Football’s First Defender

In football, winning is the best solution to all problems! Scolari also understands that the team has a lot of complaints about him, but he is the head coach, he only needs to win and get the team back on track, then there will be no big problems!

Moreover, although many old Chelsea players do not recognize Scolari that much, everyone is a professional player. In most cases, they will still maintain professionalism and work hard on the court. After all, in Chelsea Among such wealthy teams, although it is not necessary to compete for the championship, it depends on the status, but it is also necessary to ensure the league ranking and qualify for the Champions League. It is even the basic condition for bonus income clearly written in many people's contracts!

Talk about the professionalism of the players! In professional football, sometimes the dissatisfaction between players with the team's top management and the coach's dissatisfaction will be controlled within a controllable range most of the time. It is actually very difficult to really "play" this kind of unprofessional game. Happens less, but not never. Although many players would use their poor form as an excuse at that time, you have no evidence to prove what the players said in private.

There is not so much talk within the small club, and there is no capital to fight for power in all aspects. Even if there are conflicts within the team, it is usually a quick cut, either cleaning the players, driving away the coach or dismissing the management!

There are a lot of right and wrong in wealthy families, just like a palace fight drama, even the big boss needs to consider the balance of all parties, rather than simply distinguishing right from wrong, and which side to support!

However, in the process of team balance, it may cause turmoil in the team and cause the team's performance to decline! The most hurt of this may be the fans!

As for the most familiar non-professional performance, it may be that Dortmund players have defeated the head coach Boss series in the past two years!

In that Bundesliga season, Bayern led by Ancelotti took the lead in entering a turbulent period at the beginning of the season. Bayern players put tremendous pressure on Ancelotti in the locker room. Nice sir, after not bringing Bayern another Champions League title and leaving a mess for the comeback Heynckes, he left the sad place of Germany!

At the beginning of the season, Dortmund is advancing all the way. Everyone is optimistic that Dortmund can take advantage of Bayern's turbulence this season and regain the Bundesliga championship trophy!

But Dortmund, the team that should have been Bayern's biggest opponent in the Bundesliga, has maintained the role of Bayern's champion guardian in recent years as always, and continues to maintain the demeanor of giving Bayern the crown to create brilliance!

In order to prevent Bayern players from focusing on the front, and to prevent Bayern players from suffering too much pressure from public opinion caused by locker room issues, Dortmund players followed suit and targeted their own head coach Boss! It was a wave of divine manipulation!

After Tuchel left, he just took over the coach of Dortmund, a giant in the Bundesliga. Bosch's coaching style is a great restraint for Dortmund, who has been used to playing youth storms and attacking the style of play over the years. !

Although Dortmund players can continue to win in the game, they feel very bad playing on the court!

The victory did not bring Bosch greater authority in the team, nor did he gain the absolute trust of the players. Even the leading advantage over Bayern in the standings did not allow the players to unite and move forward for the team's achievements !

After the German rising star Weigl was suppressed by Bosch, the Dortmund players united and gave a strong response and counterattack against Bosch!

Eight Bundesliga wins, except for a German Cup victory over the German third team Magdeburg interspersed in the middle, followed by a 9-game winning streak in the Bundesliga and the Champions League! Dortmund players use their own way to prove to everyone that they don't like the coach Bosch, they need a new coach!

From the league leader to the seventh place in the league, the Dortmund players have sentenced Bosch to this team in such a cruel way, then the team will have no future!

Although the management of Dortmund wants to reconcile the contradictions, the management does not want Bosch, whom he has worked so hard to hire, to leave in despair after less than half a season of coaching. That is also a slap in the face of those in power !

However, no matter how angry and unwilling the management is, they are very dissatisfied with the team's troublesome players, they cannot replace the entire team in a short period of time!

Although the Bundesliga championship can always be handed over to Bayern, the king of the south, the Champions League seat is the lifeblood of Dortmund's finances, and it must be kept!

Therefore, in the end, Bosch could only be kicked out by the players under the compromise of the management for the top four results!

In the struggle between Bosch, the players, and the management, the reason why the management made up their minds to fire Bosch, of course, was the Ruhr Derby! The Dortmund team used a shocking reversal to prove that there is definitely an exclusive relationship between myself and Bosch!

In Dortmund's most important game in a season, in the Ruhr Derby, Dortmund, who has been sluggish for more than a month in front of a packed audience at the Westerly Arena, lost in the first half Scored 4 goals and almost killed the suspense of the game. After everyone thought that Dortmund would regain the sense of victory after many rounds of games, the Dortmund players used their behavior to prove how much they did not want to win for Boss !

The halftime score was 4 to 0 with a huge lead, but the full score was fixed at 4 to 4! In the second half, the Dortmund players showed their "true strength". Even if they faced their rivals in the same city, they had no will to fight. They were easily counterattacked by the visiting team and scored 4 goals, taking away a draw!

How about it, the signal shown by the Dortmund players to the team's top management is very clear, we have the strength to win, but if the head coach is Boss, then sorry, we don't want to win! Even if the opponent is the sworn enemy Schalke 04!

This big reversal forced Dortmund's management to slap itself in the face. Before halfway through the season, they fired the new coach who had been carefully selected by him!

With Boss dismissed from get out of class, the Dortmund players don't have to restrain their hands! Weigl returned to the starting lineup of the team, and the Dortmund players enjoyed themselves again. Under the leadership of the new coach Stegel, in the first game, Dortmund, who had already won 8 consecutive Bundesliga games, scored 2 goals in the away game very easily. 0 beat Mainz! For Dortmund players, in fact, in the Bundesliga, it is so simple to win most games! Bosch, I guess he was so angry that he could smash the TV at home!

A player's effort can indeed affect the trend of the game. In a professional football field where players are increasingly demanding The whole team "acted"!

As far as the Chelsea players at this time are concerned, although everyone doesn't like Scolari, they still have the determination to win. Too big a moth, so I will suffer! After all, no one would have trouble with the bonus in their contract!

Fortunately, a timely victory relieved Scolari's recent pressure!

In the home game against the penultimate West Bromwich Albion, Scolari deliberately changed the team lineup, also in order to better ease the relationship with the players!

After Deco came to Chelsea this season, he sat on the bench for the first time, and Ballack returned to the starting lineup! Malouda also did not get the chance to start the game, and was on standby on the bench. The 4 midfielders of the 442 lineup are all old men from last season!

On the other side, Drogba also started as he wished, and partnered with Anelka to play double strikers! And Scolari emphasized Drogba's core position in the middle to grab points, and Anelka will go to the wing as a wingman if necessary!

Although Terry needs to continue to be suspended because of a direct red card, the central defender line composed of Alex and Ivanovic is not particularly reliable in any way!

But the strength of West Bromwich Albion is really too weak! Even with the formation of 451, it was still on the defensive end. Drogba broke through the goal of his team with a header in just 3 minutes!

As for West Bromwich Albion, the weak offensive striker has limited interference with Chelsea. The problems of Alex and Ivanovic are there, but the defense of West Bromwich Albion Mikel and Ballack is so good. Can't pass a level!

At the end of the first half, in the second minute of half-time stoppage time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the West Brom players to relax before the end of the half, Lampard made a precise guidance with a long kick, and the West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper had no time to react. To make a save, he could only watch the football go to Zengzhizong. Lampard extends to 2 goals for Chelsea!

In the second half of the game, Chelsea, which desperately needed 3 points, did not give the away team any chance. Iron-blooded defense was integrated into Chelsea's team culture. The half-time score was maintained until the whole game. Chasing Liverpool by one point!

It's just that when facing underdogs, Chelsea players don't even need any tactics. Relying on the players' personal abilities, they can perform well and achieve good results, but this does not completely solve Chelsea's problem!

Since it happens to be the Christmas schedule of the Premier League, the heavy game tasks have indeed brought great physical and mental exhaustion to the players!

Two days after the victory, Chelsea ushered in the last Premier League game of the Christmas schedule, away to challenge the eighth-ranked "farmer" Fulham!

Scolari changed back to the 451 formation again, this time the starting striker was Drogba! Scolari gave the team boss enough respect and playing time, but it caused dissatisfaction with the fiery Anelka, but Anelka was in the team, not so much More right to speak!

However, facing Fulham at home, 14 goals in 9 games are absolutely at the upper level, which is considered a decent offensive firepower. In this game, the central defender combination composed of Alex and Ivanovic appeared. Huge question!

Only 10 minutes into the game, Ivanovic's mistake in position selection caused Chelsea's first goal of the game!

American Footballer Dempsey seized the opportunity and succeeded in pushing a shot in the penalty area, giving Fulham the lead!

Although Malouda was injured in the 30th minute, which affected Chelsea's wing breakthrough ability, but as a Premier League giant, the gap in player ability between the two teams is still very obvious!

Chelsea maintained an extremely strong suppression throughout the game, with 60% possession rate, 24 shots attempted, and 8 shots hit the goal frame! Although the tactical system is not very perfect, resulting in very few effective penetration attacks, but Lampard has a very hot scoring feeling recently! Superstar play on it!

In the second half, Lampard hit two long-range shots in the 50th and 72nd minutes. With his own strength, Chelsea reversed the game!

However, at Fulham's home court, at the last moment, the home team naturally played the traditional British long pass, that is, a high ball to find the center in the penalty area!

Alex became the breakthrough point on the field, and the height gap with the Fulham striker was a bit obvious. In the 89th minute of the game, it was because of the defensive corner kick that Alex failed to stop the Fulham players from hitting the goal. Although the ball was saved by Petr Cech, in the chaos in the penalty area, Dempsey suddenly broke out and succeeded in picking up the miss, helping Fulham to tie the score to a 2-2 draw!

The poor performance of Ivanovic and Alex on the defensive end once again plunged Scolari into the vortex of public opinion! The voice calling for Yang Feng to be sent to the field increased again! It's just that Scolari has a thick skin, pretending he didn't see it, and continued to plan for his long-term goals!

At the beginning of the new year, Scolari finally got the good news he wanted to hear most! In Inter Milan, because of Mourinho's tactical choice, the frustrated Portuguese winger Quaresma successfully joined Chelsea on loan in the winter window!

As for other signings, Chelsea boss Abramovich, whose wealth has shrunk due to the financial crisis, has made it clear that he will not invest in the winter window. Even if his Russian compatriot Arshavin became a tradable player for Zenit during the winter window, Abramovich really can't afford that much transfer fee!

Scolari also knows the international situation. It is already a surprise to have a winger with the strength of Quaresma on loan. He has also done a good job this season, just make do with tactical choices for the sake of results! Next season, we will plan and plan higher goals!

It's just that the ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny!

Quaresma, in the frequent physical contact in the Premier League, got lost!

Malouda's injury made Scolari, who only had Quaresma as a winger, forcibly backfired, hoping that Quaresma could perform!

But in the first game of the new year, the third round of the FA Cup, Quaresma made his debut against the League One team South Allianz, but he performed extremely poorly in front of the fierce defense of the third-tier team!

Even in the 1-1 tie, Chelsea conceded the goal because Quaresma conceded the ball under physical confrontation, and was directly counterattacked, and the visiting team scored!

Quaresma, it will take a long time to get familiar with the rhythm of the British game!