Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 347 Problems Existing in the Team

Chelsea can beat Manchester United so easily at home, almost no one expected, and the decline of Manchester United in the game is also seen by everyone, which makes more people think that Manchester United can beat Chelsea to advance to the League Cup Not optimistic.

In the post-match press conference, Mourinho said bluntly: "I didn't see a little bit of luxury from them. If I didn't know in advance that this team is Manchester United, I would have thought it was a team. A Premier League relegation team."

"They stayed in front of the goal the whole game. We tried our best. Our lads are doing well, but no one will be able to score satisfactorily against this kind of opponent. I hope that in Lao Te It's not going to happen again at Rafford Stadium, it's going to be a setback for the Premier League and I don't think the fans will be happy with it."

Although Mourinho's words expressed the feelings of everyone, they made the old Jazz very embarrassed. He didn't say much at all, and left directly.

For this old man in his 60s, the recent games are really good. Manchester United's performance is really unsatisfactory, but the old Jazz knows that this game is not because of the poor performance of the Manchester United boys, but more because of the opponents. Too strong, and the result of Manchester United losing only two goals is already very good.

"We'll be waiting for them at Old Trafford."

When the Manchester United bus was leaving, team captain Roy Keane did not forget to use this kind of words to boost morale, but more people regarded them as the ruthless words of a loser.

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With the end of the game, the Premier League giants that won the Triple Crown in 99 seem to have begun to slowly fall, and in everyone's eyes, another stronger blue giant is slowly standing up.

The Premier League has always had no shortage of strong teams that performed brilliantly in European competitions. This time around, Chelsea has been strongly sought after by the media.

The Dutch kid Alkin Robben and his 'partner' Damien Duff, who scored a goal in this game, appeared frequently in the eyes of the fans, and Wang Li became the focus of attention. The media rushed to interview him, and almost everyone was optimistic about the future of this young black-haired kid.

Although this is only an English League Cup match, the direct dialogue between Manchester United and Chelsea, the two favorite teams in the Champions League, does have great significance before the European knockout rounds.After the game, almost all the media in Europe reported on the game, and even spoke highly of Wang Li, who was shining in the game.

In this game, Portugal's "News" stationed three reporters. Of course, the focus of their attention was Portugal's brightest star, Cristiano Ronaldo. Unfortunately, throughout the game, C. Ronaldo did not perform well. Can bring any bright spots to Portuguese fans, his performance disappointed all the Portuguese media.

In the second day's report, "News" could only talk about it sourly: "The protagonist of this game is undoubtedly Alan Wang of Chelsea. With a high salary, facing Chelsea, who are eager to score goals, even with the powerful Portuguese star C. Ronaldo, Manchester United can only hold the goal firmly. Perhaps we should pay more attention to the outside of the game. For example, in the In the Champions League, what should we do when we encounter Chelsea? Facing such a Chelsea, such Alan Wang, can we win!?"

The "French Football" newspaper, which is quite influential in European football, also began to talk about Wang Li's performance and Chelsea's performance. They even reminded Barcelona to "be careful" and hoped that some teams could stop Chelsea. You know, if Chelsea has this kind of performance in every game, then it is almost impossible for European giants to beat such a Chelsea——
No club has the confidence to beat Manchester United like that! ! !
Under such circumstances, Germany's "Kicker" and Italy's "Gazzetta dello Sport" added fuel to the flames. They issued the speech "Take Allen and rule the world", and they called on their own countries If a wealthy team wants to achieve good results in the future competition, it must introduce Wang Li, and it is absolutely terrifying for the opponent to have such a player.

This makes many big-name European clubs more eager to get Wang Li, but facing Abramovich, who is not afraid of money offensive at all, and Chelsea, who have an excellent record, the "rich", "money" and "sincerity" of their tried and tested "It's useless at all, at least if you want to get Wang Li in the winter transfer, it can only be a dream.

In short, after this game, except for the winning Chelsea team, almost all other teams were a little bit chilled.

After winning this game, the Blues fans have paid more and more attention to the format of the Chelsea League Cup. Although this is just a tasteless event, it is still a good appetizer for the trophy-poor Chelsea.

The victory of this game also made Chelsea fans look forward to the confrontation between the team and the giants. Of course, what they are most looking forward to is the game against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League. No one will underestimate the world footballer Ronaldinho's team.Even if these two home and away games have not yet started, everyone knows that it will definitely become a game like sparks hitting the earth.

After the match, the Chelsea club took a day off. Using the day off, Wang Li went to shoot an advertisement, which was a promotional video for Nike in Asia.

In fact, Wang Li doesn't have any talent for making movies, and he is not even as good as a rookie in this respect.After a whole busy day, Wang Li has been impatiently doing various actions under the command of the director. Although he felt uncomfortable all over during the process, he had to work after taking the money. Nike paid He definitely has a lot of pounds, so he has to do the work he needs to do.

This promotional video is a 1-minute advertisement for Nike, and it also has some public welfare in it. Because there are many third-world countries in Asia, the rules of TV channels are not clear, so there are still many channels that can be inserted in the 1-minute advertisement. Yes, since it can be played, of course the longer the time, the more effective it will be.

Of course, this is just the opposite for Wang Li. There is a scene in the commercial that asks him to do a cool move, but when Wang Li does it, it feels a bit unnatural no matter what, which makes the working hours longer A lot, it took hours for this shot alone.

After the entire commercial was filmed, Wang Li even felt more tired than playing a 90-minute fierce confrontation game.

Of course, these are all things outside the football field. Wang Li is still a football player first, so after the holiday, he returned to the club to participate in the team's daily training.

In fact, this holiday is also a holiday that Mourinho boldly took to keep the team in shape and let the players relax. Chelsea's recent games are too intensive. On the third day of the match against Manchester United, they Falling into the quagmire of the league again.

In the 23rd round of the Premier League, Chelsea went to North London to challenge Tottenham Hotspur away.

Tottenham’s performance this season is indeed very good. As a North London team, they are only 13 points away from their rivals in the same city, Arsenal. Currently, they are ranked 7th in the league, which can be said to be very strong .

In the first half of the match, Tottenham suffered a big defeat at Stamford Bridge, but this time it was at home, so Tottenham fans were very excited to cheer for the team. They hoped that Tottenham could be the end of Chelsea's winning streak. This will make them very proud, but in fact, this kind of thinking is not all for Tottenham's points. As Arsenal's arch-rival team, Tottenham fans can be said to hate Arsenal. To the bone, Arsenal were beaten by Chelsea at home, so they hope that their team can draw with Chelsea, so that they will feel extremely honorable.

In fact, they have a lot of opportunities, because the current league is basically a training ground for Mourinho. With so many points ahead of No.2 Arsenal, Chelsea can afford to lose .On the contrary, the Chelsea players are unwilling to let go, because it involves a large amount of bonuses. Therefore, recently, they all feel that they perform better in the league than in other games. This is the role of money.

As the battle between No.1 and No.7 in the Premier League, this game is undoubtedly the focus of the 23rd round. At the same time, the English media also called this game a "testing battle". As the name suggests, Chelsea is used to test The strength of Tottenham is mainly due to the fact that many media and fans feel incredible about Tottenham’s performance this season, but they have already recognized Chelsea’s performance. This is the main reason for the public positioning of the two teams in the hearts of fans. Of course it's because Tottenham don't have any outstanding stars.

"This kind of competition is conducive to the development of Premier League teams. Tottenham have performed very well this season. Therefore, we hope that other mid-level Premier League teams can also perform this way, so that every game in the Premier League can be full of suspense. A few years later, when fans in other countries look at the Premier League games, if they can say that "the Premier League is not popular", then we will be successful. I think most clubs still have to learn from Tottenham's success. Famous stars, but they are able to compete for the UEFA Cup qualification. The new power of English football is rising!!!”
Although the media found a more serious meaning for the game, it is undeniable that they all consciously ignored Chelsea.

Everyone knows that Chelsea is too strong, which is not conducive to the development of the Premier League. If such a club dominates for too long, no star will choose a club other than Chelsea, because they will not see the chance of winning the championship. hope.But at least for now, Chelsea is not that strong. This is not the reason for strength, but the lack of continuous championship support. This is just a hypothesis.However, at least this season, it has become meaningless to talk about the ownership of the Premier League title.

Before this game, the two teams did not have any war of words. At the press conference before the game, the head coach of Tottenham also congratulated Chelsea on their current record, and only declared that "we will Try to fight for a victory", this very polite performance also prevented the two teams from quarreling at all. In fact, this was mainly because Tottenham and Chelsea did not have much competition at all, although at the same time the Premier League team in London, But there are many teams in London. Tottenham’s main rival is Arsenal, while Chelsea’s rival is Fulham. West London and North London are like two cities.

In the last season, the two teams may still have a competitive relationship for the UEFA Cup and the Champions League, but this season, with Chelsea's outstanding performance, the gap between the two teams has widened. For Tottenham, Chelsea's record is good or bad Or not, it doesn't make much difference at all, anyway, they don't have the ability to win that championship trophy.

Although it seems that the relationship between the two teams is very harmonious, this game was much more exciting than the last game. In a total of 90 minutes of the game, the two teams scored 7 goals.

In the opening 7 minutes, Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe took advantage of a corner kick and scored the team's first goal with a header, which made the whole Tottenham fans excited, as if they had seen the victory of the game dawn.

This kind of start really caught Chelsea by surprise. In most of the games this season, Chelsea scored the first goal, but the current situation is that Tottenham scored the first goal with their traditional attack. The Chelsea coach Mourinho is quite satisfied. He is now expecting Chelsea to lose a game, to remind these proud boys and tell them-we are not invincible, if we don’t play seriously , Losing is a normal thing.

However, what the Portuguese didn't expect was that the power of money is incredible, and all Chelsea players want to win because that means they can continue to get a lot of bonuses.

So just 3 minutes later, Wang Li shot a long shot from the right side of the penalty area, which made his England teammate Paul Robinson burst into tears. His hands touched the ball, but the inertia caused by that huge force , or let the ball go straight into the net, the Tottenham fans were only happy for 3 minutes, and the score was tied by Chelsea.

When Mourinho saw this scene on the sidelines, he was thinking in his heart that Wang Li should have a rest in the next league game. Even in this game, he wanted Wang Li to leave early, so that other players could find some players who did not have Wang Li. Of course, this may be unnecessary, but Mourinho's idea is to use the league to train troops. Only teams that are not afraid of any difficulties can have a chance to win more championships.

However, before Mourinho could do anything, Chelsea scored again.

In the 29th minute of the first half, Damien Duff dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area and passed the ball with a beautiful heel, allowing William Gallas behind him to get a chance. The French defender scored Chelsea's second goal with a wonderful long-range shot, which even made Frank Lampard, who hadn't experienced the feeling of scoring for a long time, jealous.

After scoring the goal, in order to vent his jealousy, Lampard was the first to press Gallas on the grass, and lay down on his stomach, acting as a pad for other players. Of course, the result was dismal. The 'righteous man' who demanded manners was only a little bit stronger than the big French guy who was about to cry.

After Chelsea scored the second goal, Tottenham's offense did not weaken because they were afraid of the opponent's goal. They were still on the offensive. Mendes and Redknapp on the left and right lanes frequently played the ball in the middle. This attack made Chelsea's defense even a little overwhelmed. This may be more because Chelsea played too smoothly in the previous games. The team's perfect performance in the offense made the defense in the backcourt somewhat neglected.

However, Chelsea's offense did not stop. Taking advantage of a fast break, Wang Li single-handedly passed three people in a row, and finally made a steady diagonal pass, giving the opportunity to Alkin Robben who was following up. A successful shot made the score 1:3.

The first half of the game ended with a score of 3:1, and during the intermission, Mr. Mourinho, who hoped to play a training role, even changed three people, Wang Li, Robben and Lampard were all there. At the beginning of the second half, they were replaced one after another, which even gave the Tottenham fans hope to equalize the score again. Wang Li put too much pressure on them on the court.

In the second half, although Chelsea changed 3 players in a row, the game style of the two teams has not changed, and they are still competing to play offensive games.

In the 57th minute of the game, Tottenham midfielder Sean Davis scored another goal for the team with a set kick, chasing the score to 2:3.

Now, Tottenham are ranked seventh in the league, and it is definitely not luck. Without Wang Li, Chelsea's performance can only be said to be a draw with Tottenham. Seeing this situation in the game, Coach Mourinho frowned. He didn't want to see Chelsea become a one-man team.

But in fact, that is the case. After Wang Li and Robben left the field, Chelsea's offense actually felt weak. Drogba was completely unable to support himself in the frontcourt, and the Irishman Damien Duff's breakthrough ability was not strong. , Without too intensive cooperation, it is difficult for football to score into Tottenham's penalty area.

In the 81st minute of the game, Chelsea defender Glenn Johnson fouled in the penalty area. The referee directly awarded a penalty kick. Tottenham striker Kanoute equalized the score for the team, which made Chelsea face The crisis of a draw or even a loss.

Perhaps before the game, no one thought that the game could be played like this, even the Tottenham coach Santini, who thought the team would encounter a big defeat.

However, Santini may have been overwhelmed by the temptation of the draw. After the team tied the score, he made a wrong instruction-to return to the defense and keep the score.

Indeed, for Tottenham, being able to draw against Chelsea at home is absolutely completely acceptable.

But the current Chelsea team on the field is not Tottenham's opponent in terms of morale alone, and after Tottenham gave up their offense, Chelsea's opportunity came.

Facts have proved that the temptation of money is very strong. In the last minute of the game, Chelsea captain John Terry once again overtook the score with a header. This lore goal was almost in Santini's heart He was stabbed so hard that he regretted everything.

However, this obviously had no effect on the game, and Chelsea won the game in the end.

However, the head coach Mourinho was obviously very dissatisfied with the whole process of the game. It can be seen that the Chelsea players will surely welcome the anger of the Portuguese.

(End of this chapter)