On the evening of February 5, 2022 Beijing time, the fourth round of the Fa Cup ushered in a wonderful contest, Chelsea welcomed the challenge of The League One team Plymouth at home stamford Bridge, and in the end they also relied on the two goals of Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso to defeat Plymouth in extra time and successfully advance to the next round.
As a traditional event in English football, the FA Cup has always been valued by major giants. However, this season's FA Cup has been bursting, before Arsenal were beaten by Nottingham Forest in the third round, and then Manchester United lost to Middlesbrough in a penalty shootout, and the team in League A has created too many miracles in this cup match. Because of this, even if Plymouth is only the 7th team in League One and is still at home, Chelsea is completely afraid to be careless, and all the main players are sent in this game, including Mount and Giogenio, many players have not been given a chance to take a break.
And it turns out that Tuchel's choice was entirely correct. In this game, Plymouth's performance is simply not inferior to the Premier League big 6 team, their united defense makes Chelsea's sports battle very difficult, and the set-piece defense is almost impeccable. At the beginning of the game, they took advantage of a well-planned set-piece tactic to score early on against kepa's weakness in attacking ability. In the case of being scored by Chelsea in extra time, they also did not give up hope at all, but they were also provoked to be bloody, and repeated threats of attack made Chelsea's goal scream.
However, Kepa's heroic performance still allowed Plymouth to fail to drag the game into a penalty shootout in the end, and the missed point in the last moment made Plymouth's defeat even more tragic. After the game, Chelsea fans also did not skimp on their applause, paying their respects to Plymouth's spirit of daring to challenge.
Chelsea, they also performed very well in this game, Tuchel used the most commonly used 4-back system of the season, and in this game it was their two full-backs who repeatedly contributed to the team's victory. Of these two goals, Chelsea's routine is still very simple, that is, to use the strong offensive ability of the wing in the 433 system, relying on two under-the-bottom crosses to complete the goal.
Of course, there are many places for them to improve in this game. First of all, relying on full-backs to score goals means that their performance in the midfield position is not satisfactory, especially Lukaku, who can only get the opportunity in the front court through long passes from the back, it is difficult for him to find suitable shooting opportunities in sports battles, and the problems of Havertz and Werner are the same, and the three of them wasted too many opportunities in this game. Secondly, Chelsea's set-piece offensive ability is not very good, even if Plymouth has a targeted arrangement, but according to their height advantage and strength, they should rely on set-pieces to break the deadlock in this game. These two points are also reflected in the number of shots on goal, in this game they got 41 shots on goal, but only two goals, which had to give Tuchel a headache.
However, Chelsea finally had the last laugh and they were able to continue to play the rest of the games, and until then they had the opportunity to adjust. After Chilwell and James return, their wing attacking ability will only be stronger, perhaps this game can continue to be extended to their later games by relying on the advantages of wing attack, and the 433 formation is also added to Tuchel's latest tactical reserve selection, which has to be said to be a good thing.