Chapter 517: Iron-Blooded Blue Army
Chelsea Football Club (nicknamed the Blues) is an English football club based in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, and now participates in the English Premier League, which is one of the largest clubs on Shijie. Chelsea were founded in 1905 and are based at Stamford Bridge near the River Thames in London's Hammersmith-Fulham borough.
Chelsea Football Club was founded in 1904 and in 1935 a Chelsea-Arsenal match drew 82,905 people to Stamford Bridge, which is still the record for the largest number of spectators in an English league. At the end of the 70s, Chelsea had to sell Stamford Bridge Stadium due to debt, allowing the Blues to borrow Fulham's home stadium. Against this backdrop, businessman Ken Bates paid off Chelsea's debts and bought the club for a symbolic £1, after which Bates advocated for the repossession of Stamford Bridge, which he fought for 10 years to reclaim in 1982.
In the 90s, starting with Hoddle and carried forward by Ruud Gullit, Chelsea began an era of bringing in big names from abroad. Using his connections in Europe, Gullit bought the likes of Vialli, Roberto Di Matteo and Leboeuf for Chelsea, before arriving at the arrival of the tiny Italian, who was later voted the best player of Chelsea history by Blues fans. It was the arrival of a number of big-name players that boosted Chelsea's prestige and the team's results. The FA Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup, and the UEFA Super Cup are on the way. Chelsea are starting to become an important part of the English scene.
On July 2, 2003, Roman? Roman Abramovich bought the debt-ridden Chelsea club. Chelsea have invested more than £100 million in the transfer market, and off the pitch. Roman Abramovich succeeded in making Chelsea Football Club completely private. The arrival of renowned coach Jose Mourinho saw Chelsea win the league title with the highest number of points and fewest goals conceded in the history of the English top flight, and the following year they successfully defended their Premier League title the following year with an invincible streak behind other Premier League rivals in the first two months of the league.
Chelsea have started the season without a beat in 13 games in all competitions under new head coach Scolari. It is also ranked first in the Premier League. But from late October 2008 onwards, the team's form began to decline with a home defeat to Liverpool in the league. Entering 2009. The team's form continued to improve, with Scolari sacked. Guus Hiddink then took on the role of head coach of the Russian national team as interim head coach of Chelsea. In the Champions League quarter-finals with Liverpool, the away win was 3-1, and the wonder soldier Branislav Ivanovic scored two headers. Didier Drogba scored a goal from a shovel. Back to home. After falling behind 2-0, Didier Drogba, Alex and Frank Lampard scored three goals in a row to take the lead, and Lampard scored another goal in the 89th minute to draw 4-4 at home to Liverpool and advance 7-5 on aggregate. Chelsea have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the fifth time in six seasons.
Barcelona and Chelsea have met 11 times in European history, with Barcelona winning five, drawing two and losing four, and remaining unbeaten at home with four wins and two draws. Barcelona rotated 3 people in this game, and Max and Henry entered the starting lineup. Due to Hansen's suspension, Yaya Toure was able to return to the main starting line-up. Other substitutes such as Pinto, Pedro, Victor Sanchez, Cáceres and Sergio Busquets were left out of the squad for jishu reasons. For Chelsea, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, Deco, Pacos Ferreira and Carvalho are out through injury, while Quaresma, Mineilo, Taylor and Merris are also missing out due to jishu.
Barcelona lineup No. 1 Valdés, No. 20 Alves, No. 4 Max, No. 3 Pique, No. 22 Abidal; No. 6 Xavi, No. 24 Toure, No. 8 Iniesta; No. 10 Messi, No. 9 Eto'o, No. 14 Henry. Chelsea No.1 Petr Cech; No. 2 Ivanovic, No. 26 Terry, No. 33 Alex, No. 17 Bosingwa; No. 12 Mikel, No. 13 Barak; No. 5 Essien, No. 8 Frank Lampard, No. 15 Malouda; No. 11 Drogba.
"Today will be a day to remember." In the dressing room, Pep Guardiola took the lead in making a mobilization speech, and the well-dressed Hansen sat on the side, "Because today is our captain Karls' 100th international game for Barcelona!" However, he will have to wait on the bench for a while. ”
Everyone immediately turned their eyes to Puyol on the side of the locker room, and applauded, Han Sen, who didn't have to play, even let out a few strange screams, which attracted a harmonious atmosphere in the locker room, and Puyol also showed the smile that Han Sen said was like crying.
"Then what I want to say next is the question of this week's game." Pep Guardiola suddenly changed the subject, and everyone fell silent, because everyone knows that this week's two games against Chelsea and away to Real Madrid will almost completely determine Barcelona's results this season.
'A lot of people think we're going to have a choice in the Champions League and the league because we're four points ahead of Real Madrid and we have a bit of an advantage against Chelsea. Pep Guardiola said calmly, "But I have a sentence here that I only say to the players in the dressing room. ”
Hansen and all the Barcelona players held their breath and only heard Pep Guardiola say: "In these three games, maybe we will make minor adjustments in some positions due to injuries and red and yellow cards, but I will never promise to give up any game, whether it is the Bernabeu or Stamford Bridge, I hope you will show your best strength and win against your opponents!" And Camp Nou is a battle we must win! Guys, do you have faith? ”
"Yes!" In the face of this kind of military training-style mobilization that is very accustomed to in China, Han Sen was the first to raise his arms and shout, and then he found that he was the only one in the locker room who raised his hand, it seemed that there was no pressure of the game, and the cool Han Sen looked much more alive than usual, seeing everyone staring at him, Han Sen shrank his neck, causing a slight laugh in the locker room.
Messi smiled and said to Han Sen: "How good is this, weishenme, you are always so cool on the field?" ”
Han Sen patted Messi's shoulder in an old-fashioned manner: "Young man, cool, it's an attitude." ”
Since the suspended players could not enter the bench, and Han Sen planned to sit in the stands with Binyan, Xu Yun and Cruyff from the beginning, after leaving the locker room, Han Sen did not choose to play with his teammates, but went to the stands from another passage.
At the start of the game, Chelsea dominated the game and took the lead, in the third minute, Malouda's low cross from the left was crossed by Essien on the right side in front of the penalty area, and Lampard's curling shot from the top of his right foot inside the instep of his foot was pushed wide of the far post. However, then Barcelona quickly took control of the game, and in the 16th minute, Andres Iniesta's direct pass, Xavi knocked back in the middle of the penalty area, Messi's left-footed shot from inside the penalty area hit the defender and bounced, and Cech easily saved the ball. One minute later, Andres Iniesta's through ball was knocked in the middle of Xavi outside the box, and Eto'o turned and volleyed with his right foot at the top of the arc. In the 19th minute, Messi made a direct pass, Henry knocked back at the top of the arc, and Messi shot high with his left foot.
Subsequently, in the face of Barcelona's flood of attack and strong ball control, Chelsea's style of play began to be rough, in the 25th minute Alex kicked down Messi at the top of the penalty area and was yellow carded, 3 minutes later, Ballack tackled Henry was also yellow carded, in the 36th minute, Mikel midfielder was fouled on Iniesta, referee Stark refused to show a yellow card, Yaya Toure protested to him and was yellow carded.
After a psychological and tactical confrontation, Chelsea took the lead to get a fatal chance, 38 minutes Malouda back long pass, Marquez back pass Liliang is too light, Drogba steals and shoots hard in the middle of the penalty area, Valdés reacts quickly to save the ball in front of Drogba. Drogba wanted to pick Valdés to shoot into the empty goal, but Valdés quickly made a second reaction and jumped to block the ball!
The whole Camp Nou suddenly had a false alarm, Han Sen sat in the middle of Binyan, Cruyff, Osvaldo, and Xu Yun, especially in front of the Camp Nou fans, regardless of the image, after holding his head in his hands, he hurriedly applauded loudly and applauded Valdés!
Cruyff looked at Han Sen's appearance of jumping up and down, and said kindly: "Handsome, have you played in the Champions League final?" ”
"How fresh!" Han Sen said without looking back, "Master, did you know me on the first day?" This is my second season, my first trip to the Champions League, do you say I've played in a Champions League final? ”
Cruyff mumbled: "I reached the Champions League final at Ajax three years in a row from '71 to '73 and won all of them, do you want to know what it was like? ”
Han Sen turned his head in surprise and looked at Cruyff together with Binyan, only to see Cruyff's eyes revealing a kind of beauty and longing: "At that time, I hadn't participated in the Shijie Cup, but at that time, I felt that I had stood on the highest stage of Shijie and had won all Shijie." ”
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And a monthly pass that won all shijie! (To be continued......)