The summer transfer window has come to the last month.
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The acquisition of De Ligt, Koundé, Raphinha, etc. has not gone well so far, with only Koulibaly, Sterling, Cucurella and others on the verge of a "done deal". But Tuchel is still optimistic, and was asked if he is optimistic about the
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of being happy with the transfer process, to which he jokingly replied: no, I'm not happy, I'm super happy. The two players we've signed in so far (Cucurella hadn't been acquired at the time) are very good players.
Despite hitting the wall all over the place in the transfer window, so far at the end of last season
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It's not all for naught: two young loanees, Gallagher and Broja, have returned to the Blues after their loan spells, and although they won't be starting for the team at this stage, they will provide depth on the bench late in the game.
Regardless of whether the transfers go well or badly, the season has already begun. Putting aside these off-field matters.
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It's important to focus on this away game at Ivoryton today. Alverton were quite inconsistent last season under the coaching of old acquaintance Frank Lampard, and ended up with the worst 16th place in recent years.
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, but in the end-of-season sprint.
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Having suffered a defeat at Goodison Park today, and with Everton now on a ten-season unbeaten streak in the opener, it's not going to be as easy as it looks for Tuchel and the Blues.
Starting lineup:
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The gatekeeper is still our immovable goalkeeper Mendy. In the back line, Koulibaly replaced the departed Rudiger in the left center back position, and formed a three center backs defense with Thiago Silva and AZP, and the two wingbacks are Chilwell and Reece James, who were almost out for half of last season, but are back this season, and Kanté and Jorginho formed a midfield with Havertz/Sterling/Mount from left to right. Kanté and Jorginho form a midfield that is capable of attacking and defending, while up front, from left to right, are Havertz/Sterling/Mount.
In addition to the two new classmates opened the box, the bench also has the day before here we go Cucurella and the aforementioned two loan period returned to the team, the off-season shouting to sell me Ziyech has also been logged into the player list, while the recent rumors of the imminent signing of Barcelona's Marcos Alonso this is not accompanied by the team.
As for Everton, they play a 5-4-1, making up for their lack of individual ability with a numerical advantage in defensive players.
Probably out of the mindset of reserving strength and testing the opponent, Tuchel did not bring the same tactics of last season's backfield advancement and long passes from the midfield into the game right at the beginning of the match, but instead pushed forward with short passes from the flanks of the center midfield, without too much difference in the formations and roles of the players from last season. But the 5-4-1 formation that Lampard put out seemed to be aimed at the
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The flanking attack, with two defenders on the wing plus a complementary midfielder constituting a three- to four-man zone group, allows them to face the
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The offense has been able to maintain the numerical advantage of having more than one extra man on defense, and it couldn't be worse than being in a situation where you're outnumbered.
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The good wing overload tactics didn't work in this period, both center backs Koulibaly and AZP came up and couldn't create a positional advantage, Koulibaly even made a nice wall match with his teammates, but the Everton players were leaning on each other very tightly, and Koulibaly was cut off after passing one of the defenders.
As the game progressed into the 7th or 8th minute, the defense, which had been slightly more negative
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Just when the pressure started, the center back Godfrey fumbled the ball, Pickford could only barely keep the ball in the field, and he didn't return to the goal as soon as he thought the ball had gone out of the goal line (it did go out of the goal line, but at that time, the line judge had already run to the other side of the field, so he couldn't see whether the ball had gone out of the goal line or not). On a three-on-two opportunity, Havertz got the ball from a small angle at the edge of the penalty area and took one more step before trying to pass (or shoot), but finally the ball went out of the goal line under the interference of Godfrey, who was interfering with the ball, and Godfrey himself also suffered a serious injury to his ankle because of the shoveling, and the team doctor treated him for about ten minutes on the field before carrying him off the field with a stretcher. In an interview after the game, Lampard said that although the extent of the injury is still unknown, it will take at least a couple of months for him to fully recover.
While there was no blood and no bone dislocations that were too scary, the injury to a big player on the back line affected the mood of the Alverton players.
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The opportunity was taken to start a barrage of attacks, but unfortunately three consecutive chances from corners came to nothing.
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One of the best chances of the opening half came in this attack: Sterling, who took a short corner, drew two defenders into a face-off, and he took the opportunity to lay the ball off to Mount on the edge of the box, firing a low shot that Pickford pounced on.
