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Chapter 332

Chapter 332

Chelsea and Liverpool broke into the Champions League semi-finals together. Although one of them must accept the fate of being eliminated, such a scene may only be exciting to those neutral England fans.

For them, this is the renaissance of Premier League clubs in the Champions League, and the dominance of the Premier League is strengthening.

However, the two teams, Chelsea and Liverpool, have very different attitudes towards the next two games.

Especially the Spanish bald man Benitez, after he settled Juventus, he has been worrying about the two confrontations in the semi-finals. After losing the top four rankings in the Premier League, he is left with such a life-saving straw up.

Although the two Americans who are about to complete the club acquisition plan have talked with him privately, regardless of whether Liverpool can appear in the Champions League next season, they will continue to hire Benitez.

But in Benitez's opinion, this kind of rhetoric is just a kind of consolation. If he loses his place in the semi-finals of the league and is killed by Chelsea five times in a season, then he really doesn't have to be in Liverpool. up.

Even if those die-hard fans of the Red Army didn't coax him to leave, Benitez felt that he had no face to stay here. Under such huge pressure, it was impossible for Benitez not to be nervous.

It's just that this Spanish bald man rarely shows any emotional changes in front of people, and don't expect him to admit defeat in front of the media, not to mention that the person he wants to face head-on this time is Mourinho. Nitez will give a compliment, but Mourinho will never want to get this treatment from Benitez.

If Wenger and Ferguson have become old enemies after entanglement for several seasons, then the relationship between Benitez and Mourinho is a blood debt, and Chelsea has now become Liverpool's biggest sufferer.

From the league to the League Cup, they met three times and fell down three times. Benitez really doesn't know what magic power the Portuguese has. Anyway, as long as he meets him, no matter what tactics Benitez uses will fail.

Including the iron barrel formation he used to deal with Juventus in the away game, he is not unused. In the league, Benitez even used a defensive lineup like a three-back midfielder to try to trap Chelsea's offense. .

But in the end, the defensive line formed by Harman and Gerrard was repeatedly rushed by the black-haired kid, passing the ball, and breaking through. The kid tortured Benitez's nerves in various ways.

"That's a devil! He brings nightmares to everyone!", this is Benitez's true evaluation of Lin Yi.

Anyway, for Liverpool and Benitez, Mourinho and Lin Yi, the pair of animal masters and apprentices, is an out-and-out nightmare, and it is still the kind of sleep that may never wake up nightmare.

If someone has interviewed Benitez before this game, you only need to ask him which team he hates to meet in the Premier League, then his answer must be Chelsea, and his tone and expression are called hate.

It is estimated that when the Spanish bald man answered this question, he must have gritted his teeth. There is no way, who made Mourinho and Chelsea torture him to death, you have to allow others to have the habit of holding grudges, right?

It can be said that now Benitez has put all his energy on the Champions League semi-final against Chelsea. As for the results in the league, he can only put it aside now. In the case of two rounds, it is obviously unrealistic for Liverpool to overtake Everton's fourth place in the league.

This is not a pessimistic idea, because many Liverpool fans are praying that if Liverpool can reach the top six in the standings, it will be a kind of luck for them, and this kind of league result is indeed embarrassing enough.

So Benitez can't afford to lose now. If he wants to take root in the Premier League, he must win Chelsea.

However, compared with Benitez's state of no retreat, it is obvious that Mourinho is much more relaxed, especially after winning Bayern Munich in the away game, he even gave the main players a big vacation for the first time .

All players who have participated in two Champions League games can have three days of free time. This can be said to be an amnesty for Mourinho, who has always been strict with the army, and it can be seen that he is very relaxed.

Including Brito, who is very familiar with Mourinho's old partner, also said in private that Mourinho had prepared some Juventus game videos, but after seeing Liverpool's success, those videos were thrown away. On the one hand, because they are so familiar with the Liverpool team, these things are simply useless.

There are no secrets between the two Premier League sides as much as Benitez knows Chelsea.

If Hiddink can still arrange some substitute players from Eindhoven to play tricks with AC Milan, then Chelsea and Liverpool are like two naked men, everything is clear at a glance .

Even if these two teams send all their substitutes to play at the same time, they can know the strength and characteristics of those guys. For competitors who have been studying for almost a season, In such a Champions League semi-final, the only thing they can compete in the end is their true ability.

The derby is not just about how fierce the confrontation is in the game. When they are too familiar with each other, the game will become very boring, just like the duo in Milan, more intense than exciting.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this familiarity that Mourinho simply stopped studying it this time.

"Anyway, you can know the opponent's lineup with your eyes closed, so it's better to take this opportunity to take a vacation."

Not only are the players going to rest, but Mourinho himself rarely has free time to spend with his wife and children. Compared with Benitez, who is so nervous that his forehead is wrinkled, Mourinho is very leisurely now.

This season has been a success for Mourinho, who was airborne in the Premier League for the first time. Under his leadership, Chelsea has now been determined to win two championships. The Champions League is now more like they are challenging themselves.

Being able to win the Premier League double in his first season of coaching is a height that even Ferguson did not reach at the beginning, but Mourinho and the team led by him seem to have won the double in an understatement. trophies.

Now all they have to do is to let go of all the psychological baggage and prepare to attack Manchester United's treble record.

"I believe in my team, and I also believe that those players can bring Chelsea to the final." This is the first time Mourinho has expressed his ambition to enter the final in front of the media. Benitez's dissatisfaction, anyway, for Mourinho, Liverpool has absolutely no chance to be his stumbling block.

For this point, the Chelsea players also believe in it. It may be that the experience of killing their opponents three times this season has given them extremely strong confidence. Anyway, when the two teams meet, Chelsea will definitely not be afraid of each other.

This is the belief of winning that Mourinho instilled in the players. Under the leadership of this guy, Chelsea now dare to ignore the threat brought by any opponent. For them, the opponent is always only themselves.

"Being better than yourself is the biggest improvement. You have been much better than last season. Please remember this. You are now the best team in England, and there is no one behind the best."

Although Mourinho is usually very strict with the players, he has always stood in front of the players and sheltered them from the wind and rain. For Chelsea, a team that may have been full of news this season, it can be said that It has always been calm, and there are not many bad rumors that can interfere with their preparations.

This is the role of Mourinho. He will always be the main MT that attracts other people's firepower, and his players can stand behind him to their heart's content, working hard as an output, without having to think about other issues at all.

For the Liverpool team, they are really the most melancholy group of people now, and Chelsea is really too difficult to deal with.

Especially Lin Yi, he is simply the nightmare of the Liverpool team now, including Gerrard, like Harman and Alonso, they all said in interviews that Lin Yi is the most difficult thing they have ever encountered in England entangled opponent.

"His slickness and cunning on the court are simply beyond his age. It seems that there is a soul who has played football for decades in his body. Experience? For him, this thing is almost the same as whether he has it or not."

Although this was a speech a few months before the start of the Champions League semi-final, Chelsea fans have deliberately edited these interviews into clips, put them on their official forums, and provided others with the opportunity to download them.

These Chelsea fans just want to tell others, don't think that those guys who can seal Juventus can hold the midfield, don't forget, we have Lin Yi, he is an omnipotent magic boy!

It is estimated that Benitez is scratching his head and thinking about how to deal with that ghostly kid. If this game can't handle him, then don't think about anything else, just wait to be knocked out by that kid.

But Lin Yi is someone you can seal if you want?Unless Benitez uses a bundle of tape to firmly tie him and his two main midfielders together, otherwise, it is a no-go.

The Champions League semi-final is now a big test for Liverpool. It is estimated that Benitez himself has no idea whether he can pass Chelsea, but he can only grit his teeth and claim to be in the final.

Just like Benitez's melancholy, the kid he regards as a devil is also melancholy.

But what he was melancholy about was definitely not the Champions League semi-finals, but a little witch who gave him a headache. . .

(The Lakers lost again. If it keeps going like this, is it possible to fulfill the Heat's championship dream before the suspension?)

(End of this chapter)