Chapter 209: Chelsea can only bully weak teams?

4th minute!

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound of the ball hitting the ground was transmitted to the ears of the audience in the live broadcast room through the amplification of the on-site equipment. Mason's long pass accurately found Son Heung-min who was about to make a run on the right. The latter stopped the ball with his chest and passed it to Dembele.

"Dembele got the ball and passed it to Eriksen on the left. Tottenham's formation was also 4231. Eriksen, who played in the midfield, served as the left winger in this game. However, compared to Chelsea's 4231, Tottenham's frontcourt was more like two wingers, because whether it was Son Heung-min or Eriksen, their impact was far less than that of Jiang Yuan and Hazard. So, in fact, Tottenham had only one real striker in this game, and that was Kane in front."

"Eriksen starts to dribble the ball towards the baseline. Jiang Yuan is following very closely. It seems that he can't get through. Let's see how Eriksen handles this ball..."

"Directly to the middle, beautiful! Accurate long pass, Eriksen found Kane in the middle, Kane headed the ball back to Dembele"

"Dembele passes to the right again, Son Heung-min!"

"Wow!"

There is a reason why Pochettino let Dembele play as a front midfielder. This guy's passing is really accurate. The ball passed in front of William and Hazard respectively, and then changed direction at a small angle and landed at Son Heung-min's feet.

Son Heung-min certainly would not give up the opportunity after receiving a wonderful pass from his teammate in the midfield. He ran away after getting the ball.

"Watch him, watch him!"

William pointed at Matic behind him and shouted, because Mourinho did not assign too many defensive figures to Hazard, so the main responsibility of Chelsea's left defense is usually borne by Matic. Now that Son Heung-min has got the chance, Matic must respond.

While calling out to Matic, William was also running back and using his body to fill Matic's original position.

They are back to the environment where Chelsea is best at, filling in the gaps and defending!

Matic looked at Son Heung-min and rushed forward decisively. At this time, a white figure suddenly rushed out from the right side of Tottenham at an incredibly fast speed.

Kyle Walker!

"shit!"

Matic thought to himself that it was not good. Sure enough, seeing Walker's advance, Son Heung-min gave up running and decisively passed the ball. Tottenham cleverly used the speed of the full-back to break through Chelsea's central defense.

After completing the pass to the bottom line, Walker and Azpilicueta formed a one-on-one situation on the wing. Matic was still responsible for marking Son Heung-min to prevent Walker from making a reverse triangle pass.

Walker swayed left and right, and Azpilicueta stuck closely to him. Although Walker was very fast, one-on-one defense was not a difficult task for an experienced full-back like Azpilicueta.

There was no other way. Unable to find a chance to cross the ball, Walker started to dribble the ball back. After getting close to Son Heung-min, the two of them made a small-scale passing combination. After Walker got the ball, he went back to the bottom line.

Walker couldn't get past Azpilicueta when he was on defense, but now both of them are running at high speed, this is Walker's chance!

"Snapped!"

Walker completed the cross before the ball went out of the baseline.

"watch out!"

Begovic pointed at Kane, signaling Zouma and Cahill to mark him more closely, but the England center forward managed to escape the trouble by relying on his own running ability.

Then he jumped high.

"boom!"

“GOOOOOO—AAAAAAAAAA—LLLLLLLLL!!!”

"HARRY KAENNNNNN!!!"

"Oh my God, only 6 minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur, who are playing at home, opened the scoring with Kane's header"

"Look at the replay, what happened to this ball?"

"Kane made a fake run backwards and Zouma was fooled. Well, Zouma still lacks experience. In this position, no matter how the center runs, you cannot leave the small penalty area when making a cross from the bottom. Kane's action was not very deceptive, but Zouma was still fooled..."

"From the slow motion footage, Kane's header was so powerful that Begovic had no time to react at all!"

After scoring this goal, Kane's league goal tally reached 11, tied with Manchester City's Aguero for second place in the league's scorer list!

The director's camera turned to Mourinho. Chelsea's Portuguese coach had a serious expression on his face. It was obvious that Abramovich's on-site supervision did put a lot of pressure on him.

But the main problem still lies with the team. What Mourinho was most worried about happened. Pochettino's tactic of playing wingers as wing forwards is very restraining to Chelsea.

This is because, compared with the two full-backs Ivanovic and Azpilicueta, Chelsea's double defensive midfielders are not strong in defense. Tottenham's use of this tactic of full-backs advancing forward to attack the front court will undoubtedly bring great pressure to Matic and Fabregas.

In fact, this is not the first time Chelsea has encountered a 4231 full-back forward attack, but the teams they encountered before were all weak teams. Today's opponent, Tottenham Hotspur, is a real strong team in the Premier League.

When the two teams were evenly matched in ball possession, Chelsea had no way of forcibly using their players' strength to make up for tactical loopholes.

"Hey……"

Looking at his opponents celebrating enthusiastically, Zuma showed a frustrated expression.

"Come on! Come on!"

Captain Azpilicueta waved his hands on the field.

"Raise your head and look at our opponents. It's only been a few minutes in the first half and we still have a great chance!"

Oliver blows the whistle and the game continues!

Leading at home is undoubtedly a huge boost to the team. The number of seats at White Hart Lane is not much less than that at Stamford Bridge. The sound of tens of thousands of people cheering must have a huge impact on the players in the middle.

“Here!”

William reached out for the ball, and Ivanovic in the backcourt found William's position and made a long pass, but it was snatched away by Dembele who suddenly rushed out from the middle. Seeing this, Oscar hurried back and stuck to Dembele's back to prevent him from turning around.

In desperation, Dembele had to pass the ball to Kane who was in the front. When the latter was about to take the ball, Hazard who came from the left got there first.

"River!"

Hazard greeted him and then passed the ball to Jiang Yuan.

coming!

The moment he caught the ball, Jiang Yuan's heart rate soared and his attention was unprecedentedly focused.

"Eriksen tried to snatch the ball from Jiang Yuan, but Jiang Yuan was very strong and used his body to push Eriksen away. He then played a wall collision with Hazard, got rid of Eriksen and started running forward."

"Pochettino should have specifically emphasized that the moment Jiang Yuan got the ball, Dembele and Mason ran to Chelsea's right almost at the same time, two defending one, Jiang Yuan seemed to be in a dangerous situation."

"When Dembele comes out, Hazard's position will be vacant!"

"Hazard ran past Dembele's left side, Jiang Yuan looked up and passed the ball directly to Hazard. Beautiful!"

"Hazard is now in the middle, Willian has gone to the left, and Dier is running in front of Hazard"

Hazard was seen taking the ball in the middle and moving forward while looking for passing points in both directions.

On the left, neither Willian nor Azpilicueta were in place.

Jiang Yuan ran to the right, but Ryan Mason stuck to Jiang Yuan like a piece of chewed gum.

Oscar, who was at the front, also noticed Hazard's difficulty in passing the ball, so he ran back in small steps. However, Oscar immediately found that if he came out of the penalty area, Vertonghen would follow him out, which would undoubtedly increase the defensive pressure on Hazard.

If Oscar was in the penalty area, he could restrict both Vertonghen and Alderweireld at the same time. After comprehensive consideration, Oscar ran back.

Anyway, if Costa was here, he would never come out of the penalty area.

There was no point to pass the ball. If it was someone else, it would have been passed back, but this is Hazard!
"tata!"

With two consecutive touches, Hazard used two touches to get rid of Dale and successfully entered Tottenham's penalty area.

Alderweireld stepped forward to defend Hazard alone, and the Belgian superstar took a step with his left foot, blocking the ball with his left foot and left calf.

Now Hazard has entered the penalty area. Alderweireld doesn't dare to kick at all and can only use his body to block Hazard's running route.

At this moment, Hazard turned his left ankle and knocked the ball to his right foot.

Then knock on the door!

"Snapped!"

Alderweireld's reaction was really quick, and Hazard's cold shot hit the calf of his Belgian compatriot and bounced out.

William, who was following closely on Hazard's wing, faced the ball flying towards him, raised his thigh and kicked it in the air.

"Snapped!"

William's shot had a good angle, but the ball was too slow and was pushed out by Lori.

Corner kick for Chelsea!

"Come a little inside and help me keep an eye on Kane."

Jiang Yuan made a gesture to Zouma. Without Costa, he was now the only striker on the Chelsea field who had heading ability.

ok!

Zouma was very straightforward and his intention today was to mark Kane.

The two players are almost the same in height and weight, and Zouma may be slightly taller, so the Frenchman is very confident that he can stop Kane.

So, when Chelsea took a corner kick, Jiang Yuan stared at the goal, Kane stared at Jiang Yuan, and Zouma stared at Kane. The relationship between these three people and the goal suddenly became a little incredible.

"Snapped!"

Matic was responsible for this corner kick and passed it to the back post!
Jiang Yuan started running, with Kane following closely behind him.

The location is almost there!

Just before Jiang Yuan was about to jump, Kane on his left jumped first, headed the ball out before Jiang Yuan, and successfully cleared the ball.

"shit!"

Jiang Yuan held his head and smiled bitterly. His physique was not too weak in the Premier League, but it was still below average. There was still a big gap between him and a strong, pure-blooded white man like Kane.

Jiang Yuan also wanted to jump up just now, but his left shoulder was stuck by Kane, and he couldn't jump high no matter what.

Return to defense!

William urged that Tottenham wanted to take advantage of this corner kick opportunity to launch a counterattack, and Chelsea must take action.

"Kane headed the ball away, Dembele got the ball in the battle with William, Tottenham's quick counterattack opportunity, let's see how they use it"

"Dembele decisively passed the ball to Walker, who ran very fast on the right!"

"Hazard is also rushing back, but in terms of absolute speed, Hazard is no match for Walker."

"Walker pointed to the middle, Son Heung-min was running, and passed the ball with his right foot. Beautiful! Walker successfully passed the ball to Son Heung-min."

"In August this year, Son Heung-min transferred from Bundesliga Leverkusen to Tottenham for 8 million euros, attracting much attention from Asian fans. However, judging from the first few rounds, Son Heung-min's performance was relatively average. But as Pochettino said, Son Heung-min is a talented player and we can't be impatient with such a player."

"Son Heung-min dribbled the ball in the middle and accelerated inside. His speed was very fast. Oh my god! This is the first time I know that Son Heung-min is so fast."

Today's game undoubtedly refreshed European football's perception of Asians. The two Asian signings in the summer window, Chelsea's Jiang and Tottenham's Sun, are both incredibly fast.

Jiang Yuan was famous for his speed in the Portuguese Super League. I didn't expect Son Heung-min's speed to be so exaggerated. The few sprints just now were already among the average level of the Premier League.

"Boom!"

Son Heung-min kicked the ball to the left.

Because Kane had just finished defending a corner kick and had not yet returned to the center position, Eriksen became Son Heung-min's first choice for passing the ball.

The Dane decisively went down the flank, while Kane in the middle was speeding forward.

The day before the game, Mourinho specifically emphasized the importance of marking Eriksen, but the players at the time thought that Eriksen would play in midfield, so only William listened to Mourinho's words.

As a result, Eriksen played as a right winger and Ivanovic had completely forgotten what Mourinho had said.

Without any fancy changes of direction, Eriksen stopped, adjusted himself and passed the ball directly to the middle. Kane took the ball and passed it to the right, and Walker started to go down the bottom.

Then pass the inverted triangle!
"boom!"

Kane took the ball and shot it directly through Begovic's defense.

“GOOOOOOO—AAAAAAAAAAAA—LLLLLLLLLL!”

“Kane——!!!”

"21', spur2: 0chelsea!!!"

In the commentary booth at White Hart Lane Stadium, the live commentator shouted passionately.

In the 21st minute of the first half, Tottenham led Chelsea 2:0 thanks to Kane's double goal.

After scoring the goal, Kane opened his arms and ran to the stands excitedly, and a powerful uppercut directly ignited the scene.

“Kane”

"Kane!"

“Kane——!!!”

The director's camera first turned to Begovic with his hands on his hips, and then to the VIP seats, where Chelsea's director Mr. Roman was sitting on the sofa with an expressionless face, and he hadn't drunk any of the red wine on the table.

[Chelsea is so rubbish? ]

[It's not that Chelsea is rubbish, it's that Tottenham is awesome. The impact of this Tottenham center forward is too strong. If Terry was there, it would be fine. Without Terry, Zouma can't defend Kane.]

[Chelsea is third, Tottenham is fifth, but the two teams are only three points apart. Damn, three points apart, if Chelsea loses this game, won’t they be fourth? ]

[Carefully analyzing, has Chelsea ever beaten any strong team except Arsenal this season? They even drew against Porto! ]

【666666】

[Did Jiang Yuan blow it up? Why doesn't it work?]

[A classic example of blaming the striker for a goal. Why don’t you say why Mourinho didn’t go up to defend? ]

[Damn it, Chelsea, can you please be more powerful? I think you will beat Tottenham! ]

[To be honest, this Son Heung-min is quite strong. Although not as good as Xiao Jiang, he is also worth about 3000 million euros]

[Mourinho: So who is the biggest winner in the summer window? ]

[Blues fans, stop daydreaming, Chelsea are about to be blown up. Is there anyone at the scene, rush to the field and hug Walker's legs, this guy runs so fast, we must defend him well]

【come on! come on! come on! 】

……

The first half of the game was still going on, and the broadcaster showed the ball possession rates of the two teams on the screen.

55:45
Chelsea rarely showed weakness in ball possession, but fortunately the weakness was not big.

Then the question arises again, the difference in ball possession rate is obviously not that big, so why can Tottenham score two goals against Chelsea?

The shooting data popped up on the screen again.

Tottenham had 4 shots on target, Chelsea had 1.

The answer is obvious. The central defender combination of Zouma and Cahill is good for bullying weaker teams, but they are indeed not enough when playing against Tottenham.

Mourinho looked back at his bench and saw two defenders, Baba and Djilobodji, who were not as reliable as Zouma.

"Hey"

Mourinho sighed and decided not to make any substitutions.

In the 44th minute, Azpilicueta stretched his foot to intercept Walker's cross, and Tottenham got a corner kick opportunity.

"Keep an eye on Kane, Kane!"

Mourinho put one foot on the white line and shouted at the players on the field. He was warned by the fourth official after just two shouts: "Sir, you can't step onto the field!"

But Mourinho didn't care at all and continued to take a step forward: "Kane, Gary, Kurt, keep an eye on Kane!"

The warning was ineffective, the fourth official took out the walkie-talkie and said a few words, and the referee Oliver hurried down the field and showed Mourinho a yellow card.

“xuuuuu——!”

There were boos in the stadium and Mourinho spread his hands.

It’s just a yellow card, what’s that a big deal?
Eriksen was responsible for Tottenham's corner kick. The Dane kicked the ball with a very obvious intention, clearly looking for Kane.

It can only be said that Mourinho's yellow card was well worth it. Zouma and Cahill were on each side, squeezing Kane so hard that he couldn't jump at all.

"Hey!"

Begovic jumped up and successfully took the ball off.

“gogogo!!!”

Cahill screamed loudly. He finally found an opportunity and he had to make it effective.

Kane wanted to run in front of Begovic to interfere with the ball, but was directly pushed away by Zouma.

Begovic held the ball tightly with both hands, bypassed Kane with a European step, and ran straight to the edge of the penalty area.

"Chelsea is preparing for a counterattack. Begovic looks left and right. Hazard has already run to a relatively forward position. Jiang Yuan is not there yet because he is defending a corner kick. Let's see what Begovic chooses."

"Let's go to the right. It seems that the teammates have great confidence in Jiang Yuan's speed. Jiang Yuan dribbles the ball and see if he can live up to his teammates' expectations."

"Bypassing Eriksen, he ran straight forward. Oscar, like Hazard, did not participate in the corner defense. He had already run to the right position in the middle."

"Mason reached out to pull Jiang Yuan, but failed. My God, you can not believe in God, but you must believe in Jiang Yuan"

"We've passed the half court and are still accelerating. Mason can no longer keep up. There are only Vertonghen and Danny Rose in front of the horizontal line who are protecting him. Jiang Yuan makes a cross at a 45-degree angle while running!"

"Very accurate. Jiang Yuan made a long diagonal pass from the right to Oscar who was in the front. Oscar stretched out his right leg, caught the ball and unloaded it at his feet. He took a step and shot directly from long range!"

No one expected that Chelsea's first goal would come from Oscar who played as a center forward.

Oscar made a powerful long shot. Lori reacted quickly, but the ball was faster and Chelsea still scored a goal.

"Goalllll!!!"

“Oscar!”

Oscar was celebrating, but Jiang Yuan did not run over immediately. At this time, Jiang Yuan supported his knees with his hands and breathed heavily.

In the counterattack just now, he sprinted at full speed for at least 60 meters. After running, his arms and thighs felt sore and swollen. It will probably take four or five minutes to eliminate the lactic acid in the blood.

Fortunately, Oscar played bravely and scored the goal, otherwise Jiang Yuan would have been really miserable!

Fortunately, the first half of the game was over. Oliver blew two whistles and the players prepared to return to the locker room.

"how do you feel?"

Mourinho walked into the field, put one hand on Jiang Yuan's back, bent down and asked about Jiang Yuan's condition.

"not bad!"

Jiang Yuan gave a thumbs up. Ever since his reputation in the Premier League grew, opposing teams would always pay attention to his defense in this area, causing Jiang Yuan to need to put in more effort to achieve the same results as before.

Targeted tactics, it is true that other Premier League teams value Jiang Yuan, but this thing is really disgusting!

……

The visiting team's locker room below the stands at White Hart Lane.

There was an unexpected guest in the Chelsea locker room today, the team director Abramovich!

"Mr. Roman!"

Abramovich's sudden appearance made Mourinho a little unhappy, but out of politeness, he still extended his right hand to show respect to his boss.

"Um"

After greeting Mourinho, Abramovich looked at the team, scanning each player one by one. The Blues players were all looking at their boss.

Jiang Yuan was sitting right in front of Abu and could see the scene most clearly.

Jiang Yuan’s first impression of Abu was that he was a ruthless and sharp Russian!

"You must be Jiang!"

Abu took the initiative to reach out to Jiang Yuan, and Jiang Yuan immediately stood up: "Mr. Roman!"

Logically speaking, he should welcome Abramovich's sudden visit, but Jiang Yuan noticed the change in Mourinho's expression, and the word "welcome" was not uttered in the end.

Abramovich smiled: "Guys, except Jiang, you have all seen me before. You should know that I have invested a lot of money in this team. I want to prove my love for football and Chelsea. So, I hope you can perform well."

"gentlemen!"

Mourinho takes a step forward: "Money can't solve all problems, competitive sports are very complicated"

"That's why I let you stay!"

This was the last sentence Abramovich said in the locker room, and he left after saying this.

"Close the door and lock it!"

After Abramovich left, Mourinho immediately said, Kennedy, who was standing at the door, was startled and quickly closed the door of the locker room and locked it from the inside.

Jiang Yuan touched his nose, his heart was in turmoil.

Is the relationship between Mourinho and Abramovich so complicated?

……

(End of this chapter)