In the early morning of April 29, Beijing time, the 37th round of the Premier League was played first, and Manchester United hosted Chelsea. In the first half, Havertz wasted several good chances to score goals, and De Gea made many magical saves. In the 60th minute, Alonso volleyed to break the deadlock, and 2 minutes later, Ronaldo stopped the ball in the penalty area and fired a shot to equalize, after which James shot hit the upright, and finally the two sides shook hands 1-1.
Or C Luo works.
One-sided "strong dialogue", Chelsea accounted for 65% of the possession, 21 shots on goal, De Gea high and low block to resolve 9 times, and finally 1-1, come, analyze the technical and tactical bar. One way to analyze it is to cut the game into 6 segments, every 15 minutes, and see what both sides have done. This is a "stupid thing" that the "gathering party" can't do and doesn't like to do. Many statistical websites use this method, but not by the specific number of games, but by where a team performs best throughout the season. The results may not be a true reflection of the team's actual combat scenes, but they can give you a feeling. Football is full of unpredictable factors and is difficult to measure with precision instruments. Certain statistics, such as the expected goal score, can only tell you that Chelsea have a high quality of chance but a poor ability to grasp it. But it can't be explained: Chelsea are so strong, why didn't they win? Why is the grasping ability poor?
In turn, the expected goal tells us that Ronaldo has a strong chance. Opportunities that did not seem like opportunities, with a slight adjustment, blossomed above Mendy's head. That's the top striker, the top shooter. The away team scored hard and before he could catch his breath, he equalised. Those who blame Ronaldo for United's decline this season can only cite the sharp drop in goals scored by Ronaldo's teammates. Either "He controls the right to fire" or "You see how many goals other people scored last season?" How many are in it now? "They reject the fact that without Cristiano Ronaldo scoring 17 times in the Premier League, where would United be in the rankings? Of these 17 goals, according to the rules of "german transfer", 7 determine the outcome of 7 games. Four of those seven games didn't have his winning shot, and United had to concede another eight points. Without those eight points, United would fall to 9th place after Wolves. If all seven games are unbeaten, United will fall to a par with Brighton.
Zooming in to all Premier League goals, there were only two – against Arsenal and Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo scored and United didn't win. Against Arsenal, he pulled the score to 1-2, and if Bruno took advantage of the penalty opportunity to equalize, it is not known whether he would be able to avoid defeat. Cristiano Ronaldo conceded a penalty. Against Chelsea, United snapped up a point from a passive move that could have conceded all three points. If your teammates work hard, whether they can win or not is unknown. In other words, it is C Ronaldo who has saved the faint hope of fighting for the fourth place again and again. Until the last two rounds of the Premier League, the incompetence and slackness of teammates led to Manchester United's complete absence from the Champions League. Is it really C Ronaldo who dominates Manchester United's shooting opportunities? According to the official Premier League website, Manchester United shot 474 times this season, ranking fifth, and even if Ronaldo dominates half of them (237), he will not score only 17 goals. In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo only shot 103 times on goal, Manchester United every 5 shots on goal, he has one every 6. With this efficiency, if you shoot more than 200 feet on goal, there should be 40 goals!
United's other 371 shots on goal were exchanged for only 37, including Nine goals from Bruno (78, close to one goal per 9 shots), Rashford and Fred each scoring four goals, tied for Third United and Tied for 66th in the Premier League (24 in total), with 22 and 15 shots on goal, Sancho scoring 3 on 26 shots, and Greenwood's stats blocked by the official website. United only had 173 shots on goal that were within the bounds of the goal frame, with an accuracy rate of only 36 per cent, Ronaldo accounted for 41 shots, scoring one goal per 2.4 shots, and Salah scored 22 goals per 26 goals, one for every 2.5 shots. Kane scored 12 goals in 41 appearances, one goal per 3.4. This comparison further shows that C Ronaldo's door-to-door efficiency is still extremely high. The Premier League-highest was Son Heung-min, scoring 17 goals on 37 shots. But none of the top 20 Premier League top scorers have connected nearly 37-year-olds.
Another way of looking at it: Liverpool and Manchester City have not only the best offensive quality in the Premier League, but even the best in Europe, tied for the top spot in the Premier League with 224 and 221 shots respectively, and the opportunities expected to score are wasted, and if these opportunities fall at the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo, we may once again witness the horror of his 50 goals in La Liga in a single season. With such a high-quality attack, Salah has 5 more than C Ronaldo, Mane and Ronaldo are equal, and no manchester City has reached his output. If United had a needle close to De Bruyne, with Alexander Arnold and Robertson half reliable in the cross, how many goals would Cristiano Ronaldo score? We only see Mahrez receive a clever kick from God's point of view, and Sterling always plays happy football. The decline of Manchester United is the decline of the collective, the decay of the defense, the exhaustion of creativity. It was never caused by someone joining.
Chelsea's Premier League total is 14 goals, 17 fewer than Liverpool and 12 fewer than Manchester City, which is one of the reasons why they can't go behind the village. But the Blues defended well, only losing 28, so the title race was hopeless, and the top four were worry-free. Why did Arsenal regain the top four twice? Why can Spurs fight back from the top four? The two teams conceded 40 and 38 goals respectively, while Manchester United conceded as many as they scored, which was the crux of the team's malaise. In 42 tragedies this season (one side conceded 4 or more goals), Manchester United accounted for 5, and was humiliated by Liverpool and Manchester City, losing to the mid-level Leicester City? Still losing to Watford, who are determined to be relegated? Of these big scores, only three of these big scores have conceded four at half-time, with Manchester United being one and the other two being Southampton and Leicester City. United played 35 rounds with only seven clean sheets, and were not as good as promoted Mabrentford and relegated Burnley, only one more than the bottom-up Norwich. Without Ronaldo, United may have to go to relegation!
Other teams get strong reinforcements, the overall performance will be improved by one level, why to Manchester United, strong reinforcements have led to others to languish? In this draw, there is a very eye-catching data. The visiting team's right winger James, who had 10 crosses in the game. Manchester United are the home team, but let one of the opposing defenders frequently create killing opportunities, why? Three defenders play four, and a more passive situation is that the flank has to deal with two opponents. How did Tres and Marcus Rashford get 10 crosses against James? The draw, which implemented Manchester United's no Champions League next season. What's even sadder is that no matter how hard they try, United may not be able to avoid playing the UEFA Cup. According to the schedule, the game against Chelsea is the 37th round of the season, because the Blues are preparing for the FA Cup final, so it is advanced. United still have 3 rounds left, 55 points, and even if they win, they can only equal the 64 points scored by Moyes and Giggs – the lowest in the history of the Premier League. Is this the level of the grandmaster of the frontcourt, the father of German football?
Tuchel calls for learning C Ronaldo? German double star silence + Lukaku stall hand
As the most "uninjured" strong dialogue in the history of the Premier League, Manchester United and Chelsea have met as many as 24 times in the Previous Premier League that have ended in a draw. At Old Trafford in the early hours of Friday morning, the results still followed "big data". However, for the Blues, who have 65% of the ball and shoot 21-on-6 on goal, a 1-point feel may be worse than losing. In particular, the late Neman Matic, who will leave the team at the end of the season, has never won the C Luo Jiangong in the league against the Blues, and let the away team that occupies the absolute initiative in the whole field not play a fight. "A lot of players can learn from Ronaldo's attitude, ability and career after the game." — Tuchel's envy, did the Blues forward hear it?
Mount, Werner, Havertz – Since April, Blues fans have almost turned their forward starting trio backwards, and since the start of the month after losing to Brentford and Real Madrid at the beginning of the month, opening their minds to start Ziyech and Pulisic, and being punished, Tuchel has no longer wanted to make a difference in the front. In the first five games of the red-blue war, Chelsea scored more than 2 goals in 4 games, temporarily out of the offensive downturn.
However, in the first half of the match against Manchester United, the spitting contest that fans feared the most came as promised, and this time it was The turn of Haverts to waste the opportunity. After the opening reese James and Werner attacked, Havertz took over the blues' firing rights and won a one-handed chance in 2 minutes, but against the in-form De Gea, the German appeared less confident, deflecting his first shot and then hitting espanyol directly. He tried to head the goal again, but it was also fruitless, this wave of three consecutive strikes, could have recorded the Blues to take the lead, but the dry thunder and no rain of the away team, can only look at the scoreboard helpless.
Three years ago, on April 28, Alonso scored the goal of de Gea's handle; three years later, on April 28, Alonso copied this achievement, and more interestingly, both sides played 1-1 in both matches.
What should strikers do when there is an opportunity in front of goal? In the second half, two "left-backs" gave perfect guidance: Alonso scored 3 goals in the past 4 games, his clean volley was a basic operation, and the field retreated to the midfield to supplement the defense, and the brightest area of the activity heat map was concentrated in the left-back position of C Ronaldo, and the stop with a shot was a loud punch in the face.
It is true that Werner has speed and Havertz has technology, but both lack absolute confidence and instantaneous escape in the face of confrontation, and the shooting technique is several orders of magnitude difference. Chelsea's closest chance to break in the second half came from James, but his shot still ghostly hit the post and popped up. James himself regretted after the game: "When I'm in the front, I can definitely contribute more." Tuchel echoed: "I want to have two Reese James. ”
The German double star scored a difficult goal, and the Blues only had to gamble on Lukaku, who had recently been in a bad state, and the result was that the little monster was more rotten than the Manchester United crowd. On his first visit to Old Trafford after leaving United, the Belgian heard boos from the home fans during the pre-match warm-up, and sure enough, he fell into a negative state of disorientation. In the last 20 minutes of the game, the Blues No. 9 only touched the ball 4 times, and 3 passes and 2 successful passes. The success rate of confrontation, competition for the top, and superiority is all zero, of course, the stall players who are most familiar to fans are never absent. Not long ago, Conte, who approached Paris Saint-Germain to coach, was exposed to name Lukaku and Barrera to join, but even if Laiola was discharged from the hospital healthily, how could such a rotten customer let the Qataris pull out the check without hesitation?
The Blues' forward "spitting cake" was particularly evident in the second half of the season. So far this season, Chelsea have missed an average of 1.4 absolute scoring opportunities per Premier League game, which is slightly lower than Manchester City and Liverpool (both 1.7), but considering the obvious gap in the ability of the three teams to create opportunities, the result of such a profligate can be imagined. And even compared to Arsenal (1.2 times) and West Ham (1.0 times) behind them, Chelsea are too generous. In terms of hitting the crossbars and pillars, the Blues have as many as 15 times, behind Manchester City (22 times), Arsenal (18 times) and Leeds United (18 times), ranking fourth in the league, while Liverpool, known for their efficiency, have only 8 times.
Splurgeful and unlucky, the Blues, who are extremely difficult to attack, once the defensive line has a slip-up, it is almost common to lose points. Tuchel also said no solution: "There is a team worth winning, that is us, but we did not do it. We lack determination in the box. The team should have played sharper, we only got one point, it wasn't a reasonable result. ”
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