prince's green

Chapter 96 Chelsea

Successfully entered the finals, Bobovic directly took a day off to let everyone take a break, and three days later will be the finals of the Club World Cup.

This time, Tokyo FC did not return to Tokyo, but stayed in Yokohama for training and waited for the finals. By the way, they borrowed the training venue of Yokohama's local team, Yokohama FC.

The training ground of the Yokohama Mariners has long been lent to Chelsea, and Tokyo FC can't count on it.

That night, Ringer sneaked into a hotel in Yokohama, where the young lady was staying.Aragaki seems to be staying at this hotel to participate in a certain event, and stop by to watch the Club World Cup final in two days.

To be honest, the two haven't seen each other since the AFC Awards Ceremony, and Ringer still misses it a bit.

The two of them fought fiercely, and they had to be lingering.

But Ringer can only stop in moderation, and one visit is enough.The finals are coming soon, and it will be embarrassing to become a soft-legged shrimp in the finals.

The next day, Linge waited for the little sister to leave first, and then sneaked out after sleeping until noon.

Unexpectedly, no Japanese entertainment reporter caught him when he left the hotel. Fortunately, he was not with the young lady, so Ringer replied: "Yes, I came here to look for Gakki. I just came here and haven't seen her yet. She~~~"

"I was pursuing her and invited him to watch the two-day Club World Cup final."

Ringer felt that it would be better to focus on this aspect, otherwise these reporters would keep pestering them endlessly.

So the entertainment news that Ringer is pursuing Miss Aragaki is officially released.

Back to the team, Bobovich soon called everyone to have a mobilization meeting to cheer up the team.

Although they made it to the final, the opponent in the final was the champion team of the Champions League, and another important striker on their side was suspended. Ringer knew that the whole team was pessimistic about this final, and they basically hoped to win with less loss , Reaching the final is already a great honor.

Ringer had a conversation with Bobovich in the stands yesterday, and now Bobovich wants to stand up and cheer.

"We made it to the final against last season's Champions League champion Chelsea. Many people felt that our goal had been accomplished and that losing to the European giants was justified."

"But I want to tell everyone that there is no rightful loss in this world. This Chelsea team has obvious problems. We can seize the opportunity to beat each other~~~"

This Chelsea team does have huge problems, starting with the aging of the players.

Speaking of which, many of the current Chelsea players are still old players from when Mourinho was in charge, but Mourinho has been away for five years, and Chelsea has also changed seven head coaches. The Chelsea team is still the same as before. Batch of players, Terry, Lampard, Drogba, Petr Cech, Ashley Cole, Malouda, Ferreira.

During Mourinho's period, Chelsea was a popular team in the Champions League every year, but they still couldn't win the Champions League.

In the past two years, Chelsea has become a team of old boys. It is no longer a favorite in the Champions League, but it accidentally won the Champions League last season, which it has been looking for for many years.

In the 11/12 season, Villas-Boas, known as the "little madman", became Chelsea's new head coach, but he wanted to lead a group of veterans to play fast-paced football, and soon the team complained.

As a result, Chelsea lost points one after another in the league. The Champions League group stage also relied on winning the last round of home games to qualify at the last moment. Under such a situation, the top sixteen of the Champions League faced Naples in Serie A. Chelsea lost 1:3 away. Pushed to the brink of elimination.

Under such circumstances, Boas was fired and assistant coach Di Matteo took over temporarily.

Di Matteo returned to the previous bus style of play, and the team quickly radiated great energy. The Champions League round of 4 returned to home and successfully made a 1:[-] comeback to enter the quarterfinals. The Italian also became a regular from the interim coach.

The quarter-finals of the Champions League encountered an easy-to-handle Benfica, and Chelsea passed the level easily, but in the semi-finals they met their old enemy, Barcelona, ​​known as the Cosmic Team.

Barcelona from 09 to 12 was definitely a real cosmic team. If they were lucky, they might even have a chance to win four consecutive Champions League titles.

Facing such a strong opponent, many people thought that Chelsea was doomed and could only be reduced to the background of the Cosmos team defending the Champions League.

However, Chelsea defended their defense in the first round of the semi-final, and defeated Cosmos 1-0 with Drogba's goal.In the second round, they went to the Nou Camp. Before the end of the first half, they fell behind 0:2. The captain of the defensive pillar team, Terry, was sent off with a red card.In desperation, Chelsea launched a Jedi counterattack, regained two goals in succession, and Messi missed a penalty kick. Chelsea drew Barcelona 2:2 in the away game, and eliminated Cosmos 3:2 on aggregate to enter the Champions League final.

Chelsea's opponent in the Champions League final is also difficult to deal with. It is Bayern Munich, which is gradually regaining its form, and the final venue is Bayern's home stadium, the Allianz Arena.

In the away game, I have four main players absent, and no one is optimistic about Chelsea winning the championship.

In the final, Chelsea was in a completely passive situation. A group of veterans defended for 83 minutes, but they were still scored by Bayern. Chelsea did not collapse because of this. Instead, they quickly equalized the score after 5 minutes. During the game, Cech also saved a penalty kick from Robben, and finally defended to the penalty shootout.

In the penalty shootout, Petr Cech was unstoppable. He judged all five penalty kicks in the right direction and successfully saved two of them, helping Chelsea beat Bayern 4:3 in penalty kicks to win the first Champions League title in team history. .

Chelsea's miraculous Champions League trip last season was indeed unbelievable, but they seemed to be completely satisfied after winning the Champions League, like a deflated balloon that deflated.

Since the start of this season, they first lost 2:3 to Manchester City in the Community Shield Cup, and then lost 1:4 to Europa League champion Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup.

Chelsea are also in poor shape in the league, but it is the Champions League that is even worse.As the defending champions, they were actually eliminated in the Champions League group stage, becoming the first defending champions in the history of the Champions League to be eliminated in the group stage.

As a matter of course, Di Matteo dismissed get out of class, and former Liverpool coach Benitez took over Chelsea, and now leads the team to participate in the Club World Cup.

The current Chelsea is that the core veterans have finally won the Champions League and are satisfied. The pursuit of honor is no longer strong, and they are still at odds with the head coach.

Benitez, known as a master tactician, was the one who led Liverpool to do things like the Istanbul miracle.He has the ability, but he has some flaws in his character, and he likes to be more serious in everything. This is probably one of the reasons why he ran into walls after leaving Liverpool.

More importantly, Benitez had a lot of grudges with Chelsea when he coached Liverpool in his early years.

At the beginning, Mourinho led Chelsea to kill the Quartet in the Premier League, but it was a disadvantage when they met Benitez, especially in the Champions League.

Mourinho was the first to coach Chelsea for three full seasons, and his failure to win the Champions League was the main reason for his dismissal.For three consecutive years as the favorites to win the Champions League but failed to win the Champions League, Benitez and Liverpool can be said to have contributed the most.

In the 04/05 season, Mourinho took over Chelsea's first season. The Blues made great strides in the league. They also reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and then met Liverpool.Chelsea was first tied 0:0 by Liverpool at home, then went to Anfield away, and was eliminated 1:0 by a pending goal line case.

Liverpool striker Luis Garcia's kick was cleared on the goal line, and the referee whistled the goal to be valid. As for whether the ball crossed the goal line, it is not confirmed even today.At that time, there was no goal-line technology at all, and even the broadcast technology was not good enough. After the game, it was difficult to confirm whether the goal was scored through non-stop replays, but the referee believed that the goal was scored, so Mourinho said after the game: Finally The good team is out because the Ghost has scored.

This is the story of the Phantom goal knocking out Mourinho.

In the 05/06 season, Chelsea met Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League group stage. This is the only time in the history of the UEFA Champions League that they met with a league team in the group stage.

The reason why such a strange thing happened, I have to talk about UEFA's Champions League system.

According to the rules of the UEFA Champions League, the number of entries in the UEFA Champions League in each European league has been stipulated long ago, and at the same time, the defending champion must participate in the UEFA Champions League next season.Generally speaking, the team that can win the Champions League must be strong, and of course they can also qualify for the Champions League in their own league, so UEFA has never considered that there will be a team that wins the Champions League. Poor results did not qualify for the Champions League.

In fact, this situation has already happened. In the 99/00 season, Real Madrid won the Champions League, but only ranked fifth in La Liga, and failed to qualify for the Champions League next season.At that time, UEFA asked La Liga to adjust internally in a peaceful way. In short, the defending champion must appear in the Champions League next season.

As a result, La Liga made internal adjustments. Zaragoza, No.4 in the league, gave up their places to Real Madrid, which covered up the unreasonable problem of UEFA's system. .

So this happened again in the 04/05 season. Liverpool won the Champions League, but only won No.5 in the league.UEFA repeats its old tricks and allows the Premier League to adjust internally.

This time it can't be adjusted, because if someone wants to give up the Champions League qualification, of course it can only be the fourth team in the league, but who is the fourth in the Premier League this season?
Everton, Liverpool's rivals in the same city, how could they give up the Champions League places to their rivals in the same city to compete.Everton resolutely quit, and UEFA's method will not work.

This is how to do?The defending champion can't be allowed to miss the Champions League next season. In the end, UEFA came up with an unreasonable solution and gave Liverpool a special place to participate in the first round of the Champions League qualifying round.Allowing Liverpool to fight all the way to the qualifying round can be regarded as avoiding the absence of the defending champion.

Because it is a special quota, UEFA also explained that if Liverpool enters the group stage, it will not be applicable to the avoidance principle of the Champions League group stage and the league.

So just like that, Liverpool and Chelsea were divided into a group. In the end, Liverpool successfully squeezed Chelsea to the second place in the group. Then Chelsea met Barcelona, ​​the first in the group in the round of [-], and was finally defeated by Ronaldinho. Leading Barcelona eliminated.In the Champions League that year, Barcelona was the final champion.

Of course, this matter also has a follow-up.With that mistake, UEFA finally realized the importance of this issue and supplemented the Champions League system. If similar situations happen in the future, the fourth team in the league will automatically give up its qualifications to the defending champions.

The first beneficiary of this supplementary clause is Chelsea this season. They were the champions of the Champions League last season, but they only won No.6 in the league. Therefore, Tottenham, who was fourth in the Premier League last season, was deprived of the Champions League qualification, and Chelsea went up. .

However, Chelsea, which won the Champions League place, was eliminated in the group stage. If I knew it, it would be better not to participate.

And Everton, who was disobedient and didn't know "taking care of the overall situation", was also put on small shoes by UEFA.

Everton, don't you want to come to the Champions League?But you are fourth in the Premier League, so you have to play a qualifying round.Well, my big UEFA will prepare a good opponent for you.So Everton drew Villarreal in La Liga in the Champions League qualifying round, and was eliminated by the Yellow Submarine 4:2. The decades of Champions League addiction ended in one round of qualifying.

In the 06/07 season, Mourinho's third season in charge of Chelsea, Chelsea once again made it to the semi-finals and met the big boss Liverpool.This time Chelsea beat Liverpool 1-0 at home first, but in the second round at Anfield, Liverpool's Danish defender Agger equalized the score with a shocking long-range shot. In the end, they had to fight for a penalty shootout. Liverpool once again Eliminate Chelsea.

For three consecutive years, Chelsea were directly or indirectly eliminated from the Champions League by Liverpool, and the head coach of Liverpool at the time was Benitez, a master tactician.

Now Master Bei accidentally took over the coaching position of Chelsea temporarily. Master Bei himself is not very good at handling interpersonal relationships, so the team must not be very friendly to him.

In the previous rounds of Premier League games, fans at Stamford Bridge have been holding the sign "Rafa Out", which is telling him (Rafa Benitez) to get out.

So Chelsea is like this now. The veterans who have the most say in the interior are already satisfied with winning the Champions League and are not willing to work hard.

The combination of these things is the opportunity for Tokyo FC to beat Chelsea.

(End of this chapter)