Chapter 272 Lost in the striker?
With the end of the 36th round of the Premier League, Manchester City's hostile media are panicked!
Manchester City beat Fulham 4:1 and has maintained an unbeaten 36 rounds of the league. As long as they persist in two more games, Manchester City can create a glory of unbeaten season. At this time, anyone knows that unbeaten season is not a dream for Manchester City. What's more, in the game against Fulham, Manchester City is in a very brave state, scoring four goals in one away game is enough to prove everything.
At this time, no media dared to assert that Manchester City could not achieve unbeaten season.
At the same time, the end of another game made these media feel even colder - when the final whistle of the Emirates Stadium sounded, the top three positions of the season had been determined, first place Manchester City, second place Manchester United, and third place Chelsea.
Chelsea drew 1-1 with Arsenal, and the gap between their points and second-place Manchester United widened to 7 points. With only two rounds left in the league, they have no hope of catching up with Manchester United.
At the same time, they don’t have to worry about the third place in the league, because Arsenal and Liverpool have worse results. In other words, the last two rounds of the league don’t make much sense to Chelsea.
But these media still expect Chelsea to block Manchester City!
Manchester City's only opponents are Chelsea and Tottenham. Tottenham Hotspur's performance is also good, but their two seasons have been 2 losses and 1 draw against Manchester City. Their two losses are all large-scale failures, and almost no one expects Tottenham to block Manchester City.
Then the only chance is Chelsea.
Chelsea are probably sad now because they have experienced the most failed season - the league has only reached the top three and the Champions League has also lost.
However, at the end of the Emirates Stadium, Chelsea coach Mourinho and his players walked to the Blues fans' stands and applauded them. The people wearing blue jerseys returned with applause, and the atmosphere seemed to be invisible to see frustration and loss.
Mourinho was interviewed at the post-match press conference.
"I used to feel that there is still a possibility of championship competition," Mourinho recalled a season. "If we win today and then beat Manchester United on Wednesday, the gap would be two points, and anything could happen in the last round. But it didn't happen, but I'm still proud of the team."
Mourinho's first move after the game was to walk into the venue, pointing to the fans of the visiting team and greeting the players to come and leave. After that, he frequently made a gesture to the Chelsea fans on the sidelines. He raised his right hand up and signaled to raise his head, and he shouted "up!up!" in his mouth.
Mourinho is telling the fans to look up at this moment, because next season will be a new beginning.
"I always knew that one day I might not be able to win the championship for a long time. I knew very well that feeling, that there was always hope for the future." Mourinho was referring to the Porto era, when all the champions were from him and Porto.
"I must say, maybe I feel more proud here than when I became a champion. My players are heroes. Take this season for example, they are fighting 'everything' and they are doing a great job. This season is amazing." At the same time, four fronts hit the final stage. Now that the possibility of losing the championship in the two most important events is lost, everyone is doing their best and finally falling down in front of a great goal, which shows the motivation to unite. "That's hope, I believe we can do better next season."
Mourinho then talked about the entire Premier League format.
"The reality is that the Premier League is over, Manchester City is the first in the standings, Manchester United is second, and Chelsea is third, and it is over."
A reporter soon asked whether he thought Manchester City was the best team this season, and Mourinho did not respond positively, "It doesn't matter. They have more points and will naturally become champions. I must congratulate the champions. Congratulations to their coaches, players, fans and club executives, and everyone who helped them win the championship."
Mourinho seems unwilling to talk about other teams, only Chelsea, and he continues to say that he is proud of Chelsea's spirit of struggling in difficulties. "I feel like we are champions now. My players are heroes and have been excellent all season. This season has been great for me, and I think today's game is worth remembering, it shows the spirit of Chelsea players. I am satisfied with the way to end the Premier League."
Mourinho said that Chelsea, who played 10 players in this game, still put a lot of pressure on Arsenal, and throughout the season, Chelsea's attitude of facing injuries, contradictions, and multi-line combat also satisfies him.
"Usually, when a very successful team loses the championship, it is usually because of lack of motivation and effort. People can blame them at this time, but Chelsea on the contrary, we have tried our best to target the four fronts, and I think the players are so outstanding."
But media reporters don’t care much about the meaningful ‘spirit’, because the most rumors from the outside world are that Mourinho will leave soon. Mourinho refuted the rumors about his unstable coach position, “The future? No, my future is my future. I am already preparing for the next season in July, and I don’t understand why there are so many rumors.”
Mourinho finally congratulated Manchester City, saying that Chelsea players will line up to welcome Manchester City to enter next week at Manchester Stadium.
"This is the tradition of English football. Until now, in this era, there are fewer and fewer traditions, so we should respect it so that it can be passed on."
Then Mourinho talked about the next round of the match against Manchester City, and said, "I don't think the last two games are meaningless to us. What we respect is the spirit of competition, not the so-called key or not, it has nothing to do with us. We don't need to prepare anything now. If we lose again in this round, it will be difficult for us to guarantee that we can win at Wembley Stadium, so I will tell my players that we must win this game!"
Mourinho refers to the two-round match between Chelsea and Manchester City. The first time was in the league at Manchester Stadium. This game actually had no meaning to both sides. Some media are hyping Manchester City's "season unbeaten", but Mourinho said, "It is of course a great result to be unbeaten in the season, but I don't think he will care because we are the same people." He seems to be trying to express that he and Wan Sheng are the same people.
Mourinho later said this, which surprised everyone interviewed.
"My relationship with him (Wan Sheng) has always been bad. We don't have any personal conversations or phone calls with each other? No. Nothing. We are like enemies. Perhaps this is also destined by God. I don't believe in any God, Jesus, but whenever I think of me and Him, I always feel destined."
"When I came to England, he also became the head coach of Derby County, and then we were competing, in competition, for three seasons. He was a genius and I lost. But I believe that this is only temporary and one day I will succeed!"
"From the future, if we find a cafe, we will have a lot of topics to talk about."
"When I don't give up any game because of this, even if it doesn't make sense, I will try my best to stop him and the team he leads. This is what a football coach should do."
This is Mourinho's attitude towards the next league round.
Mourinho said a lot. The last part of the rare expression of feelings for Wan Sheng was extremely rare, so the interview quickly turned into a report, and England also focused on the next round of Manchester City and Chelsea.
"Manchester Stadium" calls this game an important step in the test of both sides!" The premise is naturally for the FA Cup final.
Manchester City won the league championship, but lost the Champions League, and they will definitely not give up the FA Cup. Chelsea has not won any of this season, and the FA Cup will be the only championship they can fight for.
But in the following time, Wan Sheng seemed very low-key. He did not say anything to Mourinho, or in other words, no media could directly interview him.
Wansheng's daily itinerary is the training ground and home, and the season is about to end. Instead, he has become busy.
In fact, Wan Sheng has been sticking to his own approach and not relaxing all players in the team.
The season is coming to an end.
If the team were usually able to relax, in fact, just as Mourinho said. Wan Sheng did not value the unbeaten season because it was just pressure on the team and had no meaning. What he valued more was the FA Cup championship.
It's very simple, because it's a champion, a real champion!
At the same time, this champion is also something that fans and clubs attach great importance to, and can leave a lot of money in the club's history.
So he attaches great importance to it.
Chelsea, the opponent in the FA Cup final, is not so easy to deal with. Even though Wan Sheng and his players are not afraid of Chelsea and have never lost to Chelsea in the past two seasons, the result of the showdown at the New Wembley Stadium is not destined.
If the team relaxes and is careless, then it will definitely be a failure to usher in.
This season, the Champions League failure is enough. Wan Sheng doesn't want to experience any failures anymore, so he has to use his own approach to tell everyone in the team: "The season is not over yet, and we are still under intense preparations."
At such a tense rhythm, the 37th round of the league is finally about to begin.
Before the game, Wan Sheng appeared in the media's vision.
Now it is a head-on collision between the two sides, and Wan Sheng will not particularly avoid anything, because he thinks that the team is already late and has good "warm-up". If he is in good condition and has confidence in the game, then let's face-on collision!
Wan Sheng did not talk about the unbeaten season, but used a very classic that could even be recorded in the "Famous Quotes of Wan Sheng", which interpreted all the content that the media paid attention to -
"He is right, we may be friends. But if he wants to stop me, I will kick him out of the abyss!"
The competition started in such an atmosphere.
Both sides attached great importance to the game and were in good condition. The game also evolved into a fierce confrontation and... a goal battle.
In just one first half, both sides scored four goals.
2:2.
Manchester City and Chelsea rarely kicked off the game with a big score. After a half-time break, Manchester City scored again and told everyone that the key to winning the game -
Goal efficiency!
"Anelka! Anelka!" Live broadcast commentator Berbart zinc powder shouted, "The French once again showed his dominance in the penalty area! It is said that European giants have begun to compete for him. Inter Milan offered 45 million euros to invite him to join. Newcastle United, Sevilla, Chelsea and Real Madrid and other clubs also participated in the competition. After two seasons of crazy performance, the Frenchman's value has at least doubled, but he belongs to Manchester City and is an important member of Manchester City!"
"So far, Anelka has scored 27 goals in the league, 8 more goals than Drogba in the same game. Before the game, many media were discussing which one is better than Drogba or Drogba, but we can see that at least in the penalty area, Anelka is more dominant!"
The afterglow of the third goal was not over. Just five minutes later, David Beckham hit the ball in front of the goal from the far post from the right. Anelka forced Paul Ferreira and turned around and volleyed, completing the goal again.
Many media and fans were stunned.
Berbart was crazy again, "Anelka! Anelka! Anelka! Anelka!"
He only knows to keep calling French names.
After the excitement calmed down, he talked about the goal in detail, "Anelka's 28th league goal, two goals were only five minutes apart, and it was Beckham's accurate long pass. The football accurately found Anelka. We can see that Ferreira was very powerless in defense, and he could not stop Anelka's footsteps at all!"
“4:2!”
"We've been able to confirm the result!"
At this time, Mourinho was very surprised on the Chelsea coaching bench.
What surprised him was not Anelka's performance, but the goal efficiency shown by the entire Manchester City in the game!
In terms of the situation, Chelsea played well in the game, and they were not suppressed by Manchester City.
The data is also very telling.
So far, Chelsea has 14 shots, including 7 shots and two goals, and has performed very well; in comparison, Manchester City has only 9 shots, but the key is-
Manchester City scored four goals!
Of the 9 shots of Manchester City, 6 of them were shot within the goal frame, which was very efficient, but it was less than Chelsea's 7 shots, but Manchester City scored twice as many goals than Chelsea.
Is it a goalkeeper's problem?
Mourinho looked at Cech, recalling the Czech performance throughout the game, he immediately denied this point, because Cech is not in a bad state, and Manchester City's several goals can be said to be helpless, just like Anelka's volley in the penalty area just now, and the ball cannot be saved.
So what is the problem?
All I can say is... Manchester City is more efficient in front of the goal!
Chapter completed!