Chapter 256 I Don’t Care!

Perhaps the fate of rebels is to never get official recognition and affirmation.

As early as UEFA announced the candidates for the 2003 Best Team of the Year and Best Coach, the English media began to speculate that Ye Qiu would be the number one candidate to win the Best Coach of the Year, including The Guardian and The Times Newspaper, Daily Telegraph and other media all awarded Ye Qiu with the 2003 Coach of the Year Award.

Although the Premier League gave the Coach of the Month in December to Ferguson, who led Manchester United to five consecutive victories, Ronaldinho won the Player of the Month, but he was not selected in the Premier League's best half-time team selection that followed. , Chelsea can be said to have won a great victory, and the limelight was unparalleled for a while.

The goalkeeper is Edwin van der Sar. Although Howard performed well at Manchester United, Van der Sar is undoubtedly the most stable goalkeeper in the Premier League this season. Chelsea is also the team that has conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League. This makes the Dutch goalkeeper once again become the most stable goalkeeper in today's football. One of the most outstanding top goalkeepers in the world, and more importantly, Van der Sar made the fewest mistakes among all Premier League goalkeepers.

As the Premier League team that conceded the fewest goals, Chelsea's defense has naturally received great recognition. Left back Evra, center back Terry, and right back Maicon have all been selected for the best defense list. The only one left behind The right center back is Arsenal's Kolo Toure. This old Ye Qiu player is the core of Arsenal's defense this season.

But there are also some media who are puzzled by the election of Kolo Toure and the loss of Cannavaro, because purely from the performance point of view, the captain of the Italian national team definitely played his highest level at Chelsea. He and Terry The partnership is a perfect match, and the combination of the two in tandem is very complementary.

But some people feel that it is impossible for the Premier League to hand over all four positions of the entire defense line to Chelsea, so the controversial election of Kolo Toure is understandable, and the performance of this old Ye Qiu player once again made everyone I saw the authority of Ye Qiu's fiery eyes.

Compared with the defense, the competition in the midfield is fierce, especially in the middle, with Scholes, Lampard, Davis, Makelele, Roy Keane, Gerrard, Vieira. Other players performed very well, but in the end it was Lampard and Roy Keane who were selected into the best team of the two central midfielders.

Vieira was affected by the issue of contract renewal, his performance was up and down, and he was far from his best. If he didn't have Gilberto Silva beside him, his problems would be more obvious. As for Davis, And Makelele, the former was assigned to the left wing by the best lineup. The left midfielder was also the position Davis played when he debuted. Makelele was miserably lost.

Scholes played too few times, and Gerrard was limited by Liverpool's sluggish performance this season, and neither of them was selected.

The left midfielder is Edgar Davis, and the right midfielder is Brazilian Ronaldinho. The latter is regarded by many professionals as the source of Chelsea's offense. They believe that Ronaldinho dominates Chelsea. Half of the attacking firepower, goals and assists are very impressive. As for Edgar Davis, he is more squeezed to the left wing, otherwise he should occupy a place in the center.

Both Pires and Giggs are excellent, but the Frenchman is currently having conflicts with Arsenal over salary issues, and his performance is not very good. Giggs' importance in the team has never been very important, especially for Manchester United this season. After Beckham left, Giggs did not show the kind of influence that turned the tide. Both of them were slightly inferior to Davis.

The two forwards are Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Drogba's tactical role is very important and has been recognized by everyone, but there is no way. The forwards argue based on the number of goals scored, but Chelsea's chief scorer is Lampard, and the magic lamp is The top scorer in the Premier League, Shearer is second, but Newcastle performed poorly, and Shearer had 6 penalty kicks. In the end, Henry and Van Nistelrooy were the best.

Chelsea occupies 7 of the 11 best half-time lineup positions, which is enough for everyone to feel the strength of Chelsea this season, especially since this group of players in the Chelsea team is very strong.

The Premier League gave Chelsea a very high evaluation at the half-season, especially the head coach Ye Qiu. He believed that this group of Chelsea players would not have had a good impression on everyone half a year ago, even Cannavaro and Davis. Players like this give people a feeling that they are declining. Although Makelele is in his prime, he has not received much recognition.

Although Ronaldinho, Lampard, Deco, Terry, Evra, Drogba and others have proven their strength in other European leagues, they have never performed as well as this season. In outstanding and astonishing form, the entire Chelsea team has reached a certain level of astonishing combat effectiveness under Ye Qiu's training.

"In today's world football, Chelsea has the most control over the pitch. That kind of control that can almost suffocate opponents allows Chelsea to deal with any opponent with ease. Coupled with the outstanding personal abilities of the players, this Chelsea team Very strong overall and individually.”

In the end, Ye Qiu also relied on Chelsea's outstanding performance in the past six months to win the best coach of the Premier League half-season, beating out Ferguson, Wenger and other famous Premier League coaches. This honor has been reserved for Wenger in the past few years. And Ferguson's bag.

This time Ye Qiu won the best coach of the half-season, and Chelsea won the best team of the half-season. Everyone realized that the Premier League was about to change. In the past, Manchester United and Arsenal monopolized the Premier League. This season, Chelsea will was broken by its strong rise.

In the words of Martin Samuel, as long as Chelsea continues to maintain its outstanding performance in the first half, no one can snatch the championship away, and it will definitely fall to Stamford Bridge in the end.

With his outstanding performance in the first half, Ye Qiu won the best coach of the first half of the Premier League, making a good start, which undoubtedly increased the recognition of fans all over the world. However, in the 2003 annual best team selected by UEFA, Ye Qiu once again lost to Mourinho of Porto, which caused controversy among many fans.

On the message board of UEFA's official website, a fan left an analysis and questioning, suspecting that UEFA's selection was not fair at all. He believed that Ye Qiu was undoubtedly the best coach of the year with the three major titles of the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the UEFA Champions League, plus Chelsea's outstanding performance in the second half of the year.

"A head coach who was recognized and supported by competitors like Lippi, Bosque, Ancelotti, and Ferguson, ended up losing to an unknown player from the Portuguese Super League? What achievements did Mourinho have? How did he beat Ye Qiu to win the UEFA Coach of the Season and Coach of the Year awards?"

This fan's message received many comments and support from fans, with more than 10,000 people supporting it. Many people who followed the comments said that UEFA obviously wanted to suppress Ye Qiu and support Mourinho. The reason was simple, "Ye Qiu is not white!"

There were many such comments, but they were quickly deleted. After all, it involved racial discrimination. UEFA also immediately gave an official response, believing that the process and difficulty of Mourinho leading Porto to win the UEFA Cup could better reflect his level.

Schulde Mosso of the Dutch Daily News gave sarcasm and ridicule in his column.

"When Ye Qiu led the youngest Ajax to win the UEFA Cup, UEFA said that the UEFA Cup was not important enough, and it was natural for the Champions League champion to win the annual best, which was accepted by people; the next year, Ye Qiu led the team to the semi-finals, and UEFA still did not give it, and it was okay, but now, Ye Qiu has won the Champions League, and UEFA has turned to give the award to the UEFA Cup champion. Isn't this a slap in the face?"

"That's right, the rules are set by UEFA, the players are them, the referees are also them, and how the game is played, they have the final say!"

Coincidentally, at the annual awards ceremony of FIFA, Ye Qiu also failed to win the World's Best Men's Football Coach Award, but this time it was not Mourinho, but the head coach from Boca Juniors, Bianchi, who won the best coach, because he led Boca to win the 20th league championship, and won the South American Libertadores Cup and Toyota Cup.

As soon as the result was announced, the media immediately caused controversy again, believing that the weight of the European Champions League was not as good as the South American Libertadores Cup and the Toyota Cup. Everyone began to feel unfair for Ye Qiu, believing that this was the result of the official organization's deliberate suppression. Otherwise, with the honors Ye Qiu had won at Ajax and his achievements at Chelsea, who could say that they were more qualified than him to win this award?

In fact, it was not just the best coach that was controversial. As the only team in Europe that won the triple crown last season, Ajax had no one elected in the UEFA's best team. There were many candidates on the list, but no one won the award. It must be said that this award itself was unfair.

On the contrary, Mourinho won the best coach of the year in Porto, and Ferreira won the best right back of the year, beating Maicon. This was hailed as a dark horse by many people, but it caused a lot of controversy.

For these, Ye Qiu responded at the pre-match press conference before the FA Cup away game against Watford. He believed that it was not important to whom the award was given. Whether it was a player or a head coach, they had to conquer the fans on the court and win the fans' recognition.

"I am very grateful to those fans who are speaking up for me, and to those colleagues who are speaking for me, but I think the award has been announced and cannot be changed, nor is it necessary to change it, because I never live for awards, I will always fight for my team, players, and fans!"

But Ye Qiu finally said, "Sometimes life is like this, maybe they are unwilling to give you an award now, you will feel a little regretful, but when they are willing to give it to you in the future, you don't want it anymore, who knows?"

Although it was a joke, many people felt that Ye Qiu was preparing to go against UEFA, and the subtext was that it didn't matter if you didn't give it to me now, even if you wanted to give it to me in the future, I still don't want it!

The fans who supported Ye Qiu all affirmed his tough statement, believing that Ye Qiu had won all the fans with his performance on the court and conquered all the fans. Whether he won the award or not, he was the best player of the year last season and last year. In the future, he will continue to speak with the team's performance and results, and there is no need to care about the award.

Amid such a commotion, Chelsea started the first game of 2004.

In the end, Chelsea defeated Watford 2:1 away from home with goals from Messi and Gudjohnsen.

In this game, Ye Qiu noticed the young player Ashley Young in the Watford team. He also observed him carefully, but the young player's performance against Chelsea was obviously not good. He did not show eye-catching strength from beginning to end.

Ten Cate and Moniz both didn't think highly of this player. He is very fast and his skills are considered above average among English attacking players. However, if he is an attacking player in continental Europe, he may not even be above average, but he is really fast.

After successfully advancing from the FA Cup, Chelsea's next opponent is Scarbrough from the amateur league, and it will still be an away game, scheduled for late January.

After the FA Cup, Chelsea ushered in the first league game of the second half, and the opponent was still Liverpool, but this time it was at Stamford Bridge, but Houllier still put out an ugly defensive counterattack tactic.

Liverpool's recent record is very bad, ranking 6th in the Premier League. Houllier obviously dare not be careless when challenging Chelsea, who is ranked first in the Premier League, away from home, and with Owen and Gerrard absent due to injuries, Houllier's deployment of troops was restricted.

Chelsea was also affected by injuries. Davis had not recovered yet, but Evra was injured again. In addition, Cannavaro played in the FA Cup, so Ye Qiu arranged a defensive line combination of Sun Jihai, Gallas, Terry and Maicon in this game, because he expected Houllier to defend.

Sure enough, Houllier arranged a 451 tactic in this game, with goalkeeper Dudek, defense line Traore, Hyypiä, Hencozzi and Biscan, midfielders Riise, Murphy, Hamann and Diouf, and Kewell behind Heskey.

In addition to adjusting the defense line, Ye Qiu also made changes in the midfield in this game, because the team's change to 4231 in the last game against Portsmouth was not very ideal, and the players obviously could not adapt, so this time Ye Qiu tried to let Makelele play as a single defensive midfielder, Joe Cole, Deco and Lampard formed the midfield, and Ronaldinho and Drogba formed the double striker.

However, the team's performance in the first half was still unsatisfactory. Even though Ye Qiu adjusted the positions of Joe Cole, Deco and Lampard according to the situation in the game and changed it into a diamond midfield, he still failed to bring out the powerful combination of three creative players, Joe Cole, Deco and Ronaldinho.

The team did a good job in ball possession. Liverpool was suppressed very embarrassingly, but Houllier's ability to train defense was extraordinary. Although Liverpool's counterattack was not threatening much without Owen, it was not easy for Chelsea to break through the Red Army's iron wall.

Ye Qiu made another adjustment in the 62nd minute of the second half. Ribery replaced Joe Cole. The team changed to 433, Makelele fell behind, Deco and Lampard pressed forward, Ronaldinho and Ribery were separated on the two sides, and Drogba was at the front.

Ye Qiu's attitude of changing the formation to 433 was very obvious, that is, to force the wing, give full play to Drogba's dominance in the penalty area, and Ronaldinho and Lampard's ability to attack from behind, and crush Liverpool in one fell swoop.

The news of this substitution adjustment was received quickly.

Hyypiä and Henckoz were both unable to limit Drogba. In the 71st minute, the Ivorian used Ribery and Maicon's cooperation on the right to cross the ball and headed into Liverpool's goal, 1:0!

This was also the only goal of the game. Chelsea defeated the visiting Liverpool at home with this goal.

Houllier seemed very depressed, because he had put down his posture and defended to death, but in the end he still couldn't get out of Stamford Bridge unscathed. He even lost his old business, leaving the Red Army fans with his helpless expression.

It is impressive that Gerrard, who was absent from the game due to injury, screamed when Chelsea scored a goal when he was a commentator, because this goal brought a heavy blow to Liverpool.

Everyone believes that after the end of this season, Houllier's Red Army journey will also come to an end.

In the same round, Manchester United challenged Bolton away. The Red Devils did not fall to the feet of Bolton, the giant killer. Although they lost the ball first, they finally scored two goals in a row, successfully completed a reversal, and successfully got 3 points.

On the other hand, Arsenal drew 1:1 with Moyes' Everton away, which also made the Gunners lose the second place in the league and fell to third place in the league. Chelsea once again defended its position as the leader of the league.

Three days later, the 21st round of the Premier League.

Manchester United was tied 0:0 by Newcastle at home, and Arsenal defeated Middlesbrough 4:1 at home. The Gunners returned to the second place in the league, but on the same day, Chelsea defeated Leicester City 4:0 away.

Chelsea dominated the game from beginning to end. Ye Qiu continued the previous 433 tactical deployment. Gallas, Cannavaro, Terry and Sun Jihai formed the back line, Makelele played as a single defensive midfielder, Deco and Lampard formed the central midfielder, Ronaldinho and Ribery were on the two sides, and Drogba rushed forward.

This set of tactics obviously made Chelsea play better, especially the two sides, which played more actively. The team's four goals were all launched from the side, and then transferred to the middle through crosses, diagonal insertions, etc., and finally broke through the goal of Leicester City. All four goals were very exciting.

In the 11th minute of the first half, Ronaldinho got the ball on the left and passed three opposing players in a row. In the front of the penalty area, Piero's best area, he scored a goal similar to Piero's, which won a lot of applause.

Before the Brazilian joined Chelsea, many people were worried that he would not be able to adapt to the Premier League. However, in the past six months, he has not only adapted well, but also performed at a very high level. After all, with such a strong lineup of Chelsea as support, coupled with Ye Qiu's tactical freedom to Ronaldinho, he has a relaxed space and environment to fully display his offensive talent.

With this big win, Chelsea once again expanded its league lead to 6 points.

The Christmas devil schedule has passed, and the winter break schedule has also passed. Chelsea does not seem to have any ups and downs, and the performance is as stable as ever, which makes people more and more expectant and optimistic about the Blues' championship prospects.