelsea began to pursue a technical style of play. The accumulation of many technical players in the team also gave Chelsea the foundation to play a pass-and-control style of play without a striker.

In the starting list.

Chelsea's goalkeeper is still Courtois.

Although the performance of the Belgian national goal this season was limited by the team's poor record at the beginning of the season, and they kept conceding goals, in recent games, Courtois's performance has been good.

On the defensive line, although at the end of the season, the team's defensive players suffered a lot of injuries, but with the return of the injured, they still maintain a very good defensive strength.

Ivanovic and Azpilicueta are separated on the left and right sides, and in the central defender position are the team's meritorious captain Terry and Cahill.

With Terry's return from injury, in the last league game of the season, at home, Terry also got a starting opportunity to lead the team to end this failed season, the last game.

In terms of midfield, Chelsea sent their current lineup.

Although the official lineup is 451, it has always been clear that Hazard, who doesn't like to play the No. 9 position, is not the kind of player who can be a single forward.

When the starting list came out, most people still felt that this should be Chelsea's no striker.

Matic and Fabregas partnered with the team's double midfielder.

In the midfield, it is the offensive stage of Oscar, William, Pedro, and Hazard.

Although there is no orthodox forward player, the small-scale breakthrough ability, offensive ability, and finishing ability in front of the goal of the four players are all very good.

Their breakthrough and offense can create a threat to any opponent.

After the Mourinho era, Chelsea are now in a period of tactical reform and change in the team.

After all, with so many outstanding technical players, for Chelsea, sticking to the set of defensive and counterattack tactics of the year is really a waste of money.

This season, Chelsea's infighting at the beginning of the season was affected by many factors.

Although Facco connected, in the last season, helped Chelsea to kill the Quartet. Although it did not shake Liverpool's championship status in the league, it also put a lot of league pressure on Liverpool.

And helped Chelsea easily win the league championship.

However, Mourinho's defensive philosophy has become very unfavorable without the support of an outstanding record in the past two years.

Indeed, the strict requirements on the defensive end have allowed Chelsea's defensive capabilities to be greatly enhanced. It is impossible for any opponent to easily score goals when facing Chelsea.

However, this pursuit of the ultimate defensive concept is easily rebounded by offensive players.

You must know that among the players who can play for a wealthy team, which one is not a big-name player, which one does not have thousands of fans, and has great commercial value.

Which one is not like going one step further and becoming the top star.

However, under Mourinho's tactical system, it will be found that it is not so easy to get stable performance opportunities.

Mourinho's arrangement of the team's defensive details was very precise.

That is, when facing many defensive situations, Mourinho has made a very strict division of the team's zone defense.

This meticulous pursuit of defense also strictly requires every player to better complete their corresponding defensive tasks in the game.

Even an offensive core player like Hazard needs to do his best in the game to complete defensive tasks.

This may also be why Diego Costa is so popular with Mourinho.

Originally, the forward should be the weak link of a team's defense. As a result, Diego Costa, as a forward player, can play the defensive role of a midfielder on the defensive end.

It's just a pity that Diego Costa's injury at the beginning of the season made Chelsea lose the rhythm of the game in the early stage.

It also made Mourinho's tactics resisted by many Chelsea offensive players and even backcourt players.

Because of Mourinho's strict requirements, there are strict requirements for the defensive positions of offensive players and the arrival of defensive positions. It is conceivable that Mourinho's requirements for defensive players will be even more stringent.

Defensive players, such as Matic, are really every game, as long as the victory is not completely sealed, then they must run and sweep with all their strength.

One game, two games is fine.

Strong duel, the focus of the battle is also available.

But playing like this every game is really tiring for Chelsea players, especially the defensive players.

Defensive players are limited by their own fatigue, while offensive players complain from distrust of Mourinho's offensive tactics.

As a coach who prioritizes defense, Mourinho's offensive philosophy seems to only include defensive counterattacks.

Not to mention that they don’t have very good offensive tactics, in order to avoid the team making some mistakes and being caught and counterattacked by the opponent, Chelsea is also deliberately restricting the offensive nature of the players, so that these players cannot completely release their offensive talents.

This is the most important place.

Let Hazard, who is determined to catch up with Melo and become the world's top star, invest a lot of physical energy on the defensive end, and let Hazard's own offensive ability be limited in the game. It's a very normal thing.

And when Chelsea couldn't stand the pressure, they chose to dismiss Mourinho from get out of class.

After that, Chelsea's performance soared. It can be seen that Chelsea's strength is still there. However, in order to force Chelsea's top management before, it was obvious that they were not very concerned about the game, which resulted in the poor record at the beginning of the season.

In order to make up for the damage caused by the fans due to the team's internal problems and state problems in the early stage of the league, Chelsea also tried their best to express themselves in the game after the coaching change. Do your best to win the game.

In this last game, for Chelsea, Leicester City was able to win the away game, which is the Leicester City team's own ability.

As far as Chelsea themselves are concerned, they will never deliberately release water during the game to let Leicester City win directly.

Chelsea, who sit at home today, the performance of the players on the field is quite positive.

Although Leicester City is also fighting with all the main players, they have also played a very good game record against strong teams this season.

However, for Leicester City, its own weakness in positional offense is quite obvious.

On the offensive end, Leicester City relies most on the defensive counterattack in the game.

Leicester City's counterattack ability is absolutely world-class.

Whether it is the team's hierarchical advancement, or Vardy, Mahrez and Okazaki Shinji's ability to quickly advance in counterattacks, they can control the rhythm of the game in their own hands.

However, when facing Chelsea, Chelsea did not take the initiative to attack as usual at the beginning.

Everyone knows how strong Leicester City's defensive ability and counterattack ability are this season.

Chelsea is not Manchester United. They take the initiative to send it up to attack, so that the opponent can easily complete the counterattack during the game.

Chelsea's approach to the game is very simple.

Even if I don't launch dangerous offenses very much, I even take the initiative to learn from Leicester City, handing over the ball to the opponent, then defending well, and preparing for a counterattack with peace of mind.

Instead of letting the players use more off-the-ball running, they also have to bear the risk of being hit back, and they can't play too threatening offense.

Why not just let Chelsea enter the state of defensive counterattack.

Anyway, Chelsea is not worried about Leicester City not attacking.

If you don't attack yourself, then the big deal is a 0-0 draw to the end.

Anyway, Chelsea does not necessarily need the victory of this game.

For this game against Leicester City, Chelsea is completely conspiracy.

It is to know that what you need is victory, goals, and offense, then let Leicester City attack by itself, and fully integrate the game into the rhythm of their own defensive counterattacks.

Chelsea's tactics are to maximize their defensive counterattack advantages.

However, although Chelsea's defensive counterattack purpose is obvious, Leicester City also needs to attack and score goals, but Leicester City, who are playing away, are not in a hurry to launch an attack.

Because for them, now a draw, only one goal is needed.

And they have 90 minutes to try to attack.

If they are seized by Chelsea during their full-scale attack, then if Leicester City is scored first, it will be more disadvantageous for them to need more goals later.

The two games have always maintained a tie, which also makes the championship situation confusing.