Chapter 569 (Finale)
After becoming the highest-paid player in the Premier League, Wang Li's normal life has remained basically unchanged.
Although most media reported this crazily, Wang Li, the protagonist, did not make any comments at all. The main reason was that the media and the paparazzi could not stop him at all. Even if they were squatting at the gate of the community, Wang Li could escape calmly after taking the Lingbo Microwave.
In this torment, the media reporters' coverage of the incident gradually faded. They were all looking forward to the next league or Champions League game. If it was at a press conference, there was no way this black-haired boy would not answer questions.
But Wang Li doesn't care about all that. His life has been filled with training recently.
After so many games, he found that free kicks were too important, which was another extremely sharp way to score goals, so he kept training in this area. He basically would not participate in other team physical training, technical training, or strange judo training. For this reason, he even went directly to the head coach Mourinho to apply for special privileges.
Perhaps there is one difference from usual, that is, he has insisted on getting up very early these days, naturally for the purpose of improving his free kick skills. Only with more practice can he make greater progress.
In the first-team training, Japanese player Saburo Ono's judo training was also carried out every day. Except for Wang Li, all the players were very interested in this training. During these trainings, Saburo Ono also found that the black-haired boy from Chelsea was definitely a privileged person. At least he did not participate in his training at all, but no coach asked him about it.
Even if the Japanese were a little unhappy, he was just a temporary coach of Chelsea and had no right to criticize the backbone of the team. Therefore, he could only keep his dissatisfaction in his heart. In the Japanese's view, the strong are respected. In the current Chelsea team, he is basically an outsider. He can only look up to a superstar like Wang Li. He will not offend Wang Li because of this.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Chelsea.
In this leisurely training life, they all felt very relaxed, and the laughter on the training ground never stopped. In the eyes of the fans, this meant that there was no problem in Chelsea's locker room at all, and it was still very harmonious, at least on the surface.
But in fact, there are still a few players who are dissatisfied with their salary not increasing. However, these players are really dispensable in the first team. A few substitute players don't want to offend their teammates. Even if they express their ideas without considering the consequences, they will be ignored by other players.
If you want to be rewarded, you must have corresponding performance. This is the case on the football field, the strong are respected.
However, Chelsea players' relaxed training life has gradually become mixed with some tension, because the terrifying November schedule is about to arrive.
November is definitely the most stressful period for Chelsea.
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In the short 28 days from October 31 to November 27, Chelsea will play 9 games.
Five Premier League games, three Champions League games, one League Cup last-16 match
Perhaps Chelsea is lucky, because in the five league rounds, their opponents are newly promoted West Bromwich Albion, Everton with good results, weak teams Fulham, Bolton and newly promoted Charlton. Among these five teams, except Everton which will give Chelsea a headache, the other two newly promoted teams, including teams like Bolton and Fulham, can not pose much threat to Chelsea at all.
Many people say that there are no weak teams in Serie A and the same is true in the Premier League, but in fact, there is still a big gap between these bottom teams and the top clubs. Their most valuable players can't even play as substitutes after joining the top teams. This is the naked gap. When playing against these teams, Chelsea can breathe a sigh of relief.
In the Champions League in November, Chelsea will play against the other three teams in the group once. Fortunately, Chelsea will be at home when playing against Porto. Perhaps this can also save Mr. Mourinho from losing some brain cells, although the Portuguese does not think that the current Porto is still the team he led to win the treble last year.
The League Cup is the most relaxing one. Chelsea's opponent in the round of 16 is Wolverhampton. Although this is also a team still in the Premier League, their strength has been ridiculously poor since Wang Li left, and they have now entered the relegation zone.
Wang Li had mixed feelings about this match. There were still many teammates in Wolverhampton with whom he had a good relationship before, but since he joined Chelsea, except for Peter, Miller and Harrison, he had no contact with the others, which made him feel a little guilty. When they met again, they had become opponents on the court. Of course, he was still looking forward to playing against Harrison. They were friends on the court, but opponents on the court.
In any case, November is definitely a difficult month, with an average of a game every three days. Even if the opponents are not particularly outstanding teams, the intensive schedule lasting a month is still very difficult.
Now, head coach Mourinho has to consider the rotation issue more. While ensuring the results in these competitions, he also has to ensure that the players do not suffer serious injuries or physical problems after this month of intensive competitions. This has become a huge mountain facing Chelsea.
A normal player, after participating in a 90-point match at the Premier League level, needs to rest in order to improve his physical condition to its peak.
Of course, there are also people with excellent physical fitness in the Chelsea team, such as Claude Makelele, John Terry, Didier Drogba and of course Wang Li, but these people are a minority after all. Even Lampard dare not say that he can persist in so many games.
Therefore, November is another hurdle for Chelsea on the road to winning the championship, and head coach Jose Mourinho is really racking his brains over this.
A report in The Sun also talked about the schedules of several major Premier League teams. They said: "November is a football month for fans because they can watch a game every few days, but it is also the busiest time for top clubs. Manchester United will play 7 games in November, Arsenal and Liverpool will play 8 games, and Chelsea will play a terrifying 9 games. Driven by the winning streak, whether Chelsea can maintain this performance in November will be an important hurdle on their road to winning the championship."
"…We hope to see Chelsea withstand the pressure of the November games, but we are also very worried about the players' physical fitness. According to statistics, in the 13 games Chelsea has played, young player Alan Wang has played nearly 1,000 minutes. Except for one League Cup game, he played almost the entire game in other games. In this case, his physical fitness is worrying."
In fact, the person that head coach Jose Mourinho is least worried about in the team is Wang Li. According to the analysis of the team's professional sports experts, with Wang Li's physical condition, he can fully recover in 1 to 2 days after playing a game. Unfortunately, what they don't know is that Wang Li's luck is not good, and he can recover all his physical strength in a few hours.
Soon, amidst this intense preparation, Chelsea faced West Bromwich Albion in the 11th round away game.
West Bromwich Albion is a team from the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. Its home ground is The Hawthorns. It was previously located at the boundary between Birmingham and Smethwick, but the local government fine-tuned the boundary in the 1980s and assigned The Hawthorns to Smethwick. Now it belongs entirely to Sandwell.
In January, after Magson accepted the head coaching position at West Bromwich Albion, the team finally made a qualitative leap. They were successfully promoted to the Premier League in 2002, and quickly recovered last season after being relegated for a year, becoming a newly promoted team in the Premier League this season.
As a newly promoted team in the Premier League, the team's goal this season is to adapt to the Premier League environment.
Therefore, in this match against Chelsea, they were not arrogant enough to think that the team could win, so after the game started, they showed an attitude of defending to the death, and the home fans also supported this approach.
After the game, a local West Bromwich fan said in an interview with reporters: "We have just reached the Premier League. The team has a certain gap with Chelsea in all aspects. Magson's approach of defending and keeping a point at home is in line with the team's positioning. We believe in Mr. Magson. He is the one who got us into the Premier League."
Obviously, the situation in the game also made West Bromwich Albion realize the gap in strength between the two teams. Chelsea, with its winning streak, had extraordinary offensive capabilities. Although West Bromwich Albion insisted on defending, the goal in the 19th minute of the game shattered Magson's idea.
Chelsea launched a strong offensive and played a smooth combination. Wang Li got the ball on the right side, passed two people and went straight into the penalty area. After Drogba got the ball, he turned around and shot hard, breaking the deadlock for Chelsea.
This ball left West Bromwich Albion helpless, and they could only hope that head coach Magson could come up with a good solution to resolve the current situation.
But a good cook cannot cook without rice. The entire West Bromwich Albion team combined is not even worth as much as Didier Drogba alone. How can Magson deal with this?
A steady attack would never be able to beat Chelsea. Direct large-scale attacks have been proven by many teams to lead to losses, and Magson would not think that his team is any different from previous teams.
Under a last resort, Magson launched a sneak attack at the beginning of the second half, just like the old lady Juventus's style of play, first passing the ball back in the backcourt. Just when Chelsea players thought they were wasting game time and neglected defense, West Bromwich Albion instantly accelerated their attack.
This wave of attack was indeed very sharp. Chelsea team didn't even have time to react and their defense was directly penetrated by the opponent. West Bromwich striker Rob Hole took the ball in the penalty area and shot directly. Unfortunately, Thomas Clarke, who was not quick to react, caught the ball in his arms.
They immediately faced Chelsea's counterattack, and Wang Li made a fierce long shot from the penalty area, scoring another goal for Chelsea.
The game was uneventful after that. The opposing players had lost confidence. Between the 50th and 80th minutes, Wang Li, Frank Lampard and Damien Duff scored respectively, setting the score at 5:0.
In addition to the big win, this game also announced to the media that there are no major conflicts within Chelsea. After the salary increase, the team's locker room is still fine. They are still the crazy Blues at the beginning of the season, and they still have the terrifying strength that makes opponents tremble.
After the game, a reporter from The Guardian also said sourly in his report: "In the 11th round of the Premier League, the match between Everton and Aston Villa failed to attract attention. Only the Chelsea match was the most popular because they won a big victory again."
The Sun, which was written by "Ai Ge", set its sights on Wang Li. They covered the game with an article titled "Dancing Master Scores Two More Goals, Newly Promoted Team Surrenders": "...At the beginning of this season, many people were skeptical about whether Allen could continue his magic in the England team, and most people even thought that his fireworks were a flash in the pan. But 11 rounds of the league have passed, and Allen has scored 22 goals. He is still very strong on the court. This is the strength of the dancing master."
Unfortunately, after the game, Wang Li did not attend the press conference at all, so no reporter could interview him in person. As a result, the media's desire to know what Wang Li thought after becoming the highest-paid player in the Premier League had to be postponed until later.
In fact, Wang Li thinks it is natural for him to get such a high salary. He deserves a high salary for good performance. He would be dissatisfied only if those players who are much worse than him get the same salary as him.
Now Wang Li spends almost all his time training free kicks. He is eager to make a breakthrough in this area and is even considering using a martial art to increase the efficiency of his free kicks. But unfortunately, he does not know Shaolin's "Powerful Vajra Leg" or the secret moves of some hidden weapon families. The skills passed down by Tianshan, Duan family or Qiao Feng are of no help to his free kicks at all.
It can be said that internal strength and martial arts moves are Wang Li's trump cards. Whenever he wants to practice something, he always thinks of the martial arts he practiced in his previous life, but now it doesn't work for free kicks at all. Those fierce martial arts can only help with the power of kicking the ball. What's the use of just increasing strength?
He is not a violent person and does not want to cause a death on the field.
In the 11th round of the Premier League, apart from the match between Everton and Aston Villa, which was nitpicked by the media as the focus of this round, there was really nothing to watch in other matches, so the afterglow of Chelsea's victory quickly dissipated.
After that, Chelsea became the darling of the media again because Stamford Bridge will welcome Portuguese guests Porto.
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The training life in the club is a bit boring. Although these big-name stars only need to work (train) for a few hours a day, the same training methods are used every day, which still makes people feel bored.
Therefore, Ono Saburo's judo skills training is very popular.
Except for Wang Li, who was not surprised by this training, during each one-hour judo training session, other players gathered around Saburo Ono, waiting for him to guide the standard postures of various strange movements and the real purposes of these movements.
During the nearly one-week training, these big-name stars found that the Japanese player's singles ability was absolutely outstanding, because the movements he taught were used to effectively protect themselves or hinder the enemy, and he was very professional.
After Saburo Ono himself mentioned that he had won a silver medal in judo in the 1996 Olympics, these stars became even more interested in his one-on-one ability.
It has to be said that men all have a deep-seated passion for violence. Almost all men are interested in martial arts, judo, taekwondo, Sanda and other sports. For these Chelsea players, especially the "upright" Mr. Lampard, if they can really practice judo well, then when conflicts occur on the court in the future, at least they will not be afraid of being at a disadvantage.
Mr. Lampard has been thinking in his heart that if Chelsea and Manchester United clash in a game, he, the messenger of justice, knocks down all the Manchester United players with a few punches, then he will definitely become a hero of Chelsea, and there will definitely be a large number of fans, including female fans...
"Even if I have to be suspended for more than ten games, it's worth it." Thinking of this, Mr. Lampard almost drooled.
But in fact, this is just Lampard's innermost thought. Even if such a thing really happened and he really had the ability to do it, he would not do it. The reality around him has already made him disguised as a decent person on the surface. It is not easy to release his true side.
When many players gathered around Saburo Ono again and looked at him with admiration, the Japanese man felt a little proud. After training, he began to brag to these big-name stars and began to explain various martial arts:
"...I once fought a Korean Taekwondo master. I knocked him out of the ring, but he still caused me a lot of damage. Although I won, I don't think I could beat him without a referee."
"… Muay Thai is also very powerful. China once had a Bruce Lee, but unfortunately he died very early. If he could live to this day, I really want to fight him…"
"...But I definitely can't beat the guys in the American boxing championships. They're just too big..." Ono Saburo compared his 1.60-meter height, causing the players around him to laugh. "I don't think I can withstand a punch from Tyson."
At this time, Thomas Clarke next to him asked with interest: "So, what about Chinese Kung Fu?"
Saburo Ono frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Chinese Kung Fu? I've never fought against anyone from a real Chinese martial arts school, but I feel that kind of fancy fighting is not as good as the ancient Japanese judo. That kind of fighting style that uses all kinds of strange moves is not that great."
At this moment, a sonorous voice came from the side.
"Judo? What the hell is that?"
"How can you know the profoundness of Chinese martial arts?"
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