November is a relatively competitive month for Chelsea, with eight games waiting for them in total, including the league, the League Cup and the Champions League.

Fortunately, in these eight games, only the fourth round of the Champions League group stage away to Roma and the league away to Arsenal are a bit difficult, and the opponents in the other six games are not strong, as long as they play normally, there is no problem in spending November easily.

Chelsea's first opponent in November was mid-table side Sunderland.

However, before this league, in the early morning of October 30, Beijing time, FIFA announced the 23-man list of candidates for the 2008 World Footballer of the Year at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Not surprisingly, Iello was named again after winning the World Footballer of the Year for the second year in a row, while Spain, who won the European Championship this year, had six players selected, ranking first among all countries and regions, followed by England with four.

The club selected for the squad is last season's Champions League winners Chelsea with five candidates.

Among the 23-man shortlist, the most vocal are naturally the Chinese star Ailo, who led Chelsea to win the Champions League and the Premier League, and Messi, who helped the Argentine team win the Olympic men's football championship, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that there will be no difference between this year's World Footballer of the Year and last year's, and Elo, who led Chelsea to win the Grand Slam in all competitions, will score a hat-trick of World Footballer of the Year.

In other words, Iello will have a good chance of setting the first FIFA World Footballer of the Year record - being elected World Footballer of the Year for the third year in a row!

In-form Chelsea kicked off their November campaign with a 2-0 win at Sunderland, winning their next three league games and a Carabao Cup fourth-round fixture, with the exception of a 1-1 draw at the Stadio Olimpico in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage on the 5th.

However, there are still problems for Mourinho, with Ballack, Malouda and Didier Drogba all suffering injuries due to a busy schedule, but thankfully they can continue to play for two to three weeks, otherwise it would be super troublesome to wait until December......

Because Chelsea have to travel to Japan for the Club World Cup in mid-December, and will have to come back to face the Premier League's Christmas rush, which is ...... It's a lot of pressure for the whole team.

Therefore, Mourinho had to rotate the team on a large scale to avoid another injury to the main players, otherwise there would be no place to cry when the time comes.

However, the extensive rotation has led to a dip in Chelsea's results, and it is estimated that Chelsea will have suffered their first Champions League defeat of the new season had it not been for the final savior of the fifth round of the Champions League group stage away to Bordeaux.

After five rounds, three wins, two draws and 11 points, and Roma, who has two wins, two draws and one loss, and eight points, have appeared hand in hand, but unfortunately failed to lock the first place in the group in advance.

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Two days later, Chelsea's away league game against Arsenal was a big problem with the rotation when Belgian Marouane Fellaini, who joined Chelsea at the beginning of the season, received a red card for malicious revenge less than half an hour later, directly leading to Chelsea's all-round passivity in midfield.

As the saying goes, good fortune strikes no worse than bad luck, and Chelsea were beaten by in-form tiger Theo Walcott before full-time to seal their unbeaten run to the 63rd game.

Chelsea had a very good run throughout November, winning five and drawing two of their seven games before the away trip to Arsenal, which would have been a good result, but the defeat in the final league game against Arsenal was a surprise to everyone.

Even the Belgian media are worried about whether Fellaini will be blacklisted by Mourinho.

When Chelsea set a new record of unbeaten in Europe's top league, it was reported in detail by the mainstream media in Europe, and now it has also been reported in detail by Arsenal on the road.

As a result, Chelsea, from the manager to the players, have been harassed by fly-like reporters.

The newspaper Sport was particularly active, with the headline "Reincarnation?

Four years ago, Arsenal, who were unbeaten in 49 consecutive league games, suffered a strong comeback at Old Trafford and finally failed to hit a 50-game unbeaten streak, and now, four years later, Chelsea's 64th unbeaten run has stopped the unbeaten streak against the team that was once the longest unbeaten in the Premier League, I have to say...... It's a very interesting result, but when we look at it from another angle, it's easy to see that this is not an accident, but the inevitability of Chelsea's 63-game unbeaten run in the league, just as Chelsea almost lost in the first two games due to extensive rotation, and it is not unusual for Chelsea to lose to Arsenal in this round of the league......

It is similar to the report of "Milan Sport".

The Times has found a reason for Chelsea, but it is one of the very few, with the report saying: "A 63-game unbeaten run is not the furthest Chelsea can go, but why would they fail in the 64th round of the league unbeaten run? This is closely related to their intensive schedule in the next December and January next year, the League Cup, FA Cup, league, Champions League and the Club World Cup to Japan, especially the two matches to Japan to participate in the Club World Cup, must cross the Eurasian continent, the physical load of the players is extremely strict, if they continue to be unbeaten, it will definitely put a huge pressure on every player, otherwise by the end of the season, the four will be empty...... Therefore, compared to the big crash in the future, it is a very cost-effective result to lose now, because at this time, there is no mental baggage, and it is inevitable that you will travel lightly in the next game......"

While the media discussion was in full swing, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was giving his team a lesson in politics.

"We lost to Arsenal in north London last night, and it has nothing to do with everyone here!"

When Mourinho said this, all the players looked at him suspiciously, according to Mourinho's previous character, it was impossible to say these words when the team lost.

Immediately, many players in the audience instinctively thought: When was the last time you lost?

They don't remember......

Mourinho ignored the surprised gazes of his players and continued: "It's normal for a wide rotation to have ups and downs on the eve of a big game, so don't mind, we just have to focus on the next games, play every game well, and don't forget...... Our goal at the beginning of the season! ”

Goals at the start of the season?

At the same time, many players were shocked, wasn't the goal at the beginning of the season to defend all the championships?

The veterans of the team thought that Mourinho gathered everyone this time to criticize the defeat in the last league game, but they didn't expect to say this......

Thinking of this, almost all the team members became scrappy.

Although Luka Modric is a newcomer to the team, he knows Chelsea's goals for the new season from media reports, which is one of the reasons why he chose Chelsea in favour of Tottenham in the first place.

Champions, who doesn't like that?

Everyone was very excited, only Ailo was more normal, because his goal was to win all the championships, and he didn't need too many flowery words to stimulate, as he said when he won the Player of the Season award from FIFPRO, everything he did was for the strength of his country.

What does it mean to be powerful? When the number of champions accumulates to a certain number, it is powerful!

The current Iroh is slowly walking towards such a path...... Until the end!

“…… I want you to learn from the defeat to Arsenal and play every game well, because at the beginning of the season we swore to win all the titles, I don't want to slap myself in the face, and I'm sure you don't want to do that, so ...... Let's take out all the next opponents together! Mourinho said, and even rolled up his sleeves and threw his fist excitedly.

"Kill all your opponents!"

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This time, even Iroh joined the cheering lineup.

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On December 3rd, Chelsea travelled to Derby County in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

After the defeat in the previous round of the league, Chelsea quickly adjusted to the best of their mentality and reached the peak of their competitive form, beating 2-0 away from home to reach the semi-finals of the 2008-2009 League Cup, one step closer to their first trophy of the new season.

Next, continue the away trip, this is the 2008-2009 English Premier League 16th round of the game, away to the Premier League 'nursing home' Bolton, the result is no surprise, with a pass and a shot from Iello, won the game away, continue to be at the top of the league.

In fact, in addition to the away league loss to Arsenal this season, Chelsea's overall table is better than last season, 16 rounds of league past, 14 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss with 43 points, while the second place in the league Manchester United only achieved 11 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses and 36 points, that is to say, after 16 rounds of league games, Chelsea has been ahead of Manchester United, which is second in the league with 7 points, which is much better than last season's tight situation.

Moreover, Iello also topped the scorers' charts with 20 goals, five goals ahead of second-placed Cristiano Ronaldo.

This is one of the reasons why Mourinho did not get angry after his team's defeat to Arsenal.

After four consecutive away games, Chelsea are finally back at their home stadium at Stamford Bridge, where they face their final Champions League group stage fixture.

At present, Chelsea is top of the group with 11 points from five games, three wins and two draws, while Roma is second with eight points from two wins, two draws and one loss, which means that Chelsea only need to draw in the last round of games to win the group and take the lead in the draw for the 1/8 final of the two legs.

Of course, Chelsea will not be playing a defensive draw at home to Belgian giants Club Brugge, who won Group A 3-0 at home thanks to Elo's two shots and one pass.