On the evening of May 1, Beijing time, in the 35th round of the Premier League, Everton won 1-0 at home to Chelsea, and Lampard stole the key 3 points on the relegation road from the old owner.
Everton won!
This life-saving battle was won by Chelsea. With 3 points, Everton are two points away from fourth-to-last Leeds United, but one game less than Leeds United. Relegation hopes have soared. With this victory, Lampard brushed up the first win of the England coach in the third place in the Premier League table this season. Compatriots have beaten their foreign counterparts 26 times in the league, and in terms of gold content, Brighton's Porter has the best results, not only beating foreign teachers 6 times, but also beating the North London double males away in a row. Expanding the scope to the British system, it is West Ham's Moyes stats that are the most gorgeous, he is the only local coach to beat Klopp and eliminate Guardiola in the League Cup.
At a glance at the standings, four of the bottom 5 teams have the same characteristic: the managers are all English. Burnley was not alone, with Mike Jackson succeeding Deech in fighting the fire, and his two assistants, Captain Ben Mi and colleague Conakin, both English. Looking up, there are two more Englishmen: Gerrard and Porter. Counting Moyes and Rodgers, there are nine homegrown coaches in the Premier League. If nothing else, Norwich and Watford are relegated, taking away Dean Smith and the re-emerging Hodgson, Lampard is expected to avoid this embarrassment: three relegated clubs, all head coaches are English.
Villa fired Dean Smith in late November to replace Gerrard with another €30 million for the latter, bringing in four people on loan, including coutinho from Barca. However, the results have not improved significantly, playing 23 games in all competitions, and currently accumulating 40 points, only to overwhelm Brentford, who has scored the same point with the best goal, and is temporarily 13th.
This is Porter's third season at Brighton, and he managed to relegate in the first two years, winning and losing exactly the same, but conceding eight fewer goals and scoring one more goal in the second season. At the moment, Brighton has only 3 more points than in the past two seasons, but has scored significantly fewer goals. Porter scored 39 goals in the first season, 40 in the second season and 34 at the moment. Moyes and Rodgers had a slightly better encounter, both leading the team to the European semi-finals, but neither won the first leg: West Ham lost at home to Eintracht Frankfurt, while Rodgers was snatched up by Mourinho to draw.
This is the survival status quo of British coaches.
Only relegation teams hire England coaches, and the results have been disappointing. The coaches of Scotland and Northern Ireland struggled to survive, but they also struggled in the secondary European competition, and neither of them survived the semi-finals of the domestic cup this season. British coaches (including a number of foreign coaches who have been influenced by english football) are hardly given the opportunity to coach Premier League clubs because of their connections or their achievements elsewhere. Manchester United's current decline is caused by blindly believing in British coaches to blindly believing that British coaches can be revived. Chelsea would not have won the Champions League if they had not replaced Lampard last year.
Lampard was able to beat Tuchel, and luck accounted for a larger proportion. In the last 4 Premier League games against Chelsea, Everton have won, and this time, Lampard is the winner, one of them. Secondly, home goalkeeper Pickford and striker Richarlison have both played extremely well. Brazil's half-time kick-off forced visiting centre-back Azpilicueta to succeed, scoring the winning goal. Pickford, on the other hand, saved Chelsea's imperative shots in two minutes. RichardIson has scored five goals in the last six premier league rounds, scoring in double figures against the top six of the Premier League (Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea).
Whether Everton will be relegated is unclear, but the team's recent tenacious struggle has put many "strong teams" to shame. This victory once again exposed Chelsea's current predicament: a kick on the goal was not ideal. There were 16 shots on goal, almost twice as many as the home team, including 1/3 of them on target, but encountered Pickford's fairy-possessed state, in vain.
Immediately after the change of side, Tuchel transferred Kovacic to replace Jorginho, which was originally intended to improve the attacking plan of the midfield, but unexpectedly, at the beginning, Azpilicueta made a mistake and conceded a goal, and Chelsea was a bit confused. In the 68th minute, eight minutes after Pickford's heroic double save, Tuchel doubled, brought out Ziyech and Pulisic, and continued to pile people in front. At this point, the camera gives the away team a substitute seat, and Lukaku smiles bitterly. This season, Yu Tuchel, Lukaku and Chelsea have all been frustrated.
The heavy recall of the outcast was originally a magic weapon for Tuchel to launch an attack on the Premier League. Contrary to expectations, Lukaku's state difference was unexpected by most connoisseurs. Chelsea have lost eight games in all competitions this season (League Cup final penalty shootouts and 14 draws) (four cup penalties), except for the Champions League group stage away 3-3 by Zenit, the remaining 21 games have scored a maximum of 2 goals, and in 35 wins, more than 1/3 have won by 1 goal, 2 of which have consumed extra time and won very difficult. And in these games, most of Chelsea have an overwhelming advantage.
Looking at Chelsea's goal distribution, there are 20 people in the team who scored in different competitions, but the top scorer Havertz only scored 13 goals, and another 3 (Mount, Werner and Lukaku) scored in double figures. It's hard to beat Liverpool and Manchester City. Looking only at the Premier League, Chelsea's efficiency is even more worrying: only Mount scored 10 goals, with Havertz (7), Jorginho (6 penalties), Lukaku, Pulisic and Rees James (5 goals) in order.
It is not difficult to see that Tuchel has racked his brains, from the formation to the personnel arrangement to the change of play, to spread the goals that should have been Lukaku's burden on others. James, as a wing-back, can score five goals in the Premier League, is the most goal-scoring defender and the most scoring England defender. Tuchel pointed out that the time of James' injury absence this season was exactly when Chelsea fell behind in the league.
There were major mistakes in reinforcements, the English league withdrew from the title race early, and the Champions League was reversed by Real Madrid when it was about to qualify. In the Abu era, Tuchel may not have been able to escape the tiger's head, even if he did everything in his power to minimize his losses, reaching at least two domestic cup finals. Chelsea's new boss is coming out soon, which could be a boon for Tuchel. But in the summer window this year, he can no longer make a mistake like Lukaku's. If he can save Lukaku's form, of course it is better. With several main players leaving the team, the cloud of doubt above Tuchel's head remains gloomy.
Wen | Lin Liangfeng
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