The strongest winger

Chapter 571 No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat (three more)

Since this year's European Ballon d'Or winner is not in dispute, the mainstream European media on the second day gave the headlines to Aiello who had just won the Ballon d'Or. The title was unified: From today on, please call him Mr. European Footballer!
France Football, the first newspaper of the European Ballon d'Or, naturally has the first-hand reporting resources: "Congratulations to the Chelsea players—Ai won the 2007 European Ballon d'Or, but we all believe that this award is not the end for him. It just happens to be a good start, just like Ronaldo in 1997, and then he was out of control. Club honors, national team honors, and finally became the best star on the planet. I hope that as he said, he can win the European Ballon d'Or next year, the year after, and the year after! Come on, because there is no limit to the road ahead..."

The background picture is a wonderful moment of Aiello standing in the reporter interview hall of the Stamford Bridge Stadium holding high the European Ballon d'Or trophy.

What France Football doesn't know is that their prophecy will one day become a reality.

The headline of the UK's best-selling newspaper "The Times" represents the general comment of the entire English newspaper: "The European Ballon d'Or winner selected by the well-known European newspaper "French Football" magazine at eleven o'clock yesterday morning has already been named, and this selection can be said to be uncontroversial, because the winner is Ai who is recognized as having played very well throughout 2007. , this is a landmark achievement..."

"Marca" made the headline report of the day from the perspective of lamenting the loss of a superstar in La Liga: "Congratulations to former Valencia player Ai for winning the 2007 European Ballon d'Or awarded by "French Football". There is one less superstar, but everyone can be thankful that he can still watch his wonderful performance from the curtain..."

By mid-December, except for the Premier League, which has no winter break, the European leagues have basically entered the winter break, so the media in European countries are all focusing on the European Golden Globe winner.

Because most fans have holidays during the winter break of the European leagues, but it happens that at this time, most of the European leagues start to have a holiday, so it is natural to focus on the Premier League without a winter break, and Aiello's election to the European Ballon d'Or has become one of the topics they discussed after dinner.

Of course, in addition to the European media paying close attention to the European Golden Globe winner, the Asian sports media also expressed great interest, because Ai Luo is the first European Footballer of the Year honor won by an Asian player in Europe, so AFC Chairman Harman and Vice Chairman Zhang Jilong praised Ai Luo on many occasions.

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Just when the European media flooded with reports that Aiello became the European Footballer of the Year, Ailuo was not as excited as when he was elected, because at 1 o'clock this afternoon Chelsea will play a League Cup quarter-final at Stamford Bridge. The opponent is Liverpool, the second red-blue battle of the new season.

But for the English media, this quarter-final of the English League Cup is not as good as the annual European Ballon d'Or selection, because the League Cup is not so worthy of attention for many English fans. In their minds, it is not as good as an FA Cup qualifier.

So apart from the fans of the Blues Chelsea and the Reds Liverpool, basically not many fans paid attention to this game.

However, for Chinese fans, if it weren't for the live broadcast list of the live broadcast center, they would not know that there will be such a quarter-final of the English League Cup, because their attention is all on Aiello being elected as the European Footballer of the Year.

As a professional football fan, I naturally know the gold content of the European Ballon d'Or, which is unmatched by FIFA's World Footballer of the Year. From another perspective, Aiello is currently the best player in European football, bar none!

In addition, the points that Aiello won in this year's European Ballon d'Or are more than the combined points of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi and Drogba who ranked second to fourth. From this perspective, the above statement can be seen clearly.

Therefore, the quarter-finals of the League Cup between Chelsea and Liverpool at home became Aiello's first stop after becoming the European Footballer of the Year.

The 2007-2008 English League Cup quarter-finals slowly began to attract the attention of Chinese fans.

In order to arouse the resonance of fans in China, Chelsea held a grand ceremony for Aiello before the home game against Liverpool in the League Cup-welcome the new European Footballer of the Year!

That is, Aiello held up the European Golden Globe trophy and showed his face at Stamford Bridge, showing the fans who came to the scene to see Ailuo's demeanor.

What's interesting is that Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich also appeared in the team's VIP seat, and clapped hard when Ai Luo held up the Golden Globe trophy, just like an ordinary fan who came to the scene.

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In fact, this quarter-final of the League Cup was not as intense as imagined. Neither the home team Chelsea nor the visiting team Liverpool meant to send a main lineup in this game. It was not because they didn't care about the League Cup champion.

It's just because both sides had a fierce league match three days ago. Chelsea's opponent is Arsenal, while Liverpool's opponent is Manchester United.

Instead of queuing up the main players and taking the risk of injury, it is better to give some opportunities to substitute players and reserve players.

Before the quarter-finals of the League Cup with Liverpool, Aiello sat on the bench and acted as a substitute in addition to showing off his European Ballon d'Or trophy.

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Although both Chelsea and Liverpool used substitute players and reserve team players, the coaches of both sides are still more concerned about this League Cup. Both are currently recognized young coaches in world football. In the 2003-2004 season, Mourinho led Porto to win the UEFA Champions League.

In addition, Mourinho has never won Liverpool in charge of Benitez in the cup, so he is also in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

The same is true for Benitez. As a famous cup master in the Premier League, except for eliminating Chelsea in the cup, he still has no success in the league. Therefore, he wants to take a slanted sword and win the cup to the end, and win the damn Portuguese!

The game kicks off promptly at [-]pm UK time.

Although the players on both sides of the game were not the absolute main force of the team, they did not want to let go of this opportunity to perform well in front of the head coach, so the game was quite fierce. The referee showed both sides three yellow cards in the first half, which shows the intensity of the game.

From another perspective, we can also see the level of dedication of the players on both sides of this game, but unfortunately, in the first half of the game, neither side could break through the opponent's goal and ended 0:0.

Although it is said that the coaches of both sides of this game do not want to lose this game, the winner still has to be decided after all, because if the game is still a draw after 10 minutes, then they will have to move to Anfield Stadium for another match, which is not good news for Chelsea or Liverpool.

So... it's in both parties' interest to decide the winner within nine 10 minutes.

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea began to make adjustments, replacing Robben who hadn't regained his form after returning from injury with Aiello.

Mourinho's substitution adjustment fully demonstrated the essence of changing players like a knife change. Aiello put a lot of pressure on Liverpool's defense in the second minute of playing. When he arrived in the fifth minute of playing, he used his personal ability to pass through the front of the penalty area like a butterfly, and then broke into the penalty area and was tripped by Agger. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick.

Since the first penalty shooter Lampard and the second penalty shooter Didier Drogba were not on the field, the penalty kick was taken by the party who created the penalty kick, Aiello, and he sent the ball directly to the upper right corner of the goal. Among them, the goalkeeper Reina threw himself to the right side of his body, completely guessing the wrong direction.

Next, Liverpool's formation started to advance, but they did not equalize the score because of this. Instead, they gave Aiello a lot of sprint space. In addition, this Liverpool defense line is not the main defense line. It is still a little immature to deal with players of Aiello's level.

In the middle of the second half, Aiello seized an attacking error by Liverpool, used his excellent speed and technique to break through to the penalty area line, and then suddenly kicked and shot. The goalkeeper Reina was half a beat slow in reacting. The ball rolled towards the near corner of the goal and went straight into the net.

Subsequently, Benitez began to adjust the lineup, replacing Gerrard, Torres and Carragher, but then Mourinho also confronted each other. Ballack and Mikel played one after another, seeing each other and stabilizing the defense of the midfield.

In the end, Chelsea won the quarter-finals of the League Cup 2-0 Liverpool at home, thus entering the semi-finals of the League Cup.

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