Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 380

c373 You are really good, but it is a pity that we met too early.

Time flies, and it has been several years since the conversation that relieved Li Ang of his psychological burden.

But at this moment, Master Belleron’s sincere consolation appeared in front of Li Ang more clearly than ever.

But time did not allow Li Ang to have a moment of thought at this moment, and the whistle from reality also made him sober up again…

“The game has begun! Dear audience friends, you are now watching the UEFA Champions League 2015-2016 season…”

At this moment, commentators from various countries also read out their unique opening remarks of the game.

The global ratings data of this game today can be said to be quite beautiful.

After all, the other Champions League knockout match broadcast at the same time as this game was just a “chicken fight” between Benfica and Zenit.

Comparing the two games, countless neutral fans can’t even find a reason not to watch the powerful dialogue between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, the two major league overlords.

And the strong cheers from the audience at the scene of the game at this moment actually explained a lot of things.

The star-studded starting lineups of both teams are worth the money paid by the audience today.

The quality of today’s top matchup naturally corresponds to the high prices of these stars on the field.

Blanco spent two more seasons to carefully and patiently polish this Paris Saint-Germain team, which is now not top-heavy at all.

After they successfully introduced Matuidi from Real Madrid in the summer window this year, their backcourt defense ability has reached a new level.

This is a comment that is not a joke at all.

Matuidi is an excellent “midfield destroyer”, otherwise Mourinho would not have valued him and brought him to the extremely successful Real Madrid and given him enough playing opportunities.

Matuidi is now a tough midfielder who has been trained by Mourinho himself and has studied defensive techniques with Leon and Alonso.

That is, he is indeed a little lacking in the offensive end, so he gradually became a substitute for Casemiro in the second half of last season.

Otherwise, if we only consider the sweeping ability and coverage area in the midfield and backcourt, he is now at least half a level stronger than Casemiro. No matter how you look at it, he should continue to be the main defensive midfielder of Real Madrid.

But in the world of football, many times, your ability in the field you are good at cannot determine whether you can always occupy a certain starting position.

It depends on the tactical arrangement of the coaching staff and whether you can adapt to the new tactical responsibilities given by the head coach.

Ancelotti does not want a ball-grabbing machine that only lags back to sweep and intercept. He needs the lag back midfielder to take more offensive and defensive responsibilities.

Matuidi can actually play B2B, and his potential is not only in the midfield destroyer when lags back to intercept.

But he needs to adapt to the change of playing style, and he also needs room for error. Unfortunately, his competitor Casemiro does not need such time, so he fell out of favor.

After losing the starting position for nearly half a year, facing Nasser’s invitation to him to return to Paris with a lucrative contract and a verbal promise to absolutely guarantee his starting position, Matuidi nodded.

So he returned to Ligue 1, with the halo of having become a well-known star, and returned to the most successful club in France, Paris Saint-Germain.

In Ligue 1, Matuidi’s defensive ability is a complete dimensionality reduction strike!

Not only did he help Paris Saint-Germain achieve a super luxurious league record in one go, but he also helped Paris Saint-Germain rebuild its external image in this season’s Champions League group stage.

Solid defense, strong fighting, especially extremely high attack and defense conversion efficiency.

And today’s Paris Saint-Germain can play this style of football, largely thanks to Matuidi’s outstanding performance.

Mourinho knows Matuidi, and Li Ang knows the same.

At this moment, when the two sides faced each other, the faces of the Chelsea master and apprentice showed an expression of “as expected”.

Matuidi completely released the ability of Paris Saint-Germain’s midfield, Motta had sufficient protection, and the organization behind him showed the style of a master.

Verratti also received full support from Matuidi, and with Matuidi helping him to regain the ball behind him, his forward pass became more confident and more decisive!

This is a good midfielder, a strong enough defensive midfielder can bring spiritual confidence to his other midfield teammates.

And now the combination of the new midfield trio of Paris Saint-Germain also distributes the ball very reasonably.

Motta lags back to organize and sort out, Verratti moves forward or delivers shells to the two sides, and Matuidi at most participates in the organization process, but he will never stick to the ball too much.

If this is replaced by a certain front midfielder or Pastore, the efficiency of organizing the pass will be reduced.

This gap directly represents the demise or increase of several offensive rounds in the modern football system.

The stronger the waist of Paris Saint-Germain, the more efficient the midfield organization, and their forwards and wingers can get more opportunities to try in the advancement end.

The players of the entire Chelsea team have a deep understanding of this.

Why are their results stable?

That is because there are two tough guys, Li Ang and Matic, who have been in the middle!

So even if they are in a bad state sometimes, they can always get more opportunities to try and the ball.

The more you try and the more you attack, no matter how bad your condition is, you can still create opportunities.

Now Paris Saint-Germain seems to have a lot of Chelsea in it.

The two teams played cautiously for the first 10 minutes of the game in mutual attack and defense.

It is hard to say whether Paris Saint-Germain has explored the depth of Chelsea’s strength, but Chelsea’s players now at least have a high evaluation of Paris Saint-Germain:

“They are not easy to deal with now!”

The inherent impression that Paris Saint-Germain brought to the Chelsea team was torn off bit by bit as the game progressed.

And many neutral fans who watched Paris Saint-Germain’s game for the first time this season in front of the TV were even deeply surprised by Paris Saint-Germain’s steady performance at this moment!

Li Ang completely gave up the idea of ​​taking the ball and directly attacking the middle of Paris Saint-Germain’s midfield before the game to test their strong defense.

This road is obviously not feasible. As long as Matuidi gets entangled with him, Verratti, who is active in returning to defense, and Motta, who has been prepared for a long time, will definitely make him suffer.

So he still has to go around to compete with Paris Saint-Germain’s new midfield trio.

Matic only needs to stay in the backcourt, he has to take Kroos with him to the frontcourt to “play guerrilla warfare”~

After making the decision, Leon quickly directed his midfield partners to change their positions, with Matic dragging back to pass the ball, while he and Kroos moved forward.

When the three of them changed their positions, the entire Paris Saint-Germain team instantly became alert.

Blanco looked at Mourinho, who was standing on the sidelines like him and obviously did not make any tactical moves, with some hesitation.

He didn’t know that Leon made tactical adjustments on the court according to the form of the game. He thought Mourinho had prepared some tactical moves before the game.

Old Mourinho didn’t know that he was misunderstood at this moment, but even if he knew, he wouldn’t care. He was more concerned about the tactical effect that Leon could achieve after this adjustment.

He probably understood why Leon pulled Kroos forward to compress the midfield defense of Paris Saint-Germain and actively attract the midfield players of Paris Saint-Germain to let them focus on defense first.

But what about later? What will be Li Ang’s further means of breaking the deadlock…

A smile flashed in Mourinho’s eyes, and he began to look forward to the tactical surprise that Li Ang would give him.

The balance of the game situation seemed to be slightly disrupted as Li Ang took the initiative to take Kroos forward with the ball.

Paris Saint-Germain, who played more actively at the beginning, carefully recovered the midfield defense line, and at this moment, Chelsea became the side that took the initiative to put pressure.

This scene seemed to be taken for granted in the eyes of more fans, including many fans of Paris Saint-Germain.

Paris Saint-Germain has indeed transformed. They have become better than before, and their tactics are more mature and organized.

But what they are facing today is the new big devil Chelsea who has been invincible in Europe from last year to now!

If Paris Saint-Germain has been suppressing Chelsea from beginning to end today, that would be abnormal in the eyes of fans.

However, after Chelsea regained the initiative to attack, it was very subtle and did not launch any violent offensive.

Leon and Kroos pressed into the PSG half, and seemed to be organizing the ball more, trying to stretch the width of the PSG defense first, and there were not many forward passes.

And the ball they sent out on the sides would soon return to their feet again.

Because the defense of the two wings of PSG was also very good today, Hazard and De Bruyne did not take any advantage in one-on-one situations, and it was too easy to lose the ball by force.

So they all decided to wait for Leon’s command.

Such patient transmission and defensive involvement work is always a bit boring, and it is not easy to complete smoothly.

But fortunately, Chelsea has practiced such tactical play too many times in the past two seasons. They are familiar with such involvement rhythm. Although it is boring, it is not difficult to play such tactics.

Leon has always been patiently observing, and the live camera also takes care of him. Every time it is frequently aimed at him, the audience can clearly read from his eyes that he is observing the situation of the game.

But no one can guess what he is observing in the slightly monotonous and repetitive fast ball transfer.

There are even many fans who suspect that Li Ang has no better solution, so he can only keep passing and testing to see if Paris Saint-Germain’s midfield defense will have loopholes first?

There are all kinds of speculations among the fan group, and commentators from various countries are also turning their heads quickly to analyze the situation.

However, in the 23rd minute of the first half, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain were still playing cautiously, and there was no first shot in the whole game.

After Li Ang passed the ball, he suddenly started to move forward decisively, and the Paris midfield defense line, which was not involved in the scattered, also shrank rapidly at this moment!

Kroos, who was controlling the ball and moving with Li Ang, saw this and directly passed the ball to the slightly empty side.

After getting the ball, De Bruyne was not in a hurry to move forward immediately, but looked at the Paris Saint-Germain defense line that turned to surround him again, and passed the ball horizontally to Li Ang who was responding to him at this time.

Li Ang seemed to be a huge magnet. Wherever he ran to, Matuidi and at least one of his midfield partners would move to that area with Li Ang’s footsteps.

But just when they double-teamed Li Ang again, Li Ang, who received the pass from De Bruyne, seemed to have a 360-degree holographic projection installed on his head, and sent a straight pass to the opposite side!

It was as if he had expected that Hazard would cooperate with him in a tacit way!

His pass was like a sharp scalpel, directly cutting through the seemingly solid and tough defense of Paris Saint-Germain!

After Hazard got the ball at high speed, he almost didn’t slow down at all and dribbled past Van der Wiel who intercepted him!

The Dutch defender was passed so cleanly that he almost fell on the grass because he didn’t stop his body inertia!

There was a clear road ahead, and Hazard, who was almost completely unstopped, decisively cut inside and broke into the penalty area of ​​Paris Saint-Germain.

At this moment, it was only ten seconds since the two teams had been testing each other steadily and the situation of the calm confrontation had changed!

Li Ang’s one pass forward and one pass directly turned the game upside down!

Hazard adjusted his posture and pace, but just when everyone thought he was going to shoot confidently, he finally chose to pass the ball slightly back to the front of Paris!

Suarez, who suddenly started to run sideways to grab the point, cooperated very well with Hazard this time, and he also completed the most appropriate poke shot in the first time.

However, Trapp’s flying dive still blocked Suarez’s poke shot in the first time!

Kroos, who was outside the penalty area, took the ball bouncing towards him, and Motta flew towards him, but the German midfielder calmly knocked the ball to Li Ang who was running towards him with his hand raised!

This time Li Ang slightly raised his forearm and adjusted his pace, and he did not make any fake moves.

He aimed at the bottom of the near corner of the Paris goal and directly shot a push shot with Kroos’ personal style!

The precise and formulaic shot did not have much artistic beauty, but it made Chelsea fans feel very at ease at this moment!

When the football rolled playfully on the grass, dodging the interception of two pairs of Paris Saint-Germain defenders, and finally plunged into the net at the near corner of Paris Saint-Germain’s goal, the noisy Parc des Princes finally quieted down…

Li Ang ran to the end line of the field with a smile, and he opened his arms to celebrate.

To be honest, he admired the current Paris Saint-Germain.

Unfortunately…

The two teams met too early.

I got two injections in my butt today, it was painful…