Chapter 469: New students vs. Old students

On August 16, the Premier League will be rekindled in the 2003-2004 season!

cm0304 is a very classic game. In history, it was from this season that the Premier League began to become stronger and stronger. From relying solely on Manchester United to maintaining face in the Champions League to often having three Premier League teams entering the Champions League quarter-finals, this change began this season.

It is said that the Premier League is rich, but in fact, most of their teams are still relatively poor within the ten years of the establishment of the Premier League. This can be seen from the composition of Premier League bosses. Before Abraham took over, although any Premier League boss was one of the top figures in the local area, they could not be ranked in the European rich circle. Manchester United boss Edwards is just a local rich man in Manchester. Bates is a model of starting a business with nothing. Other bosses are the same. Otherwise, Leeds would not have a rapid deterioration in the financial situation due to a large amount of investment. In this regard, they are far from comparing La Liga and Serie A. La Liga is basically the two clubs that are willing to burn money, but the two clubs are behind these two clubs.

What is Taiwan? To put it too much, Real Madrid's backstage is the Madrid Municipal Government and the Spanish Government, Barcelona's backstage is the entire Catalonia region, and in Serie A, there is no need to mention the backstage of the three northern top three. Juventus' backstage is the Agnelli family, which controls most of Italy's economic lifeline. AC Milan's boss is Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. Although the Morati family is not very rich, their second leader Tronketi is one of the richest people in Italy and even the world. Italian telecommunications company, Holi's company and Pirelli are all assets under his name. If it weren't for his support, the little pocket money Morati got from the family would not be enough to support Inter Milan's crazy investment over the years.

What about the Premier League? Although later fans feel that they are rich, even mid-ranking teams like Tottenham can often spend tens of millions of pounds to buy people, in fact, before Abraham took over, except for Manchester United being able to spend tens of millions of dollars every few years, Bates occasionally made a big deal and Newcastle spent a lot of money under the rule of Sir Joel, other teams did not spend much money in the transfer market every season. This is why Xiao Ming was able to quickly establish his position after leading Leiden Oriental into the Premier League. His investment in the past six years is probably not less than the investment of the other nineteen teams in the transfer market!

After the establishment of the Premier League, we can see that before 2003, the Premier League was still at a disadvantage in the four major European leagues. Although the broadcast fee sharing model is very advanced, many Premier League teams are also players with no ambitions. They just spend their days in the Premier League, and they can get so much broadcast fee every year. There are only a few teams who are ambitious to compete in the European Championship. And only Manchester United can really earn points and create an image in the European Champions League. Although Leiden Oriental's emergence makes the Premier League compare

It has become much stronger in history, but Xiao Ming cannot change the status quo of most Premier League teams without any ambitions. It was not until Chelsea made a large-scale investment and immediately won the league championship and performed well in the Champions League that other teams had to start to strengthen their strength. In the later period, the broadcast fee for the Premier League was as high as 900 million pounds in a year. After the bottom teams could get 30 million pounds in a season, those mid- and lower-level teams began to actively invest their strength. If they want to get these 30 million pounds, they had to increase their strength and make the team perform better!

In the later period, the generous Premier League teams were not only as generous as they could barely support them, but also the pressure from the rich people - what is Chelsea? In history, he won a top league championship, and a Russian came and became the most troublesome team in the Premier League and the Champions League. What is Manchester City? I don’t know how many times it has been reduced, but a group of Arabs made the team waving money to poach people everywhere - not to mention traditional giants like Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, even teams that were similar to Manchester City and Chelsea in the past would feel quite unhappy. Just as the broadcast fee sharing made them earn a lot, he started to spend money, which directly led to an increase in the overall level of the Premier League and an increase in the winning rate in various European games.

Chelsea's rise has allowed other Premier League teams to know that strong teams can still be trained in this way, and Chelsea's rise begins this season.

Although the outstanding performance of Leiden Oriental before also let other teams know that when an ordinary or even extremely poor team can become stronger after financial infusion, Xiao Ming's management of Leiden Oriental was not violently entering like Abu, but carefully strengthened the team's strength through various methods. More than nine years have passed since 1994. Leiden Oriental players have been replaced one after another, and basically no failed players have been introduced. Every player who came to Leiden Oriental was no longer unknown or famous before, and his performance after coming to Leiden Oriental was very outstanding. In the eyes of outsiders, this situation can only be explained as good luck. No one thinks that his luck will be so good. Anyone who just poached a few people will become extremely awesome...

So at this time, in the first round of the Premier League, Leiden Oriental's home match against Chelsea immediately became the focus of everyone's attention. Even the focus battle between Manchester United and Liverpool was not as important as this game.

Therefore, when arranging the schedule, the FA staggered these two games. Manchester United's home game against Liverpool became the opening game, while Leiden Oriental and Chelsea were the last separate broadcast on August 17th. In this regard, the FA is still quite wise, at least they put commercialization first, although this is more related to the professional league's concern for the team's interests.

In the opening game, Manchester United defeated Liverpool 1-0 at home, achieving a good start to the league. Joaquin, who was introduced to a large sum of money, appeared in the second half, and his performance was quite active, but the goal had nothing to do with him. The only goal in the game was Scholes scored a long shot outside the penalty area in the first half.

After watching this game, Xiao Ming knew that Ferguson planned to train Joaquin well, at least he would let him take over Beckham's position. Xiao Ming didn't know how far Joaquin could grow in the future, but he knew that if a typical technical speed winger like Joaquin could solve his psychological and physical weaknesses, it would be quite threatening.

In several other focus games, Arsenal defeated Everton by Henry and Piret's goals 2-1, while Newcastle tied with Leeds 2-2 away, with three newly promoted teams winning one draw one and losing one. Portsmouth unexpectedly defeated Aston Villa 2-1 at home, and Wolves were massacred by Blackburn five-zero away, and Leicester City tied Southampton.

Finally, on August 17, the Premier League ushered in the most focused game in the first round, with Leiden Oriental playing against Chelsea at home.

There are several highlights of this game. First, after the announcement of the renovation of the new stadium, Leiden East made its debut at Upton Park Stadium. Although the distance between Upton Park Stadium and Leiden City is only two blocks, fans in Newham and Walthamsto have always been dying. When West Ham United were brilliant and Leiden East were in the low-level league, no one in Leiden City was a fan of West Ham United. Similarly, although Leiden East has become a symbol of the East London district in recent years, there are quite a lot of Leiden fans in several areas in the nearby areas except Walthamsto area. However, the Newham District where West Ham United is located is still a solid piece of the same, and there are almost no fans who like Leiden East - now Leiden East is going to play two seasons from Upton Park Stadium. Will something happen?

In fact, both Leiden Oriental and West Ham United do not want the two clubs to share the same stadium, but Leiden Oriental’s home stadium Brisbane Road is demolished and is preparing to build a larger stadium. In the past two years, they can’t just find a small stadium and play games, right? Not to mention, it’s a big trouble if they don’t meet the hard regulations of the FA and UEFA on the stadium. West Ham United is unwilling to loan the stadium to their mortal enemies, but they have been relegated and the financial situation has been bad. Having a stadium is certainly a source of wealth, but it also has a great burden on the economy. Leiden Oriental shares half of the burden with them, and also gives them more funds to retain outstanding players to return to the Premier League. West Ham United’s youth training has always been awesome, and the biggest factor restricting them is financial reasons.

After doing this, the FA has become more troublesome. At least it has to be considered carefully in the schedule. It would be fine for West Ham United to disconnect the home and away schedules of West Ham United and Leiden Oriental in the Premier League. However, West Ham United is now in the English League One, and there are twenty-three home games in one season. If you want to play against Leiden Oriental in a staggered manner, the workload will be greater.

The second highlight is undoubtedly that Chelsea, which has received huge investments, has become a strong contender for the Premier League championship. Although their performance has not been good in recent years, they also won the fourth place in the league last season and entered the Champions League. They have not had bad strength and have added so many outstanding players. The first thing they have to challenge is Leiden Oriental, which has won three consecutive Premier League titles.

As for the confrontation between Abu and Xiao Ming, it is nothing. In the final analysis, the two are not the same type of people. Abu is a boss, and Xiao Ming is also the head coach in addition to being a boss. This is Xiao Ming's biggest advantage, because even if the boss and head coach who cooperate with the most tacitly and have the best relationship in the world will not be alone like Xiao Ming, and there will definitely be no constraints.

Before the start of this game, the media and fans generally believe that Leiden Oriental's advantage is quite large. After all, their investment in the past six years will not be less than Abu. Although Abu has invested about 70 million pounds in the transfer market, Xiao Ming alone has bought Figo and Ronaldo before, and the net worth exceeds this number. What's more, Fanny, Marklele, Gerrard, Ronaldo and others who bought at a low price are already standard world-class stars. In terms of the solidity of the lineup, it is still much better than Chelsea.

This can be seen from the main lineup sent by Xiao Ming today, goalkeeper Jascrienen, defenders Daniel, Campbell, Lucio and Ashley Cole, midfielder Marklele, Gerrard, Figo, Ronaldo, forwards Ronaldo and Fanny. Paul Gerrard, Zimbonda, Deselli, Pirlo and Ronaldo were also sitting on the bench.

Chelsea's main lineup is goalkeeper Kudicini, defenders Glenn Johnson, Terry, Gala, Wayne Bridge, midfielders Smyrcin, Bellon, Lampard, Duff and Gremy, and forward Goodjohansen broke out alone.

From this lineup, we can see that Ranieri is quite cautious about this game, putting five players in the midfield, and except for Duff, the other four people have not bad defensive abilities. Forward Goodjohansen first played as a midfielder in Eindhoven...

After seeing this lineup, Xiao Ming shook his head. Ranieri was still a little petty, but Mutu was unable to play because he had not obtained a work permit and Crespo did not buy it. No wonder he sent out such a lineup. But then again, in this main lineup, except for Terry, Gala, Lampard, Goodjohansen and goalkeeper Cudicini, all other players are players who have only bought this year. The team's running-in alone is enough to make Ranieri a headache.

Although the weather is still very hot today, the temperature is not as high as 38 degrees a week ago. There is also one advantage of the habitual gloomy weather in London, that is, no matter how hot it is, it will not be too hot.

From the beginning of the game, Leiden East, who was at home, launched a fierce attack. Their attack was still launched from two sides. Then Ronaldo and Fanny in the middle took turns to retreat to help the organization, and Gerald often completed the finishing work. Since the beginning of this season, Gerald seemed to be in excellent form. In the Community Shield game, it was his one pass and one shot that helped Leiden East win.

This game is no exception. After Leiden East had the advantage in the midfield, he began to join more in the offense, using his strong body and excellent forward-swing ability to make the opponent's Russian midfielder feel miserable. Poor Smercin, although he is also a member of the Russian national team, his strength is nothing more than the level of the mid- and lower-level teams in the top league being able to play the main players. At that time, Abu wanted to introduce him out of the idea of ​​introducing his compatriots, but in the end he gave up because Smercin's ability was average - just like Yang Jiacheng later became the chairman of Birmingham, didn't he say he wanted to introduce Chinese players? It's just because there was no suitable candidate, and this is the same.

Seeing that Smerkin was extremely struggling under the opponent's impact, Peron had to retreat more to help defend, which stabilized Chelsea's defense.

If we say that this game was very good at the beginning, perhaps because he was too depressed at Manchester United, Peron wanted to let the world know again at Chelsea that he was still the top attacking midfielder, so he must have practiced very hard this summer. He did not waste his time at Manchester United last year, and he became familiar with the rhythm of the English League.

With Peron's outstanding performance and Lampard's active running, Chelsea has stabilized in the middle of the midfield, but they are still at a huge disadvantage in the defense of the wing.

Johnson and Bridge are both good English players. In addition to Manchester United's Neville brothers, they are also qualified to be selected as members of the England national team. However, they still seem a little difficult under the impact of Figo and Ronaldo. Gremy on the right has good defensive ability. With his help, Johnson has no trouble in defense. Bridge on the left is a little difficult. He is originally a defender who is stronger than defense. Duff in the front is also an attacking player. Under Figo's impact, he quickly seems to be shaky.

Ten minutes after the opening game, the two threatening attacks all came from Leiden East. Two minutes into the game, Van Nie was cleverly passing back after receiving the ball in the penalty area. Figo's direct shot from the penalty area was blocked by Cudicini's beautiful one-handed. In the eighth minute, Figo's straight pass from the side was again. Ronaldo, who was inserted at high speed, almost formed a one-on-one strike. Fortunately, Cudicini attacked and destroyed the ball in time. In the fifteenth minute, Ronaldo broke into the penalty area and forced a breakthrough with speed. Then he pushed the ball into the far corner. The ball flew out of the baseline against the far post.

During this period, Chelsea's only threatening attack came from Lampard's long shot. Goodjohansen was stared by two central defenders of Leiden East in the front so that he didn't even get the ball several times. The attack on the wing was also suppressed by the two full-backs of Leiden East, and could only withstand wave after wave of Leiden East's attack.

In the 20th minute, Leiden Oriental scored its first goal in the league this season.

Ronaldo, who was retreating, passed the ball to Figo on the side in time. After Figo received the ball, he made a cross at a forty-five degrees. Although this cross was flying in the air, it was not passed to the middle, but more like a straight pass-through-it was just a straight pass in the air...

Terry was attracted to the back point by Fanny. Before Gala could react, Gerald, who had been in the front, had already received the ball in the penalty area, and then he kept drawing the ball directly on the ball that had already begun to fall!
Chapter completed!