Football’s First Defender

In the second half of the game, the Villa coach did not expect that Hiddink would make a substitution at the beginning of the half to make adjustments. Kalou was replaced by Deco, who was both offensive and defensive, and changed to a 442 formation. Chelsea, let Villa coach's offensive tactics carefully prepared for Chelsea's three forward tactics during the half-time break become almost useless!

The Villa coach can only helplessly tell the team players to switch to alternate tactics. At this time, if he recklessly fights against the opponent's defensive lineup of four midfielders according to the pre-planned tactics, then his team may really die. Crap!

Deco won the limited trust of Hiddink and was able to come off the bench. Naturally, he had to work hard in the second half of the game. After all, for Deco, the arrival of the new coach is not the previous coach Scolari in the national team. , Deco can't rely on relationships now, he can only prove his strength with all his strength, enough to continue to play his role in Chelsea!

This can be regarded as a common problem of all professional players, although it is unrealistic for you to require players to maintain a high level of competitive state throughout the season, or during the contract period of several years! But once it comes to the player's status in the team and the level of income after the contract year, the player naturally needs to perform well! Correspondingly, most of the truly capable players can also mobilize all their strengths and work hard for their future!

These are also many giants who are willing to introduce strong enough substitute players in certain positions to put pressure on some main players so that they can perform at a better level in the game! Of course, if you avoid internal strife in the team, there are vicious competitions caused by more personnel, which also need to be paid attention to by the rich teams!

Deco's performance in Porto, Barcelona, ​​and the Portuguese national team was perfect, especially in the Barcelona era, after being transformed into a midfielder, he performed extremely well on both offense and defense!

It’s just that Deco, who came to Chelsea now, is 32 years old. At this age, no matter how good his condition is, he may suddenly encounter a cliff-like decline. He didn’t look at Professor Wenger next door and saved money for the team. Players over the age of 30 implement a one-year signing system, which hurts the hearts of many veterans!

Although he performed well under Scolari before, there is an undeniable lack. Scolari has given too much care to the proud disciple of the national team. For the top teams in the Premier League, forcibly arranging an outsider as the core position of the midfielder, although many players are not convinced, it is still very easy to make a splash in terms of statistics!

Hiddink now wants to see whether Deco, as an ordinary midfielder, can still show an excellent game state in limited opportunities, and whether he is really a treasure!

In the second half of Chelsea's game, under the 442 formation, the defensive capabilities of the four midfielders on paper are extremely good!

For the home team Villa, it is extremely difficult to penetrate the offense from the center!

Even Ashley Young, who used to be the main attack point on the side, was under the cooperative defense of the right back Bosingwa and other players in the center, and there was almost no chance on the left!

You know, for Villa's offense, Professor Yang's wing and Heskey's ball play are the two thighs that lead Villa forward. Now that one leg is broken, Villa can only rely on Hess even more. Based on this!

As Villa's most threatening offensive method, the only way left is to find Husky with a high ball! However, in order to limit Ashley Young's breakthrough from the wing, Chelsea naturally had no more people to double-team Hesky!

Even if Husky has become Villa's biggest offensive threat, Terry who defends Husky alone cannot completely defend him, but as one of the best central defenders in England, Terry has always been in the British game. For this tall type of striker, he definitely has excellent defensive experience and defensive skills!

Under Terry's sole defense, although Husky had an absolute upper hand, under the interference of Terry's physical confrontation, and under Terry's little tricks that were not in the referee's field of vision, he always Can't comfortably do a header ferry!

In addition, Yang Feng has been watching Hesky's pass all the time. As soon as Hesky completes the header, Yang Feng will run with foresight and take all the second penalty kicks within his defense range. Firmly controlled, and sometimes even simply gave up Abang Lahuo, who was defending himself, and took the lead in chasing the second penalty kick!

Abang Lahuo, who used to always follow behind Husky to eat cakes, was always under the shadow of Yang Feng's defense in this game. He never got a single pass from Husky under Yang Feng's defense!

Not to mention the cooperation between the two as usual in the game, allowing Abanglaho to create a good scoring opportunity!

Unlike Villa, whose offensive performance was almost restricted, Chelsea's counterattack was impressive!

However, it is still the old problem that plagued Scolari before this season, the team lacks that kind of top winger!

Of course, the four midfielders can form a top-level defense in the world on the defensive end, providing a very solid barrier for the team's defense!

However, in the counterattack process, although several midfielders have good long pass transfer ability, and the ability to advance with the ball, and even directly hit the goal with a long shot, but for the side, they create opportunities and create threats on the side. On the other hand, almost all four of them are weak!

This also makes Chelsea's counterattack always the most direct connection between the midfielder and the frontcourt players, and rarely uses the open side space to increase the team's counterattack routines and increase the opponent's defense. More deceptiveness!

Villa's central defender, when defending the counterattack, is very clear, that is to strictly limit Drogba and Anelka's receiving the ball, facing the open space on the wing, but almost no one pays attention to it, everyone's attention is on Focus on Chelsea's double front!

But even if the way of counterattack is a conspiracy, due to Drogba and Anelka's excellent physical fitness and extremely strong personal ability, they can still create excellent counterattack opportunities for Chelsea!

However, on the other hand, if you can have an excellent winger to help your forward, it will definitely make it easier for the two to get opportunities, and the team will also have more changes in the counterattack process!

Thinking of the winger, Hiddink immediately thought of Arshavin, the core player of his national team. Maybe his speed is not so fast, but Arshavin's offensive ability in counterattack, passing and hitting the goal by himself, Absolutely suitable for today's Chelsea!

It's just a pity that the dismissal of the former coach Scolari was delayed until the end of the winter transfer window. In addition, the economic situation of Chelsea owner Abramovich is not optimistic. Arsenal, which has been saving money for several years, is generally tightening their money in this giant. In the era of economic crisis, at an ultra-low price, he bought the best star in the European Cup!

In the Chelsea team, there are only two wide players, Malouda and Quaresma, at this stage! Although Malouda is also the most direct player before Scolari, Hiddink also understands why Malouda is so valued by Scolari. After all, sometimes Chelsea need an excellent winger when they counterattack Players, let's enrich the counterattack system!

It's just a pity that Malouda is currently plagued by injuries. He has not entered the squad for this game and cannot play immediately! And even if Malouda recovers completely, Hiddink intends to leave him alone for a while. Firstly, Hiddink needs to take care of the playing time of some other Chelsea midfielders, and secondly, it is also so that Malouda can really be used for me!

As for another Portuguese national team player, Quaresma, although he was used by Scolari as a life-saving straw to save the coaching position, he joined on loan from Inter Milan in the winter window!

But its technical style is really out of tune with Chelsea in the eyes of Hiddink!

After all, this Chelsea team is the team left by Mourinho, and Mourinho's figure is engraved everywhere. Before the tactical style left by Mourinho can't be washed away, they can't adapt to Mourinho's tactics in Inter Milan. Quaresma also has no living space in Chelsea!

What Hiddink needs is a wide player who can break through on the wing, has speed, can pass the ball, and can open up space for Drogba and Anelka when they counterattack, attract the defense, and pass the ball When the foot is down, it can also create opportunities for the two forwards!

But Quaresma, since his debut, has been a "lone wolf"! The personal skills at his feet are indeed excellent and gorgeous, and his unique skills on the outside of his feet are even more unique in the world. However, he is too willing to stick to the ball, and he is extremely bad at judging the timing of passing. For Chelsea at this stage, Quaresma's Personal style, it is difficult to integrate with the team's overall tactics! Anyway, Hiddink himself has put Quaresma into the cold palace, and after the end of the preparation season, he will return it to Inter Milan!

Back to the game, the second half of the game between the two teams was actually a bit lackluster! With Chelsea's tight defense, Aston Villa, who are playing at home, can only rely on continuous long-range shots to increase their number of shots!

In the same way, Chelsea, which has changed to a 442 formation, also feels that its offensive firepower has dropped sharply due to the loss of a striker who is best at pulling the side. Even as the side that plays defensive counterattacks, there is not enough threatening offense!

In the second half, Drogba relied on his strong body to resist the defensive players and got almost a single-handed chance!

However, during the breakthrough process, the central defender was entangled for too much time, giving the Villa goalkeeper enough time to attack, and Drogba, who rushed to hit the goal, missed the goal and did not rewrite the score for the team!

Even though the Villa team continued to change and adjust afterwards, Chelsea's defense was so stable, allowing Villa to return to the horror of being dominated by Mourinho's bus!

However, in today's Chelsea, although the player's position does not look like a bus, the overall defensive feeling is almost the same as that of the bus era back then!

Yang Feng is the key person in the back line who frantically checks for leaks, blocks possible loopholes, and maintains the "bus"!

Many missed passes from the midfield, as well as the opponent Husky's point and the Villa player's dangerous control of the ball, were successfully blocked by Yang Feng himself looking for opportunities!

Yang Feng is everywhere, and Yang Feng will always appear in the most critical defensive position! Most of Villa's offenses fell short!

In Chelsea's game, due to injuries, most of the substitutes were young players. In addition to replacing Belletti and Drogba at 90 minutes to strengthen the defense, it was also to delay the time a little bit. Hiddink even He didn't use his third substitution quota!

In this way, in the second half, Chelsea relied on their own defense to keep the 1-0 score! It's just that anyone who has watched the game knows that the game is actually far less intense than the score shows!

Chelsea occupied the absolute initiative in the whole game, restricting Villa, who lacked offensive means, to death! Even under the crazy cheers of the home fans, Villa didn't make too much waves. Most of the offensive rounds could only end hastily with long shots!

On Chelsea's side, although they did not score a second goal, they created significantly more and better scoring opportunities! It's just that Villa's defense was more targeted when facing the only two remaining forwards, and they didn't make any big mistakes! Secondly, Chelsea's double forwards wasted too many opportunities, plus there was an open goalkeeper, guarding the goal for Villa in front of the goal!

Chelsea can't score if they gain momentum, but they can't score goals!

But with three points in the league, Chelsea have already exceeded their goals, and Hiddink's first game in office was off to a good start!

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the way!

Yang Feng, who started the game, won the love of all Chelsea fans with his outstanding performance! And countless professional football players lament that Chelsea has found another excellent central defender!

Even Yang Feng, who was famous in the Euro Cup before, naturally couldn't get the support and recognition of Chelsea fans because he couldn't play in Chelsea!

Now seeing Yang Feng's role in the team's defense, Chelsea fans are even more excited. They hope that the team can continue to go on like this, and even try to counterattack Manchester United in the league.

On the other hand, many football media workers focus on Yang Feng's defensive ability! Especially the terrifying accuracy of predicting the landing point, and the success rate of supplementary defense! Yang Feng used his excellent defensive performance to prove that although his physical confrontation ability is still lacking, he can definitely gain a foothold in the Premier League and even have the ability to become the team's defensive thigh!

However, for Yang Feng, the current stage is not the time to be praised by the outside world. He has to use his utmost efforts to ensure that his main central defender does not lose his position and ensure more opportunities for games. This is the kingly way!