Chapter 329: The 30th Goal in the League, a New Milestone for Midfielders!
"The 28th goal in the league! Li Ang! He is going further and further on the record he has written!
As a midfielder, he is approaching the 30-goal mark in a single season in the Premier League this season!
Two seasons ago, when Li Ang just transferred to Chelsea, who would have dared to imagine that he would be able to dominate the Premier League's double charts two seasons later?!"
Zhan Jun sat in the studio, excited and proudly watching Li Ang, who was cheering by thousands of Chelsea fans in the live camera at this moment, and he couldn't help himself!
Two seasons ago, absolutely no fan dared to imagine what happened at the Emirates Stadium today.
After all, Li Ang seemed to have just reached the strength of double ten data in the season.
For Li Ang's growth talent, the vast majority of neutral fans at that time recognized it.
They also expected that Li Ang would be able to play double ten data in the Premier League.
But if Li Ang could get double 30+ or even 40+30 terrifying data, they would not dare to think about it at all.
But Li Ang has now turned such exaggerated data into reality!
There has never been such a phenomenal superstar in the entire Premier League.
Luxurious data of 40+30.
Alan Shearer in the ancient times of the Premier League did not get it.
Henry the Great, who dominated the Premier League at the beginning of this century, did not get it.
C Ronaldo, who dominated the football world in 2008 and topped the Champions League and the Premier League at the same time, did not get it!
If the data of their peak seasons in the Premier League are taken out and compared with Li Ang's personal data this season, it is completely crushed horizontally.
When thinking of this, how can Zhan Jun, as an old Premier League audience, not be excited? How can he not be proud and happy from the bottom of his heart? !
At this moment, Li Ang, who was celebrating with his teammates, was also filled with satisfaction and joy.
However, while he was happy, he did not forget to express his gratitude to his teammates and brothers.
Of course, he trusts his current strength very much.
But if Mourinho had not tailored the most suitable tactical system for him, and if there was no tactical sacrifice and help from his teammates around him, he would not have been able to reach this point today anyway.
The achievement of personal data and the victory of the team have always been complementary.
Li Ang has always been very down-to-earth on the road of professional football.
He sometimes drifts a little because of the praise from the outside world, but in the end he will take the initiative to return to the team.
Because this is the fundamental operating logic of professional football. Only when the team wins first can there be personal victory.
The individual performance on the field that turns the tide has always been praised by fans and the media.
But in the final analysis, only a team, from players to coaches, and the collaborative efforts of every staff member behind the scenes, can fully write the championship story in different events in each season.
Li Ang would envy football prodigies like Ronaldo and Messi who can break the balance of the game at any time on the field, but he will always be a loyal supporter of team supremacy!
Perhaps it is precisely because of his belief that he respects and trusts his teammates.
So no matter which team he is in, he will get closeness and true friendship from most of his teammates.
From this point of view, there is no problem that Mourinho has repeatedly praised Li Ang as a natural team leader.
At this time, Chelsea's players on the field are indeed closely united around Li Ang.
Wenger was lost in thought as he watched the scene on the court...
No one knew what scenes and people the professor was thinking of at this moment.
His absent-mindedness was not captured by the live camera.
The joyful celebration of Chelsea players and Mourinho's spirited applause were the focus of the director and fans at this moment.
The rest of the game seemed a bit boring.
Because Chelsea turned to full-line retreat after leading by one goal, but Arsenal's offensive players did not have the passion they had when they besieged Chelsea before.
Cavani was just like Suarez, who seemed to be unable to support himself in the previous round of the league against Chelsea.
They were still making the final effort for their honors and data, and their running was still active.
But when the morale of their own team was obviously hit, it was too difficult to turn the situation around.
Wenger's substitutions were very routine. After the 70th minute of the second half, he replaced Ramsey and Cazorla with Walcott and Welbeck, wanting to rush and make a last-ditch effort.
Cavani still played until the end of the game, but Chelsea's defense also kept an extra eye on him.
In the key battle to help Li Ang win the Premier League Golden Boot this season, Chelsea's defense rotation players were very powerful in two consecutive rounds!
Neither Suarez nor Cavani scored in the direct dialogue with Li Ang.
In the end, Chelsea also beat Arsenal 1-0, and won another victory. There is only one last round of the Premier League left before the unbeaten end of this season's Premier League!
At 3 pm on May 24, the final game of the Premier League 2014-2015 season was played at the home stadiums of 8 Premier League teams at the same time.
As of the start of this round of the Premier League final game, Li Ang topped the Premier League scorer list and assist list with 28 goals and 20 assists.
Fabregas, who is currently ranked second in the Premier League assist list this season, has sent a total of 16 assists. It is basically impossible to perform a big assist in the last round of the league.
However, Suarez, who has scored 26 goals, still has a chance to catch up with Li Ang and share the Premier League Golden Boot with Li Ang this season.
If he happens to explode and make a hat trick in the last round of the game, and Li Ang fails to score.
Then he can make a comeback and successfully win the Premier League Golden Boot again.
The probability of this happening is not high, but it is not small.
After all, for a super shooter of Suarez's level, it is very reasonable to suddenly make a hat trick.
It's better to be safe than sorry.
Mourinho considered it again and again, and finally decided to let Li Ang continue to start in the final game of the league on May 24.
Of course, he also asked Li Ang many times, and made such a decision after getting the reply from the team doctor that "Li Ang has no physical condition".
And the other main players of Chelsea who have rested enough before will basically start in this round of final games.
After the final match and the championship ceremony, the Chelsea team had a full 6 days of rest to prepare for the FA Cup final with Arsenal.
So there is no need to worry about the problem of physical consumption. Veterans such as Ibrahimovic and Terry will start in the final match.
Before the game officially started, the entire Sunderland team lined up to applaud and congratulate Chelsea, the Premier League champion of this season.
This unwritten rule of lining up to congratulate is not actually taken seriously by many teams in the current Premier League.
Previously, when Chelsea played Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion, they received respect from their opponents before the game.
But before the games with Arsenal and Crystal Palace, they did not receive such treatment.
Sunderland was so "on the road" today, probably because they had successfully avoided relegation two rounds in advance, and the whole team was in a good mood, so they didn't mind being a gentleman.
However, the entire Chelsea team is now thinking about helping Li Ang score a few more goals, so they did not show mercy to the Black Cats who took the initiative to show their goodwill in the game.
As soon as the match started, Chelsea, with almost all the main players, set up their positions and quickly launched an attack on Sunderland at home.
When Sunderland saw that Chelsea was going to play for real, they also set up a bus formation very casually, without any idea of playing an exciting offensive against Chelsea in the final match.
There is no way. The reason why Sunderland has barely managed to stay in the league this season is because their offensive firepower has declined too seriously compared with last season.
If it weren't for their barely acceptable defense and luck in the league sprint stage, they might not have been able to get rid of Hull City and successfully stay in the league in the final stage.
"Sunderland's coaching staff is still very pragmatic and did not choose to play against Chelsea. After all, they only scored 30 goals in the first 37 rounds of the Premier League. At this moment, it is undoubtedly the right choice to do a good job of defense first..."
The commentator of Sky Sports in England also ridiculed Sunderland's offensive level this season.
In this season's Premier League, only Burnley did worse than Sunderland on the offensive end. They only scored 28 goals in 37 league rounds, so they were relegated in advance.
If Sunderland wants to avoid repeating Burnley's mistakes next season, it must first solve the forward problem.
However, after a few minutes of offensive and defensive confrontation with Chelsea, Sunderland successfully made their supporters worry about the team's defense!
Sunderland is said to be defending, and the 451 formation is quite decent.
But the actual defensive effect is full of loopholes, at least it can't give Sunderland fans too much sense of security.
At this moment, the Black Cats players on the field are actually bitter.
Their defensive strength is really not bad. They are still quite confident when playing against opponents in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League. Occasionally, they can still control the opponent's game rhythm.
Now their defensive performance on the field is indeed very passive, but it also depends on who the opponent is, right?
As for Chelsea's offensive and defensive level this season, let alone the Premier League, it is the top strength in the whole of Europe.
There are also many teams that parked the bus against Chelsea this season, but how many of them successfully refused Chelsea to score?
They can hold off Chelsea's onslaught today and delay as much time as possible, so that the defense line will not collapse, which is good!
The gap in strength is obvious. They want to struggle a bit, but they can't even touch the ball a few times under Chelsea's pressure in the midfield and frontcourt.
After the lessons learned from the first two rounds of the league, Chelsea's offensive players did not take the ball to Li Ang as soon as they got to the vicinity of Sunderland's penalty area today.
They are still carrying out tactics normally, and Li Ang has repeatedly used his "attraction" to Sunderland's back line to help his teammates open up offensive space.
In terms of passing, Chelsea has learned a lot of tricks from Manchester City in the past two seasons.
First, the range of ball transfer should be large, second, the speed of passing should be fast, and third, try to place threatening passers in the ribs on both sides of the opponent's half.
Chelsea is not short of passing experts in the team now.
Generally, Li Ang and Kroos are enough to deliver shells forward on both sides of the midfield.
And in many cases, De Bruyne can also retreat to build a turret.
Today, Li Ang frequently moved in the left midfield from the beginning.
When Sunderland's defenders were used to his running area, he suddenly switched to the right midfield and started to attack from behind!
De Bruyne also quietly moved inward, from a winger to a wing midfielder, and sent a through pass to Li Ang in coordination with his forward run!
This set of offensive speed-up tactics after the change of position has been tried and tested by Chelsea this season.
In the 13th minute of the first half, Li Ang received a pass from De Bruyne and tore open Sunderland's left half-field defense area, and almost broke the balance of the game with a long shot outside the penalty area!
Seeing that the football was just a hair's breadth away from the goal frame, Li Ang just covered his face and was slightly annoyed for a moment, and then he started a new round of offense.
At this time, Sunderland's defensive players not only had to face Li Ang's forward threat, but Ibrahimovic and Hazard were also eyeing them inside and outside their penalty area!
If they really dared to double-team and limit Li Ang's performance, the other players on Chelsea's offensive line would make them regret it in minutes!
Ibrahimovic has scored 31 goals for Chelsea this season, and Hazard has scored 20 goals.
On the bench, Chelsea also has three strikers with double-digit goals!
Although Lukaku, Salah and Drogba have all scored some stats in the FA Cup and League Cup.
But the title of "scoring double digits" is enough to scare people.
So Sunderland's defenders dare not leave Chelsea's other offensive players open.
They were not determined to make defensive choices, so they learned a painful lesson in the second half of the first half.
After fully understanding Sunderland's defense system and strength, the Chelsea team became more and more bold and aggressive!
Seeing that the opponent was gradually getting used to the routine of switching positions with De Bruyne, Li Ang changed his tactics and took advantage of Ibrahimovic's deterrence in the penalty area to run in the opposite direction to grab a shot.
The offensive tricks were all used one by one, without any repetition, and soon made several Sunderland defenders unable to resist!
O'Shea was not in good shape today, and Li Ang also took advantage of this point to repeatedly attack and test him.
Just after 30 minutes of the first half, Li Ang seized a counterattack opportunity and quickly moved forward while observing, and he and Ibrahimovic tacitly staggered in the Sunderland penalty area to grab the point!
O'Shea's speed did not keep up, and Li Ang accelerated and threw away his defensive position. In the end, he could only watch Li Ang successfully hit the goal at the back of the penalty area!
As soon as the ball was scored, Li Ang had no time to celebrate passionately, and his teammates surrounded him more happily than him!
"The 29th league goal! What are you waiting for? Score another one! Since the establishment of the Premier League, our team has not had a player who scored 30 goals in a single season!"
Terry also ran over from the backcourt at this time to cheer Li Ang up.
Only one goal away, Li Ang can create a new record for Chelsea's personal Premier League goals in a single season. There is really nothing to say about the data of 29 goals!
Drogba had already completed such a goal data once before.
However, he failed to score his 30th league goal that season, which became a small regret for him.
Li Ang's eyes were ablaze with excitement.
Or?
Let's try harder? !
When he saw the same fiery emotions in his teammates' eyes, Li Ang stopped being pretentious.
He made up his mind to break the team's single-season league goal record!
However, there was not much time left in the first half, so Li Ang was not in a hurry to score more shots.
After the halftime break, the Chelsea team, which had made clear the goal of the game, stepped onto the court again with high morale!
O'Shea was directly replaced by Sunderland coach Poyet during the halftime break.
The Sunderland captain's performance today was indeed a bit bad.
Even if Poyet trusted him very much, he had to replace him with substitute central defender Belshini at this time, so that he could slowly adjust his mentality.
Li Ang originally thought that this new Argentine central defender was a tough guy.
When he fought with him in the Sunderland penalty area, he planned to test him a few times first.
As a result, just in the 8th minute of the second half, Belshini made a fatal mistake when competing for a header in front of the penalty area!
He misjudged the landing point of the football, so he jumped decisively in advance and even led Ibrahimovic off the ball!
At this moment, Poyet widened his eyes and showed an incredible expression on his face.
Standing in the middle of the Sunderland penalty area, Li Ang, who was originally planning to give up the header, soon saw the football fly over the heads of Belshini and Ibrahimovic and hit him directly!
Almost at a subconscious moment, Li Ang jumped slightly, then shook his head to complete the standard goal!
Sunderland goalkeeper Mannone was also shaken to the waist by his own central defender's operation. He had no temper at all for Li Ang's header and could only watch the football cross the line!
After confirming that the ball went in, Li Ang's brain became blank instead, and he didn't know how to celebrate this historical moment.
But fortunately, his teammates had already gathered together and pushed him towards the corner flag area!
At this moment, commentators from various countries also gave Li Ang their sincere praise and congratulations!
30th goal in a single Premier League season!
With this goal number, Li Ang has set a new tall monument for every newcomer!