My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 148 Maybe we can accomplish something

The fans at the Emirates Stadium cheered for this wonderful goal, and the big score on the scoreboard became [-]-[-].

It dawned on them that, for what seemed like a while, they could see their team leading every time they looked up.

Chen Yao and Lillo hugged each other gently, and then gave Bergkamp a high-five with a bright smile next to him.

"Well done," he told his assistants.

"The boys feel different from before." Lillo said with a heartfelt smile. "They are beginning to learn to sense the space of the court."

"Thank you for your hard work, Juan."

Chen Yao's gratitude to Juan Lillo comes from the bottom of his heart. This Spanish tactician whose coaching career has been quite unsuccessful. Since coming to Arsenal, his main job has been to establish a framework for the players' understanding of space.

Creating space, utilizing space, and destroying space are skills that the next generation of top teams must learn, and they are also the eternal winning rules of football.

For a team like Arsenal, since they have chosen a tactical system with a high degree of freedom and a strong tendency to attack independently, they must learn to break through the different defenses of different opponents, otherwise they will only be defeated by their opponents.

Chen Yao knows this very well. When Arsenal's offensive system operates successfully, the pressure on the defense will be greatly reduced and his goal will be safer.

He's heard a lot of things like that offense is just the icing on the cake, but defense brings championships.

He acknowledges the importance of solid defense, but he doesn't believe defense alone can win championships.

Chelsea in last season's Champions League final relied on defense and counterattack to win. Although Chen Yao recognized such a victory, he hoped to accomplish it in other ways.

More than once, when he expressed such thoughts, Bergkamp would sigh, "You are an idealist, Chen. You have to win the game in your own way, not in the utilitarian way that has been proven by others." A way with a higher success rate.”

"But that's the kind of team we are, aren't we? Dennis, you should know what I'm talking about."

"Of course I understand, but even Arsene couldn't win the Big Ears Cup with his ideal football..."

"Then we will help Arsene make up for this regret."

To achieve all this, let's start by defeating the defending Champions League champions.

Chen Yao's thoughts turned back to the game.

The contraction in the first 15 minutes of this game was intentional by Chen Yao.

He also considered whether to increase the intensity at the beginning to give Di Matteo a little shock.

However, in order to reduce consumption, he indicated that the team would first let Chelsea control the ball to withstand the opponent's strongest opening attack moment, and then launch a counterattack.

On the other hand, Chen Yao also wanted to test the team's defensive flexibility. After partially handing over the ball, Arsenal could still defend the defense zone and rebound immediately when a counterattack was needed.

The test results pleased him.

Di Matteo's Chelsea is a team that doesn't know what to do when controlling the ball and leading the offense. The essence of a coach and the temperament of the team can only form the foundation of a team when combined.

Chelsea's background, at least under Di Matteo's coaching, can only be a defensive counterattack team that deploys four defenders and two midfielders, and then withdraws the wingers to the midfield to defend, looking for opportunities for the forwards to counterattack and score goals. Team.

Arsenal now took the lead.

There is no room for Di Matteo to play his best defense.

Come on, Mr. DiMatteo.

Chen Yao smiled and looked at Di Matteo, who was scratching his head not far away.

Let's fight.

……

DiMatteo was a little anxious.

If 3 minutes ago, he was worried about the team's failure to attack for a long time, now he is worried about the team's lagging behind.

He has already realized that Chelsea's ability to dominate the offense is not strong enough. At this time, he should probably calm down, hand over the ball and let Arsenal continue to attack.

Even if he is the lagging side now, this is a way of playing that is more in line with his temperament and may even the score.

However, as the Champions League champion last season and aiming to win the Premier League title this season, Di Matteo does not believe that his team can only achieve this level.

He emboldened himself. All the famous coaches in the world have to have the courage to jump out of their comfort zone. He can't be satisfied with the defensive and counterattack style, he wants to attack.

Score a goal and both sides are back on the same starting line.

One more goal and Chelsea would have won this.

Di Matteo waved his hand and shouted on the court: "Go forward, go forward, attack!"

Starting from the 20th minute of No. [-], the rhythm on the field suddenly accelerated.

Chelsea players boldly spread out their formation and pressed forward into Arsenal's half.

Chen Yao laughed, not only him, but Lillo and Bergkamp also laughed.

They saw endless space.

Jorginho saw it too.

His understanding of football has deepened rapidly this season.

If anyone pays attention to Arsenal's technical statistics, they will find that Jorginho is gradually becoming the hub of Arsenal's backcourt transmission and the metronome with the highest number of forward passes.

In the combination of him and Arteta, more often than not, Arteta will stay in the low post and play the role of a connecting point, supporting his teammates with a large number of cross passes and back passes, or guarding against the opponent's counterattack when the team is attacking.

Jorginho's position will be much more flexible. He can deliver the ball to the frontcourt, and sometimes he will also penetrate into a high position.

Chen Yao is transforming Jorginho, using a modern defensive midfielder approach to tap into the talent of this talented player who trained in the Italian youth academy and has Brazilian DNA flowing in his blood.

Jorginho ran past Chen Yao, and he heard the coach shout something to him. He didn't hear it clearly, but he knew he must move him forward.

Bakari Sagna dunked past Hazard's harassment and passed a short pass to Jorginho.

Jorginho unloaded the ball lightly, stopped and turned around, corrected his body, and pushed the arch of his foot into a curve.

The ball flew close to the ground. Jorginho's skills were still lacking. The ball hit the turf a few times and bounced to an uncomfortable position, but it was enough for Cazorla to remove the ball.

Cazorla's skills are sufficient for him to handle most incoming balls of varying quality.

Chelsea's formation was too wide, and when Cazorla got the ball, there was no player nearby who could immediately catch up.

This team seems completely unsuited to the rhythm of opening up the offense. Their rest-defence is very poor, as if they are attacking just for the sake of offense.

Cazorla dribbled forward and advanced to the top of the penalty area. Mikel, who was responsible for defending the back line, arrived belatedly. He chased Cazorla and tackled Cazorla, but was dodged by the Spaniard's right foot.

Cazorla swept to Giroud who retreated, Ivanovic followed, and Chelsea's defense was pulled out of space.

Giroud stopped the ball and Petr Cech shouted at the full-back at the goal, pointing to the space in his half.Cech observed very carefully, and he could see that Arsenal's offense repeatedly used the ribs, allowing Griezmann to pass through this area, and it was Giroud who provided him with the ball.

The veteran goalkeeper saw it right. Arsenal's frontcourt attackers started running without the ball, pulling on Chelsea's defense.

But Giroud didn't give it to Griezmann. Who said Arsenal's only offensive line is this one?

Griezmann took away a defender, Giroud held a defender, David Luiz guarded the defense, Mikel was dunked by Cazorla, and Ramirez was still switching with an innocent look. Waiting in the offensive position...

The top of the arc is vacated.

Giroud responded to Cazorla. Cazorla moved his right foot to the left. After taking a few steps, he arrived at the empty space where Griezmann should have cut.

Cazorla's bipedal skills mean he can attack from both sides.

Then, he shoots with his left foot.

Cech reacted quickly. He jumped to the left as hard as he could, stretched out his hand, and tried to knock the ball away.

However, Cazorla's shot did not give him a chance. Cech did not predict in advance that he would be the kicker from this position. No matter how quick his reaction was, he was still a step too slow.

The ball hit the post and rolled into the goal, two to zero.

Two hits to complete.

The Emirates Stadium was once again covered in the songs of fans. They sang Cazorla's name, mixed with Giroud's name, and the voices of Santi and Giroud were heard throughout the stadium.

The excited Spaniard ran to the corner flag area and was pressed down by his teammates, noisily celebrating his first goal in Arsenal.

"Dazzling off-the-ball movement, Chelsea's defense was struggling to cope with Arsenal's attack. This team's performance was so wonderful..." Martin Taylor also lamented in the Sky Sports studio.

……

During the halftime break, Chen Yao didn't know what the atmosphere was like at Di Matteo's side, but the atmosphere in the Arsenal dressing room was extremely relaxed.

"Good job, guys." Chen Yao was also in a good mood. Victory in this game was in sight. His one-month countdown was almost certain to get nine points, which was only one step away from ten.

Starting from the victory over Manchester City in the rain, Arsenal, which is familiar with the operation of the system and has a clear style of play, has demonstrated outstanding combat effectiveness.

He wrote and drew on the tactical board for a while, while giving some details: "Di Matteo may give up attacking. If he returns to the 4-4-1-1 system, we need to be careful about their counterattack. Don’t leave too much room for Fernando Torres…”

He stopped writing for a moment, turned back and said with a smile: "If he still insists on attacking, then start from the backcourt and use our pressure to let Chelsea know that there is no possibility for them to move forward."

"Of course, coach!" someone shouted, "we have to teach the European champions how to play football!"

"Fuck Jamie!" someone shouted, and the players all looked at Vardy and burst into laughter.

Chen Yao also smiled. He believed that this system was suitable for his players.

Arsenal's players will continue to grow with this system until it becomes a new trend in European football.

……

At the start of the second half, Chelsea struggled for a while, trying to gain possession of the ball.

Di Matteo didn't want to just surrender. He felt pressure. This pressure not only came from the current backwardness, but from a deeper fear.

He is worried whether his football philosophy is not suitable for this event.

Di Matteo can see that Chelsea's offense is very sluggish, and in the Premier League, you cannot win by relying solely on defense.

What's more, their defense seemed to be useless in this game.

Arsenal did not give Chelsea a chance to organize their attack.

The Gunners players launched a resolute high-post press. The spatial concepts and pressing rotations that Chen Yaohe's coaching staff instilled in them in daily training have gradually become familiar to the Gunners players.

The number of players Arsenal invests in pressing is also increasing. In addition to the fixed front four, Arteta and Jorginho in the midfield position will also take turns pressing forward, and even the two full-backs will press forward from time to time to assist in defense. , until it destroyed Chelsea's offensive organization.

"Juan, I think our oppression is also beautiful." Chen Yao slowly relaxed his tense body and smiled at Lillo.

Lillo nodded, "The compression of space and the creation of space are two sides of the same coin. Chelsea... they don't yet have the ability to organize attacks from the backcourt. We are ahead of them, coach."

"Enjoy it all, Juan." Chen Yao sighed, "Our players have just formed a tacit understanding and played new things... But our opponents will study us, learn from us, and find ways to defeat us. We You need to keep staying ahead of the curve and never stop.”

"It's too early for you to worry, coach." Lillo laughed, "Before everything happens, we can still enjoy beautiful football for a while."

"That's right. Maybe we can accomplish something..."

On the field, Chelsea's offensive organization has been forced to rely on David Luiz's long pass to launch the offense. Arsenal's players are well-trained on the ground to grab, spread out, and surround, tightly and orderly distributed in Chelsea's field. In the half zone, all ground passing routes were cut off.

In the 65th minute, David Luiz's long pass finally found Fernando Torres.

Arsenal's backline pressed very high, and a large number of high presses gave them an unusually wide space in the backcourt.

Torres turned around with the ball, galloped in the heart of Arsenal's defense, accelerated past Koscielny's replacement, and shot.

Szczesny easily saved Torres' shot. The Polish goalkeeper looked at the ball in his hand in confusion and then at Torres.

At this time, Torres slowly lay down on the lawn, stroking his thigh muscles with a painful expression.

He smelled the aroma of green grass at the Emirates Stadium and looked up to see Arsenal fans forming a continuous sea of ​​red.

He felt unwell, probably due to a muscle strain, or maybe some other injury.

knee?ligament?Or a muscle group with a tough-to-pronounce name?

Torres shook his head. He lay down tiredly and closed his eyes.

Chelsea's team doctors nervously ran over to treat his injury. Soon after, they helped Torres off the field, and Arsenal also completed the substitution.

With Vardy on the field, Arsenal will continue to test their high pressing system.

Di Matteo closed his eyes, his players were injured again, his team was two goals behind and was so suppressed that they couldn't even get out of halftime...

Is this what a Champions League winner should look like?Are you... still a qualified head coach?

The remaining three and 10 minutes were still a torment for Chelsea's players.

Chen Yao completed three substitutions in an orderly manner. Arsenal's frontcourt press was sometimes tight and sometimes loose. Sometimes it was a tough interception and steal, but slowly it turned into pressing without grabbing, suppressing Chelsea's conduct.

Di Matteo feels that Arsenal are using Chelsea as a sparring partner to test, test and improve their system.

He was a little angry, but he couldn't get angry, and his heart was filled with inexplicable loneliness.

The referee's whistle sounded and the score was fixed at [-]-[-]. Arsenal won the London Derby.

　School has just started, and I have arrived more than 1000 kilometers away from home. I have been a little confused and busy these past few days, and my condition is not very good. I am adjusting as I go. Thank you all.

　　
　
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