The strongest winger

Chapter 716 We came to the Bernabéu to win!

Aston Villa coach Martin O'Neill never thought that Chelsea would score in such an early period of time. He thought that the team would not concede the ball at least within halftime, so there was no relevant record before the game. This is extremely detrimental to the team's future development.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the game, he called captain Barry to his side to explain a few words temporarily before returning to the coach's bench.

However, the game will not go according to his pre-match plan, because the biggest feature of football games is unpredictability.

Before the end of the first half, Lampard received a return pass from Aiello. He shot directly from a distance of 25 meters from the goal. The football went straight to the dead corner of the goal like a fired shell. The old American goalkeeper Friedel was once again dumbfounded.

Friedel really didn't expect that he would be scored twice by a Chelsea player with a long-range shot in the same game. This kind of situation rarely happened in his many years of professional career. At this moment, he began to doubt whether he should choose to retire and leave the position of main goalkeeper to young people...

For today's mature Chelsea, if they can lead by two goals at halftime, the opponents basically lose the room to counterattack, because even teams like Manchester United and Liverpool cannot score two consecutive goals against Chelsea, let alone Aston Villa, which is in the middle of the Premier League.
In the end, Chelsea made another victory before the game and won the home team Aston Villa 3-0. However, because Manchester United also won the league victory at home, the points gap between the two sides remained at 11 points.

The weekend's league is over. For the European giants, they are all preparing for the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals. Chelsea is also the same. Their opponent is very strong. They are known as the greatest football club of the twentieth century-"Galaxy Battleship" Real Madrid!

Therefore, the mainstream European media also quickly focused their reports on the upcoming Champions League knockout match, while the London media and Madrid media focused on the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final match between Real Madrid and Chelsea.

Before the two armies fought, players from both sides of the game naturally became the focus of interviews, especially the old Chelsea player Arjen Robben, who was an extremely important part of Mourinho's four-three-three system, but due to personal physical reasons, the number of appearances became less and less each season, forcing Chelsea to finally give up on him.

In addition, with Aiello joining in the 2007-2008 season, he played stably and rarely got injured. That's why Mourinho agreed to sell Robben to the top management of the team. Robben himself is very aware of these public inside stories.

Robben was interviewed by the local media in Madrid at the Real Madrid first-team training base. When talking about Chelsea selling himself off, he said: "Now I am very happy in Real Madrid, because I have been recognized by the best fans in the world. It feels great! I don't want to say more about Chelsea's problems. After all, they also have their own considerations, but I can be sure that I will help the team eliminate Chelsea in the Bernabeu game!"

The speed of news spread in modern society is very fast. The content of Robben’s interview in Madrid in the morning spread to London in the blink of an eye. Chelsea’s England international Ashley Cole was very upset when he heard it. He said directly: “Want to eliminate us Chelsea? Don’t be kidding! Don’t you know that Real Madrid has not entered the quarter-finals of the Champions League for several seasons? You must know that we are Champions League champions! European champions understand? Players with glass bodies have no right to speak!!”

Immediately afterwards, team captain John Terry also came forward for an interview, but considering Robben's contribution to Chelsea, he only said cryptically: "Although many games depend on the individual performance of the players, at least I think the current Real Madrid's defense cannot restrain Ai! In addition...he has scored more than ten goals against Real Madrid in the past two and a half seasons..."

In the UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals between Real Madrid and Chelsea, in addition to individual players, Real Madrid coach Juan Ramos also became one of the protagonists.

As we all know, the fundamental reason why he was dismissed by Tottenham at the beginning of the season was the collapse of the away game against Chelsea in the third round of the league at the beginning of the season. He originally led Chelsea by two goals half an hour into the first half, but he did not expect that Aiello's substitute came on.

So Juan Ramos' hatred for Chelsea is also very high.

And as the game drew closer, Aiello also joined in the war of words.

It didn't take long for the future Real Madrid deputy Ramos to publicly express in an interview with reporters that he would teach Aiello a lesson in the Champions League 1/8 finals.

So Ai Luo was interviewed by reporters on the eve of going to Madrid with the team, and said tit-for-tat: "I haven't abused him for a long time, I miss him very much!"

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Before the game, players from both sides started spitting at each other, which naturally attracted the attention of mainstream European media and most fans.

Especially the grievances and grievances between players and teams, and between players and players. These are the news that fans and friends like to watch in their spare time, and they are also the selling points of newspapers in mainstream European media.

"Marca" news headline said, "Chelsea are in very good form recently, but they are not impeccable. At least they lost to Arsenal when they refreshed their 64th unbeaten game in the league. That is to say, they have fatal loopholes. With Carvalho getting old, the stability of the defense is not as good as it was then, and the two sides are also full of loopholes. The sides that like to participate in the attack will inevitably be used by the two sides of Real Madrid. Robben is very familiar with the current Chelsea defense. It shouldn't be a big problem for Ukraine to beat Chelsea!"

"...and the problem of defending Chelsea's biggest villain, Ai Luo, is equally simple. I believe that the mature Sergio Ramos will definitely limit him perfectly on the right. Coupled with Cannavaro's experience and experience, he will give the entire defense full confidence, and LS Na Diarra's abundant physical fitness can make the defensive area in the middle very large. While completing his own defensive tasks, he can also assist the team in defending Aiello's offense. If the state is a little better, Real Madrid will not have a big problem in beating Chelsea at home!"

As another Madrid media supporter of Real Madrid, the reports of "Aspen" are not much different. Compared with the targeted reports of "Marca", "Aspen" appears to be more professional.

At this time, almost all the Spanish media supported Real Madrid’s defeat of Chelsea, because now the mainstream European media almost regard the Premier League as the best league in Europe, but in the eyes of the Spanish media, La Liga is the best league, so this Champions League 1/8 final between Real Madrid and Chelsea will become a direct confrontation between the two leagues. Which team wins will have a more sufficient basis!
Only "Valencia Sports Daily" looked at the problem from Chelsea's side: "Three days later, Chelsea will challenge Real Madrid at the Bernabéu Stadium. If there is no accident, Chelsea will beat Real Madrid away. Is it hard to win?"

"The Times", as a Chelsea supporter, naturally won't give advice at this time, "Today's Galaxy battleship Real Madrid is lonely. It is not the team that used to be feared at all, but now Chelsea is like this. It has been unbeaten for 63 consecutive league rounds. This is a result that Real Madrid has never achieved at its peak. In addition, Chelsea's number one star Ai is in good form. The last round of the league helped the team beat Aston Villa away. Competitive form, and he won all the games against Real Madrid in Valencia in the two and a half seasons! This is an indelible existence, so it can be easily inferred that Chelsea can beat Real Madrid at home!"

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the Spanish media supporting Real Madrid, more mainstream European media are still optimistic about the away game Chelsea!

Sometimes a star in excellent form is enough to affect the outcome of a game, and Ai Luo... is such an existence!
On the afternoon of the 23rd, Chelsea arrived at Barajas Airport in Madrid. Countless reporters who arrived at the airport in advance blocked their way to the club and the bus. In the end, the security personnel at the airport escorted them and they were able to leave the airport.

However, many things cannot be avoided. The media reporters with great powers came to the hotel where they stayed with the bus rented by Chelsea in Madrid.

For reporters like flies, many Chelsea players had to accept their interviews.

Just considering the gag order issued by Mourinho before the game, the players didn't know what to ask. In the end, these reporters could only look at each other, and had to wait until the regular press conference before the game to visit the relevant players.

At the routine press conference in the afternoon of the game, Mourinho brought Aiello with him. Facing the interview with the media, the two said in a very tacit understanding: "At the Bernabeu, I never thought of returning empty-handed! So...we came here to win!"

(End of this chapter)