Hot Stimulation Battle against Chelsea! Werner's goal blown away and Son Heung-sun muted! Lampard and Mourinho face off

This is a match to remember: Abramovich's 1,000th game in charge of Chelsea, just in time to welcome Mourinho to Stamford Bridge.

Everyone who watches football knows the inextricable story of Mourinho and the Chelsea team.

The West London side is the place where Mourinho's career took off, and the heartbreak of his two Premier League defeats. He was once worshipped at Stamford Bridge, and once held up three fingers and asked the Stamford Bridge fans to respect the "three Premier League titles" he had given Chelsea.

Not to mention the story between Lampard and Mourinho - the Blues skipper grew up to be one of the world's top superstars at Chelsea in the "MU Phase 1", and became one of Chelsea's biggest and most decorated midfield legends, so it's fair to say that Lampard's career was even better than Mourinho's.

Lampard's career has been a long time coming. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best players in the world, and you'll be able to do it in a way that you can.

But as time passes, the former disciple of the coaching position, will inevitably meet his mentor again one day, which can be described in a few paragraphs.

There's another reason why this clash is so compelling that you might not have noticed:

There's been a lot of "top six" conversations this season, but by mistake, this one, Chelsea vs Tottenham, is the real "Premier League" in terms of rankings and form. The first time I've ever seen a man in the world who has been in the world for a long time, I've seen a man in the world who has been in the world for a long time.

Liverpool dropped two points from yesterday's draw, giving both Lampard and Mourinho a chance to get to the top of the table, and both are in great form at the moment, so there's no better stage for a showdown.

Lampard finally got Thiago Silva back today, starting with Zouma in the center back pairing, and two England internationals, Zilwell and Reece James, at left and right back.

In midfield he again replicated the way he played in the last league game - starting Munt, Ziyech, Abraham and Werner together, and with Munt moving into position he would go back into the midfield to get involved in defense in a 433 three-man midfield, with Kova?i? and Kante being the two main players at the defensive end.

And when Mount pushes up front, Chelsea can change back to a 4231, or that fabled 42-Fantasy.

Mourinho broke Guardiola's flow of control with the ultimate counter-attacking fast-flow, and today, facing the same Chelsea who averaged 70% possession, he chose to replicate it -

Kane single-center, with Belvin, Ndombele, and Son Heung-min lined up behind him. Double back with Hejbjerg on Sissoko.

The biggest change is that today he started Welsh center back Roden in place of the injured Alderweireld to partner Erik Dyer, I wonder if this pairing will be a problem?

There was nothing surprising about the wing-back set-up of Regillon and Ollier, with captain Lowry as much at the end of the defense as anything else.

One of the things I'm most interested in after seeing the debut is this: can the Mou counter-attacking flow play the ultimate blitzkrieg this time around?

Mourinho has blown away Pep Guardiola's City with the ultimate counter-attack, and it's unlikely that Lampard hasn't seen it before, so the priority for Chelsea today is to be careful not to give Harry Kane too much room to maneuver, as opposed to being "dreamy" in front of them.

The two center backs are key at this point - do you follow, or don't you?

This year's addition of Thiago Silva not only added an experienced lock to Chelsea's backline, but more importantly, under his tutelage, Zouma's progress is visible.

Chelsea only lost 10 goals in 9 league games, Lampard is considered to have found the answer in the captain Azpiretta's injury to a backline.

Another key point is still in the Munter - Zilver assisted in the space behind the front, is the presence of Sun Xing愍 this mobility, Munter needs to return to the defense to fill the position.

Lampard's familiarity with Mourinho makes him wary of Tottenham's blitzkrieg:

In the 9th minute Chelsea's attack was broken up and turned back, and Sun Heung-min led a counter-attack that went from right to left, with four passes in front of the box before Bervin finished the first of Tottenham's shots on target.

Keep an eye on the defense, Chilwell followed Sun Heung-min back to the goal, and Kante followed him all the way back to the box to make a block - Lampard did tell the players to keep an eye on it.

Then 2 minutes later Chelsea also replicated a blitzkrieg of Tottenham - Tottenham's defense on the right side of the slightly negligent, Mantle with the ball straight into the box to Werner, the German shooter has not been so loose unguarded conditions a shot - offside! Offside.

Although it didn't go in, it's still something for Spurs to be wary of with Rowton.

Mendy's fine save in the 14th minute showed us that he can start in place of Kepa, the most expensive goalkeeper in the game, and not just because he comes from Cech's parent club, Rennes.

But here's the kicker: Chelsea were so mindful of their formation today that they didn't mind dropping back and letting Tottenham control the ball after 15 minutes - Tottenham had just four shots on goal against City, and got that in the opening 15 minutes.

Lampard does know his master very well, and handing over possession isn't necessarily a bad thing when filling space at the back forces Spurs to play a positional game.

The game turned into a cat-and-mouse game: the two apostles wanted to tighten the fence to play counterattacks, and there was a bit of psychological flavor in the formations, and Chelsea, which averaged 70% possession, had only 54% possession in the first 20 minutes - enough of a restraint, Lampard.

This mutual caution and familiarity, so that the game is actually not as fast and exciting as expected, after 20 minutes of both sides coincidentally into the energy-saving kicks, in the midfield stalemate and sawing very often.

Sun Heung-sun, who had a great game in front of Rodriguez and Laporte last time, had no room to move in front of "Kante" today.

It's times like these when you need an individual to shine - Mundt took Kante's pass in front of the box in the 28th minute and turned and shot, but it was over the bar - Mundt's position and movement could have been crucial for Chelsea today.

Spurs responded with a Harry Kane free-kick on target - both sides had played 30 minutes and only two shots on target.

It was a goalless half, but one with plenty to savor, especially in the context of modern soccer concepts like "attack and defense.

Both sides are fighting for every inch of the ground, and the space and time for each player to think about handling the ball is greatly compressed, reflecting the ultimate pursuit of efficiency and confrontation in world soccer.

Against this backdrop, the most crucial conversation in this context was Kante vs Ndombele.

Today, Kante's clamping down on Son Heung-sun and counter-pressing forward allowed Chelsea to gradually gain the upper hand in the midfield, and dumbed down Son Heung-sun, Tottenham's sharpest counter-attacking point, which was crucial.

In fact, Tottenham had a similar setup to Mourinho's: Ndombele.

But in the Tottenham attack, when Kane pulls back Ndongbeile needs to have more forward task, and Chelsea front position change of running to be more complex than the Tottenham front to set more, so not so easy to watch.

For Chelsea, there is a lack of a person who can hold the ball single explosion of the opponent's defense to break the surface, like the opposite of Sun Xing愍, or like the former Azhar.

But overall it was a masterful half, with only 2 shots on goal, and the stalemate may be broken after a drop in stamina.

It is also because of the presence of Kante, who kicked back to his peak today, that I think Chelsea are still slightly on top.

And Lampard was the first to change in the second half: the two wing-backs began to press the attack considerably, and Reece James slid in three completed crosses in five minutes - with the live camera frequently trained on Giroud off the pitch.

The other benefit of this forward pressure on the wing was that it suppressed Regillon's assists and allowed Berwin to frequently return to the home goal line to assist in defense, and the power cuts on the wing made Kane's second-half play extremely hard.

And the high-intensity physical confrontation between the two sides escalated further in the second half - with the referee flinging three yellow cards in 10 minutes to control both sides.

Lampard's second change: Werner pulled back Ziyech to the left, Abraham frequently before the top of the box - 64 minutes of these three to complete the connection Abraham missed by a whisker, and three minutes later Ziyech missed the second.

Tottenham were getting a bit too physical, and Mourinho copied from the previous game: Le Celso for Ndombele. And Lampard had more options: Pulisic, Giroud and Havertz all came on.

One more late move from both sides: my favorite Chelsea player, Munt, hit a long range shot in the 81st minute that needed a great save from Lolley before hitting the post.

Then Mendy made a great save on a cross from Son Heung-sun, which was almost saved by two Tottenham players.

Both sides counted each other out until the end, ending 0-0, a whitewash to be savored again and again.

It was a grueling war of attrition, with both sides demanding the utmost in physical confrontation, space compression, and detailing, and the rare thing is that they barely made a mistake, which is what makes this 0-0 so exciting.

I think this game on Lampard's coaching career is an extremely valuable example, from the master of this "counter-attack" thinking, may give him more soccer concepts to think.

That's what makes this game so memorable.

Tottenham edged Liverpool to the top of the table with the point, while Chelsea ended their six-game winning streak.

And Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge turned out to be a good one, but it's still a shame there wasn't a crowd present, otherwise this would still have been a game with plenty of sideline stories and footage to look back on.