Although the English media are not optimistic about Boas, everyone still supports him in his motherland, Portugal.

There are even Portuguese media that forced the incident of Manchester City's three defeats to Porto this season with Boas. They cheer for Boas, hoping that Boas can avenge the team he coached before!

Porto's elimination in the Champions League group stage this season is a foregone conclusion. While criticizing Porto's own performance, some media also turned their anger to Manchester City.

They believe that Manchester City beat Porto in the UEFA Super Cup, completely shattering Porto's fighting spirit and confidence, which is one of the reasons why Porto performed poorly in the subsequent Champions League.

Porto has no hope of seeking revenge on Manchester City, but Boas, the coach who came out of Porto, can still avenge Porto!

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"Boas said he found a way to beat Manchester City. Are you worried about this?" Benitez was also asked this question by good reporters during an interview.

"No, I have confidence in the team." Benitez showed a lot of confidence.

It is indeed easy for people to have confidence in coaching this team for a long time - is there anything in this world that this team cannot do?

However, Benitez's answer is not only because he coaches Manchester City. His confidence comes from his understanding of Boas' tactics and Chelsea.

Chelsea, who Boas coaches, clearly has a good hand, but why is its performance so fluctuating this season? Why can Chelsea beat Swansea 4:1, Bolton 5:1, Everton 3:1, but can also lose 1:3 to Manchester United and 3:5 to Arsenal?

What exactly makes this team's performance so much?

Benitez knew very well.

Because Boas's tactics are fundamentally problematic.

As a coach who is not good at coaching team defense, Boas chose to play in an oppressive way when coaching at Chelsea. The oppressive way is not wrong, but it depends on who is used.

He let John Terry and Alex, who turned slowly, take the initiative to lose their defensive position, push forward and press on the defense, which literally provides the opponent with a good counterattack space.

This alone can make Benitez firmly believe that they can definitely defeat Chelsea.

In addition to slow turning, the slow central defender David Ruiz and Ivanovic are often intercepted and counterattacked by their opponents because they are too sticky and rough in the ball. In addition, the central defender lacks a qualified midfielder for a long time - Essin is injured for a long time - for effective protection, which leads to Chelsea, who is known for defense, losing the ball...

The most important thing is that Boas is still very stubborn and only believes in the truth. He clearly saw that this tactic is not suitable for Chelsea, but he still went all the way and did not see any adjustment at all.

The oppressive style of play can certainly achieve good results when facing weak teams, because the opponent is too weak to threaten Chelsea's goal, and Chelsea, who are besieging opponents, can often get a lot of goals, so they can win when facing weak teams.

However, once they encounter a stronger opponent, the gap behind their defense becomes a battlefield where the opponent gallops across the border.

This is also why when you encounter Arsenal, who plays offensive football, Chelsea will concede five goals with three goals.

Manchester City is good at playing defensive counterattacks. What is the most popular tactic of defensive counterattack? Oppression.

As long as you dare to push up, we will dare to fight back.

Benitez's confidence came as a result.

Unless Boas adjusts his tactics in this game and stops oppressing, but slowly deals with Manchester City, there may be some other possibilities.

But has Boasken made adjustments?

Benitez doesn't think he will do that.

As a young and promising young coach, Boas has achieved great success in Porto. The great achievements of the triple crown have made the whole Europe look at him. The flattery of the Portuguese media made him a little fluttered. Boas, who had almost never experienced failures and setbacks, came to Stamford Bridge and took over Mourinho's team. For a time, he seemed to have become a world-class coach and could be on par with coaches of the level of Mourinho and Ancelotti.

Such experience will inevitably lead to a person's blind confidence in himself, so how can he make adjustments?

<>He only feels that his oppressive style is the best. The unstable performance is just that the players do not faithfully implement my tactical intentions. It is the players' fault, not mine.

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Everyone is paying attention to Manchester City's match against Chelsea, and seems to have forgotten that there is actually another Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, and it is also the last Champions League group stage.

Maybe I forgot it, but it doesn’t matter if I really forget it.

Because this Champions League group stage is completely meaningless.

Manchester City, who qualifies for the first place in the group in advance, challenged the Greeks away. No matter what the game is like, it is no difference for Manchester City.

However, Chelsea is very concerned about this game, because Manchester City is away in this game, and they have to fly to the distant Cyprus, which is almost the easternmost end of the European continent. Then fly back to participate in the game against Chelsea.

It would be even better if such a long-distance flight could make Manchester City more tired, make Manchester City players in poor condition or even injured.

But Benitez did not do what Boas wanted. He almost let all the main players rest in Manchester and did not make it to the 20-man roster at all. Then he led the "second team" composed of substitutes to defeat the Greeks 1-0 away.

Boas was disappointed. None of the main players of Manchester City went there, no one who went there was injured, and they were in good condition.

And it can be clearly seen from the game that Manchester City has retained their strength and has not given their full strength. They are obviously preparing for the league with Chelsea...

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In the visiting team locker room at Stamford Bridge, Benitez drew Chelsea's starting lineup on the blackboard.

Central defenders Terry and Ivanovic were in a very front position, almost coming to the center circle. Behind them was a large open area.

"This is Chelsea's starter. When they attack, their formation will be very high. This is our opportunity, so as long as you intercept the ball, don't hesitate and pass it directly to find Rong or Ibrahimovic and Kaka's points."

Benitez told everyone in combination with the formation on the blackboard.

But he only said so much, and he didn't continue to say the rest.

Because there is no need. This team has been formed for two seasons, and its tactics are very mature. Everyone knows what to do.

As long as he draws this picture, everyone will understand and there is no need to waste words.

Isn’t it very easy to do the next one?

Speed! Counterattack!

That's it.

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When the players of both sides entered the court, the TV broadcast moved away from the players of both teams and cut to Chelsea coach Boas.

Boas sat on the coach's seat, beside his assistant coach and behind him was Chelsea's substitute.

Chelsea's original main core player, Lampard did not start in this game, and sat behind Boas. He was wrapped in a thick down jacket and sat there with a gloomy expression.

There is rumors that Lampard and Boas have a bad relationship, because Boas attacked Lampard as soon as he arrived at Chelsea to establish his authority at Chelsea. So Lampard, who was originally unable to defeat the main player, became a substitute after Boas came.

This shot is very interesting, not only for Boas, but also shows the bad relationship between Lampard and Boas.

The use of the lens language of European football broadcasting is very pure, and a simple lens can often explain a lot.

If Chelsea loses this game, Boas is likely to be dismissed, and Lampard will be liberated again.

But as a Chelsea legend, Lampard has a very deep relationship with Chelsea, and he probably doesn't want to see his team lose.

So the team lost, he returned, the team won, and he continued to sit on the bench. Such a multiple-choice question was placed in front of Lampard, how would he answer?

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After the game started, as Benitez expected, Boas did not change his tactics, and Chelsea still adopted an oppressive style of play.

The commentators also saw this clearly.

"Boas is really..." John Motterson wanted to cover his forehead. "...It's so stubborn! How dare you stick to this style of playing against Manchester City?"

Alan Hansen sneered from the side: "He is such a person. Of course, Portuguese reporters may be praising their heroes for sticking to themselves and being brave and fearless! I still remember that after Porto lost the European Super Cup, some Portuguese media said very resentful that if Boas was still in Porto, Porto would never lose to Manchester City. Now I think Chelsea fans must also hope that Boas is still in Porto!"

Benitez's tactics against Boas not only adopted a defensive counterattack, but also required the players to actively counterattack in the midfield and frontcourt, and put pressure on Chelsea's players who took the ball in the backcourt, resulting in their proactive mistakes and they can directly counterattack.

Rongguang faithfully performed the head coach's tactics on the court, and from the beginning of the game, he actively made steals in the frontcourt.

With his excellent physical fitness and speed, Rongguang's counterattack in the frontcourt is quite threatening...

Terry had just passed the football to Ivanovic, and Rong Guang killed Ivanovic, which scared Ivanovic so much that he quickly kicked the football back to Terry.

And once the Glory changed direction, he rushed towards Terry again.

Under such circumstances, Terry had no time to observe who was ahead and how to pass the ball.

So he turned around and passed the ball back to goalkeeper Cech.

Generally speaking, after the defender passes the ball to the goalkeeper, the opponent's counterattack can retreat because it is useless to rush over and waste his energy.

But Glory is not an ordinary player, and general rules are useless to him.

Seeing Terry turn around and pass the ball towards Cech, he rushed towards Cech. The process did not reduce at all. He flew past Terry and rushed towards Cech, as if he had no intention of finding Terry at all, and had been rushing towards Cech from the beginning.

With his amazing speed, he followed the football toward Cech.

The speed and momentum of glory greatly influenced Cech's judgment.

Faced with such a situation, he couldn't even think. There was only one thought in his mind - he couldn't let the football stay under my feet!

So he played against the football and wanted to pass the football back to Terry. But he forgot that he was almost in a straight line with the football, glory, and Terry...

Such a straight line pass is the most taboo on the court, because it is easy to be cut off by the opponent's defensive players...

Cech kicked the football over with one kick. The football did not roll to Terry's feet, but was blocked by the glory of stretching his feet!

"Cheh! Oh, it's a mistake!!"

He was not polite to intercept Terry's glory, and there was no such surprising performance. It seemed that he had known that Cech would pass the football to him. He quickly raised his left foot and kicked the football with his right foot broken to the goal!

Despite Cech's save, the football went around him!

Then flew into... the goal behind him!
Chapter completed!