Midfielder

Chelsea's consecutive victories have dealt a blow to the confidence of many teams. Many people may be waiting to see problems with this group of mercenaries.

After all, after a team changes most of its main lineup, it always takes time to get used to each other. Rome can't be built overnight.

Mourinho is not God. He can't shape the style of a team in such a short time and put his own stamp on it so quickly.

Just like Ranieri, he coached Chelsea for a season before he started to explode in the middle of last season and finally rushed to the third place.

Even if Mourinho has two brushes, this guy wants Chelsea to achieve results. It will take at least two months, and it can't be faster.

Maybe at the beginning of the Premier League, no one thought that Mourinho's team could play so smoothly, but after four rounds of the league, everyone began to face this problem. The Portuguese's command ability may have exceeded their imagination, because Chelsea has won four consecutive games.

Just like those noisy voices of criticism, Mourinho's team has never stopped using its own way to control the game and the outcome.

If a gorgeous style of play can bring the same effect, Mourinho does not object, but Chelsea does not have the capital to play gorgeously on the field now.

It is difficult for a group of players who have only gathered together two months ago to form that kind of habitual tacit understanding. At least in the early stages of the league, this tacit understanding can only occasionally burst out with inspiration, and it is impossible to last. If you really want to play gorgeously, it is indeed not very realistic, at least not realistic in the near future.

Mourinho will not say whether he will change the team's playing style. At least at this stage, he will maintain such a high-efficiency operation and will not change it.

"Only by minimizing the danger to the greatest extent can there be fewer accidents in the game. The league is a confrontation between who makes fewer mistakes."

Mourinho knows that this is not the Portuguese Super League, and he can't lead the team to kill all the way and win all the way like he led Porto last season.

There are too many obstacles in the Premier League. You never know which team will suddenly go crazy and become the biggest obstacle to sniping you to score points.

In order to avoid unnecessary loss of points, Mourinho had no choice but to adopt such an extremely efficient style of play, giving up ball control and pursuing practicality.

If a pass can penetrate the opponent's defense, then Mourinho will let the offensive players omit those fancy passing moves and hit the key points directly.

This style of play that pursues a high success rate is unique in the Premier League, efficient, practical, and one-hit kill. Chelsea seems very ruthless.

In the shortest time, using the most effective method to plunder league points is absolutely beneficial for a newly formed team.

At least Chelsea's boss will not be dissatisfied with this situation. His team has won consecutive victories. He now trusts Mourinho very much. Abramovich now absolutely believes that the annual salary of 5 million pounds he gave is worth the money, and it has even greatly exceeded his expectations before the season.

You know, Abramovich and Kenyon, the two um, have even made backup preparations, but they did not expect Mourinho's start to be so smooth.

At this time, the entire Chelsea management may not care how much money they spent this summer, because this investment is worth it.

Compared with last season, they only spent more than 30 million euros, but now they have a much better start than last year, and the money is not wasted.

Now Chelsea and Arsenal have the same 12 points, but their goal difference is slightly less, so they are ranked second in the standings.

Is there anyone who still questions Mourinho's ability to control the team? Maybe even those who clamored to see a joke before the start of the league can shut up.

There may be no new head coach of any team who will play so smoothly at the beginning of the league. Many people say that this is Mourinho's good luck. In the first four games, only the game against Manchester United can be regarded as a tough battle, and the rest of the opponents are in the middle and lower teams.

As a new coach in the Premier League, the most unfortunate thing in the early stage of the league is to encounter strong teams in succession. If he is not careful, he may face a series of failures. However, Mourinho is very lucky. He did not encounter such troubles. The schedule is still favorable to him.

I don’t know what will happen in the future games, but at least he has got the points he deserves from teams like Birmingham and Crystal Palace.

It is the Premier League schedule that gives this guy a good opportunity to control the team, otherwise, he would not have won four games in a row so easily.

However, such statements are more from the media, not from the coaching community, because many coaches know that this is not all luck.

Maybe Mourinho is lucky to encounter two relegation teams in a row, but don’t forget that Birmingham only lost one game in the first four rounds.

Crystal Palace also lost to Chelsea. In the other three games, they won one and drew two, and their performance was not that bad.

Who can keep a record of not conceding goals when facing four teams in a row? I'm afraid that even Ferguson and Wenger would find it difficult to do this when they were leading their teams at their peak, but Chelsea led by Mourinho has already done it, and in these four games, he did not let the opponents get any advantage.

In the first three games, Chelsea's defense may be a little awkward because of the coordination between each other, usually leaving one or two opportunities for the opponent.

But in the fourth game against Southampton, in 90 minutes, Chelsea never let any loopholes appear in its defense.

Beattie, the leading striker of Southampton, said to a familiar reporter with a depressed face after the game, "This is simply the most depressing game I have played in recent years. In 90 minutes, I almost didn't get any support and could only fight with those defenders alone."

This striker who can be selected for the England team is definitely not a weakling, but this time, he saw what is called a copper wall and iron wall defense.

Terry and Carvalho did not leave Beattie any chance at all throughout the game. Destruction and interception almost blocked all possibilities.

Indeed, this is simply too bad. All the passing routes to Beattie were cut off, leaving this guy alone to fight.

But Southampton could not help their striker at all, because all their energy was spent on fighting for the midfield with their opponents.

Lampard, who was suspended for accumulating yellow cards in this game, sat in the stands, but no one missed him because Lin Yi was too dazzling on the field.

Now in the stands of Stamford Bridge, an oversized No. 20 jersey has been specially pulled up for this kid during the game. Lin Yi has simply become the object of their worship. Those crazy Chelsea fans are paying tribute to Lin Yi in this way and thanking him for the visual enjoyment he brings.

Although too many people have advocated in newspapers and TV that Chelsea won the game by relying on a highly utilitarian style of play, those Chelsea fans will only think that those people are making up stories, or even jealous, because they may not even have watched a complete game of Chelsea this season.

Boring? Maybe, if Lin Yi doesn't play, Chelsea may look a little dull on the field, but as long as that kid plays, the word boring has nothing to do with Chelsea, because that kid himself represents an extreme gorgeousness.

It is said that South American players are elves on the field. They can make extraordinary moves and shooting skills beyond others' imagination at will in any occasion.

Like Ronaldo, like Maradona, they are all geniuses in this area. As long as the football is at their feet, these people can play all kinds of tricks.

And Lin Yi is the same kind of person as them. As long as he receives the football on the field, whether it is passing or dribbling, he will attract the attention of the whole audience.

In the match against Southampton, this kid was simply venting the depression of not playing in the last game. The ball was played in a variety of ways.

Perhaps before this, among the past players of Chelsea, Zola from Italy was the foreign player who brought the most enjoyment to Chelsea fans.

Then from the day Lin Yi landed in Chelsea, this title will change, because the kid brought others a visual feast on the field.

Southampton's playing style has always been tough. In the past, this team could be called a strong team killer, but when they met Chelsea, they seemed so weak. Those defenders who usually claimed that they could not pass the ball were completely fooled by Lin Yi this time.

Passing through the crotch is actually a very common way to pass through, but have you ever seen anyone pass through the crotch of three people in a row? There was such a shot in this game. I believe that when Sky TV selects the highlights of each round of the Premier League, Lin Yi's wonderful performance will definitely be selected.

No one can see clearly how this kid did it. Anyway, he passed through the crotch of three people from the midfield, and it was continuous.

An S-shaped curve, until the fourth person overturned him with a fierce foul in front of the penalty area, otherwise, I don’t know how many more this kid could pass.

This is just a microcosm of Lin Yi in the whole game. From the first second he touched the football, he has become a nightmare in the eyes of those opponents.

This kid was throughout the game. He disrupted Southampton's full-line defense in the position of front midfielder. His passes kept threatening the opponent's goal. However, this time Lin Yi did not let himself become the terminator. He chose to pass the ball to Drogba's feet more often.

Drogba received at least three extremely accurate through passes from Lin Yi throughout the game. Such passes finally made Drogba find the feeling of shooting.

Drogba really couldn't waste the opportunities that Lin Yi had created with great effort. Those passes were directly stuffed into his running route.

When the score was deadlocked, it was this African elephant who received the through pass from Lin Yi's outside instep in the middle of the penalty area and shot the ball into the goal.

From the start to the end, the opponent's defenders had almost no reaction, because they didn't see how the football was passed.

After the African elephant shot, the first thing he did when he got up from the ground was to hug Lin Yi with his strong arms.

"Hey, kid, you're so damn cute!" This guy, who had been gloomy for almost a month, finally smiled with his teeth showing.

Scoring his second goal of the season at home, Drogba, who has always been controversial, finally roared loudly on the court.

But all this is thanks to Lin Yi's continuous passing. If it weren't for that kid's accurate passing, Drogba might not have such a chance to shoot.

Of course, Lin Yi thinks that if this guy doesn't express friendship in this way, it might be better, because the sweat glands on this elephant are too developed. Now Lin Yi's jersey has been soaked in this guy's sweat, and his body has been made rotten by Drogba!

"That kid always activates everyone." When seeing this scene, Brito sat on the bench and spread his hands to Mourinho.

"It was the same in Porto last season. When McCarthy fell into a goal panic, it was he who used a game of continuous passing to activate the South African's goal momentum. This time, he just changed a target. Anyway, this is the way he likes."

Mourinho didn't seem to feel strange about all this. He knew very well what kind of person this kid who he taught himself was.

Someone once said that this kid liked to show himself too much when he was on the court. This habit would make him independent of the tactical system.

But Mourinho never thought so. From the first day he saw that kid playing football, he knew that Lin Yi was a team player in his bones.

He was very popular on the field, but after his crazy performance, it was this little guy's wide vision and tricky and accurate passes.

Lin Yi is not Lampard. He likes to keep his position in the blank area between the center circle and the top of the penalty area, rather than closer to the goal.

Between shooting and passing, Lin Yi prefers the former. He likes to play the role of commander. Dominating football attracts him more than shooting.

He is used to organizing the whole team to put pressure on the opponent together, rather than relying on his own shooting to solve the problem. Can you say that such a player is unique?

Now many people describe Chelsea as a utilitarian team that sacrifices the scene for victory, but Lin Yi's existence is an outlier.

Say they play ugly? Well, why is there always a shot of that black-haired kid in the weekly Premier League highlights, and often more than one. Say they play beautifully? I guess you will be drowned by the saliva of those football commentators before you finish saying this.

Alien, only such words can be used to describe Lin Yi's presence in Chelsea. As long as he is on the court, Chelsea's style will suddenly change.

Even if these guys are still very tough in attack and defense, Lin Yi uses his extremely delicate skills to make it more dangerous.

However, Lin Yi has not yet stabilized his main position under Mourinho. He and Lampard are still just a rotation relationship.

This is not Mourinho's rotation policy. It is just that between active attack and pursuit of efficiency, Mourinho is also considering a route suitable for Chelsea and himself. Lin Yi is now the balance point of this style change. How to play the game, Mourinho must choose according to the situation.

But even he himself admitted that only when Lin Yi is on the court, Chelsea's offensive style will become more sharp, which makes it difficult for him to give up.

Compared with Lampard, the kid's brain is very flexible, and there are many inspirations in the game, but sometimes the kid likes to take risks too much.

As long as Lin Yi gets a chance to play, he will go crazy on the field. This guy often tampered with Mourinho's will during the game. At first, Mourinho would grab his ears and yell at him after the game. Later, he was too lazy to scold the kid, anyway, his choice was not bad.

Just like the game against Southampton, Mourinho asked him to pay attention to the two sides, and then use the cross ball to tear open the opponent's defense.

For this reason, Mourinho even arranged Drogba and Gudjohnsen, two big guys with good headers, to respond in the middle, in order to carry out aerial bombing.

But he still forgot that the person behind these two guys was not Lampard, who played the ball in a very strict manner, but his cunning apprentice.

At first, Lin Yi also tried to control the ball in the middle, and then handed it to the offensive players on the side to cross the bottom, but he soon changed his mind.

When Thiago and Joe Cole failed to create offensive opportunities on the wing, Lin Yi began to choose to work alone in the middle, not playing according to the pre-match arrangement. However, it was precisely because of his dribbling and passing in the middle that Drogba repeatedly created opportunities to score.

But Thiago and Joe Cole often had to retreat to the middle to block the opponent's counterattack because of Lin Yi's excessive forward pressure in the game.

Such actions often destroy the integrity emphasized by Mourinho, and Lin Yi is often taught a lesson by Mourinho because of this practice.

However, the price this kid paid after the game was that he had to run 10,000 meters on the training ground, which was Mourinho's punishment for him violating the tactical arrangement.

But in private, Mourinho still asked Lin Yi to make his own choices on the field according to the situation, which made Lin Yi quite speechless.

"You let me make my own decision and then punish me? Is there any reason to talk about this?" Lin Yi's muttering was exchanged for a slap on the forehead.

"You are allowed to adapt to circumstances, but you are not allowed to disrupt tactical arrangements at will!" Mourinho is now treating Lin Yi more and more simply and roughly.

But it is undeniable that Lin Yi has become an idol of the fans at Stamford Bridge. He is the most cheered in every game.

Is this kid who has been rampant in the Portuguese Super League going to bring his evil qualities to the Premier League again?

Alas, only God knows...

(Alas, the Lakers are really not strong recently. They lost this one, but they are still the same. They are in danger of winning three consecutive championships...)