Chapter 253: A sudden earthquake in the Premier League caused huge losses!

After two draws and one loss in the first three rounds of the Premier League, the team has kept all opponents scoreless in the last three rounds, winning three games in a row and returning to the first tier. In the new season’s Champions League group stage, the team got off to a good start… Although these four wins, three with a score of 0-3 and one with a score of 1-0, were somewhat forced, but the beginning is always the hardest, isn’t it?

Sir Alex Ferguson was delighted in his post-match press conference, confirming that Manchester United were on the right track and would only get better: "It was a great night for Manchester United. Winning the first group match of the new season in the Champions League and away from home, just like last season, has laid a positive foundation for Manchester United. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and a successful start is always important.

"And then we will get better and better. Rooney will get better and better and I am sure that on Sunday he will be ready and we will beat Chelsea at Old Trafford..."

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Speaking of Chelsea, the day after the match between Manchester United and Sporting Lisbon, Ricardo and his teammates had just returned to the Carrington base for training when they received a breaking news about Chelsea: Jose Mourinho was sacked!

On the evening of September 2007, 9, the day after Chelsea were tied 19-1 at home by the underdog Norwegian team Rosenborg in the first round of the Champions League group stage, Chelsea's official website released a shocking statement: "Chelsea Football Club and Mourinho have reached an agreement and both parties have agreed to terminate the contract today."

According to the world's top tabloid The Sun, after Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Rosenborg at home in the Champions League, Chelsea owner Abramovich and Mourinho held crisis talks. The angry Russian tycoon told the Blues coach that Chelsea's current performance was completely unacceptable.

The Chelsea official website also published a sensational review of Mourinho's coaching career with the Blues:

“作为俱乐部历史上最成功的主教练，在斯坦福桥的3个完整赛季中带领球队获得2次联赛冠军、1次足总杯冠军、2次联赛杯冠军和1次社区盾冠军以后，何塞-穆里尼奥离开了切尔西。

Mourinho arrived at Stamford Bridge from Porto in the summer of 2004 as the then European champions, and was an immediate success as Claudio Ranieri's successor, declaring on his first day at the club that he was 'someone special'.

On the pitch, things started to go well, too, with a 2004-2005 win over Manchester United on the first day of the 1-0 season. The team remained unbeaten in the first eight games of the season… That season, Chelsea won its first league title in 8 years. The final 50 points set a record in the history of the top flight, and we ended up 95 points ahead of Manchester United, conceding only 12 goals, another record…

After a highly successful first season, many warned him that defending the title would be a far more difficult task than winning it the first time. In Mourinho’s second season, Chelsea started with flying colours, winning nine games in a row and not conceding a goal in the first seven games… winning the league title while leading the way, making Chelsea only the second team in the last 9 years to win back-to-back titles.

…at Stamford Bridge he preserved his remarkable home league unbeaten record, which remained intact on the day he left…but after three games without a win, Mourinho and Chelsea Football Club came to a mutual understanding and both parties agreed to part with the happiest of hearts.”

It can be seen that Mourinho came to Chelsea by stepping on Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United. So when the four good eggs of Chelsea in the mouth of the magic bird - Lampard, Ballack, Carvalho and Drogba - were all injured, facing Manchester United again, in order to avoid being caught by Manchester United, Mourinho decisively chose to resign before the game...

Of course, this is just malicious speculation by Ricardo and some of his teammates. The industry and media generally speculate that Mourinho's tough personality and Abramovich's plan to win the Champions League twice in 10 years have irreconcilable conflicts, leading to the former's departure.

You know, it has been four years since Abramovich took office, so the 4-year plan has been compressed into winning two Champions Leagues in six years. This is indeed a bit too difficult, after all, Sir Alex Ferguson coached Manchester United for more than 10 years and only won one European Cup...

Countless media, experts and practitioners are exclaiming that the dismissal of Magic Bird is an earthquake in the Premier League and a huge loss to the Premier League!

However, one day after the "huge loss" in the Premier League, this huge loss was personally stubborn in an interview: "I can accurately answer that I was the first to propose leaving. In fact, this decision was made a long time ago, but for many other factors, such as Chelsea players, fans and other factors, I postponed such a decision..."

Uncle Psy, you are such a tough nut!

Regardless of how huge the losses in the Premier League are, and how stubborn Niao Sangben Ya is, for the Blues' enemies, now is the best time to defeat Chelsea, especially the Red Devils Manchester United who will face Chelsea's challenge in three days.

Mourinho's successor was Avram Grant, the youngest head coach in the country's history and also the most successful head coach, having led the young and inexperienced Israeli national team to an unbeaten run in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers...

In 2006, Grant became Portsmouth's head of football. He joined Stamford Bridge as director of football this summer and became the fire-fighting coach after Mourinho was suddenly sacked.

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Having just returned to Manchester and eaten the big news about Uncle Bird, Ricardo finally welcomed his own Little Bird. Oh no, it’s good news for Big Bird. After all, he has been defending himself for almost 20 days since the national team match day. No matter what kind of bird it is, it is hungry and thirsty!

After training on Thursday night, I picked up Sarafina, who also came from London, at the train station at around 11 o'clock. The little princess probably didn't have time to change her clothes. She was wearing a khaki sports casual outfit, which was what she usually wore to class...

In order to visit her male lover on weekends, Sarah concentrated all her classes on Mondays and Thursdays this semester. After finishing her classes at 19:20 on Thursday evening, she could take a train to Manchester at around 6:9. Then she could stay there for the whole weekend and take the 30: a.m. train back to London on Monday morning to attend the : a.m. class.

By the time she entered her sophomore year, Sarah had become a half-master of time management.

However, as soon as they returned to the Aizou they had chosen together, Sarah changed into a set of vaguely visible royal blue gauze nightgown, loosened her ponytail and changed it into shoulder-length hair, took off her contact lenses and put on black-framed glasses. This immediately changed her student look and showed off her aloof and bitchy temperament. Oh no, it was the temperament of a queen...

The scumbag Li Meng took a deep breath, and tried hard to control his evil thoughts of turning into a werewolf, and kept silently reciting the Heart Sutra taught by his master: I have to train tomorrow, and I have to compete the day after tomorrow, I have to train tomorrow, and I have to compete the day after tomorrow...

I just hope you can be more restrained. You can't sacrifice a former teammate to take the blame this time. That's not a human thing to do!

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2007年9月23日下午16时，07/08赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第7轮，一场焦点大战在老特拉福德展开争夺，由红魔曼联主场迎战从伦敦来访的蓝军切尔西！

穆里尼奥对弗格森12战取得6胜4平2负，除了包括慈善顿在内的热身赛，弗格森在90分钟内的唯一胜局还是在2005年11月中，凭借弗莱彻的诡异入球主场1比0小胜蓝军。不过在穆里尼奥周中离职之后，两人执掌红蓝二队的交锋也暂时成为了历史。

抛开主帅而言，曼联与切尔西此前双方在英超历史交锋30场，曼联8胜13平9负稍处下风，其中主场4胜7平4负不分上下。不过放大到所有比赛，双方历史交锋148场，曼联则是64胜44平40负占据上风。

Chelsea's former assistant coaches Avram Grant and Steve Clarke jointly took over the first team. This was their first game after taking office, but there were still away Blues fans who followed the team and held up a banner in the stands that read: "Mourinho is the best."

Drogba and Lampard are still unable to play due to injuries. Ben Haim and Ferreira replace Alex and Belletti respectively, and Mikel replaces Kalou in the starting lineup.

Chelsea started with a 4-3-1-2 lineup with three defensive midfielders:

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Cech;

The defenders lined up from left to right are No. 3 Ashley Cole, No. 26 Terry, No. 22 Ben Haim and No. 20 Paulo Ferreira;

The three defensive midfielders from left to right are No. 5 Essien, No. 12 Mikel and No. 4 Makelele;

The lone attacking midfielder is number 10 Joe Cole;

The two strikers are No. 15 Malouda and No. 7 Shevchenko.

On the Manchester United side, Li Qi successfully took up his gun and defeated the female devil who also visited from London in advance. Through the double buff of his time management master and energy management master, he also won the recognition of Sir Ferguson on the training ground, allowing him to go into battle again to fight the enemies from London!

In addition, Tevez replaced Giggs and formed a two-little fat man with Rooney for the first time, oh no, it was two little strong striker combination!

Sir Alex Ferguson arranged his most common 4-4-2 parallel starting lineup:

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar;

The defenders lined up from right to left are No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 5 Ferdinand, No. 15 Vidic and No. 3 Evra;

The midfielders from right to left are No.7 Cristiano Ronaldo, No.18 Scholes, No.16 Carrick and No.17 Li Qi;

The two strikers are No. 32 Tevez and No. 10 Rooney.

After the opening, Manchester United did not make any attempts, but directly launched a full-scale attack, hoping to take advantage of Chelsea's change of coach and incomplete lineup to win the game. It would be best if they won with a big score difference and teach a severe lesson to the little broken car that has been extremely arrogant in recent seasons.

Just one minute into the game, Li Qi challenged Ferreira on the left, shook continuously, dodged the gap and passed the ball to the left side of the penalty area. Makelele cleared the ball before Rooney and Manchester United won the first corner.

Li Qi, who has assisted twice with corner kicks this season, took the corner kick himself. This time Li Qi looked for Ronaldo who was lurking at the far post!

Unfortunately, Ronaldo missed the ball. He jumped high and stayed in the air very well, but he still didn't have enough strength and the ball was easily caught by Cech in the hat.

But neither Ronaldo nor Li Qi felt upset, because the game had just begun!

Then in the second minute, Carrick intercepted Cech's long goal kick and headed it towards the left where Li Qi was.

After Li Qi deftly took off the spinning ball, he stopped and passed, then volleyed from the spot and directly passed Ferreira, who was a step away and had no time to get up.

Then Li Qi avoided Terry's interception and made a diagonal pass to the top of the penalty area. Rooney received the ball in the middle, faked a shot and dribbled past Ben Haim, then adjusted himself and shot a curved ball into the far corner from 22 yards in front of the goal!

Unfortunately, the ball was saved by Cech, the Beret, and cleared by Ashley Cole...

Sir Alex had made arrangements before the game to focus on the left side where Li Qi was in the first half, because Li Qi's opponent was Paulo Ferreira, who was once the best right-back in Europe.

However, the former best right-back in Europe has not been in good form in the last two seasons. His peak seems to have permanently stopped in the 03/04 season...

Moreover, Ferreira, who is a Portuguese with a rigid defense and poor physical condition, was one of the first batch of players selected by the former Chelsea coach. Therefore, Sir Alex Ferguson believed that the distracted Ferreira would definitely not be able to stop Li Qi, who was in excellent form, and specifically asked the latter to decisively beat him one-on-one, until Chelsea's three beastly midfielders came to assist in defense!

In fact, Li Qi also knew that this Chelsea team was both easy and difficult to beat.

The reason why it was difficult to play was that the lineup was incomplete. There was a lack of Drogba, the magic beast who could attack and resolve the battle alone. Lampard and Ballack, who were the connecting players in the midfield and could attack forward, were both absent due to injuries. Chelsea's offensive organization ability was at its historical low. As long as they could defend against Chelsea's attacks on both wings, shutting out the Blues would be a piece of cake.

The reason why it is difficult to play is that Chelsea also knows its own weaknesses, so they put up three world-class midfielders. Any one of Essien, Makelele and Mikel can be a single defensive midfielder who can carry the team independently in other teams, such as Makelele who has always played the role of a lone man in Real Madrid.

Chelsea piled three players in the midfield at once. Isn't it obvious that they are just defending and then leaving the ball to Shevchenko or Malu, who are known for their counterattacks?

Therefore, the three black and hard players must be attracted to the wing to leave space in the middle. After all, even if the two wings play well, they still have to rely on the middle to score.

The key to defeating the Blues in this game is when Chelsea's defensive midfielder will be on the field. Of course, it is not enough to rely on Li Qi alone, but one thing leads to another, and the first link must be there first...

In the next round, Rooney saw that there was an easy target on the left side, so he came over to take advantage of it, exchanged positions with Li Qi, and Scholes' through pass arrived as expected at Rooney's feet.

Rooney, who had let the ball go to the bottom, successfully used his small body to resist Ferreira's return defense and forced a cross near the left bottom line, but unfortunately the pass was a little too far back. Li Qi, who had switched to the middle, barely used his head to head near the penalty spot, but he also failed to get enough power and was again surpassed by the Beret and took the ball into his arms!

Seeing that Rooney and Lizzie did not switch positions and cooperate according to the routine, Sir Alex Ferguson on the sidelines not only did not blame them, but also smiled and nodded while chewing gum. This was a manifestation of the initial tacit understanding. It was only because Rooney passed the ball slightly behind him, otherwise this beautiful cooperation might have led to a goal.

When the game was approaching the 10th minute, the visiting team Chelsea had the first shot. Ashley Cole stole the ball from Wes Brown in the frontcourt, and then Malouda passed it through the middle. Shevchenko shot from the edge of the left penalty area, aiming at the gap in Vidic's defense, but the ball went wide of the far corner.

In the 14th minute, Shevchenko pulled to the right to get the ball, got rid of Carrick and Evra in succession and tried to pass the ball, but Li Qi who returned to defense intercepted the ball in time.

Then Li Qi made a long pass to find Ronaldo at the far end; the latter stopped the ball with his chest and went straight into the penalty area, but was tackled to the ground by Joe Cole who was chasing back, but the referee Dean did not make a penalty and directly awarded a goal kick.

Just as the captain led a group of his men to put pressure on the referee to ask for an explanation, Li Qi, the planner of the attack, reached out and pulled up the Ukrainian striker who had just been intercepted and knocked down by him, as a gesture of friendship.

Li Qi had just played against this nuclear warhead in the European Cup qualifiers not long ago, but Li Qi obviously felt that Chelsea's style was not suitable for Sheva. The latter could not even reach the level of the Ukrainian national team where he was dragged down by the overall level, let alone the Zhao Zilong-like strength of seven in and seven out in the AC Milan period.

As the Russian boss's love sauce, the team can't help but give full support to the Ukrainian nuclear warhead, and the level of the Blues teammates is also the top level of the Premier League. If Shevchenko still doesn't play well, it can only be a problem of style or temperament...

At this time, Chelsea needs an African German like Drogba to be the lead singer, oh no, center forward.

This is also normal. The same thing happened when Toni came to Chelsea. Although they won the long-awaited Champions League title, the game was really... extremely joyful!

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