Chapter 235 Chelsea exploded! Unsolvable pain period! The first dynasty in English football history! [Subscribe]

collapsed!
Completely collapsed!
When the live broadcast of the game turned to the home team’s coaching bench, a close-up of Villas-Boas with his hands in his mouth, a shocked face and blank eyes was presented to all the live fans around the world. Everyone understood the signal.

He’s finished!
Completely finished!

Not everyone can become Yang Cheng!

Because not everyone has the ability to lead the team out of trouble.

The success at the University of Coimbra and Porto made Boas overestimate himself and think he could do it.

But in reality, he couldn’t do anything!
On the court, the attack of the Bayswater Chinese continued.

Already leading 8-0, the West London team kept launching attacks.

Deadly enemies, that’s what!

Yang Cheng had actually shown mercy.

He replaced three players at once, including Gareth Bale, Lewandowski and Modric.

The three best performing players on the field were all replaced.

But the advantages of the Chinese in Bayswater are still very obvious.

Chelsea’s players are no longer motivated.

Apart from defending behind their own half, they had no ambition at all and even no desire to press forward.

Perhaps, they did not expect that they would lose the game like this.

Losing the ball again and again.

But sometimes, that’s just how football is.

The more than 4 fans at the scene were extremely angry.

They cursed the players, the coaches, and everyone!

They don’t spend money to get nauseated!

They were slaughtered like this at home, is this a problem of strength?

If the players were willing to try their best and if the team was united, even if all 11 people were defending the penalty area, they wouldn’t have conceded 8 goals, right?
Previously, when we lost 3-5 to Arsenal, it could be said that we messed up the offense.

What now?
So far this season, the team has not won any of the strong matches, and all ended in defeat.

What’s the point of being able to bully weak ones?

Bullying those teams that are weaker than themselves, but failing to beat those strong teams of equal strength, can they make it into the top four and win the championship?
The game hasn’t ended yet, but the Stamford Bridge stadium is already filled with curses.

At the beginning, they were booing and cursing at the Chinese in Bayswater.

But now, all the boos and scolding are directed at Chelsea!
……

Abramovich didn’t know how to describe his feelings at this moment.

Especially when he heard the boos and insults from Chelsea fans in the stadium, his mood became even worse.

Marina Granovskaia, who was standing nearby, looked at her boss with a somewhat helpless look in her eyes.

She has followed Abramovich for so many years and has been with him all the way.

When Abramovich acquired the Premier League team, his main purpose was to use football as a platform to enter the circle of political and business celebrities in Europe, especially in the UK.

This is actually what almost all Russian wealthy people want to do.

This has been true from ancient times to the present.

But after so many years, whether it was the gradual development of feelings for the “toy” and “pet” or the reluctance to part with the sunk costs invested in the past few years, she clearly saw that Abramovich was paying more and more attention to Chelsea.

Otherwise, how do you explain what he has done for Chelsea?
Look at the Egyptian in Fulham in West London. Does he care about Fulham’s results?
It doesn’t matter if you downgrade!
Let’s take a look at one of the shareholders of Queens Park Rangers in the past few years, the Indian tycoon Mittal family. Have they ever cared about this team?

I guess they don’t even know where the team’s training base is.

For these investors, they don’t care about the club or football at all.

Win, lose, relegation or promotion, it doesn’t matter to them.

In the end, they will only take a look at the numbers on the financial statements submitted by their subordinates, and then…that’s it.

But Abramovich’s feelings for Chelsea are really growing deeper and deeper.

Otherwise, from an investment perspective, this business would be a huge loss!
“Peter, teach me…”

Abramovich turned around and walked up to his old friend Pete DeVisser, pointed to the football field behind him, his tone revealing helplessness and depression.

“What should I do? What should I do after being kicked like this?”

Pete DeVisser is not omnipotent.

He also makes mistakes and makes errors of judgment.

But he is old enough, has enough qualifications and experience, and has handled enough things.

“At this point, there is no other way. A change of coach is inevitable.”

“Now?” Abramovich smiled bitterly.

“I just supported Villas-Boas in the media and in the dressing room. Now I sack him?”

Marina Granovskaia also stepped out at this time and reminded: “This summer, we spent 1500 million euros in termination fees to poach Villas-Boas. Now that we have fired him, we have to pay him a large sum of liquidated damages.”

As a personal assistant, there are some things that her boss cannot easily say, so she has to say them.

“Football has never been a business. From the perspective of gains and losses, this business is a loss no matter how you look at it, whether it’s a big loss or a small loss.” Pete DeVisser said calmly.

Abramovich certainly understands this.

“Maybe, but definitely not now!”

At least for now, he can’t do such a thing as going back on his word.

Not only can he not do it, but after the game, he will continue to support Boas in the media and in the locker room.

Because he has no choice!
“My biggest headache now is what should we do next?” Abramovich said angrily.

Pete DeWeiser chuckled.

“It’s actually very easy. After firing Villas-Boas, the team’s results will definitely improve and the players’ performance will definitely improve, no matter who the head coach is.”

“They may even try their best to help Chelsea win some championships.”

“It’s human nature!”

The old man stared at Abramovich and spoke word by word.

Abramovich was stunned.

This is why there is a saying in European football that changing coaches is like changing knives!

Whenever there are irreconcilable conflicts in the locker room, all clubs always target the head coach.

Because there is only one head coach, but there are a group of players.

Changing the head coach is always easier than changing a group of players.

“And that’s it?” Abramovich still felt unwilling.

Pete DeVisser smiled again, “You still put too much personal emotion into it.”

“As a club owner, what you want is results, operations, income and valuation. Why should you care too much about how to achieve these?”

Abramovich was stunned.

It seems that’s really what happened.

If we get rid of Villas-Boas, the players in the locker room will have no reason not to fight hard.

“After this season, those who don’t renew their contracts will not renew their contracts, those who should leave will leave, and the lineup will be changed according to the original plan.”

After a pause, Pete DeVisser looked at Abramović with some amusement, “You are the chess player. Sometimes you should not get too involved in the game.”

After a pause, the old man added, “In fact, you should let go of your obsession with the Chinese in Bayswater. It’s been so many years, and you’re still so upset.”

After that, the old man sighed again, “I’m going to say something you don’t want to hear. In half a year, the new stadium will be put into use. By then, the Bayswater Chinese will not be something we can catch up with. The gap has already widened.”

“They have the best youth training in the world. The West London Derby is just a formality for the fans, just like the national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona.”

“In fact, there is no need to make the relationship so tense in private.”

Abramovich understands this truth.

So, when the Bayswater Chinese invited Chelsea to participate in the International Champions Cup, Abramovich agreed immediately.

The West London Derby is just like hyping up a couple.

How fierce is the fight between Real Madrid and Barcelona?

Can it hinder the private understanding and consultation between the two clubs?

To some extent, the only things left in La Liga now are the national derby and the two giants of La Liga.

“After what happened this time, you should have discovered that this group of arrogant and powerful generals cannot be controlled by just any head coach. Even if Hiddink and Mourinho are invited back now, they probably won’t agree!”

World-class head coaches are not stupid. They have enough capital and chips to choose teams.

Hiddink was somewhat out of control in the later period of his coaching career.

When Mourinho comes back to coach, he will find that the current Chelsea is completely different from the Chelsea he coached back then.

Is he confident that he can control Terry, Lampard and others?

The truly smart people will just keep waiting.

It would be wise for them to wait until these veteran players with outstanding achievements can no longer play, are about to retire, or leave the team, and then come to rebuild a team!
Didn’t the media previously report that Mourinho reminded Villas-Boas that it was two years too early for him to coach Chelsea?

Yes, that’s 2 years!
The situation is like this now. Two years later, veterans such as Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Ashley Cole and others have almost retired.

If we enter the field at this time, won’t the locker room be in good condition?
……

Chelsea suffered a crushing 0-8 defeat to Bayswater Chinese at home!
After the game, this news spread across Europe and around the world at an extremely fast speed.

How strong Yang Cheng’s team is is fully demonstrated in such a match.

No matter how strong Barcelona is, they can only beat Real Madrid 5-0 at most.

But what about in London?
The score is always big.

And it’s at Stamford Bridge!
This is so exciting!
Fans were singing praises for the Bayswater Chinese and cheering for Yang Cheng’s team on the Internet.

The media also spoke highly of the performance of the Chinese in Bayswater.

Right after the game, Sky Sports used the words “nightmare reappears” to describe the game.

But the Premier League’s top broadcaster believes that rather than the Chinese at Bayswater performing too well, it was more that Chelsea died in locker room fighting.

Sky Sports believes that even before this game, there have been constant reports that Boas was at odds with several bigwigs in the locker room, and this was further confirmed during the game.

“In the game, you can see that Boas is extremely dissatisfied with the course of the game.”

At the post-match press conference, Boas lost control and denounced the players’ poor performance.

At the scene, a media reporter asked Boas whether he was questioning the players’ deliberate loss in order to get rid of him?

“Although the Portuguese denied the incident, they just thought that the players were too bad at tactical execution, which led to their collapse at the hands of the Chinese in Bayswater.”

“But the expression on his face showed that he was suppressing his anger.”

Sky Sports believes that perhaps the players did not deliberately lose the game to get rid of Villas-Boas, but the infighting in the Chelsea locker room has become increasingly fierce, and there is even a tendency that it is out of control.

For example, Villas-Boas has banned Anelka.

Chelsea currently has three capable forwards, Drogba, Eto’o and Anelka.

Add to that Lukaku, a young center forward who is highly valued by the management.

Oh, and by the way, there’s Andy Carroll, who has been declared scrapped.

Leaving aside Lukaku and Carroll, Eto’o is extremely fast and has excellent scoring ability, while Drogba is getting older and his physical confrontation is gradually weakening, which makes it more difficult for him to deal with defenders in the frontcourt.

In this situation, Anelka, who is in good form and has relatively comprehensive characteristics, can hold the ball, protect the ball, and pass the ball in the frontcourt, which is something that other Chelsea forwards currently do not have.

But at this time, Boas blocked Anelka.

The source of this is the 3-5 home loss to Arsenal.

According to the Daily Mail, which is close to Chelsea, after the game, Boas was very dissatisfied with the performance of everyone in the team.

He couldn’t bear to lose so humiliatingly at home.

After the game, he entered the locker room and berated Anelka in front of everyone.

Why Anelka?

“Besides him, Villas-Boas couldn’t find any other player in the dressing room to vent his anger on!”

Although he is 32 years old, Anelka has never been a gentle guy, so the two of them started arguing on the spot and almost fought.

In the end, what many people know happened. Villas-Boas said at a press conference, “Except Anelka, several other veterans will receive contract extensions after the end of the season.”

This was interpreted at the time as a signal that Boas had reached an agreement with the five bigwigs of the team committee.

Getting rid of Anelka, establishing a certain authority, and advancing Chelsea’s reforms step by step seems to be a good thing.

But only now did everyone suddenly realize that there was another way to interpret the same incident.

Villas-Boas completely lost control of the locker room, but he had no way to deal with the five bigwigs on the team committee and could only vent his impotent rage on Anelka.

Refusing to renew Anelka’s contract and agreeing to renew the contracts of several veteran players has not only failed to ease the conflict, but has intensified it.

Because the time point given by Boas is after the end of the season!
“According to reliable sources in the locker room, the players believe that Villas-Boas did not consider the issue from their perspective, but put himself in a role of life and death.”

“Even if the players cooperate with him and perform well, if he doesn’t renew their contracts at the end of the season, what can the players do?”

“Drogba’s contract is about to expire and the others won’t have long.”

“For these veterans at Chelsea, they hope to stay in the team and continue to play their remaining role.”

“But they all know that they are not in Villas-Boas’s plans.”

“This is the most real and irreconcilable contradiction!”

Following Sky Sports’ report, major British media outlets also came out to report.

The Sun revealed that many Chelsea players have completely stopped communicating with Villas-Boas.

“They don’t even care if Andre Villas-Boas gets sacked.”

But The Sun revealed a detail.

“Before this game, the players knew that Villas-Boas had been ordered to make changes to the team.”

“But it’s clear that Villas-Boas’ plan didn’t work.”

“Except for a few players like Ramires and Bosingwa, almost everyone is questioning whether Villas-Boas is still suitable to continue to be the head coach of Chelsea.”

The Daily Mail, which is close to Chelsea, even broke the news that many Chelsea players are dissatisfied with Villas-Boas and are preparing to call on the club to invite Hiddink back.

“With a disastrous defeat at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea is slipping further and further away from the top four in the league. Abramovich should have regretted his choice this summer and even considered bringing Hiddink back.”

After this round of games, the Chinese in Bayswater received great news.

Manchester City, who had been chasing closely all the way, finally stopped.

The Blue Moon drew 1-1 with Liverpool away!

The duel between the two famous Italian coaches ended in a 1-1 draw with goals from Balotelli and Jerome Boateng.

This is definitely great news for Yang Cheng.

Because after Manchester City’s draw, the Chinese team in Bayswater stood out.

Manchester United won 1-0 against Newcastle at home in this round.

Arsenal beat Fulham 1-0 at home.

After 13 rounds of games, Bayswater Chinese leads the standings with 37 points!

Manchester City is 2 points behind and is in second place with 35 points.

Manchester United and Arsenal both have 34 points, ranking third and fourth respectively.

Liverpool failed to beat Manchester City at home and ranked fifth with 30 points.

Chelsea still got 22 points, but was overtaken by Tottenham Hotspur and dropped to 7th place.

By the way, Tottenham Hotspur is a really smart team.

Over the past few years, they have not invested much and have been picking up scraps from teams like Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. As a result, they have actually picked up a very competitive lineup.

On the contrary, Chelsea’s current situation is indeed very bad.

The main reason is that they have lost all the games against the top five teams in the league so far this season!

Facing weaker teams, Chelsea was able to rely on its own strength advantage to suppress its opponents and win the game.

But when it came to the real strong dialogue, many problems of the Blues were exposed.

客场1比3输给曼联，主场3比5输给阿森纳，1比2输给利物浦，现在0比8惨败给了贝斯沃特中国人。

As many media have said, Chelsea now has completely lost sight of any strong Premier League teams.

On the contrary, West London’s arch-rivals, Bayswater Chinese, have successfully widened the points gap to 2 points. Although the lead is not large, it is already a very obvious signal.

So far this season, Bayswater Chinese have been leading since the first round.

“It’s hard to see any team stopping Bayswater Chinese from winning four consecutive Premier League titles!”

“This will be an unprecedented great achievement in the 123-year history of the English top league!”

“Yang Cheng will lead the Chinese of Bayswater to create the first dynasty that has never been seen before!”

Yes, in the history of England’s top league, the most consecutive championships is three.

No team has ever won four consecutive championships.

The Times believes that if they win the championship again this season, Bayswater Chinese will have won five Premier League titles in just seven years since being promoted from the Championship in 05. This transcript has caught up with and surpassed many dynasties in England’s top leagues.

例如1894到1900年的阿斯顿维拉，1976到1982年的利物浦，1993到1999年的曼联。

These three dynasties all won five Premier League titles within seven years.

Now, the Chinese in Bayswater have also achieved this.

“Of course, this is not fair to Bayswater Chinese because they did not win the championship in the 05/06 season as a newly promoted team.”

也就是说，如果11/12赛季和12/13赛季都拿下冠军的话，贝斯沃特中国人将超越上面所说的这三段王朝，实现了7年6冠的伟大壮举。

By then, there would only be two dynasties standing in the way of the Chinese in Bayswater.

1976到1984年的利物浦和1993到2001年的曼联，他们都是9年7冠。

The Times analysis believes that Yang Cheng’s team is still very young and they are fully capable of striving for better results and creating more amazing records.

……

After the 13th round of the Premier League, the team took a short break and immediately faced the League Cup quarter-finals.

This time, the opponent of the Bayswater Chinese is Manchester United.

Since the weekend’s game against Aston Villa is also a tough battle, Ferguson also arranged for substitutes and young lineups to play.

Ravel Morrison started in this game.

Yang Cheng also assisted with an all-substitute lineup, including Pogba, Harry Kane and others who all started the game.

The two sides played very intensely at Old Trafford.

It was not until the 65th minute that Sterling, who had just come on as a substitute, received a pass from Hazard in the front arc area of ​​the penalty area, dribbled past Gibson and Evans, and shot directly into the penalty area.

1 is better than 0!

But just four minutes later, Bayswater Chinese’s defense made a mistake and Manchester United striker Macheda scored a goal.

Before the end of the game, at a critical moment, Pogba dribbled forward and made a powerful shot, which was saved by goalkeeper Amos. Sterling on the right side took the lead and intercepted the ball, then stopped and dribbled past left-back Fabio and passed it to the front of the goal. Harry Kane volleyed and penetrated the Manchester United goal again.

2 is better than 1!

Bayswater Chinese beat Manchester United away from home!
But it was a close win!
The young substitute Sterling made an assist and a shot, his performance was quite amazing and left a deep impression on everyone.

This kid not only has skills but also speed. He is indeed a player worth training.

He even overshadowed Pogba and Ravel Morrison who were competing on the same field.

In the other three games, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City all advanced to the semi-finals.

Just when all the media and fans were paying attention to the League Cup semi-final, the media suddenly broke a bombshell after the game.

Chelsea’s locker room completely exploded!
The incident happened after Chelsea’s home game against Liverpool.

The result of this game was 0-3, and Chelsea suffered another complete defeat.

In the 22nd minute of the first half, Terry touched the ball with his hand while heading the ball and the referee awarded a penalty kick.

Torres scored in one fell swoop and opened the scoring for Liverpool.

After the second half, Chelsea lost two goals in just 5 minutes.

Eventually lost 0-3 at home.

You know, this is still a Liverpool team without all its main players!
First they suffered a crushing 0-8 defeat to Bayswater Chinese, and now they lost 0-3 to Liverpool.

Two games, two fronts, Chelsea completely lost the face of the strong team!
In the press conference after the game, Boas still said very firmly, “My football philosophy will never die.”

“No player at Chelsea can question it!”

“If the players want to stay at Stamford Bridge, they have to learn to live with it!”

On the other hand, Boas said that his relationship with the players is very good, very good.

He used two in one go which was very good.

But the next day, the British Daily Mirror suddenly broke the news that on the bus returning to the Cobham training base, Villas-Boas had a very fierce argument with the players.

After receiving the news, Abramovich immediately rushed to Cobham to maintain order.

As a result, unexpectedly, the two sides fell out in front of Abramovich.

The Daily Mirror stated that Abramovich came to Cobham with the intention of continuing to support Villas-Boas and making everyone believe that the head coach would not be fired.

“This is the only thing Abramovich can do in the current situation.”

But what no one expected was that in front of the boss, some veteran players clearly expressed their doubts about the head coach’s tactics, management methods and personnel selection.

Some of the words were even very intense.

“Some players questioned whether Villas-Boas was qualified to coach a giant like Chelsea!”

“Because three or four years ago, he was just a scout under Mourinho, who had to follow these stars every day, try to please them and build good relationships with them.”

“What qualifications does he have to lead Chelsea now?”

Boas also refuted it in person, and the tone of both sides became more and more intense. In the end, it was out of control and turned into a quarrel and even curse at each other.

The Daily Mirror revealed that Abramovich witnessed the whole thing without saying a word.

“After everyone calmed down, the Russian once again stressed that Boas would not be fired!”

According to Daily Mirror analysis, there are two main reasons why Boas is still able to keep his position as coach.

First, there is no famous coach willing to take over Chelsea now.

Another point is that Boas’s buyout clause is very high.

Although the specific contract is unclear, Chelsea was indeed full of confidence and expectations in Boas half a year ago, so they signed a long-term contract.

If the contract is terminated now, plus the 1500 million euros in termination fee paid for him half a year ago, the cumulative amount will reach 3000 million pounds, which is indeed too high a price.

“More importantly, Abramovich and the technical team believe that Villas-Boas is very capable, but lacks the means and prestige to manage the locker room.”

The Blues’ conflict quickly became the focus of discussion among the media and fans in the UK and around the world.

No one would be surprised if Villas-Boas was sacked.

But after firing Villas-Boas, what should Chelsea do next?
……

Yang Cheng received the message while having breakfast the morning after the League Cup match.

His first reaction was not to gloat.

Because there is no need for this at all.

Things like this are entirely possible to happen to all teams.

Including the Bayswater Chinese.

On the one hand, if the head coach wants to quickly build up the team’s fighting power, he needs a united locker room.

Among the five permanent members of the locker room who are now criticized by many people, which one has not made outstanding contributions to Chelsea?
Terry was actually not wrong at all.

They are what make Chelsea Chelsea!
Everyone in the locker room united around them, which made Chelsea so glorious in the past few years.

But now, they are old, their condition has declined, but their prestige is even higher.

How to do?
Yang Cheng had experienced a lot in his previous life, and the first thing that came to his mind was Inter Milan after winning the Champions League in 2010.

But what is the outcome?
After renewing the contracts of all the key players at once, the team’s overall combat effectiveness declined rapidly.

The situation of AC Milan is actually similar, except that they have a supporting role, Carlo Ancelotti.

In the previous life, Chelsea invited Ancelotti, who actually did a good job, but in the end he was ruined by a series of weird operations by the management, which led to poor results and he was fired.

I have to say that Ancelotti is really good in the locker room.

But inevitably, if the team continues to trust and reuse this group of veterans, its competitiveness will decline rapidly.

Generally speaking, many top teams will adopt the approach of dragging things out.

It was delayed until the team’s performance declined, until all the fans and media could no longer stand it, and until the players themselves were badly criticized, and then they broke up peacefully when all parties could accept it.

But there will definitely be one or two years, or even longer, of ups and downs in performance.

Another approach is to cut the Gordian knot.

However, although this approach is effective quickly, it will still be criticized for being cold-blooded and ruthless and for expelling heroes.

Moreover, even if the situation is resolved quickly, it is not necessarily possible to quickly build a competitive team, and the risks are also very high.

In short, every choice has risks and costs.

“Do you think that our team will face similar problems in a few years?”

Xia Qing, who was sitting opposite Yang Cheng, saw him frowning and thinking about something, and guessed what he was thinking.

Yang Cheng didn’t say anything, but nodded.

“There is no solution. Modern companies can’t handle this kind of thing. This is called the pain period!” Xia Qing comforted.

“In fact, you are already doing very well now. You are constantly promoting and training young players to challenge the positions of main players. The team is also constantly undergoing metabolism. This is really rare.”

How rare is it?

Jose Fonte, the team’s vice-captain for many years and one of the most popular players in the locker room, can only play some cup matches and useless games throughout the season.

“But only I can play this game, right?” Yang Cheng felt that his situation was becoming more and more like Ferguson’s at Manchester United.

Prestige is not something that can be acquired overnight, nor can it be passed on to just anyone.

Not to mention anything else, if Yang Cheng retires now, even Brian Kidd won’t be able to take over.

Now, Brian Kidd can still handle the locker room well, that’s because he has Yang Cheng above him.

As soon as Yang Cheng left, problems continued in the locker room.

Invite an outsider?

That’s even worse, probably even worse than Brian Kidd.

Of course, the Chinese in Bayswater should not get to the point where Chelsea is now.

The likes of Modric, Thiago Silva and Gareth Bale are not of that type of character.

But the team will definitely still be in chaos.

Otherwise, wouldn’t Yang Cheng’s work over the past few years have been in vain?

Thinking of this, Yang Cheng let out a long sigh.

If he were just a head coach, he wouldn’t have to worry about these things at all.

But he is still the team’s owner.

A team like Bayswater Chinese will face this problem sooner or later.

In comparison, Yang Cheng felt that Florentino’s Real Madrid was actually doing quite well.

Of the heroes who won the Champions League three times in five years, only a few players such as Modric and Toni Kroos remained to the end. Others including Ronaldo, Ramos, Benzema, Casemiro, Varane and others began to leave the team one after another.

Pepe, Di Maria and others were sold early.

This approach is actually the most appropriate.

The club metabolized early and in exchange for a transfer fee, the player got a high-paying contract in time while his form was still good.

This is a good thing for both the club and the players.

They parted ways amicably, and the player remained a club legend after his retirement.

On the contrary, teams like Inter Milan, or now Chelsea, obviously did not handle the situation appropriately.

……

The impact of Chelsea’s turmoil on the Blues is actually not as bad as imagined.

The Blues did not collapse completely overnight and be completely disarmed as the outside world had worried.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

The players still have professionalism.

Villas-Boas’ team beat Newcastle 3-0 away in the weekend league.

Lampard scored a penalty in the first half and Drogba scored in the 38th minute.

The Blues won this game beautifully.

This goes back to the previous analysis by the media. When facing weak teams, Chelsea can rely on its strength advantage to suppress its opponents and win.

In Yang Cheng’s opinion, the Blues’ high-pressure style of play is indeed not suitable for the aging Chelsea.

Manchester City beat newly promoted Norwich 5-1 at home.

Arsenal beat Wigan Athletic 4-0 away from home.

Manchester United beat Aston Villa 1-0 away from home thanks to a goal from Phil Jones.

Speaking of Phil Jones, this player has really good physical talents. He is strong and powerful, and plays football very vigorously.

But Yang Cheng had a very strange feeling that Ferguson signed two offensive central defenders, Phil Jones and David Luiz, at the same time. How will they coordinate them in the future?

This is a very interesting question.

Of course, for now, Phil Jones is more like an all-rounder. He can play as right back, center back, and defensive midfielder, and he is constantly changing his position.

Bayswater Chinese will host Sunderland at home in this round.

Thanks to Lewandowski’s two goals in the first half, the home team defeated the Black Cats 2-1.

Sunderland scored a goal in the 52nd minute of the second half.

Lewandowski has scored 14 Premier League goals in the first 15 games.

This goal-scoring efficiency amazed everyone!
The Polish center forward’s performance has improved every year since he joined the Premier League, but it declined slightly last season.

But since the start of this season, he has shown amazing form.

Scoring 14 goals in 15 rounds, this goal efficiency is almost comparable to the two giants of the Spanish Super League.

In this round, Liverpool played away against Fulham. After a hard fight for 72 minutes, Lucas Leiva was sent off with a red card.

Just when everyone thought that Liverpool, with one man less, was in great danger, Rakitic stepped forward and shot the ball into Fulham’s goal, giving Liverpool three points away from home.

……

On the evening of May 12, Wembley Stadium, London.

In the last round of the Champions League group stage, Bayswater Chinese faced Leverkusen at home.

Since the team qualified as the group leader early on, and Yang Cheng also announced early on that the team would not send all of its main players in this game, there were not many fans at Wembley Stadium for this game.

The stadium with a capacity of 9 seats only had a little over 7 people.

But this still created a momentum that could intimidate the opponent.

In terms of lineup, Yang Cheng still mainly relied on rotation and young players, and none of the main lineup was fielded.

But when Yang Cheng mobilized the players before the game, he still told all the players to fight for the tens of thousands of fans outside!

Leverkusen’s current situation is not ideal.

According to the Champions League group stage rules, Leverkusen currently has the same points as Napoli.

The two sides will look at each other’s battle results.

Both teams drew at home and away, but Napoli drew 2-2 with Leverkusen away, while Bayer Leverkusen drew 1-1 away.

That is to say, according to the away goal principle, Leverkusen ranks third.

Therefore, in this game they not only have to try their best to beat Bayswater Chinese away from home, but also have to hope that Napoli loses to Villarreal away from home, or draws.

This is indeed a very bad passive situation.

But for Yang Cheng and the group of young players from Bayswater Chinese, it is indeed a very good training opportunity.

After the opening, Leverkusen attacked fiercely, as if they wanted to swallow the Chinese players in Bayswater in one bite.

The home team, which was mainly composed of young players, was in a disadvantageous situation at the beginning of the game. They were beaten a bit embarrassed and took a defensive stance.

After enduring Leverkusen’s opening attack, the game gradually returned to a balance and the pace gradually slowed down.

Although they still have to attack, pharmaceutical companies are also afraid of being counterattacked.

Time passed by little by little, and neither side was able to break the deadlock.

Yang Cheng knew that Leverkusen was also closely watching the result of another game before deciding when to make a desperate move.

Because Napoli also tied Villarreal 0-0 in the first half.

But in the second half, the situation took a turn for the better.

In the 60th minute, Napoli scored with Cavani assisting Hamsik.

This made Leverkusen, who had been unable to attack for a long time, start to get nervous.

Just three minutes later, Leverkusen head coach Dutt replaced the main center forward Kiessling and arranged two high center forwards, Deldiyok and Kiessling, in front.

But it was precisely this substitution that caused Leverkusen’s defense to loosen.

In the 67th minute, Hazard dribbled the ball through the left, passed two Leverkusen defenders, and made a wonderful pass to Giroud on the left side of the penalty area.

Giroud knocked the ball back into the penalty area, to the left of the penalty spot.

Hazard moved forward, caught up with Giroud’s pass, and made a low shot between the defenders, which penetrated Leverkusen’s goal and opened the scoring for the Chinese in Bayswater.

1 is better than 0!

Leverkusen is completely crazy!

The pharmaceutical companies began to fight back frantically.

The Chinese team at Bayswater began to come under great pressure. The young players were beaten so badly that they had to retreat to their own half and struggle to hold off the attack from the Bundesliga team.

Especially in the 76th minute, on the Spanish side, Napoli had scored another goal with Hamsik’s goal, extending the score to 2-0.

In other words, Napoli has almost secured the victory.

At this time, Leverkusen was still launching attacks.

But it was clear that head coach Dutt already knew the result.

In the 80th minute, Pogba, Harry Kane and Sterling came on as substitutes.

But at this time, the Leverkusen players on the field had roughly guessed the result and played with some discouragement.

In the 87th minute, Pogba scored against Leverkusen again with a wonderful pass from Harry Kane.

This made Brian Kidd on the sidelines extremely excited, and he excitedly pulled Yang Cheng’s arm.

“Did you see it? From that angle, with two defenders around him, he could see Pogba’s run!”

“This awareness is really amazing!”

Yang Cheng was used to Brian Kidd’s excitement.

Whenever a local player stands out, he seems particularly excited.

Especially since Harry Kane is still a striker.

Wasn’t the last local striker who made him so excited about this Andy Carroll?
But the two are obviously different.

Harry Kane is a direct descendant of the Bayswater Chinese youth training camp.

“This kid’s time in our youth training camp for so many years was not in vain!” Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Harry Kane is only 18 years old, but he has already played in all competitions, including the Champions League, and has scored goals.

But Yang Cheng did not entrust him with any important tasks.

Because he doesn’t have such strength yet, and may not be able to withstand such pressure.

But Harry Kane is improving all the time, and faster and faster.

In fact, it’s no wonder that Brian Kidd was excited.

In all these years, England has never had a modern center forward.

Note that we are talking about the modern type here.

Even though Rooney plays for Manchester United, in fact, his playing style is still very English.

From his debut till now, he has been relying on his strong physique to make repeated attacks.

Harry Kane actually does not have the same strong athletic talent as Rooney, so Arsenal did not consider keeping this fat man back then.

But this kid is tenacious and very smart.

After coming to Bayswater Chinese, he was influenced by the youth training. He now has excellent passing and stopping skills, and is even better than in his previous life.

But more importantly, what he learned in Bayswater Chinese was the most advanced football and tactical concepts in Europe. His tactical qualities and awareness far surpassed his previous life.

This makes Harry Kane really comprehensive and versatile.

Even though he had relatively poor physical condition when he was a child, he now has the physique of a typical English center forward.

The only shortcoming is probably that he does not have the aura of “no one else can do it better than me”, which is actually a pity for a striker.

The most typical example is that when Harry Kane gets the ball, he often first considers whether there is a more reasonable passing route, instead of thinking, “I’m a striker, so I have to kick the ball and shoot.”

Brian Kidd was right when he said he was like a combination of Bergkamp and Alan Shearer.

Yang Cheng also considered coaching him, but the way players play often stems from their personality.

Harry Kane’s personality is like that, so it’s difficult to make major changes to the way he plays.

Now we can only take one step at a time.

(End of this chapter)