Chapter 291 Little Lion, Are You Serious About Winning the Golden Boot? ! [Please Subscribe, Big Guys! ]

"You have to fight for it! Do you feel pressure? Do you feel tired from the rotation this season?"

Faced with Li Ang's question, the other Chelsea players on the training ground shook their heads.

This season, let alone the veterans in the team being taken care of, most of the main players in the first team have not played two games in three days since the beginning of the season.

Only Li Ang was caught by Mourinho and was fleeced, but even so, Li Ang had much more rest time at the beginning of the season than last season.

In general, the rotation plan formulated by the Chelsea coaching staff this season is more reasonable and scientific.

The playing time of players who are prone to injury is strictly controlled.

Veterans basically play two games and then take a rest.

The playing time of players in the substitute team has increased compared with last season, so the main players have more physical strength and energy to fight hard.

If it is reflected in the results, it means that Chelsea will be more relaxed and comfortable to win consecutive games.

In this case, there is no physical crisis and no injuries, so the players in the Chelsea team naturally have greater ambitions for the results.

However, before that, everyone was tacitly aware of the situation and played the games one by one according to the rules, and no one took the lead in shouting out any exaggerated goal slogans.

Admittedly, this way of playing is very down-to-earth and will not bring too much psychological pressure to Chelsea's players or even coaches.

But now, when Li Ang was the first to shout out the "flagrant" slogan of striving for an unbeaten season and winning four championships.

Along with the pressure comes the infinite hunger for honor and the pursuit of motivation!

"Without pressure, how can we unleash our potential?

Every year, the strongest team is born in European football. Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bayern... these three clubs have become the most representative European top teams in the past five seasons.

But if we extend the timeline to ten years ago, in this top team that has been unanimously recognized by all media and fans, our Chelsea has never been missing!

That's when I fell in love with the Iron-blooded Blues. Until today, the vitality and perseverance of Chelsea at that time are still in front of me!

Ten years later, me, us! Gathering together will not be mediocre, and we will always fill the regrets left by the Blues with our own hands.

For Didier, for John, for Frank, for Peter, for Zlatan... and for our own honor!

Setting this goal, we will move forward hand in hand, carrying the regrets and expectations of all Chelsea fans. This time, we must stand on the top of Europe!"

Li Ang gave an exciting personal speech directly on the field after the training.

That's great, these words inspired the old boys in Chelsea to be excited.

The young Chelsea players even screamed and cast admiring eyes at Li Ang.

At this moment, Li Ang firmly believed that he was right. He once again opened the eyes of all his teammates and inspired their motivation.

If chicken soup has no effect, it must be the wrong time to drink it, or drink too little.

Li Ang felt that the time of his speech was just right, and he had enough chicken soup.

He was not afraid that the frustrated old boys in the team would not be eager to move and agree with his slogan suggestions.

Mourinho, who was standing aside and eavesdropping, thought that Li Ang's speech was also very good.

But seeing that the young players in the team were stimulated by Li Ang, they tended to expand their ambitions.

Old Mou still chose to take action. After kicking Li Ang away, he quickly told the remaining players to do what they should do.

It has to be said that Mourinho's prestige in Chelsea is still quite high.

Seeing Li Ang running away with his butt covered, the remaining young Chelsea players suddenly stopped being arrogant and their eyes became clear.

This team communication had a passionate process and a joyful ending.

But no matter what, Li Ang's slogans and the content of his speech have deeply influenced every member of the Chelsea team.

Not only the players, but also the coaches.

Even Mourinho.

After all, before Li Ang shouted such an arrogant slogan, Mourinho had not thought about winning four championships in one season in an undefeated way!

Let alone shouting such a slogan, just having such an idea is arrogant enough.

But the dream of achieving such a goal is indeed attractive enough!

Mourinho finally did not reveal his true attitude towards Li Ang's slogan to his assistants.

But in the internal tactical meeting of the coaching team, he was indeed more serious and strict than before.

With the morale of the entire Chelsea team preparing for training high, the Black Cats Sunderland became the first unlucky guy to be beaten.

On the evening of November 29, Chelsea visited the Stadium of Light to challenge Sunderland away.

Facing the "king of draws" in the league, Sunderland, whose strength is just above the relegation zone, Chelsea can be said to be a lion beating a rabbit today, directly using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Sunderland coach Poyet was completely numb when he got Chelsea's starting 11 list an hour before the game.

What do you mean? Didn't you rotate the lineup quite happily before?

They dared to rotate when playing against Manchester United, but why did they play against our small relegation team today? !

On the other hand, Chelsea's main players today did show enough respect for Sunderland, but Sunderland's fans were crying without tears.

"Who the hell wants your respect! Hurry up and despise us, send out your rotation lineup, bastard!"

Unfortunately, Mourinho could not hear the sincere appeals of Sunderland fans.

The main players of Chelsea on the field strongly pressed across the center line from the beginning of the game, took over the control of the midfield, and constantly put pressure on Sunderland's defense.

Kroos, who started today, no longer lagged behind, and directly pressed to the top of the arc in the middle circle of Sunderland's half with Li Ang.

He blocked Sunderland's goal to organize the attack, and Li Ang slipped into Sunderland's penalty area from time to time to play a game and then inserted to grab the point!

Sunderland coach Poyet was so anxious watching from the sidelines!

He kept signaling his disciples to expand the defense area, actively fight for the ball, and push Chelsea back to the midline area.

But it was a good idea to have this idea. Sunderland's midfielders couldn't help rolling their eyes after hearing the coach's tactical instructions.

Yes, they have a numerical advantage in the midfield area, after all, they played 451 today.

But what is the configuration of Chelsea's three midfielders? What is our configuration and personal ability? As a head coach, don't you have any idea?

Then you have to be able to grab it.

The Kroos in the Chelsea team is like a robot. I have never seen him make a mistake when passing the ball.

Li Ang retreated to get the ball and turned around to make the three people who were grabbing the ball dizzy!

Mobilize more midfield forces to press, OK, Kroos knocked back, and Matic connected with a diagonal long pass.

Now it's good, Hazard or De Bruyne will directly carry the ball deep into the hinterland of Sunderland's defense!

Double team? Double team with hammers at this time!

All five midfielders are pressing forward to grab the ball. No matter how fast you run, you can't be faster than someone passing the ball!

Expect the full-backs to intercept successfully every time and stop Chelsea's attack?

It's better to pray that Hazard and De Bruyne will have a big decline today.

Now the defensive players who can kill Chelsea's wingers one-on-one on the defensive end can't play for Sunderland.

Poyet is still perceptive. Seeing that his team actively pressed but was frequently hit by Chelsea behind the wings, he decisively shut up.

"Well, it's better to let Chelsea continue to block the door and organize the attack. We further shrink the defense line, which should work... right?"

Poyet made up his mind, which was just the lesser of two evils.

It's easy for Sunderland to shrink its formation, but it's difficult to launch a counterattack!

Playing this kind of bus formation is a familiar process for Chelsea.

Hazard and De Bruyne began to move further inward, and their activity areas were mostly on the two sides of Sunderland's half.

They gave up the space on the two sides to Bertrand and Azpilicueta who came in from behind.

In this way, with Leon and Kroos who pressed forward, Chelsea had at least seven players in Sunderland's half who were controlling the ball and participating in the attack!

From the wing to the ribs, and then to the middle of the midfield, Chelsea's offensive players can be seen in every threatening area.

Facing Chelsea's fast and accurate transmission and pulling, Sunderland's midfield defense line deployment could not be done perfectly.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Kroos received De Bruyne's return pass and made a precise side pass, shifting the attack direction to the left again.

This time, Hazard, who was supposed to help Bertrand open up space for forward insertion in the rib area, took the initiative to run to the left side, seemingly wanting to take the ball to the side.

But at the moment when he and Bertrand completed the handover of the ball, he suddenly passed the ball directly to the right half of Sunderland's rib area where the space was wide open at the moment!

The person who received his pass was Li Ang, who was just wandering in the middle and had moved to this side without knowing when!

Li Ang, who received the ball and rushed into Sunderland's defensive hinterland, immediately caused chaos in Sunderland's defense line.

Sunderland right back Belheene and right center back O'Shea immediately implemented double-teaming defense on Li Ang to buy time for midfielder Cattermole to return to defense.

But Li Ang did not continue to push hard into Sunderland's penalty area.

He cleverly pushed the ball to his left front.

Bertrand, who had passed the ball to Hazard and then went to the bottom of the side, took the ball comfortably and cut inside at this time, and broke into the bottom line area of ​​Sunderland's penalty area!

Li Ang's side attracted the defense of two full defenders. Bertrand observed for a while and then directly passed the ball to the back point of Sunderland's penalty area!

Ibrahimovic resisted the defense of Wes Brown and used the advantage of his long legs to poke the football first!

But Sunderland goalkeeper Pantilimon also quickly got down to the ground and blocked Ibrahimovic's shot with his toes!

The football flew crookedly to the right side of Sunderland's penalty area.

And Leon's reaction speed helped him complete the follow-up shot at this moment!

O'Shea's leg-stretching defense seemed clumsy and sluggish in front of Leon's fast volley.

Pantilimon just got up from the grass at this moment. Facing Leon's volley, he could only watch helplessly as the ball crossed the line and entered the net!

1-0, Sunderland's goal was lost before the 20th minute of the first half!

Poyet stood on the sidelines with a completely messy look.

The Sky Sports commentator also shouted at the moment that Li Ang's feet were hot and he was completely crazy on the offensive end!

There was no way. After Li Ang surpassed Cavani to top the Premier League scorer list, everyone thought that Li Ang's state was improving rapidly this season, but basically that's it.

It's impossible for you, a midfielder, to compete with the striker for the Golden Boot of the scorer list, right?

As a result, after several rounds of the Premier League, Li Ang is still at the top of the scorer list, and his goal efficiency is so stable that it's simply unbelievable!

Including this goal, Li Ang has scored twelve goals in thirteen rounds of the league!

And this game is far from over. Li Ang is likely to continue to raise his average number of goals per game to the terrible number of "1".

On the contrary, Cavani didn't know whether his mentality was affected or his recent performance had problems. He failed to score in three consecutive league games, and his current goal number is still at ten.

If he really plays until the end of the league according to the current performance trend.

Then Li Ang might really compete with the forwards in the Premier League for the Golden Boot Award as a midfielder this season!

Li Ang, who did not deliberately record his goals and did not compare his goals with Cavani, was simply enjoying the joy of helping the team score the first goal at this moment.

Once the ball was scored, Sunderland's shrinking tactics naturally became meaningless.

Unless they are really determined to be cowards in front of more than 40,000 fans at home.

But in that case, the morale of Sunderland's main players would be too severely hit.

Poyet's coaching level is far from the top in football, but he also knows what tactics to use at what time.

If he really dares to continue to park the bus when he is behind at home today, he may be fired by Sunderland's management before the end of the league halfway.

For the sake of his position or to defend the dignity of Sunderland's home court.

Poyet finally chose to let his disciples spread out their formation and take the initiative to attack Chelsea.

As a result, this encounter caused Sunderland to suffer another heavy blow in the 36th minute of the first half.

De Bruyne received a through ball from Kroos and counterattacked.

Li Ang's forward insertion distracted the defensive attention of Sunderland's back line.

Ibrahimovic finally overpowered O'Shea at the back point and headed De Bruyne's cross into Sunderland's goal!

In the end, with a 2-0 advantage, all Chelsea players entered the second half in a happy mood.

Sunderland, who was anxious to fall behind, made more and more defensive moves after the start of the second half.

Kroos and Li Ang were keenly aware of the restlessness and instability of Sunderland's back line, so they uniformly gave more ball rights to Hazard.

And Hazard lived up to expectations. In the 64th minute of the second half, he used a series of strong breakthroughs to make Sunderland's right back Belheini explode.

In the end, Belshini brought down Hazard with an obvious pulling action in the penalty area.

He was lucky and didn't get a red card, but this penalty basically sentenced Sunderland to death!

Leon didn't give up the penalty this time.

He confidently turned the ball and stood on the penalty spot, then shot and scored!

Pantilimon rushed in the wrong direction and pounded the ground and roared in frustration on the grass.

And Leon had already called on his teammates to rush to the corner flag area of ​​Sunderland's half, and then they had a group slide and kneel celebration!

The commentator of Sky Sports looked at Leon, who was in high spirits at the moment, and couldn't help but cheered excitedly:

"The thirteenth goal in the league! Chelsea's Lion King doesn't just want to be the top scorer for a while, he is serious about fighting for the Premier League Golden Boot this season!"