Chapter 170: "Soft Gun"
"A veritable Champions League final showdown, a showdown between the traditional giants and the rising upstarts!" The day after AC Milan thrillingly advanced to the Champions League final, both the official website of UEFA and major European newspapers coincidentally came up with this gimmick. Although this will not be a grudge matchup between the giants, it is widely believed that this is a matchup between two of the best teams in the Champions League this season, and the gold content is absolutely full.
Such a close combination of opponents not only satisfies the fans, but also UEFA. After all, compared with Liverpool, who stumbled all the way to the promotion, Chelsea, an up-and-coming upstart, is undoubtedly more in line with the public's appetite. To be honest, the current strength of Liverpool is not in line with its status as a century-old giant, if it is said to be a famous giant, then it can be regarded as a second-rate European at most in terms of strength. Even though it showed incredible blood and fighting spirit against Chelsea, it would be more desirable to see Chelsea and AC Milan with two big arms in the final.
With such anticipation of the final event, the English media has slowly begun to fight with the Italian media at this time. The rise of the Premier League, which has become the world's number one league, and the small World Cup Serie A, which is no longer glorious, have always been unpleasant to each other.
The English media will scoff at the twilight and decline of Serie A, and boast about the rise and influence of the Premier League. The Italian media, on the other hand, will ridicule the foreignisation of the Premier League, the high value of the "hukou" players, and the lackluster performance of the Premier League teams in Europe. When one rises and the other declines, there is always a disagreeable eye and constant friction between the two. This time it will be Chelsea and AC Milan meeting in Istanbul. It once again provides an excellent theme and stage for such a war of words.
Due to Chelsea's consistent steady and strong performance this season, there are high hopes for the whole Chelsea squad in England at this time. It is expected that they can bring the Champions League trophy back to England after a six-year hiatus, adding weight and basis to the Premier League's status as the world's No. 1. In this atmosphere. Even the media, which has always been biased towards Liverpool, said a few kind words for Chelsea at this time, expressing their optimism about Chelsea's prospects.
However, this high expectation in England has not had much impact on the entire Chelsea squad. Regarding the English media's appearance of being a flag, Lao Lei complained a lot in private. For him, although he plays in the Premier League, he does not have the noble sentiment of winning and losing with the Premier League. If it weren't for the fear of causing additional public opinion pressure on the team's preparations, Lao Lei would have burst into foul language at reporters who kept asking him about these issues.
Chelsea have three Premier League games to play before the Champions League final. It's just that in the case of already winning the championship in advance. It is believed that these three games have become a place for Mourinho to practice, without causing too much consumption to Chelsea.
AC Milan, meanwhile, have not been so comfortable, with a single point ahead of Juventus in the league and a single mistake could cost them the Serie A title this season. In such a situation, their fitness problems are bound to be worse than Chelsea's. And this is also a big reason why the outside world is optimistic that Chelsea will eventually reach the top of the crowd, "as long as the Champions League final is in a tough battle, the young Chelsea will enjoy the care of the years".
Although this view seems to be very reasonable, Lao Lei is dismissive. For a team like AC Milan who have a lot of control over the tempo. As long as you don't get into an extremely disadvantageous situation at the beginning, there will be basically no physical problems. Unless, the game has to go into overtime, Lao Lei will feel that the physical advantage can become the most critical key to their victory.
In the midst of all the disruptive rhetoric about the Champions League final. The time quickly came to the final round of the Premier League. In this round, Chelsea travel to Newcastle against the Magpies. In the first two games against Charlton Athletic and Manchester United, Chelsea have won two in a row as they have practiced tactics.
These six points have no effect on the league title. But it was Chelsea who managed to reach a terrifying 99 points this season, just one point shy of becoming the first team in Premier League history to break 100 points. Such a feat has not been achieved by Arsenal and Manchester United, who have dominated the Premier League for a long time. Even Arsenal, who are unbeaten in their season, have only 90 league points. And this is what most of the media thinks. This Chelsea side is more dominant than Arsenal in their unbeaten season. As long as Chelsea can finally pick up a point on the road, the argument will become even more unbreakable.
Under such circumstances, the news that Chelsea may complete the feat of more than 100 league points in the final game of the league has once again caused the entire English football and even European football to marvel. Widely regarded as the most competitive league in the league, breaking 100 points in a single season was once considered an impossible task by experts, and this argument has become the golden rule after Arsenal won just 90 points in an unbeaten season.
But no one thought about the danger of this golden rule being subverted just one season later. For a while, this game, which was originally not interesting, attracted a lot of attention at once, and everyone wanted to witness the scene of Chelsea's history. All of a sudden, tickets for this game have become a sought-after commodity, and the price has more than tripled. In the face of this grand scene, the "Daily Mail" also wrote: "The whole of England has set its sights on St James's Park!" ”
In the face of such a one-sided public opinion from the outside world, Newcastle, which has been defined by the outside world as the perfect backdrop, did not agree. Among them, Dyer and Li Bowyer, who had conflicts and contradictions with Lao Lei, were the most dissatisfied. Although the relationship between the two villains has fallen into a valley after the incident of the big fight in the game, they have been surprisingly consistent in this matter. In interviews with reporters, both men publicly shouted that they would never allow Chelsea to set a record on their own turf.
Of course. Their words are also indispensable to mention Lao Lei. "If the Portuguese wasn't lucky enough to be suspended, I'd definitely leave him with a good 'memory'. And not like Liverpool's cowards. Timid. "Why didn't the FA touch his ban, I would very much welcome the decision!" The words of the two of them contained a naked murderous aura. It seems that as soon as Lao Lei comes on the field, it will make Lao Lei break his leg.
It's just a pity that their goal is impossible to achieve. Because Lao Lei was still in the suspension period at this time, he was fined by the FA and suspended for 10 games due to the clash with Arsenal at that time. In addition to this season, he will not be able to catch up with the five games at the beginning of next season. Fortunately, this season's league championship has already been bagged, otherwise, Mourinho would have even thought of peeling off the old Lepi.
Just when the media regretted not seeing the good show of "Godzilla vs. the Two Evils". In fact, what they don't know is that Lao Lei is also very sorry for this. To this day, Lao Lei still holds a grudge against Li Bowyer's racist words. Although he was wearing the skin of a Caucasian at this time, it did not mean that he forgot that he had the soul of a Chinese. "Damn it, we'll see next season!" Lao Lei, who was destined to sit in the stands and watch the game, could only say with hatred in his heart at the moment.
However, even if this is the case, it does not mean that Lao Lei will honestly watch the 90 minutes of the game in the stands. At St James' Park on match day, Ray sat among the Chelsea fans who accompanied the team to witness the team's record-breaking moment. Under the capture of the camera, today's Lao Lei is not wearing ordinary clothes, but still wearing jerseys, pants and sneakers. It's like he's going to play today. His outfit also attracted the attention of all the media and commentators at once before the game.
Lineker, who saw this scene, couldn't help but laugh and said, "Oh, oh, look at Reima." Does he still want to play today?! Hahaha, I'm sure if the FA officials lift his ban at this time, he'll jump off the pitch all at once. Teach Lee Bowyer and Dyer a hard lesson. All we need to do is imagine what kind of humiliating way he will use it on them! ”
"It's not a good habit. I don't want the young people in front of the TV to learn the way he plays, they have to think about their health and their future. This is not a reasonable approach. ......" Seeing that his old partner began to brag about Lao Lei again, Ali Hansen once again couldn't help but raise objections. As a Liverpool celebrity, he can't hear any good things about Lao Lei now.
"Oh, Ali, forget it! This is the way of young people, but not what you old fellow who has half of your body in the grave can imagine! After hearing Ali Hansen's words, Lineker on the side immediately retorted as usual. In this way, the two famous mouths of the BBC began their routine pre-match bickering again.
Not to mention, how these two old guys tear each other down, at St James' Park, the referee has already blown the whistle for the official start of the game.
At the beginning of the game, Newcastle, which had no desire this season, showed the momentum and determination not to be a background board as soon as they came up. They were immediately entangled with Chelsea, and with the Chelsea players reluctant to exert too much force, Newcastle suddenly had the upper hand at home.
But having the upper hand doesn't mean they can gain much advantage. Against Chelsea's defence, their attack can only be regarded as thunder and rain. Although Newcastle had four shots on goal in the opening 10 minutes, none of them were on target, posing a threat to Cech.
In the 11th minute of the first half, Li Bowyer, who was unwilling to be lonely at the back, also rushed to the edge of the penalty area and shot a long shot. But the shot clearly didn't hit the ball with power, just rolled obediently into Cech's arms without any danger. Newcastle's first shot of the game hit the target like a boot tickling.
Just as Lee Bowyer shook his head in disappointment and walked back, a chorus of songs about him suddenly rang out in the stands of Chelsea fans sitting behind the Chelsea gates.
"Oh oh, Lee Bowyer has a 'soft gun', oh oh, he said 'I just can't set', oh oh, he said 'I just can't shoot', oh oh, Lee Bowyer ......"
When the lyrics, with its obvious contempt for Lee Bowyer's masculine instinct, reached his ears, the anger in the England midfielder's heart was understandable.
That anger came to an end when he saw the old Ray in the Chelsea fan base.
In the stands, Lao Lei was standing at this time. Dressed like a player, he's more of a symphony conductor at the moment, waving his hands as if he were directing the singing of the Chelsea fans. Looking at his serious expression, people who don't know still think that he is conducting a performance in the Golden Hall in Vienna.
Seeing such a scene, Li Bowye didn't have to think about it to know that such lyrics must be indispensable to Lao Lei's credit. But at this moment, he couldn't touch Lao Lei who was far away from the stands, so he could only blush, staring at Lao Lei with round eyes, trying to kill people with his eyes.
At this time, many people have noticed the story between him and Lao Lei and the Chelsea fans, whose neat and loud singing has been broadcast to the whole of England, the whole of Europe, and even the whole corner of the world.
A conductor dressed like a player, a furious villain, and a "soft gun" song brought endless joy to the world at this moment.
"Haha!"
"Hahahaha!!"
"Hahahahaha!!"
……… (To be continued......)