Ice Shooter of the Green Field

The two-day vacation is fleeting. In the next four days, Chelsea will prepare for the four-day final at the Cobham training base. Hiddink has also told the players that the two-day vacation is mainly to adjust well and not to party. , don’t drink too much, don’t overwork, stay in good shape, and play whatever you want after the Champions League final.

Nothing else, I just don’t know if today’s state is considered overworked...

It seems that Eileen's joke yesterday was not entirely a joke. After all, she was not the only one. Qize also had to face an exciting wheel battle!

However, Qi Ce was in good condition yesterday, so he probably had enough ammunition due to the passage of time!

Even if I didn't wake up until noon the next day, the good work and rest habits I developed during my days as an athlete were also broken...

I only stayed in Dortmund for another day, and I will return to London in the afternoon. Tomorrow morning at the latest, the Cobham training base will start intense preparations for the final. Fortunately, this time the final venue is in London, it can basically be said to be a home game. , Chelsea does not need to set off too far in advance to get to the stadium, so the preparation plan for this time is only four days, and they will go to Wembley at noon on the day of the final.

Cobham training base the next day.

The venue was filled with the tense atmosphere of an impending storm. Not many people in this Chelsea team had experience in the Champions League finals. Even if they had defeated strong teams like Bayern and Real Madrid, many people would still be nervous when facing the finals.

In the Champions League final five years ago, Chelsea only had a few veterans including Terry, Cech, Lampard, and Ashley Cole, and one person had been transferred to the reserve team, the Frenchman Malouda. In addition, two substitutes, Ferreira and Hilario, were also present at the game that year, but they did not get a chance to play.

Among other players, only Zize has experienced the Champions League final. When it comes to the Champions League championship, only Zize has ever won it.

Zice, the big brother in this regard, came to the training ground. He also shouldered an important job, which was to cool down the atmosphere for the Champions League final, at least not to make the players too nervous.

After all, this Chelsea team is still quite young. If Torres is not the starting forward and Hiddink chooses Zize to play, his partners will usually be Schürrle and Hazard, and the midfielders will be Ramirez, Mikel and Michael. Yes, Lampard is also an option. In key games, an experienced veteran will be able to control the situation.

The defense will be relatively older. Terry and Ashley Cole are both veterans over 30 years old. The other two options should be Azpilicueta and David Luiz.

If Lampard is not started, then the midfield and frontcourt will basically be young people no more than 26 years old.

Soothing their nervousness is also an important task.

In the first two days of training to prepare for the final, Hiddink arranged mainly tactical drills for the final. After the last field trip, Hiddink believed that two game plans should be prepared to face Klopp's crazy running flow. The first is to attack. .

Dortmund's playing style has to make you move faster, open up the space on the court through a lot of running, let the opponent run, and then drag the opponent to death. This kind of play is difficult to slow down, unless you have Barcelona Such a midfield configuration can pass the ball steadily in the midfield, allowing the opponent to consume energy in the fight.

At this stage, Chelsea does not have this kind of ball control ability, so one option is to play against each other, like the way Manchester United plays Chelsea, move the ball forward as quickly as possible, and don't stay in the backcourt for too long to avoid Dortmund going crazy. Running steal.

Another option is still defensive counterattack.

Facing Dortmund's high-pressure style of play, the best thing is actually to give up the ball and let Dortmund control the ball. Chelsea focuses on counterattacks and can pass the ball forward more aggressively, but they must pass the ball into the open space.

It doesn't matter if you can't get it in front, because this kind of defensive counterattack does not require the ball. You just need to send the ball out and let the forward perform. If you can get the ball and launch a counterattack, it will be successful.

The rest of the time is spent in the backcourt. When the ball is received, it is either moved in a wide range or passed forward to counterattack. However, this method also has disadvantages. In situations like the Champions League final, giving up the ball means letting the opponent control it. Game scene.

Fortunately, neither of these two styles of play requires much adaptation. The former can be regarded as Chelsea's consistent style of play when playing against strong teams this season, and the latter is the team's DNA.

When training tactics, Hiddink arranged several small-scale competitions and selected a group of physically fit players from the huge reserve system at the Cobham training base to imitate Dortmund's frantic style of play and focus on fighting in the frontcourt. .

This kind of training is still effective. It is a test under extreme conditions, testing the quality of the players' passing in the face of absolute high pressure, their handling after being intercepted, etc.

These two days of simulations also allowed Hiddink to basically determine the candidates for the starting lineup. To face high pressure, the selection of the defense line is very important. Other positions are easy to say. The position that Hiddink hesitates is David Luiz.

The Brazilian always feels a little aggressive and needs his teammates to wipe his butt. But in fact, when faced with a real high-pressure press, David Luiz's passing is the most stable, whether it is a long pass in a defensive counterattack or a short pass in the face of high pressure. In passing, he actually made the fewest mistakes among defenders.

This also allows Hiddink to no longer hesitate whether to go with the more stable Cahill or the more aggressive David Luiz. The other three midfielders have also been finalized, with Lampard, Ramirez and Meyer starting!

Mikel, the regular mainstay in the starting lineup, has been removed. Ramirez can run. Faced with the Hornets' crazy running style, a midfielder with a large coverage area is needed instead of a midfielder. In addition, he needs to be safe. The experienced Lampard and the young but agile Meyer are better choices.

The forward choices are Torres, Zize and Hazard.

Schurrle may not have much speed advantage over the two full-backs in Dortmund. Piszczek and Schmelzer are both very fast, and as teammates of the German national team, they should be familiar with Schurrle's routines. In fact, Xuerle's personal ability is not very strong. His characteristics are running position and the last kick. However, this technical characteristic is easy to be prevented by those who are familiar with it.

Hazard does not have this problem. He has strong personal ability and rarely loses the ball when dribbling. If the counterattack cannot be carried out and a positional battle is required, giving the ball to Hazard to protect the ball and advance is a good strategy.

Center Torres is still a tactical need. The best partner to open up space for Zize is Torres. Although Schürrle has many partners, after all, Schürrle is not a center and does not have the physical fitness of Torres.

As for Qice's starting lineup, why bother asking?

If Zize is not started in the final without injuries or other factors, Hiddink should also check whether he has Alzheimer's disease. As far as the final is concerned, Cech can be replaced, but Zize cannot be replaced.

After the two days of simulated battles, the next two days were additional practice on some details, mainly set pieces and penalty kicks.

Hiddink also discovered something interesting.

Zize's free kick scoring rate in training is not high. Although this is not a day or two, it is actually more obvious when he starts practicing with his eyes on set kicks. In the game, Zize basically scores every three You can score once in four chances, and about five or six goals a season come from direct free kicks.

But during training, Zice's shooting percentage dropped by more than half, and he might not be able to score a goal seven or eight times, which also left Hiddink a little confused.

Zize told Hiddink that free kicks only feel good when many fans are watching him.

Hiddink is very doubtful about this statement. Most people think the opposite. After all, there is no chance to repeat the game. So many people should be nervous when they look at it. There is no pressure in training, even if the kick is not kicked. At most, the ball was laughed at by his teammates, so he should have a higher hit rate.

Why is this guy doing it the other way around?

However, in the game, Zice was still the first free kick taker, and this will not change. After all, it is an undisputed fact that Zice has high efficiency in scoring free kicks.

The other thing is penalties.

The penalty kick team has maintained a consistent high level, basically hitting every shot. It depends on whether there is actually a need to take a penalty kick in the game. However, Chelsea still included the penalty kick into the scope of additional training.

In addition, corner kicks or free kicks that are difficult to directly form a shot are also the magic weapon for scoring goals in the final. Dortmund is relatively slow in defending set kicks. I don’t know if Klopp is not good at it or just doesn’t pay attention. Ce rarely practiced set pieces, especially corner kicks, at the Brackler training ground during his time at Dortmund.

Zize also told Hiddink this information, and Hiddink also decided to practice more set-pieces. If he can do something through set-pieces in the game, it can be regarded as a contribution to Zice.

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