422 Destroyed
Mourinho is firmly walking on the path he pursues. This year, Chelsea has not lost its main players. In addition, players such as Robben, Drogba, Ferreira have adapted to the Premier League. Local players such as Joe Kerr, Lampard, and Terry have made obvious progress, and their overall strength has become stronger. Moreover, it is rumored that Chelsea is still trying to strengthen the midfield. They have fallen in love with an African black and hard midfielder Essin.︽,
The situation at Arsenal cannot be said to be completely opposite, but at least the main attacking group composed of substitutes and new players performed poorly in the first half of this game.
The side consequence is that the defense line is almost broken.
The reason is very simple. Henry, Pire, and Loneberg will not easily lose the ball and fight back to Chelsea. As Chelsea counterattacks have been more, the number of successes will naturally increase during the same period, not to mention that Vieira's new defense leaving Fabregas has been weakened.
Qin Xiong was not good at accusing his teammates, so he came to Fabregas and just told Fabregas a fact.
"If we want to defeat Chelsea in positional battle, this game is basically impossible."
Fabregas couldn't help but nodded when he heard Qin Xiong's words.
Arsenal's offense advances to Chelsea's dangerous area and the offensive formation is immediately cut by the opponent. The connection between the players becomes weak. Without a strong tacit understanding, it will be difficult to achieve effective offensive cooperation.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to break through Chelsea’s defense line in position war.
"The only environment we need to play as an offense now is: to fight against Chelsea's counterattack! Do you understand what I mean?"
Fabregas pondered for a moment and nodded again.
The positional battle is cleaner and neat. Since you don’t have expectations, just give up. Put your main energy into defense. Wait for Chelsea’s counterattack to arrive. Then, after all the efforts to block it, then suddenly launch a counterattack!
Wenger criticized the team's offensive performance after entering the locker room, but he did not criticize Qin Xiong.
Qin Xiong was inconspicuous in the first half. Most of his passes were formulaic. His pass success rate exceeded 90%. Most of those mistaken passes were threatening passes, and no teammate could receive them. Of course, if they were replaced by the main player, maybe half of them would be able to succeed.
Van Persie does not retreat, Fabregas is getting lower and lower due to defensive pressure, and Qin Xiong is like an abandoned child facing Chelsea's three tough midfielders alone in the midfield area. What can he do?
Passing the threat ball without teammates can handle it, and a breakthrough that is not sure is irresponsible.
Wenger could understand Qin Xiong's situation, so he did not say a word to him.
Hleb, Reyes and Van Persie were taught a lesson by Wenger. Wenger repeatedly emphasized the team's unity and cooperation on the offensive end, and actively involved in running. Then he encouraged the team to strive for improvement in the second half.
No one cares about the result of this game, but everyone cares about the process!
It is no exaggeration to say that in Arsenal's performance in the first half, if he encounters Chelsea once in the league or cup, he will have to kneel down once!
The second half returned to the court and the two sides changed sides and fought again.
Qin Xiong simply retreated to the central forward area and took the initiative to participate in the defense.
Anyway, he can see that he either has the ability to go forward in one stop and abuse Chelsea in this game, or he doesn't waste his energy to rush forward, and he will not get effective support from his teammates at all.
Chelsea was still fighting back patiently. In the 57th minute of the game, Chelsea counterattack storm broke out again. Robben rushed to the right and advanced rapidly. He cut across the middle in front of Ashley Cole. Silva went to block the block. Robben took a step back and bypassed Silva. When he was about to shoot from a long time, he attracted Fabregas' fill-up position. Then Robben passed the ball to Lampard who was inserted behind.
When Lampard just stepped forward, Qin Xiong decisively intercepted the ball. Lampard hurriedly protected the ball. Qin Xiong fell into entanglement with him. The two of them fought against each other and did not retreat. In the end, Qin Xiong stabbed the ball from Lampard's feet at the cost of losing physical balance.
But the kicked football actually rolled to Robben's feet. At this time, Robben directly hung the ball into the penalty area. The Arsenal back line, who originally thought that the defense was successful, was moving forward, but he didn't expect Chelsea's attack to hit again, and it was so direct!
Drogba, who was always waiting for the opportunity, successfully counterattacked and headed the ball before Lehmann, and the football changed direction and was pushed into the lower right corner of the goal.
Lehman is so angry!
He roared at every Arsenal player without composure.
Such a defense is simply terrible!
"3:0! Chelsea destroyed Arsenal! Arsenal should regret it! They sold the player who should not be sold the most, Vieira! Look at their midfield defense, Fabregas' offensive organization has performed in support, but he can't find any feeling in defense! If you want to defend the Premier League with such performance, it would be a dream! Chelsea has been preparing for the new season with great unwillingness to last season!"
Wenger wiped his face on the sidelines. Of course, he didn't care about the outcome of the game, even if he lost to 0:5, he didn't care!
But it must be admitted that he cared very much about how to lose the game.
It’s time to face reality!
Admit it!
It is impossible to rely on Van Persie, Reyes, and Heleb to make a difference in the new season!
With the addition of all competitions last season, Reyes and Van Persie's goal rate averaged around 0.25 per game.
In other words, one goal can be scored in 4 games.
Even if two people play at the same time, it will take 2 games before one of them can score a goal.
Hleb itself is not a stable scoring point in Stuttgart.
Indeed, what Arsenal must rely on is Henry, Pire, and Lengbery.
But the current situation is that Reyes and Van Persie are not even a super substitute, let alone compete for the main players.
Wenger, it's time to wake up!
There is a huge gap between the main force and the substitute.
Arsenal has always been the same Arsenal with only one-sided combat strength!
Wenger was calm inside, he knew what reality was, and he was able to discover more.
The gap in player level is not only a decline in the overall strength of the team, but also an influence on individual players.
Like Qin Xiong, he cannot play his true strength in this game.
His impressive threatening ball delivery could scare the Chelsea defenders into a cold sweat, but it turned out to be a mistake because his teammates failed to understand the intention, which only made Chelsea a false alarm.
The first mistake, the second mistake, the third time, sorry, Qin Xiong no longer tried, it makes no sense.
When teammates do not have the cover to allow him to have greater room for play, Qin Xiong cannot move forward. Moving forward will make Chelsea have a greater advantage in the midfield. He can only go backward, but if he retreats and moves forward, he will not get a positive response from his teammates. How can he play well with one person?
Wenger turned to the bench and called Henry, Pirey, and Loneberg to warm up.
Chapter completed!