Chapter 329 Stars’ Troubles

Open the official website of BBC TV. Next to the news advertisement column in the middle is a large picture of today's homepage. It shows a yellow-skinned, black-haired boy in a black jersey. He stands in front of the Arsenal goal with his hands raised. His face is ferocious, just like an arrogant general on the battlefield, full of domineering temperament. Next to him are several Gunners players wearing red jerseys with a "Q2" logo on the advertisement. They look at the black-haired boy in the middle with lifeless faces. The contrast between these two expressions is completely different, showing a sharp contrast.

This picture of Wang Li celebrating after scoring twice and breaking the Premier League record of 34 goals became the main picture on the front page of many media the next day, and almost all the subheadings on the homepage of the sports edition of the BBC's official website were about the game in London yesterday.

Terry predicts Chelsea will dominate: They have no chance

Arsenal and Chelsea battle, Blues beat Gunners

London derby, Alan Wong breaks the Premier League goal record, hat trick shines throughout the game

Chelsea used a big win to remind everyone that the times have changed in the Premier League today, and the Blues will dominate the world

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Compared to this exciting London derby and the battle for 1st and 2nd place in the Premier League, other Premier League matchups have obviously become a foil. This is not only because of the significance of this game, but also because the final result was beyond many people's expectations. Even the local Blues fans couldn't believe that Chelsea would tie with the home team Arsenal 5:2 at Highbury.

Compared with these neutral reports from BBC TV, the headline of The Sun is more powerful: "Victory is only due to the strength of the Blues, London Derby proves the birth of another Premier League giant" ---

"'The whole world will watch, I hope it will be a good game, the result will prove that we are the strongest team.' This is what Mourinho said before the game, and the score of 2:5 proved that his words were true."

"Although Chelsea already had a huge advantage in the first place before this game, even if Arsenal wins it will not change the Premier League ranking, but strategically, they can be considered to have hope of catching up. After all, as long as Chelsea fails once, there will definitely be a second, third or even more failures. Both coaches are very clear about this."

"Before the game, Mourinho said, 'It doesn't matter even if we lose this game, we are still the league champions', but no one can deny the Portuguese's desire to win..."

"Although Mourinho remained expressionless when facing reporters after the game, there is no doubt that he is the winner of this game. After the game, the Blues' record against traditional Premier League giants, except for Manchester United, was a big win. If we add the big away win over the Gunners in this game, it can be seen that a gorgeous new giant has been formed, and this giant even makes people feel unstoppable."

The Fulham Post has already started to shout out the slogan "We are the champions"---

"Chelsea will undoubtedly be the champion of the Premier League this season. There is no comparison with other teams. Whether it is Arsenal or Manchester United, they all lost to the Blues at home. In this case, who can stop Chelsea from winning the championship? No one."

"Perhaps, we should take a longer-term view and not always focus on the league title. You know, Chelsea's goal this season is to win four titles. One league title is not enough. Maybe we should start to capture cities and castles on the European battlefield. What is Barcelona? We are Chelsea."

"Champions, only Chelsea is the real champion. The quadruple crown is far from a dream, it is just a normal goal for this season."

Perhaps in the past when Chelsea was on a winning streak and the league was not even halfway through, shouting the championship slogan directly would make people spit, but now, the Fulham Post has become the vanguard waving flags and cheering. Undoubtedly, almost all English fans now have no dispute about who the championship belongs to. In their view, the teams ranked at the top of the league are not comparable to Chelsea at all, and the gap in league points between them is too big.

So far, Chelsea has 17 wins in 17 games, but second-placed Arsenal only has 35 points, and another giant Manchester United has only 31 points. There is really no hope of catching up with this gap. Unless Chelsea sells half of its main lineup during the winter transfer window, the league title is basically in the hands of the Blues.

Of course, the above assumption is basically not true. You can't expect the generous Russian oligarch to become a pauper in a few days, right?

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After the game, terms like 'Chelsea, Blues, Mourinho, Allen' etc. became the topic of the whole Europe. When people mentioned Chelsea, they could not help but think of the domineering figure with black hair. As of now, Wang Li has almost become the spokesperson of Chelsea. All fans who talk about Chelsea can't help but think of his terrifying goal efficiency.

Compared with the tone of the local media in England, other countries on the European continent do not have this kind of argument. In order to attack English football, they even put forward the slogan "The battle between the Chelsea and the Gunners is boring and the level of the Premier League has seriously declined."

In many media reports, they believe that the reason why Chelsea was able to defeat Manchester United and win over Arsenal and Liverpool is mainly because the decline in the level of the Premier League has caused Chelsea to stand out. Although this lion with bared fangs is extremely powerful, there is still some gap compared to teams like Real Madrid and AC Milan.

But now, this kind of team has achieved 17 consecutive victories in the Premier League, which is definitely due to the decline in the level of the Premier League.

In many countries that are hostile to English football, such as Germany and Portugal, this tone of reporting is widely welcomed by fans. In the eyes of these grassroots fans, it is impossible for there to be an invincible team, especially one from the "arrogant" Premier League.

Of course, there are still wise people among them.

Many professionals in the football world are well aware that such reports are more of a self-consolation. In fact, anyone who has watched the video of the game and has some knowledge of football can see at a glance the terrifying nature of Chelsea's attack, which is difficult to defend against, and even impossible to completely block. Even the defensive Italian Serie A teams AC Milan and Inter Milan cannot do this.

Not to mention Barcelona and Real Madrid, which are mainly offensive.

However, football matches have a certain element of luck. Even though Chelsea showed unparalleled offensive capabilities in this game, and their No. 21 black-haired boy's personal ability was superior, and he even showed a good show of passing 5 people in the game, many people still believe that Chelsea cannot achieve the goal of winning four championships.

At least the European Champions League is hard for them to get.

You know, in the first knockout round alone, Chelsea's opponent was Barcelona.

Barcelona is not Arsenal. Although both teams are good at attacking, there is no doubt that in the eyes of European fans, the two teams are not on the same level.

Whether analyzing from the aspects of history, honors, experience, or the stars produced, Barcelona is not comparable to Arsenal. Although Arsenal has also won many honors, they pale in comparison with Barcelona.

There are many legendary figures in the club, such as Kubala, Cruyff, Maradona, Romario, Ronaldo and so on. Almost all of these world footballers have played for Barcelona, ​​and the most famous star now is of course the Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho.

If clubs like Arsenal and Manchester United specialize in producing world-class stars, then Barcelona specializes in producing World Footballer of the Year. The gap between the two is obvious from the literal meaning.

Although Barcelona has just emerged from a trough, many people believe that European football will usher in a new Barcelona dynasty.

So, although Chelsea has achieved good results in the Premier League, many European media think that this is nothing. Before the Blues failed to defeat the world-class giants, no one would think that this upstart really became a giant. If an investment of 200 million pounds can really turn a giant into a giant, then there would not be such a shortage of giants in Europe.

Even though most media outlets gave Chelsea such an evaluation, no team denied Wang Li's strength.

No matter which country or media, it is impossible to deny the strength of a player who averages 2 goals per game in the Premier League.

Even in the second-tier leagues of some countries, the efficiency of scoring two goals per game is still terrifying enough, because even some super strikers find it difficult to achieve this efficiency when they come to the second-tier leagues, let alone in the Premier League.

This kind of data is absolutely unprecedented. I'm afraid that if he wants to surpass it, he can only do it himself.

myth

Many, many fans call Wang Li's performance in the Premier League this season a myth. They believe that this can almost be described as a special outbreak in football history.

The German newspaper Kicker has a detailed description of this. In fact, they did not report too much about Chelsea's victory over Arsenal. Instead, the discussion of Wang Li occupied one-third of the page. "New Legend" was the title of this report.

"In the past, if anyone told me that there was a player who averaged more than two goals per game in the top five European leagues, I would have thought it was ridiculous, very ridiculous. But now this is actually happening, right here in Great Britain, and this miracle is still happening."

"... Many people will find this result incredible. Yes, it is incredible, but in fact, it is really happening. In the last game, facing the Premier League giants and last season's champion Arsenal, he continued this crazy performance. The hat trick in the 62nd minute eclipsed all the players in the audience."

"...For this kind of efficiency-type player, we simply cannot use normal inferences to judge. You know, he hasn't even turned 18 yet, so when will he be at his peak?"

"...Undoubtedly, if he continues to perform like this, he will win almost all possible honors for the Premier League striker next season. Other strikers will not be able to compete with him at all. If you say that the Premier League top scorer, the European Champions League top scorer or even the Ballon d'Or winner this season will be someone else, everyone will think there is something fishy going on. If a player who averages two goals per game in the top league cannot win these honors, then who will have the nerve to go on stage to receive the award?"

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The comments in Kicker seem to be somewhat biased towards Wang Li, but in fact they are quite neutral. In fact, they have no reason to specifically praise Wang Li.

At least, from now on, even if Wang Li no longer scores goals, the Premier League top scorer and the UEFA Champions League top scorer are basically certain. He has scored 36 goals in the Premier League and 10 goals in the UEFA Champions League. These are almost the decisive number of goals. Perhaps only the Ballon d'Or is a little controversial.

Many people may feel confused when mentioning the Ballon d'Or, but its other name is clear at a glance - 'European Footballer of the Year'.

That's right, the Ballon d'Or is the European Footballer of the Year. This award was initiated by France Football magazine. Every year, the magazine publishes a list of candidates, and then senior journalists from the sports media of 52 UEFA members vote to select the winner of the "Ballon d'Or" of the year from the list.

In the eyes of many European fans, the Ballon d'Or is even more valuable than the 'World Footballer of the Year' selected by FIFA, because the former is more open and there is almost no possibility of insider manipulation. If from now on, Wang Li becomes ineffective or performs poorly, he will most likely be eliminated.

Of course, as Kicker said, if he can continue this performance, there will be no suspense about this award. In front of a striker who scores 100 goals in a season, no other player will have any competitiveness at all.

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While the European media was still reporting vigorously and the fans were still discussing crazily, Chelsea Football Club was busy with two things:

1. Dealing with post-match matters regarding the match against Arsenal, such as appealing to the FA regarding Wenger’s angry comments at the press conference, indicating that Mourinho and Chelsea were victims.

2. Work hard to launch the Chinese version of the official website.

There is not much to say about the first thing. It is basically just a formal appeal, and the result is probably just that Arsenal will receive some minor punishment.

The second thing has already been put on the agenda by the club's CEO, Mr. Peter Kenyon.

In fact, since Wang Li joined Chelsea at the beginning of the season, the number of clicks on Chelsea's official website has suddenly increased to a higher level, and most of these new clicks come from Asia, that is, China.

Recently, with Chelsea's crazy performance, the number of clicks has increased to a certain extent, with millions of clicks almost every day, especially the news about Wang Li.

Therefore, the club's general manager, Mr. Kaqiaos, submitted a report explaining the feasibility and market situation of producing a Chinese version of the official website.

The report points out that as long as Chelsea launches a Chinese version of its official website and strengthens the production of detailed player topics, its annual revenue will at least be more than the revenue from selling jerseys.

There is no doubt that this is not a small amount of income.

As the club's CEO, Peter Kenyon has sole control over finances. Although the Russian tycoon is indeed very rich, he will never refuse if the club can make a profit.

Therefore, after reporting these plans to Mr. Abramovich and obtaining his consent, Chelsea Club immediately began to contact various website production teams in England and started to operate this work. In order to achieve better expected results, during the break in the competition in December, Chelsea players were always accompanied by some club staff during their daily training.

These staff members not only help them with training, but most importantly, they all hold a camera in their hands to take pictures of the players' daily training.

Among them, Wang Li is of course the worst.

In fact, Wang Li is the most important figure in the launch of this plan. Now when talking about Chelsea, fans from all over the world will almost think of this name. In other words, Wang Li almost represents Chelsea, and the main purpose of the Chinese version of the official website is to promote it in China. Therefore, unlike the English version of Chelsea, half of the main content of the Chinese version of the website is about Wang Li.

Therefore, in daily training, Wang Li became a person who was "loved" by everyone.

For three consecutive days, there was a photographer following him every day, and some even followed him home to take pictures of his daily life. Fortunately, Rita was very busy with work in recent days, otherwise their private life would have been exposed.

However, as Wang Li's reputation grew day by day, he found that some reporters began to appear around his villa. These were certainly not tabloid reporters. You have to know that this is the wealthy area of ​​​​Fulham, and those tabloid reporters have no chance of getting in. Therefore, these must be some authorized reporters who came specifically to take pictures of Wang Li's life, which made him feel very distressed.

Perhaps this is the price of being a star.

In this situation, Wang Li just stayed at home, but this was not the most distressing thing for him. Another thing was that after the next game, Angela would come back from the United States.

After experiencing two loves, Wang Li has understood his own heart. Angela is the woman he likes most, but he can't let go of Rita, and it's hard for him to bear the pain of hurting the persistent Ukrainian girl.

"Just take things as they come." Wang Li said silently.

Taoism emphasizes naturalness, and things will work themselves out when they reach the bridge. This is the only thing he can use to comfort himself now.