Game review: West Ham United vs. Chelsea, the flexible use of double centers, fills the puzzle of Chelsea’s last shortcoming in the frontcourt?

The five major leagues in the early morning games on Friday were all wonderful. Bayern swept Leipzig 6-0, and Chelsea beat West Ham United 5-1. This night was really in vain. There was not much criticism from the outside world in the first round of Chelsea's draw in Crystal Palace. Whether it was to adjust its state from the Club World Cup or to adjust its new players to adapt to the rhythm, it would take a certain amount of time. Moreover, Crystal Palace has been completely defeated by continuously overturning the strong teams. What the outside world says is that many players in the frontcourt transform into Mudrick card anti-aircraft guns and cannot hit the door frame. The small changes in the beginning of this game provided new ideas for Maresca's happiness and worries with many centers.

West Ham United suffered two consecutive losses at the beginning. As we talked about the tour before, judging from West Ham United's recruitment investment and Porter's performance last season, there is a risk of relegation in the new season, and two consecutive defeats are enough to show this. As an old Premier League fry, it is completely unreasonable to lose Sunderland in a complete defeat. Porter stubbornly only played the right-hand side of Wanbisaka-Bowen, and his offense and defense were as at a loss on the left side as the headless fly. This game is still the case against Chelsea. Most of the team's offensive threats still come from the Wanbisaka-Bowen link and the linkage between the three teams of the front and back. The front and back courts are seriously disconnected. It can be seen from the on-court rating alone that Porter emphasizes the momentum of the right side and ignores the development of the left side. Such extremely unbalanced left and right road arrangements naturally cannot produce high-quality offensive and defensive content.

West Ham United ignores the role of the midfield throughout the game. From the perspective of active areas, the midfield is almost hollow. Combined with the game, the midfield is not organized smoothly, and retreating to participate in the defense cannot fill the gaps in the ribs and the middle. The hidden dangers of the midfield West Ham United still needs to be corrected in subsequent games, otherwise, with the current uneven left and right and no sense of existence in the middle, make plans for relegation as soon as possible.

Palmer was suddenly injured before the opening of the game, which brought potential variables to the game. Palmer's role in organizing offensively in the frontcourt is very important. Judging from his performance of difficult to break Crystal Palace's intensive defense in the first game, if Palmer is lacking, he may encounter trouble on the offensive end again in this game. Therefore, Maresca's seemingly passive adjustments provide the team with new ideas for the team's future offensive style arrangement.

New aid, double centers, Delapp and Pedro started at the same time, and young player Estewan hit the right position. The details are about resisting Delapp who can play the fulcrum on the back. Pedro stood in Palmer's position, able to organize and insert back, and the set-piece attack can also achieve the effect of a double tower shot. He was the first equalizer, which was completed by Pedro after receiving a corner kick from Kukurelia. At this time, Delappka was in the middle of the goalkeeper and the opponent's defender, causing the opponent to ignore the marking of another high point.

Then Pedro made two assists, one from the right rib to take the opponent's steal, and the cross was found in Neto and inserted to complete the goal; one from the corner kick battle, he resisted the opponent's defender and clicked Chaloba to complete the goal. Judging from his performance in this game, Pedro not only equipped all of Palmer's skills, but also had physical and fulcrum advantages that Palmer did not have. In subsequent games, the configuration of the double towers, one in front and one behind may become the key routine for Chelsea to break the intensive defense of mid- and downstream teams. Palmer returned and hit the right position, crossed to find Drapp + Pedro and double ghosts to shoot the goal, and there was Neto on the left and inserted it. The problem of difficulty in breaking intensive defense in some games last season may be solved.

Double midfielders Enzo and Kesedo also completed the goal in this game. Estwan made a cross from the bottom and Enzo inserted and shot. In this process, both Delapp and Pedro attracted the opponent's defensive players and opened enough empty space for Enzo who followed behind; Kesedo took over the opponent's goalkeeper Hermanson and scored a goal from the back point. In this process, the double centers also surrounded the goal like two walls, leaving West Ham United's defense line empty, and the two towers were empty if they did not fill up. Chelsea had at least three points to shoot outside the small penalty area.

In terms of this game, compared with the Trident of last season, the Jego Maduaike Neto trident, without losing speed, increased the fulcrum and height, and waited for Palmer to return to the right and switched flexibly with Pedro. Chelsea's offense can be said to have no particularly fatal flaws. Three of the five goals came from set pieces, and the fulcrum of the center of the double tower was significant. Although Drapp scored a little low in this game, there was no assist or goal scored, but compared him to the tank position in the game, attracting damage to open up the output space for the opponents. His role cannot be ignored. For him personally, coming to a better stage, although he does not have infinite fire rights at present, it is not a good period of transformation.

I think Chelsea's attacking power in the new season is extremely threatening in all aspects and has no obvious shortcomings. If the opponent is too weak at the moment, it is not enough to prove that the tactical personnel arrangement is really correct. Facing Manchester United and Liverpool soon will be the final test of this configuration.