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Author: Ant who loves watching football

The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals will not be played until February 17.

Before that, Chelsea still have many games to play.

On December 29, Pan Yi once again led the team away from home to challenge Stoke City.

This season, Stoke City, under the leadership of head coach Mark Hughes, who advocates technical flow, has gradually got rid of the traditional style of relying entirely on high-level players, and instead uses more technical players.

Just like the former Barcelona prodigy Boyan.

Standing only 173cm tall, Bojan is good at dribbling and passing, but has no advantage in fighting for aerial balls. If he were placed in Stoke City, whose average height per capita was 190+ in the past two years, he would not be able to play football at all.

But now, he has become the core of the midfield, helping the team sort out the offense and create smooth coordination.

After the transformation, Stoke City's results have also become more stable, and they have always been ranked around the middle of the table, around 10th.

However, for Chelsea, this Stoke City is not so scary.

Last season, Chelsea were beaten to a draw by Stoke City on the same ground.

But after switching to a technical stream, Chelsea formed a kind of technical suppression on them.

After all, teams of the same type often rely on hard power.

If your playing style is similar to others, the players in each position will be inferior to your opponents in terms of ability, and it will be easy to become passive in the game.

In Pan Yi's previous life, why could Arsenal have a terrible record of 12 consecutive losses when facing Manchester City?

It wouldn't be like this if you take out any relatively weak Premier League team, but Arsenal, as a giant, has nothing to do against Manchester City.

This is because both teams play pass control, play skills, and have similar tactics, but Manchester City's skills are superior...

Arteta also learned from Guardiola, and he didn't even know how to set up a bus to prevent counterattacks, so no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape the palm of Guardiola.

At the national team level, a typical example is the Japanese team.

As a Japanese team that has become one of the world's second-tier teams, they have been able to keep up with some European teams, such as Denmark, Sweden, and even Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany;

But if they are allowed to play against their old master, the Brazilian team, they will often surrender quickly.

This is a kind of oppression.

But now, Stoke City has changed from a soaring French chicken to a free-roaming chicken. Naturally, it is easy for Chelsea to control the direction of the game.

Just because Chelsea likes to play this kind of team.

In the 35th minute of the game, Lukaku broke into the penalty area and was tripped by Shawcross. Harry Kane took the penalty kick and Chelsea took the lead away from home.

In the 45th minute, Matic's long shot helped Chelsea expand the score, and the game basically lost its suspense.

In the 78th minute of the second half, substitute Marcos Alonso found an opportunity on the left side of the penalty area and fired a trademark volley, locking the score at 0:3.

In the end, Chelsea won away from home.

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On January 1st, this season’s winter transfer window officially opened.

Unlike previous years, when teams had already finalized many deals before the window opened, and this day was actually just an official announcement, this season seemed much quieter.

None of the major wealthy families have made any big moves.

Liverpool spent 7 million to buy Grukic from Red Star Belgrade, but they changed the sale and rented it to the parent club, which means they didn’t buy anyone;

Arsenal spent 6.6 million to buy Egyptian midfielder Elneny from Basel;

These two transactions are already the most expensive among the top teams in the Premier League.

Manchester United only recalled the Belgian youngster Januzaj who was on loan to Dortmund, while Manchester City and Tottenham did nothing.

The most expensive transfer in the entire Premier League is actually from Stoke City.

They bought French midfielder Imbula from Porto, a deal that cost them 24 million euros.

Obviously, Stoke City's ranking in the top half of the standings in the first half gave them greater ambitions, so they spent a lot of money to strengthen.

As for Pan Yi, Chelsea really has nothing to add now.

The first team's personnel reserves are sufficient, the players are all active and their morale is high, so there is no need to make any adjustments.

If you have to buy someone in the winter window, it will depend on the situation, such as which player is poached at a high price...

For now, Pan Yi only needs to pay attention to the current game and does not need to put too much thought into the transfer market.

But on this day, the most eye-catching piece of news was related to the coach.

Manchester City officially announced that there will be a coaching change in the summer of 2016!

This season, that is, after the end of the 2015-2016 season, Guardiola, whose contract with Bayern Munich expires, will replace Pellegrini as the new head coach of Blue Moon.

As a result, the rumors of Manchester City's coaching change that have been circulating this season have finally come to an end.

This news at least confirms that Manchester City will not change coaches this season. No matter what the final results are, Pellegrini will lead the team to play all the remaining games.

As for Guardiola, he has finally "satisfied" the wishes of many fans and is about to come to the Premier League to prove himself!——

On the evening of January 3rd, in the 20th round of the Premier League, Chelsea ushered in consecutive away games and went to Shelhurst Park to challenge Crystal Palace.

The game itself was unremarkable, but it was still crucial for Chelsea.

As long as they remain unbeaten in the away game, Chelsea can equal AC Milan's unbeaten record in the five major leagues that has been maintained for 22 years, which is 58 games!

This miracle that was previously considered impossible to break, Chelsea is finally close!

Of course, today's opponent Crystal Palace is actually not that easy to deal with.

Since Alan Pardew took over, Crystal Palace's performance has been rising steadily.

Alan Pardew left Newcastle midway through the league last season and joined Crystal Palace, which was in the relegation zone, as head coach.

After confirming that high center forward Glenn Murray was promoted to the team's main force, Pardu's tactical system once again came into play.

He made full use of set-piece tactics. In addition to making Crystal Palace the team with the most set-piece goals in the Premier League, he also helped the team quickly get out of the relegation zone. During the team's four-game winning streak in March, he was even entrusted with the important task by Pardew.

Murray performed well, contributing 3 goals and 3 assists.

While the former club Newcastle United were in dire straits and were struggling to support themselves with only Pardew's "legacy", the Crystal Palace team under Pardew's leadership was firmly in the middle of the league and defeated its "old enemy" 3:1 at Anfield.

Liverpool, Gerrard's home farewell performance left a different mark.

In the end, Crystal Palace avoided relegation and also achieved the second-highest Premier League ranking in team history, 10th.

And this season, after 19 rounds of the league, they have accumulated 31 points with 9 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses, ranking fifth in the standings!

Behind them, there are even giant teams like Manchester United and Liverpool.

And facts have proven that Alan Pardew is something.

This attention-grabbing match at Shelhurst Park left Chelsea in a daze.

At the end of the first half, the score was actually 2:0, with Crystal Palace leading!!

Both goals came after 40 minutes.

The first goal came from a breakthrough by Zaha, but he was tripped by a reckless tackle by Chelsea defender Zouma. The referee indicated a yellow card and a penalty kick.

Then, the Crystal Palace captain, Australian Jedinak, scored a penalty.

The second goal was scored by Bamford!

Bamford, who is on loan at Crystal Palace this season, has gradually replaced Glenn Murray's position and become the "1" first-choice center in Alan Pardew's -1 tactical system.

Crystal Palace took advantage of Chelsea's loss of the ball and was a little unstable. After seeing the gap left by Cancelo's forward attack, they launched a counterattack along the way.

The right winger, South Korean international Lee Chung-yong, received the ball from French international Cabaye, drove straight in at extremely fast speed, cut into the bottom line of the penalty area, passed the low ball to the goal, and Bamford made a tackle in front of the goal.

For a moment, these two goals stunned Chelsea, and the fans at Shekhurst Park entered a long period of ecstasy.

Today's opponent is Chelsea, who want to create a record of 58 games unbeaten!

Crystal Palace actually took the lead at half-time, and it was still a two-goal lead!

This is something that no one could have imagined.

The head coach of Crystal Palace, Alan Pardew, known as the "Dancing King of Coaches", even performed a mechanical dance in front of the home audience, which once again triggered bursts of applause and cheers from the audience.

This obviously sarcastic dance is a routine operation for Alan Pardew, who is full of passion both on and off the court.

He has caused countless troubles in English football.

As early as 2006, Alan Pardew, who was still the head coach of West Ham United at the time, had just won the "Premier League Coach of the Month" for the first time, but he and Arsenal head coach Arsene Wenger began to quarrel in the distance. The incident led to

The trigger was Wenger's decision to field a starting lineup without any English players for Arsenal's Champions League match against Real Madrid.

In the UK, there are many football practitioners and fans who are proud of being the pioneers of modern football. Wenger's move undoubtedly stung their nerves, and Alan Pardew is probably one of them.

So he publicly "fired" at Wenger, who criticized Pardew as a xenophobe, but Pardew immediately denied it and used his marriage to his Swedish wife as an example.

The conflict between the two broke out again in the match between the two teams in November of that year. Haywood's shovel shot killed Arsenal in the 88th minute. Pardew celebrated on the sidelines and released his pent-up emotions.

Such exaggerated behavior completely angered the professor, who was always known for his elegance. The latter pushed Pardew on the chest. Fortunately, the referee stopped him in time to avoid a farce.
To be continued...