The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 255

Although Eliza was very reluctant, she finally spent Christmas with Ye Qiu and his wife at Totridge's house under the persuasion of Ye Qiu and his wife. This was the first time for the three of them to spend Christmas together. Because when they were in the Netherlands before, both of Ye Qiu usually went back to China, leaving Eliza alone.

The three of them celebrated Christmas, and they naturally organized a special event, but it was nothing special, it was nothing more than a rich meal on Christmas night, and a good reward for themselves.

After Christmas, Huang Chu had to go to the hospital to be on duty, Eliza flew directly to the United States, and Ye Qiu led the team to participate in the 18th round of the Premier League, where they challenged Charlton away.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, the defense is Evra, Cannavaro, Terry and Maicon, the midfield is Davis, Makelele and Deco, the frontcourt is Ronaldinho, Lampa Germany and Didier Drogba formed the Trident, and Chelsea formed the strongest lineup.

Although Charlton played a solid defensive posture at the Valley Stadium, he still couldn't stop Chelsea's devastating offensive.

Although Christmas has just passed, the players' hearts are somewhat rebellious about the Premier League playing in the league on Christmas, but Ye Qiu obviously appeased this point, and the players in the Chelsea team are holding back their anger. Prove yourself, so the team has overcome the psychological problems of the Christmas schedule very well.

At the Valley Stadium, Chelsea still started the game with Ye Qiu's iconic start. Only 40 seconds into the game, Evra cooperated with Ronaldinho on the left, forcing the Charlton defender to kick the ball out. Bottom line, after Ronaldinho took a corner kick, Terry header in the penalty area opened the scoring for Chelsea, 1:0!

Afterwards, Chelsea launched another round of indiscriminate bombing, making a powerful impact on Charlton.

In the 10th minute, Ronaldinho took a direct free kick in the frontcourt, Terry nodded the ball forward, and Lampard dived to the top from the middle, making another victory for the team, 2:0!

After scoring two goals in a row, Chelsea obviously intends to relax their offensive, because they still have a league game to play two days later, Ye Qiu must save some strength to play well in this game two days later.

But in the 35th minute of the first half, Evra received a diagonal pass from Deco behind the midfield, quickly inserted into the left side of Charlton's penalty area and then suddenly knocked back. Ronaldinho got the ball in the penalty area and passed it Overwhelmed the opponent's central defender, pushed and scored, 3:0!

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Chelsea obviously relaxed their offensive intentionally, but still firmly grasped the rhythm of the game. In the 53rd minute, Maicon suddenly cut in from the right and then crossed diagonally into the penalty area. Lampard then inserted a calm With a push, he scored twice and helped Chelsea lock the score at 4:0.

This time, Ye Qiu didn't hold back any more. He replaced Ronaldinho, Lampard and Davis successively, and replaced Ribery, Joe Cole and Parker, so that these three main players could get good rest.

In the 73rd minute, Charlton took advantage of the turmoil after Chelsea's substitution, a chaos in the penalty area, broke through Chelsea's goal, and scored a goal to restore dignity. The final score was locked at 4:1. Chelsea's away game Get out!

Ye Qiu was very satisfied with the team's performance after the game, and thought that the Christmas schedule was not terrible. As long as everyone in the team had the same belief and a strong desire to win, then Chelsea could beat any opponent.

"You know, from the start of the season, we've scored a lot, we've only had two games without scoring, but we haven't conceded goals either, because we've scored consecutively, so when we've had the last three games When only one goal was scored and two of them were drawn, everyone felt that Chelsea was going to be doomed!"

This is also the worry that many media had about Chelsea around Christmas. Ye Qiu has now clarified it, because in his opinion, it is useless to talk too much before the game. You have to tell everyone with hard facts and scores. What I said was right.

"I'm never worried about the team not scoring goals, we have a very good group of attacking players, Drogba, Ronaldinho, Lampard, Deco, Maicon and Evra, even Davies. And John Terry scored goals a lot, I'm not surprised at all, and I've never been worried about scoring goals."

"Sometimes a team is like this, there will always be ups and downs, and the most important thing for any team that wants to have the last laugh in a long league is to ensure that the team can score points at the bottom, and We did a great job on that!"

But it's not just Chelsea who beat their opponents. Arsenal and Manchester United also defeated their opponents. Arsenal beat Wolves 3-0 at home, while Manchester United was in a state of embarrassment. They were almost defeated by Moyer at Old Trafford. Smith's Everton was overturned.

Moyes' team used midfield suppression tactics in this game. Rooney returned to the midfield more, but it is obvious that Moyes' team did not suppress Manchester United's midfield very well because of the strength of the players. In the field, coupled with the absence of the defensive line Yabo, there were many mistakes. Although they fell behind twice and equalized twice, they were still escaped by Manchester United in the end.

3:2, Ferguson's team defeated the opponent at Old Trafford, but everyone can see that facing Everton, which has not performed well this season, Manchester United have played so embarrassingly. The strength of the Red Devils is indeed is slipping.

Just when everyone was worried about Manchester United's thrilling pass, Chelsea came out with bad news, that is, Davis, the team's number one midfielder, suffered a back strain and would be absent for at least 20 days. This news was exposed by the media , was immediately affirmed by Ye Qiu, but he said that the team can solve the impact of Davis' absence very well.

"I believe that when Edgar returns to the team, we will still maintain a 4-point advantage. This is my promise to him!"

On the 28th, the team ushered in Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge, and Ye Qiu made a bold change.

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No one can ignore Chelsea's dominance throughout the first half, because in the first half, Chelsea completely dominated the game, the team got a staggering 68% possession rate, but only got a pathetic 5 shots, There was only one shot on goal, but it failed to score, while Portsmouth, which had a poor possession rate, had two shots.

It is completely impossible to explain what happened to Chelsea in this game, did they change?
In this game, Ye Qiu changed the team's formation from the previous 4321 tactics to 4231 tactics. Without Davis, Deco retreated to form a double midfielder with Makelele. Ronaldinho, Lan Pade and Ribery form the frontcourt attacking phalanx, and Drogba is at the front alone. It seems that there is not much difference from the past.

But some players really have to wait until you lose them before you find out how effective he is.

Without Davis, Chelsea's midfield seems to have lost something. No one knows what it is, but it seems that there is something missing. I always feel that it is not smooth and awkward.

Logically speaking, after more than half a year of training and running-in, the team's tacit understanding is no longer a problem. Although it can't reach the level of tacit understanding, at least it can be done with skillful cooperation, but now it seems to suddenly change. Very awkward.

A very important reason for the low number of shots is that the team passes the ball forward less, especially Deco and Ronaldinho. These two players are important passers for the team. Significantly fewer deep passes.

Maybe it's a kind of psychology. When Davis was here, they dared to take risks because they were very relieved and were not afraid of being beaten behind them. But now without Davis, they seem to be a little worried, especially Deco, who are afraid of Mark Lailai couldn't stop behind him.

During the intermission, Ye Qiu also severely reprimanded the team for 15 minutes in the locker room. From the moment he entered the locker room to the time he left the locker room, he was scolding the players. Each one has been approved.

"It's hard for me to imagine that you guys who have played in the Premier League for half a year have turned into pussies. If you take off that layer of manly skin, everyone will think that your performance in the first half is weak. Women, no, to say that you are women is to belittle the courage of women, you are not even as good as women!"

Everyone could clearly hear that what Ye Qiu was dissatisfied with was not their poor performance, but their lack of courage and adventurous spirit. He always said that the more difficult the situation, the more courageous it is to try and use all means. And possibility to defeat the opponent, and this requires courage and courage.

At the last moment of the intermission, Ye Qiu said, "In the second half, everyone will go to me, and all the passes will be passed to Portsmouth's penalty area. If you win, it's your fault. If you lose, I'm responsible. But if I see anyone so cowardly and timid again, I will definitely replace him and let him sit dead on the bench!"

To be honest, Ye Qiu's words aroused the anger of the players, and the head coach talked about it. Anyone who doesn't overwhelm anyone is really a coward that even he looks down on, so everyone held back in the second half I want to vent my anger.

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea crazily launched an attack towards Portsmouth. The latter had defended the entire first half, and they all showed their experience. After defusing Chelsea's offense one after another, they played a long counterattack.

Terry quickly retreated and cleared the ball with a header from the front of the penalty area to the withdrawn Makelele, who quickly distributed the ball to the right. Maicon turned around after getting the ball, raised his head, observed the situation, and found that Everyone in Portsmouth is preparing to counterattack, and the defense line has also been pressed out. This is a good opportunity.

Maicon adjusted the ball under his feet, looked for the feeling, and swung his right foot directly to make a long pass.

Near the center line, Ribery noticed Maicon's long pass, he didn't care about 21, anyway, he was rushing forward quickly, and then in the process of sprinting, he found that Maicon's long pass landed in the penalty area The right side of the front arc top.

Drogba is also aware of this, so it is appropriate to attract defensive attention for Ribery.

The scarface of France sprints very fast, and the absolute speed is not slow. The sprint is like a gust of wind. It quickly swept across half of the court from the center line, and grabbed the right of the top of the arc at the front of the penalty area, robbing Portsmouth. In front of the left back and the center back, he kicked the ball and threw the ball towards himself, and then pushed his chest forward.

The ball hit his chest and bounced forward, and Ribery, who had slowed down because of unloading the ball, exploded again at the moment the ball hit his chest. Directly passing through the middle of the two defenders quickly, the next thing becomes very simple!

The single-handed French scar face made a powerful and precise straight shot, letting the ball pass between the goalkeeper and the right post, and hit the bottom of the net, 1:0!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

The Stamford Bridge Stadium, which had been holding back for nearly 50 minutes, finally broke out. All the Chelsea fans cheered wildly. Almost everyone's face was flushed because of the crazy roar, but they were still crazy Vented his emotions, vented his excitement.

Finally, a goal came. The team completely dominated the game in the first half, but they still got the upper hand and failed to score. This made everyone feel depressed, but Ribery's goal finally broke the deadlock!

French Scarface was also very excited. He quickly rushed out of the penalty area and ran around the Stamford Bridge stadium for a while. He finally became the hero of this stadium, even if it was just for once!
You know, before the season he could come to London with a very nervous mood, but during the season, he looked at Ronaldinho, Lampard, Drogba with envy time and time again, Seeing his teammates become heroes of the team, he was very envious, even jealous.

But now, he has finally seized the opportunity. His goal is not only to break the deadlock, but will even completely change the trend of the game. So, when Ribery stopped, he saw the sidelines Ye Qiu gave him a thumbs up, while the fans in the stands at Stamford Bridge were chanting [Franck Ribery].

Looking up, listening to the sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, he had the urge to burst into tears!
He succeeded!It really worked!

"Very unexpected, from the young French teenager Franck Ribéry's long-distance attack from the midfield!" Sky TV kept replaying the entire scoring process just now, and Andy Gray couldn't help but lament Ribery's attack Surprised by the excellent performance.

"His speed is very fast, almost no one can stop him, and the sudden stop and unloading of the ball at the front of the penalty area also made people see his excellent foot skills. After unloading the ball, he suddenly restarted, which completely disintegrated Park. The two-team defense that Tesmouth had already formed, it can be said that this is an amazing individual performance!"

"We have every reason to believe that Frank Ribery, from now on, we will remember this player!"

With Franck Ribery's goal, Chelsea, from the players to the fans, have greatly vented their previous depression and depression, and after this outbreak, and the changes brought about by Franck Ribery's goal, Chelsea have become very happy. More confident, more confident with the ball and passing, more adventurous.

Adventure is creativity, Ye Qiu firmly believes in it!
Sure enough, in the 73rd minute, after Drogba got the ball, he passed a central defender and went straight behind him. Lampard stepped in and shot with his right foot at the front of the penalty area, making another victory for Chelsea. , 2:0!

After that, Chelsea completely became a beast and launched wave after wave of attacks against Portsmouth. At that time, right-back Maicon took advantage of an opportunity to attack from behind and volleyed vigorously from 81 meters away from the goal, scoring the third goal for Chelsea.

This also allowed Chelsea to finally beat Portsmouth 3-0 at home.

But it is regrettable that although Manchester United and Arsenal played very difficult away games, these two teams were obviously prepared for the devil's Christmas schedule, and they both narrowly defeated their opponents in the end. :1 for a small win.

It's no wonder that in this kind of game that is almost an extreme challenge, except for a team with an excellent bench thickness like Chelsea, other teams basically have a no-lose-win strategy, even Manchester United and Arsenal. Don't demand a big victory, just get 3 points pragmatically.

In such a 3:0 victory, Chelsea ended its own 2003 and ushered in a brand new 2004.

As the new year comes, Chelsea also has a new look. At the end of last year, after Ronaldinho moved to a new home, the team captain John Terry also moved to a new home. His home is in Surrey outside London. According to As usual, he also invited everyone on the team to his new home on January 1 to have a hard rub.

Later, Lampard and the team completed the contract renewal negotiations. Ye Qiu said that the renewal of Lampard's contract was the team's best signing during the winter break, and he also expressed that he was very satisfied with the current team's lineup. , I firmly believe that the team will achieve something this season.

When Chelsea made some moves, Manchester United did not sit idle.

Ferguson has been in contact with Fulham's French striker Louis Saha since last year's 0-3 defeat at the hands of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, who has scored in 20 Premier League games this season. 13 goals, equal to Arsenal's Henry, a very eye-catching performance.

In addition to scoring more goals, Luis Saha was most valued by Ferguson or his ability to hold the ball with his back.

Although Fulham was unwilling to let go of his offensive core easily, in the end Luis Saha still failed to stop Manchester United's offensive, and Fulham was forced to accept Manchester United's 1300 million euro transfer offer.

On the first day of the new year, Manchester United announced this blockbuster signing, and Ferguson also expressed very positively that the striker combination of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Luis Saha will ensure Manchester United's combat effectiveness in the second half.

But the problem of the arrow was solved, but the crisis of the defense reappeared, because Ferdinand will be absent for up to 8 months due to the drug test incident, which means that the England central defender will miss all the games of this season ahead of time. It cast a shadow over Manchester United's defense.

When Ferguson had gains and losses, and Wenger was playing soy sauce as usual, Ye Qiu made a good start in the new year and got a good start.

(End of this chapter)