CIATB Chapter 737 Mourinho's utilitarian football
Chapter 737 Mourinho's utilitarian football
Chapter 737 Mourinho's utilitarian football
After 28 rounds, the top three in the Premier League standings are Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal.
Chelsea is still in the lead with a large point advantage.
But Arsenal and Manchester City are also in hot pursuit.
This also put great pressure on Chelsea.
And in the 28th round, after Chelsea met Watford with a draw at home, they ushered in a period of weakness in the second half of the schedule.
Since being undefeated by Arsenal, Chelsea's state has been ups and downs.
This also gives Arsenal and Manchester City a chance to catch up.
However, the Premier League is ever-changing, and no one knows who the champion will be until the last moment.
At present, these three teams are the most champions.
However, compared to the three-line battles of Chelsea and Arsenal, Manchester City only has the pressure of two-line battles in the league and the FA Cup, so it is relatively easier.
Soon, Arsenal ushered in the second round of the Europa League knockout round.
Recently, there have been double matches a week.
High-intensity games are also consuming Arsenal's physical and energy.
Mourinho has tried his best to let the players rest after gaining the advantage, but this still cannot meet the requirements.
Now Mourinho wants to give up the FA Cup. After all, if it continues like this, it is likely to meet a third-tier defeat in one season.
However, the FA Cup has reached the semi-finals, and it would be a pity to give up at this time.
Mourinho is struggling.
But if one has to be given up, the FA Cup must be the first to bear the brunt.
In the second leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, Arsenal hosted Lyon.
With the advantage of three away goals, Arsenal's home game is relatively easy.
The tempo of the audience didn't speed up much either. They kicked slowly, saving some energy on the one hand, and on the other hand, they caught the opponent by surprise by changing the tempo.
The role of Lucky's metronome has always been online. When Arsenal turned from defense to offense, Lucky was the key link.
And the effect of this metronome made Leon a little unbearable.
Ben was playing football slowly, and everyone was taking a walk.
But after Lucky started to speed up suddenly, Arsenal's supercar suddenly started to go into a runaway mode.
On the other hand, Lyon's relatively backward engine cannot catch up with the opponent's speed at all.
This also led to them conceding a goal in the 43rd minute.
A volley from Aubameyang went forward to help Arsenal score the leading goal.
Since then, Arsenal has maintained a defensive posture, waiting for the end of the first half.
In the second half, Arsenal took advantage of this model again and slowly consumed Lyon.
Lyon seems to have found a way to deal with Arsenal's rhythm changes, but Arsenal suddenly stopped playing with them.
All the staff huddled and defended, anyway, they are already ahead, so they have the final say on how to play.
Lyon's formation, which had been huddled in its own half, began to waver.
They are so angry, if you don't attack, how can we fight back?
Arsenal have thoroughly eaten each other tactically.
Premier League commentator Andy Gray also shook his head and said: "Genesio's on-the-spot command is not as good as Mourinho, and he is suppressed by the opponent tactically. When the team is behind, he wants to rely on defensive counterattacks to make a breakthrough. But Arsenal's sudden withdrawal caught the opponent by surprise."
"Mourinho's tactics are still so... uncomfortable!"
Unlike other tactical masters, Mourinho's tactics are cunning and shameless.
This is also the reason why the fans criticized the opponent for only one goal, and then started to set up the bus.
Football should not be too utilitarian, it should be played more comfortably, which is also interesting to watch.
But Mourinho's tactics are too utilitarian, and he will do anything to win.
This also makes many people dislike Mourinho.
But for this, Mourinho still does his own way, and doesn't care about these people at all.
Arsenal implemented Mourinho's dismissal, and they did play more easily.
Although this style of play is ugly, Arsenal also need this style of play at this time. In an already intense game, they need to retain more physical energy, so how to play effortlessly is what they want to deal with. key.
When the time came to 70 minutes, Mourinho made a substitution.
Lucky and Lukaku were replaced for a rest.
The others continued to defend.
And even in defense, Aubameyang and Mane are in a walking state in the frontcourt, occasionally retreating to defend.
This kind of kicking made Lyon completely clueless how to deal with it.
With the passage of time, Lyon still failed to find any breakthrough.
In the end, Arsenal easily won the game with a goal.
After two rounds, Arsenal defeated Lyon 4:1 and entered the Europa League quarter-finals.
Arsenal won the game, but the French media felt that Arsenal won by force.
They even revived the idea that Mourinho is killing the artistry of football.
But this time, no one responded to them.
The main reason is that the Premier League media are protecting Arsenal. After all, they are a team in their own division, and it is impossible to speak for others.
Besides, why didn't Arsenal mention the issue of double matches in a week?
In such a tight schedule, it is not bad to be able to win, and it is not good to be ugly tactically.
Arsenal fans also understand this.
After all, in the first half of the season, Arsenal didn't play like this.
And Arsenal's daring to play like this is largely due to Lyon's lack of offensive firepower.
If you switch to those Champions League teams, would Arsenal dare to play like this?
So, the strength is still not enough, so let Arsenal count it as points.
Faced with many of the same anger, the French media can only silence.
But the good news is that Monaco beat Chelsea 2:1 away and scored a valuable three points.
Ligue [-] No. [-] seed Paris Saint-Germain has been eliminated in the Champions League quarter-finals and went home.
In this case, Monaco carried the banner of Ligue [-] and defeated Liverpool to enter the quarterfinals.
Now they beat Chelsea away.
Once they win Chelsea, they will send the last hope of the Premier League back home.
In this way, the Ligue [-] media will be happy.
They are strong in the Europa League, but their performance in the Champions League is still good.
It would be unbelievable news if Monaco double-beat Liverpool and Chelsea.
And according to the current development, this is not completely impossible.
Thinking of this, they were relieved.
Chelsea lost to Monaco at home, a result that Chelsea fans could not accept.
It's okay for them to draw with Watford at home, and now they have lost to Monaco.
Before the game, they were full of confidence and ready to beat Monaco.
Coach Conte also said that Chelsea's defense will make Monaco feel hopeless.
But when Mbappe used his explosive power to slam into Chelsea's penalty area again and again, everyone was silent.
Chelsea can't restrain this guy at all.
Like Liverpool, they have no idea how to defend this extremely fast French teenager.
Mbappe once again became the focus of the whole of Europe.
The local newspaper in Monaco even triumphantly stated that Mbappe will kill all the Premier League defenses, and no one can limit him.
Manchester City and Liverpool lost consecutively.
Now it's Chelsea's turn.
British fans wanted to refute, but couldn't find a reasonable reason.
In the end, some fans dug up the match between Monaco and Arsenal last season.
In that game, Lucky restricted Mbappe to death.
The caption below this video clip reads: 'This is your boy genius! '
It can be said that the current British media can use Lucky to fight back.
After all, other teams have been blown away, and the facts have proved that they can't stop Mbappé.
However, this reason is still somewhat far-fetched.
Mbappe has grown a lot this season, and Arsenal have not qualified for the Champions League.
Even if Lucky and Arsenal played well, they couldn't meet together.
The French media didn't care about these at all, and stepped up their efforts to ridicule.
The British media was so angry that they could only post the video of Lucky restricting Mbappe over and over again.
It's like the picture of children arguing has become the core of the fight between the media of the two countries.
And Le Kai in the public opinion center did not express anything about it.
And what the French media said is correct, Mbappe has grown very fast, and now meeting Mbappe, Lucky will not be so easy.
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