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Chapter 398 The outcome has been decided!

In the summer, Anelka's joining Chelsea is definitely the most heavyweight transfer in the Premier League.

Anelka was the best scorer in the Premier League last season and almost won the European Golden Boot Award. In the fiercely competitive Premier League, if you can win this honor, you can definitely be called the world's top striker scorer.

After 2000, this honor has been monopolized by top superstars.

Hasselbaink, Henry, Van Nie, Van der Fate, and until Anelka last season, there were only a few players who won the Premier League’s top scorer. From these names, you can tell how great the honor of the Premier League’s top scorer is. So when Anelka joined Chelsea, almost everyone was paying attention to the transfer.

This heavyweight transfer also makes Chelsea fans look forward to Anelka's performance.

Unfortunately, until now, they have all been a little disappointed, because after Anelka came to Chelsea, she still performed well, but she did not show her strength at Manchester City.

In fact, Anelka himself was also very upset.

He was a little hesitant when he left Manchester City to join Chelsea, but in the end his brother Claude convinced him that in order to get a higher and larger salary contract, he chose to leave Manchester City. After that, he felt that with his ability, he could succeed in any team.

But now more than four months later, Anelka regrets it a little.

One of the things was that he did not expect that it would be so difficult for him to re-adapt to a team.

Chelsea does not have the environment of Manchester City. The two teams play and have different habits. When he plays at Manchester City in two years, he finds that his teammates can't keep up at all. Many times he runs out of open space in front, and the football will not pass it in the first time.

The reason is the difference in the midfield between Chelsea and Manchester City.

Chelsea's core midfielders are Lampard, others include Essin, Barack and others. These players are not technical and do not have the world's top pass cooperation ability. Manchester City is completely the opposite. Morris, Silva, and Ivan Kreu are all very good at passing. The tactical system of the entire team is also built with passing.

But no matter what the reason, Anelka felt that the way he was used to running had no effect at all in Chelsea. So he became clear about it - he needed to re-learn the 'Chelsea game style'.

He needs to adapt to the running again. Or to adapt to the tactics, and most importantly, he needs to adapt to his teammates again.

Chelsea's offensive does not have a fixed initiator, frontcourt, midfield and backcourt are all adaptively running, so many times, as a forward, you need to rely on your own performance and your tacit understanding with your teammates. Or it is often more important than the former, and you have a tacit understanding with your teammates. Then football is easy to pass.

This is completely opposite to Manchester City.

Manchester City's tactical style is completely 'formatted'. Passing is the right position and the wrong person. As long as the running follows the rhythm, the football can be passed.

In short, Chelsea is a completely different team from Manchester City.

In addition, the competition on Chelsea's forward line is also very fierce. Anelka's important reason for leaving Manchester City is that Darren Bent is gradually able to compete with him for the main position. He is not even confident that he can compete with Darren Bent, but after coming to Chelsea, he found that the competition is even more intense.

Needless to say, Drogba, who performed the best, even Kalu in the second division, could not compete with him. After all, Kalu is also an excellent player and has played for one season at Chelsea, which is not comparable to him in all aspects. In addition, there is also a world-class striker like Shepchenko, who is on the bench with him.

Anelka feels much more difficult in this competitive environment.

At the same time, Anelka feels that he does not have the trust of the head coach. The newly appointed Israeli coach does not value him much. Even if he appears, as long as he performs a little badly, he will face the result of being substituted.

Based on the above factors, Anelka has a feeling that if he wants to perform well at Chelsea, he will need to adapt to the environment here at least half a year later. Only by fully adapting can he find the best feeling of the game.

It's a game against Manchester City now, and Anelka's feelings are very complicated. He has to face his former coach and teammates, but he doesn't know how he feels.

Anelka has played for five years at Manchester City, and five years is enough to make anyone feel in love, so he still has a deep relationship with Manchester City. At the same time, no one of his teammates knows the strength of Manchester City's tactics better than him.

The head coach asked him to warm up and prepare to appear?

Can you do it yourself?

What Anelka didn't realize was that he not only lost his familiar environment, but also lost his confidence when facing his former team and teammates.

Wan Sheng sat in the position and turned to look at the sidelines.

Anelka is ready to play.

At this time, many people are paying attention to Chelsea's substitutions, and many people commented on the substitutions. Anelka replaced Kalu? Wansheng's mouth curled up. In his opinion, this was a very failed adjustment.

Anelka is very good at abilities and knows Manchester City very well, but likewise, Manchester City knows him very well.

Wan Sheng also generally knows Anelka's personal attribute data, which means that Anelka's advantages and weaknesses are all on the surface, so it is easy to defend him.

Wan Sheng walked to the sidelines, called Morris, and gave a general explanation of his defense against Anelka.

Generally speaking, it is to let the players block the pass route with running and force Anelka to fight with Drogba. This is what Anelka is not good at. He is also very strong, but in fact he is a forward who is good at playing football with skills.

If he plays like Drogba, he will become very uncomfortable.

After Chelsea completed the substitution, the game between the two teams started again. Many people paid attention to Anelka's performance. Even the screen of Sky Sports TV frequently switched to Anelka. However, for a long time, Anelka did not have any wonderful performance.

In the next ten minutes, Anelka only touched the ball three times, without posing any threat to Manchester City's goal.

If he hadn't paid special attention to Anelka and hadn't even known that he had touched the ball, he would have disappeared from the field.

“Anelka’s performance is a bit bad!”

"Calu will also have some passes and shots, and it will do well with his teammates, but the French did nothing..."

"Chelsea has made a loss-making deal!"

It was still Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate who made a rational analysis, "Anelka has not been at Chelsea for a long time and has not fully integrated into the team. We can see that he is actually working hard to run, but even if he runs out of the open position, it is useless. He is still used to running at Manchester City, but Manchester City and Chelsea are two teams."

"In addition, Manchester City players know Anelka too well. Many times their defense will make Anelka helpless..."

Anelka's performance was not performed at all, which disappointed Chelsea coach Grant.

The Israelis still expect the team to equalize the score, but ten minutes later, Chelsea did not equalize, but instead gradually lost the advantage in the situation.

In fact, after Morris scored, Chelsea launched a fierce attack on Manchester City.

They have to do that.

From 1:3 to 3:3 in the first half, and then to 4:3 now, Manchester City has gone from being two goals behind to one goal overtaking, and they have also become the side behind.

They had thought about winning Manchester City before, but the score was behind again. They were very unwilling to lose the game, so they launched a tough offensive against Manchester City in the first half, which made Manchester City feel a little breathless for a while, but ten minutes passed and Manchester City gradually began to counterattack.

Chelsea can suppress Manchester City in one breath, but Manchester City's strength is not worse than them, so they cannot suppress it continuously. When Manchester City recovers, Chelsea will face defensive pressure.

In the 84th minute of the game, Chelsea was eager to score, resulting in unstable defensive formation. David Silva suddenly stepped forward, causing their defensive line to completely collapse.

This time it was Ozil's offensive!

After receiving a poke from Morris from the midfield, Ozil dribbled forward before Morris followed. Faced with Lampard's interception, Ozil used a small change of direction and rushed forward. Lampard failed to keep up for a while. After Ozil led the ball forward for more than five meters, he passed the ball to Ivan Kru who was quickly inserted from the side.

Ivan Krue received the pass and immediately attracted the attention of the defensive. Chelsea's defensive formation immediately tilted to the right. At this moment, Ivan Krue did not hesitate and suddenly hanged the ball to the right side of the penalty area with a kick.

There, Silva followed!

Silva's forward was very decisive. He used the gap on the left side of the penalty area to receive a pass from Ivan Krue to transfer a large amount. It was too late for the Chelsea defender to stop it. The only thing Carvalho could do was to use his body to block between Silva and the goal, but Silva did not do any stopping action, so he chose to poke the ball directly to the right.

The camera turned around and the one that followed was Ozil!

"Ozil! Ozil!"

The broadcaster on the scene shouted in shock, and the Chelsea fans in the stands also exclaimed.

Their voices did not affect the game. Ozil ran, with no defensive players around him. He waved his right foot without hesitation when he greeted the ball.

"Bang!"

When the right foot was in contact with the football, the grass suddenly flew.

Shoot!

Goalkeeper Cech made a save, but only saw the Czech moves, but the football flew into the net without any suspense.

“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!”

With the goal, George Woodgate shouted, "3:5!"

"The winner has been decided!!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!
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