Chelsea’s first opponent in the Premier League in the 2014-2015 season was Burnley.

This veteran team was founded in 1882 and is located in Burnley, Lancashire, England. It is a founding member of the English Football League and its home stadium is Turf Moor Stadium.

They won the FA Cup in the distant 1913-1914 season, and even won the English top league championship in the 1920-1921 and 1959-1960 seasons.

In other words, if you exclude the championships won by Abramovich after taking charge of Chelsea, Chelsea and Burnley actually have similar honors in their ancestors.

However, Burnley is not as lucky as Chelsea, with an owner who loves the club and is willing to invest in the team.

They are just a small-capacity club that has been in the second and third tier leagues all year round.

In the 2008-2009 season, they finished second in the English Championship and were able to compete in the Premier League for the first time. They immediately realized the dangers of the Premier League and were relegated back to the English Championship the following year.

In the last season, that is, the 2013-2014 season, Burnley once again won the runner-up in the English Championship and was able to return to the Premier League this year.

Chelsea is also their first opponent after returning to the Premier League.

Burnley is currently coached by bald head coach Sean Dyche.

The 43-year-old started coaching Burnley in October 2012 and was the biggest contributor to leading the team back to the Premier League.

In fact, Sean Dyche is one of the more successful head coaches in the Premier League. He later coached Burnley for 10 years, during which time he also brought Burnley to seventh place in the league and made the team 51

Qualified for European competition for the first time in years.

Therefore, unlike those media who only follow the trend and criticize people, he will think Chelsea is an easy opponent to deal with.

At the press conference the day before the game, Sean Dyche said that the results of the warm-up match were not enough to prove Chelsea's strength.

"If you have truly led a professional team, you will know that losing in the warm-up match is actually not a big deal."

"Especially for a coach like Pan Yi, I can see that he is not particularly interested in the results of the warm-up match. Instead, he uses such matches to practice various routines."

"And it can be seen from their last two warm-up games that Chelsea is on the right track and has begun to play the football Pan Yi wants them to play. Therefore, they will be a dangerous opponent!"
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Sean Dyche also said that he had also studied the games of Chelsea led by Pan Yi, and he also felt that there was a big difference between Pan Yi's Chelsea and Mourinho's Chelsea.

"This Chelsea team is younger and more energetic. Pan Yi dares to use so many young players at once, which is surprising, but it also makes people admire his courage."

"He has proven that he has unique insights in training young players. Presumably he also wants to replicate the success in Milan and Hamburg at Chelsea."

"The brand-new 3-center-back system he showed in the warm-up match made me feel that it has the shadow of Van Gaal or Bielsa, and also has some ideas of Tuchel and Conte, but it doesn't seem to be exactly the same as them. No matter in offense

Whether it’s defense or defense, they all clearly have Pan Yi’s own imprint.”

"Tomorrow will be Pan Yi's first game leading Chelsea. Therefore, we must be careful when playing against Chelsea to avoid falling into their rhythm. Pan Yi has proven in Hamburg in the past two years that once the game

If you follow his rhythm, the result of the game cannot be changed."

When asked about his expectations for tomorrow's game, Sean Dyche said frankly that when leading a new Premier League team like Burnley against a strong team like Chelsea, even if it is a home game, it is impossible to get all three points.

A very luxurious wish.

Therefore, striving to score a point and get a good start to the Premier League journey in the new season is the most pragmatic goal of the Burnley team!

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Seeing that Sean Deitch seemed to have a "fanboy" crush on Pan Yi, the British media's firepower, which had been preparing to attack Pan Yi, suddenly lost support.

As a direct opponent, you are not that popular. You guys are really in a hurry when the emperor is not in a hurry.

However, if you want to see Pan Yi down, you can still find an angle.

"The Sun" believes that although Pan Yi has played against some strong Premier League teams in European competitions, the playing style of teams like Manchester City and Manchester United is actually very different from that of the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League.

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Take Burnley, who Chelsea will face in the first round, as an example. Their staffing determines that this team is destined to adopt the traditional British style of play.

In the British Championship last season, they mainly used the aerial advantage of the two centers to seize opportunities for counterattacks and set pieces.

Even though Burnley achieved second place in the English Championship, it only had an average ball possession rate of 40%, and its total number of passes and pass success rate were among the more than 20 teams in the English Championship.

The reciprocal of.

Give up possession of the ball and make the offense as simple as possible. This is Sean Dyche's tactical philosophy. After all, almost none of Burnley's midfielders are good at controlling the ball.

Therefore, the defensive counterattack in the new season is still Burnley's tactical idea, which is to use simple long passes to solve the battle in the fastest way.

In one statistic, Burnley is superior to the Premier League.

Last season, Burnley completed a total of 822 successful high-altitude ball duels. Letting the ball fly in the sky for a while is the rhythm of the game that Burnley hopes for. This style of play may remind us of the "City in the Sky" Stoke

City team.

In order to adapt to the sky full of high-altitude balls, Burnley has the most capable striker combination in the Premier League. For example, forward Barnes contributed a terrifying 80 successful aerial challenges last season.

On the other hand, Chelsea's lineup is full of technical players like Hazard, Oscar, and Azpilicueta, and is obviously weak in the air and power confrontation.

Including the young players that Pan Yi introduced and promoted later, such as Cancelo, B Seat, etc., they also have the same weaknesses.

Moreover, the pace of the Premier League is very fast, especially when playing against mid-to-lower teams. Close combat and physical confrontation are essential and will not give you any time to react. This will be a problem for Chelsea's technical players.

It's a serious problem.

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Many head coaches will encounter a period of discomfort after coming to the Premier League, and eventually encounter Waterloo, and then leave the Premier League in disgrace.

Therefore, "The Sun" concluded that a somewhat idealistic head coach like Pan Yi will inevitably follow in the footsteps of these head coaches and be defeated by the high-flying and relentless beatings of a practical team like Burnley.

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But in response to these negative remarks about himself, Pan Yi smiled calmly in the face of them at the press conference before the game.

"It is normal for a new head coach to be questioned when he comes to the Premier League."

"I am a foreign head coach and a native of China. Even if I have won the Triple Crown, being able to come to the Premier League to coach a team like Chelsea will always make some people feel a little uncomfortable.

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"But just as I proved before in the Champions League that I can beat the strong teams in the Premier League, I can also prove that I also have a way to deal with the so-called mysterious middle and lower-tier teams in the Premier League."

"I will not refute their doubts, because I hope I can prove myself on the court!"

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On the evening of August 19th, Burnley City, Turf Moor Stadium.

In the first round of the 2014-2015 Premier League season, Chelsea's away game against Burnley is about to begin.

In the home team's dressing room before the game, Burnley head coach Sean Dyche received the visiting team's lineup.

Forwards: Hazard, Lukaku, Bernardo Silva.

Midfielder: Marcos Alonso, Kante, Matic, Azpilicueta.

Defenders: Terry, David Luiz, Gary Cahill.

Goalkeeper: Courtois.

Sure enough, it is the 343 formation that Pan Yi has been practicing during the warm-up match, and these players are really strong!

Not to mention players like Terry, David Luiz, Gary Cahill, Hazard, and Matic who have been famous in European football for a long time, even Lukaku, who was just rented and recovered

, Courtois and others have all proven their strength during their loan spells, and their worth in Germany has reached tens of millions of euros.

That is to say, the strength of Bernardo Silva, Marcos Alonso and others that Pan Yi has just purchased is a bit unclear, but based on Pan Yi's past buying experience, they must have two talents.

Only with a brush can Pan Yi take notice.

As for this group of players, or whether Pan Yi can adapt to the Premier League...

Sean Dyche thinks it’s all media bullshit.

The net worth and weekly salary of these players are ranked here, and many of them are veterans who have played in the Premier League for many years. Is there any problem of adaptability?

In terms of strength, the two teams are even more different.

Let’s look at Burnley’s highest salary. That’s attacking midfielder George Boyend, whose weekly salary is 27,000 euros.

And Hazard in Chelsea’s team earns 250,000 euros per week! It’s almost ten times as much.

If this comparison isn't already obvious...

The lowest-paid players in the Chelsea first team are Zouma and Christensen, who have just been promoted from the youth team, but their weekly salary also reaches 30,000 euros.

In other words, the person with the lowest salary in the Chelsea team is higher than the person with the highest salary in the Burnley team.

How to kick this?

Of course, football is round, and it is true that the outcome of a football match cannot be judged solely on price.

But the problem is that today Sean Dyche is the first person to face Pan Yi and Chelsea in the Premier League, and Burnley is also the first team to start a real battle with Chelsea in an official game.
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So Sean Dyche feels that he is a bit unlucky.

If not, he might be able to study Pan Yi's Chelsea's real style of play, and then develop an effective targeted defense.

But now, other teams in the Premier League are staring at this game to see what Pan Yi will do in his first game after coming to the Premier League.
To be continued...