Revisiting Achelsea: Excitement and hardship at the same time

Although in the first half of the Ajax blistering attack faltered, Ajax 10 shots on goal most of the first half, and Ziyech and Van der Beck and even Tadic, will choose Alonso sitting on the left side of the launch of the attack, hugging Chelsea's left side of the forced Alonso's offensive ability can not be fully played, which led to Odoi into a one-man operation without any achievements in the situation, Ten Hahn tactics Targeted very strong, the construction of the soul of Dutch soccer - the blurring of the attacking system on the front of the press, with a single soldier plus rapid passing and cutting and running tactics, each person's running ability and technology fusion in the attacking system, the intensity of the attack and even overshadowed Chelsea's 0-4 loss to Manchester United when Solskjaer.

But Lampard's Chelsea held on to the situation, and this was the first time this season that Chelsea's possession rate was not as good as their opponent's. The defensive intensity engraved in their bones still helped the Blues to collect a hard victory on the road, and the outstanding performance of Tomori and Zouma became an important cornerstone for the Blues to win the hard away game in the current match. Batshuayi's strike also brought Lampard six consecutive wins in all competitions, with decisive substitutions and tactical changes becoming the tone of the victory.

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Similar to the changes in the last game against Newcastle, Lampard still chose Pulisic as the pivot to pull and drive the speed of the Blues' attack in front of the field, the captain of the United States came on to the field after the withdrawal of William and switched to the left side of the Chelsea completely switched to the use of speed to solve the problem, it is just that Ajax's physical exhaustion is too fast, Lampard with Batshuayi and Pulisic sudden attack finally ushered in the victory.

FIRST HALF: How did Chelsea face the press?

It is not difficult to see, van der Beck "defensive front waist" style of play does make the Blues midfield very difficult, not only the national team manager Coman or Teng Haq, van der Beck can be in front of the back, able to contribute to a variety of different characteristics in many kinds of play, such qualities are worthy of Real Madrid's favor. After the departure of De Jong, Van der Beck became the substantial core, this time to face the Blues, Teng Haahe still choose to Van der Beck ahead of even become the second striker and shadow striker, directly on the Blues' center back out of the point of close pressure, forcing Munt, Odoi, William, three second echelon of the players on the ball to reduce the number of players.

Not only that, Tengah also chose Ziyech as a real defensive point in front of the field, the Moroccan winger's defensive ability is even more amazing, a single game completed 11 steals, of which the success of 8 in the first place in the game, Tengah's purpose in the first half of the basic reached. Basically rely on the interference of Van der Beck and others, coupled with Ziyech's aggressive stealing played a lot of threatening direct attack, including Veltman's quick shot, are Ajax through the rapid forward attack.

But it is not difficult to find, Ajax in de Jong and Derek Hurt after the departure of the strength of the decline, the key is de Jong's departure so that the midfield combing work by van der Beck to do, but van der Beck in the running only to be able to contribute to its very good skills and awareness, so combing work and scheduling can still be relatively inferior. This is also the reason why Ajax's 10 shots on goal into 2 shots on goal, the lack of an organizational core of the scheduling or let Ajax's ability to grasp the opportunity to decline, Tengah once used the Tadic pullback style of play and Van der Beck together to start the midfield, and with the ability of the Promes raid on the side of the road frequently create threats, but still lack of effective offensive ability.

Therefore, the crux of Ajax is the lack of combing, at the same time pseudo-nine tactics in the innate weakness of the attack, or let Chelsea Tommo and Zuma's combination of the advantages of the main defense once the power to dominate, then the opponent can really break the door of the opportunity to contract sharply. The good thing is that the double center backs are exceptionally powerful in this game, otherwise the problem of Lampard's lack of protection in the back position will be wireless amplification, three midfielders are injured and retired one after another also plagued Lampard's offensive and defensive play.

The good thing is that a nice six-game winning streak has mitigated the lack of defense in the middle of the field.

Second half: a textbook fast start for Lampard

After struggling to weather the storming first half, Lampard's momentous strike changed the course of the game. Lampard's two adjustments were crucial and took Chelsea into their own hands in one fell swoop.

First of all, just like against Newcastle, Lampard once again offered the strategy of swapping Munter and Odoi. With the first half of the Odoi switch after the lack of shots compared to the physical decline in Ajax, Lampard is still using Munt to switch, in fact, in order to free Munt in the ribs of the cooperation, Odoi from the first half of the main attacker into a supporting hand, more so that Munt in the switch of the receiving route after the smooth, and at the same time to strengthen Kovacic and Alonso's assists, directly to the Munt from the second striker shifted to become the The center of the midfield.

Lampard then decisively replaced William with Pulisic instead of Odoi for the same reason, to ensure that Munter was at the center of the action, and played a high-pressure version of the 4-3-3 with a double back-end buildup and press, and replaced the out-of-form Abraham with Batshuayi, as Chelsea began to make their mark.

Can see, the Blues instantly strengthened the middle of the attack and set up, Pulisic and Odoi directly into a high position to get the ball of the raiders, Lampard betting on the practice of Mantle played a very good effect, "new Lampard" to start the side of the road and the ability to change positions, even more than Lampard himself to come to the smoother.

Pulisic's ability to accelerate and smooth attacking characteristics, and Munt paired with the perfect fit, small range of cooperation can be faster than Odoi to open the width to complete the shot, Chelsea's second half to take advantage of poor physical fitness, coupled with the substitution of a surprisingly fast winger to launch an impact on the right back Dexter, Ajax's already insufficiently strong position defense gradually began to loosen up.

In the end, Pulisic assisted Batshuayi's one-two punch to give Chelsea a 1-0 away win over Ajax. Blues in the first half was once in danger, the good thing is that Lampard used the strength of the defender's advantage to suppress Tadic's pull-back play, Tomori was named the best player of the game, Ajax playing style of the "inherent disadvantage" was successfully utilized by the Blues, the second half Lampard's fast power decisive and effective, choose to bet on the ability of the Munt's shift! Finally received the desired effect.

To summarize: excitement is often fraught with hardship!

From being beaten to taking the game, Lampard has used similar tactics to beat his opponents in many consecutive games. This is not just a luck factor, but also the result of Lampard's decisive change of formation and pressing up for a change.

However, Chelsea in the face of high-pressure pressing still appeared quite obvious problems, especially the side of the ribs of the open space many times by the Jaffa quickly occupied or even penetrate the Jaffa almost all the threat of attack in this game, are launched from the space between Alonso and Tomori, which is also Lampard needs to solve the problem of the next stage, I believe that when Kante and others return from injury, Chelsea in the midfield can have more The Chelsea midfield can have more variability.