On May 13 of 06, the 05-06 Premier League season came to an end a week ago. In addition to Chelsea's successful title defence, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal finished second, third and fourth respectively. When summing up this season's Premier League, the media used four evaluation terms for these four teams: strong title defense, obvious recovery, high-speed rebound and rapid decline.

As the curtain comes down on one season, the outlook for the next season naturally begins. Before the news of Jose Mourinho's imminent departure was announced, Chelsea were still the favourites to win the title next season, and were expected to become the first team in the Premier League to complete a third consecutive title in the 21st century.

Liverpool and Manchester United, on the other hand, are considered the favourites to hold off Chelsea's treble title, as the two teams' ability to steal points in the second half of the league has given a glimpse of their former heyday. Compared to these three teams, Arsenal's life is much more difficult, with a huge gap of 15 points behind Liverpool, only fourth-place Table, leaving the outside world with great doubts about Arsene Wenger's youth team, who were rated by the media: "Without strong reinforcements this summer, Wenger's Arsenal may only continue to struggle in fourth place." ”

In this atmosphere of final summary, the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool has undoubtedly become the biggest focus of English football in recent times. Ahead of the Champions League final between Arsenal and Barcelona, the FA Cup final has undoubtedly become the last feast for England fans.

It's Chelsea and Liverpool again, plus the news that Lao Ray will return from injury in this game. These two points alone are enough to make fans look forward to a high-spirited and exciting final. Among them, the comeback Lao Lei has naturally become the biggest focus of media attention. Some time ago, the news that he was banned by UEFA for up to 8 months is hot. I haven't retreated until now. People are still frantically about his news, not to mention the fact that he will meet his arch-rivals Liverpool when he returns.

But something is a bit of a surprise. This time, no matter what Liverpool or the media said, Lao Lei has remained silent until today, and seems to have ignored the idea of these news at all. Most of the speculation is that Mourinho and Chelsea gave him a ban, but they didn't know that Ray was in no mood to deal with Liverpool at all.

Compared with how to win against Liverpool, Lao Lei's mind is now all focused on how to face Mourinho's departure and how to send Mourinho away. It was not so much the passion of the battle, but the sorrow of parting in his heart now. If it had been in the past, if he had come back after recovering from injury. Then the will to fight will burn early, and I can't wait to play. But at this time, he didn't feel that way. Although his determination to win the match was as determined as ever, this time he suddenly didn't want to face this victory.

With such feelings, Lao Lei was a little silent in the locker room at the moment. At this time, Mourinho is doing his last pre-match motivation at Chelsea. If it were in the past, Lao Lei should be the person who can best echo Mourinho in the Chelsea team at this moment, which is the tacit understanding formed by the master and apprentice over the years. But this time was different, Lao Lei was silent from beginning to end. Just staring at Mourinho a little blankly.

The rest of the Chelsea players were skeptical about that. But they didn't care too much, they just thought that Lao Lei was still a little unaccustomed to it after the injury became more and more serious, after all, he hadn't played for almost a month. The muscle strain in the right thigh has only just healed.

In fact, Scolari had made a special call to Lao Lei before this game. Decide if he can give up this FA Cup to ensure his health. To know. When Lao Lei suddenly broke the news of a muscle strain after the game against Barcelona, Scolari and all the Portuguese fans were chuckled. And the people who are most worried about it. Today, Lao Lei's role and status in the Portuguese national team are beyond doubt. In terms of image, that is, with Lao Lei, Portugal is the biggest favorite to win the World Cup.

Therefore, Scolari was also shocked by this strain this time, for fear that Lao Lei may be injured again in this destined hot game, and miss the German summer because of this. For Scolari's worries, Lao Ray was very relieved, but he couldn't accept it. Because this game has a very different meaning for him. If he accepted Scolari's advice, he was afraid that he would regret it for the rest of his life. This farewell match against Mourinho, he did not want to miss it anyway.

"Alright, let's play." Hearing the shouts of the assistant coach, the Chelsea players rose to their feet and headed for the tunnel of the players. "Reima, stay for a moment." Before Lao Lei was about to walk out of the locker room with his teammates, Mourinho deliberately kept Lao Lei.

"Be careful, I don't want you to get hurt in this game, in that case I'll be the sinner of the whole of Portugal." I felt that it was not appropriate to talk too heavily about the topic now, so Mourinho used such a self-mocking way to jokingly express his concern.

"Got it, head. Enjoy the game, and this time, I'm playing for you. Knowing what Mourinho meant, Lao Lei nodded, then hugged Mourinho and said. Before the game, Lao Lei used to put aside everything except football and concentrate on the game. This time, it was one of his rare occasions that his mood had not completely calmed down until this time. However, this is the end of it, this is the last time Lao Lei shows his true feelings before the start of the game. After walking out of the player's tunnel, he became his normal self again, and his mind became as cold and calm as an ice cube.

"Well, the players from both sides are officially in. Chelsea and Liverpool are about to meet for the last time of the season, and it has to be said that there is a kind of relationship between the two teams, with the exception of the league every season. And always able to meet. Oh, we see Reima. Today was his first game since returning from injury. Originally, I thought he wouldn't be in this game for the World Cup. But I didn't expect him to start again. However, Mr. Scolari, who was in the stands at the Millennium Stadium at this time, must not want to see it, because he will spend 90 minutes in fear for it," Lineker, a die-hard Ray fan, immediately said as if he had a machine gun in his mouth as if he had a machine gun in his mouth.

At the same time, applause and boos began to ring out over the Millennium Stadium, and England fans, who liked and disliked Ray the most, were once again in the same stadium on this day. Arguably. Before the game started, Lao Lei just made a appearance to detonate the atmosphere in the Millennium Stadium, and the air became hot at this moment. While the media reporters on the sidelines kept taking pictures of this scene, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts that in the Premier League, only Lao Lei has such an open-minded ability to warm up.

Perhaps affected by the atmosphere of the scene, until the start of the pre-match ceremony, the broadcast director has been pointing the lens of a camera at Lao Lei, who has not appeared in public for a long time at this moment to show his ability to steal the scene. But soon, Lao Lei proved that his ability to steal the show on the court is even stronger, even if he has just returned from injury.

After the start of the game. The first is Chelsea's possession. As soon as the referee opened the whistle, Liverpool began to collectively shrink back to their own half, showing a posture of playing a defensive counterattack with Chelsea. So, when Lao Lei and others got the ball in the front court. It will immediately face close pressure from many Liverpool players. With Liverpool's fitness and morale at their peak at the start of the game, their defensive style caused a lot of problems for Chelsea's attacking linemen.

But. This is also the norm. After all, Chelsea can break through the Liverpool defence, which is heavily defensive, all at once. Liverpool are not the team that went on a point-grabbing frenzy in the second half of the season and trailed Manchester United by just one point. In third place in the Premier League, the Reds are showing a strong recovery. You know, their performance like this has given Reds fans a lot of confidence to beat Chelsea before the game, and it would be too childish if they crossed it all at once.

However, this situation changed when Lao Lei made his first attempt to dribble in the game. After all, he was absent from the game for more than a month, so Lao Lei spent some time to get used to the rhythm on the field, and it was not until the 11th minute of the first half that he started his first performance of the game. Although it can be seen from his appearance this time that he has not fully recovered, he is still shocked by the cold sweat of the entire Liverpool defense.

This time, when he received a pass from Claude Makelele near the centre circle, Fowler, the former Reds God, immediately pressed for it quickly. In such a situation, instead of controlling the football or passing it back, Lao Lei secretly pushed the football forward with the arch of his foot in the opposite direction. All of a sudden, the soccer ball was like a train, quickly drilling through Fowler's cave-like crotch. At the same time, he himself took advantage of the cat's waist to speed up and bypass Fowler.

But, just as he was regaining control of the football, Gerrard followed Fowler like a wave. At this moment, Lao Lei, who had just stopped, stepped on the football and used this action to cause Gerrard to slow down immediately. But at this juncture, Lao Lei stepped on the football and flicked it forward, allowing the football to drill the crotch again, only this time it was the crotch of Gerrard, the soul of the Red Army. At the same time, he dodged quickly and sped up to Gerrard's defence.

After these two light successions of crotch passes, the cheers and boos in the Millennium Stadium immediately rose to another decibel level, and the Liverpool defence immediately became a little louder. Then, just before Alonso and the others could continue to pounce, Lao Lei immediately launched a scalpel-like precision through plug with his right foot and successfully hit Finnan behind. It's a pity that Robben's subsequent cross was not won by Drogba.

However, although the offensive did not score a goal this time, Lao Lei's first eye-catching performance after the opening still attracted the unanimous praise of fans and commentators. Except, of course, on the Liverpool side.

"This is Reima! This is Reima!! Even if he's just returned from injury. As long as he wants to, he can do it, it's really incredible, he's only 24 years old, it's unbelievable! Looking at these two crotch piercing people, this once again convinced me that he was not playing earthling's football! By no means!! At this time, it is natural that the passionate and moving commentary of Lineker, a hardcore thunder fan, is indispensable.

But compared to others who felt amazed, Lao Lei was much calmer.

Amid the thunderous applause of the Chelsea fans, his expression was almost like a sculpture carved by a knife, hard and cold

But what outsiders don't know is that under this cold shell, what is hidden is Lao Lei's far warmer feelings than ordinary people.

The fire in the ice should be even hotter!

It burns people's souls!! (To be continued......)