Chapter 328: Chelsea Never Needs to Consider Hiding Tactics Against Arsenal

To be honest, it's not easy to help the club recruit people.

Given Li Ang's temper, it would be enough for him to take the initiative to hint to Suarez once on the court this season.

But now he has invited Suarez on behalf of Chelsea for the third time this season.

If Suarez is finally poached by Barcelona, ​​and the media knows that he has invited him three times without success, then he will really become a clown.

Not to mention the ridicule from the media and fans, he will also offend Liverpool himself, which is completely thankless.

But there is no way. Ibrahimovic expressed to him and Mourinho in the middle of this season that he would not continue to sign with Chelsea after the end of this season.

The reason is also very simple, which directly made Li Ang and Mourinho give up the idea of ​​persuading him to stay in the Premier League.

"I will be 34 years old this year. If the team still uses the tactics I used in the season when I first came, I should be able to stick with it for another season, but this is impossible.

We are playing very well now, and the team needs younger players in all positions. I am really a little overwhelmed in running, and I am really at the age of "retirement"..."

In the past, Li Ang could hardly imagine such words coming from Ibrahimovic's mouth.

But the reality is that no matter how strong a football player is, he can hardly resist the invasion of time.

Ibrahimovic is indeed a little overwhelmed. Chelsea's current tactics have high running requirements for every player on the court.

In addition, the confrontation in the Premier League is already very strong, the game is fast-paced, and the schedule is very intensive. No matter how you look at it, it is not a league suitable for players to "retire".

Of course, if Ibrahimovic can accept the situation of playing as a substitute in Chelsea later, then all the challenges and problems he faces will be solved.

But Ibrahimovic just can't accept sitting on the bench in the past two seasons.

His physical fitness has indeed declined seriously compared to when he was young, but he has now successfully changed his playing habits and opened up another track for himself in the center position.

That is, he can't bear the tactical requirements of Chelsea now.

But if he returns to Paris Saint-Germain or Serie A, he is still very confident that he can play the absolute main force and offensive core in any team.

In the face of age, Ibrahimovic put down his rebelliousness and began to rationally consider his next contract.

If he can realize his Champions League dream at Chelsea this season and create history to win the English quadruple crown, then he really has no career regrets.

Leaving the Premier League to go to a league with a slower pace of play. It is almost his inevitable choice.

From the standpoint of a brother, Li Ang really couldn't continue to persuade Ibrahimovic to stay in the Premier League for a few more seasons after understanding Ibrahimovic's thoughts.

Everyone can say that, but if Ibrahimovic really suffers a serious injury in the Premier League at that time, then Li Ang will only blame himself.

Mourinho also respects Ibrahimovic's ideas. And to be honest, Ibrahimovic has made great tactical sacrifices and changes in the past two seasons to adapt to Chelsea's tactics.

Now Ibrahimovic has the idea of ​​leaving. For both public and private reasons, Mourinho does not want to set any obstacles for Ibrahimovic's economic team in the transfer.

After making the worst-case plan, the problem facing Mourinho and even the entire Chelsea team is to find a top center forward suitable for the Chelsea system as soon as possible.

Li Ang's invitation to Suarez has changed from being optional to a must-fight.

Suarez is not a high center forward, nor is he tough and durable, but he can serve as a tactical fulcrum, and his sense of smell in front of the goal and his technical ability to get the ball are also at the top level in the current football world.

The more critical point is that he now wants to join a powerful team with championship potential.

Last season, he almost decided to let his economic team talk to Arsenal about the transfer, but was persuaded by Gerrard in the end.

This season, he dragged Liverpool into the top six with difficulty, and he really did his best for Liverpool.

Suarez is not young anymore. If he doesn't seize the time to fight for the championship honor, his hope of winning the championship in the future will only get lower and lower.

He has this idea, Chelsea can afford it, and it is not a direct competitor of Liverpool - after all, Liverpool will only compete for the top four in the next few seasons, and there is absolutely no hope for the championship.

Talking about transfers, Mourinho is confident in his own transfer department, so it is necessary to let Li Ang build relationships at the player level in advance.

It would be best to do it like Chelsea and Kroos talked about transfers last summer.

The club shows sincerity and pays enough transfer fees, and Li Ang will come forward and call Kroos directly to make an appointment for a face-to-face meeting.

Two-pronged approach, finalize the contract early, and settle the transfer matters to avoid more trouble.

After all, good midfielders and center forwards are scarce resources in European football now. If you don't act early, you will be robbed by other giants, and you will have no place to cry.

Before Chelsea won the Champions League this season, it did not have the qualifications of traditional giants to put on airs to players.

At this moment, Mourinho looked at Li Ang who was "having a good chat" with Suarez on the court, and his heart was also at peace.

He decided that after the end of this season, the club would negotiate with Liverpool for a transfer as soon as the summer window opened.

He also wanted to wait until Suarez's transfer was settled before starting his own happy vacation!

Leon didn't know that he was being targeted by Mourinho again, and he was still completing his task seriously.

Seeing the intention in Suarez's eyes, he also enthusiastically invited Suarez to come to London for a stroll after the season.

At that time, he could take a look at the living area and school in advance...

Messi could call Suarez to invite him, and he was more direct. He invited him offline. If one time was not enough, he would invite him three times!

He didn't believe that Suarez could be taken to Barcelona by Messi under such circumstances.

Barcelona is a good place to live, but London is also very attractive. Suarez's wife may not be able to refuse the temptation to settle in London in the future.

After completing his task, Leon generously hugged Suarez on the court, and then left in style under Gerrard's vigilant defense, and went to thank his teammates.

Curious reporters swarmed around again, wanting to ask about the content of the conversation between Leon and Suarez.

"I comforted Luis. They encountered some problems this season. To be honest, it is very regrettable that a traditional English giant like Liverpool failed to qualify for the Champions League next season.

Transfer rumors? No, no, no, I don't know about these, and there will be no shortage of rumors in the transfer market every year, right?

Luis is now 100% a Liverpool player. He also told me that he is doing well in Liverpool. I just comforted and encouraged him. It's that simple..."

There is nothing wrong with Li Ang's interview speech, but that night Suarez and Chelsea's transfer rumors were once again a hot topic.

But this time, the transfer rumors will not be quelled as quickly as the first half of the season.

Liverpool's public relations department refuted the rumors everywhere, but Chelsea was very quiet.

Don't ask, the only thing is that Chelsea is now fully preparing for the FA Cup final with Arsenal and does not want to be bothered by other affairs.

The reasons given by Chelsea officials are very sufficient and quite reasonable, but they just don't explain the transfer rumors.

This is actually a test before the official contact at the club level.

The same was true for Arsenal last season. Before they made a formal offer to Liverpool, rumors about their transfer to Suarez were flying everywhere.

Chelsea's movement is not that big.

If Liverpool's top management is rational enough, they should be mentally prepared for Suarez to leave the team in this summer window.

After all, Suarez agreed to renew his contract with Liverpool last year, but he was very determined to only renew for two years.

Now Suarez and Liverpool only have one year left on their contract.

Either they part ways amicably and sell a large transfer fee for the team's recruitment, or they force Suarez to stay for another year and let other teams pick up the bargain for free.

The gains and losses of this are up to Liverpool's top management to weigh...

Most of Chelsea's main players have once again received a vacation. Even though the league rematch with Arsenal is about to start, Mourinho is still very relieved to let most of the main players rest first.

The outside world has promoted Chelsea's next round of rematch as very important.

At the league level, this round of rematch has no meaning for Chelsea and Arsenal at all, because their rankings have been fixed.

But before the FA Cup final, the two teams played such a game, which can be regarded as a tactical preview of the FA Cup final.

The whole Arsenal team still attaches great importance to this.

They suffered a lot from being tactically restrained in the previous game against Chelsea.

If changes are to be made, then it is not a bad idea to do a tactical experiment in this round of make-up games.

On the afternoon of May 20, Mourinho led the team to the Emirates Stadium in the same city.

At the pre-match press conference yesterday, he rarely announced the starting 18-man roster one day in advance.

In this list, there are only 6 main players of Chelsea's first team, and the rest of the players are either substitutes or young players from youth training.

However, this is also within the expectations of the media.

But before the game started that afternoon, after Chelsea's starting 11-man roster was released, all media reporters could not remain calm!

Because of the 6 main players in Chelsea's 18-man roster, only Li Ang started the game!

The rest were sitting on the bench waiting for orders. In short, today Arsenal had to deal with a Chelsea team that was almost completely rotated!

Are they looking down on Arsenal or hiding something?

A big question mark appeared in the minds of the reporters at the scene.

Wenger, who learned about Chelsea's starting lineup today, was also confused by Mourinho.

But the game is about to start, and it is not easy to make major tactical adjustments on the spot at this time. Wenger can only let his disciples act according to circumstances.

If Chelsea's tactics cannot be played, then try to break Chelsea's unbeaten record this season!

If this can be done, Wenger thinks it is worth it.

At 3 pm, this round of make-up matches started at the Emirates Stadium.

Chelsea started very single and put on a posture of defending to the death.

But Arsenal, who had suffered from Chelsea's counterattack before, has now learned their lesson and is not in a hurry to set up a posture for a large-scale attack.

Arsenal's forward pressure test was very cautious, and Li Ang was also happy when he saw it, allowing Arsenal's midfielders to fight wits and courage with the air.

He just stayed in the midfield and backcourt, not in any hurry to command his teammates to press forward.

The first half went smoothly for the first 10 minutes. Seeing that Chelsea seemed to be really determined to defend, the Arsenal team began to stir.

In the sprint stage of this year's season, Arsenal did not have an urgent need to compete for the top four, and played a little lazily on the offensive end. Cavani's goal efficiency dropped drastically at this stage.

So far, he is still two goals away from Li Ang's 27 goals in the league. If he can't make a breakthrough in this round of the league, it will be too difficult to perform a hat trick in the last round.

So from the beginning of the game, Cavani was very active in the Chelsea penalty area and frequently raised his hand to ask for the ball.

But just like the situation before when Chelsea players kept passing the ball to Li Ang, but Li Ang played mediocrely.

The more Cavani was anxious to get the ball to show himself, the more Chelsea's defense would target him.

Anyway, everyone knew that Arsenal's other offensive players would only feed the ball to Cavani in the end, so they naturally had to concentrate their defensive strength to limit Cavani's performance.

The two teams soon began a routine attack and defense drill in Chelsea's half.

However, Arsenal's attack was too rigid, with a kind of thunder without rain.

Cavani forced six shots in the first half hour of the game, but only two of them hit the goal frame, and the efficiency was extremely low...

Such an offensive mode is not difficult for Chelsea's defensive players to deal with.

Wenger saw this and pulled Cazorla to the sidelines and said something to him.

Later, taking advantage of the dead ball opportunity, Cazorla found Cavani, and the two whispered a few words with their mouths covered.

In the last stage of the first half of the game, Cavani slowly calmed down and stopped looking for shooting opportunities. He played the tactical role that a top center forward should have on the offensive end.

However, he was a little slow to adjust. Arsenal's offense improved slightly, and the referee blew the whistle to end the half-time game.

After a short 15-minute break, Arsenal still wanted to continue the siege, but Chelsea changed the rhythm of the passive defense in the first half!

Take the initiative, press and press, and quickly counterattack after getting the ball!

Chelsea used a crazy running tactic of high pressure throughout the game, forcibly raising the rhythm of the game, and made Arsenal's defenders dizzy!

Chelsea did not send out the main trident on the front line today, but the two-wing combination of Lukaku and Salah counterattacked, and the impact was not inferior to Hazard and De Bruyne!

Coupled with Drogba who can stably act as a fulcrum in the middle and Li Ang who started to frequently get the ball, Chelsea's counterattack was so prosperous!

It happened that Wenger failed to react quickly on the spot at this time.

Arsenal's defense began to become more and more passive, and the Arsenal players in the frontcourt failed to retreat in time to assist their teammates in the back to help them relieve pressure.

Under heavy pressure, the young Arsenal right-back Bellerin made a mistake. After Lukaku took the ball and pressed into the penalty area, he subconsciously raised his body to fight with all his strength!

In terms of falling in the penalty area, Lukaku is definitely not as good as Hazard and Salah.

But Bellerin fed all the opportunities to him... After the two entangled, they fell together. Bellerin spread his hands innocently, but the referee on duty still pointed firmly to the penalty spot!

Wenger was numb at this moment, and Cavani looked even more ugly!

Li Ang didn't expect such a pleasant surprise at all. He patted Lukaku's big bald head and praised him for his good work!

After the referee forcibly separated the two teams who were still entangled and arguing, Li Ang walked into the Arsenal penalty area with the ball and looked at the slightly nervous Arsenal substitute goalkeeper Ospina.

The strength of the Colombian goalkeeper is actually quite good, but his height of 1.83 meters is indeed a shortcoming that limits his ability to go further.

After a little thought, Li Ang made up his mind. When the referee blew the whistle, he also sprinted quickly and kicked the ball out with great force!

He kicked the ball to the upper left corner of the goal!

Li Ang did not make any eye contact, and Ospina saved the ball very resolutely, but his arm was just a little short and he could not reach it!

Back then, Li Ang's powerful volley penalty kick skills were trained under the guidance of Casillas.

Casillas knows very well what kind of penalty kicks goalkeepers hate the most.

Ospina and Casillas are of similar height, but in terms of reaction and physical fitness, he is not a little worse than Casillas.

The football was kicked into the Arsenal goal by Li Ang without any suspense!

Li Ang, who scored his 28th Premier League goal this season, celebrated passionately with his teammates at the Emirates Stadium!

Cavani and Suarez, whose league goals are still at 25 and 26, are unlikely to surpass him!

Mourinho, who stood up from the coaching seat, also showed a confident smile and kept applauding Li Ang's performance!

Hiding tactics?

Perhaps Mourinho would consider doing this against other teams.

But against Arsenal, Chelsea never needs to hide tactics.

Never.