Chapter 45: The Dragon Slayer

The next day, the thirteenth round of the Premier League was over, and many media reported in detail about Derby's victory over Middlesbrough, although this game was just a contest between Derby County and Middlesbrough, and the result only disappointed those Derby County hostile media, but Derby's victory was actually not unexpected, after all, Derby County's results were much better than Middlesbrough, and they were playing at home, and it was not surprising that Middlesbrough lost.

Regarding this match, the media reported more about Rafael van der Vaart's table.

Van der Vaart scored two shots and one pass, stood out in the whole game, became the best player, and was also rated by the media as the best in this round, that is, the best of the 20 teams in the Premier League, and it is natural to be commended.

At the same time as the media reports, many clubs are also surprised by Van der Vaart's cousin, as a club, they still pay attention to the opponent's players, no matter which team in the Premier League, the current Derby County can be called a strong opponent, so when they see Van der Vaart's table is so good, they will also pay attention, and they are shocked by Van der Vaart's superb technical strength in the game.

Van der Vaart is definitely a world-class player.

Before coming to the Premier League, Van der Vaart played for Ajax, although he was the captain of Ajax for a year β‰ˆβˆ , but in fact, he was not well-known in Europe, let alone in England, because Ajax did not participate in the European Champions Cup last year, no one knew who their new captain was, until Van der Vaart transferred to Derby County, everyone knew that the young man was the captain of Ajax.

Despite this, many people are not optimistic about Van der Vaart.

After all, Ajax is not the top giants of the past, with the introduction of the 'Boseman Act' in 1995, the giants of the minor leagues had to give way to the giants of the major leagues, and Ajax gradually declined, and now they are difficult to compete with Feyenoord, let alone the whole of Europe. So to say 'Captain Ajax' is just a name, no one cares at all.

But after this game is different, you can find that Van der Vaart is definitely the strength of the world's top players, Middlesbrough's defense is quite good, which responds to the sentence 'McLaren's team is not easy to deal with', even if it is Manchester United, Chelsea and other teams, at home do not dare to say that they can win Middlesbrough, Derby County did it, especially Van der Vaart scored two goals and assisted once in the 'key care' behind Middlesbrough. This kind of table xiΓ n is absolutely surprising.

"This is a world-class table!"

The Sun said, "Rafael van der Vaart's ability is already more than the average top-flight player, the point is that he is only 21 years old and his future is infinitely bright!" After a year at Derby, he can firmly occupy the main position in the Dutch team! ”

"If he can stick to this kind of performance, he will become the hottest player in the transfer market next summer!"

The Sun, which is worthy of being owned by Murdoch's News Corp., did not forget to disgust the Derby County club after giving some praise to Van der Vaart, or rather. Disgusted Wan Sheng, their meaning is obvious, that is, 'a star like Van der Vaart, Derby County can't be retained'.

Although many reports focus on Van der Vaart. However, Derby County's results are still commendable, and as of this round, Derby County have been unbeaten in 13 league games and won this game. It was also Derby's fifth win in a row.

Although there is no change in the league standings, such a result is surprising enough.

If the media previously characterized Derby County as 'shit luck', now the commentary is reported. It can be seen that the attitude of the media has changed, and Derby County has at least been upgraded to the 'dark horse' Cheng dΓΉ.

However, dark horses are only dark horses after all, and the media still don't think that Derby County can hold on to the end, and Chelsea, who have won eight consecutive league games with gorgeous results, is the protagonist of the media.

Chelsea beat Fulham 4-1 away in the last round to win the west London derby.

This is already their eighth consecutive victory.

Four of those eight games have seen Chelsea score more than four goals, showcasing Chelsea's quality, while some of Chelsea's strong players have been highlighted in the media, with the kind of overwhelming coverage no worse than the assessment of Rafael van der Vaart.

Chelsea's players who have gone straight to the red are Frank Lampard, John Terry and Arjen Robben.

Arjen Robben has become the most powerful killer up front, John Terry is the handsome man at the back who has just received a new contract and a salary increase, and Frank Lampard is the leader of the midfield.

The trio became the leading figures on all three fronts at Chelsea.

Frank Lampard is not a player he grew up at Stamford Bridge, but he always gets the most cheers here. Jose Mourinho's set-up in the last league game has already illustrated one thing: in the current team, there are only three players that the Portuguese value most in midfield: Arjen Robben, Gudjohnsen and Frank Lampard.

Mourinho, who had to bring on the trio in the second half in a hard-fought battle with Newcastle, was the one who brought the Blues victory, and the west London derby against Fulham, Mourinho knew that Frank Lampard and Arjen Robben would still bring the team victory.

As it turned out, if it was a gamble, the Portuguese would have been wise to bet as much as they could.

Frank Lampard and Arjen Robben gave him the win he needed.

In particular, Frank Lampard's stunning free-kick was a shocking thunderbolt on the tiny Clerwin cottage pitch, and in the 34th minute, Robben's through ball was blocked by a Fulham defender, and just as Malblanc was about to dribble forward, the tackle-making Makelele suddenly appeared in front of him, and the Fulham defender had to foul him. Gudjohnsen and Duff flicked on and Frank Lampard fired a powerful long-range shot into the top right corner from 30 yards to give Chelsea a perfect start.

But that long-range shot wasn't the only highlight of the afternoon, as Senegalese midfielder Diop blasted a more exciting goal than Frank Lampard in the 22nd minute of the second half, when Radzinski's cross from the right was cleared by John Terry's header, and Diop, who was 35 yards out, volleyed in the bottom left corner of the Chelsea goal.

However, despite being on their home turf, Fulham was not the star of the afternoon.

Frank Lampard and Arjen Robben kept the whole Chelsea squad running smoothly, and the duo worked together to almost make the fans in the small stadium desperate. The final stage of the first half. Two chances from Frank Lampard almost sealed the end of the game early.

In the end, Chelsea didn't give their opponents any chance after Arjen Robben's goal.

That was enough for Frank Lampard and it was his first free-kick goal this season. Frank Lampard, who used to be more than beautiful, is now a formidable piece of artillery, and the invisible killer behind the striker has become more versatile and more fearsome for all defenders.

The Chelsea players' performance was unanimously praised.

However, similar to the situation at Derby, the media has not been very good at the Chelsea players, while the media have focused on the players. They don't have much to say about Chelsea's results, but when the media wants to say it, there is always something to say that their 'handle' for Chelsea is their tactical style.

Four of Chelsea's eight consecutive wins have been '1-0', so some media have ridiculed Jose Mourinho's football as '1:0' utilitarian football.

The hostile Chelsea media will also find it difficult to look elsewhere, they can only pinch Chelsea's tactical style to satirize Mourinho's conservatism, and they even use the winning Derby County as a teaching material. "Look at second place in the league, they're just a small team that has just been promoted, but they play every game, it's a good game. And every game at Chelsea is lethargic. ”

'The Derby game was a delight to watch and Chelsea's tactics were a step backwards for football! Utilitarian football should get out of England, we don't need a conservative champion! ”

"If the Premier League teams were like Arsenal, Derby County and Tottenham Hotspur, our league would win more spectators!"

"The FA wants to sell the Premier League to the world. Jose Mourinho is the FA's worst enemy! ”

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Looking at these reports, Wan Sheng can imagine Mourinho's mood, although he is also not very popular in the English media. But it didn't get to the point of being called 'the FA's biggest enemy' and 'the public enemy of English football', but Mourinho did it, for which he can only say that he admires.

Wan Sheng really has a feeling of sympathy for Mourinho.

Although the two don't know each other and haven't even met, the common point is that they are both targeted in the English media, and perhaps there is another point, that is, the two have very good results in leading the team, and now Wansheng's goal is to lead the team to catch up with Chelsea in the league and win the league title in the near future.

That's the Premier League champion!

In the summer, Wan Sheng didn't dare to say or even think about the league title even if he had ideas, but now he found that Derby County could try to win the league title, and the biggest contender was Chelsea.

Chelsea

Even if there is a gap in strength, it can be fought for, and the thought of leading the team to win the Premier League championship makes Wansheng's heart hot.

That's an amazing honor!

He is now facing Chelsea, because the next round of the league is a clash between Derby County and Chelsea, or a clash at the Pride Stadium.

He takes this game very seriously.

In the eyes of the media, this is a clash between the first and second in the league, and the outcome of the game can directly determine the top spot in the league, and in Wansheng, this is a direct contest between him and Mourinho, and he wants to see what the world's hottest football coach can really do in the next ten years.

It's Derby's challenge and it's his challenge!

However, while preparing for the game, Wan Sheng was still very relieved to see the hot reports of the game in many media, because when Derby County met Chelsea, there seemed to be many more voices supporting Derby County than supporting Chelsea, which may be due to Mourinho's unpopular image in the media and Chelsea's transfer strategy, and now Chelsea has almost become the public enemy of English football.

Although Wansheng's 'popularity' in the media is not good, it is more for personal reasons and has nothing to do with Derby County FC.

Chelsea are all club reasons.

Their transfer strategy has offended almost every other club, disrupting the transfer market, seducing other teams' big-name stars with high salaries, coupled with Jose Mourinho's annoying mouth...... No one other than Chelsea's own fans will have a soft spot for Chelsea.

So the direction of public opinion in the media can be imagined.

A large group of media outlets came out in support of Derbyshire.

It's like Derby County becoming the 'Dragon Slayer Warriors', and everyone expects Derby County to slaughter Chelsea's 'black dragon that is doing evil everywhere'

ps: The third update, ask for all kinds of tickets. (To be continued......)