[football] walk side by side

Since it is analyzing Chelsea, it is of course impossible to miss Chelsea players.

After emphatically talking about Terry, Lampard and others as veterans who have brought Chelsea various non-technical influences, most of the media have chosen to focus on Cyril.

It's okay if you don't pay attention. With such attention, many fans discovered that Cyril has displayed a series of terrifying statistics since this season.

The number of goals is 25. Compared with Drogba, who scored [-] goals in the same team, it is naturally a bit inferior. However, for a midfielder who often organizes at the back, it is already quite good. data.But this is not the most shocking aspect of Cyril's statistics.

The most unbelievable thing is the number of assists by Cyril-Chelsea has scored 70 goals in the league this season. Among them, 30 goals came from Cyril's direct assists, excluding Cyril's own goals. Count, this number is equivalent to more than half of Chelsea's total goals!In other words, half of Chelsea's goals were scored with his assists.

The number of assists is 30 goals. At first glance, this data does not seem to be very strong, but as long as you look at the assist tables of the four top leagues of La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Premier League this season, you will find that the assist list of the four top leagues is the first. , In the case that no one has reached more than 20 goals, how terrifying is Cyril's 30 goals.

In other words, among Chelsea's 70 goals this season, 49 goals have a direct relationship with Cyril.

This is on the basis of not counting Cyril's important passes in the game.

Generally speaking, when many fans and the media look at a season's data sheet, they mainly focus on the scorer list, and few people pay special attention to the assist list. But it is also because of this that when a British newspaper pointed out, When Cyril's assists this season had reached 30 goals, it caused a shock.

"To be fair, I didn't really feel anything when I saw 30 assists at the beginning, until I checked the assist lists of major leagues and found a series of 13, 12, 11...the highest was only 19 goals. No one broke through 20 goals at all. [Manual goodbye] I finally understand why everyone calls Slade the king of assists, this statistic is simply abnormal!"

"Hearing what you said, I couldn't help but ran to look up the statistics of this year's major leagues, and was dumbfounded. Friendly reminder: interested friends can look at other statistics, such as the number of key passes and the number of successful passes Wait, if you are more interested, you can also pay attention to the success rate of Slade's passes in recent games. Well, bring your chins and don't thank me too much _(:3J∠)_"

"I searched, except for the pass success rate against Real Madrid, which was 97%, the other two pass success rates against Liverpool and Tottenham were both 100%. I... I may have read a fake stat sheet? I may Is it a dream? Or is it that the personnel in charge of statistics have been too slack lately and didn’t even notice such a big bug?”

"Reply upstairs: There is no problem in the statistics, except for the Real Madrid game because Ronaldo knew too well, so Ronaldo guessed the intention of three passes and succeeded in grabbing points, and the statistics for Liverpool and Tottenham are all. The real thing, there were probably more than 100 passes in the audience, without a single turnover, what is it not 100%?"

If the fans who spoke on the football forum were only shocked by Cyril's personal data for a while, then many European media, with a more serious attitude, revisited Cyril's performance since this season. The performance has been analyzed and summarized in detail.

And the analysis and summary of all this, using the title of a relatively professional magazine in the football media, Germany's "Kicker", is "The Veritable King of Assists--The Underrated Cyril Sly Germany. "

"From the European Championship in 2008 to the recent Champions League semi-final 3-1 Real Madrid, it is not difficult to find that Cyril Slade has always occupied a very large proportion in the European Cup three years ago. He is a well-deserved MVP selected by UEFA, and now in the Champions League, he is the biggest contributor to Chelsea's promotion and the FA Cup double."

"For a long time, because the public pays more attention to the number of goals than other statistics, we often focus on Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and other frontcourt players, and always judge a player by the number of goals. good or bad, but this kind of thinking itself is unscientific. Whether a team can win a championship or not, goals are of course indispensable, but every pass before the goal, every break of the defense Passing is also an integral part of winning."

"And Cyril Slade is a typical representative of it."

"Actually, as long as we have carefully observed Chelsea's games, it is not difficult for us to find that in some deadlocked games, Slade is often the one who helps the team break the balance and take the lead first. He may not have played for the ball. The team scored the first goal, but the reason why this goal was able to come about was because of his scheduling in the midfield, timely delivery of unexpected transfer balls, or through passes that tore through the opponent's defense. "

"His organizational ability makes Chelsea's offensive and defensive transitions smoother. His breakthroughs from time to time can disrupt the opponent's defense, he can score a vital goal for the team, and he can use powerful long-range shots when defending. Opponents dare not attack aggressively, and his organization can make Chelsea's firepower stronger when attacking, and can also make Chelsea's defense more stable when defending."

"Slade is not the most indispensable person in the Chelsea team, but once he is lost, Chelsea is bound to be reduced from a top European team to a first-class European team."

"In a word, this is a player who can add to the team as a whole!"

And "Kicker" is just one of many media.

After playing Barcelona, ​​the entire European media finally remembered that there was another player named Cyril Slade in the UK. Suddenly, many media people shifted their targets and locked their eyes on Cyril. Er's body.Among them, the British media is the most important.

The "Mirror", which has always been unreliable, is also happily making plausible assumptions this time: "Judging from the honors that Chelsea and Barcelona have received, Chelsea has won the Premier League and the FA Cup this season. Although Barcelona won the league title, they lost to Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Leo Messi scored 31 goals and 18 assists in the league this season, while Cyril Slade scored 19 goals and 30 assists .”

"Of course, we all know that comparing players' personal honors is not particularly meaningful. Although the Ballon d'Or values ​​a player's individual performance, the final attribution is often inseparable from the team to which the player belongs. In other words, we It can be concluded that this year's Ballon d'Or award may be born in this year's Champions League champion."

"To be honest, I feel like I'm getting used to the different kinds of compliments from the media outside." During Chelsea's daily training, Drogba joked to Cyril with a smile: "If Chelsea win the Champions League, Are you really leaving?"

He sighed: "To be honest, I think I'm about to suffer from 'Cyril dependence'. It's really hard to imagine what I would do without Cyril. I'm about to fall off the scorer list in minutes."

Cyril: "..." There is nothing wrong with saying this, but why does it sound so awkward?

He was a little embarrassed, but still smiled and shook his head: "It's too early to think about it now, at least wait until we eliminate Real Madrid?"

In fact, when Drogba directly asked Cyril the question "whether he will leave Chelsea after the Champions League", the atmosphere at this time should actually be a little awkward.

Although the transfers between players are rare and common, it would be embarrassing for Cyril and other Chelsea players to ask straight to the point on this occasion, especially when the team is in good condition and united as one Down.

But neither the Chelsea players nor Cyril himself bothered about this issue.

Seeing that Cyril once again became the focus of various European media, Lampard and others were actually very happy for Cyril.

Because of Chelsea's downturn in European competitions in recent years, coupled with Cyril's high-profile performance in the national team, and the superstar performance shown from time to time in domestic league and cup matches, Cyril's status in European football has always been A little embarrassing.

Let’s say he is not a world-class superstar. He was the core midfielder of the Portuguese champion team in the 2008 European Cup. He was the well-deserved MVP of that European Cup.You can say that he is a world-class superstar. Compared with Messi and Ronaldo, who are also called superstars, his performance in the Champions League seems to be completely unconvincing.

If he followed Mourinho to Inter Milan in 2007 and moved to Real Madrid together in 2009, would the final result be different?

In fact, not to mention these two clubs, since Portugal won the European Cup in 2008, even during the period when Chelsea was at its lowest, there have never been fewer teams pursuing Cyril.Abramovich has always been ambiguous about whether to let people go, and those teams pursuing Cyril are indeed sincere, but no matter which step the transfer process talks about, it will come to an abrupt end at the last step.

Cyril only used one word to end all these negotiations - "No."

Compared with those countless stars who finally chose to leave Chelsea, what qualifications and requirements do they have for such Cyril?

And for Cyril himself, there is nothing that cannot be mentioned about the transfer topic-as he said, he will not leave until he wins the Champions League.Looking at the past few years at Chelsea, the league championships and FA Cup championships he won for Chelsea have reached double digits, and the league championships are all in Chelsea's history.

Not to mention that Chelsea has fallen into a trough several times, and when countless stars have left Chelsea, he still chose to stay behind.

He has his own principles and his own bottom line, but this does not mean that he will contribute mindlessly to the team.He can see the love of fans and teammates, but he can also see Abramovich's resistance.

Cyril doesn't mind talking about transfers-because he believes that he has never owed Chelsea anything, even if he did, his championships and perseverance in the past few years are enough to pay back.

He has a clear conscience.