Volume 1 Chapter 238 A Best Start
Ye Qiu's interview immediately attracted a lot of attention in English football, but it was more Chelsea fans who were curious about the manager, while Manchester United and Arsenal fans were looking at the Community Shield at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
The tournament has been described as a warm-up for the Premier League, as the first round of the Premier League kicks off a week after the Community Shield.
Although the game has nothing to do with him, Manchester United and Arsenal are Ye Qiu's number one rivals in the Premier League this season, especially Arsenal, if Ye Qiu remembers correctly, the Gunners should be undefeated to win the championship this season.
His arrival did not change Arsenal much, Ye Qiu didn't know if Wenger's team would still be like in his previous life, but at least, the strength of this Gunners team was not greatly affected, but what he didn't expect was that the two teams obviously didn't take this game too seriously, and they didn't play the main team.
This made Ye Qiu, who made a special trip from London to Cardiff to watch this game, disappointed, what he saw was a dull game, a lot of fouls, and both sides obviously did not give their best, and finally Manchester United defeated Arsenal to win the Community Shield, but this game can be said to have no gold content.
On the contrary, after the game, I heard that Manchester United's poaching of Puyol has entered a substantive stage, Manchester United raised its offer from UU million euros to UU million euros, and Barcelona's Puyol also said that he did not rule out joining Manchester United.
Sometimes, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false in the transfer market, whether Puyol really wants to join Manchester United, or use Manchester United to put pressure on Barcelona, no one knows, perhaps, he stayed to put pressure, and chose to leave, which is true.
Professional players are flowing soldiers, and whoever is more serious loses
Perhaps due to the influence of the Community Shield, Ye Qiu also did not play his main force in the away game against Sliner.
Goalkeeper Patten van der Sar, Patrice Gallas, John Terry and Son Je-hai at the back, Claude Makelele, Edgar Davies and Frank Lampard in midfield, while Ronaldinho and Joe Cole were in ambush behind Gudjohnsen.
Gudjohnsen has some things that Ye Qiu admires, he has a certain speed, has the tall stature and fierce style of a Nordic player, but also has flexibility and finesse, his style is a bit like Ibrahimovic, but he is inferior to Ibrahimovic in all aspects, only in diligence and fighting spirit, much better than the Swede.
Despite this, Gudjohnsen's attacking and scoring ability is relatively average, which made him miss a lot of opportunities in the first half of the game against Slina, and he was okay to play the ball and strategy, but in the face of the stubborn Sliner, he could not take advantage of his height.
It wasn't until the 43rd minute that Gudjohnsen made the most of a golden opportunity to break the deadlock for Chelsea.
In the second half, Ye Qiu did not rush to adjust, but continued to observe, and in the UU minute, he replaced Joe Cole with Van Persie, and the team changed to 43 Ronaldinho and Van Persie both pressed up to play forwards, but more on the wings, Lampard's position pressed up.
In the 75th minute, it was Frank Lampard who fired a shot from the edge of the box after receiving Ronaldinho's return pass to give Chelsea another goal, but after that, Chelsea were unable to find the back of the net and the score remained 0 until the end.
Everyone took Chelsea's win at Srina for granted, and it was strange not to win against them, so no particular attention was paid to them.
After returning to London, the team spent two days repairing before heading to Liverpool for an away game at Anfield.
The opening match of the first round of the Premier League in 034 was Birmingham against Tottenham Hotspur.
Tottenham Hotspur is no longer the glamorous and sexy football style of the past, even in the minds of many Tottenham fans, this team still represents elegance and romance, but the reality has cruelly deprived them of their worst beliefs, especially the strong rise of their sworn rivals Arsenal, which has forced them to face their mediocrity.
At the beginning of the season, even though Hoddle's team worked hard, they still lost 0L away.
On the same night as the opening game between Birmingham and Tottenham Hotspur, United got off to a 40-year win at home to Bolton Wanderers at Old Trafford thanks to a brace from Ryan Giggs and goals from Paul Paul Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Arsenal beat Everton at their home stadium, with Thierry Henry and Andreas Pire scoring for Arsenal.
But neither team was the most showy, with the most surprising Premier League opening day coming from Souness' Blackburn Rovers.
The England coach who chose Ye Qiu instead of him for Abramovich is determined to prove to everyone in this game, especially Abramovich, that he is no worse than Ye Qiu at all.
Therefore, when he played against Wolves, he played attacking football and defeated Wolves at his home stadium and went straight to the top.
Speaking to the media after the game, Souness said he was pleased with Blackburn's quality and he wanted to lead the team to a European campaign.
'As we all know, we weren't far away from the Champions League last season and I hope this season will make up for last season's disappointment and we will definitely be able to finish the season with a good standings.'
As for the media's question about who will be the strongest contender for the Premier League title this season, the Blackburn manager is not optimistic about Ye Qiu at all, he feels that Wenger and Ferguson's teams are very promising, and even Houllier's Liverpool is more likely than Ye Qiu's Chelsea.
"You know, it's difficult for people who are not familiar with the Premier League to gain a foothold here" This remark is faintly aimed at Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu did not refute because he was stubbornly sniped by Liverpool at Anfield.
Houllier's team is not as strong as before, and it has proved that the combination of high and fast strikers insisted on by the French is difficult to work again, and Ye Qiu has dealt a blow to Liverpool's style in this game, and even pressed the defense line directly to Liverpool's half.
Owen's counterattack?
Not to mention that the current Owen does not have the speed he had at his peak, and when he can't pass the ball in the midfield, Owen can't be any better.
0 Frank Lampard scored Chelsea's first goal of the season in the first minute of the first half, before Didier Drogba's 78th-minute strike sealed the scores, giving Chelsea complete control of the game and beating Liverpool at Anfield.
Ye Qiu praised the team's performance after the game, "The first round of the new season will always be difficult, we need to slowly find the form of the game, but I am very happy that my players finally won the opponent. ”
Houllier was disappointed with his team's performance in the game, 'We were completely controlled by our opponents, the game was always under Chelsea's dominance, we were very sorry for that, we lost, but the league has only just begun'
Won Liverpool in the first round, and the media focus was on Ronaldinho.
The Brazilian was brilliant in this game, with a direct assist, an indirect assist, and his contribution to both goals, and he also became the most dangerous of Chelsea's attacking players, which also made many who previously thought Ronaldinho would be difficult to adapt to the Premier League.
Many people are analysing Chelsea's first league game, Ye Qiu lined up a 43L lineup in this game, with Edra van der Sar in goal, Evra, Cannavaro, Terry and McCone in the back, Edgar Davies, Makelele and Deco in the midfield, Ronaldinho and Lampard in front, and Drogba as the single striker.
Chelsea's squad seems to be tough and strong, but the ability to create chances in the game is not weak, the first game of the league against Liverpool, the Reds at home only got the opportunity to shoot, but Chelsea have 16 shots, more than twice the opponent, although only scored in the end, but the kind of pressing and controlling play shown by Chelsea is impressive, especially the pressure on Liverpool in the midfield.
A week later, back at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea played their first home game of the season and the first appearance of the team in front of Chelsea fans at Stamford Bridge.
The starting lineup is still the same as the one that played Liverpool a week ago, which makes everyone understand that Ye Qiu did not take the second leg of the game against Slina three days later in his eyes at all, and he is trying to ensure the stability of the start of the league.
A typical Ye Qiu-style start, a typical fast-paced rush tactics, and a typical offensive football
Only 3 minutes into the opening game, Ronaldinho was in a Chelsea midfield break, the ball quickly from the opponent 30 meters away, after dribbling past two opponents in a row, in the area from the top of the arc from the front of the penalty area, facing the opponent's goalkeeper, suddenly got up, the ball directly grazed the crossbar into the goal.
All the Chelsea fans across Stamford Bridge rushed out of their seats, and in that moment they were all stunned by the Brazilian's magical footwork, and the long-range shot that went into the net after two people was in the blink of an eye, and many of them may not even see how the goal came from, but that didn't stop them from appreciating Ronaldinho's goal.
0 Chelsea started the game ahead of Leicester City.
But just when everyone thought that after the goal was ahead, Chelsea should take a break for a while, Ye Qiu waved his hand on the sidelines, and everyone pressed it vigorously
As a promoted horse this season, Leicester City team is not too strong, their goal is to relegation, away to Stamford Bridge should not have too much ambition, but the first game of the group forced a draw with Southampton, and even almost reversed, which made Leicester City's ambition skyrocket, and even wanted to swallow Chelsea, and became famous in one fell swoop.
This is also the practice of all dark horse teams, through an inspiring victory, completely bringing everyone in the team together, twisting into a rope from top to bottom, and then exerting the fighting power of dark horses.
But Mitch Adams obviously ignored one point, Ye Qiu was born in a dark horse, how could he give his opponent a chance to become a dark horse from himself?
The lessons of the opening were not enough to crush Leicester City, so Chelsea pressed hard.
Mitch Adams and his team soon found themselves unable to escape Chelsea's control.
When the Blues pushed their entire defence across the halfway line and pinned Leicester City in the half, they were unable to resist as they had to contend with a disparity in quality and a tactical misstep.
On the contrary, it was Chelsea, because Leicester City wanted to have a dark horse after the start, and the defense was not very tight, so Chelsea kept creating opportunities and creating threats.
In the ll minute, the Dutch boar Davies came by himself, and after the midfield broke the ball, he had a one-two cooperation with Deco, and the Portuguese international passed diagonally in front of Davies, don't look at the Dutchman with glasses, but he rushed up on the field, and there was indeed a wild boar sprint, which broke down the midfield of the Leicester City team.
Another shot from the edge of the box, another long-range shot, another hole through Ian Walker's goal, 0
Once again, the entire stadium at Stamford Bridge went wild, with two successive goals from Ronaldinho to Edgar Davies being brilliant and showing Blues fans the desire to attack.
But just when their excitement was not over, Chelsea launched wave after wave of attacks on Leicester City, in the 17th minute, McCone on the right side quickly cut forward to get the ball, a kick to the edge of the penalty area, Drogba header, Lampard rushed quickly, stopped the ball on the chest and went directly into the penalty area, without waiting for the ball to land, directly volleyed.
Ian Walker reacted but couldn't set Frank Lampard's goal under his arm and into the back of the net
The Blues' vice-captain excitedly burst out of the Leicester penalty area, raising his hands high as he watched the cheers of the Chelsea fans in the stands.
Just 17 minutes into the game, Chelsea took a three-goal lead and almost won the game early, which not only boosted the morale of the team, but also excited all the Chelsea fans who came to the scene.
But obviously, Ye Qiu seems to be not satisfied with this score, and still gives instructions to the team to continue to attack and continue to maintain pressure, and Chelsea is also constantly attacking the Leicester City goal, but unfortunately missed a few opportunities.
With the victory in hand, Ye Qiu gradually slowed down the attack, and it was not until the second half that Chelsea got the ball from Ronaldinho on the left side and dribbled past the opposing defender to cut inside, and after Drogbard pulled out the opponent's central defender, he passed diagonally to the back post, Lampard cut in again, and the header put Ronaldinho's diagonal pass into the Leicester City goal, 40
After that, Ye Qiu began to make substitutions, in his opinion, the game has been played so far, Leicester City has been suppressed by Chelsea for more than an hour, and it is impossible to fight back, and in the end, the game also ended with 4, and Chelsea won two consecutive wins.
In the same round, United took on Newcastle United at home, with Alan Shearer giving Newcastle the lead in the first half, and it wasn't until the second half that Ruud van Nistelrooy and Paul Scholes equalised and reversed their opponents.
Although United brought in Cristiano Ronaldo this summer, with the departures of David Beckham and Veron, United's entire midfield has been completely unbalanced, and without Beckham's long passing, the team's attack will be curtailed, and this game is the best example of this.
As Newcastle manager Bobby Robson has said, it was luck that United were able to turn the scoreline around.
Either way, Manchester United won the game, also two wins in a row.
Arsenal beat Middlesbrough away to make it two wins in a row, the only three teams to win twice in a row since the start of the new Premier League season, while Chelsea climbed to the top of the league table with two goals scored and conceded in two games.
Blackburn, who had a great glory in the last round, were drawn by Bolton Wanderers away in this round, and Souness felt that the reason for the team's poor performance was a lack of luck, but soon the media ridiculed that Souness not only lacked luck, but also lacked the ability of a minimum manager of a strong team, because his team lost 3 at home to Manchester City in the third round.
Ye Qiu's Chelsea adjusted the schedule because they were going to play in the second leg of the Champions League qualifiers, so they were ahead of the other teams, and in the end they also beat Birmingham City 0 away, with Ronaldinho scoring the only goal.
It has also made the Brazilian a favourite among Blues fans, with his impressive start to the season, his fitness and range of movement being very active, and Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba tackling him wherever he goes, making Chelsea's attacking combination a nightmare for opponents.
But Arsenal and Manchester United were also unambiguous, both beating their opponents, and all three teams won three in a row, and neither wanted to be left behind.
In the second leg of the third round of the Champions League qualifiers, Chelsea sat at home and beat Srina 40 with a semi-substitute line-up, and finally advanced to the group stage with an aggregate score.
Back in the Premier League, Chelsea welcomed Leotherick Thorburn in Souness in the fourth round.
The homegrown England manager, who had once coveted Roman Abramovich's Chelsea managership, put on a bucket of tactics in the hope of retaining his dignity at Stamford Bridge.
Yes, he doesn't dare to beat Chelsea anymore, he just wants to keep his dignity.
But Ye Qiu always held a grudge against his previous attack on him, for the sake of public and private, this game must be won.
As a result, the iron bucket that Souness is most proud of was less than l minutes in the opening game, no, strictly speaking, only 5l seconds, it was broken by Chelsea, Deco took the ball in the middle and plugged it straight, Ronaldinho broke through with the ball on the left and crossed, Lampard nodded the ball in front of the goal, 0
After that, Blackburn Rovers defended to the end, and Chelsea were not in a hurry, always keeping the attacking pressure on this team.
It wasn't until the second half that Robin van Persie, who started in place of Didier Drogba, scored another goal for Chelsea in the opening attack.
In the 58th and first minutes, Frank Lampard and Deco extended the score to 40 wins over Blackburn, making it four wins in a row and ushering in the best start to Chelsea's 100-year history