Chapter 318: Manchester United Gave a Big Gift and Won the League Title Five Rounds in Advance!

Li Ang's response to correct the Italian Sky Sports reporter's statement seemed to be just self-deprecation at first.

But in fact, since he stepped into the professional arena, whether in Real Madrid, Milan, or now in Chelsea.

When Li Ang faced similar flattering remarks from reporters, he gave the same response.

He really didn't think there was any one-man-power in the football field. The media could praise it like this, and the fans could also express their love for a certain star in such an exaggerated way.

But as a professional player, if he really thought so, it would be a fucked-up and sad thing for his teammates.

Without teamwork, there would be no football.

Similarly, without the help of teammates and sacrifice on the field, even the strongest star would only be lost in the opponent's unscrupulous tactical targeting.

So Li Ang really didn't like reporters asking such stupid questions in person.

In his heart, team victory always comes first, and he always respects his teammates he recognizes.

After simply dealing with the questions of the other two reporters, Li Ang lost interest in continuing the interview and directly interrupted the other reporters' questions.

After hugging and celebrating with his teammates one by one, Li Ang walked towards Juventus' half.

"Alvaro, you did a great job today."

"Boss."

Li Ang opened his arms and gave Morata a big hug.

They haven't seen each other for a long time.

Morata, who didn't get a starting position in Real Madrid, finally chose to leave La Liga and came to Juventus.

Li Ang also had to sigh that the inertia of "history" still exists.

However, compared with the Morata who played in rotation in Juventus in his memory.

Today's Morata has already perfected his center forward arsenal in Real Madrid early, and is now one of Juventus's iron-clad main strikers.

After all, he is a talented center forward who rotates in Mourinho's Real Madrid.

He has already harvested a lot of honors at a young age, and has proved his ability on the top stage of La Liga and the Champions League.

If Juventus does not promise the main force, Morata may not come to Serie A.

Morata, who has scored 17 league goals in his first season in Serie A, has established a firm foothold.

Li Ang is sincerely happy for his younger brother.

If there is no trouble, Morata should be able to steadily enter the ranks of the top center forwards in the next few seasons.

The two also talked happily in the stadium, and finally the two brothers exchanged jerseys neatly and hugged goodbye.

After that, Li Ang trotted to Pirlo, who had just exchanged jerseys with Kroos.

"Master!"

"Little lion."

It has been almost two years since the two met and played against each other in the pre-season friendly match when Li Ang transferred to Chelsea. This is the second time the two have met on the court.

Li Ang is very happy, and Pirlo is happy and relieved.

It is great to see that the younger generation who was taught at the time has not forgotten his original intention, and is bravely moving forward in the professional arena, and is about to represent the midfielder to hit the peak of football again.

For veterans like them who have entered the end of their careers, it is indeed a matter of comfort and pride.

The old era of football has passed, but in the new era, there are still disciples who inherit these old guys.

Putting aside the national team's performance, if Li Ang can really lead the team to the top of the Champions League as the absolute core and the team leader this season, then he will definitely win the Golden Ball Award at the beginning of next year!

This personal achievement has surpassed Alonso and Pirlo, and is catching up with Zidane, who represented the midfielder to become a god in the football world.

To say something selfish, Pirlo actually doesn't mind becoming one of the background boards on Li Ang's road to becoming a god.

His career has been very successful. He has won all kinds of championship honors, and he has tasted the taste of failure and success very well.

He has played for the top three clubs in Serie A, won the league championship, the Champions League championship, and the World Cup championship.

Pirlo believes that he has nothing to regret in the professional arena.

Even though he lost to Spain in the European Cup final in 2012, he doesn't feel too much regret now.

He led the slightly mediocre Italy to the final, defeated the German tank, and faced the Spanish team that was still in its peak.

This is a miracle in itself.

He can still become the core midfielder of a strong Champions League team at the end of his career, so of course he wants to rush for the Champions League trophy again.

But he encountered Chelsea in advance. If he really can't win, he naturally hopes that Chelsea and Li Ang can be the final winners.

At least, they just lost to the strongest European team this season...

The two of them tacitly didn't talk about the next round of games on the field.

They were just concerned about each other's recent living conditions.

By the way, they recalled the time when they played together in Milan.

After a while, Ibrahimovic also came over, and the three of them gathered together and smiled and covered their mouths to communicate.

This scene of the reunion of old friends, which should have been a happy one, made many Milan fans feel sad.

On a well-known football forum in China, as soon as this photo of the three AC Milan brothers was posted by an editor, fans left comments one after another:

"Protect AC Milan!"

"AC Milan Protection Association condemns!"

"Milan fans can't stand this."

"Who said there is no Milan in the Champions League? Look, aren't these all Milan players? Hahaha!"

"Another crazy person upstairs, take him away."

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After the game, there seemed to be only friendship and warmth in the Juventus Arena.

However, Li Ang and Ibrahimovic didn't stay in Italy for one more night to have dinner with their former teammates.

After the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals, the pressure of the league came, whether it was the Premier League or Serie A.

The entire Chelsea team flew back to London overnight on the night the Champions League game ended.

The 33rd round of the Premier League will start on April 18. Chelsea's opponent in this round is Crystal Palace, one of its neighbors in the London region.

At present, Crystal Palace has no relegation pressure, and their relegation points have almost been taken.

So facing Chelsea, Crystal Palace should not be too desperate.

But anyway, they still successfully killed Manchester City's tough guy in the last round of the league.

Chelsea's players don't want to overturn at the last minute of the season and forcefully create suspense for the championship.

So during the preparation period after returning to London, the entire Chelsea team was very serious and cautious.

On the other hand, Manchester City is preparing to play the second Manchester derby of the season with Manchester United.

Since entering the second half of the league, Manchester United has been chasing points all the way. Van Gaal used a peculiar big circle tactic to defeat strong enemies and won the Red Derby and the focus battle with Arsenal in succession.

Now Manchester City's tactical strength is not a problem, but the players' mentality is not particularly stable.

At this juncture, encountering Manchester United, who is good at playing against strong teams, the result is really hard to say.

If Chelsea is lucky enough, they can win Crystal Palace in this round and wait for the result of Manchester City's defeat.

Then Chelsea will end the suspense of winning the Premier League this season five rounds in advance and successfully defend the Premier League title!

The possibility of such a result is still not small.

Chelsea fans directly turned into loyal fans of the Red Devils before the start of this round of the league.

Seriously, that is a more devout hope for Manchester United to win than the real Manchester United fans.

Fortunately, Manchester United also has its own reasons to defeat Manchester City.

The Red Devils have chased points in the second half of the season and have now reached the fifth place in the Premier League. If they want to return to the Champions League next season, they will have to strive to get points in the last six rounds of the league.

After all, Tottenham, who is one place ahead of them, is still four points ahead of them, and Liverpool, who is one place behind them, is only two points behind them.

The battle for the top four in the final stage of this season is undoubtedly very cruel, and Van Gaal must try his best to win for his position.

Manchester United has no reason to retreat, which makes Chelsea fans very relieved.

And the major sports media in England have also been ready to witness Chelsea successfully defend the league title.

The three days of preparation time passed quickly.

On the afternoon of April 18, Chelsea and Manchester City both played at home and welcomed their respective key opponents.

The games on both sides started at the same time, so the players of both teams could devote themselves to their respective battles without being disturbed by external information during the game.

But for the fans, this kind of key game that started at the same time is undoubtedly very exciting.

And the interesting point is that most Chelsea fans today will give priority to watching the Manchester derby, and most Manchester City fans will also give priority to the Stamford Bridge.

At 15:00 that afternoon, the two games that attracted almost all the attention of Premier League fans started at the same time!

On the Chelsea side, Mourinho only rotated Ibrahimovic and Terry, almost all the main players started to play against Crystal Palace.

Manchester City is a complete main force attack, to compete with Manchester United.

Mourinho is also rare to adopt the same tactical strategy as Guardiola in the same round of the league.

From the beginning of the game, Chelsea, who set up a 433 starting formation, opened fire and pressed all the lines to hit Crystal Palace!

Chelsea is not afraid of Zaha's explosion and penetrated its own defense line on the counterattack end.

Azpilicueta will keep a close eye on Zaball in this game.

Kalas, who started today and partnered with Thiago Silva, will also focus more defensive attention on the Crystal Palace's explosive winger.

The two Chelsea defenders are both strong in single defense.

Mourinho has already made tactical preparations, and Chelsea's offensive players are naturally confident.

Li Ang is clear today, he wants to protect Hazard and directly break through the Crystal Palace's right defense.

Bertrand also assists from the side, ready to pull the side to the bottom at any time.

Chelsea mainly attacks the left side, and Crystal Palace's players and coaches also understand this, but they just can't defend it!

The left-wing offensive combination of Hazard and Bertrand has been invincible in the Premier League, and it is also the top offensive level in the Champions League.

At present, the offensive threat may only be inferior to Real Madrid's left side.

It is not inferior to Neymar and Alba's wing offensive combination.

Crystal Palace's right back Mariappa only played for five or six minutes in the opening stage, and could only helplessly seek support from his teammates.

Right forward Pang Qiong followed and retreated to assist in defense, but was still confused by Hazard's breakthrough!

Just after the 10th minute of the first half, Crystal Palace's right defense almost collapsed.

Hazard and Bertrand's alternating attacks forced Crystal Palace's backcourt defense to lean towards their right side.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Hazard once again got rid of the defensive interference of Crystal Palace's right forward Pang Qiong.

Bertrand had already pulled down to the side at this time, and Mariappa followed back to defend, but Li Ang suddenly raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Hazard, who was thinking about cutting inside and inserting into the front rib area of ​​the Crystal Palace penalty area, didn't think much and directly passed the ball back to Li Ang.

And Li Ang also decisively kicked a long pass in the next moment, sending the football diagonally to the left side of the Crystal Palace half!

Previously, because the overall defense line leaned to the right, Crystal Palace's left defense was relatively sparse at this time.

De Bruyne, who came in from behind, unloaded the ball and observed without interference.

When the Crystal Palace back defense line was in turmoil, he sent a flat cross!

Li Ang's back-up forced the Crystal Palace defenders to pay attention to the back of their own penalty area.

It was at this time that Drogba stepped forward from the middle of the penalty area and almost "bumped" the cross sent by De Bruyne into the Crystal Palace goal with his inner thigh!

Drogba, who helped the team score the first goal, was very happy. The Ivorian center called his teammates to rush to the corner flag area with him.

Then he led a very classic slide celebration!

Li Ang followed closely and knocked Drogba to the ground, and the Chelsea players on the field rushed up!

On the sidelines, Chelsea's bench was also cheering, Mourinho and Holland hugged each other tightly!

This goal was just the beginning, it opened up the game state of the entire Chelsea team, but for the Crystal Palace players, it was an extremely bad disaster!

Crystal Palace's counterattack today was not good, and it became more and more open later, and also tried to press forward to find more offensive opportunities.

However, in the 31st and 39th minutes of the first half, Chelsea seized the opportunity again and scored two more goals!

Chelsea, who scored three goals in the first half, almost announced the end of the suspense of this game.

On the other hand, Manchester United and Manchester City paused in the 45-minute game time and had to wait until the second half to decide the winner.

Chelsea's players had no intention of scoring more goals against Crystal Palace, and the second half of the game was also dominated by controlling the field.

After Lukaku came on as a substitute, he received a through pass from Li Ang in the 74th minute of the second half and scored Chelsea's fourth goal of the game.

This was also the last goal of the game.

Zaball King wanted to help Crystal Palace save some face, but unfortunately, with Azpilicueta and Kalas's rotation defense, he did not get any threatening opportunities today.

The full-time stoppage time was only two minutes. After the stoppage time, the referee on duty also decisively blew the whistle to end the game.

However, Chelsea's players did not celebrate the victory of the game at the first time, but rushed to the coaching seat to ask the coaching staff about the result of the Manchester City derby on the other side.

"There are only two minutes left."

Holland, who received the extra time information from the other side, also nervously conveyed this news to the players.

At this time, the score between Manchester United and Manchester City was still 0-0.

Li Ang stood outside the crowd with his hands folded.

He was actually not calm at this moment.

"There are only two minutes left, Manchester United, you must hold on! Don't let Aguero kill you at that time..."

Lukaku rubbed his hands and muttered nervously.

But then, he received a "friendly" pat from his teammates.

Li Ang smiled and continued to count the time in his heart.

And just when he counted to one minute and thirty-seven seconds, Holland looked at his phone and roared in advance!

"It's over! Their game is over! 0-0! We won the championship!!!"

The Chelsea players surrounding the coaching seat exploded at this moment, and then laughed and rushed to the court!

As if receiving some signal, the entire Stamford Bridge stadium also shook and reveled at this time!

The 40,000 Chelsea fans at the scene cheered loudly.

Li Ang did not rush into the stadium to celebrate like his teammates, but ran to Mourinho's side and hugged him to celebrate!

Another year of early championship!

They already have the foundation to build a dynasty, just like Manchester United in the past!

The league defense has arrived, and the new triple crown dynasty of the Premier League will surely be named the Iron-Blooded Blues next season!