Football’s First Defender
Chapter 151: The arrival of Quaresma
On the football field, victory is the best way to solve all problems! Scolari also understands that the team has a lot of complaints about him, but as the head coach, he only needs to win and get the team back on track, then there will be no big problems!
Moreover, although many old Chelsea players do not recognize Scolari so much, everyone is a professional player. In most cases, they will remain professional and will work **** the court. After all, at Chelsea Among such giant teams, although it is not necessary to compete for the championship, you can look at the status, but it is also necessary to guarantee the league ranking and qualify for a Champions League, and even the basic conditions for receiving bonus income are clearly written in the contracts of many people!
Talking about the professionalism of players! In professional football, sometimes players’ dissatisfaction with the team’s top management and the coach’s dissatisfaction is controlled within a controllable range most of the time. It’s actually very unprofessional to "play" this non-professional game It happens rarely, but not without. Although many players will use poor condition as an excuse at that time, you have no evidence to prove what the players said in private. Anyway, for this kind of thing, the benevolent sees each other, and the wise sees wisdom!
There is not so much to say in the small club, and there is no capital to fight for power in all aspects. Even if there are internal conflicts in the team, they are generally slashed, either cleaning the players, driving away the coach or dismissing the management!
There are many rights and wrongs of the rich, just like a palace battle drama, even the big bosses need to consider the balance of all parties, rather than simply distinguish between right and wrong, and which side to support!
However, in the process of team balance, it may cause turbulence in the team and cause the team to decline in performance! Perhaps the most hurt of this is the fans!
For the most familiar non-professional performance, it may be that more than two special players have lost the coach Bos series in the past two years!
During that Bundesliga season, Bayern led by Ancelotti entered a turbulent period at the beginning of the season. The Bayern players put tremendous pressure on Ancelotti in the locker room. This was a famous player in Real Madrid before. Good sir, after not bringing Bayern another Champions League champion, leaving a mess for the comeback Heynckes, he left the sad place of Germany!
At the beginning of the season, Dortmund is advancing all the way. Everyone is optimistic that Dortmund can take advantage of the turbulence of Bayern this season to regain the Bundesliga championship trophy!
But Dortmund, the team that should be Bayern's biggest opponent in the Bundesliga, has maintained its role as the guardian of the Bayern championship in recent years, and continues to maintain the demeanor of making the crown for Bayern!
In order not to allow Bayern players to be more beautiful than before, and to prevent Bayern players from suffering too much pressure from the public opinion caused by the locker room issues, Dortmund players have done a good job and targeted their own coach Boss! It's a wave of God's operation!
As Tuchel left, he has just taken over Dortmund’s coach in the Bundesliga giants. Bosch’s coaching style is a great restraint for Dort’s recent years of playing youth storm and offensive style. !
Although Dortmund players can continue to win in the game, they feel very bad about playing on the court!
The victory did not bring Boss greater authority in the team, nor did it gain the absolute trust of the players. Even the leading advantage of Bayern in the standings did not allow the players to unite and advance for the team's results. !
After the German local star Weigel was suppressed by Boss, the Dortmund players united and gave a strong response and counterattack against Boss!
The eight games of the Bundesliga were unwinnable, except for a German Cup that beat the German C team Magdeburg in the middle, followed by the Bundesliga and the Champions League for 9 consecutive wins! The Dort players used their own way to prove to everyone that they did not like the coach of Boss and they needed a new coach!
From the leader of the league to the seventh in the league, Dortmund players used such a cruel way to pronounce Boss in this team, then the team will have no future!
Although Dortmund’s management wants to reconcile the conflict, the management does not want to hire Boss so hard to leave after only half a season of coaching, which is also a face-off for those in power. !
However, even if the management is angry, unwilling, and dissatisfied with the team's troubled players, they will not be able to replace the entire team in a short time!
Although the Bundesliga title can always be given to the Nantah King Bayern, the Champions League seat is the lifeblood of Dortmund's finances and must be kept!
Therefore, Boss, in the end, can only be successfully ousted by the players under the management's compromise for the top four results!
In the three-way battle between Boss, players and management, the reason for the management to make up their minds to fire Boss is of course the Ruhr Derby! The whole team of Dort used a shocking reversal, proving that there is definitely an exclusive relationship between himself and Boss!
In Dortmund, the most important game in a season, the Ruhr Derby, in the West Stadium, in front of the crowded audience, Dortmund, who had been languishing for more than a month, went wild in the first half. 4 goals, almost killed the suspense of the game, after everyone thought that Dortmund would find a sense of victory after multiple rounds of matches, Dortmund players used their own behavior to prove how much they didn't want to win for Boss!
The half-time score was 4 to 0 with a huge lead, but the full-time score was fixed at 4 to 4! The Dortmund players in the second half showed their "real strength". Even if they were facing a rival in the same city, they had no fighting will. The visiting team easily counterattacked 4 goals and took away a draw!
How, the signal from Dortmund players to the team's senior management is very clear, we have the strength to win, but if the head coach is Boss, then I'm sorry, we don't want to win! Even if the opponent is mortal enemy Schalke 04!
This reversal forced Dortmund’s management and had to slap himself in the face. Before the season was halfway through, he fired the new coach he had chosen through hard work!
After Bosch's get out of class, Dortmund players don't have to be restrained! Weigel returned to the team, Dortmund players were happy again, under the leadership of the new coach Steger, in the first game, Dortmund, who had won 8 consecutive Bundesliga games, easily 2-0 in the away game. Defeated Mainz! For Dortmund players, in fact, in the Bundesliga, winning most games is that simple! Boss, I guess I can smash the TV at home!
The effort of the players can indeed affect the trend of the game. In the professional football arena where players are increasingly demanding, if a player cannot keep up with the pace of the game, it may bring disaster to the team, let alone the whole team. The whole team is "acting"!
For the Chelsea players at this time, although everyone does not like Scolari, there is still the determination to win. In such a fierce competition in the Premier League, Chelsea players really can’t make it. A moth that is too big, so I will suffer! After all, no one will have trouble with the bonus in their contract!
Fortunately, a timely victory relieved Scolari's recent pressure!
In the home game against the penultimate West Bromwich Albion, Scolari deliberately changed the team lineup, but also to better ease the relationship with the players!
After Deco came to Chelsea this season, he was on the bench for the first time and Ballack returned! Malouda also didn't get a chance to play. He was on the bench. The 4 midfielders of the 442 lineup were all old men from last season!
On the other side, Drogba also played as expected and played a double forward with Anelka! And Scolari emphasized that Drogba's core position in the middle of grabbing points, Anelka will go to the side as a wingman if necessary!
Although Terry needs to continue to be suspended because of the direct red card, the center back line formed by Alex and Ivanovic is not particularly reliable at all!
But the strength of West Bromwich Albion is too weak! Even with a 451 formation, he was still on the defensive end. Drogba opened the game in just 3 minutes and broke his team's gate with a header!
West Bromwich Albion, the weak offensive striker, has limited interference with Chelsea. The problems with Alex and Ivanovic are there, but the West Brom players even Mikel and Ballack's defense are this. Can't pass a level!
At the end of the first half, in the 2nd minute of halftime stoppage time, while West Brom’s players slack off before half-time, Frank Lampard made a long kick to lead, and West Brom’s goalkeeper was too late to react and act. The save action can only watch the football to the strong net. Lampard extended the score to 2 goals for Chelsea!
In the second half of the game, Chelsea, who desperately needed 3 points, did not give the visiting team any chance. The iron-blooded defense, but integrated into the Chelsea team culture, the half-time score was maintained to the full game, Chelsea lightly took 3 points and remained in the standings. Chasing Liverpool by one point!
However, when facing the underdogs, Chelsea players don't even need any tactics, relying on the players' personal abilities, they can perform well and achieve good results, but this does not completely solve Chelsea's problems!
Because it happens to be the Christmas schedule of the Premier League, the heavy task of the game has indeed brought great physical and mental fatigue to the players!
Two days after the victory, Chelsea ushered in the last Premier League game of the Christmas schedule, challenging the eighth-ranked "farmer" Fulham away!
Scolari changed back to the 451 formation, this time the forward is Drogba! Scolari gave the team boss enough respect and playing time, but he aroused dissatisfaction with Anelka, who was in a hot state, but Anelka was not so in the team. Much right to speak!
However, facing Fulham's home court, 9 games and 14 goals are absolutely above-average, and the offensive firepower is decent. In this game, the center-back combination composed of Alex and Ivanovic appeared. Huge problem!
Only 10 minutes into the game, Ivanovic’s mistake in the selection of positions caused Chelsea’s first goal conceded in this game!
American football player Dempsey seized the opportunity to push successfully in the penalty area, giving Fulham the lead!
Although Malouda was injured in the 30th minute and left the field, which affected Chelsea's wing breakthrough ability, as a Premier League team, the gap in the ability of the two teams is still very obvious!
Chelsea maintained a strong suppressing force throughout the game, with 60% possession rate, 24 shot attempts and 8 shots within the frame! Although the tactical system is not very perfect, resulting in very few effective penetration attacks, but Lampard has a very popular feeling of scoring recently! Superstar play, that's it!
In the second half, Lampard hit two long shots in the 50th and 72nd minutes, relying on his own strength to make Chelsea reverse the game!
However, in Fulham's home field, at the last moment, the home team naturally played the traditional British long pass and sling play, which is to play the high ball to find the center in the penalty area!
Alex became a breakthrough on the field. The height gap with the Fulham striker was quite obvious. In the 89th minute of the game, it was because Alex failed to stop the Fulham player from hitting the goal during the defensive corner kick. Although Cech threw the ball out, but in the chaos in the penalty area, Dempsey suddenly shot out and succeeded in picking up the leak, helping Fulham tie the score to a 2-2 tie!
The poor performance of Ivanovic and Alex on the defensive end~lightnovelpub.net~ once again plunged Scolari into the whirlpool of public opinion! The voice calling for the dispatch of Yang Feng on the court increased again! It's just that Scolari has a thick-skinned face, as if he didn't see it, he continued to plan for his long-term goal!
At the beginning of the new year, Scolari finally got the good news he wanted to hear the most! In Inter Milan, because of Mourinho's tactical choice, the unhappy Portuguese winger Quaresma succeeded in joining Chelsea on loan at the Winter Window!
As for other signings, Chelsea boss Abramovich, whose wealth has shrunk due to the financial crisis, has made it clear that he will not invest money in the winter window. Even if his Russian compatriot Arshavin became Zenit's tradable player in the winter window, Abramovich really can't pay so much transfer fee!
Scolari also knows the international situation. It is already a surprise to borrow a winger of Quaresma's strength. He has done a good job this season, so he can make tactical choices for the results! Plan for a higher goal next season!
It's just that the ideal is full, the reality is very skinny!
Quaresma, in the frequent physical contact of the Premier League, lost!
Malouda's injury left Scolari, who was left behind as Quaresma's winger, forcibly to help him out, hoping that Quaresma could perform!
However, in the first game of the new year, in the third round of the FA Cup, Quaresma came on the field against the League One team, South Ann United, but in front of the fierce defense of the third-level team, the performance was extremely bad!
Even in the 1-1 draw, Chelsea lost the ball because Quaresma lost the ball under physical confrontation and was directly counterattacked. The away team scored!
Quaresma, it takes a long, long time to get familiar with the rhythm of the British game!