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Chapter 524

Although Newcastle lost [-]-[-] away to the Italian giants Inter Milan in the second round of the Champions League semi-final, relying on the advantage of winning [-]-[-] at home, they still eliminated Inter Milan through away goals and advanced to the Champions League semi-final for the first time in five years.

When the news came, the English media rejoiced. Although the second round of another semi-final match between Chelsea and Arsenal had not yet been played, Newcastle's elimination of Inter Milan made this season's Champions League champion a Premier League team.

At the same time, Long Bisheng, who scored a key goal before the end of the game, also became the focus of attention-this lore was his ninth goal in this season's Champions Cup. Since Real Madrid, the second-ranked Ronaldo, was eliminated in the previous game, this goal also basically made Long Bisheng the top scorer of this season's Champions Cup in advance. For a striker, this is almost the highest personal honor other than the top scorer in the World Cup!

The reputation of Long Bisheng in the past two years can be described as a rocket-like sprint. After joining Newcastle this year, a series of wonderful performances made him faintly become the number one center forward in world football. He has broken through the gates of Bayern and Barcelona. Counting them, he has scored goals in almost all the giants he has encountered. The gold content of this performance is beyond enough!

Facing the goals of a strong team, the importance of goals—two goals against Real Madrid in two rounds, and an extremely important lore against Inter Milan—he has accounted for all the factors that determine the outcome. Such an outstanding center forward, even if the European sports media is harsh on him, he can’t deny his perfect performance this season.

Compared with the 50 nominees who were nominated for the Golden Globe Awards last year, and there were no names in the selection of the World Footballer of the Year, everyone knows that this time Long Bisheng will definitely not be low in the rankings of these two awards.

If the performance in Naples made Long Bisheng know the cruelty of European professional football, the time in Leeds made Long Bisheng truly adapt to European football, and his reputation in Hoffenheim gradually became louder, then in Newcastle, it was the time when Long Bisheng paid off all his hard work and sweat in the past.

Compared with Long Bisheng's sweat and painstaking efforts in the past, the small achievements now can only be regarded as solid accumulation, and he will have more and higher goals to pursue.

Newcastle, who entered the final, returned to Newcastle City and began to wait quietly for the final opponent to appear. Before the final, there are three league rounds and the FA Cup final to be played, that is to say, Newcastle has the last five games left this season.

One month, five games, this season with such a dense schedule has come to the end, but it seems to be starting to loosen up.

A day later, at the Emirates Stadium, ushered in the penultimate game of this season's Champions League

In this game, the two sides played sparks. Ancelotti, who has basically no hope of winning the league title, must make a difference in the Champions League if he wants to stabilize his coaching position. If they can reach the final, they will have more time to adjust than Newcastle, who are still distracted by the league title and the FA Cup.

Naturally, Wenger will not let go of the opportunity to enter the Champions League. He has led Arsenal to five league titles in the league, but the Champions League has always been a pain in his heart. He has only entered the Champions League final once this season, and lost to Barcelona. Wenger does not know how long he can coach.

In the first half, Cesc Fabregas sent a wonderful pass. This pass completely deceived Chelsea's entire defense. Nicolas Bendtner opened the scoring with a poke shot from the back. Then Arsenal maintained their lead until the second half.

Seeing that Arsenal was about to encounter a tragedy at home, but before the end of the game, it turned into a comedy - Vela was tripped by Ivanovic when he broke through, and Cesc Fabregas, the captain of Arsenal, withstood the pressure and kicked a wonderful curve ball, [-] to [-]!

Like Newcastle, Arsenal completed a lore before the whistle!

This result means that Newcastle and Arsenal will fight to the death in the remaining two important games of this season-first the league and then the Champions League!

After learning of this result, Pei Wei held his stomach and laughed loudly in his villa, first Benitez, then Wenger - for Pei Wei, there is no better scene than this!

"I don't understand why you are so happy. Do you think the professor's Arsenal is easier to deal with than Ancelotti's Chelsea?" Su Mei looked at Pei Wei's happy look, as if she saw a pervert.

"No, no, no, it's not easy to deal with any team in the Champions League final, because no one will dismiss this honor. Except for the season when I became the owner of Newcastle, we met in the final. Except for Monaco, which broke out suddenly and lost Giuly in the final, any other final was participated by the best team in Europe." To see Jose and the professor play against each other in the final."

"Why? Is it because they have all been coaches under you?" Su Mei quickly understood what Pei Wei meant.

"It's not just because of this." Pei Wei's voice became low: "I hope this is a great season for Newcastle. A great season requires a great process... Jose, Rafael, the professor, the relationship between them and me can be talked about since I started playing football. I hope this season will be the greatest season since I took charge of Newcastle, but even if we have reached the final of the Champions League and the FA Cup, I am still not very confident. Every club wants to win the honor of the Triple Crown , but so far only Manchester United and Barcelona have won it. Why? Because it is too difficult, not only to fight against opponents, but also to fight against various unknown factors. In other aspects, I have sufficient confidence, the best coach, the best players, and the best state, but luck is not something I can grasp. And after entering the semi-finals of the Champions League, I have a vague feeling that first Rafael and then the professor. The reason I'm happy."

"I didn't expect you to be so superstitious." Su Mei said with a smile.

"It's not a superstition." Pei Wei shook his head again: "Think about 1999. Manchester United actually encountered a difficult situation. In the previous season, they were overtaken by Wenger's Arsenal with a 2009-point lead. They also lost the Charity Shield at the beginning of the season. In the knockout round, they faced Inter Milan first, then Juventus, and finally Bayern...Thinking about Barcelona in [-], they might be overtaken by Real Madrid in the league. "

"Perhaps... what you said makes sense." Su Mei thought for a while, and then laughed: "Great achievements must be accompanied by great processes? I really never thought about it before."

"Of course, I'm a genius." Pei Wei smiled triumphantly.

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The next five games are a league game away at Stoke, home to Arsenal, home to Portsmouth, the FA Cup final against Everton at Wembley and the Champions League final against Arsenal at the Velodrome in Marseille, France.

This is already the last five games of Newcastle this season. The most important thing is nothing more than three games, two finals and the penultimate round of the championship game. Two of the three games are against Arsenal. This makes Newcastle fans feel a little boring while excited.

Although Arsenal is a very strong opponent, the opponents of the two important championships are the same team. Just like eating too much food is not interesting, it will not be too interesting to compete with one opponent all the time.

But fortunately, the team didn’t feel bored because the main and biggest opponent was only Arsenal. For these professional players, any game is the same, just go for victory.

And the coaching staff also feel that this schedule is very beneficial to them.

"As long as we can win two games in a row, we will win the league championship one round earlier, so that the main players can rest in the last round. Anyway, after the league ends, we will play the FA Cup final one week later and the Champions League final one and a half weeks later. There will be no problem with the players' physical fitness." An assistant coach said with a smile.

"We can think like this, but we can't let the players think like this, and we can't pin the hope of winning the championship on assumptions." Mourinho said coldly: "As a coach, we should consider all the problems. What if Arsenal doesn't win the next league game? What if Arsenal wins and we are tied? What if we fail to win Arsenal at home? We have to take all factors into consideration, so that we will not panic in any situation."

The coaches all nodded. In fact, this kind of work is what a coach should do. A game only lasts nine to 10 minutes, and there may be many emergencies. No matter how flexible a person’s brain is, he cannot make the best response in a short period of time. Therefore, before the start of each game, the coach should take all emergencies into consideration in order to make a correct response.

"The Arsenal game is a week later, so let's wait for three days before we can think about that game. Now we have to think about the Stoke City game." Mourinho said seriously. No one has any doubts about his words. There is still a glimmer of hope in the first level, this kind of team is the most difficult to play, they have not forgotten how they were blocked by Everton a week ago.

"How is the physical fitness of the team now?" This is the question that Mourinho is most concerned about. In terms of overall strength, Stoke City is almost two grades worse than Newcastle.

"Not too optimistic." The fitness coach said: "Carrick, Dawson, and Maicon are not in very good physical condition now, and Ribery is also tired. However, the substitute players have rested well recently, and their physical condition is fine. The rotation system in the first half of the season has allowed some of our main players to retain good physical fitness, but there are still some main players whose physical fitness is on the verge of collapse."

"Let's rotate this game." Mourinho thought for a while and said, "We have a technical advantage against a team like Stoke, so it's not a big problem to send substitutes. We can't let them find opportunities in terms of physical fitness. In the next round of the league, Martok, Huntington and Bostock will play, and Bale will play as a left midfielder... Maicon let him last two games. If the situation is good, he can only play half of the game.

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Mourinho made the decision, so it was just such a starting line-up that arrived at Stoke's home ground, the Britannia Stadium, three days later.

In fact, Newcastle's starting lineup this season is no longer a secret, because there are only so many people in the first team, and Mourinho will not leave a few categories no matter how much he rotates. In the second half of the season, the main lineup is basically fixed.

Stoke City probably also want to take advantage of Newcastle's lack of physical fitness in a very intense game just three days ago. This team, which has been in the Premier League Championship several times in recent years, is full of big-bodied people.

Newcastle also began to shrink their defense like Inter Milan, which gave Stoke City infinite confidence, but they forgot that even if Newcastle is Inter Milan, they are not Newcastle...

In the case of shrinking defense, Stoke City can not create much pressure on Newcastle, and several Newcastle attackers are eyeing up and preparing to make a few blows to Stoke City's thin defense line.

After more than 20 minutes of onslaught, the players of Stoke City were discouraged to find that they could not shake the fundamentals of Newcastle, and Newcastle did not have any obvious defects in the lineup after rotating three main players.

Just when their offensive stagnated a little, Newcastle bounced back like a spring!

Bostock broke through two players in a row in the midfield and then went straight to the front. Under the cover of Long Bisheng, Messi successfully received the back ball, and then used his personal skills to break through the two defenders of Stoke City and break into the penalty area. He easily lobbed against the goalkeeper!One to zero!

After pressing down on the opponent for nearly half an hour, they were easily counterattacked and scored by the opponent. The players of Stoke City began to look a little at a loss. Only 3 minutes later, Long Bisheng scored a powerful header to expand the score again!

"Okay, the victory is decided, we can let some players rest for the second half." After the whistle sounded at the end of the first half, Mourinho said to Pei Wei.

Sure enough, during the intermission, Mourinho replaced three people in a row. Maicon, Gerrard and Messi were replaced by Srna, Walcott and Baxter respectively. Newcastle began to prepare for the league championship match four days later.

In the second half, Stoke City, unwilling to be relegated to the fate of relegation, launched a frenzied attack, but Newcastle, who retreated appropriately, still did not give the opponent too many opportunities.

The Britannia Stadium was whining, but Newcastle was most concerned about another game.

If there were any mistakes for Arsenal in that game, then Newcastle may have an easier time.

But Arsenal also withstood the fatigue after the Champions League semi-final. They beat their city rival Tottenham [-]-[-] at home and continued to trail Newcastle by one point.

"Okay, now the situation is obvious. If we win the next game, we will be the league champions." Mourinho said to all the players: "For us, there is only one game left in the league."

(End of this chapter)