[football] walk side by side

Facts have proved that Cyril's conjecture is completely correct.

In front of the big boss named Mourinho with full hatred, all the new Chelsea players have become insignificant mobs, which can be ignored, and all the reporters focus on this nonsense The Portuguese, making things difficult for other players?Forget it, there will be opportunities in the future, the most important thing now is that arrogant guy!

So in the next three to ten minutes of the press conference, a group of new players silently acted as a background board on the field, watching the new head coach face nearly a hundred reporters and fight with the Confucianism.

Until the end of the game, no reporters came to trouble them.

Cyril was used to Mourinho's style when he was in Porto, and he was not surprised by the strange scene of this press conference. He just calmly calculated in his heart when his patience with the media would run out. .

Robben and other players who are not familiar with Mourinho were shocked by Mourinho's series of arrogant declarations, and at the same time began to faintly realize that their new head coach might be a bad guy. Very easy guy...

Ten minutes later, Mourinho, who made all the reporters speechless, clapped his hands: "Okay, this press conference is over." Leaving this sentence, Mourinho no longer responded. The messy reporters off the court walked out of the press conference room on their own, followed by the players of course. After the press conference, they had their first training session of the new season.

Before the formal training started, the Chelsea players first gathered in the locker room. According to the team's practice, the new head coach will give a team training speech at this time.

"I came here to coach with the Champions League trophy, but looking at you, you have no top honors, which means that you are nothing."

When many head coaches enter a new team, the first thing to do is to establish their own majesty within the team. Of course, Mourinho is no exception, but, compared to ordinary head coaches Speaking, Mourinho's declaration is too arrogant.

Players like Cyril and Carvalho who followed Mourinho from Porto to Chelsea are not bad. The two years in Porto have completely made them realize the cold side of Mourinho's character. It is within expectation.Players like Robben who just participated in the press conference with Mourinho are not so shocked at the moment-they have already witnessed similar scenes at the press conference.

The only thing that was more shocked was Chelsea's original players.

Former Chelsea captain John Terry was stunned for a moment before returning to his normal expression. His background in Chelsea's youth training camp and his ability on the court in recent years have given him full confidence in Mourinho. occupy a position.

On the contrary, several other Chelsea players showed a little uneasy expression on their faces.

In the past few years, Chelsea's players can be said to have undergone great changes every year. Under the circumstances that the financial balance does not matter, and the owner is rich and willful, Chelsea can be said to be very broad in the selection of players. This year's changes are even higher than in previous years. They are all bigger, and the Chelsea players can't guarantee whether they will become or be reduced to the bench when the team has bought so many newcomers.

This anxiety didn't improve much until Mourinho said in person that he would make decisions based on the player's state and ability.

"I will decide every game based on your performance and state." -God knows, every head coach will say this when he coaches a new team, but everyone knows that many head coaches choose players There will always be a certain biased choice, for example, some head coaches prefer to use their own direct descendants, some prefer local players, and some prefer players from the same language...

Mourinho did not expect himself to dispel the concerns of the Chelsea players with a single word.He saw the doubts of the players in his eyes, but didn't say much.

He first announced the team's captain and deputy captain, who were originally John Terry and Frank Lampard, and then announced the start of the training camp.

Because it was the first day of the training camp, Mourinho did not arrange any complicated training. All the training was mainly to restore the players' state. Even so, many players were still a little absent-minded.

A day without being sure of their place under a new manager is a day without peace of mind.

Fortunately, the amount of training today was not much. In the last half hour before the end of training, Mourinho called away John Terry and Frank Lampard.

In the next ten days, people would be called to the office intermittently by Mourinho every day to talk about their respective positions and future possibilities under Mourinho.As a player who thinks he is relatively honest and does not need to be beaten, Cyril thought that he would not be among the players who were called to drink tea... However, on the fourth day after the start of the training camp, he was still called Went to my husband's office.

When Cyril opened the door and came in, Mourinho was studying the stacks of player information on the table, and found that Cyril did not look up when he came in, and he just said casually: "Sit, how do you feel about the training during this period?" Sample?"

Cyril pulled out the chair and sat down opposite Mourinho, but he hesitated about Mourinho's question: "How about it?"

"In every aspect, say what you think of."

"It feels... a lot of pressure." Cyril thought for a while, and said whatever came to mind: "Lampard's long-range shooting is very powerful, and his offensive ability is very strong. Joe Cole's versatility in the midfield is very high. , The set-piece skills are also very good, the frontcourt... Robben's inside cut is simply unsolvable, and the defense composed of Terry and Carvalho is also particularly tenacious..."

Mourinho nodded. Regarding Cyril's words, there was no change in expression on his face: "What about other aspects? Compared with Porto, do you have any different feelings?"

I didn't expect Mourinho to ask Cyril so bluntly: "... sir?"

Do you feel any different from Porto?The answer to this question is of course yes.

For Cyril, for Porto and Chelsea, the two are completely different things.The former is the team that trained him to grow up, while the latter is more like a temporary docking of the sailboat.The origin of the youth training camp allowed Cyril to meet no obstacles in the process of integrating into Porto. The local players headed by captain Jorge Costa firmly protected him behind him. In addition, he and Deco etc. Foreign players also get along very well, and Mourinho's rule is relatively dignified, and the atmosphere in the team can be said to be very good.

But Chelsea was different.

In Chelsea, Cyril is more like a mercenary. For a new player who is very likely to compete with them for the main position, what good attitude can other Chelsea players have?Being polite is pretty good.

There has been too much turmoil within the team in recent years, the lineup is unstable, the relationship between the players is extremely weak, and the daily training is more like a routine, without the relaxed and happy atmosphere of the Porto period... These are inevitable , Many people are not surprised by this, but Cyril did not expect that Mourinho would ask such a straightforward question.

"Porto is not the same as Chelsea, and the Portuguese Super League is not the same as the Premier League." Just as Cyril organized his words in his mind and was about to answer Mourinho's question, the Chelsea coach continued: "For you, The challenges here, both inside and outside the team, are much bigger than when you were at Porto."

When he said this, Mourinho had already raised his head and stared solemnly at the disciple who followed him to Chelsea: "That is to say, it is impossible for me to disregard other players out of my own selfishness." Just put you wherever you want—I say that, do you know what I mean?"

Hearing what Mourinho said, Cyril was relieved.

The husband called him over for tea so solemnly, he thought he had committed some crime and was dragged here alone to be criticized by the husband... It's the new team's problem.

For Cyril, as long as he is given a fair chance to compete for the main position, nothing else matters.

In these few days of training, Cyril is slowly getting used to the new team.Chelsea's overall strength is much higher than that of Porto, and the competition will of course be more intense. What Cyril has to do is to give full play when playing, improve himself in usual training, learn from teammates, or competitors in the team strengths.

For example, Lampard's long-range shots, Joe Cole's set-pieces, Makelele's defense... Compared with these excellent Premier League players, Cyril still has a lot to improve.

***

Having communicated with Mourinho first, when Cyril was included in the team's training game as a substitute, he also accepted it calmly.

In terms of overall strength, Cyril is naturally inferior to the more mature Lampard. Compared with Joe Cole, Cyril's set-piece skills are not enough. In this situation where his own strength is insufficient, even if he can't, it's nothing Good to complain about.

The position he wants will naturally be taken by himself by relying on his own strength.

During the training camp before the start of the season, Chelsea's players and coaches gradually passed the initial running-in period, and the cooperation in training gradually became tacit. They all complained a lot. At the same time, the striker combination of Robben and Drogba did not let the Chelsea defenders take advantage of it.

However, just as the training camp was about to end and everyone began to look forward to the coming of the new season, Alger Robben and Damian Duff announced that they were injured and would miss the first eight Premier League games of the new season.

Two people in the main lineup were injured in a row, and the time was near the start of the new season. This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Blues who had finally determined their tactics!

Faced with such sudden bad news, Mourinho was also helpless, and it was fine to be injured, and it happened to be on the eve of the official start of the league. In this way, the original tactics had to be rearranged. The role of Ben in his tactics, Chelsea's offensive power in the frontcourt will inevitably be reduced to a certain extent.

罗本和达夫的受伤，导致切尔西的4-3-3直接失去了两翼，4-3-3肯定是用不成了，好在穆里尼奥还设置了另一套备用阵型，即4-4-2的菱形站位。

In the first nine rounds of the league, Cyril played as a substitute in six games, and sat on the bench for the remaining three games.

But even sitting on the bench, Cyril was not idle.

If he comes off the bench, he will do his best to contribute to the team. Even if he doesn't get the chance to play, he can observe the situation of his teammates well on the bench - the habit of running, using his feet, passing the ball, Defending, shooting and many other details and abilities.Only the better he understands his teammates, the more he can prove his ability on the court.

Chelsea didn't start very well. In the first few rounds of the league, they had to face giants like Manchester United and Liverpool. Chelsea's road to the league will be much more difficult, they just played a series of 1-0, resisted the opponent's goal with tenacious defense, and found the opportunity to counterattack in the constant defense , killing the opponent with one blow.

Although the offensive ability of the frontcourt is relatively weak and the scoring method is relatively monotonous, Chelsea still rely on their solid defense and excellent goalkeeper. Seven of the nine games have zero seals against the opponent, so that the opponent has to take " 1-0" This is a regrettable score to go away.

This disappointed the reporters who were still eager to try to get back face from Mourinho after the defeat of the Blues. At this time, in the Premier League standings, Chelsea's position was only behind Arsenal at the top of the list. The team has just run in this season, and this result is good enough.

The reporters thought hard about Chelsea's game for a long time, and finally came up with black spots-they played too ugly!

That's right, they kept their opponents clean in seven of the first nine games, got seven "1-0s" and were unbeaten in one game.But pay attention-their total number of goals is only eight, and one of them is an own goal of the opponent.

It's just as bad as it gets.

Looking at their goals alone, I'm afraid no one will believe that this team is ranking second in the Premier League standings.

"I have to admit that, at least so far, the Blues under Mr. Mourinho are barely successful. They have a very good defensive ability, so it is difficult for opponents to score their goals, but it cannot be ignored. Their football is also extremely ugly-in the nine games they have played so far, they have only scored eight goals, and even if they are facing a newly promoted team, they have not won even a single big victory."

"When the whole game is full of rough defensive defense, what is there to watch in football? The fans come to the stadium happily, not to watch a dull game! Maybe Mr. Mourinho You should learn from Mr. Wenger - they can not only win, but also play pleasingly, which is the goal that the team should pursue."

Mourinho was indifferent to all kinds of attacks from football commentators in the media: "In my opinion, winning is more important than anything else. If defense can bring us victory, then we will defend, whether it makes the game look good or not. It looks ugly, and it doesn't matter whether it makes the fans unhappy - of course, in fact, so far, I have not seen any dissatisfied fans in the Stamford Bridge stands, everyone is satisfied with the victory, that's enough .”

The din from the outside world did not reach the ears of Chelsea players at all. At this point, Chelsea's interior can be said to be completely closed, and no news can reach Chelsea's locker room, which in turn affects the players. Offensive state.

At the same time, as Chelsea stumbled and progressed smoothly in the league, Cyril will also improve his ability and plan to put it on the agenda.