Chapter 599 Shameless
Amid the deafening cheers of the fans of Leiden Oriental, Xiao Ming patted Ronaldo on the shoulder vigorously, and then watched him and his teammates run onto the stadium with a smile, and looked at Levin next to him with a little helpless look.
"Ronnie is also overdrawing his professional life."
"Look at it carefully, one less time to watch."
After seeing such an intention in each other's eyes, the two of them smiled bitterly at the same time, then turned to look at the stadium.
In the end, relying on Ronaldo's final victory after taking the bench, Leiden Oriental defeated Everton 2-1 at home and continued to chase Manchester United and Chelsea in the standings. After this game, Ronaldo scored a goal for the first time in the league and scored a goal after the first touchdown in the league, which became the hottest topic. Although Ronaldo broke the record of total World Cup goals in the World Cup, surpassed former German scorer Bomber Mueller and became the first person in World Cup history, to be fair, both Ronaldo himself and the Brazilian national team performed quite average in this World Cup. Even after losing to France, countless people believed that this game was playing counterfeit goals. However, no matter what, it cannot cover up the fact that Ronaldo is always the focus of the focus. Just a goal, Ronaldo once again became a headline figure on the front page of major media.
"Never doubt Ronaldo!"
After seeing the headlines of the Times Sports News, Xiao Ming sighed. Ronaldo's ability to have such influence is not just because of his outstanding ability. The so-called gatherings of storms and times create heroes. Ronaldo's existence is also the result of a series of events and coincidences. He became famous at a young age and swept the world. He won the World Cup at the age of seventeen. When he was about to be king, he lost the World Cup due to a mysterious disease. Then there were more than three years of serious injuries. He healed and injured, and healed again. Tears from the Olympic Stadium, and the eight-goal title in the World Cup...
It can be said that at any time, Ronaldo's every move is the focus of world football. At the same time, if he was not so many disasters, perhaps there would not be so many controversial topics on him. Unfortunately, if it is always just if.
However, although he scored a goal in the first league game, Ronaldo's physical condition is still not very good. So in the home game against CSKA Moscow three days later, Leiden Oriental's starting center was still Van Nie, and Ronaldo still sat on the bench.
The opponent was tied away by the opponent, and Leiden Oriental did not intend to let go of this opponent at home. In addition, although Leiden Oriental ranks first in the group, its advantage in the group is not that big. After all, Porto only has three points less than them, and Moscow CSKA only has two points less. If it is delayed, it is not difficult to qualify in the group, but it involves too much energy in the group stage, which is not good for Leiden Oriental's performance in the league.
The CSKA Moscow still focuses on steady defense and counterattack, while Leiden East, who is at home, takes action step by step, gradually compresses the opponent's space, controls the opponent's counterattack, and advances gradually in the most prudent way, without giving the opponent a slight chance.
Although this style of play seems difficult and unsatisfactory, it is the most suitable method for teams that are stronger than their opponents. Although there may be accidents, it minimizes the possibility of accidents. The most desperate opponents in history are not those passionate teams, but those teams that are as stable as a stone. This is a conclusion.
Of course, accidents did not happen. If accidents happen every day, it is normal, not accidents. Although the CSKA Moscow still played a very high level, it still lost under the overwhelming advantage of Leiden Oriental. Ronaldo and Van Nicht each scored a goal in the first and second half, helping Leiden Oriental defeat Moscow CSKA 2-0 at home, ranking first, and Porto won again away. After giving the opponent a four-game losing streak of 3-1, he jumped to second place in the group with seven points.
The next Champions League match, Leiden Oriental is a Hamburg that has lost four consecutive times at home and has almost no hope of qualifying for the League Cup. It only takes one point to qualify from the group one round in advance. It is not difficult to do this. In other words, Leiden Oriental can now basically focus on the league.
Leiden Oriental, who is dedicated to the league, is undoubtedly terrible. After all, the five consecutive championships in the league have brought them a calm mind and rich experience. The defeat in the league last season was just because they lost a lot of points in the early stage and were focused on the later stage in the Champions League, so they were unable to catch up with Chelsea. Even so, their later pursuit made Chelsea sweat. This season, Leiden Oriental was also chasing behind them, but their advantages were much less than last season...
In the 11th round of the league, Messi's gold-like goal helped Leiden Oriental defeat his city's arch rival West Ham United away. At the same time, Chelsea suffered a loss at home for his opponents in the city. Although Essin scored the first record for Chelsea, goals from Michael Dawson and Lennon helped Tottenham overtake. After that, Chelsea captain Terry was sent off to the court due to accumulating yellow cards. Chelsea was unable to make up for the day and the points slipped to third place.
Leiden East's ranking rose to second, surpassing Chelsea by one point, and still trailed three goals in this round and defeated Manchester United by two points.
Three days later, in the fourth round of the League Cup, Leiden Oriental, who had rotated most of the main players, defeated Everton 1-0 on the away game with Olic's goal and successfully entered the quarterfinals of the League Cup.
In the 12th round of the league, Newcastle once caused a lot of trouble for Leiden Oriental at the Oriental Stadium. However, Ronaldo, who started in this game, performed extremely well. Although he did not score, he directly assisted Jin Kraze's equalizer, and then indirectly dispatched to help Gerrard complete the final score. Leiden Oriental defeated Newcastle 2-1 at home. With Manchester United and Chelsea also winning one after another, the points gap and ranking of the top three have not changed at all.
During this period, Leiden Oriental has double games in one week. It either encountered the League Cup or the Champions League in the middle of the week. The next week is no exception. In the home game against Hamburg, Leiden Oriental did not leave a last glimmer of hope for Hamburg. Pirlo, Fanny and Ronaldo helped Leiden Oriental defeat Hamburg three-to-one, and Porto defeated CSKA Moscow two goals away. Leiden Oriental and Porto advanced to the quarterfinals one round ahead of schedule. When he defeated Porto two goals at home and led Porto three-pointers, Leiden Oriental only needs to not lose more than two goals away from the away game to qualify as the first in the group.
In such a group without a particularly strong opponent, Leiden Oriental has no problems with itself, so it is naturally not surprising to achieve such a result. After all, in the past few years, Leiden Oriental has been the best team in the European arena, no doubt about it.
When you are going to Japan to participate in the World Club Champions League match in December, it is naturally a good choice to be able to easily play in the Champions League group stage.
Last year, Leiden Oriental has won the Club World Cup championship, and of course I hope to defend the title this season. The biggest opponent this time is naturally the Brazilian international team, the champion of the last South American Liberators Cup. It is not so easy to defend the title.
Before leaving for Japan, Xiao Ming planned to continue to bite Manchester United in the league, at least not let the opponent throw himself away if he had one less game in the Leiden Oriental League.
In the 13th round of the league, Leiden Oriental, who continued to be at home, encountered a blockade from Liverpool. The 2-2 score allowed Leiden Oriental to slide to third place, overtaken by Chelsea by one point, and expanded the lead to four points by Manchester United, but Xiao Ming was not very worried, because in the next round of games, Manchester United will fight against Chelsea, which is also a good opportunity for Leiden Oriental to narrow the score gap.
In the 14th round of the league, Leiden Oriental defeated the newly promoted Bolton, led by "Big Sam" Adesler, 2-1 away, and then waited for the result of Manchester United and Chelsea's match. The final result did not disappoint Xiao Ming and Leiden Oriental's fans. Carvalho's goal in the second half helped Chelsea draw Manchester United 1-1 away, and Leiden Oriental returned to the second place in the standings, two points away from Manchester United.
In the next two rounds of the league, Leiden Oriental showed excellent form. They first defeated Fulham twice away, and then returned to the home court to sweep Tottenham, which had performed well before, three-to-zero. Continuous battles in London may be one of the factors that Leiden Oriental performed well, because they do not need to spend their physical fitness unnecessary on the journey.
However, Manchester United and Chelsea performed equally well, defeating Everton three-to-zero at home and defeating Middlesbrough two-to-one away, still maintaining the advantage of two points, while Chelsea continued their steady performance, killing Bolton and Newcastle two-to-zero respectively, continuing to chase behind Leiden East and continue to put pressure on Manchester United.
After sending most of the substitutes and Porto, who also has a tacit understanding, the Champions League trip of Leiden Oriental in the first half of the season ended, and after the next round of the league, they will fly to Japan to participate in the Club World Cup.
Originally, Xiao Ming hoped to postpone two league games, but England's games were already intensive, and postponing one league was the limit. If you postpone two games, it would definitely cause great trouble to the schedule. Therefore, although Xiao Ming has a very good relationship with the FA, the FA also rejected Xiao Ming's request.
Therefore, when the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup were in full swing, Leiden Oriental still stayed in England to participate in a highlight game in the 17th round of the league - Leiden Oriental challenged Chelsea away.
Xiao Ming did not have the intention to stay in this game to play the Club World Cup - no matter how important the Club World Cup is, it is not as important as the results in the league. What's more, Leiden Oriental has won the Club World Cup once, and his desire for this Club World Cup is definitely not too much. However, the match with Mourinho is something that Xiao Ming values more. If history has not changed much, then the match with Mourinho may have been played less once and once. When he is fired by Abram, he probably won't have too many opportunities to meet Mourinho in the European arena.
Chelsea's situation this season is still quite good. Although he was four points behind Manchester United in the league, this is not a gap that cannot be caught up. In the Champions League, Chelsea performed extremely well. When they were in the same group with Barcelona and Bremen, they had three consecutive victories at the beginning, including defeating Bremen and Barcelona in the home court. This result was even more brilliant than Leiden Oriental's performance in the group stage. The second round was to steal a point with a two-to-two away game at Camp Nou. Although they lost to Bremen, they still relied on the final round of victory to beat Barcelona to become the first in the group, kicking Barcelona to the second in the group, and also reached the quarterfinals of the League Cup. Although Barack and Shepchenko are still not ideal to integrate into the team, their performance in the league, Champions League and League Cup so far is perfect.
But it is no wonder that although Abraham sent two players in, Chelsea's locker room is still a solid piece of cake. Only Mourinho has the right to speak. For a head coach like Mourinho, as long as there is no constraint, he will not have too many problems.
Even next season when Mourinho was kicked out, he had an absolute advantage in the locker room. Unfortunately, he was facing his boss - this is also a tragic thing about a head coach. No matter how outstanding his ability is or how high his prestige is in the team, as long as the boss is unhappy with him, he has to leave.
No one knows better than Xiao Ming that the seemingly arrogant Chelsea dynasty has actually begun to appear inside, so he does not intend to confront Chelsea head-on in this game, but instead causes some trouble for Chelsea first.
Before the start of this game, he first highly praised Shepchenko and Barack for their level, believing that these two players have outstanding strength, and their performance so far is just because they are not very adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League. They are not young players. They only need to give them full trust and they will inevitably repay the head coach immediately. Then Xiao Ming also cited the poor performance of Jasqueline and Fanny who performed poorly at the beginning of the season as an example. Layton Oriental's outstanding performance has made great contributions.
This is what Abu said. No one wants a striker who spent 50 million euros and a midfielder who holds the top salary in the team to always sit on the bench. What's more, Abu doesn't think these two people bought the wrong ones - one is the Ukrainian nuclear warhead that has been awesome in Europe in the past decade, and has performed well in the World Cup, and the other is the captain of the German national team, a world-class tough guy with an all-round midfielder. If these two players join, I'm afraid any head coach in the world will be overjoyed - and Mourinho has never had a good face after knowing that Abu skipped him and introduced these two players! What does he think he is? Didn't he just win a league championship?
Besides, Chelsea spent a lot of money before, but never introduced a world-class superstar in the true sense. It was not that Abu refused to spend money, but that the top superstar was not just willing to come to Chelsea for money. Before Abu took over, Chelsea had not been able to participate in the European Cup for several years. If it weren't for his outstanding performance in the European arena before, I'm afraid they would not be able to attract talented people like Drogba and young geniuses like Robben. Isn't it true that he can introduce real world-class superstars like Shepchenko and Barack this year acknowledges a rise in attractiveness? What else do you have to be unhappy!
So two days before the game, Chelsea's chairman talked to the head coach. No one knew what the conversation was, but after this conversation, Mourinho's announcement of the league starting lineup had some changes from the previous one.
Mourinho, who once caused a whirlwind in the Premier League, has changed. In the midfield, Mourinho sent four tough guys, Essin, Thiago, Lampard and Barack, and on the front line, sheltered with Drogba's partners, Robben, Wright Phillips and Joe Cole, all sitting on the bench.
After learning this news, Xiao Ming was very happy. Although Mourinho played 442 when he became famous in Porto, in recent years at Chelsea, the tactics of interception and rapid offensive on the wing have been rooted in the hearts of Chelsea players. This is also the reason why Barack and Shepchenko performed poorly in the early stages of Chelsea. Barack was the core of Bayern midfield when he was Bayern, but Chelsea's midfield has no core. Attack midfielder Lampard is often a finisher, and the organization is basically completed by the two wings. Strictly speaking, Shepchenko is not a center or a winger. His most suitable position is the second striker. When he was in Milan, he was either Inzag or Crespo. His effect of breaking forward alone was not good. In this way, these two world-class superstars have little room to survive in the Chelsea system.
Now Mourinho has become 442, Barack and Shepchenko may be happy, but what about the other Chelsea players? Will they be happy? The system that has been persisting for two seasons is not so simple to change. Mourinho has been slowly making changes since the beginning of this season, but the pressure of performance has made him unable to make too much changes. Now that this big change is coming, Chelsea players cannot adapt to this change too much...
Mourinho is naturally aware of this, otherwise Xiao Ming would have nothing to do when he is full and said that before this game? But his boss was fooled, so when he saw Xiao Ming at the game scene, Mourinho couldn't help but say: "You... are more shameless than I thought."
Chapter completed!