Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 351

After playing the league, the one-week blank period between February 2th and 13th is the national team's match day. Many Chelsea players will go to their national team to participate in international competitions.

However, Wang Li did not need to participate, because the Swedish Eriksson, who was called "brain-dead" by the media, still did not call him into the national team squad. However, this did not arouse too much dissatisfaction among England fans.Before the clash between Chelsea and Barcelona in late February, national team competitions were relatively inconsequential, even though they were a matter of England's World Cup finals.

These days, Wang Li is still training non-stop. After training, he will also go to the head coach Mourinho to discuss some practices in the game and so on.

Although Mourinho has no experience in playing football, this does not prevent him from being a top tactical master, and his understanding of football is definitely much more thorough than that of ordinary football players. He can always make some suggestions, so that Wang Li felt enlightened.

In addition, Wang Li has been training free kick skills.

On the match day of the national team, as the Chelsea club almost went up and down, the daily training could not be carried out normally. Even the assistant coach Clark wanted to organize an intra-team match and went to the reserve team and even the youth team to recruit people. But this does not hinder Wang Li's own training. In fact, he has been training by himself during non-tactical training time.

No one knows himself better than Wang Li. He knows exactly where his strengths are, and how to maximize his strengths on the football field is the shortest way for him to improve his strength.

Physical training, recovery training, and free kick training are three points and one line. This is Wang Li's life in the club. In addition, in the spare time of training, he still lives a life of two points and one in the club --- residence , This seems unbelievable to ordinary people. It is hard for ordinary people to imagine that the life of a big-name football star with such a high income will be so boring, but in fact it is the case. If you want to get it, you have to pay, even if Wang Li has the ability that ordinary people can't match. Ability, but also slowly grow up in this kind of dedication.

"Alan, you can join our team." On the first team training ground, just 10 minutes into the team training match, a youth team defender pleaded with a pitiful expression.

In fact, this training match was only temporarily organized by Clark, and it didn't have much meaning. Wang Li also participated in the confrontation after the restless training, but the opponent's strength was too bad. Most of them have gone to participate in the national team's game, which makes most of the training ground at this time full of Chelsea youth team players.

In the face of these teenagers, Wang Li did not need to cooperate with his teammates at all. In just 10 minutes, he made two smooth breakthroughs and scored two goals. This disparity in strength made the defender of the other team Deeply hopeless.

These young teenagers finally understood a truth in "being abused": it is happiness to take pictures with superstars, but it is tragedy to play football with superstars.

"Alan, you should go to practice free kicks, I think this kind of confrontation is not suitable for you."

Assistant coach Clark didn't expect the situation on the court to become one-sided. In fact, the purpose of calling Wang Li was just to let these young guys experience the feeling of playing with the star players and give them some confidence, but Now it is obviously counterproductive. Wang Li did not increase their confidence, but made them very desperate.

"Okay, come on!!" Wang Li smiled lightly, waved to the young people in the field, picked up a football, and took the "little follower" John to another small training ground to practice free kicks .

In this boring training life, time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Chelsea players had all returned to London, but at the same time, there was also a piece of bad news that cast a layer of gloom on Chelsea before the war—— —
Irishman Damien Duff is injured.

The result of the doctor's examination is: the foot muscle is strained, and he has been sidelined for at least two weeks.

That meant Duff was guaranteed to miss the remaining three games in February, prompting Mourinho to throw a tantrum in his office, cursing the Irish national team viciously, to no avail.

Losing Damien Duff before the big game is by no means good news, which means that Chelsea's powerful sideline attack on the left and right is directly missing a corner. At least for now, Duff's role is beyond doubt. Without him, even Alkin Robben can play a much smaller role. Even if Joe Cole and Duff are at the same level, at least in terms of coordination and Mourinho's tactics, there is still a big gap between the two of.

On February 2th, in the Football Cup round of 20, Chelsea challenged Newcastle United away.

The date of this game is indeed a headache for Mourinho. After Damien Duff was injured, the main lineup was already missing, and three days later it was a game against Barcelona. In this way, this must be won In the knockout round of the FA Cup, Chelsea will not be able to send the entire main lineup to play.

Fortunately, the opponent is only Newcastle United. This team has changed a lot this season. The old coach Robson has retired from the football world. This makes the performance of Newcastle United not very good. Contradictions, even team captain Alan Shearer has more say than the head coach.

For Chelsea, there is also a great psychological advantage against Newcastle United. Since last season, Chelsea has achieved a good result of winning 10 and losing 1 in the match between the two teams, with a winning ratio of more than 90%.

In the "Sun" analysis of the game, they still believe that the 'Magpies defense has improved a lot, but it is not good' ---
"Three days after this game, all Chelsea members will go to Spain to challenge Barcelona away. Now almost all fans are waiting for the battle of the century. In fact, this game is also very important for Chelsea, because As long as they want to win the FA Cup, they have to take this game seriously."

"Now, Duff's injury is really a disaster for Chelsea, but Newcastle United's state is not very good. The central defender Baumsong continues to recover from his injury, and Dell has been suffering from a cold. Newcastle's main lineup is also not good. Not quite. Although they have only conceded two goals in the last 4 games, their defensive ability has improved greatly, but facing Chelsea’s offensive ability, it is unrealistic for them to want to keep the goal, even if Chelsea will send half A substitute lineup will come on, but Allen will definitely be the starter, and Newcastle United are still in danger."

The analysis of "The Sun" was well-founded, and it cast a layer of gloom on Newcastle United before the game. Perhaps it was to make the team more confident. Captain Alan Shearer said in an interview with the media: "Winning the FA Cup is It is an important way for Newcastle to enter the European competition next season, and we will do whatever it takes to win the game."

It can be seen that the England legend is indeed full of confidence and high spirits before retiring.

However, at the pre-match press conference, Wang Li, who was present with coach Mourinho, said bluntly: "I don't think they have a chance to win, because I will start this game."

A simple sentence ignited the 'passion' of all media reporters, and Wang Li was always so 'cute' in the heart of the English media.

This Football Cup round of 16 knockout match started in this gunpowder-flavored collision between players from the two teams.

Mourinho did not send all the main lineup. Before the battle with Barcelona, ​​it is obviously unwise to do so.In this game, Frank Lampard, Scott Parker and William Gallas all got a rest, while Alkin Robben, the wonder boy of the Netherlands, got a chance.

On the offensive line, Wang Li, Arjen Robben, Joe Cole, and Gud Janssen formed a strong front line, which made the Newcastle United defenders look timid. Obviously, in the case of insufficient backcourt personnel, Mourinho just wants to fight a real offensive battle to win.

The script of the game is also going on according to Mourinho's thoughts. Facing the massive attack led by Wang Li, Newcastle United's defense, which they called "progressive" before the game, is like a dam that has been washed away , directly collapsed across the board.

Only in the 40th minute of the first half, the scoreboard on the field showed a bright red score of 1:3, which made the fans who watched the game experience Chelsea's crazy killing again.

In the end, the game ended with a score of 4:2, and Chelsea entered the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

After the game, Wang Li, who performed a hat-trick, became the best player in the game. However, he did not accept interviews with reporters. Instead, he returned to Stamford Bridge with the team. Up and Down has long been shrouded in the next battle, which was called the "War of the Century" by the European media, which put a lot of pressure on the Chelsea players.

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Just like unexpected surprises are often given on the football field, on the 21st, when Barcelona superstar Ronaldinho predicted the results of the Champions League 1/8 finals, he also made amazing words. Not only did he think that Barcelona will be [-]% Eliminated Chelsea to advance to the quarter-finals, and at the same time boldly predicted that all four teams in the Premier League would be blocked from the quarter-finals.

"First of all, I can be sure that Barcelona will enter the quarter-finals." Ronaldinho said in an interview with the "Daily Mirror". In his opinion, it is completely impossible for Chelsea to beat Barcelona. "In my opinion The teams coming to the quarter-finals will be AC ​​Milan, Real Madrid, Bayern, and Inter Milan should also be able to advance, but I think the four Premier League teams will be eliminated."

"Chelsea is in good form, but I still have [-]% confidence that Barcelona will enter the quarter-finals, our team is stronger, and I'm sure we can score in the game the day after tomorrow." Of course, Ronaldinho also admitted that Chelsea is A respectable opponent: "Their young player Alan Wang is very strong. I am looking forward to playing against him. However, this is not a fair confrontation. I hope he can realize his shortcomings. .”

In the eyes of many media, Ronaldinho's words are like an elder mentioning a younger generation. Judging from the age and experience of the two, Wang Li can only be said to be Ronaldinho's younger generation. But before the battle between Barcelona and Chelsea, such words were quite provocative.

In contrast, Ronaldinho's teammate Samuel Eto'o was even more rude to Chelsea. Because in the transfer market last summer, Mourinho 'abandoned' Eto'o and chose Dero when he chose a center forward. Ba, this makes Eto'o, who has won the African Footballer of the Year, feel anger from the bottom of his heart. He has already formed a moderate relationship with Chelsea and vowed to make Chelsea pay the price.

"We will score a lot of goals, I hope I will be one of them, we are ready for everything, they will use failure to recognize the Nou Camp, here at least they will not succeed." In an interview, Eto'o further Said, "For me this is revenge. They treated me like that. I will make them pay. Mourinho will be very sorry after this game. He will find that I am worse than many of his players. powerful."

Undoubtedly, the speeches of Ronaldinho and Eto'o directly ignited the spark of passion among the supporters of the two teams. The collision is definitely very strong.

Many media believe that the key players in this game are Ronaldinho and Wang Li, because these two are the offensive core of the two teams, and the match between Chelsea with a strong English style and Barcelona with a Spanish style The competition is more about which team can score more goals. In this regard, Wang Li has a little advantage, because his number of goals has been talked about by many media.

However, when it comes to "criticality", Wang Li is not as good as Ronaldinho. The latter is the engine of the audience in Barcelona. He is more important, while Wang Li relies more on himself In terms of technology, Ronaldinho clearly has an absolute advantage in this regard, so the outcome of the two teams is full of suspense.

Since this game was held at Camp Nou, and Chelsea broke out that Duff was injured before the game, many fans are still optimistic about Barcelona.

Under such circumstances, many seniors in football have also come forward to express their opinions, among which the legendary star Cruyff is quite representative. When commenting on this season's Champions League round of 16, Cruyff Talking about the match between Chelsea and Barcelona, ​​he said: "Chelsea has a lot of potential, the Premier League title has been firmly won, their matchup with Barcelona is very exciting, it is a confrontation between two completely different footballs. I don't know who will end up To win, but I know this game will be a battle of limit and anti limit. Whoever can minimize the opponent's style and rhythm is more likely to win."

"Barca put more emphasis on going forward, now they emphasize this more than any other Barcelona before, while Chelsea's three lines are all in the service of defense, the formation of both teams is the same, both are 433. A striker plays the role of a defender in the opponent's half. The difference between Barcelona and Chelsea is that the defense line is advanced by 10 to 15 meters. One is more offensive, and the other emphasizes defensive coordination. In the Nou Camp I I am more optimistic about Barcelona, ​​because Chelsea lacks the speed of Drogba and the penetration and positioning of Duff and Robben, which are exactly the strengths of Barcelona."

Cruyff's comments were much more professional. He analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the two teams in terms of formation, style and personnel, and talked about injuries.

In fact, although Drogba also broke out with a cold and did not play in the game against Newcastle United, it was just that Mourinho hid it in order to make him in the best condition. As the media said, they couldn't play, which made the Chelsea players a little happy, because with one more hole card that the opponent didn't understand, the chance of winning would definitely be a little higher.

In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of external media and public opinion, the Chelsea team did not make any powerful counterattacks. In fact, during the two days from the 21st to the 22nd, the whole team was doing closed training. I don't want to let the players have more contact with the media before the game.

However, Chelsea's non-retaliation does not mean the collective silence of the English media. In the contest between Chelsea and Barcelona, ​​they are of course on Chelsea's side, especially in the face of Ronaldinho's "premium defeat theory". , These media have launched a strong counterattack. In their view, this is simply a serious insult to English football.

In the "British Football" newspaper on the 22nd, reporters talked about the contrast between Ronaldinho and Wang Li. They emphasized: "The performance of this World Footballer this season is not worthy of his name. Both the number and the number of assists are very different from Allen. Maybe they always find more excuses for this, but in fact the data shows that the difference between the two can be clearly shown."

"...Ronaldinho arrogantly declared that all four teams in the Premier League will be eliminated. I think the first one to be eliminated will be Barcelona, ​​just because they have a big-mouthed Brazilian. It is said that Alan is very arrogant, but in fact this Brazilian is much more arrogant than Alan, Alan has done everything he said, but what about him!?"

The "Sun", which has a wider influence, has always been a supporter of Wang Li. Facing the aggressive situation of Barcelona, ​​they even stood up and "sweared". The first round score prediction, Barcelona's defeat is set" is the headline on the homepage——
"...Perhaps, Barcelona, ​​which failed to win the La Liga championship team for six consecutive seasons, has a strong fighting spirit this season, but they unfortunately met Chelsea in the Champions League. At least so far, no matter whether it is the domestic league or the It is a European competition, and Chelsea has not yet encountered a defeat. It can only be said that Barcelona's luck is really not very good. When they are eager to succeed, they find that standing in front of them is an untouchable Giants, they can only jump around like clowns."

At the end of the article, the "Sun" mentioned the score prediction: "...in this game, football-related professionals predict that the score will be 0:3, and Chelsea will win."

In fact, no one knows who the so-called "football-related professionals" are, and it is estimated that it is more likely to be the reporter who wrote this report...

(End of this chapter)