Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Chelsea's goal in the 36th minute of the first half caused a lot of boos in the Stadium of Light!

But the Chelsea players, who were immersed in the joy of equalizing the score at the moment, did not care at all about the dissatisfaction of the Sunderland fans.

Ibrahimovic roared and rushed to the baseline, jumped high and then turned around with a punch!

This is his 7th goal in the Premier League.

It is also the 12th goal he has scored on behalf of Chelsea this season!

Facing a completely unfamiliar league, Ibrahimovic passed the adaptation period at the beginning of the season with a stable enough performance.

And excluding the rest times he took in the previous rounds of the league, only playing time is counted.

Then his scoring efficiency is actually not much different from Cavani, who is currently the top scorer in the Premier League.

Second only to Suarez, who is now playing crazy.

That's 11 goals scored in 8 league rounds, and it has now strongly tied Cavani's super goal machine!

Even someone as proud as Ibrahimovic now has to admit that Suarez is currently the best striker in the entire Premier League.

But that was Suarez at the age of 26 and in his prime.

Now 32 years old, Ibrahimovic can still compete with young forwards in their 20s in scoring efficiency.

This is already an incredible thing in the eyes of countless Premier League fans!

After venting his excitement, Ibrahimovic laughed and hugged Li Ang tightly, who opened his arms to him.

"What a boy! You have reached double-ten figures so quickly?! You are really going for 20+20 this season. Remember to pass more good balls to me in the future!"

Li Ang immediately smiled from ear to ear after hearing this, and other Chelsea players also sent hugs and congratulations to Li Ang.

However, this celebration did not last too long. After all, Chelsea had just equalized the score and were not leading.

After Li Ang calmed down his emotions, he encouraged his teammates to keep up their efforts and strive to complete the go-ahead goal against Sunderland as soon as possible!

It's a pity that Sunderland coach Di Canio quickly recognized the reality.

He quickly asked Sunderland's players to retreat to half-court and shrink their formation, hoping to maintain the balance in the first half.

Upon seeing this, Mourinho had a brief discussion with Holland and quickly made tactical adjustments so that his disciples would not have to rush to attack and slow down the pace.

So when the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of half-time.

Chelsea and Sunderland only tied 1-1 at the Stadium of Light, with no one able to further break the balance of the game.

When Li Ang returned to the locker room, he received hugs and encouragement from Mourinho and assistant coach Mr. Holland.

Obviously they also knew that Li Ang had just received his tenth assist of the season.

For his direct disciple and the core of the team, Mourinho will naturally not be stingy with encouragement and praise.

Players who are capable and capable can actually get quite a bit of tactical privileges in their team.

From Frank Lampard of Chelsea in the first period of Mourinho to Sneijder in the Inter Milan period, and then to Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid in Mourinho.

These stars have received sufficient attention and tactical care from Mourinho.

Now it's Li Ang's turn. He can flexibly change positions on the court and has the right to fine-tune the team's offensive and defensive tactics on the spot.

In fact, it is the tactical privilege given to him by Mourinho.

As long as he does not frequently make big tactical mistakes, Mourinho will basically not deprive him of this tactical privilege.

In the first half, Li Ang improved Chelsea's passivity on the defensive end through timely position changes.

Mourinho is of course very satisfied with this. After all, no matter in terms of the scene or the results, there is nothing wrong with the tactical fine-tuning made by Li Ang.

Therefore, in the second half of the game, Mourinho not only would not stop Li Ang from using his tactical privileges.

Li Ang will also be encouraged to look for more opportunities like this that can change the situation of the war.

Against Sunderland, Chelsea's coaching staff actually did not continue to do any tactical targeting.

The Chelsea players, who promptly changed to long spikes, only needed to adapt to today's relatively slippery turf, and they were able to suppress Sunderland step by step.

The only thing that needs to be focused on is Sunderland's long-range shooting style of fighting for set-piece opportunities.

When the offense needed to be strengthened in the second half, Mourinho was not in a hurry to make substitutions immediately.

He just asked De Bruyne, who was returning from injury, to go to the sidelines to do a few more sets of warm-up exercises.

Van Ginkel performed well on the court today. He was able to help Li Ang and Matic in both organization and defense.

As a reward, Mourinho plans to let this guy play the entire game today.

So if there are any substitution adjustments later, Mourinho will basically just ask De Bruyne to replace Ramirez.

At the beginning of the second half, the Chelsea players who changed their shoes were obviously more adaptable to the slippery field than they were in the first half.

Chelsea, who changed their offensive style in the first half and used their own advantages to play long passes more directly, quickly took the initiative in the game.

After all, compared to the ability to control the ball in the front and backcourt, Chelsea is far above Sunderland.

Ibrahimovic, who is becoming more and more proficient at heading the ball, apart from anything else, his height of 1.95 meters is a huge natural advantage!

With Ibrahimovic as the offensive axis to radiate the two wings, Chelsea's continuous possession of the ball allowed Chelsea to play smoothly on the offensive end.

At this moment, Li Ang came up with another trick. He asked Matric to follow him forward, and let Van Ginkel play back to his best single midfielder position.

In this case, Li Ang directly combined with Matic to form a super interception line in Sunderland's half!

This damn thing is simply blocking other people's doorsteps, grabbing other people's ball rights, and further feeding one's own offense!

Moreover, there is nothing unfamiliar to Chelsea's three midfielders when this position is changed.

Matic was originally born as a central midfielder, but he changed to playing as a defensive midfielder after transferring to Benfica and became famous in one fell swoop.

Van Ginkel is also very used to playing as a single defensive midfielder. When he plays as a single defensive midfielder in the Eredivisie, he is versatile in offense and defense.

Not to mention Li Ang, he has played in every position from back midfielder to front midfielder, there is no such thing as strangeness at all!

So Chelsea immediately changed their formation to 433.

Li Ang and Matic were simply full of defensive pressure in Sunderland's half.

In short, let me highlight one sentence:

Just beat the opponent down!

Di Canio was also stunned. He didn't expect that Chelsea, who had simplified their tactical play, would directly press Sunderland to the ground and beat him severely!

How to deal with this?

They will play long passes with you and beat you with their own strength!

You want to go out but you can’t!

It's too cruel to put the interception line right in the opponent's half and hit it with pressure!

Di Canio watched his team being beaten by Chelsea and was unable to fight back. He stood helpless in the drizzle and looked extremely pitiful.

Mourinho is very sympathetic to his colleague.

But he was sitting on the coaching bench, but he had no intention of stopping Li Ang and other Chelsea players from ruthlessly attacking Sunderland.

At this moment, he was also observing with interest the defensive effect of Li Ang and Matic pressing together in the opponent's half.

Many neutral fans watching this game were completely unaware of this moment. The positioning style of Chelsea's three midfielders was invented by Li Ang.

They thought this was Mourinho's new way of playing to torture other mid- and lower-tier teams in the Premier League.

After seeing Ramirez and Ibrahimovic score two goals in the first twenty minutes of the second half.

Many neutral fans of the Premier League chose to turn off the TV directly.

Because watching Sunderland being pushed to the ground by Chelsea was so heart-wrenching!

This can't help but remind them of the subsequent scene when their own team met Chelsea.

Being blocked in the middle line by Li Ang and Matic and hitting their heads?

Is this more than cruelty? It's simply brutal!

In the end, the cruel Chelsea took away a 4-1 victory at the Stadium of Light.

Except for Cech, who once again failed to get a clean sheet bonus and had some thoughts about luck, the rest of the Chelsea players were quite satisfied with the result of the game.

De Bruyne, who came on as a substitute in the 74th minute of the second half, also assisted Ibrahimovic to score his third goal of the game.

Ibrahimovic, who successfully scored a hat trick, will invite all his teammates back to London for a feast as soon as he returns to the locker room tonight.

Although the recent schedule is relatively tight, Mourinho did not disappoint seeing the high morale of the whole team.

With a wave of his hand, he gave all the players on the team a half-day holiday, which immediately made the visiting team's locker room howl like wolves!

The entire Chelsea team, who returned to London that night, marched toward the city with great force.

In the past, Li Ang always treated guests to French food, and everyone was a little tired of it. Today, Ibrahimovic specially selected a delicious Italian private restaurant.

Don’t ask why you eat French food and Italian food but not British food in London.

The question is that even Terry and Lampard don't usually touch London's local cuisine.

Let a group of Chelsea players who come to London from abroad eat British food?

That's not a dinner reward, that's damning punishment!

After eating and having a little fun for a while, Chelsea's players did not dare to play in London's Gold Cave for too long.

Before two o'clock in the morning, they said goodbye and went home to rest.

Li Ang couldn't refuse the warm invitation from his teammates today, so he went out with them and gained a lot of experience.

But while other teammates were hugging each other and chatting with beautiful girls, he was taking a nap in the noisy nightclub box wearing silent headphones.

Not surprisingly, the next day the Sun reported the news about seven or eight Chelsea first-team players hanging out in a nightclub in downtown London.

To the surprise of a large number of fans, Li Ang appeared on the front page of The Sun.

But after reading the detailed tidbits, they were no longer surprised.

Well, wearing silent headphones in a nightclub and seizing the time to sleep is very Li Ang!

Mourinho does not control the players' private entertainment activities very strictly.

After recovery training began the next afternoon, he only looked at the training status and quality of each player.

Fortunately, the players who went to the nightclub last night knew what was going on. They were just relaxing for a short time, but no one completely relaxed their belts.

This still makes Mourinho very satisfied.

Mourinho even had the leisure to tease Li Ang with the tidbits published by The Sun today.

But this is just a little spice in the tedious and repetitive training life.

Maintaining the rhythm of double matches a week, all Chelsea players hurried to Stoke City three days later.

This fifteenth round of the Premier League can also be regarded as a preview of the EFL Cup quarter-finals between Chelsea and Stoke City.

Both teams are well aware of the huge gap in strength between them.

So as soon as the game started, Stoke City very pragmatically put up a posture of defending the whole game at home!

Stoke City's half-court shrinkage and defensive determination are quite troublesome for Chelsea, who have to rotate some of their main veterans.

After considering that the team in front of them has a strong high-altitude bombing ability and the ability to find threatening opportunities in set pieces.

Mourinho did not dare to let his own players press forward, giving Stoke City too many opportunities to counterattack and set kicks.

Li Ang took a quick look at the players on the court and was impressed by the height of the Stoke City players.

"This is a tough guy in the league who relies on defense and high-altitude balls..."

If Chelsea were in full strength at the moment and were not affected by schedule fatigue, neither Mourinho nor Chelsea's players would think too much about it.

But when encountering such a tough opponent in the league during a tight schedule, Mourinho had to consider the consequences of not being able to attack hard.

After both teams cautiously tested their offense and defense in the first half, Mourinho also made his own tactical decision.

"Just play it safe."

Hearing Mourinho say this, Holland immediately understood.

Therefore, Chelsea and Stoke City, who adopted a conventional play style and preferred to protect the safety of their own penalty area, tied 0-0 at the Britannia Stadium.

This is Chelsea's second draw this season.

After the game, Mourinho and Stoke City coach Mark Hughes also had a friendly handshake.

After this round of games, Chelsea also ushered in a valuable week of rest in the Premier League.

What is more troublesome for the other strong Premier League teams is that the final round of the Champions League group stage was just a formality here at Chelsea.

On December 11, Chelsea sat at home and faced the challenge of Steaua Bucharest.

The hope of qualifying is close at hand, and the Romanian league's hegemon is also working hard to create a miracle at Stamford Bridge.

But Mourinho also doesn't want his home court to be ruined.

If this game was played at the home court of Steaua Bucharest, Mourinho would be doing a favor.

But at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho does not want to lose anyway, and a draw is just the bottom line.

With the tactical mission of "at least not losing", Chelsea's young players defended very resolutely at home.

Karas once again became Chelsea's most outstanding defender.

With the explosive performance of the Czech teenager, Steaua Bucharest did not get a chance to shoot in the Chelsea penalty area in the first half.

The second half of the game was equally boring for neutral fans. Chelsea's resolute defensive will forced Steaua Bucharest to fight for their lives in advance.

But in the 78th minute of the second half, De Bruyne assisted Lukaku and scored a deadlock-breaking counterattack goal.

The Steaua Bucharest players were discouraged.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Steaua Bucharest 1:0 at home.

And in tonight's proud trip to Schalke, Schalke 04 also took control of their own destiny. They defeated Basel 3:1 at home and successfully reversed course and won another qualifying spot in Group E of the Champions League!

On December 16, the much-anticipated draw ceremony for the 1/8 knockout rounds of the 2013~2014 UEFA Champions League was held in Switzerland.

Because Bayern Munich previously defeated Manchester City and won the right to qualify first in the group, they will not directly meet Chelsea in the first round of the knockout round.

But they still drew an opponent from London.

Arsenal!

For several years in a row, Arsenal fans were completely speechless after playing against super strong teams in the first round of the Champions League knockout rounds.

Chelsea's Champions League luck this year is not too good, but it is not too bad either.

They will face Paris Saint-Germain in the first round.

This kind of competition is quite interesting.

After watching the lottery ceremony, Li Ang also had an inexplicable smile on his face.

He can finally personally make some trash feel the despair of the stadium!