Chapter 620: The decisive battle in advance

Mourinho is also very clear about this.

Although we will have to fight Leiden East four times next, the first time we fight is equivalent to a decisive battle.

Chelsea did have some problems when they were halfway through this season. The results were good at the beginning. The competition for the main position and the disagreement between the boss and the coach also had a great impact on the players. It started to fall behind in the league from that time. Now when the season is about to end, Chelsea still has the opportunity to win the League Champions League and even the FA Cup, which is quite attractive to the players.

Although Shepchenko has already won everything in AC Milan, it is still extremely tempting to win the championship again. Barack hopes that he can win the Champions League. With this mentality, Chelsea has begun to unite with sincerity. Recently, it has narrowed the gap with the top two in the league. In the Champions League, he still survived when he was almost forced into a desperate situation by Valencia, and Chelsea's condition has also begun to reach its peak.

Even if the nail is removed, there will still be a blind eye to the wood. The conflicts within Chelsea will not be eliminated. However, when they have the opportunity to win the triple crown and the battle is at the time of fighting, Chelsea has reached its peak. They are dissatisfied with each other, and complaints in their stomachs, but on the court, they are united and started to work in one direction.

In fact, all teams are like this. Everyone has their own personality. It is impossible for everyone to get along very well - that's a myth - but as long as you can work together in one direction under a major premise instead of being dragged down often, then there will be no problems with this team, at least there will be no problems for the time being.

After most of the season's adjustments, Chelsea's tactics have gradually begun to be integrated. Shepchenko has played more main players recently, and he has gradually adapted to being a shadow striker behind Drogba. In the away game against Valencia, it was his goal that equalized the score and stabilized the morale of the army. Otherwise, Chelsea would have collapsed until now.

The fierce schedule left both sides with no room for adjustment. Basically, any player who is physically better can play as the main player. Therefore, in this game at Stamford Bridge, the starting lineups of Leiden East and Chelsea were not beyond the expectations of most people.

Chelsea's starting lineup is 433, goalkeeper Cech, right-back Diyala, left-back Bridge, center-back Carvalho and captain Terry, midfielder Essin, Barack, Lampard, and Robben was injured on the front line, Joe Cole served as the left winger, Drogba broke in the front, and Shepchenko was slightly dragged behind.

Leiden East's starting lineup is also 433, goalkeeper Jass Kleinen, right back Daniel, left back Ashley Cole, center back Hepia and Lucio, midfielder Marklele, Pirlo and Gerrard, Messi and Ronaldo on the front line are on both wings, and Van Nie suddenly goes forward.

Before the game, Mourinho looked at Xiao Ming with a hint of surprise. In the final of the League Cup, he did not expect that Xiao Ming's words would really become a reality - at that time, he had not even played the top 16 games in the Champions League. No matter what championship he wanted to win, he had to pass Xiao Ming's level. If Xiao Ming stepped on his body and won an unprecedented four-champion, then his confidence in him would probably be a huge blow.

Mourinho is not a person who can't afford to lose. In fact, he suffered a Waterloo for the first time coaching independently - he was fired after only nine games. He is still very young, not that he can't afford to lose. He just won the game after losing. But if he was defeated by the same opponent four times in four games in a season and then won an unprecedented four-champion title - I'm afraid no head coach can bear this shame.

Of course, both the FA Cup and the Champions League are still in the semi-finals. Even if Xiao Ming wins, he may not be able to accomplish the great achievements of the four-champion title, but Mourinho still cannot withstand this possibility.

"Are you ready to be like Leverkusen?" Mourinho said coldly to Xiao Ming before the game started.

"Sorry, we are going to repeat the paths of Ajax, Eindhoven and the Celtics this season, and we are going to be more brilliant than them." Xiao Ming smiled. The four teams he mentioned have won the standard triple-champion in the history of European football, namely the Champions League, the top league championship and the highest domestic cup championship. In fact, there were two triple-champion England, namely Nottingham Forest in 1979 and Liverpool in 1984. However, the domestic championships they won were all League Cup rather than the FA Cup, so they were not considered the real triple-champion.

After hearing Xiao Ming's words, Mourinho groaned, then made a sound, then reached out and touched Xiao Ming for a while, turned around and left.

"Hey, Jose, you left first last time, so it was mine to the League Cup champion, and you left first this time. It seems that I will still enter the FA Cup final." A sly smile flashed across Xiao Ming's face, and he suddenly shouted behind Mourinho.

"Did you rely on superstition to command the team?" Mourinho did not turn around, but just stopped, answered and walked towards his coaching seat again.

Xiao Ming smiled, turned around and walked towards his position.

After the game began, the contact between the two sides seemed very cautious.

This is the third time that the two teams have played against each other this season. They will face three more games. After so many games, maybe they are not less familiar with their opponents than themselves, especially when they are facing each other...

Daniel felt that he played much easier in this game. Although Robben was not there, Joe Cole, who replaced him with excellent skills, his lack of confrontation and physical fitness made him less threatened on the court than Robben. In fact, Joe Cole's most suitable position is the midfield midfield. His skills and consciousness can allow him to organize the team's offense easily, rather than barely breaking through on the wing. Unfortunately, whether it was in Leiden East before, Chelsea later, or in the English national team, he had no position in the middle of the field, so he could only play on the wing. Although he often performed wonderfully in this position, he could not perform continuously and stably.

As Joe Cole's former teammate and national teammate, Daniel is very aware of this. Since he has good skills, excellent awareness, and excellent speed and physical ability to fight, Daniel naturally takes action towards the opponent's weakness. He runs on a large scale so that he can't get the ball. Occasionally, he will fight the ball on his body, not a foul, but just sticking to him to prevent him from smoothly controlling the ball. In this way, Chelsea's wing is equivalent to being half of the waste.

Leiden East's first attack was when Daniel cut off Joe Cole's ball in the backcourt, and then began to drive the ball straight in, with his speed and awareness of returning defense, as long as he was not intercepted by someone while dribbling, he would not be afraid that Joe Cole would take advantage of the loophole.

After Daniel broke through to the near-center circle, Barack came to defend him. Daniel forced a breakthrough, and then stabbed the ball to Messi in front before Barack intercepted the ball, and then started to insert the ball along the side. Barack did not dare to neglect it. The key game of Leiden East was that Daniel inserted and assisted his teammates in the end. Daniel, who had been in a stable state this season, seemed to have had a big explosion recently. Although he still didn't score any goals, the number of assists increased a lot. The cross-shot assist he inserted on the right side has become a powerful weapon for Leiden East's offense.

Messi took the ball and turned around, facing Bridge's defense for a few kicks, and he did not break through to the baseline because Daniel was there, and he did not pass the ball back directly to Daniel because Barack was defending him.

Seeing that Bridge was not close to him, Messi took two steps forward and suddenly shot from a distance near thirty meters away from the goal!

No one expected that he actually made such a sling shot at this distance - the shots in this area are usually powerful long shots, and the range of movements made before the long shot is very large, which is why Bridge did not get too close - in addition to not wanting to be easily swept by this flea-like boy after close-fitting, he was also because if Messi wanted to shoot a long shot, he could come up in time to block it.

However, this time, he could only watch Messi complete the shooting action. The sling and volleying are different. In addition to making less force than volleying, he relies more on the precise control of the ball and the feeling of shooting at the moment. The young Messi's technical talent was fully revealed in this shot. He swung his calf very quickly, and the ball swung into the sky, and then began to fall quickly!

The camera aimed at the flying ball, and the rapidly rotating ball flew into the penalty area, and then began to fly to the upper left corner of the goal. Fortunately, Cech focused and quickly moved two steps, then gently relaxed the ape's arm and lifted the ball that was about to fly into the dead corner with one hand to lift the bottom line!

The whole audience was quiet for a moment, and then immediately there were the applause from the fans of Leiden Oriental, mixed with the sound of Chelsea fans breathing a sigh of relief.

Messi grabbed his hair, and then smiled at Fanny embarrassedly. He had a chance to pass it to Fanny just now, but he had a sudden idea and suddenly wanted to shoot... It's a pity, it's a little bit short.

"Beautiful job, Leo!" Fanny gave him a thumbs up.

"What a pity, this guy's height..." Xiao Ming shook his head regretfully. If Cech was a little shorter and his wingspan was shorter, this wonderful goal might have scored. Messi controlled it well when shooting, and the ball flew too slowly, which was a masterpiece.

Messi's shot drove the atmosphere of the whole game. Although he was playing away, 7,000 fans of Leiden Oriental came to cheer for his team away. Like the players, they would not be too excited to see their team win so many honors. Leiden Oriental may win an unprecedented four-champ this season, which will stimulate them more passionate than before!

Then this attack, Leiden East launched wave after wave of attacks. Facing the imposing Leiden East, Chelsea, who was fighting at home, could only retreat while constantly launching counterattacks. Their first shot came from Shepchenko. The Ukrainian dribbled the ball and forced a gap to shoot outside the penalty area. However, under the pressing of Maklele, the shot was high and biased, and there was no threat.

Leiden East fans booed Shepchenko, and Sawyer sang in unison with a group of people: "It's okay, Claude, let him shoot, let him shoot, let him shoot, let him shoot, let him shoot! Don't think you are really a nuclear warhead, and it's effective to hit a kilometer away!"

Although the song was quickly suppressed by Chelsea fans shouting in unison, Shepchenko's face still became a little ugly - the absolute chance of missing against Leiden East in the League Cup almost became the Ukrainian's inner demon. Although he performed well in the previous games, after encountering Leiden East, he began to be unable to maintain a normal heart again.

"Andre! Concentrate on the game!" Mourinho yelled on the sidelines, and Shepchenko nodded off the court, but didn't know what he was thinking.

"Realistically speaking, an experienced player like Shepchenko should not be so worried about gains and losses." After seeing Shepchenko's performance, Xiao Ming was a little surprised. However, you should know that Shepchenko's previous football career was smooth. She played as the main player when Dynamo Kiev was very young, and then became one of the Kiev Gemini stars who swept Europe. After transferring to AC Milan, he happened to catch up with Milan's forward line. Baggio Savicevic left, Via no longer had the courage of the year, and Bierkhov also began to decline. He naturally became the main player of AC Milan, and his style was very close to Milan's style. He stayed in AC Milan for seven seasons and was already extremely familiar with Italian football, but because of various types

The reason came to Chelsea, and he also had a lot of psychological burden. AC Milan believed that he was afraid that Milan would drag him down and escaped at the last minute. Chelsea paid so much money and needed him to perform better. He had not suffered any setbacks before, but at the age of 30, he was about to have hope of comfort, which also caused such a big change. This also made Shepchenko play with a heavy mentality for the first time. His style was not integrated, and his condition was not very good after playing the World Cup. In addition, his luck was not very good, and he could not recover from high productivity. His mentality was not adjusted well. This made Shepchenko gradually lost at Chelsea. Players of his age often fell at the beginning and could not stop it, even if he was loaned back to Milan later.

When facing other teams, Shepchenko was still able to maintain a normal mind, but when she met Leiden East twice before, Shepchenko's performance was quite bad. It would be fine if she was mediocre for the first time. After all, Chelsea tied Leiden East at home in the end, but the League Cup final became a nightmare for Shepchenko, an excellent opportunity to equalize the score. Shepchenko could be said to be able to score 99 times in one hundred times, but she was knocked away in this critical shot!

Sometimes the more you care, the more likely you make mistakes.

After watching Shepchenko's running route on the court start to become a little confused, Xiao Ming's mouth curled up.

Chelsea's trident has basically destroyed two of them, and there is still one left to Drogba, what can he do? Lucio's pressing is enough for him to be busy! Mr. Mourinho, you will count on the midfield's long shot in the next attack. I wish your midfielder's luck today!

In such a decisive battle that comes early, Robben's injury is a big disadvantage. Now, let's take a look at our Leiden East's offense, even on the away game, even at Stamford Bridge!

It seemed that after hearing Xiao Ming's voice, Leiden East's attack began to become more and more fierce.

In the tenth minute, Pirlo passed the ball in the midfield, Gerald raised his foot and passed the ball over the top. Van Nie broke into the penalty area and kicked the ball near the baseline on the right side of the penalty area. Ronaldo was unable to touch the ball under Terry's interference.

In the 13th minute, Cole, who was inserted, broke through from the left and was pushed out by Carvalho. Gerald followed and volleyed outside the penalty area, and the ball was directly volleyed. The ball was above the crossbar.

In the 17th minute, Leiden East made a beautiful cooperation again. Daniel made a diagonal pass from the right, Fanny took the ball off his chest in the penalty area, and Messi, who followed, volleyed in the air from fourteen meters in front of the goal. The ball flew out of the baseline against the near post, causing a sigh from the fans of Leiden East in the stands.

Leiden East attacked harder and fiercer, and Abu's face in the stands began to look ugly, especially when he saw Mourinho shoutingly commanding the team to retreat on the sidelines, his face became even more ugly.

Even if he knows that Leiden East's offense is very strong at this time, it should be wise to defend temporarily, but sometimes people are so strange. When you start to feel uncomfortable with a person, whatever he does is wrong in your eyes.

The previous conflict and Mourinho's silent protests have made Abu dislike this disobedient Portuguese. His current view is just a continuation of this psychology - Mourinho, who has only won a league championship, is far from having the important position in Abu's mind in history.
Chapter completed!