Chapter 359 The sword is not old!
"As I expected, Jose is indeed planning to attack Gary (Spider)'s defense zone and use this as a breakthrough to defeat us." Seeing the actions of the Chelsea player after the opening, George immediately realized what the opponent wanted to do, "This is too underestimated me. He really thought that if Javier (Mascherano) could not play, Tottenham would be defensively collapsed like Real Madrid without Marklele? Moreover, Jose really believed in this set too much.
The ability to attack the trident. Don’t forget that Ribery and Duff’s playing style is more similar to that of traditional wingers, and Ibrahimovic in the middle does not have the strong offensive ability as Didier, which makes it difficult for Chelsea’s offensive combination to put enough pressure on the opponent’s defense in positional battles like us. In other words, once the opponent is dragged into the positional battle, Chelsea can only find a chance to score through the back of Lampard and others’ shots and set pieces in the frontcourt!”
George is right, not every winger has the strong scoring ability of Robben and Ronaldo. Although Duff, who moved to the right, has excellent performance under Mourinho, the Irish is best at creating scoring opportunities for his teammates through breakthroughs and passes, rather than finding a shot opportunity like Robben and then kicking directly. Although Ribery has made great progress in cutting and shooting in the inward shot under George's coach and performed well enough, Scarface's problem is that he lacks enough tacit understanding with his teammates, and often he often acts too sticky, which leads to the situation where he successfully breaks through and cuts in the ball, even if he dribbles in the ball, he is easily destroyed by his opponent's foul tactics in advance.
If Robben doesn't break through, he will have a unique inward shot, which is enough to make him a huge threat in the eyes of defensive players. If Ribery's breakthrough becomes no longer sharp, the French's tactical value will plummet!
As for Ibrahimovic, who is the main center of Chelsea, he is not the Swedish god tower that can support the entire team's offensive system with his own strength. At this time, the Swedish was just a young forward who had outstanding physical fitness but had completely inconsistent with his body shape, and he also liked to use technology rather than body to solve problems.
Not to mention, George would not be so stupid that he would let Speed face the Chelsea players' successive impact alone. Under his arrangement, Gerald and Xavi Alonso took on more defensive tasks in this game, constantly running on the court to assist in defense, allowing Speed to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and use his experience to intercept and destroy Chelsea's passing route, instead of fighting head-on with young people like Lampard, or running all over the field like Mascherano!
Therefore, the defensive pressure facing Speed is not as huge as it seems. Chelsea, who seems to have captured Tottenham's life goal, performed very loudly on the offensive end, and it looked extremely fierce but could not open the situation. Instead, it gave Tottenham a lot of opportunities to counterattack quickly!
At this time, George could be said to be extremely grateful to Gerald for the arrival of his arrival, because only he can maximize the effect of this tactic in Tottenham. Davis and Mendieta, who are over 2008, find it difficult to be both offensive and defensive as before. Only Gerald has the ability to complete this task!
Of course, there is another most critical reason why George's tactical arrangement was successfully implemented, that is, Speed himself did not disappoint George's expectations and played a role beyond expectations in this final!
Although Speed will be 36 in one month, and his personal ability will definitely decline compared to his peak, like his previous life, this Welsh veteran still maintained a very good competitive state in this life. Neither Ribery, Duff or Lampard, he was able to get a little cheap in front of him this afternoon!
Since Ibrahimovic is unable to take on the heavy responsibility of organizing the offense for the time being, Chelsea's weakness of lack of change and creativity in the midfield and frontcourt was infinitely magnified by Tottenham in this game. Mourinho felt helpless and could only hope that Ibrahimovic could mature as soon as possible. Otherwise, Chelsea will always face such a problem when attacking in the future.
It can be said that Speed's starting lineup was not only George's helpless move after Mascherano was absent, but also George deliberately gave Mourinho a trap. See if the Portuguese would be smart and change the main attack direction to the middle, and give up the Blues' best and most threatening two-wing flying tactics!
Mourinho was indeed deceived. The man who determined that Speed was the weakest link in Tottenham's team not only strengthened the offensive in the middle, but also Ribery and Duff on the wing were transferred to attack Speed's defense zone by him, which greatly reduced Chelsea's threat on the wing, and it was difficult to pose a threat in the middle because of too many people accumulated!
The two head coaches made a big fuss about Speed. The players on both sides also fought fiercely on the court according to the deployment of George and Mourinho, which made this game more intense than the Community Shield Final from the beginning of the game. If the fans who had just turned on the TV to watch this game, they would probably think that the two sides were not competing for a Community Shield Cup with little value, but were playing a key battle that determines the ownership of the league championship or the Big Ear Cup!
However, although George successfully curbed Chelsea's offensive, with Gerald and others putting a lot of energy on the defensive end, it is difficult for Tottenham to form enough levels of rapid counterattacks, and they can basically rely on the first attack wave formed by the frontcourt trident to threaten Chelsea's goal!
As time went by and the game deepened, after discovering that Speed's defense zone was not as easy as expected, Chelsea players began to consciously slow down their offense, and at the same time adjusted the offensive direction, preparing to find another breakthrough to attack Tottenham's goal. Obviously, after the head was broken and bloody, they also realized that Speed was not a good piece of cartilage!
However, I don’t know if it was God or not, he decided to trick the Blues into a whim today. As soon as Chelsea relaxed his oppression on Stede, the Welsh veteran helped Tottenham open the situation on the offensive end. When the game reached the 22nd minute, Stede, who was involved in the offense, successfully blasted Ajinfeev's ten fingers with a shocking long shot!
One to zero! Speed once again proved to all those who have suspected and slandered him that he is not old and still has enough ability to gain a foothold in the Premier League!
Chapter completed!