It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 287 Chelsea and the Hammers

After breakfast, Chelsea players returned to the locker room one after another.

Usually at this time, the coach is still in the office or conference room.

By the time Charles and Neymar returned to the locker room, almost everyone was there.

I looked around and saw that the coach was not there.

Neymar walked quickly to the table in the middle of the locker room, and raised the tactical board on the table with a smile. In an instant, all eyes in the locker room turned to him.

At the same time, Ancelotti and his assistant coach walked to the door of the locker room and saw Neymar happily holding the tactical board in his arms, imitating Ancelotti's expression and standing in front of the whiteboard with his hands crossed.

Instantly, most of the players in the locker room burst into laughter.

Neymar thought everyone thought his imitation was very similar, so he couldn't help but approach Charles with the tactical board and held it up to his chest to show off, "Look at my new tactical design."

Ancelotti suppressed a smile.

But the other players who had seen the coach leaning against the door couldn't help but burst into laughter again.

Neymar, who was carefree, suddenly realized something when he heard the abnormal laughter and quickly turned around.

Neymar: (')
Ancelotti: o_0
Neymar was so scared that he turned around and handed over the tactical board with both hands.

"Coach, I was wrong!"

Ancelotti picked up the tactical board while smiling, walked happily to the whiteboard, and began to arrange today's training tasks.

……

West Ham United is not strong, even weaker than Chelsea's opponent Stoke City in the last round.

The club's financial crisis continued to plague West Ham United at the start of this season.

Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City are all striving for the championship.

But for West Ham United, their goal is to avoid relegation, even though the season has just begun.

The most important player for West Ham United is goalkeeper Green.

Although this goalkeeper has a common characteristic among English goalkeepers, that is, butter hands, when he is in good shape, he is simply the incarnation of a goalkeeper.

And his professionalism is also worthy of praise.

In the 07-08 season, when West Ham United faced Everton at home, he was so focused on making high and low passes that he didn't realize his finger was dislocated until after the game.

West Ham United training base.

Green is practicing dribbling high balls.

Cole aimed at the blind spot and then kicked the ball.

Green jumped up quickly, and just when he thought he had made a successful save, the ball slipped from his hands into the goal as if it was covered with butter.

"Robert, you have butter hands again."

Cole said with a smile.

The 30-year-old Green blushed.

He is agile, has quick reactions, and can perform many magical shots.

In other words, it's a low-profile version of Joe Hart.

But he is not good at attacking and catching high balls.

"It's a problem with the gloves. I can just change a pair. Besides, can you call them butter hands during training?"

Green explained.

Grant frowned on the sidelines.

Last season, West Ham United's head coach Zola once played for Chelsea.

The 4-4-2 diamond midfield formation he settled on was successful, but Grant did not think that this formation could defend against Chelsea, who had such strong attacking firepower.

……

On September 9, the Premier League kicks off again.

"Zhuangdianertai, Zhuangdianertai, you are now watching the fourth round of the 2010-11 Premier League, Chelsea away challenge West Ham United."

"The two teams have played against each other 103 times in history, with West Ham having 36 wins, 28 draws and 39 losses, less than Chelsea."

"Chelsea is the only team that has won all the games so far, and they have scored 21 goals in the first three games."

"But West Ham United didn't change their manager like a knife after the change of coach. They suffered three consecutive defeats at the start of the league."

"Here are the lineups for both teams:"

“西汉姆首发(4-4-2)：1-格林/32-雅各布森、15-厄普森、3-本哈伊姆、23-伊隆加/21-贝赫拉米、8-帕克、16-诺贝尔、13-博阿莫特/9-卡尔顿-科尔、33-奥比纳。”

“切尔西首发(4-3-3)：1-切赫/19-费雷拉、2-伊万诺维奇、26-特里、3-阿什利-科尔/5-埃辛、12-米克尔、37-拉米雷斯/21-卡卢、11-德罗巴、14-内马尔”

Chelsea's bus carrying the players arrived at Upton Park.

Amidst cheers, Chelsea's players walked into the visiting team's locker room in an orderly manner.

The players began to change their equipment.

After Ancelotti gave some further instructions, he walked out of the locker room at the reminder of the staff and prepared to attend the pre-match press conference.

Reporters in the press conference hall were not particularly enthusiastic about this match with a huge disparity in strength.

"Carlo, will Ciel start in this match?"

"Do you think Chelsea can continue to score goals in the next three games?"

All kinds of questions came to Ancelotti in various forms.

As West Ham United coach Grant thinks this is pretty good.

But soon, Ancelotti's answer made him overjoyed.

"Considering the schedule ahead, Charles will not start in this game."

Five days after this game, they will go to Zilina for an away game.

This opponent is not very strong, the only problem is that he is too far away.

He also didn't plan to let Charles play.

In that case, Chelsea will have a Premier League game and a League Cup game before playing Manchester City.

The opponents in these two games are relatively easy. After playing against Manchester City, Chelsea's schedule is about to enter a devilish mode.

So his plan is still to let Charles conserve his energy and occasionally come on as a substitute to maintain his form.

But after a while, Grant finally reacted.

Old guy Ancelotti still wants Charles to play!

The game between the two sides started soon.

Just 2 minutes into the game, Chelsea scored away from home.

Drogba took a corner kick from the left side to the middle of the penalty area, and Essien jumped high and headed the ball into the goal with no one guarding him.

Although the ball was headed by a West Ham defender on the goal line, it still flew into the goal.

In the 17th minute, Chelsea extended the lead.

Drogba's 27-meter free kick hit the goal directly. The angle and power were average, but Green's hands were butter when he fell to the ground to save the ball. West Ham United's Upson returned to defense and kicked the ball away, but the ball was really like it was covered with butter, and it inexplicably hit Kalou's foot and bounced into the goal.

"England's goalkeepers just love butter hands."

Anelka joked.

"But when they are in good form, they can perform very well. Joe Hart performed very well in this qualifier."

Ciel shook his head.

As a professional player, it is best not to underestimate the goalkeeper, or any opponent.

"By the way, the coach invited you to dinner last night. What did you want to say?"

Anelka glanced at Ancelotti not far away and asked in a low voice.

"Yeah, just eating. British food is really not good. I have never heard of a good local dish. Last night, the coach treated me to pasta and pork elbow in sauce."

He thought about the dishes from last night and said, "They were quite delicious." Seeing Anelka, he couldn't help swallowing.

"I heard that Abu is going to change the supplier of food ingredients and import sole from France..."

“Sole is delicious.”

Charles didn't say much about this because he was the one who proposed this to Abu.

In addition, Abu also arranged several chefs and nutritionists for him.

Originally he wanted to refuse and wanted to find it himself.

But after thinking about his strange experience at Barcelona, ​​he finally decided to accept Abramovich's kindness.

Because he was also afraid that he would make a mistake again, the chef and nutritionist he finally chose were, one an undercover agent for Manchester United and the other for Manchester City. That would be interesting.

At the end of the first half, Chelsea did not expand the score.

It was not until the 72nd minute that Ancelotti walked to the bench.

"Go warm up, I think Neymar is tired too."

Charles immediately took off his substitute vest, and Grant, who was originally thinking about how to fight back, had a distorted face when he saw this scene.

What? You’re still not satisfied even though we’re two goals ahead?
"Ancelotti chose to bring on Charles."

"Well, it looks like West Ham United should prepare to pray to God."

Looking at Charles warming up on the sidelines, Grant hesitated for a while and finally decided to use the last substitution.

"Piqueoni, come here."

Piocquini excitedly took off his substitute vest and ran to the coach, "Boss, call me."

Grant put his left hand on Piocquini's shoulder and pointed his right hand at Charr who was warming up on the sidelines.

"Pikweoni, have you seen him?"

"Well, I see it."

Piquioni nodded seriously, and at the same time, an ominous premonition emerged in his heart.

"Okay, as long as you see it."

"I always felt that you had untapped potential, Piquini. Look at him. He is now a world star, but are you ready to beat him? Are you ready to become a hero of West Ham United and famous all over the world?"

The pancake drawn by Grant was fragrant and round.

But Piquioni didn't dare to bite it.

If he had this ability, why would he stay here?
In the last round, Stoke City used their score to tell all Premier League players that Chelsea, with Charles, is a blue monster.

Which player has not dreamed of becoming famous with one goal?
He has indeed done it many times. As a big dreamer, he has dreamed of joining top teams such as Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern, Milan, etc.

But dreams are dreams, and reality is reality.

Grant was still chattering.

Amid the jubilation of Chelsea fans, Charles finally finished his warm-up and stepped onto the pitch after high-fiving Neymar.

Behrami patted Picquioni on the back thankfully.

It was the first time he was so grateful to the coach for being willing to replace him.

"Thanks, good brother."

Picquioni almost cried, "You have to treat us tonight."

Chelsea throw-in.

Amirez took the ball thrown by the caddy, looked at the situation around him, and finally threw it accurately to Charles.

Jacobson quickly came up.

Charles, who was facing the goal, did not rush to turn around, but ran forward a few steps with Jacobsen.

Jacobson wanted to grab Charles's clothes, and at the same time chased him from behind to a position parallel to Charles.

At this moment, Charnet pushed the ball with the instep of his foot, supported by his left foot and turned quickly.

Jacobson, who was a little slow to react, turned around quickly. The only thing to be thankful for was that Piquioni, who had just come on the court, caught up in the timely manner. Charles, who was stuck on the sidelines, had to slow down.

Soon more and more West Ham United players gathered.

It looked like Charles was reaching the end of his rope.

Parker followed from behind and tried to snatch the ball in the chaos, but Xia didn't give him any chance at all.

In the three-man confrontation, Charles turned around again, exerted force with his calves, and secretly poked the ball.

"Snapped--"

The ball was passed back and found Ramirez who had returned to the field.

The ball was still passing back and forth between Chelsea's midfielders, but West Ham United's players basically surrounded Charles and didn't look too far away.

Charles moved to the side again, and Jacobson stayed beside Charles while waving and communicating with his teammates about defense.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before Ramirez passed the ball diagonally to Charles again.

The other two West Ham United players who had already received the order immediately rushed over, and the three of them formed an unbreakable triangle to block Charles.

At this time, West Ham United's defense was in a torn state.

The left section gathered in front of Charles, and the right section gathered in front of Drogba, Kalu and others.

There is a large gap between these two lines of defense.

After analyzing the situation on the field, Xiaer came up with a plan.

Jacobson stared at Charles's movements, not daring to speculate on Charles' next move.

Soon, he saw Charles riding a bicycle in front of him very quickly, and Jacobsen was almost dizzy.

The other two West Ham United players guarding behind him became even more vigilant.

With such a fancy pre-swing, Charles will definitely pass through them soon!

Just when everyone was thinking this, Charles unexpectedly kicked the ball with the outside of his foot.

"call out--"

not good!

West Ham United's two lines of defense reacted immediately, trying to quickly heal the Great Rift Valley between them.

Ramirez, who was standing in front of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, did not expect Charles to suddenly pass the ball to him and reacted half a beat slow. The West Ham United player behind him stepped forward and tried to steal the ball. In the end, during the confrontation between the two, Ramirez lost his balance and fell to the ground. But at the last moment before falling, he passed the ball back.

On the other side, Charles also rushed over after knocking the ball out.

Jacobson reacted quickly and caught up with Charles' pace, but in the end he was unable to stop Charles from catching the ball.

Xia glanced at the gaps between the West Ham United players. The Great Rift Valley between their two lines of defense had healed.

If you continue sprinting, there will be almost no shooting routes.

There are as many as 6 players in the small penalty area.

Jacobson couldn't help but feel relieved.

Charles' attack should end here, right?

But Charles did not slow down or pass the ball as he expected. Instead, he dribbled the ball at high speed to 5 meters before the top of the penalty area, and then suddenly shot the ball with his left foot.

"call out--"

Upson and Ben Haim subconsciously covered their crotches, and half a second later, the ball passed through the space between the six of them like lightning.

Green did not realize that Charles would take a risky move. By the time he could see the path of the ball clearly, the deadly murderous intent from Charles had already strangled his neck.

"boom!"

There was no time to do anything. Green could only look back helplessly after hearing the sound of the ball hitting the net.

The ball went in.

Chelsea 3:0 West Ham United.

(End of this chapter)