The Godfather of Football

"Is his vision blocked by his handsome hair?"

This is the exclamation of Waddle, the special commentator of Sky TV and the English football legend, when he watched the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Stratford Stadium and saw Messi steal the ball from David Luiz's feet, then pass it into the penalty area with a straight pass, assisting Ribery to dribble past Chelsea captain Terry and score with a powerful shot.

Puff, this is the nickname many people give to David Luiz, because he always has a messy afro.

But if they see his data in this game, especially the shocking 78.5% pass success rate, and the data that there was no successful interception, steal and clearance in the first half hour, I wonder if they will still think that this Brazilian central defender is a handsome young man.

Maybe, at this time they will think that this is a disaster star, a disaster star that will harm the team at a critical moment!

"I don't know what Mourinho is going to do in this game, but there is no doubt that arranging David Luiz to play in the key defensive midfielder position must be his biggest failure!" Waddell made no secret of his criticism of Mourinho.

So, what is Mourinho doing at this time?

Ideals are sexy, but reality is skinny!

Mourinho is standing in front of the visiting team's coaching seat at Stratford Stadium at this moment, sighing at this sentence.

Once, he told people that the biggest problem with Boas coaching Chelsea was that he went too early. He should wait until Chelsea's metabolism is almost done before he goes, which will make it easier for the new head coach to reorganize the team.

But when things fell on him, he found that he had to bite the bullet and go ahead.

The Chelsea he took over was not a very competitive team. At first glance, it seemed that there were many talents, but in fact there were not many players who could really show off. Oscar, who was introduced with a lot of money, was more promising. The other players basically did not conform to Mourinho's team formation strategy.

For example, in the back line, Ashley Cole and Terry were Mourinho's favorites when he coached Chelsea, but they were in their prime at that time, but now they are old.

Lampard and Ramires are in the midfield. On the surface, they are both good, but in fact they do not have the kind of mobile coverage that Mourinho wants, and can guarantee their position when the opponent attacks.

When he took over the Chelsea coaching position, Mourinho made his own requirements, a strong center forward, a defensive midfielder, and an excellent left back. Two of these three players are in Tottenham Hotspur, one is Cavani, but was sent to Real Madrid by Tottenham Hotspur, and the other is Luke Shaw, a native English player who could not be poached.

Mourinho also wanted to get a defensive midfielder. Originally, he had his eyes on Matic from Southampton. The Serbian midfielder can stand in position, has defensive height, and can hold the ball and pass the ball. This almost perfect modern midfielder is very consistent with Mourinho's requirements for the team's midfielder, but the biggest problem is that Ye Qiu had set his sights on this gem a year earlier than him and brought him from Benfica to Southampton.

In the end, Matic moved to Tottenham Hotspur, and he did not consider Chelsea at all.

The blow brought by Matic was huge, and coupled with the unfavorable operation in the transfer market, many of Mourinho's ideas could not be confirmed, and even far from his requirements.

In recent years, there has been a very obvious trend in football tactics, that is, high-intensity pressure and pressing, which is the basis of almost all strong teams. Once a high-intensity pressure tactic is adopted, the front court must be pressed up.

If there is a young and mobile defense line behind, there will be no problem. After the front court presses forward, the back line will also press forward. But the problem is that Chelsea's defense line of Terry, Ashley Cole, Ivanovic and Gary Cahill, this combination can't play forward at all, and can only adopt a retraction tactic.

But the result of the retraction tactic is that you can only play defensive counterattacks, and the front court cannot exert enough pressure, especially in some strong dialogues, because strong teams are better at taking advantage of Chelsea's weakness than weak teams.

For Mourinho, he has many solutions, such as adjusting the team's defense line, but this requires reorganization, and also introducing a defensive midfielder with excellent coverage and positioning ability. He is interested in Matic, but he doesn't like Chelsea.

So what happened in this game was caused. Tottenham Hotspur adopted a hard-hitting tactic against Chelsea, using Ramsey and Matic's double defensive midfielder combination, and Neymar, Lewandowski, Messi and Ribery's attack combination in front, exposing the problems at the front of Chelsea's penalty area.

There is a data that can show Chelsea's problem. That is, looking at all the strong teams in the Premier League this season, Chelsea has the lowest average number of successful tackles per game and the lowest average number of successful interceptions per game, which can be described as double lows.

The reason for the double lows is that the midfield is mostly composed of players like Lampard and Ramires who are both offensive and defensive, but have weak positional sense, but no one can stay in the backcourt and stand in position. Although there is Mikel in the team, the latter has no problem with passing the ball, but the coverage area is too small to solve this problem.

If we only look at the midfield, Tottenham Hotspur actually has such a problem. Ramsey and Vidal are both offensive and defensive players. Vidal has a good sense of position, but he always runs all over the field. Pirlo's ball handling, passing and organization are quite good, but the coverage area is relatively small.

Tottenham Hotspur's solution to the problem is to expand the activity area of ​​the central defender and integrate the areas of Pirlo, Thiago Silva and Kompany, which is the so-called iron triangle of the back defense in many people's mouths. This is also one of the components of the wave defense.

In this way, the problem of Tottenham Hotspur's midfield cannot be said to be solved, but at least it guarantees stability and firmness to the maximum extent!

But Chelsea does not have such a back line configuration, and cannot achieve Tottenham Hotspur's use of defense to feed back the midfield, because what he needs to do now is to use the midfield to block the soft ribs of the back line.

The midfield lost its position, and David Luiz performed poorly in this game. Chelsea began to maintain a defensive posture for 30 minutes, and was finally broken by Tottenham Hotspur in one fell swoop.

Less than eight minutes after Ribery scored the first goal, in the 41st minute of the first half, Lewandowski and Messi made a wall-to-wall cooperation. Messi rushed into the penalty area and wanted to kick, but Terry made a crucial interception and poked the ball away before Messi, but Ramsey inserted and shot the ball, 2:0!

In the first half, the stalemate lasted for half an hour, and with Tottenham Hotspur scoring two goals in a row, it was finally broken!

Mourinho stood on the sidelines and saw Ramsey's goal. He looked up at the sky and found that the lights of the Stratford Stadium were very dazzling, so he turned around and walked back to the coach's seat. The originally soft seat made him feel a little uncomfortable at this moment, and he felt uncomfortable no matter how he sat.

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During the halftime break, Mourinho made a substitution, replacing Hulk with Mikel. As a result, the team only had Torres and Oscar in the frontcourt, while the midfield had Mikel, Ramirez, Lampard, William and David Luiz.

"Mourinho obviously wants to give up the game. Is he going to return to his iconic bus tactics? After so many years, he has not improved at all!" Waddell was very dissatisfied with Mourinho's midfield substitution.

"I'm sure if he continues to take this conservative approach, he will pay the price!"

Not long after Waddell finished speaking, Tottenham Hotspur had another chance. Ribery fell to the ground in Chelsea's half and tackled Ashley Cole's foot, and the ball fell to Messi's feet.

The Argentine superstar cut in from the right with the ball. Although David Luiz followed him along the way, he did not get close to Messi, giving the Argentine a chance to see the loopholes in Chelsea's defense. When Lewandowski was on par with Terry, he made a sharp through pass and accurately tore through Chelsea's defense.

Lewandowski inserted himself from behind, and with his excellent explosive power, he got ahead of goalkeeper Cesar and pushed the ball into Chelsea's goal again, 3:0!

After scoring, Lewandowski excitedly rushed out of the stadium. All Tottenham fans stood up and cheered for the Polish center forward, and all Tottenham players rushed to the sidelines to celebrate Lewandowski's goal. The entire Stratford Stadium seemed to be immersed in a sea of ​​celebration.

Sky TV used a split screen this time, and the expressions of Ye Qiu and Mourinho appeared on the screen at the same time. Ye Qiu was celebrating with his fists on the sidelines, and turned around to cheer for the fans in the stands, while Mourinho was sitting in the visiting team's coaching booth, calm and collected.

However, it was slightly obscured by the ceiling of the visiting team's coaching booth, which made it look a little dim. Mourinho's expression was very dark and ugly.

After being scored by Tottenham Hotspur in succession, Chelsea began to counterattack frantically, trying to suppress Tottenham Hotspur in the half, which forced Ye Qiu to let Matic and Ramsey's double midfielders retreat a little, and the team's overall formation retreated, while letting Messi actively retreat to participate in the connection.

In less than ten minutes, Chelsea paid a painful price again for pressing too hard.

Tottenham Hotspur intercepted the ball in the backcourt, and Matic passed the ball to Ribery on the wing, who then passed it to Messi who was retreating to join the connection. At this time, David Luiz rushed to stick to Messi, but the Argentine was very flexible. He dribbled past David Luiz, shook off a body position, and kicked a curved ball with his left foot, passing it over the top.

I saw Neymar rushing forward at the fastest speed on the left, rushing to the left side of Chelsea's penalty area, stopping the ball and standing in position. Gary Cahill quickly returned to the penalty area, bent over, staring at Neymar, waiting for the Brazilian to make a move.

Neymar dribbled the ball on the left side of the penalty area. He knew that the fast break could no longer be launched, so he was waiting for his teammates to rush up.

In Gary Cahill's eyes, he felt Neymar suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. He thought Neymar was going to dunk the ball and cut into the penalty area, so he immediately blocked his position in advance, but he didn't expect that Neymar suddenly kicked the ball to the bottom line and rushed up quickly.

At this time, Cahill had lost his balance and was unable to block the ball immediately, while Neymar successfully pulled out of position and sent a low cross in front of the baseline.

In the small penalty area, Lewandowski got ahead of Terry and stretched out his right foot to poke the ball. The ball hit Lewandowski's foot, turned in a direction, hit the goal, and directly hit the back net, 4:0!

"Wow~~~~~~"

The entire Stratford Stadium issued an extremely amazing exclamation. No one could imagine that Tottenham Hotspur actually launched such a crazy offensive and scored four goals against Chelsea at home!

Mourinho sat in the visiting team coaching seat and stretched out his right hand to cover his face. He looked extremely disappointed with the team.

But in sharp contrast to his disappointment, Tottenham Hotspur celebrated like crazy. The 80,000 fans of the entire Stratford Stadium rushed out of their seats and shouted at the top of their lungs.

The cheers of 80,000 people surged down from the tilted stands like a flash flood. The momentum was like the sky falling down. That feeling was enough to make everyone in the stadium tremble.

This is Stratford Stadium, the new palace of Tottenham Hotspur!

"Mourinho is paying the most painful price for his conservatism!" Waddle said in a critical tone.

Even if Mourinho looks a little sad and a little helpless, this is football, football without any mercy!

After leading by four goals, Tottenham Hotspur still took the offensive, while Chelsea took a further defensive position. Mourinho did not leave the coaching seat, but conveyed his ideas and thoughts through the assistant coach.

In fact, he really didn't have too many effective ways, because Chelsea had been completely defeated by the game until now. Even if it was an away game, even if it was against Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea really had no effective way to restrain this team.

Perhaps the goal conceded stimulated Chelsea, and they began to become very cautious. The overall formation basically retreated to their own half, and Tottenham Hotspur also began to consciously slow down the offensive.

After 70 minutes, Ye Qiu made substitutions in succession, replacing Ribery with young player Januzaj, Messi with Eriksen, and finally Ramsey with Phil Jones.

The three new players also cherished this opportunity of strong dialogue, and they were very active after coming on the court, while Chelsea lost the will to counterattack and stuck to their own half.

When the game entered the 80th minute, everyone thought that this game might be declared over because of this. Eriksen took the ball in the midfield and passed it diagonally behind him to the left side of the penalty area. Neymar once again shook off Ivanovic, rushed to the left side to get the ball and directly made a low pass.

Lewandowski, who came up from the middle to respond, rushed to the point, but the ball was saved by Cesar and flew out of the small penalty area.

But just when Chelsea thought the goal was safe, they saw Januzaj rushing from the right rib to the right side of the penalty area, swinging his left foot and hitting a curved shot directly at the ball. The ball fell into the goal behind Cesar with an arc, and the Brazilian goalkeeper was stunned to see the ball still bouncing in the goal line, and beat the grass helplessly.

This was the fifth time he picked up the ball from the goal in this game, which was a great shame for any goalkeeper.

All Chelsea players looked at the ball behind Cesar in disbelief. Some of them even felt ashamed to face people. Lampard squatted on the grass, not knowing what to do. They even had the urge to dig a hole in the ground and get in.

It was too miserable, especially for Chelsea, which is known for its toughness and defense, and Mourinho, who is known for his defense and integrity. Such a strong combination was humiliated by Tottenham Hotspur with five goals at Stratford Stadium. This is definitely their nightmare for a long time in the future!

After Januzaj scored, Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and applauded vigorously. He was encouraging and supporting the Belgian teenager.

In fact, Ye Qiu was also very surprised at the game, because this was something he had never thought of before the game. It can only be said that the team played too smoothly in this game, which was a bit unbelievable.

Originally, Ye Qiu used the combination of Matic and Ramsey in the starting lineup to take advantage of Chelsea's weakness and shortcomings in the midfielder position, and mobilize Chelsea's defense line through the movement of the ball in the middle and front court, but he didn't expect that this game only lasted half an hour.

In the first half an hour, Chelsea made many mistakes, but did not reveal any fatal flaws until David Luiz made a mistake, and Tottenham Hotspur directly seized this mistake and scored a goal.

Throughout this game, Chelsea made 93 errors in 536 passes, of which David Luiz alone made 15 errors, which is very fatal for a defensive midfielder. Moreover, his success rate in the whole game was only 33%, which shows that the Brazilian central defender was seriously out of shape when he changed to a defensive midfielder.

On the contrary, veteran Terry performed very well, but he was alone and could not carry the team.

But who can be blamed for this?

None of the players Mourinho wanted came. Cavani and Matic were both players on this axis. After losing Matic, he asked the team to switch to De Rossi of Manchester City, but the Italian had no desire to switch to Chelsea. How did Mourinho arrange his troops in the midfield?

Even if he didn't play David Luiz, Mikel, or other players in this game, maybe the team wouldn't lose so badly, but who can predict such a thing in advance?

Before every game, which head coach doesn't support the team with the belief that he must win?

He lost, and he lost this game completely, and he lost without saying anything!

But he was unwilling to lose because it was unfair!