The strongest winger

Chapter 533 The League Begins
At the end of the 2007 England Community Shield Cup, Aiello conquered almost all Chelsea fans with his perfect performance, but this did not make Mourinho feel relaxed, because he used a notebook to write down Ailuo's shortcomings in this game. If these shortcomings are not corrected, they will seriously restrict his development in the Premier League.

He has excellent speed and delicate skills, but he is not good at using his body. This is very dangerous in the Premier League. This can easily attract the attention of other teams' defensive champions. After all, he came to Chelsea with the world's most valuable. At that time, these players will definitely want to try for themselves how the world's most valuable Aiello is.

And the way to try is naturally to use his strong body to crush Ai Luo.

The Premier League is the league that emphasizes physical confrontation the most in the world, so physical confrontation is essential, and rational use of one's body to play football is also one of the points that Aiello must master as soon as possible.

In addition, Mourinho found that Aiello had developed a habit in Valencia, and he was not good at helping the defense. He mostly defended with his eyes. Of course, this was except for the critical time.

When he was in Valencia, Flores was not particularly strict about defensive positioning, so Ai Luo sometimes helped defend without hindering his teammates’ running positions. However, Chelsea coached by Mourinho was different.

Another point that must be noted is the game time. Many games in the Premier League are played at noon and afternoon, unlike La Liga, which are played at night. This is also a problem for Aiello's state adjustment.

Of course, the most important point is the rhythm of the Premier League.

However, the rhythm of the Premier League does not refer to the pure game rhythm, but the ability to self-adjust the game state throughout the season, because the Premier League is the league with the most intensive schedule in the world, such as Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool. These giants teams, in addition to the Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup, and the key Champions League to play throughout the season.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Premier League does not have a winter break, and it has to be rushed around Christmas. There are at least two matches a week, and at most three matches a week. This requires very high physical fitness for the players.

And he also heard that Ai Luo will very likely be selected for the new Chinese national team to participate in the second stage of the upcoming 2010 South Africa World Cup Asian qualifiers.

At that time, the requirements for his physical fitness will be more stringent.

Therefore, among the four giants of the Premier League, sometimes it is not the strong strength that determines the championship, but the deep bench, but it is not so easy for a player of Aiello's level to find a substitute player.

In order to allow Ailuo to have sufficient physical fitness in the future double match or triple match a week, after the end of the Community Shield, Ailuo practiced physical fitness under the leadership of fitness coach Faria to prepare for the new season.

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A week is fleeting, which means that the 2007-2008 English Premier League season, which fans all over the world are concerned about, will begin.

The opening game of the new season is between Lissunderland and Tottenham Hotspur.

In China, no Chinese fans have ever imagined watching the new season of the Premier League through CCTV-5 like today, and the person responsible for commenting on this game is not Huang Jianxiang, the famous CCTV speaker, nor He Wei, who has been in charge of explaining La Liga for a long time, and of course, it is not the exclusive Duan Xuan of the Bundesliga.

Since these three are not, it is even less likely that they are Liu Jianhong who likes to tell the truth.

In charge of explaining the opening game of the 2007-2008 season of the Premier League is the former ESPN famous football commentator - Zhan Jun!This popular commentator who was poached by CCTV from ESPN at a high price to commentate on the Premier League for a long time will be responsible for most of the Premier League game commentary this season.

In the end, Sunderland defeated Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 in the highly anticipated Premier League opener.

After the opening game of the new season is over, it also represents the full start of the first round of the Premier League.

Three hours later, at six o'clock in the afternoon local time in the UK, five games kicked off at the same time. West Ham 0:2 Manchester City, but unfortunately Sun Hai did not enter the 18-man squad. Middlesbrough 1:2 Blackburn, Everton 2:1 Wigan Athletic, Derby County 2:2 Portsmouth, Bolton 1:3 Newcastle.

After these five games, Liverpool, which has a large number of fans in China, made the final decision with Gerrard's free kick in the away game, and reversed the home team Aston Villa 1:2.

The remaining three giants' games will kick off tomorrow afternoon.

However, if Chinese fans want to watch Aiello’s match against Birmingham on behalf of Chelsea at home, they will have to wait until 08:30 the next night. It is said that the new season’s schedule arranged by the FA is completely based on the schedule of Chinese fans, so the kick-off will be at 8:[-] in the evening.

According to pre-match reports, Aiello has also entered Chelsea's 18-man roster, but whether he can start depends on Mourinho's on-the-spot arrangements. After all, Aiello has just joined Chelsea and played two games.

So Chelsea's home game against Birmingham has become a worry for the pro-Chelsea media in London, because the Premier League is the most confrontational league in the world. It is generally believed that Aiello can perform a hat-trick and assist in the Community Shield game against Manchester United.

Basically, the media who have watched the Manchester United game know that Vidic and Hargreaves, who make frequent mistakes, are not in the best condition, so... the first game of the new season has become a test of whether Aiello is suitable for the high-tempo and high-confrontation Premier League.

Even if Ai Luo has proved himself in the Champions League, if Abramovich bought Ai Luo to play in the Champions League for 6000 million pounds, it would seem a bit too extravagant. In other words, the league is the foundation.

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It was not until the starting list was submitted two hours before the game that Mourinho made up his mind to include Aiello in the starting lineup. Now Chelsea only have three positive wingers, Aiello, Kalou and Malouda.

In the case of Robben's injury again, only Kalu, who has a good run-in with the team, can be used. Therefore, he occupies the position of a main winger in Mourinho's mind, and the remaining position can only be chosen between Aiello and Malouda.

In terms of strength alone, Ai Luo is naturally the absolute main winger, but the problem is that his value is too high, there are many players who are jealous, and the quality of current players is generally not high. He does not want Ai Luo to be injured at the beginning of the season.

But then again, flowers cannot be cultivated in the greenhouse, and it is impossible to protect them all the time. I believe that Aiello has found enough confidence in the first Community Shield match against Manchester United, and the ordinary Premier League should not affect him.

When Ai Luo learned that he was put into the 11-man starting list, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

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Before the match, the British media specially interviewed Birmingham's new boss, Yang Jiacheng, and asked his team what would happen to Chelsea, where China's No. [-] star is located.

"I know that all of you are concerned about the giants Chelsea and not optimistic about our Birmingham, but I firmly believe that my team can win this game, even if it is an away game, I am full of confidence in them, yes... I will reward my team. If they draw with Chelsea away, they will receive a bonus of 20 pounds, and if they win the game, they will receive a reward of 50 pounds!"

Yang Jiacheng responded to media interviews at the Birmingham training base.

Suddenly, there was an uproar at the scene.

The so-called great rewards must have brave men. For teams with an average weekly salary of less than [-] pounds, this is not a small bonus. If they win, it means that they can get two or three weeks more salary on average.

When Birmingham midfielder Nafti arrived at the perimeter of the Stamford Bridge with the team bus, he faced a tricky question from the reporter: "Everyone thinks that we can't beat Chelsea away, but we ourselves don't think so. Our overall strength is no worse than Chelsea. Please don't compare one person's worth with our whole team. That is unrealistic, because one person can never beat a team. We will prove ourselves in this afternoon's game! Sometimes courage and fighting spirit are an indispensable part of the game..."

Football is a war without gunpowder. Nafti's words seem ordinary, but they are actually hidden in their words.

Unlike Birmingham's aggressive discourse, Mourinho appears to be very low-key this time.

Mourinho's low-key also made the media surprised, because in their impression, Mourinho will never give in on the lip, is it necessary to catch Birmingham by surprise?
In fact, it is not the case, but recently his mind is on whether to sell Robben. Now he has a little friction with CEO Kenyon. According to Mourinho, he wants to keep Robben and strengthen the virtuous circle on the side. But Kenyon thinks that Real Madrid is willing to spend 2500 million pounds to buy Robben.

Robben's glass physique has made it difficult to gain a foothold in the fierce Premier League. In addition, when he bought it, it was only 1200 million pounds. Now three years have passed, and the champion has won the player's appreciation. When will it not be sold at this time?

Before you know it, the first round of Chelsea's 2007-2008 Premier League season is about to begin.

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