Chapter 103: Finally Met Barcelona
With the reopening of the Premier League schedule, Lao Lei refocused his attention on his football career. Avril Lavigne's visit was buried in his heart, and no one told him, including his girlfriend Kayla. He didn't know why he did it, he just followed his heart. But this is only temporary after all, one day, Lao Lei will have to face and solve this problem head-on, and there is no way to escape.
That aside, Chelsea will first need to host visiting Blackburn Rovers after the Premier League is back in action. Blackburn Rovers were at the height of the Shearer era, winning a league title against Arsenal and Manchester United. However, with Shearer's move to Newcastle, the club also ended its short career and began to gradually decline, and has now fallen to the middle and lower levels of the Premier League.
However, against such an underdog, Chelsea won a rare draw at Stamford Bridge. Facing Blackburn's retreating iron bucket line-up, Chelsea attacked for 90 minutes with a strong home momentum, but in the end they were unable to turn the advantage into a goal, and had no choice but to stop their winning streak. As the referee blew the final whistle, the live broadcast footage gave the best explanation as to why the game turned out to be the way it was. appeared in front of the camera, sitting in the stands depressed Lao Lei.
After playing the FA Cup, Mourinho let Lao Lei rest in this game for the upcoming Champions League knockout schedule. Although the absence of the old Ray may not be the main reason why Chelsea cannot win Blackburn Rovers at home. But as Lineker said: 'We can't say that Chelsea will win when Reema is on the pitch. But that's at least. Reduced Chelsea's chances of a fifty per cent victory. Because, they put the best 'game problem solver' in the team in the stands. ”
Although such a loss. It was a bit frustrating for everyone at Chelsea, but it didn't make a big difference to the Premier League table. On the one hand, it is because they have a more than 10-point lead over second-placed Arsenal. On the other hand, it is also because in this round of Premier League matches, Arsenal got a worse result than them. At Highbury, Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United beat Arsene Wenger's Gunners 4-2, depriving them of a precious opportunity to close the gap on Chelsea.
However, even so, the day after the game, Mourinho was harsh in his criticism of the Chelsea players. Think that it is their underestimated enemy. Only then did he lead to a draw in this game. For this reason, even Lao Lei was punished even if he didn't play in this game, just a spectator. This kind of "sit-in-a-string" punishment system was prescribed by Mourinho in order to increase the unity of the Chelsea team. Lao Lei also agrees with this, so he has no complaints about suffering this "unwarranted disaster".
If you make a mistake, you must make meritorious contributions. Chelsea's next league win. It's a must-win, especially when it's against Manchester City. Because Chelsea's only defeat this season was Manchester City, at the Illlihad Stadium in the ninth round of the Premier League, it was Manchester City who scored 1-0. Breaking Chelsea's unbeaten streak at the time. Half a season later, the Chelsea crowd is still haunted by the disadvantage. So in this game, take revenge on this arrow. It has become the belief of the whole Chelsea team.
However, since the match was held on the third day after the game against Blackburn, there was a strong atmosphere within the team. Jose Mourinho also made a wide range of changes, with Lao Lei being able to start the game. For Lao Lei. There was something new to the game, as City were the only team he hadn't played against once so far. Ashley Cole will also make his debut for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in this fixture. With that, combined with Chelsea's only defeat of the season, the game was an unexpected one that garnered quite a bit of attention.
Even Chelsea fans, under the media hype, are more concerned about the game than ever before. In the stands at Stamford Bridge on the day of the game, they shouted the slogan of revenge, hoping to see the team at Stamford Bridge avenge this arrow with a hearty victory. On the other hand, Manchester City fans came to Stamford Bridge to cheer on the team. They are clearly proud of being Chelsea's only bitter boss this season. So even when the outside world is not optimistic about Manchester City, they still unfurl banners like "We need another win" at Stamford Bridge.
However, it turned out that they were overthinking. Amid the roar of Chelsea fans, from the very beginning of the game, Chelsea completely controlled the game under the organization of Lao Lei, and launched a fierce siege against Manchester City. In the face of such an offensive, Manchester City had no power to fight back at all, and could not even fight a threatening counterattack, and in the end could only become a passive punching bag.
As the saying goes, if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it. In the face of Chelsea's powerful attack, City's defence lasted only 10 minutes before it was broken. Gudjohnson, who returned from injury, scored the goal that gave Chelsea the lead. In the middle of the penalty area, he and Lao Lei completed a series of exquisite two-over one-wall cooperation, and broke through Manchester City's defense in front of the line. In the end, it was Gudjohnson who got the chance to shoot from the City penalty area when the City centre-back's down-and-down tackle didn't block the old Ray's through pass. A pinpoint far-corner shot knocked on City's door for the first time in the game.
At this point, Manchester City's defence was beaten into a sieve in this game. The second goal came in the 28th minute of the first half. Ashley Cole, who made his debut at Stamford Bridge, provided his maiden assist for Chelsea. This time, he plugged in the back row of the wing to complete the set. And Joe Cole, who had just parked Lao Lei's long pass on his chest, also understood it, and did not choose to hold the football steady, but directly volleyed it back, and accurately passed the football to Ashley Cole's body. Ashley Cole dribbles the ball down quickly. A direct and precise cross found Drogba in the box. Ivory Coast striker. A strong head-to-head attack was another knock on the door of Manchester City.
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! Dro-Ba!! A strong header. The Manchester City defenders simply couldn't do anything about him. The strong body completely pushed away the Manchester City central defenders who were close to him. It's hard to imagine how Manchester City managed to get a win against such a Chelsea in the first place. But that's fine, I have a hunch that Chelsea won't end this game, they will definitely try to score goals to get revenge! Definitely!! ”
The commentator's words became a reality, and the final score of the game was fixed at 5:0, and Manchester City was completely beaten into a sieve. Thereinto. Ray himself scored Chelsea's fourth goal of the game in the 64th minute of the second half. A direct free-kick from 28 metres from the Manchester City goal that once again amazed Chelsea fans led to the goal. The perfect external rotation arc drilled directly into the upper right corner of the Manchester City goal, so that the Manchester City goalkeeper could only look at the ball and sigh.
Speaking after the game, the media commented on the big win: 'Now we can be pretty sure that the Chelsea players must have fallen asleep when the two teams met for the first time. "Although this report. There is some exaggeration and irony. However, it is also a powerful blow to those who fantasize about Manchester City becoming Chelsea's nemesis, shattering their unrealistic illusions.
Start with this game. Chelsea have started their winning streak again. In the next 27th round of the Premier League, Chelsea completed the double of this season's dark horse Everton with an economical 1-0 away game. Once again, Arsenal's hopes of Chelsea making mistakes have been dashed. With only 11 games left in the Premier League this season, there is a 15-point difference between the two teams. Let Arsenal's dream of defending the title gradually become an unattainable dream.
After this game, the various leagues have temporarily suspended the competition. The players are once again in the international break, and the World Cup qualifiers are back in action. Lao Lei also set off with Carvalho, Ferreira and others, and flew to Lisbon to report to the national team. At the airport in Lisbon, Lao Lei and his family were honored to be personally picked up by Scolari. In addition to this, fans and journalists also packed the airport. Lao Lei and Ferreira tasted a feeling of returning home in brocade.
However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the reason why there is such a big battle is that ninety percent of them are coming for Lao Lei, the current flag player of the Portuguese national team. Thanks to a series of great successes in recent years, Lao Lei has managed to become an icon all over Portugal. Especially after finally reaching the top of the European Championship on home soil, Lao Lei's personal popularity in Portugal has reached its peak. In one sentence, if you want to stay in the Portuguese national team, then don't make Lao Lei angry. And this kind of treatment is not for nothing, in Lao Lei's body, he has been entrusted with the historic task of leading Portugal to win the first Hercules Cup in their history.
This is a long-term and extremely difficult task, and even if Portugal is already the new king of Europe, it is only one of the favorites. Regardless, though, the new European champions have made a good start on this path. Portugal have won four straight matches in several World Qualifiers so far and are at the top of the group with 12 points.
This time the national team break, Portugal has two qualifiers to play, namely Russia and Luxembourg. For Portugal, both opponents are easy opponents to take. And the result of the game is indeed the same, 7:1, 6:0 two unsuspenseful massacres, Portugal easily won 6 points, they are almost certain to get a ticket to the 06 World Cup in Germany.
However, this is not the news that makes Mourinho, the Portuguese, the happiest. He was most pleased that Portugal had already secured the win in both games, so several Chelsea players such as Lao Lei were substituted early in both games and got some time to rest. This is great news for Chelsea, who are about to start the knockout stages of the Champions League.
When the Chelsea players returned to London, the first thing in front of them was an FA Cup game. In this game, Lao Lei led the Chelsea youth team again, and at St James' Park, they won 1-0 against Newcastle United and successfully advanced to the next round. This time, Chelsea's victory was a bit of a fluke, and if it weren't for a save from Lao Lei on the goal line, Chelsea might have been eliminated from the tournament and the result of the game would have been completely changed.
However, after the game, the whole Chelsea squad didn't have time to celebrate, so they rushed to fly to Barcelona in Spain. There, the Black Swan and his dream two Barcelona, are waiting to face the challenge of Chelsea, a new force in the Premier League, at the Camp Nou. As the absolute focus of the battle, the eyes of the entire European football world have been focused on the Camp Nou, waiting for the collision of Mars, the two favourites this season.
And before Lao Lei got on the flight to Barcelona, he had already received a call from Ronaldinho and Deco.
"I'll treat you well to Reimaa at Camp Nou!"
"We're not going to lose! Reima. ”
For these two people, Lao Lei's answer is the same.
"I'm going to 'swallow' the whole Camp Nou!!" (To be continued......)