The game lasted 30 minutes. The only most threatening goal in this war was levandovsky's header!
When Chelsea's offensive threat was very low, or even no threat for a period of time, Azar, who was restrained, began to withdraw from the flank.
He is a winger who needs to control the ball rather than accidentally intersperse movement to create a threat. On this point, situ Yunbing has reservations about his growth.
When he was in charge of Monaco, Azar showed good foot skills in Lille, but when he left Hamburg, he thought it was not a good choice for Azar to go to Chelsea, because Chelsea wingers pay too much attention to ball control, which is determined by their style. Defensive counterattack requires stronger singles ability of wingers, The ability to control the ball is particularly important.
However, as long as we compare Messi's ball control time and style, we can see that Azar's desire to control the ball is stronger than Messi, and the threat of his interspersed movement is far lower than that of C Ronaldo and Messi.
It is undeniable that behind Ronaldo C, not only Modric and cross, but also Benzema sacrificed the center firing right to deliver shells to him. Behind Messi, there has always been the support of Xavi, Iniesta and Barcelona's own transmission and control system.
Azar didn't have a certain level of midfield commander like Fabregas to support him until this season, but Chelsea paid too much attention to defense and emphasized the playing method of counterattack, which made him almost stick to personal ball control and go farther and farther on the road of creating threat by individual soldiers!
In most competitions, his performance will be very eye-catching, and even the stars that can absolutely eclipse others!
But in the battle at the top of the pyramid, I'm afraid there is only one player in the world who can have the ability of individual blasting to directly tear the opponent's defense, Leo Messi!
And this is not absolute.
Other stars, even C Ronaldo, can't rely on their own ball control and dribbling breakthrough ability to create a threat to break through the opponent's defense.
Over the years, Ronaldo has achieved great success in the movement, selection and termination of his ability to capture opportunities. In some aspects, he is the benchmark of players all over the world.
However, Azar is more or less a prison, and fails to go out of the small circle that made him famous when he made his debut and strive to improve more abilities!
This is a little similar to situ Yunbing's training of sane. Sane has always been fine, but he must break through his limitations from situ Yunbing's requirements or to be worthy of Liverpool's King level.
Situ Yunbing was glad that sane had done it and bravely took that step forward.
Today, even in the face of Ivanovic's active closing down and confrontation on the pitch, he seems to be comfortable.
When Azar took the initiative to withdraw to receive and control the ball, turned to the swing, dodged the counter grab from Gareth bell, then crosscut and turned to pass Eriksson, he seemed to have a wonderful performance, but what was the point?
Sane has retreated to the back of the middle line, Cantor has also returned to the front of the restricted area, and Liverpool's defense is very tight and neat.
Chelsea found the opportunity to pass the ball to Azar. Azar returned to the set, crosscut, and then looked up to the front, which neither disturbed Liverpool's defense deployment nor brought the effect of attack tearing.
Continue to break forward?
Isn't it unnecessary?
Is the ball reorganized?
That's a little futile.
Azar finally passed the ball to the right of the front court. When William quickly dribbled forward, Remy took the initiative to meet him, while Liverpool accelerated the defense in the back court. Casimiro helped defend the side road, Kant retreated, and kulibali boldly defended. In an instant, he formed a trend of encircling and suppressing William in the part of the left of the back court!
In desperation, William quickly and obliquely transmitted the ball to the line inserted by Remy.
But when Remy was about to touch the ball, Van Dijk passed by and walked the ball!
The Chelsea fans in the stands were extremely disappointed.
In terms of technology and tactics alone, Chelsea is indeed not a brilliant team among the strong teams in European football. Even some first-line clubs play more amazing in attack than Chelsea, such as Valencia in La Liga, Sevilla and Leverkusen in Bundesliga.
This may also be the biggest test of the key battle of Chelsea's championship!
In the end, can they break through their shackles to play extraordinary performance?
At present, situ Yunbing, like other audiences, has not seen Chelsea's determination to break the boat, nor has he the courage to go out of the "safe zone"!
In fact, in the long competition of the league, teams aspiring to win are using their own strongest way to establish advantages. Chelsea is naturally defensive counterattack, while Liverpool is both offensive and defensive. Naturally, most of the time they rely on stronger attack!
If Chelsea is ahead of Liverpool by points before the championship showdown, Chelsea will occupy the strategic commanding height and continue to use their defensive counterattack for a season to deal with Liverpool, which is not necessarily difficult for Liverpool, because they are used to playing tough battles!
But now the situation is just the opposite. Chelsea are behind. Their defensive counterattack does not help them establish strategic advantages, which leads them to be at a tactical disadvantage when facing Liverpool, especially when Liverpool also adopts defensive Counterattack Tactics in front of them!
Mourinho is naturally a taboo, dare not act rashly!
But the situation really tells everyone that Chelsea must make changes and the ultimate change in style before they can hope to compete for the championship with Liverpool, otherwise they will show a posture of "falling without fighting"!
When sane received Eriksson's pass in the front left fast cut, seeing that he would pose an extreme threat if he completed the breakthrough, matic decisively committed a foul in the safe area.
Liverpool got a free kick in the front court and Chelsea had plenty of time to re deploy.
There is still no dangerous picture in the game!
There was little time left in the first half of the game. When Mattic wanted to sneak into Liverpool and reach the front court, kulibali blocked him when he inserted in front of him. Mattic shifted the ball and kulibali calmly stepped forward to press and confront. When Mattic wanted to break through the spiking again, kulibali stretched out a foot and destroyed the ball out of the sideline!
Mattic looked up and sighed, but kulibali looked indifferent.
Liverpool have won two consecutive Premiership titles, but players like kulibali have "mixed" champions before this season, so every champion now belongs to kulibali in a real sense!
When the whistle sounded at the end of the first half of the game, the Liverpool generals clapped hands with each other, and then paid attention to the state of their opponent Chelsea generals when they walked to the player channel.
In their opinion, Chelsea is too cowardly!
In fact, this is not a strange feeling, because after the League tie between Chelsea and Manchester City, Fleet Street made similar comments on the two teams: they are fucking home!
They all lost the courage to pursue victory because they were afraid of losing!
How can such a performance deserve to compete for the championship!
In the most crucial battle, if Chelsea still does, it will certainly disappoint all Chelsea fans!
And it could wipe out all Chelsea's efforts in the league in a season!
No one will attack Liverpool. After all, Liverpool just took a utilitarian approach in a favorable position. In the past decade, there have been too many utilitarian winners, and laughing at and criticizing the winners is the stupidest behavior.
The mentality of Chelsea generals is bound to change because of the stalemate in the first half.
Situ Yunbing and Mourinho walked into the player channel with an expressionless look, but they must have different thoughts.
Situ Yunbing can stick to his original plan step by step to face the game.
He was not serious about killing in this game.
Liverpool just had a big consumption war in the Champions League in the middle of the week, and they attack away at the weekend. Taking all factors into account, defensive counterattack is a good choice.
The rest is to make on-the-spot response and control the game in combination with time nodes.
He's waiting. He's been waiting.
When will Mourinho's sword come out?
Or does he really have the courage to draw a sword?
Mourinho ten years ago absolutely dared!
What about Mourinho ten years later?
Is there the reckless spirit of burning jade and stone in those days?
Is it the years that have smoothed his edges and corners, or is he obsessed with his self respected tactical style like Guardiola?
Situ Yunbing didn't know. He didn't guess. He would continue to wait.
Anyway, the time to reveal the answer was only 45 minutes in the second half.
But he won't give Mourinho 45 minutes!
In the dressing room, situ Yunbing reiterated the tactical requirements to the players and reminded them to keep their attention and deal with the possible changes of Chelsea at any time!
If something unexpected happens, it will be a test for situ Yunbing. He will face any challenge without hesitation!
This is his spirit and attitude as the defending champion coach, determined to create a Red Army Dynasty coach!
At the end of the half-time break, the players of the two teams went back to the stadium and fought again on the easy side.
Before the start of the second half of the game, situ Yunbing looked at Mourinho. The other party noticed his eyes and looked at him.
Situ Yunbing raised his wrist, pointed to the surface of his watch with another finger, and smiled.
Mourinho immediately looked back, took a deep breath and kept calm and calm as much as possible.
Situ Yunbing's reminder anyone will understand: tick tock, tick tock, time won't wait!
Chelsea don't have much time!
Five years ago, in the sunny Bernabeu in the early summer, Mourinho lost to situ Yunbing.
What a magnificent fighting style situ Yunbing used in those days!
Five years later, in the hot Stamford Bridge, situ Yunbing and Mourinho changed places. Can Mourinho turn the world upside down?
At least show the spirit of sacrificing life and death?!