Chapter 361 Liverpool Will Usher in Their New Era

"Chelsea is still very resilient! Not long after the first half of the game entered the 30th minute, Li Ang scored a goal to help Chelsea equalize the score!

Now it's time to test the mentality of West Ham United's players. I wonder if West Ham United's players can still stabilize the game situation under this situation?"

After celebrating Li Ang's key goal in the studio, Zhan Jun also "thought" about West Ham United's players on the field.

But at this moment, it was West Ham United coach Bilic who showed more impatience.

He seemed very unacceptable to the reality that the team was equalized so early, which completely disrupted his tactical deployment.

After an urgent discussion, he and his assistant finally decided not to continue to attack Chelsea, but to stabilize and drag the game into the halftime break.

But his tactical instructions made Chelsea's coaching staff happy.

Now Chelsea is in high spirits. If West Ham United chooses to continue to resist tenaciously, it will still cause considerable trouble to Chelsea's suppression of the attack.

But they chose to continue to be cowards, which was like handing the knife handle to the hands of Chelsea players.

Chelsea, who were playing well, really liked such a "docile" opponent!

West Ham United chose to continue to shrink their formation and defend the last ten minutes of the first half.

Li Ang was not polite at all. After the game resumed, he and Kroos directly pressed the offensive organization line to the West Ham United half!

Shrink the formation, right?

Want to defend, right?

Playing this in front of Chelsea, who are best at setting up and breaking the bus, Li Ang can only say that the coaching staff of West Ham United is very brave.

With his and Kroos's calm organization and dispatch, Chelsea's three forwards were pulled outside the West Ham United penalty area, and they took turns to receive the ball and look for opportunities to shoot long shots.

In order to make it easier for Salah to cut inside and shoot, he deliberately exchanged positions on the wing with De Bruyne.

Suarez also has a very good long-range shooting skill, and he is an excellent shooter. He is a great threat when he gets the ball in the right position!

More importantly, there is Li Ang, a cannon behind the three of them.

As long as Li Ang gets the ball, he can scare the West Ham United defenders!

However, Chelsea's long-range shooting style is not to force the West Ham United goal, but to find more set-piece opportunities.

Chelsea's players on the field are very familiar with this tactical style, including Suarez who joined this summer. After all, they have practiced it many times on the training ground.

The long-range shot should be powerful and the angle should be as tricky as possible, which is to force the opponent's goalkeeper to choose to save the ball from the bottom line as much as possible!

And when there are enough corner kick opportunities, Maguire, the monster of the header, will shine throughout the field.

In fact, West Ham United's central defender combination is already at the forefront of the Premier League in terms of confrontation. Collins and Tomkins are both tall central defenders with good air defense capabilities.

However, these two Premier League big men still look a little small in front of Maguire, a humanoid monster with a height of 1.95 meters and a weight of 95 kilograms~

In addition, Chelsea has a lot of header masters. With Maguire's header deterrence, they can get enough header opportunities.

West Ham United has good air defense capabilities, but it still can't withstand Chelsea's high-frequency header bombing.

In the 44th minute of the first half, Kalas took advantage of Maguire and Li Ang's deterrence in the front point of the penalty area and successfully headed the ball into the back of West Ham United's goal!

Bilic seemed to be really broken at this moment. He cursed in front of the coaching bench, which made the West Ham United players on the field feel great pressure.

Chelsea was completely relaxed and celebrating.

After the halftime break, Chelsea decisively took up a defensive counterattack. Bilic felt that Mourinho was disgusting him, but he could not find evidence, so he could only continue to put pressure on his disciples.

But the fact is that he thought too much.

Chelsea's bench depth this season is not enough, so the tactics set by the Chelsea coaching staff have a large proportion of defensive counterattack.

In the first two seasons, Chelsea played a lot of defensive counterattacks, but they would also attack wildly when they should, and sometimes they could not stop, and it was no problem to beat the middle and lower teams with five or six goals.

But this season, Chelsea won against weaker teams very economically, and they would not waste energy if they could.

The same is true for playing defensive counterattack against West Ham United now.

Chelsea can suppress the opponent from beginning to end, but it is really unnecessary, especially in the case of a tight schedule in the near future.

Mourinho gave up the next round of the League Cup directly, and the energy saved must of course be used in the subsequent tough battles in the league and the Champions League.

So a Chelsea team that played in a slightly shabby and cowardly way appeared at Upton Park.

In the second half, Li Ang was only focused on locking down Payet, and he himself did not have much to do on the offensive end, but correspondingly, Payet, the engine of West Ham United's frontcourt, also stalled.

After the two of them "both suffered losses", Chelsea was able to defend patiently with a one-goal lead, while West Ham United became more and more anxious as they played, and they were still thinking about trying to get points at home.

Bilic made substitutions early in the 60th minute of the second half.

He first replaced Sakho, who played poorly today, with former Liverpool striker Carroll, and then replaced Sarat with another striker Antonio, changing to 442.

Such a retro adjustment made Mourinho shake his head on the sidelines.

After all, it is about to enter 2016, and there are still coaches of top teams in the top league who believe that the 442 formation can change fate?

Mourinho himself has not played 442 for a long time. It is better to change 4231 to 433. It can be seen that Bilic is indeed a little bit obsessed.

However, this is absolutely good news for Chelsea.

West Ham United changed to 442, and Chelsea further contracted the formation to block the middle, allowing West Ham United to play the bottom cross.

Old Premier League fans know what Carroll's real strength is anyway. He and Antonio together cannot compete with Maguire.

Not to mention that Maguire has a big brother Thiago Silva beside him.

The last 30 minutes of the second half almost became an attack and defense drill between Chelsea and West Ham United.

However, Chelsea, who took the initiative to defend, was the side that completely controlled the rhythm of the game.

Because they almost guided all the offensive directions of West Ham United.

And Chelsea, who defended with all their strength, finally succeeded in breaking the defense of more than 30,000 Hammers fans at Upton Park!

At the last moment of the game, Zhan Jun said the classic quote about Mourinho:

"This is Mourinho's team! As long as he doesn't want to attack or he doesn't want to win the game, he will never lose!"

This comment fits Mourinho very well, and the final score of this game was fixed at 2-1. Chelsea once again tortured the opponent to the point of mental explosion!

So much so that after the game, Bilic directly ignored Mourinho's active handshake and walked directly into the player tunnel with a gloomy face.

But Mourinho didn't mind too much. He shrugged at the live camera and then joined his players in the celebration queue.

At the post-match press conference, Bilic directly fired back, saying that Mourinho won the match with ugly football.

"The team that played better and was more eager to win did not win!"

Mourinho was also happy to learn that Bilic said such a rebellious statement at the post-match press conference.

"He is indeed right. We played more ugly and utilitarian. We are not very good at playing so-called beautiful football, but today we took three points from Upton Park. This is also a fact~"

Mourinho's self-deprecating answer won him and Chelsea more respect from neutral fans.

But Chelsea can't get anything good from the media.

Because Mourinho decisively gave up the League Cup and sent out an almost pure youth training lineup to face Stoke City, he was questioned by the British media.

Fortunately, there was no disagreement within Chelsea on this matter.

Chelsea has won two League Cup titles in the first two seasons. What else do they need to prove in this event?

Last season, Chelsea won four championships in one go. The feeling of winning everything is really great and refreshing!

But at the same time, Chelsea's main players also felt very tired after the season really ended.

There is only one physical monster like Li Ang in the football world.

If Chelsea's coaching staff wants to win the quadruple championship this season, there will inevitably be different opinions in the Chelsea team.

Reducing the burden and pressure is what most of Chelsea's main players are most eager for now.

What is the League Cup? If possible, they even want to suggest that Mourinho give up the FA Cup!

Just play the league and the Champions League, rotate when necessary, and rest for a few more days!

So now, no matter how the media and public opinion outside quarrel, Chelsea is calm and peaceful.

In the 1/8 final of the League Cup on October 27, Chelsea lost 1-3 away from home, ushering in the first defeat of the season and losing the possibility of winning the League Cup three times in a row.

However, Chelsea's main players enjoyed a two-day holiday comfortably, and then rested and trained for five days before the 11th round of the Premier League against Liverpool.

Liverpool was in turmoil at this time. Rogers did not even make it to Christmas in the new season and was eliminated by Liverpool's management.

Speaking of which, Rogers was also quite wronged.

After all, his two forwards were poached one after another in the new season, and the team's signings were not very strong.

In this case, he led the team to a record of 3 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses. There were not many losses, and the team's defense was okay, but the offense was always a little bit unlucky.

There were two or three games that should have been won but were not won. If two or three of the five draws turned into wins, he would not have been dismissed and left Anfield so early.

Maybe it was because he did not lead the team into the Champions League zone last season, which made him lose points with the management.

In addition, Liverpool's top management had already contacted Klopp, who had resigned from Dortmund, so the official announcement of Rodgers' dismissal came quickly.

On the evening of the 10th round of the Premier League, Liverpool officials directly announced the news of Rodgers' dismissal and the search for a new head coach, which also shook the Premier League circle a little.

It's just that their search was a bit fast. They were still talking about selecting someone the night before, but on the afternoon of the second day, it was officially announced that Klopp was coming to Anfield!

Being able to find Klopp, who led Dortmund to create a youth storm in previous seasons, Liverpool fans are very satisfied with the actions of the top management.

It's just that the summer signing period has been missed at this stage. The first thing Klopp has to do after taking office is to maintain stability and look after the food, and stabilize the record first.

If you want to rebuild with new players according to his tactical ideas, you will need the support of at least two transfer windows.

It is unrealistic for Klopp to directly lead the team into the top four in the Premier League this season after taking over Rodgers' mess.

At least in terms of public opinion, Klopp has been given a relatively relaxed coaching environment. He can spend most of the Premier League season making preliminary adjustments to this Liverpool team.

Just after taking office, he had to lead the team to fight against Chelsea, which was really unlucky.

On the afternoon of October 31st, Mourinho played against Klopp for the first time in the Premier League. The two talked happily during the pre-match exchange, and Klopp also greeted Li Ang very warmly.

They are also considered old rivals in the Champions League. During the two seasons when Real Madrid was very successful in the Champions League, they often met the Bundesliga duo.

However, the pleasantries before the game and reminiscing about old times did not affect Mourinho and Li Ang from being cruel to Liverpool.

Klopp's tactical ideas are still very good. He only had a short five or six days of transformation time after taking office, but he gave this Liverpool a brand new tactical style.

More running, more aggressive pressing defense, and more efficient counterattacks.

Li Ang can easily feel the new tactical style of play that Liverpool is currently pursuing on the court.

They were not able to mature all the new tactics that Klopp instilled in them in a short period of time.

But at least they are changing, with running and defensive pressure being the most obvious improvements.

However, this small change by Liverpool will only add some competition trouble to Chelsea.

In the first half of the game, Salah and Suarez scored for Chelsea.

Salah celebrated passionately, but Suarez chose not to do any celebrations at Anfield.

In the second half, Liverpool got a goal back from Coutinho, but Chelsea quickly got a penalty kick opportunity after sending in Eden Hazard, who had returned from injury.

Hazard's breakthrough ability has not diminished at all, and he successfully created a point in just 14 minutes after coming on the field.

The one who made mistakes in Liverpool was still the familiar man.

Dejan Lovren!

After Klopp saw Lovren recklessly tripping Hazard in his own penalty area off the court, he covered his eyes and sat back in the coaching bench, seemingly indifferent.

And Li Ang won this penalty kick opportunity in one fell swoop!

In the end, Chelsea defeated Liverpool for the first time in the season 3-1 at Anfield.

This result was expected by all the media before the game.

But Li Ang gave Liverpool great praise in an interview after the game.

"Klopp has done a fantastic job and I think Liverpool fans just have to believe in him.

Liverpool will usher in a new era under his leadership! "