The Accurate Tactics of the Wolves Stop Chelsea Up for Maurizio Sarri

DBasia.news –  Wolverhampton Wanderers held on to draw Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the 30th week of the Premier League with a score of 1-1 on Sunday (10/3) night Western Indonesian Time. Got behind from Raul Jimenez’s goal, the Blues equalized via Eden Hazard’s goal.

Sarriball or the term that refers to Maurizio Sarri’s football philosophy at Chelsea is back ineffective. Chelsea have 76 percent possession, 22 kicks and six kicks on target and can only score one goal.

Compare that with Wolves who released two kicks and one on target – fruitful goals. Their possession is also only 24 percent. Nuno Espirito Santo only practiced Jose Mourinho-style games in the match.

The master of dark art. The nickname is familiar with Mourinho because his pragmatic style of football often wins matches. In the match against Chelsea, Wolves almost did it at Stamford Bridge.

“I am very proud of the way we play today. Organizations within the team, our offensive support. Not only when defending, the whole team. It’s all about team form, the distance between players, directing the body in front of the ball, protecting colleagues “The match is good for us,” said Nuno Espirito Santo, manager of Wolves.

Chelsea’s total passes are four times that of Wolves – Chelsea released 820 passes compared to 274 operatives of Wolves. But, the pass became saturating for the fans and frustrated Chelsea, because they insisted on playing Wolves.

Wolves cut the Chelsea ball 25 times, won 52.2 percent of the ball over Chelsea (47.8 percent), and also excelled in the fight for air balls by 57.9 percent. The Premier League promotion team also released 38 tackles and 47 sweeps.

In short, a counterattack, utilizing a set piece situation, and hull ball games are instructions given by Saint to Wolves. That’s all you can do because they have Raul Jimenez, a Mexican striker with a height of 1.90 meters.

Jimenez’s performance is good. His goal against Chelsea ensured Jimenez scored 12 goals this season in the Premier League, and no Wolves have done so in the past.

Eden Hazard, Chelsea’s savior from defeat to frustration with the draw. What frustrated him was his team’s play which seemed slow in flowing the ball.

“Of course we are disappointed. We did not create many opportunities and we moved the ball too slowly. The players were a little sad because we might be able to perform better,” Hazard said, quoted from the Goal.

Matt Law in his article in the Telegraph wrote like this, “Sarri’s philosophy is about ball possession and patience, two qualities that Stamford Bridge doesn’t appreciate.”

Chelsea fans have played Sarri’s anti-soccer song before. This time they did not do it, but, not too happy with the Chelsea game. Sarri brought Jorginho from Naples to ease his football philosophy.

But in fact, Jorginho was the target of criticism from fans because his game seemed slow and not in accordance with the speed and intensity of English football.

“Jorginho, if the other players don’t move through moves without the ball, then he is in trouble. He is very capable of playing one or two touches, but if you want to play one touch, you need movement from the other players,” Sarri said.

Sarri’s position is still safe today, although Chelsea have lost the League Cup final, were eliminated from the FA Cup, because they are still fighting in the Europa League and taking place in the top four   Premier League- Chelsea have one game ahead of rival teams.

However, Sarriball who echoed fans and the media kept a latent danger for Chelsea. If the players don’t adapt quickly, then Chelsea can become like Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s era with absolute football, but it’s boring.