British memos. What about Chelsea? Британские заметки. А что по поводу Челси?
Pause in the British championship is really needed today. Why? Because there are a lot of questions in minds of thousands fans and we need some time to search the answers.
Team of Antonio Conte is leading in the Premier league with 49 points after superb 13-game winning streak. It wasn’t a new record of the League just because one thing – defeat to Tottenham. And if Pochettino and his squad could stop Londoners, why others couldn’t?
There was a lot of luck in the winning trip of blues. Does everybody remember the match against Man City and all of wasted moments near the goals of Соurtоіs? Guardiola was better than Conte in that match, but football is the roulette.
I don’t want to say that Chelsea is a bad team, on the contrary.
Offensive.
They have really good wings with Hazard, Willian and Pedro changing each other closer to attack and new-opener Moses with Marcos Alonso soaring whole flanks. The most crucial thing of Londoners’ offensive is combination of really high speed and delicate technic. Let’s back to City match. The Second and the third late goals full only of two components: speed and technic.
Center.
Matic, Fabregas and Kante into the middle give Conte an opportunity to choose what kind of football he wants to bring into the field. Matic plus Kante means cool mind defense but not such a big variety in attacking decisions which can be brought by Fabregas.
Defense.
As we see, there isn’t any problem for Chelsea to play tree player in the line of defenders. Cahill, Luis and Azpilicueta play with good understanding of what they have to do in the field, having less partners in a line. Brazilian international doesn’t ashamed to start attack using long and medium passes, Cahill try to help in front on the standards and do it well, when the Spaniard can play either in style of calm full back or smart attack-starter. And also all three know, that they can expect help from teammates. Moses and Alonso go deeper when they need be back and the same thing to Kante and Matich but in center.
Goalkeeper.
Cоurtоіs is just Cоurtоіs. He is much better than in the previous season, but he is a world-class goalkeeper so nothing unexpected from Belgian, just pretty good work and only 15 missing goals in 20 games (second result in the League after Tottanham, 14).
Costa.
We can’t talk about Costa just like about striker. This season he is more than that. He is the hero. After Mourinho, nobody believe, that we would see again that Costa which was in Atletico and champion Chelsea season. Now he has brilliant statistics: 19 games, 14 goals and 5 assists. And in 5 games Chelsea should thank him for winner goals. Costa is in shape, Costa is in fit, Costa is on fire.
So will Chelsea fight for the itle this season? Definitely, yes. Why not? Yeap, they would lose matches like it was with Tottenham but football in not just all about winning.
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Correct some insignificant mistakes, please :
->Pochattino - PochEttino
-> in THE winning trip of blues (the definite article is required because of the context)
->remember THE match against Man City (again, the context presupposes the use of the definite article)
->near the gates of Соurtоіs - it’s not correct to say ’Courtois gates’. This mistake is somewhat called ’русизм’ - Слово или оборот речи, составленные по образцу русского языка или заимствованные из русского языка в каком-н. языке. The Englishmen as a rule call it a ’goal’ while any gates (the Pokrovsky gate, for instance) have nothing to do with football.
->’for Chelsea to play in tree defenders’ - again, mate, you thought in Russian. ’The line of defenders’ could be a possible replacement to help you.
->’THE Second and THE third late goals’ (the definite article should be used because the ’second’ and the "third’ are both limiting attributes to the subject ’goals’.
->’Courtois is much better than in THE previous season’ (guess why? ^^)
->’but he is A world-class goalkeeper’ (the indefinite article denotes that Courouois belongs to the class of world-class goalkeepers)
->’At this season’ (there is no such a phrase in sports vocabulary. ’At’ should be removed.
->’Now he has brilliant statisticS’
->’So will Chelsea fight for title in this season?’ a russism, unfortunately. The proper variant is without the preposition ’in’
-> So will Chelsea fight for THE title’ (again, you told about the specific title of the English Premier-League, not any other on Earth. Consequently, the use of the definite article is required. To prove me right, you may check me by adding the pronoun ’that’ after the preposition ’for’ instead of the definite article.)
Overall, the material you provided deserves praise. Last but not least : refresh your knowledge of articles. Hope you succeed in keeping the blog. Good luck !