Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Winning streaks always inspire professional players' self-confidence and ambition to pursue championship honors.

After Chelsea won seven consecutive victories in three competitions in the new season, the players in the team will naturally enter a state of confidence during training.

This is not an inflated mentality, but a winning mentality.

If you keep winning, victory will naturally bring joy to the players and the motivation to continue striving for a longer winning streak.

Moreover, with Mourinho and the coaching staff sounding the alarm from time to time, it is not easy for the players in the Chelsea team to expand their mentality.

Last season, Hazard and Bertrand had just grown up, but they were caught by Mourinho and Li Ang and took turns to teach them a lesson.

Mourinho's temporary preaching and ridicule, but now the young players in the Chelsea team can tolerate it.

However, Li Ang's "mental bombardment" and his terrifying request for additional training and sparring directly affected the lives of these young guys.

Anyway, Hazard and Bertrand, who were tortured by Li Angjia last season, were finally made submissive.

The other young Chelsea players who had watched Li Ang train with the two crying and shouting people never dared to have an inflated mentality since then.

So now, no matter how nice the outside world's praise is, no matter how disgusting it is.

The atmosphere in the Chelsea team preparing for the game has always been positive and there is no arrogance.

And Leon and Cross stood together. The club's honors, Grand Slams and World Cup titles have all been collected.

Neither of them was lazy in training and asked the coaching staff for privileges. Naturally, the other young Chelsea players did not dare to make trouble.

Mourinho is very satisfied with the current enthusiastic training and fighting mood of his players.

But considering that after the next round of the league, Chelsea will go away to play the second round of the Champions League group to challenge Sporting Lisbon.

Mourinho still has to make starting arrangements for the next two rounds based on the physical condition and age of each main player.

After playing the third round of the EFL Cup against Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea had two and a half days of rest.

On the afternoon of September 27, Chelsea once again sat at home and faced the challenge of their opponent Aston Villa in the sixth round of the Premier League.

In this round of the league, Mourinho simply continued to rest the two veterans in the main lineup, Ibrahimovic and Terry.

In terms of choosing the starting lineup, he also directly arranged a variant of the 442 formation.

That is, in the position of the 433 fixed formation, take out the right winger De Bruyne alone and place it in the position of the midfielder.

In such a formation, De Bruyne can be anywhere from one side to the other, and his position is very flexible. His ability to pass forward and threaten the ball will be further unleashed.

And he can be interchanged with Li Ang at the central midfielder position at any time.

At that time, De Bruyne will retreat and return to the orthodox No. 8 position, controlling the midfield rhythm with Kroos.

Li Ang lurked behind the center and participated in the attack as a midfielder or even a second forward.

In terms of formation changes and on-the-spot tactical adjustments, Chelsea, who started with this set, are undoubtedly very flexible.

Aston Villa obviously did not expect that Chelsea would prepare such a tactical gift package for them at home today before the game.

So much so that at the beginning of the game, Aston Villa's defensive midfielder and left back were a little confused.

What kind of defensive intensity should be used to target De Bruyne and Li Ang who are constantly changing positions.

After all, Chelsea no longer has a "right winger" in the traditional sense in this game.

That is De Bruyne, or Leon, who is active in Villa's rib area.

When the two of them did not pull wide to catch the ball, but kept retreating to catch the ball, should Villa's midfielder and full-back press out together to limit the defense?

Mourinho threw such tactical problems directly to Aston Villa's head coach.

And the Chelsea players, who had long adapted to this new set of tactics, quickly took advantage of the numerical advantage in the midfield to penetrate Villa's defense!

In the 19th minute of the first half, Li Ang received a through ball from Kroos at the moment when he and De Bruyne completed the change of positions, and forcibly accelerated past Villa midfielder Westwood.

And at the moment when Villa's right midfielder - Cleverley, who just moved to Villa on loan from Manchester United this summer - rushed over to defend.

Li Ang sent a diagonal overhead pass without hesitation!

Lukaku, who started again with Drogba today, started suddenly on the left, then stopped and won the ball, violently breaking away from Villa's right back Hutton's mark!

Chelsea's sudden attack this time completely disrupted Aston Villa's defensive arrangement in the backcourt.

Although the quality of Lukaku's crosses after hitting the bottom is somewhat average.

But Drogba finally defeated the opponent's central defender, Senderos, an old friend of his, on the right side of Villa's penalty area, and successfully grabbed a point!

The African Monster successfully headed back and pushed the football towards the center of Aston Villa's penalty area.

Before Villa's other centre-back, Nathan Baker, could cover.

A figure wearing a blue No. 10 jersey rushed over, took the ball one step forward, and then used his left foot to push into the far corner of Aston Villa's goal!

This is a very light and decisive shot from the far corner.

When Aston Villa was in chaos in the penalty area, such a clever shot was indeed beyond the expectations of Aston Villa's defensive players!

Villa's goalkeeper Guzan made a save in a panic.

His huge body, which was 1.93 meters tall and weighed 94 kilograms, seemed a little bulky when he got off the ground.

But these are not the main factors that affect his fighting mentality.

What finally made him despair was the extremely tricky angle of Li Ang's kick!

Guzan couldn't believe that Li Ang possessed such shooting skills? !

After the football finally hit the inside of the upright in the far corner of Villa's goal, it slowly rubbed the side netting and rolled into the net.

Commentators from various countries also clutched the commentary scripts in their hands and exclaimed in disbelief!

"The goal is in! A tricky shot from Li Ang! This is an extremely wonderful push from the far corner! But now I would rather believe that such a shot came from Messi or Robin van Persie!"

God...Leon is already showing us another shooting skill he has learned! "

"Incredible shooting accuracy! This is Li Ang's terrifying growth talent. Are there any skills on the field that he can't learn?! Today's young forwards should really take a look at the quality of Li Ang's shot!"

"Leon is such a scary guy! His talent is the best in football. Maybe one day we can see him stand on the front line to compete with Melo!"

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Li Ang couldn't hear the exaggerated exclamations of commentators from various countries at this moment.

He was actually also surprised that he could shoot such a high-quality shot.

Recently, he has practiced a lot of conventional shooting skills, and his shooting ability value has gradually approached 82, and he is about to make a breakthrough.

This value is actually quite good when compared to the four major leagues. It can at least match the goal shooting skills of the main shooters of the relegation teams in the four major leagues.

But when it comes to stably producing the same level of shooting as before, he is still far from it now.

There was an element of luck in this goal, but it can also be seen as a reward for his recent hard work on shooting skills.

After all, now he can occasionally hit such a magical shot.

After going to the corner flag area with his teammates to celebrate happily, Li Ang carefully recalled the feeling of completing the shot before, and then suppressed the idea of ​​trying more shots.

"The feeling of scoring a beautiful goal is so easy to get addicted to..."

Li Ang feels that sometimes if he acts willfully, his teammates won't blame him.

But as the core of the current team, he still feels that he must focus more on his tactical duties.

After the game restarted, Li Ang began to retreat more and sit in the midfield, partnering with Matic to defend first, and then seize the opportunity of Villa's aggressive attack to pass forward for a quick counterattack.

Today, De Bruyne was the one making the final pass, so Li Ang no longer had to worry about finding a way to send a threatening through ball.

In the 53rd minute of the second half, De Bruyne assisted Drogba with a direct pass and scored the second goal of the game.

The game situation is basically completely in the hands of Chelsea's midfield combination.

Aston Villa's subsequent long passes posed little threat to Chelsea's defense.

However, today the little monster Lukaku also switched to happy mode and spit out the two big pies that Kroos and Li Ang gave him in the second half.

Seeing this, Mourinho could only withdraw his troops early and replaced Gary Cahill and Ramirez to consolidate the defense.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Aston Villa 2-0 without any blood and won another victory at home.

At the same time, it also increased their winning streak in all competitions since the start of this season to eight!

This has greatly enhanced Chelsea fans' confidence in winning the next Champions League group stage.

Just two days after Chelsea defeated Aston Villa, Mourinho led the team to Lisbon, Portugal.

Today's Sporting Lisbon is actually not weak based on its paper strength.

Patricio, Mauricio, Joao Mario, William Carvalho, Nani…

Taken together, these players almost form half of the Portuguese national team.

However, Sporting Lisbon suffered an embarrassing draw with the Slovenian team Maribor in the first round of the group stage.

It really makes it difficult for the Chelsea team to pay more attention to them.

In the Champions League group match that day, Li Ang also kept in mind the tactical tasks assigned to him by the coaching staff before the game.

He didn't tangle too much with the players on the wings of Sporting Lisbon's midfield, but directly went one-on-one to overwhelm Sporting Lisbon's single midfielder William Carvalho!

This guy has a good physique and outstanding skills, but his speed is really slow.

Li Ang directly penetrated Sporting Lisbon's weak midfield defense with almost incomprehensible acceleration time and time again.

If William Carvalho can be paired with a defensive midfielder partner who is strong enough in running ability and flexible enough in defense, then his organizational performance will be even higher.

But Sporting Lisbon can't get such a defensive player now, so it can only let William Carvalho stay behind and play as a defensive midfielder.

Sporting Lisbon's coaching staff can only withstand the huge tactical pressure brought to them by this tactical shortcoming.

Li Ang finally achieved another outstanding personal record in passing and shooting in this Champions League group match.

William Carvalho was completely unable to limit his strong breakthrough performance. He received his second personal yellow card early in the 63rd minute of the second half and was sent off directly.

Sporting Lisbon, which had lost its midfield barrier, conceded two goals in a row in the last thirty minutes of the game, and eventually lost 1-4 at the feet of Chelsea.

At the same time, in another competition venue, the group stage match between Schalke 04 and Maribor also ended at almost the same time.

Schalke 04, like Sporting Lisbon in the first round, was eventually tied by Maribor and only scored one point!

So after the first two rounds of the Champions League group stage, Chelsea topped the Champions League Group G, but Maribor was ranked second!

Schalke 04 and Sporting Lisbon both scored one point after two rounds, and their performance was really disappointing!

When Li Ang was interviewed by Sky Sports reporters after the game, he said bluntly:

"Maybe it's not that we played too well, but that they played too poorly. Well, their performance this season is really a bit rubbish..."