Leeds United's first goal broke Grant's deployment at Chelsea.
Grant originally took over in a hurry, and most of the players he used were old players left by Mourinho, and only a handful of them joined this season.
Grant's technical and tactical level may not be very high, but he clearly knows his position. If he cannot successfully take over from Mourinho this season, he will definitely be dismissed next season.
The Russian boss will definitely find a famous European coach to replace him next season.
What he can do now is to take control of the team first and let himself adapt to the team instead of letting the team adapt to him.
After several rounds of the Premier League and Champions League, Grant quickly figured out the key to this team. That is the Chelsea central axis composed of Cech, Terry, Essien, Lampard and Drogba.
Among these people, Terry and Lampard were there before Mourinho, so they are considered old players. The other three were introduced by Mourinho, and they are considered direct descendants.
"Tough defense, efficient counterattack", this is the concept that Mourinho has been instilling in the team since he came to the Blues. During the Portuguese's three seasons with the team, this concept has penetrated into the bones of the team's players.
But there is nothing Grant can do today. Drogba and Cech are both absent due to injuries. Essien's physical fitness is a bit unbearable for continuous combat. Otherwise, Grant would not let Essien play in such an important game.
The only key players on the field are Terry and Lampard.
The performance of the two people on the court was quite satisfactory, but the others were really indescribable. Benheim always misses people, Belletti can't keep up with the opposite winger, Sidwell is not at the same level as Essien, and Shevchenko will not be able to get used to it.
Grant saw the two wide players starting today for Leeds United, and his eyes were full of envy. Milner, Bale and Arnesen, who plays forward, are all young and fast.
Wright-Phillips and Kalu here feel inferior to their opponents.
In fact, these two are not too bad, but Chelsea could not provide them with good support in the midfield and backfield today, which gave Grant the illusion that he was inferior to his opponents.
This thought reminded Grant of Chelsea's two previous wingers, Duff and Robben.
Duff was sold to Newcastle last year. He suffered an injury halfway through the league and has been out for nearly seven months now.
If this 5 million pound deal is not too bad, then the other deal can also be said to be not too bad.
Sold Robben to a competitor. Although the price was much higher than the purchase price, the consequence was that he had no one to use.
If Grant could have Robben, he wouldn't have to send Phillips today.
This little guy can play well against weak teams, but basically can't find anyone when encountering strong teams.
Fortunately, Robben was unable to play today due to injury, otherwise Grant might have felt even more uncomfortable.
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Terry made a tackle and sent Leeds United's No. 3 man dribbling the ball out of the baseline, and then fell to the ground.
It was only the first half, and Terry felt like he couldn't run anymore. He fell to the ground and didn't want to get up.
He waited until Lampard came back to defend and reached out to pull him up before he got up from the ground.
"Frank, thank you."
Lampard panted heavily and did not respond to Terry. He was also very tired. His blue jersey was stained with grass clippings and muddy water.
Terry kept filling in for his center back partner and Belletti on the right.
"Frank, we can't go on like this. We need to suggest to the coach during midfield to replace Michael and Alex. Benheim can't keep up at all."
"OK!"
"Also, we must strengthen our offense. It is too passive to be pressed all the time."
"There is no way, our midfielder was suppressed, Mikel and Sidwell did not have the strength to resist."
"Why is Michael not allowed to play in such an important game?" Terry was still upset about Essien not playing.
"Stop talking, let's defend now."
Seeing that Leeds United was preparing to kick off, Lampard and Terry quickly came to the penalty area to participate in defense.
A corner kick was taken, and Leeds United's Matteisen touched the football before Lampard at the front point, and then rubbed his head to the back point.
No one was guarding Chelsea's back post at this time. When Charlotte Black took off, no one was marking her.
The young man nodded the ball into Chelsea's goal with his head.
At the beginning of the game, Blake almost scored with a kick, but it was blocked by the crossbar.
Now, he finally made up for this regret with a goal.
This time, Blake didn't show off. Instead, he ran into the goal and fished out the ball. He was going to throw the ball to his substitute teammates who were warming up and asked them to help them put it away first.
After the game, I asked them for it and kept it myself.
It's just that when he was about to pick up the ball, Terry from Chelsea picked up the ball first. He was about to throw it to the teammates in front of him to kick off.
Now when Blake comes to ask for the ball, he is in a bit of a dilemma.
In the end, under the pleading eyes of the Leeds United youngster, he gave the ball to Blake.
"Why did you give the ball to him?" Lampard couldn't help but feel a little unhappy when he saw Terry giving the ball to his opponent. He even had a questioning tone in his tone when talking to Terry.
"I..." Terry wanted to say something, but chose silence after opening his mouth.
"Are you just going to watch your opponent celebrate unbridled in front of us?"
Terry finally couldn't bear it anymore. Faced with Lampard's constant questioning, he couldn't bear it anymore.
"Frank, I think if we want to win we have to be upright and not get entangled with our opponents on such trivial matters. If you score a goal later, I will definitely rush into the opposite goal from behind and grab the ball for you. for you."
Terry is not a good guy either. Today he kept wiping the butts of his teammates. Rushing from the left to the right, and then rushing back from the right to the left, it's all sprinting.
It was precisely for this reason that he felt very tired at halftime.
Lampard was speechless by Terry's rebuke, and he also realized that he was too hasty. I don't know why he is more excited every time he plays against Leeds United, thinking that he can win his opponent.
Looking at the figures of Leeds United celebrating not far away, there is one person in it that is particularly dazzling.
Lampard stared hard at No. 17.
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Neither George Lee nor Grant noticed this situation off the court.
What Grant was thinking about was how to change tactics and substitutions during midfield to improve the situation in the second half. If you don't want to tie the score, at least you can't concede any more goals.
And George Li's thoughts were obviously deeper than Grant's.
