Chelsea 2 - 0 Crystal Palace - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea 2 - 0 Crystal Palace

Loftus-Cheek 65'
Werner - Mount 76'

4 Shots on Target 2
8 Shots off Target 4
5 Corners 2
16 Fouls 6
0 Offsides 3
2 Saves 2
1 Yellow Cards 0
67% Possession 33%










Cards
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Kai Havertz 38'





球場: Wembley Stadium, London
觀眾: 76,238
開賽: 16:30 Sun, 17 Apr 2022
主裁: Anthony Taylor




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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2022/04/18/
the-debrief--passing-precision-and-timo-s-key-unlock-the-palace

The Debrief: Passing precision and Timo's key unlock the Palace

18 Apr 2022


With a look at the semi-final match statistics and maps, we analyse how
the Blues were able to achieve a record-setting win against the south
Londoners and what changed between the two halves at Wembley…


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Thomas Tuchel knows how to win semi-finals, that much is clear.


Yesterday at Wembley our head coach succeeded for the 11th time in 11
attempts at this stage of knockout competitions spread across his native
Germany, when he was working in France at PSG, and now at Chelsea where he
has contested two FA Cup semis as well as ones in the Champions League,
Club World Cup and Carabao Cup.


It did however need some quick work from Tuchel at half-time against
Palace to ensure our passage into our 16th FA Cup final. For the start of
the game our opponents Crystal Palace switched from the 4-3-3 shape that
had got them so far to a 3-5-2 formation, with Cheikhou Kouyate moving
back from midfield to become one of three central defenders.


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Palace's altered shape, with no.8 Kouyate their additional centre-back and
with their forwards a distance from Chelsea's goal


Rather than this shape shift being a way to mitigate the absence of
on-loan midfielder Conor Gallagher, Palace's most influential player this
season, their manager Patrick Vieira explained it was to set Chelsea some
different challenges, saying:


'It was just to match their front five, and not to give them that
opportunity to run between our normal back four. At Selhurst, we suffered
a lot from them creating overloads on the side, and so we changed to stop
that.'


Tuchel after the game admitted it had worked initially, stating: 'We did
not expect that so there were not the same spaces to explore that we
thought we can explore. We tried to find different spaces in the second
half to overload the middle, to accelerate the game towards the box in the
last third a bit more easily.'


== Going for goal ==


That the change to the Chelsea approach after an uneventful first half
bore dividends is clear from the two goals scored. Our amount of ball
possession remained more or less the same throughout the game –
two-thirds of it in our favour (it was important a side that had played
extra-time in Madrid while our Wembley opponents had a free week was not
asked to do too much ball chasing) – but from that same share of the ball
we upped our shot count considerably in the second half, with nine efforts
on goal compared with three in the first half, and three on target
compared with one.


https://i.imgur.com/Lqb2frs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/CnHoma3.jpg
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The heat maps show the fluidity in position of Chelsea's front three as
they looked to break down the Eagles


It is also true that Palace increased their shots to five following just
one before the break, but they only managed one on target in each half.


The first one forced the save of the game from Edou Mendy when he denied
Kouyate, who despite his deeper position managed to match Mason Mount as
the most prolific shooter in the game. Both had three attempts at the
target. Hakim Ziyech managed two shots in his 15 minutes on the pitch as
the game opened out more.


Chelsea's passing accuracy rate increased in the second half too – and
that was with 10 per cent more passes played after the break. Our accuracy
went up from 85 per cent to 90, and the precision was one of the clear
contrasts between the two sides on the day. Palace's overall pass
completion rate was down at 75 per cent.


== Reece remains ==


With his initial selection, Tuchel made no radical changes to the side
that had performed so well in the Bernabeu. For fresh legs he brought in
Andreas Christensen, Jorginho and Cesar Azpilicueta, and with the skipper
returning there were plenty of reasons to anticipate a return to right
wing-back for Reece James. Instead the England international was retained
on the right of the back-three defence where he had impressed against Real
Madrid.


https://i.imgur.com/jg0csfB.jpg
Chelsea's average position map shows plenty of bodies in the central area
of the pitch


That had James in the right place to deal with the Eagles dangerman
Wilfried Zaha, who spent more time on the left of their attack than his
strike partner Jean-Philippe Mateta, and Tuchel's system generally gives
licence for the two wider central defenders to get forward when
appropriate.


James still sent over more crosses than anyone else on the pitch, with
four, although his position did put a limit on his chances to do so and
indeed Chelsea's second-half tactic of overloading the middle of the park
and attacking Palace down the middle is reflected in our overall crossing
stats. We attempted just five crosses in the second 45 minutes.


== Fluid attacking threat ==


Over in the centre of the pitch, Ruben Loftus-Cheek matched Zaha for the
game's most dribbles with two apiece, and the former Palace loanee scored
his first Chelsea goal since the Europa League semi-final of 2018. Between
those games he scored on loan at Fulham in November 2020.


Timo Werner, the competition's official man of the match and the choice of
voters on the 5th Stand too, could not add to his recent goal spree but in
addition to his assist for Mason Mount to make it 2-0, he managed an
additional four key passes that created chances to score.


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Chelsea had aerial superiority with 16 contests won to Palace's 12
although they did come out top in marginally more duels and tackles.
Jorginho was our top tackler with four won. Christensen made the most
clearances in the game.


We have now won 10 straight games against Crystal Palace for the first
time in our history. Having won all four FA Cup ties he played against
Chelsea while an Arsenal player, Palace boss Patrick Vieira has at last
tasted defeat in the competition against the Blues.


While talking about Arsenal, we will be the first team to play in three FA
Cup finals in a row since the Gunners did so in 2001 to 2003 (the middle
one of those against the Blues in Cardiff).


With Liverpool awaiting us in May, it will be just the second time the FA
Cup final will be a repeat of the League Cup final in the same season. The
previous featured Arsenal as well, when they faced off against Sheffield
Wednesday in two finals in 1993.

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