Tottenham 0 - 1 Chelsea - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

Tottenham 0 - 1 Chelsea

18' Rudiger, ast by Mount

3 Shots on Target 3
12 Shots off Target 10
7 Corners 6
10 Fouls 12
3 Offsides 0
2 Saves 3
0 Yellow Cards 0
36% Possession 64%










球場: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
觀眾: 45,603
開賽: 19:45 Wed, 12 Jan 2022
主裁: Andre Marriner




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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2022/01/13/
the-debrief--tuchel-s-tactics--toni-s-threat-and-wingers--work-r

The Debrief: Tuchel's tactics, Toni's threat and wingers' work-rate do for
Spurs again

13 Jan 2022


Chelsea booked our place in this season's Carabao Cup final with a 1-0 win
away at Tottenham Hotspur, as Thomas Tuchel got the better of his opposite
number for the second week in a row, throwing up some striking statistics.


https://i.imgur.com/YfWU1sr.png


It was Antonio Rudiger's first-half header from a Mason Mount corner that
decided the game on the night, although things were far more comfortable
on aggregate thanks to our 2-0 victory in the first leg at Stamford Bridge
last week.


It may not have been the simplest of wins for the Blues, especially with
VAR having to repeatedly step in and overrule referee Andre Marriner, when
he twice incorrectly awarded Tottenham penalties and initially allowed an
offside Harry Kane goal to stand, but we did enough to come out on top in
a tight match.


https://i.imgur.com/r26wFZC.jpg


Chelsea haven't lost a two-legged knock-out tie after winning the first
game since 2007 and in truth that never looked like changing in north
London, even if we didn't have things all our own way in the second game.
Despite having to navigate some tricky moments, we maintained our unbeaten
record at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with four wins and one draw there
since it opened in 2019, to become the first team ever to reach at least
one of the FA Cup or League Cup final in six consecutive seasons.


== Tuchel does it again ==


Thomas Tuchel clearly knows what it takes to win a London derby against
Spurs, as we have now defeated them three times this season, all without
conceding a single goal. We will have a chance to extend that when we face
them again in the Premier League later this month.


Incredibly, the German also has a 100 per cent record in semi-finals
throughout his managerial career, having progressed to the final on all
nine occasions he has reached the last four of a domestic or European cup
competition - two DFB Pokal finals with Borussia Dortmund; one Champions
League, two Coupe de France and one Coupe de la Ligue finals with Paris
Saint-Germain; one Champions League, one FA Cup and one League Cup final
with Chelsea.


This latest semi-final triumph owed plenty to Tuchel's tactical nous.
Having switched to a back four in the first leg of this tie, as injuries
and Covid restricted his defensive options, but then used our more
familiar 3-4-3 for the weekend's FA Cup win over Chesterfield, he kept
Spurs boss Antonio Conte guessing on our tactics right up until the last
moment.


https://i.imgur.com/hGem5gL.jpg


Even when the team sheet was revealed, it wasn't clear that we would again
utilise the 4-4-2 that was so successful in the first leg until the
players kicked off at Tottenham. Then, just as our opponents were gaining
a foothold in the second half, after adjusting their shape to closer match
ours, Tuchel made changes of his own to revert to a back three and nullify
much of Spurs' threat, allowing us to see out the last 20 minutes
relatively peacefully.


== Clever overlap ==


There were subtle differences to how we used the 4-4-2 this time around,
though, as you would expect from the very different situation of going
into the match with a two-goal lead to defend, but again it was on our
left flank that it was most obvious.


Our left-back in north London was Malang Sarr, who as a natural
centre-back you would expect to play that position more conservatively
than Marcos Alonso had in the first leg. You would be mistaken.


https://i.imgur.com/HkVVvI4.jpg


However, rather than creating a constant overload on Spurs' defence as we
did at the Bridge, on this occasion he was working in tandem with the
winger ahead of him, Callum Hudson-Odoi, who would often allow Sarr to run
beyond and either come inside or slot in behind to cover defensively
against the counter-attack.


That resulted in some interesting statistics. Few would have expected
Hudson-Odoi to match Rudiger and Romelu Lukaku for the most aerial duels
won by a Chelsea player (two each), while only Andreas Christensen (four)
made more clearances than his two for the Blues. The young winger was
still a threat on the attack, too, as shown by his game-high of two key
passes, level with Lukaku and Mason Mount.


https://i.imgur.com/R3H5jF8.png


Sarr didn't leave all the defending to his team-mate, though. Far from it,
as the Frenchman was one of four Chelsea players to record a high of three
interceptions – along with Rudiger, Jorginho and Thiago Silva, the latter
despite only playing the last 25 minutes – in addition to no-one having
more than his 109 touches on the ball, again joint with Rudiger.


== Terrific Toni ==


Rudiger seemed to be involved in absolutely everything at Tottenham. In
addition to his goal and being one of those receiving a partial pardon
from VAR after the referee gave a penalty against him for a foul on
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg outside the box, the centre-back further
demonstrated the threat he is becoming at set-pieces by going close with a
second header, meaning only Lukaku (three) had more than his two shots for
Chelsea.


https://i.imgur.com/5qXR63C.jpg


It was the second time he has netted at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this
season, having also completed the scoring in our 3-0 Premier League
victory there in September, taking his tally for 2021/22 to three. That
equals his best season for the Blues in front of goal, when he also got
three in his debut campaign in west London, 2017/18.


As previously mentioned, it was far more than just his goal threat that
caught the eye in this semi-final, though, with his 109 touches of the
ball the highest of anyone. To underline how influential he was, no Spurs
player managed much more than half those touches, with Harry Winks their
highest on 59.


He was as solid at the back as ever, with his three interceptions and two
aerial duels won also joint highest, but he played a key part in our early
tactics too. The 97 passes Rudiger made were more than any other player on
the pitch and he was often the one trying to find Lukaku with a direct
pass in the first half, as we looked to catch Tottenham out pushing
forward in search of the goal they badly needed to get back into the tie.


https://i.imgur.com/WAqfYu0.png


That also explains why so many of Lukaku's passes, including his
joint-highest of two key passes, were predominantly short distance and
backwards, as we found him early, relying on him to hold on to possession
while isolated until support arrived for him to lay the ball off and turn
into the box. That faith proved well placed as the Belgian striker only
failed to find a team-mate with two of his passes all night.

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