Chapter 540 League Champion 1
After the game with Roma, Newcastle United returned to Newcastle.
The League Cup match is only one of Newcastle United's tasks. Victory is naturally a joy, but everyone knows that joy should not be now, because the next day they will face another round of the league.
The schedule of the Premier League will become more and more intensive in the later period. If there is an FA Cup game, they will face the FA Cup two days after this round of the league. Four days and three games will make the whole team exhausted, and even Sones himself may not be able to stand it. This is also the club's abandonment of the FA Cup. The reason is that even in the face of such difficulties, Don Jack still felt that he should fight for it, but when he saw the atmosphere in the team, he felt that he was indeed a little stubborn.
Football is an effort, but in the same way, football is just football.
After a day's rest, all the players had a half-day break. Most of the players chose to relax. Sones asked everyone not to drink. At this tense moment, no one dared to disobey the coach's instructions, otherwise it would certainly not be a good thing to welcome them.
Don Jack chose to go home directly, because Li Xue came to Newcastle from Germany to take care of his life.
When his sister arrived, he felt very warm. Now the two claim to be brothers and sisters. In fact, their relationship is more like husband and wife. How to deal with the conflict between the two is also a headache when Jack Don thinks about it. Although he knows that it's nothing to let the media know this, because they are not their own brothers and sisters, but Vanessa's there. Annoying, 'triangle love' is definitely the focus of the European media gossip star. In the gossip, even if Vanessa and Li Xue don't care as the parties involved, the influence is not good, and Jack Tang is a little helpless about this.
He doesn't know what to do.
Fortunately, there is no time for him to think so much now. These can be dealt with later. At present, it is better to take more rest and take good care of yourself as Mr. Sones told him to prepare for tomorrow's game.
Charlton!
This team has been popular in the English media since the beginning of the season. At the beginning of the season, their consecutive victories have changed the ranking of the Premier League compared with the past. Charlton and Newcastle United are two rising teams this season. But by now, there has been a gap between the two teams: Newcastle United has become the leader of the Premier League, and Charlton has disappeared!
This is the sadness of the small ball club!
After all, there are only a few teams like Chelsea that have big investment. With tens of millions of pounds invested in a season, the strength of Chelsea's substitutes is not worse than that of the main players of ordinary teams, but teams like Charlton are different. Most of their defense players come from their own youth team. The value of several players bought is pitiful. Although the value does not represent strength, the two are still very related.
When it comes to the bench, it's even more bleak...
Just like the substitute lineup of Newcastle United, the strength is really unsatisfactory, and the Premier League schedule is very dense. There is no winter break, which has caused the whole Charlton main lineup to suffer an extraordinary blow. Many players' status has dropped sharply after Christmas, which is not all. There are many players due to injuries and other reasons. He can't play in a row, and the strength of the substitute players can't keep up, which leads to Charlton's results falling sharply after Christmas!
Fortunately, there are enough points accumulated in the first half of the game so that Charlton will not slip into the relegation zone, but their current ranking has fallen to the middle of the 20 teams in the Premier League, and the gap with the previous team is also widening. Many media predict that Charlton will fall at the end of the season. Falling out of ten.
I have to say that this is a kind of sadness...
However, Charlton's ups and downs have created England striker Darren. Bent, this tall striker has been efficient since the beginning of the season since he came to Charlton, even now, Darren. Bent is still the third in the scorer list, only behind Henry and Don Jack. Last June, the value of 2.5 million England was really not high. In the summer transfer with huge transactions, many media only mentioned Bent's joining. No one expected that such a nameless striker could score so many goals in the Premier League. Even if Charlton has lost frequently recently, Bent's goal The ball was not interrupted, and he has been maintaining his efficiency.
Twenty-seven games, seventeen goals, this gorgeous data brought to Darren. With a new contract extended to 2010, Charlton Club is determined to retain an efficient striker.
However, in the face of the next round of the league, Charlton's situation is not very good. The opponent is Newcastle United, which is a big thing that almost tramples almost all the Premier League teams under his feet. Many Charlton local media have no hope for the game. What they want to see is only the performance of their players, because more media The body has begun to hype, such as "Newcastle United can win the championship a few rounds in advance" and "Who can stop the pace of Newcastle United winning the championship", etc. The former is very hot, and the latter seems to have nothing to do with Charlton. No media thinks that they can surprisingly hinder Newcastle United like Portsmouth. Their current situation Besides, this can't be done anymore.
It turns out that many times the media analysis is very reasonable.
In the thirty-second round of the Premier League that day, Charlton lost three goals at home to Newcastle United. In this game, Darren. Bent did not continue his magic, and Don Jack personally scored two goals in Newcastle United, becoming the best player in the game and the best player in the thirty-second round of the Premier League. The other goal was scored by midfielder Janus. Janus's goal has been rare recently, which gave him more confidence.
The victory is not too happy for the current Newcastle United, and the opponent's defeat is the happiest - Chelsea draw!
In this round of focus, Chelsea challenged Birmingham away. According to the media, Chelsea's attack in this game is difficult to break Birmingham's "funnel" defense line of conceding 12 goals in the last three games, and Chelsea's two offside goals were also invalidated. As a result, it was a draw with Birmingham away.
This is really eye-catching.
At the critical moment of competing with Newcastle United for the league championship, Chelsea must ensure that they win every game to have a chance to win the trophy. They can't fail anymore. The Sun analyzed: "... Perhaps it is this pressure that makes it difficult for Blues players to give full play to their strength..."
This time, winger Dutch boy Robben replaced Joe Cole after four suspensions, and Warcraft Drogba, who scored twice in the last round, continued to hold the center position. Birmingham, which is at home, has conceded 12 goals in the last three games, which can be described as a funnel-like defense. Even if such a team plays against Chelsea at home, the media is not optimistic about Birmingham. After all, the Chelsea lineup is there, and the gap between the two teams is too big. In this game, Birmingham coach Bruce replaced three people in the back line, Saddle, Tebili and Martin. Taylor started the game for Lazaredis, Ratka and the injured Melchiot respectively. Captain Cunningham still started, and Bart replaced Yarosik, who was limited by loan terms.
Such a lineup is really pitiful compared with Chelsea's gorgeousness...
But no one expected that Chelsea had only a few chances to score two goals in the game, and they were all offside first. As a result, the two teams became zero. The whole Chelsea team left Birmingham sadly. At the end of the game, Mourinho's loss became the front page of most of the media the next day. A picture of a topic.
Mourinho, who has always been aiming for the league championship and never admits defeat, did not have such a performance this time. After the game, he said in an interview with the media: "I'm very disappointed, but I think the game should be divided into two. Our performance is not enough to win the game. Birmingham deserves this one point, which is one of them. Second, we scored a goal, and the ball was not offside, Del. Orno's goal." In the second half, Del. Orno once scored a goal for Chelsea, but the assistant referee raised the flag to signal Carvalho offside. Mourinho believes that the offside Carvalho did not benefit from the attack at that time, while Orno, who scored, was not offside. According to the rules, this should be a good goal.
"The lineman raised the flag when the ball flew to the penalty area. He didn't know whether Carvalho participated in the attack or whether the ball was passed to Carvalho. According to the rules, this is a good ball."
As soon as the conversation changed, Mourinho began to criticize his team again. But I don't want to talk about this ball anymore, because Birmingham played well and got a point, and I have to applaud their performance.
"We fell too much in the first half. In the second half, we increased the oppression and robbery, which put a lot of pressure on our opponents and created a lot of opportunities. If we can do this in 90 minutes from beginning to end, it will be difficult for Birmingham to control us, but we give them 45 minutes to breathe. We are not very lucky. We didn't score a goal that could have won, but our performance is really not worthy of victory.
But no matter what Mourinho says next, he can't change the result of the game, and the 'stry' after the loss is the English media's objective view of Mourinho. In fact, almost every time Chelsea loses or draws with the opponent, Mourinho has to 'stry' and talk about the unfairness in the game. However, some of them are correct, but many times, he never talks about the referee's preference for Chelsea, which may be the reason why the England's referees association has no good impression of Mourinho.
This seems to be just an ordinary league, but it has a great impact on the Premier League championship.
Newcastle United has already pulled down Chelsea by as much as six points, and six points are not insurmountable, but when six points become eight points, Chelsea's chances become very slim.
In addition to Chelsea, Manchester United, which has been winning recently, also has a tendency to catch up behind them. There is only six points left between them and Chelsea. After this round, there is almost no suspense about the championship, and "If the Blues don't play seriously, they can't even keep the second place!"
This is the form of the Premier League!
Many media that support Chelsea also believe that the latter has the opportunity to surpass Newcastle United. In response to this, Newcastle United coach Sonness, who has rarely talked in front of the media, has full confidence this time. In an interview with reporters, he said, "Eight points is a huge gap, and there are only six rounds left. I don't think they will have a chance. Of course, we need to score points ourselves, not waiting for Chelsea to lose points, but anyway, eight points is a big gap in modern football. Now Sones is only worried about the "potential" of the team and the "state of mind" of the players!
The two can be said to be a problem, and there are some differences. The team's "potential" refers to the general trend. Newcastle United has been winning. This continuous victory will put some pressure on the team, but it also brings the players sufficient confidence in the game. This is the team's Sones hopes that the team can keep up and strive to win the league championship with continuous victories. If you fail halfway, this "potential" is likely to stop, and it will be a little difficult for Newcastle United to win the championship. Of course, it is not that Chelsea has a chance to catch up, but that the team's victory stops in the next game. If the team's 'potential' is gone, it will be much more difficult to play in the next game.
The second point is the mental state of the players.
The continuous victory is good. Pulling down Chelsea's eight points makes the team very close to the championship, but if you don't win the championship, you just don't get it. The background of the giant team will make their players stick to the moment of winning the championship. But for Newcastle United, everything is not over yet, and many of them don't have much competition and championship energy. The players will be happy because of the team's situation, which will seriously affect their mental state.
So Sones has never relaxed his requirements in the club. Before winning the championship, he has always maintained the atmosphere within the team to prevent some influential factors from spreading.
To do a good job internally, the form of Newcastle United is good externally. In this kind of 'great', the old Jazz seems to be in a good mood. Probably because the opponent who made himself 'disgusting' last season was pressed by Newcastle United. Even if Manchester United's results are not good, he is still very happy for this season. In the situation of Chelsea and Newcastle United competing for the championship, the old Jazz said, "Eight points is a huge gap. If you want to catch up, unless Newcastle United loses its advantage."
"But in recent games, Newcastle United has been insisting on winning. They have a champion team, and Chelsea... He (Mourinho) may have to pay for his autity.
That's what it is said, but everyone knows that we can't wait for Chelsea to make mistakes. It all depends on how much Newcastle United can hold on.