six finger demon

Chapter 18 Chelsea's Rift
What Richards said was right. Although I don’t know why Ranieri sent Tang Wu to the Czech Republic with the team, Tang Wu’s entire trip to the Czech Republic was like a public tour, watching a football game on his territory.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage in Group G, Chelsea's opponent in the first game is Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic.

Sparta Prague has performed very poorly in the league recently, scoring only 7 points in 10 games.

Facing the "extremely luxurious" Chelsea battleship, Bula personally put on a defensive posture at the beginning.

In the opening 3 minutes, Johansen made a pass from the right. Mutu leaped up and overwhelmed two defenders in the penalty area and tried to head the goal. Unfortunately, the ball missed the baseline.

In the 15th minute, Petit broke through from the left and passed the ball, but Crespo's shot was weak and was easily resolved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

These two shots became the best two chances of the first half for the two strikers from Serie A.

On the other hand, Prague, with a much lower ball possession rate than their opponents, used several ferocious frontcourt presses to make the Blues fly in the backcourt.

If it weren't for Makelele's timely retreat, the two frontcourt steals of the Prague people might have reaped miraculous effects long ago!

During the intermission, Ranieri said to the oncoming Mutu: "Adrian, you take a break in the second half, and Damien will play instead of you."

"Good coach!" Mutu, who is a bachelor, lay down on the chair in the locker room carelessly, and rested with peace of mind.

Although La Nieli didn't say anything, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the coach was very dissatisfied with the Romanian's performance!

"You too, Petit, Frank has finished warming up." La Nieli made two consecutive adjustments in personnel.

Petit looked at Lampard, who shrugged and said that he would follow the referee's wishes.

The atmosphere in the locker room was very dull, everyone came from all over the world, and they were not very familiar with each other.Gather in twos and threes and have their own "little gang".

"Claude, do you know? The coach just lost his temper!" Tang Wu, who has the weakest foundation in Chelsea, took the initiative to get close to Makelele and whispered.

Makelele is the defensive midfielder, Tang Wu must have a good relationship with him.

"Oh? What's the matter?" Sure enough, although the skin colors are different, it is human nature to be curious.

"It's not because of Adrian's interview a few days ago!"

"Is that so?" Makelele frowned, remembering Mutu's "wild talk" to the media a few days ago, "If that's the case, then the coach should be angry if he performed so poorly today!"

A few days ago, after Mutu scored twice, he was gradually accepted by discerning Chelsea fans.

But it is clear that the Romanian's emotional intelligence is not enough. Facing the reporter's question, he said without hesitation: "I joined a great club, which makes me very happy. But if you ask me if I still want to play for the If you want to play for the team, you have to say Real Madrid. If you want to push your career to the top, you have to play for Real Madrid."

Such a "difference", how can it not arouse La Nieli's resentment?
Coupled with the fact that Mutu's girlfriend was in a divorce lawsuit with him during this period of time, La Nieli became more and more disliked by this guy who has a dissolute private life and doesn't care about the team's honor at all.

Even if he made great contributions to Chelsea at the beginning of the league!
Not long after La Nieli finished setting up his tactics, the bell rang for the start of the second half.Everyone dressed neatly and returned to the venue one after another.

At the beginning of the second half, Crespo got two consecutive chances.

In the 50th minute, Lampard made a wonderful pass and Crespo succeeded in offside.But the Argentine didn't seem to wake up yet. After getting the ball, he seemed to pass and shoot, but was directly confiscated by the goalkeeper.

In the 52nd minute, Johansen passed two defensive players and made a pass. Crespo became single-handedly, but the opposing goalkeeper attacked in time and confiscated the ball.

Missing two consecutive opportunities made La Nieli roar on the sidelines.

It's okay if one is in a downturn, but the same is true for two?

"Fack! Although I am Italian, I have the guts to tell Inter Milan not to sell you!" La Nieli roared, his face darkened.

Before the game, Crespo told the media: "My dream is to play for the Italian giants, and I finally realized this. But some people have different views from me and sold me."

"And I'm still a little uncomfortable living in London now, and I haven't even found a suitable place to live!"

The two former Serie A strikers were "distracted", and it became even more difficult for La Nieli's team to win the game!

Time passed by, and with the loss of physical strength, the people of Prague gradually counterattacked.

Cudicini resisted high, but it was still dangerous.

If Makelele hadn't been wholeheartedly involved in the defense, the people of Prague would have scored and celebrated loudly.

In the 85th minute, La Nieli's voice was already hoarse, and he was replenishing water on the sidelines.

At this point in the game, the role that the coach can play is already very small.

Crespo was also replaced 15 minutes ago, and now Hasselbaink is replacing him on the field.

At this moment, Duff, who was replaced in the second half, suddenly accelerated. The Irishman used his skillful skills to pass the opponent's full-back and then directly made a cross.Hasselbaink tapped lightly, and the central defender Gallas, who inserted in the back, swung his thighs and smashed the Praguers' defense close to the entire field with a heavy artillery.

After seeing the goal, La Nieli, who was tense on the sidelines, finally breathed a sigh of relief and shook his fist vigorously.Anyway, finally scored!

Even half of the credit for the ball belongs to offensive planner Duff.

"Am I really wrong?" Looking at the Chelsea players who raised their hands and cheered on the field, La Nieli had such an unrealistic "fantasy" in a trance.

As early as the beginning of the season, Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson had predicted.Chelsea paid a lot of money to invite so many superstars with overlapping positions, and one day there will be conflicts because of this!

Almost a month into the new season, Irish star Duff has become "the first crack in the new Chelsea"!
It stands to reason that, among the Chelsea stars, Duff is in no position to complain: except for being on the bench in the second round of the Champions League qualifiers, Duff started every game.

But the problem is that Duff has never played a 90-minute game so far.

Duff complained after the game against Tottenham: "I'm uncomfortable, this happens every game, I don't like being replaced by the coach when I'm just getting started. If this is the coach's tactics , I have nothing to say; but I don't think I'm a half-time player!"

Another thing that irritated Duff was that Ranieri kept switching his positions.Coincidentally, teammate Gremi also put forward the same opinion.

In this way, after Duff publicly "made an attack", he was placed on the bench by La Nieli in today's Champions League group match.

Although Chelsea seldom saw Duff before the goal, Ranieri also had to admit at this time that half of the credit for the goal belonged to Duff.

After the Blues scored, La Nieli patted his head, trying to wake himself up.

Past performance on the field and the reputation of the players will not be the conditions for La Nieli's selection, which he has made very clear at the beginning of the season.

What he wants is a player who can give full play to his strengths in an obedient and stable situation; instead of being complacent with a little achievement like Mutu, or missing the former players with a little setback like Crespo, more Not a guy like Duff who questioned him as a coach with a little dissatisfaction!
After a difficult 90 minutes, Chelsea won 1-0 in the away game.

"We're like a good team in Formula 1, we're doing a good job, but we're not Ferrari, McLaren and Williams yet," Ranieri said in a post-race press conference.

"Sorry, Mr. Ranieri!" A reporter raised his hand and asked, "It is reported that Mr. Abu proposed to loan Joe Cole to Spartak Moscow for one year on the first day he bought him. May I ask you about this?" What does Mr Joe Cole think?"

In fact, it is not only Duff and Gremi who are emotional about the problem of playing, but also Joe Cole, who played only 46 minutes in total.

In today's game, Joe Cole was still on the bench.The performance of Chelsea as a whole, as Ranieri said, although not bad, but not enough to run over opponents as easily as a Ferrari.

"I didn't know there was such a news, maybe you can ask Mr. Abu!" La Nieli prevaricated, and left the press conference with the manuscript.

As soon as he walked out of the gate, La Nieli, who had been smiling just now, immediately darkened.

After walking for a while, Ranieri suddenly stopped and said to Richards beside him, "Bren, how is that Chinese boy?"

Richards was already prepared, and while flipping through today's record, he said: "He watched the whole game very seriously, and he answered some questions you asked me very clearly. Here, this is his answer at that time."

La Nieli casually flipped through the pages, with a rare smile on his face.

"Go and tell that kid that Cudicini will take a rest in the next game and get him ready to play."

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