Chapter 185: First Round Victory

Birmingham manager Bruce obviously did not expect that Chelsea would score three goals in the first half of the game. This result made all the tactical ideas in his mind come to nothing.

Facing a Chelsea team that placed more emphasis on defense, it would be wishful thinking to score three goals in 45 minutes. At least Bruce knew very well that there was no hope at all in this game!

But how to play in the second half?

You have to know that this is St. Andrews Stadium, and there are nearly 30,000 Birmingham fans in the stands. How could the team play such a boring game in front of these supporters!

Attack! Only attack!

Even if they lost the ball again in the second half, they still had to attack. Birmingham had no way out now. It was a loss no matter how many goals they lost. The most important thing was to fight a beautiful offensive battle.

"In the second half, you have to cheer up. Now, more than 30,000 fans in the stadium are watching you! Think about the consequences of playing defensively at St. Andrews and losing the game by a large margin. When you walk on the streets of Birmingham in the future, you will be cursed by fans!"

"Attack! In the second half, you must participate more in the attack! No matter what, you have to score a goal here!"

"The opponent is only Chelsea. Remember, last season, we beat them 2:0 here. We need to show the same fighting spirit as last time!!"

In the home team's locker room, Bruce kept cheering up the players. This was only the first round of the league, and losing the game didn't matter. The most important thing was to show the team's momentum. If it continued like this, the team's condition might affect the next round, which was not what Bruce wanted to see.

Compared to the dullness in the home team's locker room, Chelsea's locker room was full of joy and excitement. Scoring three goals in the first half left the players with no pressure at all.

"Alan, that was a great shot!" Joe Cole wiped the sweat off his face with his jersey and walked over to Wang Li. "It was at least 50 meters away. I was totally shocked. It took me a while to realize that the team had scored a goal!"

Before Wang Li could speak, Bridget bent down and rubbed Wang Li's right leg with a towel, grinning, "I'm just wondering how this leg can be so strong? Alan, you are not too excited today and have exceeded the limit of human beings?"

Wang Li smiled and said, "How did you know? Furtado told me on the phone yesterday that she is free tonight."

"What?" Bridget stood up immediately after hearing this, "Alan, you can't do this, she is mine!!"

"No one is competing with you for the Futado, Wayne. I think you'd better pray for a goal in the second half. Look, I scored one!" Joe Cole said with a smile.

"Of course I can!" Bridge didn't care about his position as a defender at all, and replied directly: "Just wait and see, I will score two goals in the second half, no, I will score three goals!"

"The people of Birmingham will be furious..." Wang Li said with a smile.

"At worst, after I score a goal, I can ask the boss to replace me, and I can walk off the field amid the applause and cheers of the fans. Hehe, that must feel great!"

"Stop daydreaming!" Joe Cole said.

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During the half-time break, Mourinho did not make any tactical arrangements, but simply replaced Lampard with Robben and captain Terry with Huth.

At this time, the captain's armband was worn on Makelele's right arm.

This defensive midfielder, who is not very eye-catching in the game, is definitely a stalwart in Chelsea's defense. Makelele has very comprehensive skills, strong fighting ability, and the ability to control the midfield. With him, Chelsea has greatly enhanced the interception power of the midfield. He is definitely a rare super midfielder.

Through his hard work at Chelsea for a season, Makelele has won the recognition of the club from top to bottom and has great prestige in the team, so only when he wears the captain's armband can everyone in the team be convinced.

After the start of the second half, Birmingham intensified its offensive. Perhaps what Bruce said during the halftime break worked, and the whole team was trying hard to break through Chelsea's goal.

Chelsea seemed to be disturbed by this crazy attack. In the first few minutes, continuous passing errors made the scene almost a replica of the first half.

Chelsea was completely suppressed!!

However, under the shouting of temporary captain Makelele, Chelsea gradually slowed down. The players were neither arrogant nor impatient, and they resolved the opponent's chaotic offensive by countering each move. Moreover, after getting the ball, they immediately launched a quick counterattack.

During this period, Makelele took advantage of a steal opportunity to pass the ball to Wang Li. In the match between England and France, Makelele fully experienced Wang Li's strength, so even though he had only been with Wang Li for a few days, Makelele still trusted him very much.

After Wang Li got the ball in the middle, he immediately ran towards Birmingham's half. In order to speed up and prevent Birmingham players from catching up with him, Wang Li dribbled the ball with his big feet, and then took light steps to chase the ball. This peculiar way of dribbling allowed him to immediately leave two Birmingham midfielders behind.

Due to the massive attack by the Birmingham team just now, there was only one defender left in front of Wang Li - James Upson.

Upson is a typical English central defender, tall and strong in physical confrontation, but he also has obvious weaknesses. His defensive awareness and agility are average, and he can easily suffer losses when facing speed forwards.

Wang Li obviously belonged to the latter. Looking at the tall and strong defender blocking the front, Wang Li did not make any extra movements. When he was about one meter close to Upson, Wang Li made a large angle backward change, forcing Upson to turn around and catch up. After he turned around, Wang Li simply pulled back and took the ball to the left.

Wang Li seemed to be relaxed, but for Upson, it was absolutely a tragedy. He was shaken and fell directly on the grass! !

At this time, goalkeeper Mike had already attacked. Wang Li kicked the ball with his right foot, and the ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, passed over Mike's head and flew straight into the goal.

After Wang Li completed the shot, Upson had just stood up from the grass, and he could only look at the ball and sigh!

Mike tried his best to jump up and catch the ball, but he missed it!!

The ball went into the net accurately, followed by huge cheers from Chelsea fans in the southeast stand! !

"Goal!! Gooooooooooooal!! Alan Wang, it's the young player Alan Wang again. He performed a long-distance run at St. Andrews Stadium and helped Chelsea score another goal!! The score is already 4-0. Birmingham has lost four goals. It was a wonderful game. This is also Alan's second goal in this game. He is really outstanding!!"

After this goal, all the fans in the stadium had the opportunity to enjoy Wang Li’s unique celebration: he ran towards the Chelsea fans’ stand and did three backflips in a row while running! !

The players on the field who had never seen Wang Li's celebration were also surprised to see that free and easy figure. In Europe, this kind of action can only be seen in acrobatic performances, but now, the one who performed this action was a real football player, how could they not be surprised! !

At this time, in a VIP box in the stadium, Birmingham chairman Gold looked at the black-haired boy running all over the field and said sourly: "Congratulations on getting another talented player."

Abrahammovich's face was also full of joy. He felt very proud to have won a big victory in the first game of the new season. Yes, for this Russian tycoon, the most important thing was face. And now the black-haired boy on the field performed really well, and he couldn't help but praise him.

However, in the face of such compliments, Abramovich still said modestly: "Thank you, Birmingham is also very strong!"

Originally this was just a polite remark, but it turned into sarcasm in Goder's ears: ?Being beaten 4-0 by the opponent in just 60 minutes, they still think they are strong, then what is Chelsea?

Even so, as a businessman, even though Gao De had already cursed Abramovich to death in his heart, he still had a 'gentle' smile on his face and said politely: "I'm sorry, the club still has some things to deal with, I'll leave first."

Gaode really couldn't stay here any longer!

Maybe, poor Bruce is going to be unlucky...

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After the restart, Birmingham's attack became even more fierce.

They seemed to have been irritated by Chelsea's beating, and the players' movements became more and more violent, and their fights became more and more fierce. In this situation, Chelsea players also fought back unconsciously, which led to a fierce hand-to-hand fight between the two teams in the midfield, with people falling down from time to time. In more than ten minutes, the referee called a halt seven or eight times and issued four yellow cards, but still failed to stop the situation.

Wang Li is definitely a player who is being treated with "special care". During this period, he has been tackled five times in a row. It seems that whenever he gets the ball, the Birmingham players will tackle him directly, regardless of whether it is a person or a ball. Although Wang Li evaded it with agility, anyone would be furious in this situation, especially Wang Li.

It was another Chelsea attack. Lampard passed the ball to Wang Li. Wang Li dribbled forward. At this time, Upson ran directly towards him. Since Wang Li scored, this big man seemed to be against him. In the past 10 minutes, he tackled him three times in a row, and he was determined not to give up until Wang Li was knocked down! !

For Upson, being knocked to the ground by Wang Li just now was simply his shame! Anyway, this game was lost, as long as the black-haired kid got the ball, he would run over and directly tackle him, and he must let this "baby who has not been weaned" know how powerful he, Upson, is! !

Seeing the big guy running up again, Wang Li felt very depressed. It was obvious that the big guy was going to make another tackle! You know, Wang Li is not a man who will suffer a loss. Before he came to this world, he dared to slip away under the eyes of the King of Hell, let alone a little Upson! !

Wang Li simply stopped dribbling the ball. Under the surprised gaze of his teammates, he stopped where he was, swung his right foot, and kicked the ball! !

With a "bang" sound, the ball flew almost in a straight line in the air and hit Upson's stomach directly under the gaze of all the fans in the stadium! !

After kicking the ball, Wang Li didn't even look at the result. He spread his hands with an innocent expression on his face, indicating that he didn't mean it. But now no one cares about this, because the Birmingham players next to him found Upson kneeling on the ground with his hands on his stomach, and after a while, he vomited right there! !

Seeing this situation, Birmingham players almost broke out in a cold sweat instantly! ! If the ball hits them, the consequences will be---

Well, just look at Upson...

Seeing this scene, the 'upright' Lampard on the sidelines was secretly happy. He had been looking forward to this scene for a long time, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon. He couldn't help but say: "Fortunately, Alan came to Chelsea, otherwise..."

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The players on the bench looked at Upson who was still suffering on the court, and spontaneously made a prayer gesture---

Is he praying to God that Upson would get better soon? Or...?

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But now is not the time to be absent-minded, the referee did not blow the whistle to signal the game to stop!! Chelsea's attack is still going on!!

While Birmingham players were still in shock, Joe Cole had already dribbled the ball to the end line, then made a cross, Carvalho headed the ball, and the ball hit the post and bounced out.

Bridge followed up with a shot and the ball flew into the left corner of the goal!!

"Goal!! The ball...goes in again!" The Sky TV commentator seemed to have run out of energy. "This time it was Bridget, his follow-up shot changed the score to 5-0..."

After the referee signaled that the goal was valid, Upson finally stood up from the grass. He attracted the attention of everyone in the stadium like a mighty warrior.

"Fortunately, he is fine!" This thought occurred to almost everyone at the same time.

After the jubilant Bridge finished celebrating the goal, Mourinho replaced Wang Li with Mutu. There was no suspense in this game and he didn't want Wang Li to get injured.

Through these two games, Wang Li's status has been greatly improved in the heart of this proud Portuguese!

Seeing Wang Li leave the field, Birmingham players all breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, Mourinho was like an angel saving the world... so cute.

All I can say is that Wang used a "strong kick" to shock all the Birmingham players...

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The game after that was uneventful and Chelsea didn't score again.

Thanks to Birmingham's efforts, they finally had a chance to score in the 85th minute. Gronkjaer broke through on the wing and made a cross into the Chelsea penalty area. In the chaos, Heskey kicked the ball into the goal guarded by Cech.

Birmingham finally scored a face-saving goal!

“Beep…beep…beep!”

With a long whistle from the referee, Chelsea's first round of the Premier League finally ended. They won a big victory, 1:5, this was the final score.

At this time, head coach Mourinho on the bench was feeling very happy. It was a perfect start to get such a big victory in the first round.

However, Birmingham manager Bruce was definitely not in a good mood. He sat on the bench in a melancholy manner, looking a little lost. Perhaps he needed to think about how to deal with the reporters at the press conference and how to deal with the club chairman who came to question the results of the game.

Bruce didn't know that Gold watched almost the entire game...