Chapter 269 Manchester United's Smoke Bomb
Venice can indeed be called a world-famous tourist destination. At least Wang Li and Angela have stayed in Venice for 4 days without feeling bored. The life of taking a boat every time they go out is indeed very novel to two landlubbers in London, but time for a good vacation is limited.
On October 15, Wang Li and Angela ended their intimate trip to Venice and returned to their villa in the wealthy area next to Stamford Bridge Stadium.
It is worth mentioning that on the day they came back, the two went to Clerkenwell Road in London to visit Wang Li’s parents, Ellis and Wang Hai, in this world. For this, Ellis seemed very happy. She specially held a small party in the evening and invited several neighbors as well as the Wellses.
In the evening, Wang Li half-hugged Angela and toasted with his family in a warm atmosphere. This harmonious scene was captured by reporters and appeared in the reports of the next day.
In contrast to Wang Li's leisurely life, the England team has embarked on the journey to Azerbaijan amid many contradictions.
In this game, the two teams tied 1-1 after 90 minutes. Fortunately, in the stoppage time, Michael Owen's cold shot helped England beat Azerbaijan 2-1, which also made English fans and media sweat.
However, these have nothing to do with Wang Li's life, because he has fallen into the greatest pain in his life.
Staying in the room...memorizing.
In the driving license test in England, the written test is also an important part. Various traffic rules, driving methods, etc. will appear in the questions. It must be said that this kind of thing is what Wang Li hates the most. Memorizing, what a distant word, but now he has to learn it.
Just to become a 'car owner'.
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On October 19, the England players who returned from Azerbaijan finally returned to their long-missed club. Wang Li also broke away from his leisurely vacation and fell into a life that revolved around the club and his residence.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Li arrived at the first-team training ground on time. At this time, his teammates on the field were already training and chatting.
"I'm so tired these past few days. That Swede is so annoying. He insisted on conducting internal training." Bridge complained to Lampard while jogging beside him on the edge of the field.
"Yes, I wanted to take Allen to Azerbaijan for a trip, but I didn't expect it to be a wasted trip."
Perhaps, Frank Lampard was the most unlucky. Originally, going to Azerbaijan to play the game was just a vacation for these big-name English stars, and he also invited his new girlfriend to go there to play, but he didn't expect that Eriksen held an internal training and prohibited the players from traveling.
So, Allen was tricked into going to Azerbaijan, watching a boring football match, and never met Lampard in person. Then he returned to London alone. For Lampard, this couldn't be the worst thing that could have happened.
Just as the two of them were sighing, Wang Li trotted over and said, "How is it? A free international trip is not bad, right?"
"I'm almost exhausted, Alan. What have you done these days?" Bridget sighed and then asked.
Wang Li thought for a moment and said, "Nothing much. I just went to Venice with Annie for a few days. The scenery there is really nice. I also plan to buy a house there."
"..." The two looked at each other speechlessly, and Bridge lamented: "Why did that Swede recruit me into the national team?"
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The three of them were jogging and doing warm-up exercises while chatting. After a while, head coach Mourinho appeared on the sidelines. Looking at his serious expression, the players knew that their leisure time was over.
This also means that the tense competition stage is about to come again.
On the 21st of the month, they will face the most important league match of the season at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea VS Manchester United.
Many people call the match between Manchester United and Arsenal the English Derby, because in the turn of the century, only these two teams' performances were truly among the best in the Premier League, while teams like Liverpool and Chelsea were obviously much worse.
However, that has not been the case this season.
Although Arsenal has a strong record of 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in 9 games, with 22 points; Manchester United's performance at the beginning of the season was not satisfactory, but it also continued its foundation, but
Chelsea is truly unstoppable
After 9 rounds of the Premier League, Chelsea, under the leadership of the championship coach Jose Mourinho, has exploded with incredible offensive power, scoring 37 goals in 9 games, directly breaking the opening goal record of major European leagues. Many media believe that Chelsea is even expected to break Aston Villa's single-season scoring record of 128 goals in the 193031 season.
Chelsea's youngster Alan Wong is firmly at the top of the scorer list with a terrifying efficiency of 18 goals in 9 games, looking down on all the heroes and eclipsing many super ace stars. Undoubtedly, all the media are expecting him to break the single-season goal record of 34 goals set by Alan Shearer and Cole.
After 9 rounds of the league, Manchester United's performance has stabilized after the slump at the beginning of the season. They are now in 6th place, above Arsenal, Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Everton. Even so, they are still called the "favorites to win the championship" by the media, because in the Premier League, Manchester United is the most powerful club. That is to say, although Manchester United's performance is not good, they have often exerted their strength in the second half of the league. Even if their performance at the beginning of the season is not strong, their performance cannot be judged based on this.
Therefore, this match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge was also called the "English Derby of this season" by fans.
From the World Cup qualifiers and various gossip news, the media have turned their attention back to the Premier League. Obviously, this battle between England's upstarts and traditional giants is the top priority that needs the most attention at the moment, and media from all over the world have also flocked to London to follow this game.
This time, the trip for foreign media was definitely worthwhile.
Before the game even started, the always arrogant Jose Mourinho had a quarrel with Sir Alex Ferguson in the newspapers, all because of a sentence Mourinho said in an interview with the media on the afternoon of the 19th: "I think you should not care about who wins or loses the game, there is no doubt about that, but you should pay more attention to how many goals Chelsea can win in this game."
This tone of the Portuguese directly caused an uproar in the media around the world. Obviously, the English media was the calmest. After several months of contact, they had completely liked Mourinho's style. After Mourinho made this argument, all they needed to do was to inform the old knight of everything and then get more explosive news from him.
However, media in Italy, Spain and other countries obviously do not see it that way. They think Mourinho is simply crazy to have the guts to make such a statement before the match with Manchester United. This is something that Real Madrid, Barcelona, the two Milan clubs and the old lady Juventus dare not say.
The next day, Gazzetta dello Sport used a large article to introduce the incident, labeling Mourinho as the spokesperson of "brain-dead" in the new century.
"…Before the match between Chelsea and Manchester United, head coach Mourinho was so arrogant that he declared that Chelsea would win and even asked the media to focus on how many goals they would win by. This argument is really surprising. Although Chelsea has performed well this season, the Premier League team Manchester United is obviously not a soft persimmon. I think it would be a pleasure to meet Chelsea in the European Champions League, because a team led by such a coach will definitely be defeated easily and we don’t need to worry about losing."
The Corriere dello Sport declared that "Chelsea will definitely be the losing side". They believed that a team led by such a head coach would never be able to defeat the powerful Manchester United. Even if they won all nine league games, it was just luck.
In short, these foreign media reported this incident crazily the day after Mourinho made his speech. In their view, this was a great revelation.
However, the English media showed a mediocre performance, and secretly looked down on the foreign media, saying "they are really short-sighted". Before the war of words even started, they actually thought they had received big news...
As expected, experience is the most important thing. The war of words on the second day really got heated.
In the morning, Sir Alex Ferguson immediately responded strongly to Mourinho's big mouth. Facing the microphones of many media, he smiled and said calmly: "I think Mourinho should buy more chewing gum. It seems that he doesn't pay much attention to hygiene. It's not good for young people to do this. When I'm old, my teeth will fall out and it will be difficult to enjoy delicious food."
"I don't think we need to talk too much about this game. We have Wayne, Cristiano, Ruud, Paul and so on. This is enough. If Chelsea were to play an offensive battle against us at Stamford Bridge in front of many local fans, perhaps Petr Cech, who had just landed in the Premier League, would encounter his first setback in his life."
Obviously, this was the smokescreen Ferguson released before the game. His intention was obvious, which was to provoke Chelsea and Mourinho.
'In your home stadium, under the eyes of tens of thousands of Blues fans, do you dare to let them out and fight against Manchester United? '