Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

"Leon scored his ninth goal in the Premier League this season! His goal felt so hot!

So far, Li Ang, who has scored nine league goals, has caught up with Cavani. He and Cavani have successfully shared the top spot in the Premier League scorer list!

Perhaps the regret that he was only one goal short of achieving double 20 achievements in a single Premier League season last season further motivated him.

After becoming a superstar, Li Ang is still evolving and growing!

I think many fans are looking forward to the fact that after the end of this season, Li Ang will break the record set by Henry and erect an even more shocking data monument for those who come after him!

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After Li Ang successfully scored his ninth goal in the league this season, the Sky Sports commentator also celebrated with excitement!

Nine goals in nine rounds since the start of the new season, plus four assists!

Li Ang not only continued his fiery performance from last season, but his performance on the offensive end has also become increasingly stable to the naked eye.

This stable and efficient offense may allow Li Ang to have less explosive single-game performances compared to last season.

But coaches and professional players in the industry understand better how terrifying an offensive player who can stably output one goal per game is.

Not to mention that Li Ang's average number of goals per game has already reached the terrifying concept of "two"!

If the data from one English League Cup and three rounds of the Champions League group stage are also added.

Not counting this unfinished Premier League game, Li Ang has already scored 13 goals and 11 assists in 12 games!

You know, the season is not yet a quarter over.

Li Ang, who has scored double figures and averaged two goals per game, is already someone that other stars in the Premier League need to look up to.

Li Ang's heart is not so swollen that he thinks he can maintain this offensive efficiency for a whole season.

He has been in very good shape recently, and he deserves to perform well, but objectively speaking, he has also taken advantage of a certain amount of the recent schedule.

Take the last Champions League group match as an example. If they were not facing a weak team like Maribor, Li Ang would not be able to easily score three goals and two assists.

Among the characteristics that Li Ang feels can be called advantages, the one that satisfies him the most is his self-awareness.

If he plays well in the game, he will be crazy when he needs to be, but he will never overestimate his ability just because he has too many soft persimmons.

He has the same temperament as Mourinho. From his core, he prefers to pursue steady victories, so he has always had a clear view of his own abilities.

Only by knowing yourself clearly can you be more confident in targeting the enemy.

Just like today's match against Manchester United, Chelsea's coaching staff and Li Ang had already completed preparations with great confidence before the game.

They expected to score first.

In the course of the subsequent games, Li Ang did not want, let alone his carelessness and arrogance, to give Manchester United a chance to leverage the situation.

Against the current top teams in the Premier League, Chelsea may need to work more on the offensive end.

Because these strong teams generally respect offensive football, after they press out, their own half will always leave enough space for Chelsea to use for counterattacks.

But facing Manchester United, who have been able to save their dignity and focus on defensive counterattacks, and at Old Trafford, where Manchester United players are likely to be motivated.

From the beginning of the game, Chelsea made a plan to prioritize solid defense.

At this moment, Li Ang decisively returned to the midfielder position after scoring a goal.

Before, his position was almost at the same level as Cross, but he would retreat more to assist Ashley Cole in defense.

Now he has simply returned to his old position, and Kroos has returned to his familiar No. 10 position for the first time at Chelsea.

As a result, Chelsea's defensive power to contain Manchester United's counterattack in its own half has been greatly strengthened.

However, the tactical feast prepared by the Chelsea coaching staff for Manchester United is more than that.

Perhaps many Manchester United fans have not yet seen Chelsea's slightly adjusted tactical changes.

They only saw that after the game restarted, Manchester United's players seemed to press deeper into Chelsea's half than before to press Chelsea's backcourt ball holders.

Under the illusion that "the rhythm of the game will eventually be overtaken by Manchester United", many Red Devils fans are slowly getting better.

But Van Gaal is a famous football coach after all, and his ability to read game situations has always been among the best in football.

Watching Matic and Liang play part-time defense and organize the ball, they have almost become Chelsea's third and fourth central defenders.

The image of Manchester City's previous game in which Manchester City used the ball in the backcourt to break Chelsea's crazy press quickly emerged in his mind!

Compared with the time when Manchester City accumulated technical players in the backcourt, they enhanced their control of the ball and their transmission ability to break the high-pressing tactics.

The ball control tactics Mourinho used today, with the full-backs moving forward and the midfielders sinking, is equivalent to adding an extra safety lock to his defense!

After all, no matter how you look at it, once the defensive midfielder combination of Cesc Fabregas and Fernandinho faces a situation where the backcourt makes a mistake in passing and controlling, it loses the ball.

Its ability to counterattack and intercept opponents is definitely not as good as the combination of Leon and Matic.

Moreover, the defensive midfielder sinking tactic deployed by Mourinho today is even more interesting.

Li Ang and Matic did not retreat to the central defender line brainlessly together.

Instead, one person takes turns to retreat, forming an insurance defense line of three central defenders with Maguire and Thiago Silva.

When it comes to the ability to play the ball late, Li Ang and Matic can be said to be among the best in the defensive midfielder position.

Therefore, no matter who of the two is behind, they can ensure that Chelsea's last line of defense has a stable point to get the ball.

At this moment, the pseudo-three central defender formation that Chelsea has evolved can protect its own penalty area quite tightly.

The two full-backs moved forward and took in the position, and combined with another midfielder with a wide running range and Kroos who often retreated, they formed another ball-control group.

Moreover, the two full-backs were active in the rib area, which basically blocked the possibility of Manchester United stealing the ball in Chelsea's half and sending it through to threaten.

The ribs can't be penetrated and Chelsea's defenders are not afraid of high balls.

In this case, even if Manchester United is lucky enough to steal the ball, they can only give the ball to the wing first.

This also gave Chelsea time to quickly adjust its formation and consolidate its defense.

Of course, this kind of tactical play is most suitable only when the opponent presses from a high position without sacrificing physical strength.

If the opponent attacks with the ball, then Chelsea's two wings will have too much space.

When Mourinho used this backcourt ball control tactic against Manchester United today, he also had some thoughts to experiment.

Manchester City used this trick to deal with Chelsea's high pressure before, and the effect was very good.

Mourinho does not have as many tactical ideas as Guardiola, but he can still do it by copying ready-made homework and adapting it to his own tactical structure.

After using this tactic, watching Manchester United's players expend their energy in vain, it was difficult to steal the ball from Chelsea's half.

Mourinho sat on the coaching bench and showed a relieved smile.

But he could sit still, but Van Gaal next door couldn't sit still for a moment.

With no quick defenders available, Van Gaal felt anxious when he saw the tall Fellaini being left without temper in the Chelsea half.

Three minutes later, Rooney finished his warm-up and stood on the sidelines.

Soon, Van Persie, who had made no achievements on the court today, looked ugly and was reminded by the referee to speed up his exit.

During this summer's World Cup, Van Gaal and Van Persie, who had staged a scene of deep master-disciple love, now passed each other like strangers!

Neither of them greeted each other or communicated tactically.

Van Gaal looked expressionlessly at Rooney, who kept explaining his tactical intentions after coming on the field.

Van Persie, on the other hand, covered his face with a towel after sitting on the bench.

It seems that no matter what the result of today's game is, there will be no shortage of news reports about "the master-disciple rupture within the Manchester United team" tomorrow.

After all, he was directly and roughly replaced by his former national team mentor before half the game was played.

As the number one star in today's football, Robin van Persie certainly can't lose face, and he can't continue to grovel to Van Gaal.

However, the subsequent impact aside, after Rooney replaced Robin van Persie, Manchester United's overall pressure on Chelsea has indeed gone up to a higher level.

Lu Xiaopang is indeed too versatile.

From a clear perspective, he will definitely play center as Van Persie's replacement, but in fact, Van Gaal uses him at this time to further enhance Manchester United's pressing intensity in the frontcourt.

Rooney's range of activities in the midfield and frontcourt is naturally unmatched by Van Persie.

Rooney, who participated in the full-court press against Chelsea, looked more like a midfielder than a striker at this moment.

Chelsea's ball-control formation in the midfield and backcourt was inevitably a little scattered by Manchester United's wave of speed.

But fortunately, Li Ang took the ball from Matic in time and used a few moves to flexibly rotate 360 ​​degrees to avoid the close pressing of Manchester United players and stabilize the situation.

Then Li Ang found an opportunity to push the ball to Ashley Cole, who suddenly accelerated forward.

And just when everyone at Manchester United thought Ashley Cole would continue to advance along the wing.

The experienced former Premier League left back directly launched Chelsea's second attack with a long diagonal pass!

Controlling the ball in the backcourt to break the defense, the full-back moves in to take the ball and assume the responsibilities of the midfielder. After advancing, he launches a long pass counterattack!

Such a tactical concept was completely ahead of its time in football in 2014.

If we have to say that it took shape, we have to look at Guardiola's flexible use of Alves when he was coaching at Barcelona.

At his peak, Ashley Cole was more balanced on both offense and defense than Alves.

Looking purely at offensive skills and aggressiveness, Ashley Cole may not be as good as Alves.

But in terms of his ability to read the rhythm of the game and speed up counterattacks with long passes, Ashley Cole is getting better and better as he gets older, and is no worse than Alves.

Salah, who gained speed on the right side of the frontcourt, once again unloaded the ball and threw away Luke Shaw.

But this time Van Gaal can't blame Luke Shaw for his poor defense.

Because among the tactical adjustments he made to let Rooney take the field, there was an instruction to let Luke Shaw participate in counter-attacks in the first position.

So it's not that Luke Xiao doesn't want to retreat and actively defend, but that he can't retreat now.

As soon as he withdrew, Di Maria was unable to support himself, and Manchester United's attack that could have been successful on the left side could only stall like the right side.

At this moment, Manchester United is taking risks that cannot be avoided in Van Gaal's pressing tactical layout.

But this time they didn't expect that Chelsea didn't pass the ball through the midfielder to connect with the winger.

Ashley Cole's sudden forward pass directly disrupted Manchester United's defensive deployment.

And Salah, who had already gotten rid of Luke Shaw, was even more powerful on the right, holding the ball and trying to penetrate Manchester United's defensive hinterland!

Ibrahimovic did not respond to Salah immediately. Instead, he widened the position gap between him and Salah and moved forward on his own.

However, his offensive choice also directly took away Manchester United left center back Rojo, and also involved some of Carrick's defensive energy.

After all, there is an offensive killer like Ibrahimovic running without the ball behind him. No matter which midfielder he is, it is impossible to focus only on the ball carrier at this moment.

Therefore, Carrick inevitably made a defensive mistake. He did not resolutely block Salah from Manchester United's defensive third zone at the first opportunity.

He's older and his explosive speed is slower.

Facing an extremely fast wing attacker like Salah, if he didn't get stuck in his first step, his outcome is self-evident.

After forcing a change of direction to overtake Carrick, Salah quickly cut inside to the right edge of Manchester United's penalty area.

He even had time to calmly switch the football to his left foot, and then gave a well-prepared and accurate cross!

It is not difficult for Ibrahimovic to find the landing point of the high-altitude ball.

However, Salah's ball did not go directly to him, and Ibrahimovic, who saw that the football would fall behind, neatly made a tactical bait for Lukaku.

Smalling was disturbed by Ibrahimovic's decisive forward movement.

So after he saw clearly where the football landed, it was already too late for him to rush behind the goal to defend.

Lukaku's huge figure in the air immediately caught the eyes of countless fans in front of the TV.

Little Warcraft shook his head confidently. He hit the ball with the ball, and the header was also very powerful.

But the angle of the football he pushed was too positive, so even if the distance was very close, De Gea still used his brave hands to block the ball!

But before the Manchester United fans at the scene let out cheers of surprise, a figure rushed into the Manchester United penalty area and met the football saved by De Gea with an unconventional knee-top shot!

No matter how quick De Gea's reaction was when he landed just now, it would be difficult for him to make a second save at this time!

And when they saw the face of the figure who took the shot clearly, all the Manchester United fans subconsciously let out a cry!

"Li Ang! Li Ang completed the supplementary shot! This ball was picked up! The tenth goal in the league! Li Ang is the sole top scorer in the Premier League!!!"

Zhan Jun opened his voice and celebrated with director Zhang Lu in the studio with great excitement!

Although Li Ang scored a lot of goals last season, there was no such historic moment as being the top scorer in the league!

As a midfielder, at the beginning of the second season after his true transformation, he was able to defeat a number of star shooters and reach the top of the scorer list!

Even if it is only temporary, this result is enough to make countless Chinese fans and industry insiders proud!

At this moment, on the software that records mainstream league data lists in various countries, the Premier League scorer list quickly changed.

Li Ang surpassed Cavani with ten goals and topped the Premier League scorer list!

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