Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 397

c390 The Champions League knockout stage is a stage for the brave

After winning the championship ahead of schedule, the entire Chelsea team held an unofficial celebration at their home stadium.

This season, their league competition with Manchester City was really hard.

They fell behind Manchester City several times in the middle of the season, but fortunately, the head coach’s bold decision to reduce the burden allowed the team to gradually take the initiative to win the championship in the middle and late stages of the league.

Fortunately, Manchester City was too greedy this season and wanted everything in four-line battles, which led to a full collapse at the end of the season due to lack of physical strength.

Otherwise, it would be hard to say whether Chelsea could beat Manchester City in advance and win the Premier League championship this season.

Now that I think about it, Chelsea relied on rotation to withstand the pressure at the most intense time of the schedule, and did not give Manchester City a chance to turn the tables, which was really bold.

However, now that the league championship has been won, no matter what the outside world says about Chelsea’s luck or that Manchester City can win the championship in a single-line battle, it is an indisputable fact that Chelsea is the league champion this season!

Li Ang was very happy at home. He even rode on Maguire’s shoulders and sang and cheered with his teammates with his upper body naked.

Although he seems to have won many championships, and now he has won three of the four major European leagues, it is the first time for him to achieve the achievement of three consecutive leagues, so he is inevitably excited.

However, Chelsea’s coaching staff finally persuaded these excited young players to calm down.

It is worth celebrating that they have successfully won the league championship, but their season journey has not ended yet. Three days later, they will face Atletico Madrid in the second round of the Champions League semi-finals.

The preparation time is tight, and the rest time is even tighter. It is not wise to put too much energy on celebration at this moment.

After calming down, Li Ang also directly gave up the idea of ​​inviting teammates to party in the evening.

However, although he could not go to the nightclub, it was still okay to treat his teammates to a sumptuous celebration dinner that night.

After reporting to Mourinho, Li Ang led his teammates to the best French restaurant in downtown London.

While the Chelsea team was celebrating the league championship, various British media also entered the period of public opinion harvesting.

However, compared with the previous fancy hype, the way these British media attract fans’ attention is very different.

They chose the most traffic-pulling way, and directly compared Manchester United, another traffic king in the Premier League, with Chelsea.

Of course, it is not to compare the current Manchester United with Chelsea, but to compare Manchester United, the former undisputed overlord in the Premier League, with the current Chelsea.

Since the beginning of the new century, the team that has won the most Premier League trophies is the Red Devils Manchester United. Since 2000, Manchester United has achieved a total of 8 top titles in the Premier League.

It can be said that Manchester United under Ferguson has always been a top team with great dominance in the Premier League and the Champions League, except for a few seasons of decline.

After Chelsea won the Premier League three consecutive championships, the number of championships in the new century has also reached 6 times. In terms of dominance in the Premier League, Chelsea and Manchester United are still a little different.

But in terms of the height of achievement, Chelsea last summer has surpassed Manchester United and set the ceiling record of Premier League single-season honors.

In the past, major Premier League fans liked to compare Chelsea and Manchester United under Mourinho, just because Chelsea at that time was closer to Manchester United in terms of performance than other Premier League teams.

But now more fans compare Chelsea and Manchester United, because they really believe that Chelsea after entering the new century is qualified to be on par with Manchester United!

Both teams have the honor of the Champions League, one team has won 8 Premier League titles, and the other team has won 6 Premier League titles, and both have established dynasties of three consecutive championships.

In terms of annual achievements, Chelsea has an unprecedented seven championships, and the Blues are going to be a step ahead of the Red Devils in this regard!

Not to mention that Manchester United’s management is extremely chaotic now, and the decadent performance on the court in the past three seasons has greatly ruined the perception of passers-by about them.

On one side is the old giants that have fallen rapidly and currently have no hope of rising.

On the other side is the new giants that are booming like the rising sun and are expected to achieve the great cause of defending the Champions League.

Fans know how to choose, and they also prefer Chelsea, which has less off-field gossip news.

So one day after Chelsea won the championship, Sky Sports launched a questionnaire for the majority of fans, and the question of who the fans think is the strongest Premier League team in the new century has an overwhelming answer.

Chelsea has won everything again, not only the game and honor, but also the public opinion environment of the whole England.

The supporters of the Red Devils are of course deeply angry about this.

Manchester United is the most successful club since the opening of the Premier League, and it is also the well-deserved super overlord of the Premier League. Before, no matter which media’s selection list, it would be the well-deserved first in the Premier League.

The rest of the Premier League teams can only smell Manchester United’s tail gas at best, and they are still far away from being close, let alone surpassing.

But now Chelsea has won the Premier League three consecutive championships, and it has become a presence that can be compared with Manchester United in the public opinion field.

How can the long-proud Red Devils fans calm down? !

But those team honors that once made them feel extremely proud have passed away after all. It is really difficult to talk about the success of Manchester United now, and the public opinion environment is not as good as before.

Even though the Red Devils fans are very powerful on the Internet, they are no match for the sarcastic “siege” from more Premier League fans.

As a surfing expert, Li Ang also likes to surf the Internet to read the rainbow farts that various fans have blown about their own team in his spare time.

However, to be honest, he believes that Chelsea is still far behind Manchester United in terms of global influence and commercial development.

This thing does not mean that a sudden wave of heavyweight championship trophies can achieve a huge improvement in the short term.

Chelsea still needs time to settle and more savvy business operations to slowly catch up with several old European giants in terms of global influence.

Li Ang cannot give any suggestions on specific operating methods, but as a player who has personally experienced the power of Real Madrid’s global commercial promotion, he still intuitively feels that Chelsea is currently lacking in this regard.

As the current captain of Chelsea, the only thing he can do to help is of course to lead the team to play well and try to complete the team’s Champions League defense.

On the afternoon of May 2, the entire Chelsea team flew to Madrid.

In the evening, after completing the routine pre-match walk-through at the Calderón Stadium, Chelsea’s players returned directly to their hotel to recuperate.

The next morning, the rested Chelsea players took a bus to the Valdebebas training base to complete the last training before the game.

Being able to borrow Real Madrid’s training base before the game was naturally the result of Mourinho’s early communication with Real Madrid’s top management.

And returning to his old place again, Li Ang was as relaxed as going home.

The security personnel at the gate of the training base, the cleaners in the base, the youth training coaches and the staff coming and going… Li Ang knew them all.

After the training that morning, Li Ang led the team to the base restaurant, where Chelsea’s players also ran into the Real Madrid stars who had just finished the morning training.

So a round of handshakes and greetings were inevitable, and Li Ang hugged and laughed with his old teammates again.

Chelsea will complete the second leg of the Champions League semi-final with Atletico Madrid at the Calderon Stadium tonight.

Real Madrid will complete the second leg of the Champions League semi-final with Juventus tomorrow night.

The players of both teams are now more friendly to cheer each other up, saying alternative blessings to see you in the final.

Li Ang thought about it, and finally pulled Modric and Casemiro aside.

“Tomorrow night, you must lock in Pogba’s performance. Brother Lian’s condition is sometimes good and sometimes bad. If you give him strength in the confrontation, he generally can’t play well. Isn’t Marchisio injured? So you must limit Pogba. His performance is affected, and Juventus will lack organization on the offensive end…”

Li Ang gave his reminder to his former partner. Modric and Casemiro looked at each other, and then nodded to Li Ang.

Li Ang didn’t expect that his suggestion would be directly adopted by the Real Madrid coaching staff, but as long as it could help Real Madrid a little, his reminder would not be in vain.

As for the specific tactics that Real Madrid will choose to face Juventus in the future, it is not his concern.

After having lunch at Real Madrid’s training base, the entire Chelsea team took a bus back to the hotel where they stayed for a lunch break.

That evening, Chelsea, with everything ready, appeared at the Calderon Stadium on time.

This five-star football stadium, which can accommodate more than 54,000 people, is already full at this moment.

When Chelsea’s players appeared on the field to warm up, the whole stadium suddenly rang out a uniform and huge boo!

Thousands of Blues fans wanted to resist, but their cheers were directly drowned out by the voices of Atletico Madrid fans.

However, such a scene is nothing to the current Chelsea main players.

After successfully completing the warm-up, they trotted back to the player channel for the final pre-war mobilization.

The live broadcasts of the games in various countries basically chose to start in advance, so fans all over the world soon saw Simeone with a slightly solemn face under the live camera.

Today’s big battle is not so friendly to Atletico Madrid.

They fell behind by one goal at Chelsea’s home in the first round, so in the second round they had to find a way to score first to equalize the score, and try to prevent Chelsea from scoring again.

Otherwise, if Chelsea scores another goal, they must score three goals in a row to get a chance to advance.

The game is very difficult, and Simeone can’t help feeling a little nervous at this moment.

In contrast, Mourinho, who was sitting in the coaching seat in advance, seemed very relaxed.

As the game time approached, the referee team waved to signal the players of the two teams to follow them onto the field.

Commentators from various countries immediately became energetic and took the time to introduce the starting players and formations of the two teams today to the fans before the game.

Chelsea’s rotation in the last round of the league was proper, so the main players who had been fully rested could continue to play in this round of the Champions League semi-finals.

Mourinho still chose a more stable 4231 starting formation today.

Starting goalkeeper Oblak.

The central defender combination is still Thiago Silva and Maguire, left back Azpilicueta, and right back Trippier.

In the midfield, Kroos and Matic partnered to drag back, Li Ang played as the front midfielder, and Hazard and De Bruyne were on his left and right sides.

Suarez played as the center forward.

Atletico, who urgently needed to score first in this game, started with a 433 starting formation that was more offensive.

Carrasco, Diego Costa and Griezmann formed the front trident.

In the midfield, Koke and Saul teamed up to control the organization, while Gabi fell back to defend.

Savic, who returned from injury in time, replaced Jimenez and Godin to form a double central defender in this game, while the left and right full-backs were still Felipe Luis and Juanfran.

Starting goalkeeper Courtois.

Chelsea and Atletico Madrid have spent all their resources to fight for the victory in this round of battle.

Compared with Chelsea, which has a better rest, Atletico Madrid, which is still competing with Barcelona for the league championship, seems to be more tired.

However, Atletico Madrid is also a team with extremely tenacious spirit, and the Champions League has reached this point. Even if they grit their teeth and crawl, they must work hard to climb into the final!

The Atletico Madrid players who did not seize the opportunity in the first round are now burning with anger!

They are eager to prove themselves again in the cheers of the home fans, and they are even more eager to defeat the powerful Chelsea and enter this season’s Champions League final with a hearty comeback victory.

So after the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Atletico Madrid, who had the right to kick off, quickly spread out their formation and actively pressed forward towards Chelsea’s half!

However, the Atletico Madrid players who pressed forward soon found out in surprise:

Chelsea, who should have consolidated their defense in this game, chose to confront them head-on at this moment!

Gabi’s long offensive pass from his own half was headed back by Maguire, who was in an aggressive position.

Li Ang leaned against Koke with his back to his back and headed the ball to Trippier who was inserted on the wing.

Trippier, who played in the Champions League semi-final for the first time, was not afraid of the stage. At this moment, he decisively moved inwards and advanced from the middle after taking the ball, avoiding Filipe Luis who was about to intercept him.

And just when Gabi and Filipe Luis pressed him almost at the same time, he passed the ball to De Bruyne who easily moved forward!

The Belgian midfielder just observed for a while, and then kicked the ball directly into the Atletico penalty area in the non-traditional cross area!

The football quickly drew an inward arc in the air and went straight to Suarez who was running forward behind the Atletico goal!

However, Suarez was still closely guarding Savic at this time. He was not able to attack the goal, so he finally chose to head the ball.

The Uruguayan striker’s ability to play the ball was quite good. The football flew to the middle of the Atletico penalty area. At this moment, Li Ang, who had advanced to the position, chose to volley again, just like he did in the first round!

The football flew towards the Atletico goal like a cannonball!

However, this time, Courtois, who had been prepared in advance and had always focused on Li Ang, gritted his teeth and flew to block Li Ang’s powerful shot!

The football landed in the Atletico penalty area, and Godin also cleared the ball with a big kick and drove the football back to the midfield!

All Atletico Madrid’s defensive players were a little frightened at this moment, while Li Ang was annoyed for a moment and then encouraged his teammates to continue to put pressure on Atletico Madrid’s defense!

Squatting defense?

No!

Chelsea will not be passive today!

The Champions League knockout stage belongs to the brave.

It is normal for Atletico Madrid to know shame and then be brave.

And the team that dares to attack the opponent’s home court under great pressure is really brave!

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