Chapter 248: Advance on Two Fronts and Go All Out for the Championship!

"He scored two goals in the final. What do you think? I want to ask you which player in the football world is as good at playing key games as Li Ang?"

"Hey, I thought Li Ang would break his record of winning a championship every year since he played in the four major leagues this year. It seems that I was too conservative."

"Ten years later, Chelsea's top executives will look back and be glad that they chose to spend the penalty fee to introduce Li Ang last summer.

Really, this 80 million seems to be a bargain now! If you ask Paris Saint-Germain to pay this money or double it, they will definitely be willing!"

"The basic goal of the season has been achieved. Chelsea only needs to fight on two fronts in the future. Stay in the league and fight for the Champions League. If we win the league championship again, this season will be a steady success. It will be enough to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, right?"

"I am completely satisfied with reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League. Let's see if we will meet Real Madrid and Bayern in the quarter-finals..."

While the podium was still being built at Wembley, excited fans in China were also discussing Li Ang's success in the new season.

After winning the League Cup, Li Ang's double-20 data, as long as he wins the Premier League championship trophy.

Then his first season after leaving Real Madrid can be considered a great success!

On the other hand, Real Madrid has been further widened by Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the league with Xabi Alonso absent due to injury.

In the past seasons, Real Madrid relied on the strength and hardness of the midfield combination to bully Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

But this season, Real Madrid was bullied twice by Atletico Madrid in head-to-head confrontations because of the lack of hardness in the midfield. The scene was really magical.

On March 1, after the 26th round of the Madrid derby in La Liga ended.

Simeone, who led the team to a 3-2 victory over Real Madrid, was in a good mood after the game, and even joked and stabbed the American Lingges in the heart.

"It was very difficult for us to win this game. If Li Ang was still in Real Madrid, we might only get a draw, and I would have to be careful that Li Ang would step out and score the winning goal.

Fortunately, he is no longer in Real Madrid or La Liga, so I can sleep well tonight because of this victory~"

Simeone knows how to make Real Madrid fans feel more uncomfortable after losing, and his remarks also made many La Liga fans laugh:

Even though Li Ang has transferred to Chelsea for almost a year, Simeone still misses him. This is true love.

At this moment, Li Ang didn't know that in Spain across the sea, just yesterday, he was on the hot list of Spanish football because of Simeone.

Although he is not in Madrid now, the Madrid derby always cannot avoid topics related to him.

The same is true for the Spanish national derby.

Every time Real Madrid loses a tough game now, Real Madrid fans will miss him more deeply.

But now he is completely immersed in the joy of winning the championship for the first time after transferring to the Premier League.

In the rain of ribbons falling from the sky, Li Ang took the championship trophy from Captain Terry, raised it high, cheered, and kissed it.

The gold content of this League Cup championship is relatively ordinary, but after all, it is Li Ang's first championship title in English football, and it is still very special.

The veterans in the Chelsea team are still relatively calm. Players like Lampard and Ibrahimovic are also winners who are used to winning such trophies.

However, for the young Chelsea players, this championship trophy is already a symbol of their initial success in English football!

So they celebrated very passionately and happily.

Seeing this, Li Ang quickly stepped aside and gave his younger brothers more opportunities to show up and celebrate.

Needless to say, that night, when the club had already arranged a celebration banquet, Li Ang paid for his teammates to go to various nightclubs to have fun.

At this moment of winning the championship, there is no shortage of energetic young professional players in the team, so it is normal to go to nightclubs to party.

As long as they don't play too much and don't break the public opinion, Mourinho will not care about such personal matters.

However, although Leon left his assistant to pay, he did not show up in the nightclub.

The Sun, which was closely watching his whereabouts that night, took a photo of him hugging Anastasia and taking a special car back to the hotel.

But without taking a photo of Anastasia's face, the so-called "explosive" news released by the Sun the next day did not attract much attention from fans and spectators.

After all, Leon has held a personal press conference and officially announced the fact that he is currently in a relationship.

What's wrong? Can't a player accompany his girlfriend after winning the championship?

What can still attract fans' attention now is nothing more than Anastasia's true identity and appearance.

Before revealing this kind of news, the news about Leon in the Sun was like a small stone falling into a big lake, at most causing a ripple.

At the critical time when Chelsea won the League Cup, the sales of normal sports newspapers really surged.

In the 28th round of the Premier League, which ended normally on March 1 and March 2, the matches between Chelsea and Fulham, and Manchester City and Manchester United were postponed.

Liverpool seized this opportunity and defeated Southampton 3-0, narrowing the points gap with Manchester City and Arsenal.

But Arsenal lost 0-1 to Stoke City away from home, missing the opportunity to overtake Manchester City in this round with one more game.

So now the top four of the Premier League has become a tense situation where Chelsea is far ahead and the remaining three teams are infinitely close in points.

Manchester City and Arsenal are only one point apart, and Arsenal and Liverpool are also only one point apart.

Tottenham, which had a good recent schedule and should have seized the opportunity to impact the top four, has failed in two consecutive rounds and has been left behind by Liverpool by a full eight points.

With only the last ten rounds of the league left, the top four teams are bound to engage in fierce competition for rankings.

Arsenal missed good opportunities to catch up in succession, which made countless Gunners fans very dissatisfied.

While Manchester City is eight points behind Chelsea, it cannot be said that there is no possibility of overtaking.

Looking at the schedule later, Chelsea will face three strong rivals in the top six of the Premier League, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool.

In addition, Chelsea will have to take on tough mid-level Premier League teams such as Stoke City and Swansea.

If Chelsea loses two games later and Manchester City can seize the opportunity, they will be able to catch up and put huge pressure on Chelsea.

Of course, those who can make such game deductions and analyses are basically the local Manchester City-friendly media.

Most of the other English sports newspapers and professional magazines are more optimistic that Chelsea can end the suspense of the Premier League this season in one go.

There is no other reason, Chelsea's performance in tough battles this season is more stable and more convincing!

After celebrating all night and resting for two full days, the players of Chelsea's first team also rushed to the Cobham training base to report.

After winning the championship, Mourinho is always more tolerant than usual.

Some of the physical examinations did not meet the standards, and the Chelsea players who indulged themselves too much in the past two days did not receive serious warnings and questions from Mourinho.

On the first day after resuming joint training, that is, in the recovery training, Mourinho gave them the opportunity to actively adjust their physical condition.

In the two and a half days of training afterwards, no Chelsea first-team player was reprimanded by Mourinho for unsatisfactory training quality.

However, Mourinho did not publicly name anyone this time. Terry and Li Ang found a few young teammates who were a little slack in private and had a "communication" with them.

This included Bertrand and Hazard.

Li Ang looked at Hazard, who had a little belly after just two days of relaxation, and understood why Mourinho always spurred this kid.

You say he knows he is wrong, and he will change if you ask him to change, but as long as the intensity of his control is reduced, he will still make this kind of greedy little problem.

This is not a big mistake. Professional players have a high intensity of daily training. Occasional indulgence will be quickly corrected in the rapid consumption of calories.

But for a star like Hazard who has the top talent in football.

These little mistakes and indulgences, accumulated over the years, will become a hard roadblock that prevents him from climbing to the top of football.

Li Ang believes that Mourinho must have seen this problem in Hazard earlier than him, and he must have had a heart-to-heart talk with Hazard a long time ago.

But now Hazard still can't strictly control himself, which is obviously his own choice.

"You kid..."

On the day before the 29th round of the league, after finishing training, Li Ang put his arm around Hazard's shoulders and suddenly spoke.

"If I have the opportunity to compete for the Golden Ball this year or next year, you must do your best to help me win the Champions League!"

At this moment, the two were a little far away from the main group returning to the locker room to wash, so basically only Hazard heard what Li Ang said.

Zaza, who has not grown a beard yet and has a handsome face, was stunned at first, but then smiled and nodded shyly.

"Okay, I will definitely help you with all my strength, boss!"

After receiving Hazard's affirmative reply, Li Ang sighed in his heart, and then tightened his arms around him.

"You don't want to be the boss, and you are not suitable to be the boss of a team, so I will let you become a successful second-in-command of the team."

Li Ang silently said in his heart, and Hazard, who was walking side by side with him, also flashed a hint of relief in his eyes...

After a full rest and three and a half days of rigorous preparation and training, Chelsea sat at home on the evening of March 8 to welcome the challenge from Tottenham, who is currently ranked fifth in the Premier League.

However, before today's game, there was no trace of the light warmth when the two teams met for the first time this season.

Because Boas, who can be regarded as a master and apprentice with Mourinho, was fired by Levy, the helmsman of Tottenham, when the winter window opened in January.

At that time, Tottenham Hotspur successfully entered the knockout stage of the Europa League as the first in the group, but in the Premier League, Villas-Boas led the team to temporarily rank sixth.

But Levy, who lost his patience, directly fired Villas-Boas on the grounds of poor performance.

To be honest, this is completely Levy's mind without any idea.

This season, the Premier League is full of heroes. Liverpool has made it into the top four, Arsenal's record is also stable, and Chelsea and Manchester City are even more powerful.

In this case, Tottenham Hotspur lost Bale, and almost all the new players were young lottery players.

Villas-Boas led the team to stabilize the top six in the first half of the season, and the record cannot be said to be poor in any case.

But Levy's brain circuit is so strange that he still insisted on firing Villas-Boas.

So when facing Tottenham again, Mourinho didn't need to show them any mercy, and directly used the 4-3-3 starting offensive formation.

And De Bruyne was also rarely arranged by Mourinho to the middle of the midfield, starting at the eighth position and partnering with Li Ang for the first time.

On the forward line, Lukaku took over his position on the right, and Ibrahimovic and Hazard also started.

Chelsea's highly aggressive 4-3-3 starting formation made Tottenham's new coach Sherwood tremble in his heart!

Because the injuries in Tottenham's midfield and backcourt are relatively serious, and the core player in the midfield, Eriksen, is also unable to play due to injury.

So when the ball is not dominant and there are major hidden dangers on the defensive end, Sherwood can only use more conservative tactics to try to delay Chelsea's attack on Tottenham's defense.

At the beginning of the game that day, Tottenham, who played 4-2-3-1, almost retreated to their own half and easily crossed the center line.

Li Ang saw that Lennon was pushed to the front midfielder position, and Kyle Walker had to play as a right forward to ensure the integrity of Tottenham's formation.

With Tottenham's injury situation, he really didn't know how to waste this game, so that Chelsea would hand over the victory at home.

The only thing that made him feel a little regretful was that he could not chat with his old friend Eriksen in this game.

When the offensive partner was replaced by De Bruyne from Lampard, the way to organize the offense became extremely simple for Li Ang.

His ball protection and backward advancement were beyond the control of Tottenham.

After attracting enough defensive attention from Tottenham midfielders, he only needed to pass the ball to De Bruyne, who was in the weak side area of ​​Tottenham's defense.

Then it was De Bruyne's performance of sending threatening passes in the left and right rib areas of Tottenham's half.

De Bruyne, who almost had no weak foot, could send a large arc with both feet and a fast pass.

Playing on the right side all the time actually limited his performance.

From the two wings to the middle, it can be said that there is no offensive position that De Bruyne cannot play.

And when Tottenham's defensive players were afraid of De Bruyne's passing ability and wanted to restrict him defensively.

Li Ang, who had been waiting for the opportunity, completely sounded the death knell for Tottenham!

In the 16th minute of the first half, Li Ang assisted De Bruyne from the side, received the ball and forced his way into the top of the Tottenham penalty area.

With Tottenham center back Dawson and midfielder Sandro attacking to defend, Li Ang passed the ball to the left side of his body.

Hazard, who had been prepared for a long time, was not polite. After stopping the ball and making a slight adjustment, he directly shot a tricky shot with a large arc!

Lori failed to save in time and could only watch Hazard's shot and score!

And six minutes later, Li Ang dribbled the ball again, pretending to pass the ball to Ibrahimovic, he adjusted the angle, suddenly shot outside the Tottenham penalty area, and broke the Tottenham goal himself!

The time after that was completely Chelsea's crushing of Tottenham on the offensive end.

Without Villas-Boas, Tottenham's ability to adjust their tactics is commonplace, and Sherwood is not an experienced Premier League coach.

After being crushed in the first half without even playing for 30 minutes, Tottenham's coaching staff had no idea what to do, and the players naturally lost their spirits.

In the 34th minute of the first half, Ibrahimovic received Azpilicueta's cross from the bottom and scored Chelsea's third goal of the game.

This game was almost a suspense-free game in the first half.

Although many media believed that Chelsea could win at home before the game, they did not expect such a crushing victory.

In the second half of the season, Chelsea won the League Cup and advanced on two fronts. They will go all out to win the league!

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