Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

If Li Ang positioned himself as a nanny-level core player in the midfield last season, he always had to play one-two on both ends of the offense and defense.

This season, at least in pre-season training and warm-up matches, Li Ang has fully enjoyed the joy of being a core midfielder who only needs to take the ball and attack.

If it were another core player, when Kroos had just arrived on the team, he would definitely have to look at it again and not give up the initiative to organize the team easily.

But Leon was completely different. He was so reassured about Cross that even Mourinho was surprised.

However, Li Ang's generous transfer of power also made it much easier for Mourinho to change Kroos' position.

Although Kroos has played in multiple midfield positions at Bayern in the past few seasons, his main activity is in the tenth position.

On the stage of this summer's World Cup, Cross showed very solid and outstanding organizational skills in the eighth position.

His ability to threaten the ball forward is quite good.

But what Mourinho values ​​more is his organization and scheduling in the midfield and backfield, his almost abnormal passing success rate and outstanding overall vision.

Looking purely at organizational skills, Li Ang is still a step behind Kroos in terms of long passing and court vision, and the gap between the two in short passing is not too big.

The aspect where Li Ang is significantly ahead of Cross is in the mobility of game moves, confrontation ability and means of forward attack.

Last season, if it weren't for the fact that Lampard was not able to reach the first-class level in football in terms of deep-laying organization, Mourinho would not have allowed Li Ang to organize the offense at both ends.

Kroos is one of the top midfield organizers in today's football. Even though he is young, he is already the core of the world champion's midfield.

Therefore, it is completely feasible to fix Kroos in the No. 8 position in the new season and let him be mainly responsible for Chelsea's midfield and backfield passing arrangements to further liberate Liang.

And Cross is also quite good at running. His playing style is cool and calm, but not weak.

On the defensive end, his running coverage is enough to relieve Matic's defensive pressure.

At least compared to the aging Lampard, Cross can make a greater contribution on the defensive end.

For Kroos, it is not difficult to change from the tenth position to the eight position.

It is not difficult for Mourinho to ask him to focus more on defense than before in his new tactics.

On the one hand, Mourinho is capable enough to undertake these tactical tasks, and Mourinho did not make unrealistic demands.

In the final analysis, he saw the ambition to pursue honors in the Chelsea team, and the club and his new teammates did give him enough care and respect.

As soon as he arrived, Li Ang gave him the core position of the organizer, and the young teammates in the team were also very easy to talk to.

There are many team-building activities. Li Ang often organizes dinner parties or recreational activities with the whole team. Everyone participates. Li Ang speaks well and he likes the atmosphere in the Chelsea team very much!

At least compared to the previous situation in Bayern where basically few old teammates except the second son liked to play with him, Chelsea truly gave him the feeling of a big family.

Now when it comes to honors, Cross has everything. He has a grand slam of club honors and also won the World Cup at the national team level.

Cross is quite satisfied to be able to experience a completely non-discriminatory training life at Chelsea.

Of course, Cross is not entirely optimistic about his new career at Chelsea.

The competition in the Premier League is very fierce, and Cross is mentally prepared. For an unfamiliar league, he doesn't think he will be able to adapt perfectly at the beginning of the season.

His temperament has always been very stable, so before the official start of the new season, he had already made plans and decided to be conservative first and do his organizational work well.

And his midfield partner in the new season, Li Ang, has never thought about what Kroos will do if he does not adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League game.

After all, the two have fought against each other many times, and Li Ang is very aware of Cross's hard power.

The Premier League emphasizes confrontation, but in the Premier League, confrontation is not the most important part.

It mainly depends on the adaptation to the offensive and defensive rhythm.

Last season, Kroos played the fastest offensive and defensive tempo football in Europe with Bayern.

They have played enough games against Premier League teams in recent years, and Cross has relatively rich experience in playing against Premier League teams.

Coupled with Li Ang's understanding and filter of Cross in his memory, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Ang may trust him more than Cross himself now.

Regardless of whether the players are anxiously looking forward to it or they are full of confidence, as time goes by, the new Premier League season has quietly arrived again.

On the afternoon of August 17, Manchester United decisively dismissed Moyes in the summer window and hired the famous coach Louis van Gaal. Together with Swansea, Manchester United kicked off the 2014-2015 Premier League season.

Before the start of this league, not only Manchester United fans, it can be said that the vast majority of neutral fans in the Premier League believed that Manchester United would win Swansea relatively easily.

After all, in the recent summer window transfer, Manchester United spent 150 million pounds and introduced many young talents and well-known stars in football.

It has to be said that Manchester United's senior management has done a good job in supporting Van Gaal this summer.

The successive additions of Luke Shaw, Herrera, Di Maria and Falcao have also made Manchester United look like their strength has greatly increased.

In addition to the goalkeeper position, Manchester United has introduced new players on the team's three central lines this summer window.

In terms of value, Manchester United beat Swansea to nothing.

But it was at this time when public opinion was one-sided before the game and Manchester United fans' self-confidence was greatly inflated.

Swansea gave Manchester United a good start to the new season with two beautiful goals at Old Trafford!

Well, Di Maria and Van Persie are injured and cannot replace Manchester United for the time being. This is barely a legitimate reason for losing that Manchester United fans can find.

Are the two most important players on the team's offensive line absent?

But the key is on the defensive end. How can Manchester United allow Swansea to always find opportunities to exploit loopholes to counterattack?

The three-centre-back formation that Van Gaal deployed during the game was clearly an experiment that failed.

And his tactical intentions are not clear.

Do you want to focus on Manchester United's traditional two-wing offensive football, or do you want to focus on passing and controlling?

Anyway, the fans who watched this game and many Premier League players and coaches couldn't quite understand it.

Of course, the Premier League season has just begun, and it is normal for some tactical surprises to occur occasionally.

Premier League fans laughed, but few asserted that Manchester United this season would be like last season, unable to make it into the top six of the Premier League.

What a huge transfer fee of £150 million!

And no matter how famous Van Gaal is, he is several levels higher than Moyes and is recognized as one of the top coaches in football.

Not to mention the past two seasons, he directly led Manchester United to successfully rebuild and win the Premier League championship. At least it is safe to enter the top four of the Premier League.

After Manchester United's upset start, five more first-round games in the Premier League will begin on August 17.

Everton challenged newly promoted Leicester City away from home, but was tied 2-2 at home.

Tottenham fought fiercely for 90 minutes and finally defeated the Hammers West Ham United with a goal.

Arsenal only defeated Crystal Palace 2-1.

The remaining three powerful Premier League teams will have to wait until August 18 to make their debut.

Chelsea's first Premier League match this year was very comfortable. Although they had to play away from home, their opponent was newly promoted Burnley.

On the afternoon of August 18, Liverpool and Manchester City took the lead and both ended up with a 1-0 result.

This is a good start, even if it is a success, it is not too complete.

So far, in the first round of the Premier League, the winning team has only won by one goal.

Chelsea, who played in the finale, naturally received the scrutiny and wait-and-see of almost all Premier League fans.

Chelsea scored many big scores in pre-season warm-up matches, and it seems that their offensive firepower is much stronger than last season.

But the warm-up match is just a warm-up match. It has reference value for the performance in the main game, but you can't trust it too much.

Now most Premier League fans are also curious.

If Chelsea can win the final game of the first round of the Premier League, can they break the strange phenomenon of teams winning in the first round of the Premier League winning by one goal?

Under the expectant gaze of countless fans around the world, Chelsea's main players completed the pre-match formation ceremony with Burnley at Turf Moor Stadium.

At three o'clock in the afternoon local time, the final game of the first round of the Premier League officially started.

Burnley, who took the first kick off, deployed their best 4-4-2 starting formation and launched the first offensive test against Chelsea.

It can be seen from this that Burnley's team's playing style is relatively unrestrained. As a newly promoted team, they are not afraid of last season's Premier League champion Chelsea.

It can be said that courage is commendable.

But after facing Chelsea, who started playing 4, 3, and 3 today, the midfield advantage Burnley imagined before the game was completely unfulfilled.

In other words, when Hazard and De Bruyne took the initiative to shrink back to both sides of the center line at the beginning of the game, Burnley was not facing Chelsea's three midfielders, but five midfielders!

With enough substitutes this season, Ibrahimovic has a more positive attitude in returning to defense.

Compared with the quality of personal data, the fact that he once again stopped in the semi-finals of the Champions League last season worries Ibrahimovic more.

Although his playing condition is still very good, as he gets older, Ibrahimovic's desire for the Champions League title has become stronger.

After all, no one can say whether Ibrahimovic will still have the strength to start at Chelsea in one or two seasons.

So while he is still in good shape, Ibrahimovic also wants to win at least one Champions League title as the starting lineup.

The arrogance in his heart is much less than when he was young, and Ibrahimovic does not care about making more changes now to further integrate into Mourinho's tactical system.

Mourinho and all Chelsea players have seen his changes.

Li Ang is absolutely satisfied with this. After all, Ibrahimovic has taken the lead in defense in the team, and the other younger Chelsea offensive players will only work harder.

Now Chelsea can also participate in pressing defense and fighting for the ball like Bayern Munich last season!

The Burnley players didn't react. They just felt that the Chelsea midfielder, who had almost the same number of players as them, was soon completely overpowering them!

Whether attacking or defending, Chelsea will always have a numerical advantage over them in local areas.

The offensive transfer always targets Chelsea's strong defensive side, and when Chelsea counterattack, their defensive players can't always block Chelsea's smooth forward passing coordination!

The neutral fans watching the game in front of the TV soon discovered that Li Ang's current position was radical.

In other words, compared to last season's slightly cautious forward attack, Li Ang is now completely unrestrained and passionate on the offensive end.

His superb running and frontcourt passing and receiving abilities were amplified by Mourinho's new tactics.

Whether it is Hazard's diagonal movement or Ibrahimovic's direct shot after taking the ball inside and outside the penalty area, it appears to be more threatening.

And De Bruyne lurked on the right side of the midfield, sending forward variations from time to time, which also allowed Li Ang to attack from behind, causing the Burnley fans to scream in fear!

Kroos' cautious and steady organizational play actually helped Matic relieve more pressure on the defensive end.

If this game is played against a strong team at the top of the Premier League, then Li Ang will be more active in retreating to defend.

But it's just a newly promoted team. Li Ang puts more energy into the offensive end which is the more correct way to win.

Chelsea's first goal of the first half came quickly.

After testing Burnley's strength on the defensive end today, in the 18th minute of the first half, Li Ang decisively dribbled the ball in and disrupted Burnley's defense deployment.

After dribbling past Burnley's centre-back Shaker, Liang passed the ball to Ibrahimovic, who was unmarked at the back of the penalty area. The latter shot low into the far corner and scored directly!

After breaking the deadlock in the game, Chelsea remained stable and continued to exert strength on the offensive end.

Burnley, who lost the rhythm initiative, had to continue to speed up.

But facts soon proved that without the ability to control the ball in the midfield, it was not a good tactical choice to passively speed up the attack with the opponent.

Facing Chelsea's quick counterattack after losing the ball, Burnley's defense collapsed in a complete mess.

Using Li Ang and Hazard as counterattack arrows, the two and other Chelsea offensive players quickly overwhelmed Burnley's defense!

This time, after Li Ang accelerated past Burnley's midfielder Davy Jones, he did not choose to distribute the ball to his teammates.

He made a slight adjustment and shot directly from the front of Burnley's penalty area!

Burnley's goalkeeper Heaton reacted well, but the speed of the shot was a bit slow. In the end, he could only watch the football fired by Li Ang pass his fingertips and plunge into the upper right corner of the goal!

At the 31st minute of the first half, Chelsea had already taken a two-goal lead. Li Ang even made great passes and shots, directly dominating today's game stage on the offensive end!

And Burnley, who have been hit hard this time, can be considered honest.

What else are you going to fight against? !

If they want to avoid being killed today, they have to put more effort on the defensive end.

Mourinho looked at the 2-0 score, and it was rare today that he did not directly signal the players to stop as soon as possible.

So under the momentum of continuous strong attacks one after another, Chelsea scored their third goal of the game in stoppage time in the first half!

Lukaku and Salah, who replaced Ibrahimovic and De Bruyne in the second half, were quite active on the offensive end.

Neither player scored.

However, after Lukaku made a burst into Burnley's penalty area, he passed the inverted triangle back to assist Hazard and scored his first official goal of the season.

Salah even succeeded in creating a point directly in Burnley's penalty area.

However, Li Ang, who has become Chelsea's first penalty kicker this season, did not take the penalty this time.

He gave this opportunity to take the penalty to Drogba, who replaced Hazard in the 80th minute of the second half.

After two years, Drogba once again returned to the Premier League he was familiar with and put on his No. 11 jersey.

When Drogba stood in front of the penalty spot, he was filled with emotion, but his eyes were as firm and confident as ever.

Two seconds later, Drogba took the penalty kick and scored his first goal after officially returning to Chelsea!

Chelsea's young players smiled and ran towards Drogba, patting him on the shoulder and giving him hugs.

At the first moment, Drogba also pointed to Li Ang, who gave him a point, with his eyes full of gratitude.

Photos of the two embracing passionately near the corner flag area were also recorded by reporters at the scene.

This is a legacy moment for Chelsea.

From Cech, Terry, Lampard and now Drogba, the meritorious giants in the Chelsea team have now recognized Li Ang's leadership of the new generation of Chelsea.

And through this big victory in the first game of the new season, Chelsea also announced to the world their further transformation after this summer window!

The journey to take shape of the space car has begun!