The strongest winger

Chapter 598 Champions League semi-final first leg
If Chelsea want to reopen the point gap with Manchester United, then they must beat Everton at Goodison Park, but the team coached by Moyes is not weak, on the contrary very strong, otherwise it will not be ranked fifth in the highly competitive Premier League.

If the two direct talks with Liverpool did not lose their opponents, then they would not be ranked fifth in the league.

Originally, according to Mourinho's idea, he would focus on the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final in the middle of next week and the home game against Manchester United next weekend, but now he has become nervous because he has the same points as Manchester United with one round less.

Both sides of the game sent all the main players, so the 35th round of the Premier League at Goodison Park was quite intense. At the end of the first half, the score on the big screen was 2:2!

Moyes had a very strict tactical arrangement for Everton before the game, especially marking Aiello, and he was very successful. The two goals scored by Chelsea were not directly scored by Aiello, but after Drogba and Essien scored after he attracted enough firepower.

In the second half, Mourinho suddenly changed his tactics and gave Aiello a wider range of activities. The entire frontcourt was his activity area. This made Moyes' tactical arrangements against Aiello in the first half all in vain.

Next, Ai Luo showed his own value, and he could create a chance to score in the moment of respite. Therefore, he scored two goals in the 64th and 66th minutes of the game, and instantly overtook the score to 4:2. The change in the score made Moyes' tactical arrangement also change accordingly, replacing the defensive players with offensive players.

But because of his latest strategy, Aiello took advantage of a set kick before the end of the game to stage his fourth hat-trick in the Premier League, helping the team expand the score to 4:5!

And this score is also the final score. Chelsea beat Everton in the away game, which means that their league points advantage has once again expanded to three points, and they will regain the initiative to win the championship with only three rounds left in the league.

Chelsea beat Everton in the away game, which made Manchester United supporters feel extremely annoyed, because according to their thinking, Chelsea lost to Everton in the away game, and then lost to Liverpool in the two rounds of the Champions League semi-finals.

It's just that the ideal is skinny, but the reality is cruel.

Manchester United coach Ferguson was not surprised by Chelsea's result, because it was Mourinho who coached Chelsea, and he would never allow the team to collapse. In addition, Chelsea also has a scoring machine like Aiello, and it is basically impossible to lose away from home!
Therefore, he also has his own record, that is...the next round of the league will personally kill Chelsea at the Stamford Bridge Stadium, and he will also achieve more than three goal difference!Otherwise all efforts will be in vain!

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The next day, "The Times" reported the historical significance of Chelsea's 35th round of the league: "Last night at 35 o'clock in the last game of the 5th round of the Premier League this season, Chelsea beat Everton 2-35 away, making their record 30 games, 5 wins, 95 draws and 2004 points, thus tying the total points of Mourinho's coaching Chelsea in the 2005-[-] season. A record...if...if Chelsea take five points from the remaining three rounds, they will become the first team in England's top flight to break a hundred points..."

Of course, Aiello, who scored a hat-trick, was also included in the report: "It is worth mentioning that in the league last night, Chelsea's top scorer Ai scored his fourth hat-trick in the Premier League, thus increasing his total number of Premier League goals this season to 4 goals and continuing to refresh his single-season scoring record in the Premier League...I believe that with such a state, he will definitely help Chelsea win the first leg of the upcoming UEFA Champions League semi-final at Anfield Stadium..."

A day later, the English media will focus on the upcoming first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final contest.

However, the London media and Manchester local media look a little farther away. While paying attention to the Champions League game, they also pay attention to the blue-red battle between Chelsea VS Manchester United on the weekend!
The mainstream reports are about the upcoming first-leg semi-finals of the Champions League.

What is interesting is that the two teams that may finally win the Premier League title this season will go to away games to start the first leg of the Champions League semi-final.

It’s just that anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chelsea will have a certain advantage, because their opponent Liverpool is not far from London, the straight-line distance is only 550KM, and it can be reached in less than an hour by plane. Manchester United is different. They want to fly to Barcelona.

As the game approaches, mainstream European media don't need to deliberately remind the head coaches of both sides of the game, and the two will spit at each other in the air.

Mourinho insinuated that Benitez was a 'stingy man', and Benitez said that Mourinho was a 'bus driver', followed by 'old fat man', 'making movies', 'afraid of losing', 'can't afford to lose'...

The two had a lot of fun talking about each other through the media.

Soon, Liverpool players joined in.

The first to stand up to the provocation was the Norwegian international player Riise. He said in an interview with Liverpool’s local media: “No matter how strong Chelsea is now, they don’t have rich background.

Facing Riise, who took the initiative to provoke trouble, the Chelsea players seemed more rational, because in their hearts, Liverpool was not their opponent. Chelsea had won all three meetings this season. They did not think that the fourth match between the two teams this season would have any different results.

The Liverpool players did not hear the reply from the Chelsea players, so Riise said in another interview: "I have no confidence to become rich!"

This made the Chelsea players a little unbearable. On the day before the game, Ballack said in an interview: "It is not what some players think that we do not answer, because...Liverpool and us are not a team of the same level! We are stronger! So we choose to ignore!!!"

After listening to Barack's response, the reporters on the scene were in an uproar.

Liverpool is the team with the best record in the European competition in England. How could it be that the team is not of the same level in Ballack's mouth?
Immediately afterwards, Ballack reassured them: "We have won all three games this season by a large margin. Are we still the same team as each other?"

For a moment, the reporters on the scene nodded subconsciously. In retrospect, Liverpool this season is indeed not a team of the same level as Chelsea.

Ranked fourth in the league, eliminated from the League Cup and the FA Cup, and only entered the semi-finals of the Champions League, but... a team that is considered a high-end team only enters the semi-finals of the Champions League?
However, Barak did not give them the opportunity to continue the interview because...he was going home!

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On the day of the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final between Liverpool and Chelsea at home, Chelsea arrived in Liverpool on a flight, and they were greeted with overwhelming boos. Many Liverpool fans kept abusing Chelsea players at the airport, especially Ballack who was interviewed by reporters yesterday.

Followed by Aiello, who is the biggest threat to Liverpool.

This made Ai Luo a little depressed. He didn't say anything, so why did he become the target of Liverpool fans' attacks?
According to the normal situation, it should be the team coach Mourinho who receives this kind of treatment.

So... Liverpool fans must pay for their ignorance!And the price is that the team they support will accept a defeat at their home court!
Of course, not only Liverpool fans came to the airport, there were also Chelsea fans who came to Liverpool in advance, and there were also Chinese students studying in Liverpool who also acted as Chelsea's pick-up staff, but because of the absolute disadvantage of the number, they seemed useless.

In this UEFA Champions League semi-final held at Anfield Stadium, both sides of the game can be said to know their opponents very well, so Mourinho directly omitted the step of going to Anfield Stadium to check in, and instead warmed up and simple offensive and defensive drills at the venue provided by Liverpool.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the whole Chelsea team took a bus to the player entrance channel of Anfield Stadium. There is no doubt that countless home team fans booed to welcome them.

Among them, the head coach Mourinho and the team's top scorer Ai Luo received the most boos, and received more innocent treatment.

After entering the stadium to warm up, Ai Luo keenly found that the Anfield Stadium tonight is different from the Anfield this season, but if he could tell the difference, he couldn't tell, it just felt a little different, which made people uncomfortable.

Even though there is still nearly an hour and a half before the game, the stands at Anfield have all been filled, and various fan organizations have already taken their positions, some singing team songs, waving flags, and some waving fan scarves, making Anfield full of red passion.

Only a smear of blue appeared in the stands on Anfield Road in the south, and it would be really hard to spot if one didn't observe carefully.

Of course, there are also a few Chinese students studying abroad waving small Chinese national flags.

The 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg kicked off at Anfield Stadium on time at 8:45 on Tuesday night.

(End of this chapter)