Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 722

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"At Highbury Stadium, Newcastle suffered their first defeat in the league this season. Relying on Henry's goal, the defending champion defeated Newcastle, the runner-up of last season. After losing this game, Newcastle is still ranked. No.1 in the standings, but their advantage has been reduced to one point."

"Terrible Chelsea! In the No.20 four-round match, Chelsea beat Portsmouth with a clean [-]-[-] at home. Italian striker Toni scored twice and Dutch Peter Pan Ruben added the icing on the cake After this round, Chelsea have won seven consecutive victories without conceding a goal. After Newcastle lost, they became the only Premier League team to remain unbeaten in the league this season!"

"Glamour, together with practicality, has become the key to Arsenal's victory. The defending champions swept away the previous round of decline in this game. They gave the leader Newcastle no chance in the game! Wenger proved to everyone with facts, Arsenal's tactics are not outdated!"

Mourinho and his Newcastle began to taste the taste of Arsenal's previous loss-just lost one game, except for the local media in Newcastle, the public opinion began to exclaim, "Newcastle's crisis has already arrival."

"If losing a game is the end of the world, then there is no good team in the world. I am very happy to see that the Newcastle fans are still firmly behind the team, because they know that for us , There are more important things than a victory." Mourinho fought back against this argument in an interview.

"It would be unfair to question the hard work of the entire team just because of a loss in one game." Pei Wei also stood firmly on Mourinho's side in an interview: " We didn't do badly at Highbury, it's just that Arsenal were better, that's normal, any team loses, and sometimes losing can be a valuable asset for the future. I firmly believe that, At the end of the season we will be able to lift the league championship trophy, any difficulties are only temporary."

Mourinho didn't care too much about this defeat. The first reason is that this defeat is a "non-war crime" in Chinese. The Arsenal players are in great condition, and Newcastle has nothing to do Big mistakes, such failures are hard to avoid.

Second, for Mourinho, losing a game now is better than losing at the critical moment of the championship. There is still a chance to make up for the loss now. If you lose at that time, you can make up for it. There is no way to make it up.

Mourinho's only regret is that after losing this game, it is impossible for Newcastle to go unbeaten for a season like Arsenal did last season, and they had a chance to surpass Arsenal's 49 unbeaten games-counting Twenty games unbeaten in the second half of the season, Newcastle has maintained a full 43 unbeaten rounds. If they do not lose this round, Newcastle is likely to surpass Arsenal's new record. Unfortunately, Arsenal used Their performances uphold their records.

Moreover, the lack of excitement of the main players on the field also made Mourinho aware that the main players needed to rest, so in the FA Cup match to be held on the following Sunday, Mourinho sent most of the substitutes. The team also logically lost to Liverpool in the fifth round of the FA Cup and was eliminated from the FA Cup.

So far, Newcastle has been eliminated in both the League Cup and the FA Cup, and Mourinho can focus on the league and the Champions League.

Three days later, Newcastle went to Manchester for the first time this season, but their opponent was not Manchester United, but another team in Manchester, Manchester City.

Manchester City's situation this season is not very good. They also lost their top scorer Anelka when they transferred in the winter. Keegan couldn't stand this free-spirited so-called genius anymore. After paying a price of 700 million pounds, Turkey's Fenerbah cut into the sixth club of the Frenchman's career-and he just 25 years old.

However, after getting rid of this trouble, Manchester City achieved a good record of two wins, one draw and one loss in four league games in 2005, including a [-]-[-] draw with Arsenal in the away game. Scored four goals in the first round of the league, and the veteran Fowler is also in good condition. Their outstanding performance made Manchester City fans forget the Frenchman very quickly.

In this game, Mourinho sent Shearer and Drogba's double-high partners, and behind them were Robert and Nie Fei. This offensive lineup achieved a miraculous effect at the beginning. After receiving Nie Fei's long midfield pass, Le shook Thatcher away with a move similar to Gascoigne's pick-and-roll action against Scotland in the 96 European Championships, and then used a signature kick. The right foot bombarded the goal and broke the goal guarded by James. This is Shearer's 2 goals in the Premier League!
This is Shearer's 2 goals in the Premier League, and also the 1 goals he scored for Newcastle in various competitions-the 34-year-old Shearer is still continuing his scoring myth, continuing his own Not old legend.

But in the following games, Manchester City dominated the moves on the field, especially Wright Phillips, who has been outstanding recently. He also performed equally well in this game. His breakthrough on the right was full of threats. Bernard Although De had tried his best, he was still unable to defend the young winger's breakthrough.

Mourinho's two substitutions were all used to deal with Phillips. He first replaced the veteran Robert with the faster, younger and more impactful Jordan Stewart, hoping to suppress through his breakthrough Stop Phillips' offense, and then use Hart to replace Bernard, who has already received a yellow card, to ensure the defensive strength on the left.

But even so, he couldn't restrain Phillips, who was already crazy. The young Englishman turned the right side into his own corridor, and his outstanding performance restrained Newcastle's offense and defense from the left side, and made Newcastle The offensive from the center and right also weakened.

In a football game, either the east wind beats the west wind, or the west wind beats the east wind. Therefore, although the saying "offense is the best defense" may not be completely correct, at least half of it is correct. A good offense can at least contain the opponent's offense to a certain extent .

Mourinho watched with a livid face as Phillips played vigorously on the court, and almost brought the whole situation back with his own strength-this situation is the most helpless for the coach.

Finally, at the 705th minute of the second half, Phillips broke into the penalty area. Lucio fouled in desperation. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick. Fowler scored a penalty kick to equalize the score.

In the end, Newcastle could only accept the result of being tied by Manchester City in the away game. In another game, Chelsea did not miss this opportunity. They relied on Deco's long-range shot in the 5th minute to beat Blackburn [-]-[-] in the away game. While achieving the longest eight-game winning streak this season, they also reversed Newcastle and climbed to the top of the standings!

After this round, all the praise fell on Chelsea. Public opinion agreed that with Chelsea's current state, after reaching the top of the list, it is difficult for other teams to catch up with them. However, Newcastle, which has not won three consecutive games (including the FA Cup), may repeat the mistakes of 96 and lose the advantages accumulated in the previous games in one fell swoop-from a historical point of view, Newcastle is such a psychological team. Fragile team!

But they forget one thing, a team's character is often determined by their head coach, and now Newcastle's head coach is not Keegan who is a bit fragile, but Mourinho who is as strong and calm as a piece of granite profound!

Four days later, Newcastle defeated Charlton 1-[-] at home relying on Janus' goal in the last minute, ending their two-round winless run in the league. Maintained their clean sheet record, but ended their winning streak-they were tied [-]-[-] by Manchester City at home, and once again gave up the top spot in the standings to Newcastle!

The media who were still boasting about Chelsea's "difficult advantage" in the last game were a little speechless. They didn't expect that Chelsea would only maintain the lead for four days, and within a few days they would forget what they said was true. It is too difficult...

In desperation, the media can only focus on Manchester City-this team from Manchester has performed well when facing the top four in the standings. In the last five rounds, they have encountered Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle In the top three, they all drew with their opponents. There are not many Premier League teams that can do this. They also drew with Manchester United in the Manchester derby in the first half of the league. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are now ranked tenth. In these rounds of performance, Manchester City deserves the title of "League Championship Touchstone".

From this perspective, this blue team is the ups and downs in the Premier League this season.

A week later, the results of the Premier League once again made these media want to talk about themselves-the top four in the league all won, and Manchester City, the touchstone they considered, lost to Manchester United 12-[-] at home without temper, and the points fell to No. .[-] bits.

"These guys, they are the ones who turn the clouds and rain the clouds." Pei Wei said sarcastically.

(End of this chapter)