six finger demon

Chapter 172 Money Can't Buy Success

Fulham reserves, Tottenham reserves, Everton reserves.

Chelsea scored 3 goals in 9 games, and Hao Junmin contributed 7 assists.

Such a result made everyone's eyes shine. Kane patted Hao Junmin on the shoulder: "HAO, you are very good. We will actively communicate with TEDA."

Tang Wu was not stingy either, and directly invited three teammates to have fun at "Lipstick" for two days and two nights, because the second round of the Champions League contest is coming soon.

In the first round at the Dragon Stadium, Porto won the initiative to enter the final.But the famous "L'Equipe" analyzed that the powerful AC Milan could be reversed and eliminated by Deportivo in a 4-1 situation. What else can't happen on the football field?

Regarding this problem, Porto coach Mourinho said easily when accepting the media: "AC Milan is not Porto, and Chelsea is not Deportivo. You can't force a goalkeeper who can't even guard the ball boy to guard the goal. Like you can't make a mute talk."

"Porto is the strongest and most likely to win the Champions League this year. In fact, we are almost there!"

Porto's young coach doesn't like Chelsea, nor does he look down on Chelsea's young goalkeeper.

Tang Wu was also a little angry after the media's hype.

"I don't know how much confidence comes from a translator who has only been coached for 9 games. He may not know me, and he doesn't know Stamford Bridge. If I want, I can let all the Stamford Bridge players Tongdu threw the ball into their net!"

In 2000, Mourinho officially became the head coach, but his contract with Benfica only fulfilled the ninth game.Although he has achieved excellent records in Porto in recent years, the experience of Benfica is undoubtedly a slot in Mourinho's coaching career.

Tang Wu's "counterattack" received a stronger response from Mourinho: "To be honest, I don't think he is a qualified goalkeeper."

"A qualified goalkeeper should keep the ball away from himself and the goal as much as possible, so as to ensure the safety of the goal. According to statistics, since he became Chelsea's starting goalkeeper, Chelsea's possession rate in the backcourt has increased by 20 percentage points. I don't Refuse the goalkeeper to participate in the team's passing and attacking, but a goalkeeper frequently touches the ball when there are strikers, which in itself puts the goal in danger, which is a great disservice to the goal and the team Responsible."

"To be honest, if it is such an opponent, I would like such a goalkeeper very much, because we may score three, four, or even more; but if such a goalkeeper is a player under me, then sorry, maybe he even scored. There’s no way to do it on the field.”

This time Mourinho's speech was not just a mouthful, it was already a bit bitter.

Porto's defensive counterattack all the way to the semi-finals has proved that the Portuguese's tactics are desirable.In so many games, Porto's ball possession rate is actually not high, the lowest game is only about 20.00%.

Mourinho pursues fast, concise and efficient counterattacks, because he believes that an excessive ball possession rate will make the players more procrastinated and put the team in crisis.

Some of Tang Wu's performances on the field are just the opposite of Mourinho's. With his active running and proficient long and short passes, he frequently lures the opponent's players to grab, thereby pulling the opponent's formation.In this way, an increase in possession rate is inevitable.As for whether the opponent's striker will seize the opportunity to make it happen overnight, at present, the cooperation between Tang Wu, Terry and others has not yet occurred such a situation.

But no matter what, after several rounds of talking, the two became incompatible.

Mourinho wanted to use this to disturb Tang Wu's sense of normalcy and make him make mistakes in the game; Tang Wu also wanted to anger the young "young marshal" by talking about it and let him give wrong instructions in the away game.

The two used the words "difference in concept" to attack each other, but they didn't know that each other had a strong heart.

On May 5, at 5:20 in the evening, the second round of the contest between the two sides kicked off at Stamford Bridge.

At the beginning of the game, Bridge made a long pass from the left.Porto's clearance ball was broken by Hasselbaink, and the Dutchman's low shot with his right foot 22 meters in front of the goal was confiscated by goalkeeper Baia.

Everything looks normal, and it is developing as the fans expected-Chelsea is struggling to attack at home, and Porto is defending and stealing chickens.

In this game, apart from Makelele's suspension due to accumulated yellow cards, Ranieri did his best.

In the dressing room before the game, the Italian also tried to inspire his players with Manchester United's winning process in the 99-00 season.

Maybe it only took 3 minutes for the Red Devils to score two goals that year, but for Chelsea today, it seems like half a century has passed to score one goal.

During stoppage time in the first half, Melchiot dribbled the ball in the middle and cooperated with Gudjohnsen in a wall style.The Icelander turned around and knocked obliquely on the penalty area with his right foot. Lampard shot with his right foot 12 meters in front of the goal and hit the lower left corner accurately.

The one-goal lead in the first half gave the Blues the hope of equalizing the total score. Just after the start of the second half, they launched an attack with all their strength again.

But in football, you never know which will come first, tomorrow or the unexpected.

In the 51st minute of the game, Joe Cole, who was eager to beat his opponent, began to make mistakes again and again due to his mental imbalance.As a result, Chelsea not only misfired on the left, but also exhausted themselves.In a defense, Joe Cole "applied" a red card for himself with a flying shovel behind him.When the card of this color rose up, La Nieli's blood pressure rose instantly, and he almost fainted on the spot.

On the other side, Mourinho waved his arms excitedly, constantly embracing the staff around him.

With one less player, Chelsea can no longer guarantee a suppressive attack, and every counterattack by Porto is along Chelsea's left sideline, all the way to the end.

In the 58th minute, Deco accelerated the ball to pass, leaned against Terry with his body, and volleyed from a small angle on the right side of the Blues penalty area.Tang Wu stretched out his right foot subconsciously and blocked the ball out of the baseline.

In the 63rd minute, Deco made another diagonal pass from the right to the goal. Maniche shoveled from the edge of the penalty area and missed the ball, but knocked Tang Wu down.Delly, who was outflanking at the back point, rushed to the top 3 meters in front of the goal and hit the near post and popped out, scaring the Blues fans into a cold sweat.

In the 71st minute, Porto's midfielder made an accurate direct pass behind the defense line, and Dellei broke into the penalty area for a kickback on the left side, and was blocked by Tang Wu.Dellei quickly followed up and shot from a small angle with his left foot, but was blocked by Tang Wu who got up from the ground in time.

There is less and less time left, but Porto's offense is getting more and more.

Tang Wu's activity space was gradually compressed in the small penalty area, high-resistance, left-handed and right-shoveling, and tried his best to preserve the "line of life" for the team.

But Chelsea has one less player, not only can't fight hand-to-hand with the opponent in positional battles, but also many players will surround Crespo when they counterattack quickly.Coupled with the constant small movements of Porto players, Chelsea couldn't even pass the ball smoothly.

In the 77th minute, when Lampard unloaded the ball on the right side of the front court, he was hit in the neck by Valente's left elbow.After lying on the ground for a full minute, Lampard got up with the support of his teammates.What the opponent got was nothing more than an innocuous yellow card.

In this way, time passed by every minute and every second.Mourinho also began to resort to "rogue" means.Three consecutive substitutions dragged on for a full minute and a half.

When Gudjohnsen's explosive shot from outside the penalty area hit the top of the crossbar and bounced towards the fans, the referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the game.

At this moment, Stamford Bridge only had the Porto people celebrating enthusiastically, just like Chelsea did at Highbury when they eliminated Arsenal.

After the game, the eyes of the blue team members were all confused, but Ranieri at the press conference had already seen through all this. He expressed his helplessness with his usual humor.

"Can a win change anything? Apparently not! Forget it my friend and welcome to my 'funeral'!"

When all the reporters were surprised by Ranieri's open-mindedness, the Italian smiled bitterly, "My fate has been decided long ago, and there is no way to change it. But I hope Abramovich can realize that money cannot buy To win. Maybe he feels like running a club is like running his oil company, but there is a world of difference. He could spend another £10bn on 40 new players, but that doesn't guarantee success."

(End of this chapter)