Midfielder

Everyone is thinking about Chelsea, this is inevitable, but the purpose is different.

The Premier League opponents are thinking about them in order not to be ravaged too badly by these crazy people. It is a shame to lose one less. After all, it is a bit embarrassing to let the opponent score a massacre.

And those teams in the Champions League, although they know that Chelsea will fight Barcelona to the death first, everyone has to guard against the defending champion early. This is a group of beasts, maybe one day they will bite people.

But the most melancholy person now must be Rijkaard. He has Chelsea's game videos in the past two months in his hand, but looking through these videos, he found that Mourinho rotated almost every game.

Every game, really every game is rotated, and the formation, style of play, and personnel configuration used each time are different. Now Rijkaard can only be sure that Chelsea will start in the game. Only Lin Yi and Cech, for the rest of the positions, it seems that Mourinho is very confident in rotating personnel.

There are also substitutes for the central defenders, including Terry and Carvalho, who are the golden partners. Friedrich's recent performance is perfect, especially in the central defense, he rarely makes mistakes.

The German's tenacity and meticulousness, as well as his strong body, make him rarely suffer in confrontation. In the game against Arsenal, this guy and Carvalho blocked the sharpshooter Henry.

It is not surprising for Rijkaard to say that this guy has secured his position as a main player with his recent game status.

In addition to Friedrich, people like Bosingwa also performed strongly in the game.

This makes Chelsea's defensive lineup have many variables, and Rijkaard dare not easily finalize the opponent's steel defense line. What kind of personnel combination will there be? Now, perhaps only Cech's goalkeeper position is certain. Except for him, Barcelona has no idea whether Chelsea will play three or four defenders. There is no way, Mourinho is always changing.

And recently when he played three defenders, Chelsea's offense will become more sharp. Now they have enough frontcourt players, and different lineups in each game also make their offense appear very changeable.

Single striker, double striker, sometimes they will occasionally play 4-3-3, this is when Drogba has not returned to the team yet. If that guy comes back, who knows how they will play the game.

Rijkaard has been troubled by the team's air defense problem recently. Now look at Chelsea's strong charge in the middle, especially the sharp increase in header advantage, Barcelona is a bit headache just looking at it.

One Drogba is enough, adding Crespo is even more deadly, not to mention that they may be accompanied by Anelka who is always cruising and looking for opportunities, which will be more dangerous.

In Chelsea's midfield, Rijkaard only knows that Lin Yi is indispensable. Although he did not play in every game in recent games, and the organization task of the midfield was occasionally handed over to Lampard or Gerrard, Rijkaard absolutely does not believe that Mourinho will hide his most effective weapon. Lin Yi was the main reason for Barcelona's elimination last year. This kid will definitely start.

It's just that it's hard to determine his position now. He is still entrenched in the midfield most of the time this season.

But in recent games, his position has begun to be closer to the goal, and in the middle, which makes his short pass penetration and dribbling breakthrough more threatening, and his number of goals has also begun to increase recently.

The closer to the goal, the greater his containment. Although the midfield is a little less organized, this kind of threat in front of the goal is obviously more direct and easier to create goals. Maybe he will play this position against Barcelona, ​​just like Ronaldinho's role in the Barcelona team, directly attacking the opponent's goal.

But this kid's position is uncertain, and you can't talk about other personnel matching. If Lin Yi retreats to the midfield, then he may be paired with two heavy guns of Lampard and Gerrard in front of him.

Take advantage of the forward's header advantage, start bombing from the periphery, and try to score by means of heavy artillery.

But if Lin Yi is behind the striker, Chelsea's midfield will have too many variables, and even their traditional two-wing flying may be abandoned. They have indeed done so recently. Robben and Duff rarely play together, but the threat from the wing has never diminished, especially Robben's cut-in and Cassano's wandering in the front court. Without extremely fast bottoming, they will not delay their scoring.

Besides, their two-wing flying is not impossible, and Duff's state has also improved recently.

Moreover, in the League Cup, Robben and Duff also attacked together. The two scored a goal and contributed an assist. Such a competitive state must make people vigilant.

God knows whether Mourinho is hiding a hand. When it comes to life and death, he may use his old team to attack the opponent's life gate in the most familiar way. Now others can only envy and hate that Chelsea's midfield and frontcourt strength is already superior to other opponents.

From individual combat capability to the overall attack effect, Mourinho's players are all good at it.

Use new players? Or use the old formation from last season? Use defensive counterattacks? Or open up the formation and attack against yourself? Such frequent changes in formation really confused Rijkaard. He didn't know what Mourinho was thinking, but he knew that every time this guy changed, there was a very deadly threat.

It seems that the guy just put all his assets on display for Rijkaard to see, but this is not exposing himself, but making the opponent more and more nervous, and the more he looks, the more he can't figure out Chelsea's pulse.

You really don't know if he is deliberately confusing you with such frequent changes.

Rijkaard is indeed very melancholy. Although Barcelona has made some adjustments in tactics recently, the general framework remains unchanged. Basically, the team of the season is still being used.

Occasionally adjusting one or two positions will not shake Barcelona's usual tactics in the past two seasons.

Such a stable lineup is not a bad thing, but for their old enemy, Chelsea is now too easy to guess who will play in Barcelona. It is estimated that Mourinho can know their starting lineup with his eyes closed. This kind of confrontation without any secrets is actually a disadvantage.

It's not that Rijkaard doesn't want to change his lineup or playing style, but Barcelona is not Chelsea. They don't have that much money to throw in tens of millions of euros in the winter transfer window. Moreover, even if they buy players, they can't use them right after they buy them. After all, Barcelona's short-pass penetration style has been formed for a long time. Even if there are new players joining, they need enough time to adapt and can't fight right away.

In contrast, Chelsea's tactical framework now seems very flexible. The new players bought are either Mourinho's old subordinates or Mourinho's supplements bought according to requirements.

And under the integration of Lin Yi, everyone's integration speed is amazingly fast. Except for not being able to say jingles in English, these guys have no big problems in communicating on the field.

The more flexible Chelsea's tactics are, the harder it is to guess what these guys think. Now compared with those competitors, the personnel matching they play in the game is a torture for the opponent to think about.

Barcelona is worried, but even if they are worried, they are just worried about whether they should guard against Chelsea's blow at Camp Nou when they play at home first. After all, whether there is an away goal is indeed very important in this two-round match of the peak confrontation.

But compared with Barcelona's melancholy, the opponents in the Premier League are depressed, especially those traditional giants. They not only have to meet Chelsea in the league, but also in the League Cup and FA Cup. They can't escape this fateful confrontation. For example, Liverpool will have to hit Chelsea three times in three lines.

What a sad reality. Dalglish probably wanted to hold the cross and hit himself to death when he saw the schedule. What the hell! Three consecutive games! Are you going to let me live!

Liverpool has had a hard time recently. Not to mention the sixth place in the league, it is a miracle that Dalglish can bring the demoralized team to this position. Including Liverpool's American boss, he has publicly praised his coaching. After all, Liverpool is now too weak.

The league is not working, but the cup competition is so-so. They have made it to the quarterfinals of the League Cup and the FA Cup. However, this is because they have finally put their competitive focus on this. After all, Liverpool is also a traditional giant. It is too embarrassing to always have no trophies. They must at least get a trophy.

But now it seems that Dalglish's wishful thinking is not easy to do. Like them, Manchester United's focus on the trophy is now on these two cup competitions, especially after being eliminated from the Champions League.

Ferguson is also under pressure, and he also wants trophies, so in the competition for these two trophies that usually seem like chicken ribs, the old Sir Alex also exerted his strength, and his situation is obviously much better than Dalglish.

After going through the pressure of the first half of the league, Manchester United's recent recovery momentum is obvious. After the defense line is strengthened, the striker combination carefully forged by the old Sir Alex has also begun to play its power. The cooperation between Lukaku and Ronaldo has also begun to mature. Even without Van Nistelrooy on the field, the two of them can still capture the city.

In particular, Ronaldo's recent form is really hot. In five league games and two cup games, he scored a total of six goals and assisted three times. If we only compare this period, his data is even better than Lin Yi.

And Mendes finally got a few good commercial contracts for this guy. After all, this kid was the first treasure he dug up. Mendes couldn't ignore Ronaldo's commercial value.

But after signing the contract, the guy still complained to Mendes with a depressed face, "Why do I have to be treated worse than that kid every time when signing the same contract, and the pay is almost one-third different!"

"Well, if you can make a breakthrough in the Champions League next season, you can also get a big contract."

Mendes couldn't hit this little guy. There was no way. This guy always wanted to be a rival with Lin Yi, but he was suppressed by Lin Yi every time. He was very melancholy. Except in the national team, he was the loser every time they met.

However, Ronaldo's growth rate is already fast enough. When he came to Manchester United, he only played in the Portuguese Super League for more than half a season, but now he has become a main force.

If this speed of progress happened to an ordinary person, it would be like growing at the speed of light. I guess anyone would say that this kid is a genius. But now with the pervert Lin Yi, everything else is nothing.

No matter how fast Ronaldo grows, he can't be faster than that kid. He is less than 19 years old, but he has won two Champions League trophies, a treble and a quintuple. He almost wiped out the possibility of later comers surpassing him. If Ronaldo wants to surpass that crazy kid, it is really an impossible task. This can't be blamed on him. After all, not everyone will be so crazy to win.

When Ronaldo was still picking up girls, that kid was still soaking in the training ground. It is difficult for such a talented and crazy guy not to succeed, and there is a wise fox beside him.

Compared with Lin Yi, Ronaldo is indeed very depressed, but compared with Manchester United and Liverpool, they seem very relaxed. They can easily reach the semi-finals in the FA Cup, and the League Cup against Aston Villa is not a difficult threshold, but Liverpool obviously encountered the worst choice this time.

Moreover, the League Cup is still a one-game winner. Looking at Chelsea's recent state, can they expect them to lose?

What makes Dalglish most melancholy is that before the League Cup starts, they have to play a league game with the opponent at Stamford Bridge to end Chelsea's winning streak? Or choose to give up strategically in this game?

Dalglish must be in a very contradictory mood now, otherwise this guy would not put all the main players on the field and play a 4-5-1 formation that makes his fans very entangled. This is obviously to defend, but he is unwilling to be fiercely suppressed by the opponent, so he can only put the entanglement in the midfield.

But which of Riise, Sissoko, Warnock and Kewell can be a good defensive player? Especially compared with Chelsea, it is completely a level worse. Look at their midfield combination, Lampard, Lin Yi, Gerrard, Robben, Cassano, the same five, but this is too much worse in terms of personal level. Chelsea deliberately played a 3-5-2 formation.

I really don’t know if Dalglish will sigh when he sees such a scene, and he was born at the wrong time.

He had to take over the team when Liverpool was starting to go downhill. Now, his fame might be ruined in these three games. Want to win? Where is this? Stamford Bridge!

Since Mourinho entered Chelsea, these guys have never lost at Stamford Bridge. This season, they have won more than one game here. What's more, with such a fierce lineup, do you still expect them to lose?

Even the bookmakers lowered the odds to the lowest point in history before the start of this game. For them, if Chelsea wants to lose, there is only one possibility, which is to set up a sniper rifle on the sidelines and kill all the players who can play. Otherwise, don't expect this group of lunatics to let the opponent go.

What happened to Liverpool? They still won. When the opponent tried to resist, Chelsea's attack had already pounced on them like a hungry wolf. Liverpool, who finally wanted to gain a foothold in the away game, was directly pressed back by this impact, but as a veteran giant, they still persisted.

But this persistence can only make them go around in their own half. Amid Dalglish's roar, Reina persisted on the goal line for half an hour. He saved at least three sure goals, but this kind of left and right blocking could not save Liverpool's disadvantage. In the 31st minute, Chelsea scored!

The first three shots were blocked, which did not affect Lin Yi's mood. Moreover, this kid found a little fun in the confrontation with Sissoko. The black big guy was very fierce, but his movements were indeed a bit slow.

Lin Yi passed him, just like passing a wooden stake. He could easily get it every time, and he always passed through the crotch. This time was no exception. Lin Yi, who was pulled to the left side of the penalty area, faced Sissoko, made a false move to change the line, and poked the toe lightly, completing the trick of Sissoko again. Before the opponent kicked him, Lin Yi bounced the football into the penalty area with the outside of his foot. The double ghosts knocked on the door, which was cruel enough, but this time Chelsea had three ghosts knocking on the door, Crespo, Gerrard and Lampard, and Reina could only surrender.

A goal did not break Reina's confidence, but shattered Dalglish's persistence. The old man changed the formation in the second half, but five defenders and four midfielders would not bring safety to Liverpool.

After 30 minutes of back and forth, Liverpool's iron bucket formation was broken again, but this time it was Lampard's back pass in the middle that gave Lin Yi the opportunity to advance. He shot low in front of the penalty area and passed between Carragher's legs. Reina, whose vision was blocked, reacted a beat slower.

The score of 2-0 was enough for Chelsea to continue its winning streak, and it also made Dalglish despair of the confrontation in the League Cup and FA Cup. Being slaughtered on three fronts was actually not just a hypothesis.

This weekend was not the most depressing moment for Liverpool. Maybe after the two games next week, they will know what real despair is. This may be another season with nothing.

I really don't know what those Liverpool diehard fans will feel when they see the former captain Gerrard who is playing well in Chelsea. Maybe letting him go is also fulfilling him.

Not many people may care how depressed Dalglish is, but Mourinho's victory made the Barcelona scout sitting in the Stamford Bridge stands look melancholy. This is the eleventh consecutive lineup change. He really doesn't know what kind of expression Rijkaard will have when he gives this report to him. Melancholy? Confused? Or like himself, depressed?

Forget it, who knows what to do, these two old enemies have to fight, maybe only when the game comes, Barcelona will know what Chelsea is planning. . .

(Automatically updated...)